06th week of 2022 patent applcation highlights part 54 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20220044617 | DRIVING CONTROLLER, DISPLAY APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME AND METHOD OF DRIVING DISPLAY PANEL USING THE SAME - A driving controller set includes a net power control setter, a data clamper, a data line, and a data driver. The net power control setter may determine a first scale factor for adjusting a grayscale value of (N+1)-th frame data based on a load of N-th frame data and a net power control reference value. N is an integer equal to or greater than two. The data clamper may determine a second scale factor for adjusting a grayscale value of the N-th frame data based on a load of (N−1)-th frame data and the N-th frame data. A data signal may be generated using the first scale factor and/or the second scale factor. The data line may include a conductive material. The data driver may convert the data signal into a data voltage and may output the data voltage to the data line. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044618 | CHANNEL CIRCUIT OF SOURCE DRIVER - A source driver, including a plurality of channel circuits, each of the plurality of channel circuits including a first digital-to-analog converter (DAC), a second DAC, a first switch, a second switch and an output buffer circuit, is provided. The output terminal of the output buffer circuit is configured to be coupled to a data line of a display panel. An output terminal of the first DAC is coupled to a first input terminal among the input terminals of the output buffer circuit. An output terminal of the second DAC is coupled to a second input terminal among the input terminals of the output buffer circuit. The first switch is disposed along a first signal path between the output terminal of the first DAC and the output terminal of the output buffer circuit. The second switch is disposed along a second signal path between the output terminal of the second DAC and the output terminal of the output buffer circuit. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044619 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A display device according to an embodiment includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, and an image sticking compensator configured to generate a second image data by reflecting an age data accumulated in a first image data input from an external source. The image sticking compensator generates the age data by accumulating a deterioration data generated by reflecting a frequency weight corresponding to a determined frequency of a previous frame to an image data of the previous frame after the image data of the previous frame is stored. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044620 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a display panel, a gate driving block which outputs a scan signal to the display panel, a source driving block which outputs a data signal to the display panel, and a controller. In the low-frequency mode, the controller divides the display panel into a first area operated at a first frequency lower than the reference frequency and a second area operated at a second frequency lower than the first frequency according to the image data, the source driving block outputs the data signal to the first area at the first frequency and outputs the data signal to the second area at the second frequency, and the gate driving block outputs a first scan signal to the first area at the first frequency and outputs a second scan signal to the second area at the second frequency. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044621 | SCAN NEEDLE AND SCAN DISPLAY SYSTEM INCLUDING SAME - A scan display system includes a picture receiving unit, a scan needle, a picture display screen having first and second opposing surfaces, and a driving unit. The picture receiving unit is configured to receive picture data and transmit the picture data to the scan needle. The driving unit is configured to perform a picture scanning process by moving the scan needle to scan in a vertical direction relative to the first surface of the picture display screen at a predetermined frequency. The scan needle is configured to emit light, representative of the picture data, to the first surface of the picture display screen to project image lines, each image line being projected by the scan needle during the scan. The picture display screen is configured to receive the emitted light on the first surface and display an image comprising the image lines on the second surface. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044622 | SCAN NEEDLE AND SCAN DISPLAY SYSTEM INCLUDING SAME - A scan display system includes a picture receiving unit, a scan needle, a picture display screen having first and second opposing surfaces, a projecting unit, and a driving unit. The picture receiving unit is configured to receive picture data and transmit the picture data to the scan needle. The scan needle is configured to emit light representative of the picture data. The projecting unit is configured to project the light emitted from the scan needle to the first surface of the picture display screen. The driving unit is configured to perform a picture scanning process to form a plurality of image lines. The picture display screen is configured to receive the projected light on the first surface and display an image comprising the image lines on the second surface. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044623 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device is disclosed that provides a compensation function using a movable sensor structure. The display device may sense luminance characteristics of subpixels and reduce or eliminate luminance deviations between subpixels without performing complicated sensing driving on subpixels of the display panel. The display device includes: a display panel including data lines, a gate lines, and subpixels, each of the subpixels including a light emitting device and a driving transistor; a housing protecting the display panel; a moving bar installed in the housing so as to be movable and moving at a front of a viewing surface of the display panel; sensor modules mounted on the moving bar to face the viewing surface of the display panel; and a sensing controller configured to control movement of the moving bar, control an operation of the sensor modules, and receive sensing values of each of the sensor modules. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044624 | DRIVING SUBSTRATE AND DISPLAY PANEL - A driving substrate and a display panel are provided. The driving substrate includes driving modules. Each of the driving modules includes two electrodes. Each of at least one of the two electrodes includes convex parts, and each of the convex parts protrudes from one of the two electrodes where the convex parts are located towards the other one of the two electrodes. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044625 | MODULAR DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus of a plurality of display apparatues constituting a wall display includes a first board, a second board, and a plurality of display modules. The first board includes a first communication interface including a circuitry for wireless transmission, and a timing controller configured to, in response to information on an image being received, generate a plurality of driving signals for driving the plurality of display modules based on the received information and transmit the plurality of driving signals to the second board through the first communication interface. The second board includes a second communication interface including circuitry for wireless reception, a plurality of interfaces electrically connected to the plurality of display modules, and an IC chip configured to, based on the plurality of driving signals being received through the second interface, provide each of the received driving signals to each of the display modules. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044626 | ACTIVE MOTION CAPTURE MARKER APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR UNMANNED OR REMOTE VEHICLES OR WEARABLES - An exemplary motion capture system, device, and method are disclosed herein to facilitate the implementation of active marker technology onto objects and systems whose design considerations require low weight, low power usage, and/or modular implementation. The exemplary motion capture system, device, and method connect light sources with power driving components through modular, flexible strips and optimized driver circuit configuration and structure for minute unmanned or remote vehicles or wearables having very stringent design constraints. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044627 | PIXEL CIRCUIT, DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, AND DISPLAY PANEL - A pixel circuit, a driving method thereof, and a display panel are provided. The pixel circuit includes a first thin film transistor, a second thin film transistor, a first storage capacitor, a second storage capacitor, and an organic light-emitting diode. By adding a storage capacitor to a two-thin film transistors one-capacitor ( | 2022-02-10 |
