| 05th week of 2021 patent applcation highlights part 57 |
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| 20210035477 | DISPLAY DEVICE - In a bending region in a frame region, a slit is formed in at least one inorganic film included in a TFT layer extending through the inorganic film and exposing an upper surface of a second resin film of a resin substrate layer, and at least one opening is formed in an inorganic insulating film of the resin substrate layer in the bending region. In the opening, a first resin film and the second resin film are in contact with one another. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035478 | IMAGE PROJECTION APPARATUS, IMAGE PROJECTION METHOD, IMAGE DISPLAY LIGHT OUTPUT CONTROL METHOD - The present technology provides an image projection apparatus including a pupil information acquisition section that acquires a pupil area or size, and an output control section that controls an output of image display light being collected around the pupil and irradiated on a retina on the basis of the pupil area or size acquired by the pupil information acquisition section. In addition, the present technology provides an image projection method including a step of acquiring pupil information to acquire a pupil area or size, a step of controlling an output of the image display light collected around a pupil and irradiated to a retina on the basis of a pupil area or size acquired in the step of acquiring pupil information, and a step of outputting image display light that irradiates the retina with the image display light at the output controlled in the step of controlling the output. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035479 | TIMING CONTROL CIRCUIT AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - A timing control circuit and an operating method thereof are provided. The timing control circuit includes a first clock generating circuit, a second clock generating circuit and a control timing generating circuit. The control timing generating circuit is coupled to the first clock generating circuit to receive a first clock signal. The control timing generating circuit is coupled to the second clock generating circuit to receive a second clock signal. The control timing generating circuit starts timing from a first reference time point according to the first clock signal for determining a second reference time point. The control timing generating circuit starts timing from the second reference time point according to the second clock signal for determining a time point of a trailing edge of a current line pulse of a scan reference signal, wherein the current line pulse corresponds to a current scan line of a display panel. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035480 | SHIFT REGISTER AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME, GATE DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - The present disclosure provides a shift register and a method for driving the same, a gate driving circuit, and a display apparatus. The shift register includes: a node control sub-circuit configured to control a potential at a pull-up node under control of a signal input terminal and a reset terminal; an output sub-circuit configured to provide an output signal to a signal output terminal based on a signal at a clock signal terminal under control of the pull-up node; and at least one gating sub-circuit connected to at least one de-noising node respectively, and each configured to de-noise a respective de-noising node connected thereto independently of the potential at the pull-up node under control of a trigger signal terminal, wherein the at least one de-noising node includes at least one of the pull-up node and the signal output terminal. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035481 | CONTROLLING REFRESHES OF PIXELS IN DISPLAY DEVICES - A display device includes pixels, a serial-to-parallel converter (SPC), a row driver, a column driver, and a switch. The pixels are arranged in rows and columns which include a first column and a first row. A first pixel resides at an intersection of the first row and first column. The SPC extracts, from a signal sent by a graphics controller, pixel data and a command. The row driver initiates a refresh of the pixels residing in the first row based on the pixel data. The column driver transmits the pixel data to the first column. During the refresh, the switch allows transmission of the pixel data to the first pixel when the command indicates that the first pixel is to be refreshed and prevents transmission of pixel data to the first pixel when the command indicates that the first pixel is not to be refreshed. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035482 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a substrate defining a display area, a fan-out area and a source driving chip. A feedback line is arranged in the display area. The source driving chip has a first state and a second state. When the source driving chip is in the first state, a first data signal is input by the source driving chip to the feedback line; when the source driving chip is in the second state, a voltage of the feedback line is fed back to the source driving chip, to allow the source driving chip to output a second data signal to a remaining line of the display area. In each column, a summed number of the first data signal is equal to a summed number of the second dpata signal. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035483 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device including: a display including light emitting elements; a memory storing correction coefficients of the light emitting elements of the display; and a processor configured to identify gray scale information and color information of an input image based on pixel information of the input image, based on the gray scale information of the input image being less than a threshold gray scale, adjust a correction coefficient, among the correction coefficients, of a light emitting element among the light emitting elements of the display based on the color information of the input image, and obtain an output image based on the adjusted correction coefficient. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035484 | DISPLAY DEVICE - The display region includes a plurality of subpixel lines. Each of the plurality of subpixel lines include subpixels of a first color, subpixel pairs of a second color, and subpixels of a third color disposed cyclically one by one along a first axis. Between two adjacent subpixel lines, subpixels of the first color are disposed at different positions along the first axis. Between the two adjacent subpixel lines, subpixel pairs of the second color are disposed at different positions along the first axis. Between the two adjacent subpixel lines, subpixels of the third color are disposed at different positions along the first axis. The centroids of two subpixels constituting a subpixel pair of the second color are located at different positions when seen along the first axis and when seen along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035485 | PIXEL ARRANGEMENT FOR MULTI-RESOLUTION DISPLAY PANEL - A display panel includes a first set of pixels that each include a respective red sub-pixel and a respective green sub-pixel and a second set of pixels that each include a respective blue sub-pixel and a respective green sub-pixel, where the first set of pixels and the second set of pixels are arranged on the display panel such that at least one side of each of the pixels in the first set of pixels is adjacent to at least one of the pixels in the second set of pixels, at least one side of each of the pixels in the first set of pixels is not adjacent to any pixel, and the green sub-pixels are arranged on the display panel such that the green sub-pixels are evenly distributed in the display panel. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035486 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A SIX-PRIMARY WIDE GAMUT COLOR SYSTEM - Systems and methods for a six-primary color system for display. A six-primary color system increases the number of primary colors available in a color system and color system equipment. Increasing the number of primary colors reduces metameric errors from viewer to viewer. The six-primary color system includes Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta primaries. The systems of the present invention maintain compatibility with existing color systems and equipment and provide systems for backwards compatibility with older color systems. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035487 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A MULTI-PRIMARY WIDE GAMUT COLOR SYSTEM - Systems and methods for a multi-primary color system for display. A multi-primary color system increases the number of primary colors available in a color system and color system equipment. Increasing the number of primary colors reduces metameric errors from viewer to viewer. One embodiment of the multi-primary color system includes Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta primaries. The systems of the present invention maintain compatibility with existing color systems and equipment and provide systems for backwards compatibility with older color systems. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035488 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display device includes: a pixel unit including a plurality of pixels connected to a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines; a multi-frequency driver configured to compare image data between adjacent frames to determine a first area of the pixel unit driven at a first refresh rate and a second area of the pixel unit driven at a second refresh rate lower than the first refresh rate; a scan driver configured to sequentially supply scan signals to the scan lines in a first direction, to supply first scan signals of the scan signals to the first area at the first refresh rate, and to supply second scan signals of the scan signals to the second area at the second refresh rate; and a data driver configured to supply a data signal corresponding to the image data to the data lines. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035489 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a display including scan lines, data lines, light emission control lines, and pixels connected thereto, a scan driver configured to sequentially provide scan signals to the scan lines, a data driver configured to provide data signals to the data lines, a light emitting driver configured to provide light emission control signals to the light emission control lines based on a light emission clock signal having pulses, and a timing controller configured to provide the light emission clock signal to the light emitting driver, to output the pulses of the light emission clock signal during a frame in a first mode, to mask at least one pulse of the pulses during a first period of the frame in a second mode, and to output at least another pulse of the pulses during a second period after the first period. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035490 | DISPLAY DEVICE, PIXEL CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE PIXEL CIRCUIT - The present disclosure provides a display device, a pixel circuit and its control method, the circuit including: a resetting and charging circuit, for resetting a capacitor connected between a gate electrode of the driving transistor of the pixel circuit and an anode of a LED, and then charging the capacitor; a writing circuit, for writing a data signal to the gate electrode of the driving transistor; a driving circuit including the driving transistor, for driving the LED to emit light when the driving transistor receives the data signal; wherein, the driving transistor for driving the LED to emit light is an oxide TFT, and the other transistors in the pixel circuit are low temperature polysilicon (LTPS) TFTs. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035491 | CIRCUIT DEVICE, LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A circuit device includes an N-type well on a P-type substrate, a P-type well provided in the N-type well, a circuit element provided in the P-type well, a P-type well provided in an N-type well, and a circuit element provided in the P-type well. A ground power supply voltage is supplied to a P-type well. A power supply voltage different from the ground power supply voltage is supplied to a P-type well. The ground power supply voltage or a first potential that is greater than or equal to the potential of the ground power supply voltage and less than the potential of a high potential-side power supply voltage is supplied to an N-type well. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035492 | PIXEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A pixel includes a first electrode and a second electrode spaced apart from each other, light-emitting elements electrically connected to the first electrode and the second electrode, a first pixel circuit connected to a first power source and generating a driving current based on a scan signal and a data signal, and a first selection circuit that controls an electrical connection between the first pixel circuit and the first electrode and an electrical connection between a second power source and the second electrode, based on a first selection signal. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035493 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a pixel. The pixel includes a light emitting unit and a driving circuit for driving the light emitting unit. When the light emitting unit is driven in a pulse width modulation (PWM) mode with a PWM period, the PWM period includes a plurality of pulse controllable periods. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035494 | INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM FLEXIBLE DISPLAY OPERATING CONDITION MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT - A portable information handling system folds a flexible display over a hinge and selectively adapts operating conditions to maintain constraints associated with folding the flexible display. Operating conditions are monitored and stored, then analyzed to adapt the constraints based upon system usage, such as historical temperature changes, a number of display folds, a number of display touches, and an amount of touch pressure. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035495 | Screen Brightness Adjustment Method and Terminal - A screen brightness adjustment method includes determining target brightness, determining a quantity of pixel rows controlled by each pulse in an emission (EM) signal required for implementing the target brightness, adjusting a pulse width of a pulse in a current EM signal based on the quantity of pixel rows controlled by each pulse in the EM signal required for implementing the target brightness to change a duty cycle of the EM signal, where the duty cycle reflects a quantity of pixel rows that are lit up and controlled by the EM signal. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035496 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device, includes: a display area and a non-display area; a plurality of signal lines over the display area; and a plurality of connection lines in the display area and connected to the signal lines, wherein the plurality of connection lines includes a plurality of first connection lines connected to the signal lines, respectively, a plurality of third connection lines on a same layer as the first connection lines, and a plurality of second connection lines connecting the first connection lines to the third connection lines. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035497 | Display Panel, Display Device, Input/Output Device, and Data Processing Device - A novel display panel that is highly convenient or reliable is provided. The display panel includes a display region, a first functional layer, and a second functional layer. The display region includes a pixel, and the pixel includes a display element and a pixel circuit. The first functional layer includes the pixel circuit, a scan line, and a first connection portion. The display element is electrically connected to the pixel circuit, and the pixel circuit is electrically connected to the scan line. The second functional layer includes a region overlapping with the first functional layer, the second functional layer includes a driver circuit and a wiring, and the driver circuit is provided so that the pixel circuit is positioned between the driver circuit and the display element. The wiring is electrically connected to the scan line at the first connection portion, and the wiring is electrically connected to the driver circuit. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035498 | PANEL CONTROL DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - A panel control device and an operation method thereof are provided. The panel control device includes a display port and a control circuit. The display port receives video data from a former stage device. The control circuit performs an anti-burn-in process on the video data according to a processing degree. After the former stage device issues a panel self-refresh entering command to the panel control device, the panel control device enters a panel self-refresh mode, and the control circuit increases the processing degree according to the panel self-refresh entering command, so as to perform the anti-burn-in process on the video data according to the increased processing degree. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035499 | Displays with Gate Driver Circuitry Having Shared Register Circuits - Electronic devices may include displays having organic light-emitting diode pixels, display driver circuitry, and gate driver circuitry. To reduce the amount of space occupied in the inactive area of a display by the gate driver circuitry, one or more of the shift registers in the gate driver circuitry may include register circuits that are shared by multiple rows of pixels. Different drivers may use different clock frequencies to ensure synchronous operation of the display even when some register circuits share pixel rows. For increased flexibility in the arrangement of the register circuits in the shift registers, one or more of the shift registers may be split across the active area of the display. In some cases, one of the emission drivers may be omitted from the gate driver circuitry and a single emission driver may provide multiple emission control signals for the pixels. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035500 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a display element emitting a light by a current flowing, a drive transistor configured to control the current flowing through the display element, and a plurality of diode connection transistors connected in series to a source side of the drive transistor, and a source of any on the drive transistor or the plurality of diode connection transistors is connected to a back gate of the drive transistor. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035501 | DISPLAY PANEL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display panel includes a plurality of pixel driving circuits and a plurality of sense lines. The pixel driving circuits are capable of being divided into a plurality of rows of pixel driving circuits each arranged in a first direction and divided into a plurality of columns of pixel driving circuit each arranged in a second direction intersected with the first direction. Each pixel driving circuit includes a detection transistor. The sense lines are arranged at intervals and extending along the second direction, and are configured to provide reference voltage signals to the plurality of pixel driving circuits. Each detection transistor is electrically connected to one of the plurality of sense lines, and in pixel driving circuits in a same column, detection transistors in any two adjacent rows are electrically connected to different sense lines. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035502 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device is proposed, the display device including a display panel and a driving circuit, and pixels included in the display panel includes a driving transistor, a light emitting element, a capacitor, and first to sixth switching transistors T | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035503 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE - An organic light emitting display device includes a display panel, a display panel driver, and a power supply. The display panel includes pixels. Each of the pixels includes an organic light emitting diode configured to emit light in an emission period based on a first power supply voltage and a second power supply voltage. The display panel driver is configured to apply a scan signal, an emission control signal, and a data signal to the pixels. The power supply is configured to: generate the first power supply voltage, the second power supply voltage, and a third power supply voltage applied to the pixels in a non-emission period; and adjust a voltage level of the second power supply voltage and a voltage level of the third power supply voltage based on an ambient temperature and a brightness of the display panel. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035504 | DISPLAY DEVICE ADJUSTING A SCAN PULSE - A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixel rows, and a panel driver configured to drive the display panel. The panel driver includes a scan on time decider configured to receive line image data for each of the plurality of pixel rows, and to determine a scan on time change amount for each of the plurality of pixel rows based on the line image data, and a scan control block configured to adjust a scan pulse applied to each of the plurality of pixel rows according to the scan on time change amount. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035505 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY DEVICE PERFORMING LOW FREQUENCY DRIVING - An OLED display device includes display panel and a panel driver. The panel driver receives input image data at an input frame frequency and determines whether the input image data represent a still image. When the input image data do not represent the still image, the panel driver drives the display panel at a first output frame frequency substantially equal to the input frame frequency. When the input image data represent the still image, the panel driver drives the display panel at a second output frame frequency lower than the input frame frequency for a low frequency driving time and drives the display panel at a third output frame frequency higher than the second output frame frequency for a high frequency insertion time determined by one of a panel characteristic of the display panel and a representative gray level of the input image data, after the low frequency driving time. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035506 | BACKLIGHT CONTROL METHOD FOR MOTION BLUR REDUCTION, BACKLIGHT MODULE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME - The disclosure provides a backlight control method for motion blur reduction, a backlight module and a display apparatus using the same. The backlight control method includes the following steps. An input frame including image blocks is received. A brightness level of each of the image blocks is determined to accordingly determine a local dimming value of each backlight block, where the backlight blocks respectively correspond to the image blocks. A boosted backlight value and a dimmed backlight value for each of the backlight blocks are computed according to the local dimming values. The backlight blocks are driven according to the boosted backlight values and the dimmed backlight values in a time sequence. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035507 | DISPLAY DEVICE PERFORMING LOCAL DIMMING - A display device includes a backlight unit including light source rows, each of the light source rows including light source blocks, a display panel configured to display an image by transmitting light emitted by the backlight unit, a panel driver configured to drive the display panel, and a backlight driver configured to drive the backlight unit. The backlight driver is configured to perform a vertical direction scan operation that sequentially select the light source rows and a horizontal direction sequential driving operation that sequentially drives the light source blocks included in a selected light source row of the light source rows. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035508 | BACKLIGHT DRIVING CIRCUIT, BACKLIGHT MODULE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND BACKLIGHT DRIVING METHOD - A backlight driving circuit includes a pulse width modulator, at least one time-delay sub-circuit and a driving sub-circuit. The pulse width modulator is configured to transmit a control signal including a plurality of pulses. The at least one time-delay sub-circuit is configured to delay at least one pulse of the control signal from the pulse width modulator that is transmitted to the at least one time-delay sub-circuit by a set time. The driving sub-circuit is coupled to the at least one time-delay sub-circuit, and the driving sub-circuit is configured to drive at least one of a plurality of light-emitting devices in a backlight module to be turned on or off according to a control signal from the at least one time-delay sub-circuit obtained after the at least one pulse is delayed. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035509 | ELECTRONIC TAG AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - An electronic tag includes an electronic tag body, The electronic tag body includes a housing, a display screen configured to display information, and a sensor and a main controller that are disposed inside the housing. The sensor is configured to detect an ambient temperature of an environment in which the electronic tag body is located. The main controller is configured to shut off power supplied to the display screen in response to the ambient temperature detected by the sensor being beyond an operating temperature range of the display screen. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035510 | DRIVING CIRCUIT OF DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a driving circuit, comprising an energy storage circuit, a first circuit, a current limiting circuit, a first switching circuit, and a second switching circuit. A first preset voltage and a second preset voltage are input by means of the first circuit. The first circuit is electrically connected to the energy storage circuit. The current limiting circuit is electrically connected to a power supply. The first switching circuit is separately electrically connected to the first circuit and the current limiting circuit. The first switching circuit is electrically connected to output ends of a display panel and a driving chip. The second switching circuit is electrically connected to the first circuit and the current limiting circuit. An output end of the second switching circuit is electrically connected to the display panel. Also provided is a display device. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035511 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - In a display device with two liquid crystal cells, image quality deterioration depending on brightness and darkness of an environment is reduced. For this purpose, as an image signal for a liquid crystal display panel in which a display image is generated by light passing through a rear liquid crystal cell and a front liquid crystal cell, an image processing unit generates a rear image signal for the rear liquid crystal cell and a front image signal for the front liquid crystal cell. This image processing unit performs a spatial filter process on the rear image signal. Then, a filter control unit controls the spatial filter process performed on the rear image signal in the image processing unit on the basis of a detection value of an illuminance sensor that detects illuminance around the display panel. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035512 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING LUMINANCE OF DISPLAY DEVICE - The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for adjusting luminance of a display device. The method of adjusting luminance of the display device includes: determining a gray scale level interval on a target gray scale curve based on a maximum luminance value and a minimum luminance value to be set; determining a target luminance value for each grayscale level of the display device on the target gray scale curve according to the gray scale level interval; and adjusting luminance of the grayscale level of the display device based on the determined target luminance value. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035513 | LOD TABLE ADJUSTMENT METHOD AND LOD TABLE ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM - The present invention provides a line over driving (LOD) table adjustment method and a system thereof, which divides a display panel into M*N blocks. In an i-th row and a j-th column in the LOD table corresponding to a block, according to a brightness value of a grayscale value of a pixel of a previous line and a current line corresponding to an initial grayscale value of over driving pixels, calculate a target brightness value of an adjustment screen corresponding to a combination of the grayscale value of the pixel of the previous line and the current line corresponding to the initial grayscale value of over driving pixels, and obtain a measured brightness value of the adjustment screen to compare whether the difference between the target brightness value and the measured brightness value is within the default error range value to determine a final grayscale value of over driving pixel. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035514 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A display apparatus includes: a sensor substrate including a first area and a second area; a plurality of sensors at the first area and not at the second area; a display panel on the sensor substrate, the display panel including a first display area corresponding to the first area, and a second display area corresponding to the second area, the first display area including a pixel area and a non-pixel area; at least one subpixel at the pixel area and no subpixels at the non-pixel area; and a display panel driver to control a driving signal of the first display area and a driving signal of the second display area according to a ratio between the pixel area of the first display area and the non-pixel area of the first display area. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035515 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display control apparatus includes a data driver, a timing controller, and a control circuit. The data driver is configured to output a data signal. The timing controller includes a timing output circuit configured to output a frame start signal located at the start of a frame. The control circuit is electrically connected to the timing output circuit and to the data driver. The control circuit is configured to detect whether a frame start signal exists and to output a compensation signal according to the detection result. If the control circuit detects that a frame start signal exists, the control circuit outputs a compensation signal to the data driver. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035516 | SHIFT REGISTER AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME, GATE DRIVING CIRCUIT, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A shift register includes an output sub-circuit and a compensation sub-circuit. The output sub-circuit is coupled to a pull-up node, a clock signal terminal and a signal output terminal. The compensation sub-circuit is coupled to the pull-up node, the clock signal terminal and the signal output terminal. The output sub-circuit is configured to transmit a voltage of the clock signal terminal to the signal output terminal under control of a voltage of the pull-up node, The compensation sub-circuit is configured to transmit a voltage of the signal output terminal to the pull-up node under control of the voltage of the pull-up node and the voltage of the clock signal terminal. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035517 | SHIFT REGISTER UNIT AND THRESHOLD VOLTAGE COMPENSATION METHOD THEREOF, DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - The present disclosure discloses a shift register unit and a threshold voltage compensation method thereof, a driving circuit and a display apparatus. The shift register unit includes a cascaded output circuit coupled to a pull-up node, a clock signal input terminal, and a cascaded signal output terminal. The shift register unit is configured to transmit a clock signal from the clock signal input terminal to the cascaded signal output terminal under control of the pull-up node. A compensation circuit has a voltage output terminal coupled to the pull-up node, and is configured to provide an output voltage signal through the voltage output terminal during a blanking phase of a frame. The output voltage signal drives reverse drift of a threshold voltage of the cascaded output circuit. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035518 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus comprises: a display panel; a scanning line drive unit; a plurality of data line drive units to output a data line signal to target data lines; and a timing control unit. A first correction time is set individually for each data line drive unit and a second correction time is set individually for each target data line. The timing control unit transmits the image signal to each data line drive unit, with a delay by the first correction time from a transmission start time for a group of pixels lined up in a row direction based on a first clock signal, and each data line drive unit outputs the data line signal with a delay by the second correction time from an output reference time for target pixels being connected to the target data lines based on a second clock signal synchronized with the first clock signal. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035519 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND DRIVE METHOD THEREFOR - In a display device including an active matrix substrate in which a demultiplexing circuit is formed, a boost circuit, which generates a plurality of connection control signals respectively applied to gate terminals of a plurality of connection control transistors as switching elements configuring the demultiplexing circuit are respectively generated, is provided in the demultiplexing circuit. An internal node of each boost circuit is precharged via a transistor turned on by a boosted voltage of an internal node of another boost circuit, and thereafter, a voltage of the internal node of the boost circuit is boosted via a boost capacitor by a control signal applied to a demultiplexing circuit. The boosted voltage of the internal node is applied to a gate terminal of a connection control transistor as a connection control signal. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035520 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, DATA DRIVER AND DISPLAY CONTROLLER - Display apparatuses, data drivers and display controller are provided. The data drivers receive video signals, generate positive-polarity and negative-polarity gradation data signals with respect to a predetermined reference voltage based on the video signals, output the positive-polarity gradation data signals to one of a first and a second data line groups, and output the negative-polarity gradation data signals to the other data line group. The data drivers generate, as the positive-polarity gradation data signals, signals in which data pulses each having a positive-polarity analog voltage value corresponding to a luminance level of each pixel based on the video signal appear in predetermined cycles, and generate, as the negative-polarity gradation data signals, signals where data pulses each having a negative-polarity analog voltage value corresponding to a luminance level of each pixel appear in each predetermined cycle with phases different from the positive-polarity gradation data signals. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035521 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ADJUSTMENT METHOD THEREFOR - A display device and an adjustment method therefor. The display device ( | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035522 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND REFERENCE VOLTAGE GENERATION METHOD - The present application discloses a display device and a reference voltage generation method. The display device includes a display area, a fan-out area, and a reference voltage generation circuit formed in the fan-out area. The reference voltage generation circuit includes a multi-voltage conversion module configured to: input a first direct current voltage and a second direct current voltage, and output multiple third direct current voltages having different voltage values; a latch module, configured to: input multiple latch signals and gating signals, and output corresponding switch control signals according to the input multiple latch signals and gating signals; a gating switch matrix, having a plurality of switch branches for controlling output of the multiple third direct current voltages, configured to turn on corresponding switch branches according to the switch control signals when the switch control signals are received, to output the third direct current voltages having corresponding voltage values. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035523 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - Provided are a liquid crystal display device and a driving method thereof. The first pixel holding voltage and the second pixel holding voltage outputted by the positive and negative half-period pixel electrode are not symmetric with respect to the common voltage outputted by the common electrode. Thus, the gray scale inversion of the positive and negative half-period images shown by the liquid crystal display device can be compensated. The skin color whitening problem in side view is improved, thereby solving the viewing angle problem of the liquid crystal display device. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035524 | DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING IMAGE CORRECTOR - A display device includes: a frame data counter configured to calculate frame information of an image displayed in a display area; a speed controller configured to determine a moving speed of the image; and a scenario determiner configured to determine a moving direction and moving amount of the image. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035525 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - The liquid crystal display device includes a pixel portion including a plurality of pixels to which image signals are supplied; a driver circuit including a signal line driver circuit which selectively controls a signal line and a gate line driver circuit which selectively controls a gate line; a memory circuit which stores the image signals; a comparison circuit which compares the image signals stored in the memory circuit in the pixels and detects a difference; and a display control circuit which controls the driver circuit and reads the image signal in accordance with the difference. The display control circuit supplies the image signal only to the pixel where the difference is detected. The pixel includes a thin film transistor including a semiconductor layer including an oxide semiconductor. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035526 | COORDINATE MAPPING METHOD - A coordinate mapping method is applied to a plurality of input points of an input image and a plurality of target subpixels of a display panel. In the display panel, a first row of the target subpixels and a second row of the target subpixels are non-aligned in a vertical direction. The coordinate mapping includes the following steps. A first row of the input points are mapped to the first row of the target subpixels, and a second row of the input points are mapped to the second row of the target subpixels. The coordinates of the first row of the input points are respectively equivalent to the coordinates of the first row of the target subpixels. The coordinates of the second row of the input points are respectively equivalent to the coordinates of the second row of the target subpixels being shifted in a horizontal direction. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035527 | REFERENCE POSITION SETTING METHOD AND VIRTUAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A reference position setting method according to the present disclosure is a reference position setting method for setting a reference position for recognizing whether or not an operation unit displayed as a virtual image has been operated. The reference position setting method includes: a step of displaying a marker displayed as a virtual image larger than an object approaching the marker; a step of detecting the object approaching the marker; and a step of making a color or shade of the outer edge of the marker different from a color or shade of the center of the marker after the step of detecting the object. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035528 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A display apparatus according to the present invention includes: a display module configured to display an image by causing a plurality of light sources to emit light; a plurality of temperature sensors corresponding to a plurality of positions in the display module respectively; and at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: a correction unit configured to individually correct each of brightnesses of the plurality of light sources based on a plurality of temperatures detected by the plurality of temperature sensors respectively and dispersion of the plurality of temperatures. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035529 | PHOTOELECTRIC SELECTION SIGNAL CONTROL CIRCUIT, DISPLAY APPARATUS, DISPLAY METHOD AND CONTROL APPARATUS - A photoelectric selection signal control circuit, a display apparatus, a display method and a control apparatus. The photoelectric selection signal control circuit comprises an output circuit and at least one signal control circuit. The signal control circuit is configured to output a comparison result signal under the control of a selection signal and an illumination signal; and the output circuit is configured to output an output signal according to the comparison result signal. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035530 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, AND FONT DATA STRUCTURE - Content data of a display target is acquired in accordance with a user's operations and is used to determine a configuration of a display image. Of the regions to be rendered using fonts in the display image, the region in which a character is to be displaced by a very small amount is determined. The characters targeted for displacement are rendered while being displaced over time in accordance with predetermined displacement rules. The characters not targeted for displacement are rendered in a reference position. With all characters rendered, the display image is completed and output. The processes of S | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035531 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND VIRTUAL REALITY DISPLAY SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - The present disclosure provides a display apparatus including a head tracker obtaining information of movement of a user and formed on a display substrate and generating a temporary image using the information of the movement of the user. The head tracker is configured to output information of movement of a user to the driving controller. The driving controller is configured to generate a temporary image based on the information of the movement of the user. The display panel is configured to selectively display an input image and the temporary image. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035532 | DISPLAY METHOD FOR WHEEL ROTATION IMAGING DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A display method for a wheel rotation imaging device includes: acquiring operation information, the operation information comprising ambient light intensity, wheel speed, vehicle acceleration, current time, current location, and current power; identifying a situational mode of vehicle driving according to the operation information, the situational mode being in one-to-one correspondence with a power consumption mode; and selecting a power consumption mode of the wheel rotation imaging device according to the situational mode, so that the wheel rotation imaging device completes display according to the power consumption mode. The wheel rotation imaging device is mounted on a wheel and can display texts, images or videos as the wheel rotates. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035533 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD - A preregistered target object is specified together with a position in a visual field of a user. Display of a form in which the visibility of a background of the target object is reduced relatively to the specified target object is performed as display in a display region. Specifically, the visibility of a part other than the target object desired to be visually recognized is relatively reduced and the part is displayed on an image display section. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035534 | TEAR REDUCTION FOR IMMEDIATE FLIPS - Methods, systems and apparatuses may provide for technology that detects an immediate flip request associated with a current frame of a video signal and generates a modified frame in response to the immediate flip request, wherein the modified frame includes a plurality of scanlines containing transition content associated with the current frame and the successive frame. The technology may also send the modified frame to the display. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035535 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROVISION SYSTEM - The present technology relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, and an image provision system that enable simultaneous grasping of an image viewed by a counterpart and a position of the counterpart in a virtual space. An HMD receives a viewpoint image of a user that is an image viewed from a viewpoint of the user in a virtual space, a viewpoint image of another user viewed from a viewpoint of the another user, viewpoint position information indicating a position of the another user, and line-of-sight information indicating a line-of-sight direction of the another user. A display control unit controls display of the viewpoint image of the another user to be superimposed on the viewpoint image of the user on the basis of a positional relationship of the user and the another user in the virtual space determined using the viewpoint position information and the line-of-sight information of the another user. The present technology can be applied to a model room preview system. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035536 | POSITIONING VIDEO SIGNALS - An example system includes an input engine to determine an aspect ratio of each of a plurality of video signals input to the system. The system includes an arrangement engine to determine positions in a display area for the plurality of video signals based on the aspect ratio of each video signal. The system includes a display engine to output screen content corresponding to the plurality of video signals at the determined positions. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035537 | FULL-SCREEN DISPLAYS - An example display device includes a first graphics input port to receive a first video signal, and a second graphics input port to receive a second video signal. A processor is provided to select extended display identification data (EDID) information associated with the display device, and change the EDID information of a full-screen resolution of the first and second video signals while a split screen output command is generated. A video scaler is provided to generate a split screen output with a full-screen display for both the first and second video signals based on the changed EDID information. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035538 | ENDPIN - An endpin is adapted to be installed on a string instrument and adapted to abut against a supporting surface. The endpin includes a stick body and a sound-enhancing dish. The stick body has a connecting end adapted for mounting to the string instrument, and a pointed abutting end adapted for abutting against the supporting surface. The sound-enhancing dish is sleeved on and mounted to the stick body, and has an opening facing the connecting end of the stick body. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035539 | DESK FOR MUSIC EXPERT - Disclosed herein is a desk for a music expert, which is intended to improve the efficiency of the arrangement of music equipment used for various music tasks such as composition or arrangement, so that music work can be performed more comfortably. The present invention provides a desk for a music expert, the desk being configured such that a top plate ( | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035540 | Guitar Case - Provided is a guitar case that can include a body for placement of a guitar; a translucent or transparent window where a portion of the guitar is visible from outside of the case; and a speaker; wherein the guitar placed inside of the case is configured to play over the speaker with a wired or wireless connection. The guitar case can further include a panel or a screen. The screen can be a touch-screen. The panel can be configured to move to allow access to electronics inside of the case. The panel can pivot out. The guitar case can further include a door, the door having the window. The guitar case can further include a camera or a microphone. The case can be configured so that a guitar is placed at an angle of less than vertical. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035541 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING COLLABORATIVE CONTENT - The system generates a recommendation for collaborative content to be consumed, thus allowing a large field of content to be parsed. The content may include audio content, video content, image content, or other content. The system identifies a collaborative content and a base content upon which the collaborative content is generated. Based on analysis of the collaborative content and profile information, the system determines recommendation metric, or a score. Based on the metric, the system generates a recommendation of the collaborative content. Collaborative content that is better formed based on signal properties, favorably compared to the base content, created by more highly rated users, or formatted in a preferred way may be more strongly recommended. Signal properties include temporal, spectral, audio, or visual properties of the content. The system outputs the recommendation for storage, display, or both to provide guidance to users consuming or reviewing collaborative content. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035542 | ELECTRONIC PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT, STROKE DETECTION DEVICE, AND STROKE DETECTION METHOD - An electronic percussion instrument, a stroke detection device, and a stroke detection method which can improve stroke detection accuracy are provided. A thickness dimension (L | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035543 | ELECTRONIC CYMBAL AND BELL PART SENSOR INSTALLATION METHOD - An electronic cymbal and a bell part sensor installation method are provided. The electronic cymbal includes: a disk-shaped frame; a frame bell part which is configured at a center of the frame in a top view; a bell part sensor which is attached onto the frame bell part in a circumferential direction and detects a hit on the frame bell part; and a cover which covers the frame and the bell part sensor and has a surface formed as a hit surface, wherein the bell part sensor is separated in at least a radial direction of the frame bell part. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035544 | INTERCHANGEABLE PICKUP SYSTEM - A docking system for an electromagnetic pickup of a musical instrument comprises an electromagnetic pickup mounting plate upon which the electromagnetic pickup is mounted and a body mounting plate. The electromagnetic pickup mounting plate includes a first electrical contact configured to be electrically connected to the electromagnetic pickup. The body mounting plate includes a second electrical contact configured to electrically connect to the first electrical contact of the electromagnetic pickup mounting plate and configured to be electrically coupled to external electronics for receiving electrical signals from the electromagnetic pickup and a mechanical detent configured to mechanically interface with the electromagnetic pickup mounting plate to detachably secure the electromagnetic pickup mounting plate to the body mounting plate. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035545 | TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION FOR PIEZO SOUNDER - A method of operating a sound generation mechanism includes determining a temperature of the sound generation mechanism, identifying a resonant frequency of the sound generation mechanism associated with the determined temperature, and communicating an excitation frequency to the sound generation mechanism. The excitation frequency is selected in response to the resonant frequency associated with the determined temperature. The sound generation mechanism is operated to produce one or more sounds. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035546 | POROUS FIBER SHEET - This porous fiber sheet is formed using fibers having an average fiber diameter of 0.5 μm to 20 μm. If the total volume of solid and gap per unit volume is 100%, the percentage of solid is 1.3% to 8%. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035547 | ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM USING VARIABLE ACTUATOR AND SENSOR PARTICIPATION - A method for reducing noise in at least one monitor position in a vehicle compartment by actively controlling the power of a primary noise (d | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035548 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - There is provided a semiconductor device having a timing generator that generates synchronization signals so as to match input timings of serial audio data input from an external source, a reproduction processor that, based on the synchronization signals, reads audio data from memory, performs reproduction processing, and outputs a plurality of channel information items, and a mixer that mixes the plurality of channel information items with the serial audio data, and reproduces an audio signal. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035549 | PHONON PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR - A phonon parametric oscillator is provided. The phonon parametric oscillator comprises a laser for periodically emitting brief optical pulses (IL), an assembly for generating acoustic pulses (IA) and a medium for coupling the acoustic pulses to an object (O), the assembly for generating acoustic pulses comprising an entrance face, an exit face, a conversion medium for converting the brief optical pulses into acoustic pulses and a propagation medium for propagating said acoustic pulses, the entrance and exit faces being reflective to the acoustic pulses, the propagation medium having a defined thickness, the exit face making contact with the coupling medium. In the phonon parametric oscillator according to the invention, the round-trip time of an acoustic pulse due to reflection from the entrance and exit faces, is equal to the emission period (τ) of the laser, so that the reflected acoustic pulse is in phase with the following acoustic pulse. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035550 | ADVERTISEMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS AND ADVERTISEMENT PROCESSING METHOD FOR ADVERTISEMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS - According to an embodiment, an advertisement processing apparatus detects words or phrases from advertisement information. The advertisement processing apparatus determines, for each of the detected words or phrases, meaning of an advertisement represented by the corresponding words or phrases. The advertisement processing apparatus generates template data of sales talk on a basis of a combination of the determined meaning of the advertisement. The advertisement processing apparatus creates a sentence being sales talk from the generated template data and the detected words or phrases. The advertisement processing apparatus outputs the created sentence. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035551 | Controlling Expressivity In End-to-End Speech Synthesis Systems - A system for generating an output audio signal includes a context encoder, a text-prediction network, and a text-to-speech (TTS) model. The context encoder is configured to receive one or more context features associated with current input text and process the one or more context features to generate a context embedding associated with the current input text. The text-prediction network is configured to process the current input text and the context embedding to predict, as output, a style embedding for the current input text. The style embedding specifies a specific prosody and/or style for synthesizing the current input text into expressive speech The TTS model is configured to process the current input text and the style embedding to generate an output audio signal of expressive speech of the current input text. The output audio signal has the specific prosody and/or style specified by the style embedding. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035552 | NON-SPEECH INPUT TO SPEECH PROCESSING SYSTEM - A system and method for associating motion data with utterance audio data for use with a speech processing system. A device, such as a wearable device, may be capable of capturing utterance audio data and sending it to a remote server for speech processing, for example for execution of a command represented in the utterance. The device may also capture motion data using motion sensors of the device. The motion data may correspond to gestures, such as head gestures, that may be interpreted by the speech processing system to determine and execute commands. The device may associate the motion data with the audio data so the remote server knows what motion data corresponds to what portion of audio data for purposes of interpreting and executing commands. Metadata sent with the audio data and/or motion data may include association data such as timestamps, session identifiers, message identifiers, etc. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035553 | SPEECH RECOGNITION ACCURACY DETERIORATION FACTOR ESTIMATION DEVICE, SPEECH RECOGNITION ACCURACY DETERIORATION FACTOR ESTIMATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention provides a device for estimating the deterioration factor of speech recognition accuracy by estimating an acoustic factor that leads to a speech recognition error. The device extracts an acoustic feature amount for each frame from an input speech, calculates a posterior probability for each acoustic event for the acoustic feature amount for each frame, corrects the posterior probability by filtering the posterior probability for each acoustic event using a time-series filter with weighting coefficients developed in the time axis, outputs a set of speech recognition results with a recognition score, outputs a feature amount for the speech recognition results for each frame, calculates and outputs a principal deterioration factor class for the speech recognition accuracy for each frame on the basis of the corrected posterior probability, the feature amount for speech recognition results for each frame, and the acoustic feature amount for each frame. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035554 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An apparatus and method are capable of controlling the output of the system utterance upon the occurrence of barge-in utterance and enabling a smooth interactive between a user and the system. Fade processing is applied to lower at least one of volume, a speech rate, or a pitch (voice pitch) of system utterance from a starting time of the barge-in utterance acting as the user interruption utterance during executing the system utterance. Even after the completion of the fade processing, the output state upon completing the fade processing is maintained. In a case where the system utterance level is equal to or less than the predefined threshold during the fade processing, the system utterance is displayed on a display unit. One of stop, continuation, and rephrasing is executed based on an intention of the barge-in utterance and whether an important word is included in in the system utterance. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035555 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR A FURNITURE DRIVE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A FURNITURE DRIVE - In a method for controlling a furniture drive via voice input, an acoustic signal is converted into an electrical signal. The electrical signal is evaluated by a local voice analysis device, and an operating state of the furniture drive is controlled when a keyword from a set of keywords is recognized during evaluation. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035556 | FINE-TUNING LANGUAGE MODELS FOR SUPERVISED LEARNING TASKS VIA DATASET PREPROCESSING - This application provides systems and methods for training a language model to perform one or more specific natural language processing tasks. The embodiments described herein fine-tune language models for downstream tasks solely by pre-processing the training data set. Rather than fine-tuning via architecture changes (e.g., addition of classification layers on top of a language model), the embodiments described herein fine-tune language model(s) via dataset pre-processing alone. This is much simpler for the practitioner. Furthermore, it allows iterative additions of functionality to the language model without a complete restructure of the architecture. This is possible because of the general nature of the language-modelling task, which essentially consists of predicting what comes next in a sequence given some context. If training data can be framed in this manner, a language model can be used to solve that task directly without architecture modifications. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035557 | INTENT AUTHORING USING WEAK SUPERVISION AND CO-TRAINING FOR AUTOMATED RESPONSE SYSTEMS - A combination of propagation operations and learning algorithms is applied, using a selected set of labeled conversational logs retrieved from a subset of a plurality of conversational logs, to a remaining corpus of the plurality of conversational logs to train an automated response system according to an intent associated with each of the conversational logs. The combination of propagation operations and learning algorithms may include defining the labels by a user for the selected set of the subset of the plurality of conversational logs; training a probabilistic classifier using the defined labels of features of the selected set, wherein the probabilistic classifier produces labeling decisions for the subset of conversational logs; weighting the features of the selected set in a model optimization process; and/or training an additional classifier using the weighted features of the selected set and applying the additional classifier to the remaining corpus. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035558 | APPROPRIATE UTTERANCE ESTIMATE MODEL LEARNING APPARATUS, APPROPRIATE UTTERANCE JUDGEMENT APPARATUS, APPROPRIATE UTTERANCE ESTIMATE MODEL LEARNING METHOD, APPROPRIATE UTTERANCE JUDGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is technology for assessing whether uttered speech detected from input speech is speech suited to a prescribed purpose. A method comprises detecting, from input speech including speech uttered by a speaker and noise, the uttered speech corresponding to the speech uttered by the speaker, extracting an acoustic feature of the uttered speech, generating, from the uttered speech, a speech recognition result set with a recognition score, generating, from the speech recognition result set with the recognition score, a speech recognition result word vector expression set and a speech recognition result part-of-speech vector expression set, generating a target utterance estimation model, providing, using the target utterance estimation model, a probability of the uttered speech being suited to the prescribed purpose, and outputting the uttered speech and the speech recognition result set with the recognition score, the the uttered speech suitable to the prescribed purpose. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035559 | LIVE BROADCAST ROOM DISPLAY METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is a live broadcast room display method, apparatus and device, and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring a speech signal within a set duration of at least one live broadcast room under a target classification label; inputting the speech signal within a set duration of the at least one live broadcast room into a speech detection model to obtain a speech signal that satisfies a set type condition; adding a display identifier to a live broadcast room corresponding to the speech signal that satisfies of live broadcast room; and arranging and displaying the at least one live broadcast room in a display interface corresponding to the target classification label according to the display identifier. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035560 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM PARAMETER ADJUSTMENT VIA MACHINE LEARNING - A system, method and computer-readable storage device provides an improved speech processing approach in which hyper parameters used for speech recognition are modified dynamically or in batch mode rather than fixed statically. The method includes estimating, via a model trained on audio data and/or metadata, a set of parameters useful for performing automatic speech recognition, receiving speech at an automatic speech recognition system, applying, by the automatic speech recognition system, the set of parameters to processing the speech to yield text and outputting the text from the automatic speech recognition system. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035561 | LOCALLY DISTRIBUTED KEYWORD DETECTION - In one aspect, a playback device includes a command-keyword engine having a local natural language unit (NLU). The playback device detects, via the command-keyword engine, a first command keyword in voice input of sound detected by one or more microphones of the playback device. The playback device determines whether the sound input data includes a keyword from a first predetermined library of keywords via a local natural language unit (NLU). The playback device transmits the input sound data to a second playback device over a local area network, the second playback device employing a second local NLU with a second predetermined library of keywords. The playback device receives a response from the second playback device and performs an action based on an intent determined by at least one of the first NLU or the second NLU according to the keywords in the voice input. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035562 | DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS IN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION - A decoding method and apparatus in an artificial neural network for speech recognition. The decoding method in the artificial neural network for speech recognition includes performing a first decoding task of decoding a feature including speech information and at least one token recognized up to current time, using a shared decoding layer included in the artificial neural network, performing a second decoding task of decoding the at least one token, using the shared decoding layer, and determining an output token to be recognized subsequent to the at least one token based on a result of the first decoding task and a result of the second decoding task. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035563 | PER-EPOCH DATA AUGMENTATION FOR TRAINING ACOUSTIC MODELS - In some embodiments, methods and systems for training an acoustic model, where the training includes a training loop (including at least one epoch) following a data preparation phase. During the training loop, training data are augmented to generate augmented training data. During each epoch of the training loop, at least some of the augmented training data is used to train the model. The augmented training data used during each epoch may be generated by differently augmenting (e.g., augmenting using a different set of augmentation parameters) at least some of the training data. In some embodiments, the augmentation is performed in the frequency domain, with the training data organized into frequency bands. The acoustic model may be of a type employed (when trained) to perform speech analytics (e.g., wakeword detection, voice activity detection, speech recognition, or speaker recognition) and/or noise suppression. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035564 | DETERMINATION DEVICE, DETERMINATION METHOD, AND DETERMINATION PROGRAM - A determination device includes a memory, and processing circuitry coupled to the memory and configured to accept input of a plurality of sequences provided as candidates for a solution to one given input, and determine, for two sequences of the plurality of sequences, a sequence that has a higher accuracy than the other sequence of the two sequences, using a model expressed as a neural network. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035565 | DEEP LEARNING INTERNAL STATE INDEX-BASED SEARCH AND CLASSIFICATION - Systems and methods are disclosed for generating internal state representations of a neural network during processing and using the internal state representations for classification or search. In some embodiments, the internal state representations are generated from the output activation functions of a subset of nodes of the neural network. The internal state representations may be used for classification by training a classification model using internal state representations and corresponding classifications. The internal state representations may be used for search, by producing a search feature from an search input and comparing the search feature with one or more feature representations to find the feature representation with the highest degree of similarity. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035566 | DOMAIN SPECIFIC CORRECTION OF OUTPUT FROM AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION - Provided are techniques for domain specific correction of output from automatic speech recognition. An output of an automatic speech recognition engine is received. An alphanumeric sequence is extracted from the output, where the alphanumeric sequence represents an erroneous translation by the automatic speech recognition engine. Candidates for the alphanumeric sequence are generated. The candidates are ranked based on scores associated with the candidates. A candidate of the candidates having a highest score of the scores is selected. The output is corrected by replacing the alphanumeric sequence with the selected candidate. The corrected output is returned. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035567 | MAINTAINING PRIVACY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION - Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant to perform intelligent list reading are provided. In accordance with one example, a method includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors, receiving a natural-language input corresponding to a domain; providing the natural-language input to an external device; receiving, from the external device, a process flow corresponding to the domain; determining, with the process flow corresponding to the domain, a task associated with the natural-language input; performing the task; and providing an output indicating whether the task has been performed. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035568 | User Interface for Content and Media Management and Distribution Systems - Systems, devices, and methods are described herein for providing a graphical user interface for configuring presentations of content and controlling distribution of content, for example, through in conjunction with a management system. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035569 | DYNAMIC INTERPOLATION FOR HYBRID LANGUAGE MODELS - In order to improve the accuracy of ASR, an utterance is transcribed using a plurality of language models, such as for example, an N-gram language model and a neural language model. The language models are trained separately. They each output a probability score or other figure of merit for a partial transcription hypothesis. Model scores are interpolated to determine a hybrid score. While recognizing an utterance, interpolation weights are chosen or updated dynamically, in the specific context of processing. The weights are based on dynamic variables associated with the utterance, the partial transcription hypothesis, or other aspects of context. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035570 | Clarification for Personal Assistants in Noisy Environments - Various embodiments receive, by a personal assistant embodied on a computing device, a verbal instruction. The personal assistant ascertains whether the verbal instruction is intact. Responsive to the verbal instruction not being received intact, noise in an ambient environment around the computing device is monitored and responsive to the noise in the ambient environment being below a noise threshold, clarification of the verbal instruction is requested. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035571 | ACTIVATING SPEECH RECOGNITION - A device to process an audio signal representing input sound includes a hand detector configured to generate a first indication responsive to detection of at least a portion of a hand over at least a portion of the device. The device also includes an automatic speech recognition system configured to be activated, responsive to the first indication, to process the audio signal. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035572 | LOCALLY DISTRIBUTED KEYWORD DETECTION - In one aspect, a playback device includes at least one microphone configured to detect a voice input and generate sound input data. The playback device detects a first command keyword in the detected sound and, in response, makes a first determination, via a first local natural language unit (NLU), whether the input sound data includes at least one keyword within a first predetermined library of keywords. The playback device receives an indication of a second determination made by a second NLU that the input sound data includes at least one keyword from a second predetermined library of keywords. The playback device compares the results of the first determination and the second determination and, based on the comparison, foregoes further processing of the input sound data. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035573 | CONTROLLING EXTERNAL BEHAVIOR OF COGNITIVE SYSTEMS - An approach is provided in which a cognitive system engages in a conversation that includes multiple participants. The cognitive system detects a diversion indicator during the conversation that is a trigger to the cognitive system perform a diversion action. The cognitive system identifies the diversion action that corresponds to the diversion indicator and performs the diversion action during the conversation accordingly. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035574 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR A VOICE DETECTOR - Various embodiments of the present technology may provide methods and apparatus for a voice detector. The voice detector may provide a microphone and an audio processor. The microphone may provide an active signal generator configured to generate an active signal. The active signal may indicate when the signal level of detected audio is above or below a threshold level with a first state and a second state. The active signal may prevent activity at the microphone I/O interface and may prevent activity at the audio processor's internal logic. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035575 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING TO EXECUTE FUNCTION ACCORDING TO VOICE COMMAND THEREOF - An electronic apparatus, and a method for the electronic apparatus to control to execute a function according to a voice command uttered by a user are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a memory including a plurality of databases divided according to predicates, a communication circuit that receives voice data corresponding to a voice command from an external apparatus, and a processor operatively connected with the memory and the communication circuit. The processor is configured to identify the type of a predicate included in the voice data, and based on information included in a database corresponding to the identified predicate, determine at least one apparatus to execute the voice command and a function that the at least one apparatus will perform according to the voice command, and control the at least one apparatus to execute the function according to the voice command. | 2021-02-04 |
| 20210035576 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR CHATTING WITH CHATBOT AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - A system according to various embodiments may comprise: a first electronic device including a user interface and a communication circuit; at least one processor which is a part of the first electronic device or remotely communicates with the first electronic device; and at least one memory residing in the first electronic device or residing outside the first electronic device. The at least one memory may store instructions causing, when executed while being operatively connected to the processor, the at least one processor to: receive a first user request related to calling a chatbot in a character and/or voice-based chat, through the user interface; cause the chatbot to join the chat; receive a second user request for a task for the chatbot through the user interface, wherein the second user request does not include at least a part of information required to perform the task, and the at least a part of the information is stored in the at least one memory; receive a user authentication for sharing the at least a part of the information, through the user interface; and provide the at least a part of the information to the chatbot. | 2021-02-04 |