20220044628 | DRIVING METHOD OF DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The present disclosure provides a driving method of a display device and a display device. The driving method includes: generating and outputting a frame image signal to an organic light emitting device, wherein the frame image signal includes an active data region and a blank region based on a time sequence; in the active data region of the frame image signal, using a timing controller to write a data voltage into the gate of the thin film transistor, store it in a storage capacitor, and apply it to the organic light emitting device through the thin film transistor; and in response to reaching the blank region of the frame image signal as determined by the timing controller, changing the first voltage at the cathode of the organic light emitting device to compensate the operating current of the organic light emitting device. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044629 | High-Brightness Mode on an OLED Display - This document describes techniques and apparatuses for a high-brightness mode on an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display. The techniques and apparatuses set a high-brightness value in a register of a display driver integrated circuit (DDIC) associated with the OLED display of on electronic device. A processor of the electronic device provides a fewer-pulses command to the DDIC, which adjusts a pulse number to control the OLED display at fewer pulses per period. A gamma correction is determined based on the high-brightness value and used to alter content to be presented on the OLED display. As a result, fewer pulses are used in combination with the gamma correction to provide content on the OLED display at a high brightness. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044630 | DISPLAY DEVICE PERFORMING A SENSING OPERATION - A display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; a scan driver connected to the plurality of pixels through a plurality of scan lines; a data driver connected to the plurality of pixels through a plurality of data lines; an emission driver connected to the plurality of pixels through a plurality of emission control lines; a sensing circuit connected to the plurality of pixels through a plurality of sensing lines; and a controller configured to control the scan driver, the data driver, the emission driver and the sensing circuit, wherein, in an active period of each frame period, the scan driver sequentially applies a sensing pulse and a scan pulse to at least one scan line of the plurality of scan lines, and applies the scan pulse to remaining scan lines of the plurality of scan lines. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044631 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in m rows and n columns, where the pixels receive write scan signals, data voltages and compensation scan signals, a plurality of write scan lines which provides the write scan signals to the pixels, a plurality of data lines which provides the data voltages to the pixels, and a plurality of compensation scan lines which provides the compensation scan signals to the pixels, wherein in h-th to p-th frames, the data voltages are applied to pixels arranged in first to i-th rows, and in h-th to (h+k)-th frames, the data voltages are applied to pixels of a row unit by increasing sequentially the number of the row unit to which the data voltages are applied in at least one row unit from an i-th row to an (i+1)-th row. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044632 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes a display, a loudspeaker and a controller. The controller is configured to: perform, based on one or both of (i) image information of an image that is displayed on the display, and (ii) sound information of sound that is output from the loudspeaker, electric current control processing that controls a sum of an electric current to be supplied to the display and an electric current to be supplied to the loudspeaker. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044633 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electroluminescent device includes a light-emitting element, a drive transistor that supplies a driving current corresponding to a gradation voltage to the light-emitting element, a first conductive layer that is electrically connected to a gate of the drive transistor, and a second conductive layer that is supplied a fixed potential and that is disposed on a same layer as the first conductive layer. The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are disposed apart and electrically insulated from one another, and in plan view, the first conductive layer is surrounded by the second conductive layer. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044634 | DISPLAY PANEL OF AN ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY DEVICE - A display panel of an OLED display device includes a first pixel configured to emit first color light, a second pixel configured to emit second color light, and a third pixel configured to emit third color light. Each of the first, second and third pixels includes at least two transistors, at least one capacitor and an organic light emitting diode. At least one of at least two transistors or at least one capacitor included in the third pixel has a size different from a size of a corresponding one at least two transistors or at least one capacitor included in the first pixel or the second pixel. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044635 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY DEVICE - An organic light emitting diode display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, and a panel driver configured to drive the display panel. Each pixel includes a driving transistor, a compensating transistor including first and second compensating sub-transistors coupled in series between a gate node and a drain of the driving transistor, a storage capacitor, and an organic light emitting diode. The panel driver calculates an average representative gray level of input image data in a plurality of frame periods, determines a voltage level of a node controlling voltage based on the average representative gray level, and provides the node controlling voltage to each of the plurality of pixels to control a voltage of a node between the first and second compensating sub-transistors. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044636 | DISPLAY SUBSTRATE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate and sub-pixels on the base substrate, a sub-pixel includes an organic light emitting element and a pixel circuit, the organic light emitting element includes a first electrode, a light emitting layer and a second electrode which are stacked, the second electrode is electrically connected to the pixel circuit. The display substrate further includes an active semiconductor layer, a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, a source-drain metal layer, and a third conductive layer, the source-drain metal layer includes a first power signal line, and the third conductive layer includes a second power signal line; the display substrate further includes reset power signal lines, the reset power signal lines include a first reset power signal line and a second reset power signal line which are electrically connected to the pixel circuit. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044637 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: a plurality of pixels substantially in a matrix form including a plurality of pixel columns in a first direction and a plurality of pixel rows in a second direction intersecting the first direction; a plurality of data lines connected to the pixel columns, respectively; a plurality of scan lines extending in the second direction; and a power line which supplies a driving power voltage to the pixels. Each of the data lines includes a first sub-data line disposed at a side of a corresponding pixel column, and a second sub-data line disposed at an opposite side of the corresponding pixel column, and each of the pixels includes a first transistor and a display element connected to the first transistor, where the power line overlaps with at least a portion of the first transistor. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044638 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a display panel including a first image unit and a second image unit, a data driver which applies data voltages to the display panel, a first scan driver which applies write scan signals to the display panel, a second scan driver which applies compensation scan signals and initialization scan signals to the display panel, and a masking part connected to the second scan driver and which selectively applies the initialization scan signals to the second image unit. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044639 | DISPLAY SUBSTRATE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The present disclosure provides a display substrate, a manufacturing method and a display device. At least one of the plurality of shift register units in the scan driving circuit includes an output circuit including an output transistor and an output reset transistor; a length of the active layer of the output transistor/the output reset transistor in the first direction is a first length/a second length, and a sum thereof is an output active length; a smaller one of minimum width of the active layer of the output transistor and the output reset transistor in a second direction is a first output active width, the first direction intersects the second direction; a ratio of the output active length to the first output active width is within a first predetermined ratio range greater than or equal to 3 and less than or equal to 11. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044640 | DATA DRIVER AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A data driver includes: a signal generator which includes a staircase waveform gray voltage signal generator which generate a plurality of staircase waveform gray voltage signals using a lowest gamma reference voltage, a highest gamma reference voltage, and a plurality of gamma voltages having a magnitude between the lowest gamma reference voltage and the highest gamma reference voltage; and a channel driver which includes a decoder which output one staircase waveform gray voltage signal selected from the staircase waveform gray voltage signals, an output circuit which output a gray voltage corresponding to the selected staircase waveform gray voltage signal, and a reset unit which supplies one of the gamma voltages to the output circuit as a reset voltage. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044641 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: a dummy data unit connected to one end portion of a data line, where the dummy data unit supplies a dummy data signal to the data line; a sensing unit connected to an opposing end portion of the data line, where the sensing unit determines a load of the data line based on the dummy data signal supplied thereto through the data line; and a timing controller which controls a supply timing of a data signal to be supplied to the data line, based on the load. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044642 | BACKLIGHT MODULE AND DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING SAME - A backlight module and a display device having same are disclosed. The backlight module includes a light substrate, a plurality of backlight units, and a drive circuit. Among the backlight units driven by each drive unit, in a same row or a same column, at most two of the backlight units are arranged continuously beside each other, and these backlight units are not arranged in a quadrangular pattern. On a same light substrate, connecting wires between all the backlight units are disposed on a same layer. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044643 | DISPLAY BACKLIGHTING SYSTEMS AND METHODS HAVING CURRENT MIRROR BASED DISPLAY DRIVERS TO IMPROVE PULSE WIDTH MODULATION RESOLUTION - Aspects of the subject technology relate to an electronic device with a display. The display includes a plurality of light-emitting diodes and first and second driver circuits coupled to the plurality of light-emitting diodes. The first driver circuit is configured to receive a first pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal to control a first current mirror branch and the second driver circuit to receive a second PWM signal to control a second current mirror branch to provide an extra N bits of resolution for controlling the plurality of the light-emitting diodes. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044644 | TIME-MULTIPLEXED BACKLIGHT, MULTIVIEW DISPLAY, AND METHOD - A time-multiplexed backlight and display employ a broad-angle backlight to provide broad-angle emitted light corresponding to a 2D portion of a displayed image, a multiview backlight to provide directional emitted light corresponding to a multiview portion of the displayed image, and a mode controller configured to time-multiplex the 2D portion and the multiview portion by activating the broad-angle backlight and the multiview backlight in sequential manner as a composite image. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044645 | METHOD OF DRIVING DISPLAY, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND SOURCE DRIVER - A source driver including: gamma generators configured to provide a gamma voltage; digital-to-analog converters configured to receive and convert the gamma voltage into a corresponding grayscale signal; buffer amplifiers configured to buffer and output the grayscale signal to pixels; and switches configured to electrically connect the pixels so that the identical grayscale signal is provided to a plurality of pixels. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044646 | SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION TO A USER - The invention relates to a system for displaying information to a user, comprising: | 2022-02-10 |
20220044647 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes a backlight, a first liquid crystal panel, a second liquid crystal panel, and a driver. The second liquid crystal panel is overlapped with the first liquid crystal panel, and disposed closer to the backlight than to the first liquid crystal panel. The driver is configured to drive the backlight, the first liquid crystal panel, and the second liquid crystal panel. The second liquid crystal panel is lower in resolution than the first liquid crystal panel. The driver drives the first liquid crystal panel and the second liquid crystal panel at different refresh rates. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044648 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An electronic apparatus and a method of controlling the same are provided. The electronic apparatus includes: a display; and a processor configured to: obtain usage data based on use of the electronic apparatus; identify image-quality degradation of the display based on the usage data and reference data obtained based on a relationship between a use pattern of the electronic apparatus and the image-quality degradation of the display; and control the display based on the identified image-quality degradation of the display. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044649 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A performance of a display apparatus is improved. A display apparatus has a display region, a transparent region and a frame region. The display apparatus includes a plurality of scan signal lines extending in an X direction in the display region and a plurality of image signal lines extending in a Y direction in the display region. The plurality of image signal lines include a first wiring (image signal line) and a second wiring (image signal line). The first wiring includes a first bypass wiring portion arranged in the frame region and a first extension wiring portion connected to an end of the first bypass wiring portion and extending in the Y direction. The second wiring includes a second bypass wiring portion arranged in the frame region and a second extension wiring portion connected to an end of the second bypass wiring portion and extending in the Y direction. In a plan view, the first wiring and the second wiring intersect with each other at the frame region. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044650 | TIMING CONTROLLER, GREY VOLTAGE ADJUSTING METHOD OF LCD PANEL AND LCD PANEL - A timing controller includes a detecting circuit, a control circuit, and a compensation circuit. The timing controller reads the compensation values according to the variance between refreshing frequencies and compensate the second basic value in the white balance data driving table based on the first basic value accordingly. This could efficiently improve the grey voltage difference between after and before switching the refreshing frequency. This could efficiently improve the flicker issue. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044651 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOW POWER COMMON ELECTRODE VOLTAGE GENERATION FOR DISPLAYS - A system, circuit, and method for implementing a low power common electrode voltage for a display (e.g., LCoS display) having transistors with low to moderate breakdown voltages may include a first and a second low voltage amplifier, wherein the first amplifier generates a pixel voltage and the second amplifier generates a predetermined voltage. The circuit may include a common electrode circuit coupled to the first and second amplifier to generate a common electrode voltage. Particularly, the circuit may include a control circuit coupled to the common electrode circuit, wherein, during a first phase, the control circuit selectively controls the common electrode circuit to generate a low common electrode voltage based upon a negative value of the predetermined voltage. Further, during a second phase, the control circuit selectively controls the common electrode circuit to generate a high common electrode voltage based upon the sum of the predetermined voltage and the pixel voltage. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044652 | DATA INTERFACE DEVICE AND METHOD OF DISPLAY APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a data interface device of a display apparatus including a timing controller, encoding clock-embedded image data corresponding to a logic high period of a data enable signal and clock-embedded blank data corresponding to a logic low period of the data enable signal and transferring an encoded data transfer packet to a transfer line, and a source integrated circuit generating an internal clock based on the encoded data transfer packet received through the transfer line and selectively decoding the clock-embedded image data based on the internal clock, wherein a transition pattern of the clock-embedded blank data differs in a plurality of transfer lines. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044653 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND CORRECTING ILLUMINATION SOURCES REFLECTING ON DISPLAYS - Systems and methods for identifying and correcting illumination sources are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: receive a measurement from an Ambient Light Sensor (ALS); determine that the measurement indicates an increase in ambient illumination equal to or greater than a threshold value; in response to the determination, receive an image from a charge-coupled device (CCD) sensor; extract illumination data from the image; and adjust the measurement in response to the illumination data. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044654 | Display Control Apparatus, Computing Device, Processing Unit and Corresponding Methods and Computer Programs - Examples relate to a display control apparatus for a display, to a computing device with an integrated display and a display control apparatus, a processing unit for a computing device with an integrated display and to corresponding methods and computer programs. The display control apparatus comprises interface circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain, via the interface circuitry, information on a user of the display, the information on the user indicating a presence of the user relative to the display or an engagement of the user with the display. The processing circuitry is configured to control, based on the information on the user, a display mode of the display, the display mode affecting at least one of a refresh rate and a backlight of the display. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044655 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes at least one display, at least one processor, and at least one memory. The at least one memory may store instructions to, when executed, enable the at least one processor to obtain, through a first display area of the at least one display activated while the at least one display is folded, an input to select a plurality of applications to be executed and displayed when the at least one display is unfolded, detect an unfolding of the at least one display, based on the detection of the unfolding, split a second display area of the at least one display activated while the at least one display is unfolded to correspond to a number of the plurality of applications, and execute the plurality of applications and display the plurality of applications on the split second display area. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044656 | ADAPTIVE MULTIBIT BUS FOR ENERGY OPTIMIZATION - Methods and apparatus relating to an adaptive multibit bus for energy optimization are described. In an embodiment, a 1-bit interconnect of a processor is caused to select between a plurality of operational modes. The plurality of operational modes comprises a first mode and a second mode. The first mode causes transmission of a single bit over the 1-bit interconnect at a first frequency and the second mode causes transmission of a plurality of bits over the 1-bit interconnect at a second frequency based at least in part on a determination that an operating voltage of the 1-bit interconnect is at a high voltage level and that the second frequency is lower than the first frequency. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044657 | STRING INSTRUMENT EMULATING AND STRING TENSION MEASURING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USING SAME - An apparatus for emulating a variety of string instruments with a variety of configurations in order to measure the resulting, actual tension of a string on that instrument. The tension may be measured in real-time. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044658 | Banjo Acoustic-Chamber Cushion - A banjo acoustic-chamber cushion is an apparatus that is used to minimize the discomfort caused by the sharp edges and brackets found around the perimeter of the acoustic chamber of a banjo. The apparatus may include a circular padded backing and an annular padded rim. The circular padded backing serves as a shield between the player's body and the back of a banjo acoustic chamber without obstructing the playing of the banjo. The circular padded backing also protects the back of the banjo acoustic chamber from physical damage such as scratches or dents. The annular padded rim serves as a shield between the player's body and the rim of the banjo acoustic chamber. The annular padded rim also secures the apparatus to the banjo acoustic chamber. Further, the annular padded rim protects the outer lateral surfaces of the banjo acoustic chamber from physical damage such as scratches and dents. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044659 | Guitar Armrest - A guitar armrest designed to relieve the arm stress that a guitarist experiences in the Palmaris Longus muscle caused by the arm resting against the acoustic guitar's lower bout and soundboard side edge. It is made of a one piece injection-molded flexible rubber solid body, with a durometer so as to hold the weight of a guitarist's arm off of the front soundboard so as to prevent scratching and deadening of the sound projected therefrom. Replaceable suction cups extend through the body of the armrest such that their attachment buttons protrude from the armrest's top face and their suction disks protrude from the bottom face. The armrest is temporarily affixed to the lower bout of the guitar by suction means. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044660 | ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICE AND SYSTEM TO AUTOMATICALLY TUNE A DRUM ASSEMBLY WITHOUT HAVING TO STRIKE EITHER THE TOP OR BOTTOM SURFACE OF THE DRUM - The present invention is a system and methods for automating the tuning process for drums. The invention automatically applies tension across the batter heads of a drum. The invention consists of a plurality of electrical stepper motors each of which is connected to a gear reduction assembly and a rotating tension rod. The invention acts to exert a tensioning force on each attachment point around the circumference of the hoop(s) securing the batter head to the drum shell. An algorithm drives a microprocessor that monitors the current being used by each stepper motor assembly which is translated to torque. When the torque for each stepper motor assembly reaches a predetermined level, the tension holding the batter head and to the shell of the drum will be in tune. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044661 | NETWORK MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - Methods and systems are described that are utilized for remotely controlling a musical instrument. A first digital record comprising musical instrument digital commands from a first electronic instrument for a first item of music is accessed. The first digital record is transmitted over a network using a network interface to a remote, second electronic instrument for playback to a first user. Optionally, video data is streamed to a display device of a user while the first digital record is played back by the second electronic instrument. A key change command is transmitted over the network using the network interface to the second electronic instrument to cause the second electronic instrument to playback the first digital record for the first item of music in accordance with the key change command. The key change command may be transmitted during the streaming of the video data. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044662 | Audio Information Playback Method, Audio Information Playback Device, Audio Information Generation Method and Audio Information Generation Device - An audio information playback method includes reading audio information, reading separator information, acquiring note-on information and note-off information, moving a playback position, and starting playback. The starting of the playback is from the loop end position to the playback end position of an utterance unit subject to playback in response to acquisition of the note-off information corresponding to the note-on information. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044663 | MUSIC CONTEXT SYSTEM AUDIO TRACK STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF REAL-TIME SYNCHRONIZATION OF MUSICAL CONTENT - A system is described that permits identified musical phrases or themes to be synchronized and linked into changing real-world events. The achieved synchronization includes a seamless musical transition—achieved using a timing offset, such as relative advancement of an significant musical “onset,” that is inserted to align with a pre-existing but identified music signature, beat or timebase—between potentially disparate pre-identified musical phrases having different emotive themes defined by their respective time signatures, intensities, keys, musical rhythms and/or musical phrasing. The system operates to augment an overall sensory experience of a user in the real world by dynamically changing, re-ordering or repeating and then playing audio themes within the context of what is occurring in the surrounding physical environment, e.g. during different phases of a cardio workout in a step class the music rate and intensity increase during sprint periods and decrease during recovery periods. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044664 | Electronic Hi-Hat - An electronic hi-hat | 2022-02-10 |
20220044665 | SELF-CONTAINED, SAFETY-CONFIRMING JUKEBOX CHASSIS AND ENCLOSURE - A wall-mountable jukebox and cover assembly in which a jukebox chassis is exposed by the cover in a display screen and in one or more payment receptors for pay-for-play payment collection devices. The jukebox chassis and cover are designed to enable the jukebox chassis to detachably slide-on to the cover. Various securing mechanisms and access mechanisms may be configured. The jukebox and cover assembly is configured for use in commercial venues and can be customized to each location. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044666 | INTELLIGENT ACCOMPANIMENT GENERATING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ASSISTING A USER TO PLAY AN INSTRUMENT IN A SYSTEM - The intelligent accompaniment generating system includes an input module, an analysis module, a generation module and a musical equipment. The input module is configured to receive a musical pattern signal derived from a raw signal. The analysis module is configured to analyze the musical pattern signal to extract a set of audio features, wherein the input module is configured to transmit the musical pattern signal to the analysis module. The generation module is configured to obtain a playing assistance information having an accompaniment pattern from the analysis module, wherein the accompaniment pattern has at least two parts having different onsets therebetween, and each onsets of the at least two parts is generated by an algorithm according to the set of audio features. The musical equipment includes a digital amplifier configured to output an accompaniment signal according to the accompaniment pattern. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044667 | SPEAKER IDENTITY AND CONTENT DE-IDENTIFICATION - One embodiment of the invention provides a method for speaker identity and content de-identification under privacy guarantees. The method comprises receiving input indicative of privacy protection levels to enforce, extracting features from a speech recorded in a voice recording, recognizing and extracting textual content from the speech, parsing the textual content to recognize privacy-sensitive personal information about an individual, generating de-identified textual content by anonymizing the personal information to an extent that satisfies the privacy protection levels and conceals the individual's identity, and mapping the de-identified textual content to a speaker who delivered the speech. The method further comprises generating a synthetic speaker identity based on other features that are dissimilar from the features to an extent that satisfies the privacy protection levels, and synthesizing a new speech waveform based on the synthetic speaker identity to deliver the de-identified textual content. The new speech waveform conceals the speaker's identity. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044668 | TRANSLATING BETWEEN SPOKEN LANGUAGES WITH EMOTION IN AUDIO AND VIDEO MEDIA STREAMS - Systems and methods are described herein for generating alternate audio for a media stream. The media system receives media that is requested by the user. The media comprises a video and audio. The audio includes words spoken in a first language. The media system stores the received media in a buffer as it is received. The media system separates the audio from the buffered media and determines an emotional state expressed by spoken words of the first language. The media system translates the words spoken in the first language into words spoken in a second language. Using the translated words of the second language, the media system synthesizes speech having the emotional state previously determined. The media system then retrieves the video of the received media from the buffer and synchronizes the synthesized speech with the video to generate the media content in a second language. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044669 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING NOTIFICATIONS WITHIN A MEDIA ASSET WITHOUT BREAKING IMMERSION - Systems and methods for providing notifications without breaking media immersion. A notification delivery application receives notification data while a media device provides a media asset. In response to receiving the notification data while the media device provides the media asset, the notification delivery application generates a voice model based on a voice detected in the media asset. The notification delivery application converts the notification data to synthesized speech using the voice model and generates, by the media device, the synthesized speech for output at an appropriate point in the media asset based on contextual features of the media asset. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044670 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PERFORMING VOICE RECOGNITION USING MICROPHONES SELECTED ON BASIS OF OPERATION STATE, AND OPERATION METHOD OF SAME - Various embodiments of the present invention relate to an electronic device for performing voice recognition using microphones selected on the basis of the operation state, and an operation method of same. According to an embodiment, the electronic device includes: one or more microphone arrays which include a plurality of microphones; at least one processor operatively connected to the microphone arrays; and at least one memory electrically connected to the processor, wherein the memory may store instructions for the processor to, at the time of execution; receive wake-up utterances, for calling designated voice services, by using a first group of microphones among the plurality of microphones when operating in a first state; operate in a second state in response to the wake-up utterances; and receive subsequent utterances using a second group of microphones among the plurality of microphones when operating in the second state. Various other embodiments are also possible. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044671 | SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING - Systems and methods for spoken language understanding are described. Embodiments of the systems and methods receive audio data for a spoken language expression, encode the audio data using a multi-stage encoder comprising a basic encoder and a sequential encoder, wherein the basic encoder is trained to generate character features during a first training phase and the sequential encoder is trained to generate token features during a second training phase, and decode the token features to generate semantic information representing the spoken language expression. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044672 | MASKING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Term masking is performed by generating a time-alignment value for a plurality of identifiable units of sound in vocal audio content contained in a mixed audio track, force-aligning each of the plurality of identifiable units of sound to the vocal audio content based on the time-alignment value, thereby generating a plurality of force-aligned identifiable units of sound, identifying from the plurality of force-aligned identifiable units of sound a force-aligned identifiable unit of sound to be muddled, and audio muddling the force-aligned identifiable unit of sound to be muddled. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044673 | BUILDING SYSTEM WITH ENTITY GRAPH COMMANDS - One or more non-transitory computer readable media contain program instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to: receive first raw data including one or more first data points generated by a first object of a plurality of objects associated with one or more buildings; generate first input timeseries according to the one or more data points; access a database of interconnected smart entities, the smart entities including object entities representing each of the plurality of objects and data entities representing stored data, the smart entities being interconnected by relational objects indicating relationships between the smart entities; identify a first object entity representing the first object from a first identifier in the first input timeseries; identify a first data entity from a first relational object indicating a relationship between the first object entity and the first data entity; and store the first input timeseries in the first data entity. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044674 | AI SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM CAPABLE OF SELECTING MODELS - The present invention provides a system for selecting a special speech recognition model through a general model of an AI speech recognition system for users to select an appropriate model. In addition to the AI speech recognition server of a general model, the present invention additionally prepares speech models in various fields, such as sports event model, financial news model, and game live model. Different users can choose different speech models according to their needs or fields, and they can get better services respectively. If the different users have no special choice, the AI speech recognition server of the general model provides speech recognition services for the different users. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044675 | METHOD FOR GENERATING CAPTION FILE THROUGH URL OF AN AV PLATFORM - The present invention provides a method for generating caption file through URL of an AV platform. By using various websites (such as YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter) for being inputted with the URL of a desired AV Platform and downloading a required AV file and inputting to an ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) server according to the present invention. A speech recognition system in the ASR server can abstract an audio file from the AV file for a system operation to get a required caption file. Artificial Neural Networks are used in the present invention. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044676 | DETERMINATION OF USER INTENT USING CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS - Systems and method for predicting user intent using contextual analysis are provided. The systems and method may include contextual conversation assistant receiving a conversation input from a user wherein the user's intent is prima facie ambiguous, comparing the conversation input with historical data with known meaning, performing a self-referential internal contextual analysis on the ambiguous conversation input, and generating a conversation output determining the user's intent based on the contextual analysis. The self-referential internal contextual analysis may include comparing each word of the ambiguous conversation input with a portion of or all remaining words of the conversation input. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044677 | EFFICIENT AND LOW LATENCY AUTOMATED ASSISTANT CONTROL OF SMART DEVICES - Various implementations relate to techniques, for controlling smart devices, that are low latency and/or that provide computational efficiencies (client and/or server) and/or network efficiencies. Those implementations relate to generating and/or utilizing cache entries, of a cache that is stored locally at an assistant client device, in control of various smart devices (e.g., smart lights, smart thermostats, smart plugs, smart appliances, smart routers, etc.). Each of the cache entries includes a mapping of text to one or more corresponding semantic representations. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044678 | SPEECH PROCESSING METHOD AND METHOD FOR GENERATING SPEECH PROCESSING MODEL - The present disclosure provides a speech processing method, and a method for generating a speech processing model, related to a field of signal processing technologies. The speech processing method includes: obtaining M speech signals to be processed and N reference signals; performing sub-band decomposition on each of the M speech signals and each of the N reference signals to obtain frequency-band components in each speech signal and each reference signal; processing the frequency-band components in each speech signal and each reference signal by using an echo cancellation model, to obtain an ideal ratio mask corresponding to the N reference signals in each frequency band of each speech signal; and performing echo cancellation on each frequency-band component of each speech signal based on the ideal ratio mask corresponding to the N reference signals in each frequency band of each speech signal, to obtain M echo-cancelled speech signals. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044679 | SPEECH COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH HUMAN-MACHINE COORDINATION - The present disclosure relates to a field of intelligent communications, and discloses a speech communication system and method with human-machine coordination, which resolve a problem of bad client experience because great differences occur after a switchover in a call through a prior human-machine coordination and time of a client is wasted. Key points of the technical solutions of the present disclosure include a communications module; an answering and calling-out module, allocating a human agent; a speech intention understanding module for understanding an intention in a call process; a voice cloning module, synthesizing, from a reply text, voice of a corresponding attendant; a human-machine interaction module, to communicate with a client by a speech robot; an intervention prompting module, monitoring call content to obtain an intervention willing probability, and prompting the human agent according to a predefined rule; and a manual intervention module, through which the client is replied by a person, and the manual intervention module displays a call intention and prompts the call during the call. In this way, during the call, a seamless switchover may be performed between the human agent and the speech robot. After the manual intervention, the attendant can quickly understand the call intention, to ensure good call experience of the client. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044680 | PRIVACY MODE BASED ON SPEAKER IDENTIFIER - Techniques for configuring a speech processing system with a privacy mode that is associated with the identity of a user that activated the privacy mode are described. A user may speak an indication to have the speech processing system activate a privacy mode. When such an indication is detected by the speech processing system, the speech processing system determines an identity of the user, determines a unique system identifier associated with the user, and generates a privacy mode flag. The speech processing system then associates the privacy mode flag with the user's unique system identifier. The privacy mode flag indicates to components of the speech processing system that any data related to processing of the user's utterances should not be sent to long term storage, thus causing various components of the system to delete data once the respective component is finished processing with respect to an utterance of the user. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044681 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND STORAGE MEDIA FOR PERFORMING ACTIONS BASED ON UTTERANCE OF A COMMAND - Systems and methods for recognizing and executing spoken commands using speech recognition. Exemplary implementations may: store actionable phrases; obtain audio information representing sound captured by a mobile client computing platform associated with a user; detect any spoken instances of a predetermined keyword present in the sound represented by the audio information; perform speech recognition on the sound represented by the audio information; identify an utterance of an individual actionable phrase in speech temporally adjacent to the spoken instance of the predetermined keyword that is present in the sound represented by the audio information; perform natural language processing to identify an individual command uttered temporally adjacent to the spoken instance of the predetermined keyword that is present in the sound represented by the audio information; and effectuate performance of instructions corresponding to the command. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044682 | VOICE BROADCASTING CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A voice broadcasting control method, a storage medium and an electronic device are disclosed. The control method includes obtaining current state information in response to activating a voice assistant, generating a target control command in response to detecting the current state information being predetermined state information, and executing the target control command to perform a voice control on a voice broadcast of the voice assistant. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044683 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME FEEDBACK OF REMOTE COLLABORATIVE COMMUNICATION - A system and method for providing real-time feedback of remote collaborative communication includes: processing first audio signals to extract first speech-related features therefrom; processing first EEG signals to extract first brain activity features therefrom; processing second audio signals to extract second speech-related features therefrom; processing second EEG signals to extract second brain activity features therefrom; processing the first and second speech-related features to determine if the speech from the first and second users exhibits positive or negative vocal entrainment; processing the first and second brain activity features to determine if the brain activity of the first and second users is aligned or misaligned; and generating feedback, on at least one display device, that indicates if the speech from the first and second users exhibits positive or negative vocal entrainment and if the brain activity of the first and second users is aligned or misaligned. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044684 | AUTOMATED CALLING SYSTEM - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for an automated calling system are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving audio data of an utterance spoken by a user who is having a telephone conversation with a bot. The actions further include determining a context of the telephone conversation. The actions further include determining a user intent of a first previous portion of the telephone conversation spoken by the user and a bot intent of a second previous portion of the telephone conversation outputted by a speech synthesizer of the bot. The actions further include, based on the audio data of the utterance, the context of the telephone conversation, the user intent, and the bot intent, generating synthesized speech of a reply by the bot to the utterance. The actions further include, providing, for output, the synthesized speech. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044685 | Voice Recognition Device, Waking-Up and Responding Method of the Same, and Computer Storage Medium - The present application discloses a waking-up and responding method for a voice recognition device, a voice recognition device, and a computer storage medium. A plurality of voice recognition devices form an area network. The plurality of voice recognition devices are classified into a central device and at least one non-central device. The waking-up and responding method includes: the central device analyzing the collected voice signal to obtain a response factor of the central device; receiving a response factor of the non-central device, the response factor of the non-central device being obtained by the non-central device analyzing the collected voice signal; comparing the response factor of the central device with the response factor of the non-central device; and determining a pending voice recognition device, the pending voice recognition device being a voice recognition device that is in the area network and responds to the voice signal. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044686 | VIRTUAL ASSISTANT IDENTIFICATION OF NEARBY COMPUTING DEVICES - In one example, a method includes method comprising: receiving audio data generated by a microphone of a current computing device; identifying, based on the audio data, one or more computing devices that each emitted a respective audio signal in response to speech reception being activated at the current computing device; and selecting either the current computing device or a particular computing device from the identified one or more computing devices to satisfy a spoken utterance determined based on the audio data. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044687 | SPEAKER SEPARATION BASED ON REAL-TIME LATENT SPEAKER STATE CHARACTERIZATION - Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can obtain a stream of audio waveform data that represents speech involving a plurality of speakers. As the stream of audio waveform data is obtained, a plurality of audio chunks can be determined. An audio chunk can be associated with one or more identity embeddings. The stream of audio waveform data can be segmented into a plurality of segments based on the plurality of audio chunks and respective identity embeddings associated with the plurality of audio chunks. A segment can be associated with a speaker included in the plurality of speakers. Information describing the plurality of segments associated with the stream of audio waveform data can be provided. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044688 | SAMPLE-EFFICIENT REPRESENTATION LEARNING FOR REAL-TIME LATENT SPEAKER STATE CHARACTERIZATION - Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can provide audio waveform data that corresponds to a voice sample to a temporal convolutional network for evaluation. The temporal convolutional network can pre-process the audio waveform data and can output an identity embedding associated with the audio waveform data. The identity embedding associated with the voice sample can be obtained from the temporal convolutional network. Information describing a speaker associated with the voice sample can be determined based at least in part on the identity embedding. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044689 | AUTHENTICATION METHOD, AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, SMART SPEAKER AND PROGRAM - An authentication method includes a first step and a second step. The first step causes a voice including a predetermined character string to be output from a speaker | 2022-02-10 |
20220044690 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR VOICE RECOGNITION - A portable communication device is provided. A memory stores a first voice recognition module and a second voice recognition module. The first voice recognition module is capable of recognizing a wake-up voice command to activate the second voice recognition module. The second voice recognition module is capable of recognizing a plurality of voice commands other than the wake-up voice command. A processor is configured to recognize, using the first voice recognition module, the wake-up voice command from a first voice input, and activate the second voice recognition module. The processor is also configured to transmit, using the second voice recognition module, a second voice input to an external electronic device. The processor is further configured to recognize, using the second voice recognition module, a second voice command from a third voice input while a specified application is executed, and perform a specified function corresponding to the second voice command. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044691 | VOICE RECOGNITION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD OF VOICE RECOGNITION DEVICE, CONTENT REPRODUCING DEVICE, AND CONTENT TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION SYSTEM - A voice analyzer analyzes whether a voice signal input into a voice input unit includes a specific characteristic component. A voice recognizer recognizes a voice represented by the voice signal input into the voice input unit. A response instruction unit instructs a response to a response operation unit that operates in response to the voice recognized by the voice recognizer. A controller controls the voice recognizer not to execute voice recognition processing by the voice recognizer or controls the response instruction unit not to instruct the response operation unit about an instruction content by the voice recognized by the voice recognizer, when the voice analyzer analyzes that the voice signal includes the specific characteristic component. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044692 | Method, Apparatus, and System for Processing Audio Data - A method for processing an audio signal includes: receiving a bitstream corresponding to the audio signal; obtaining a silence insertion descriptor (SID) type of a current frame of the audio signal by decoding the bitstream; obtaining a low-band parameter of the current frame by decoding the bitstream; obtaining a low-band signal of the current frame based on the low-band parameter; obtaining, based on the SID type of the current frame, a high-band parameter of the current frame; obtaining a high-band signal of the current frame based on the high-band parameter; and obtaining a synthesis signal of the current frame based on the low-band signal and the high-band signal. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044693 | INTERNET CALLING METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - This disclosure provides a network call method and apparatus, a computer device, and a storage medium, and belongs to the field of audio data processing. The method includes: performing time-frequency transformation on an acquired audio signal, to obtain a plurality of pieces of frequency domain information of the audio signal; determining a target bit rate corresponding to the audio signal according to the plurality of pieces of frequency domain information; and encoding the audio signal based on the target bit rate, and performing a network call based on the encoded audio signal. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044694 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RATE QUALITY SCALABLE CODING WITH GENERATIVE MODELS - Described herein is a method of decoding an audio or speech signal, the method including the steps of: (a) receiving, by a decoder, a coded bitstream including the audio or speech signal and conditioning information; (b) providing, by a bitstream decoder, decoded conditioning information in a format associated with a first bitrate; (c) converting, by a converter, the decoded conditioning information from the format associated with the first bitrate to a format associated with a second bitrate; and (d) providing, by a generative neural network, a reconstruction of the audio or speech signal according to a probabilistic model conditioned by the conditioning information in the format associated with the second bitrate. Described are further an apparatus for decoding an audio or speech signal, a respective encoder, a system of the encoder and the apparatus for decoding an audio or speech signal as well as a respective computer program product. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044695 | Robust Short-Time Fourier Transform Acoustic Echo Cancellation During Audio Playback - Example techniques involve noise-robust acoustic echo cancellation. An example implementation may involve causing one or more speakers of the playback device to play back audio content and while the audio content is playing back, capturing, via the one or more microphones, audio within an acoustic environment that includes the audio playback. The example implementation may involve determining measured and reference signals in the STFT domain. During each n | 2022-02-10 |
20220044696 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR NOISE REDUCTION BASED ON TIME AND FREQUENCY ANALYSIS USING DEEP LEARNING - A noise cancellation method including generating a first voice signal by canceling a first portion of noise included in an input voice signal using a first network, the first network being a trained u-net structure, and the first portion of the noise being in a time domain, applying a first window to the first voice signal, performing a fast Fourier transform on the first windowed voice signal to acquire a magnitude signal and a phase signal, acquiring a mask using a second network based on the magnitude signal, the second network being another trained u-net structure, applying the mask to the magnitude signal, generating a second voice signal by canceling a second portion of the noise by performing an inverse fast Fourier transform on the first windowed voice signal based on the masked magnitude signal and the phase signal, and applying a second window to the second voice signal. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044697 | COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING A PSYCHOLOGICAL STATE BASED ON VOICE ANALYSIS - A computerized method and system for analyzing and evaluating a psychological state of at least one user by operating a voice analysis system, the voice analysis system comprising a voice analyzer processor, comprising: tuning a user's voice by playing at least one beep sound followed by silence; receiving and recording at least one voice measurement from the user; utilizing the voice analyzer processor for automatically analyzing the voice measurements to evaluate psychological state of the user; wherein the voice analysis is based on harmonic analysis of the voice measurements; and providing the user, by visually indicating upon a display, with a feedback related to the user's psychological state. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044698 | ACOUSTIC EVENT DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - An acoustic event detection system and a method are provided. The system includes a voice activity detection subsystem, a database, and an acoustic event detection subsystem. The voice activity detection subsystem includes a voice receiving module, a feature extraction module, and a first determination module. The voice receiving module receives an original sound signal, the feature extraction module extracts a plurality of features from the original sound signal, and the first determination module executes a first classification process to determine whether or not the plurality of features match to a start-up voice. The acoustic event detection subsystem includes a second determination module and a function response module. The second determination module executes a second classification process to determine whether the features match to at least one of a plurality of predetermined voices. The function response module executes one of functions corresponding to the predetermined voices that is matched. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044699 | CALL METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM, SERVER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A call method is provided. The method includes: obtaining at least three paths of voice data transmitted by at least three first terminals, the voice data carrying indication information; selecting at least two paths of target voice data from the at least three paths of voice data according to the indication information of the at least three paths of voice data as obtained; and transmitting the at least two paths of target voice data to a second terminal, the second terminal being configured to decode the at least two paths of target voice data, mix decoded at least two paths of target voice data, and play mixed voice data. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044700 | ON HEAD MICROELECTRONICS FOR WRITE SYNCHRONIZATION - The presently disclosed technology teaches integrating disc drive electronics into a transducer head. Decreased electrical transit times and data processing times can be achieved by placing the electronics on or within the transducer head because electrical connections may be made physically shorter than in conventional systems. The electronics may include one or more of a control system circuit, a write driver, and/or a data buffer. The control system circuit generates a modified clock signal that has a fixed relation to phase and frequency of a bit-detected reference signal that corresponds to positions of patterned bits on the disc. The write driver writes outgoing data bits received from an external connection to off-head electronics directly to the writer synchronized with the modified clock signal. The data buffer stores and converts digital data bits sent from the off-head electronics to an analog signal that is synchronized with the modified clock signal. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044701 | Reader Bias Based Locking Technique Enabling High Read Concurrency For Read-Mostly Workloads - A data object has a lock and a condition indicator associated with it. Based at least partly on detecting a first setting of the condition indicator, a reader stores an indication that the reader has obtained read access to the data object in an element of a readers structure and reads the data object without acquiring the lock. A writer detects the first setting and replaces it with a second setting, indicating that the lock is to be acquired by readers before reading the data object. Prior to performing a write on the data object, the writer verifies that one or more elements of the readers structure have been cleared. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044702 | MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE AND ERROR CORRECTION METHOD - According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a disk, a head that writes data to the disk and reads data from the disk, and a controller that executes error correction on a first sector which is unreadable in a first track from an initial reading time of initially one-round reading the first track of the disk based on first parity data corresponding to the first track. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044703 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATING VIDEO PLAYING NODE, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus of editing a multimedia file, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring a multimedia file and an operation information contained in each editing track of a plurality of editing tracks, wherein the operation information is acquired to edit the multimedia file; detecting a multimedia file frame contained in the each editing track at a current time in a case of editing the multimedia file in a chronological order; editing the multimedia file frame contained in the each editing track at the current time by using the operation information associated with the multimedia file frame, so as to obtain an edited file frame contained in the each editing track at the current time; and performing an encoding synthesis on the edited file frame contained in the each editing track at the current time. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044704 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AND PRESENTING VIRTUAL EXPERIENCES - Various embodiments facilitate the creation and presentation of a virtual experience. In one embodiment, the virtual experience is assembled from user model data corresponding to a three-dimensional representation of a user, user movement data corresponding to at least one movement characteristic of the user, user voice data corresponding to at least one vocal characteristic of the user, environment data corresponding to a three-dimensional representation of a location, and event data corresponding to a captured event at the location. The virtual experience is a virtual recreation of the captured event at the location, with the three-dimensional representation of the user, the vocal characteristic of the user, and the movement characteristic of the user inserted into the captured event. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044705 | CONTROLLING CAPTURE OF CONTENT USING ONE OR MORE CLIENT ELECTRONIC DEVICES - Disclosed is a master electronic device configured to control capture of content using one or more client electronic devices. The master electronic device may include a user interface module configured to receive an indication of a control-input. Further, the master electronic device may include a communication module configured to communicate data between the master electronic device and one or more client electronic devices. The communication may include wireless transmission of the control-input to the one or more client electronic devices. Additionally, the one or more client electronic devices may include a means to capture content in response to the control-input. The means to capture content may be activated in response to the received control-input. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044706 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROTOCOL FOR ANIMATED READ ALONG TEXT - A system and method for displaying emphasized text are described. A line of text having multiple words is displayed successively emphasized at the pace of human speech. Each of the words is displayed in a first state. The emphasized word is then displayed in a second state as having an outline. Next, the emphasized word is displayed in a third state as heavier-weighted text. Finally, the emphasized word is displayed in a fourth state as regular text. The words are visually emphasized one at a time such that a first word is displayed in the third state when a second word is displayed in the second state and the first word is displayed from the third state to the fourth state when the second word is displayed from the second state to the third state and a third word is displayed in the second state. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044707 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A display control apparatus that performs control, where a content is reproduced such that, when a reproduction position of the content is changed to a first range from an end of the content by an operation of a user on an operation unit, the reproduction is continued from a position where the change is made, and when the reproduction position of the content reaches the end of the content, the reproduction automatically transitions to reproduction of a next content, and when the reproduction position of the content is changed to a second range from the end of the content different from the first range by an operation of the user on the operation unit, and even when the reproduction position of the content reaches the end of the content, the reproduction does not automatically transition to the reproduction of the next content and the reproduction of the content is paused. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044708 | STORAGE DEVICE HAVING MULTIPLE STORAGE DIES AND IDENTIFICATION METHOD - A storage device having multiple storage dies is disclosed. The storage device comprises: a printed circuit board having a main surface, a plurality of universal input/output pins, placed on the main surface of the printed circuit board, and a plurality of random access storage dies, corresponding to the plurality of universal input/output pins, placed on the plurality of universal input/output pins. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044709 | CAPACITANCE ALLOCATION BASED ON SYSTEM IMPEDANCE - Methods, systems, and devices for capacitance allocation based on system impedance are described. A memory device may include a first voltage rail for distributing a first supply voltage to an array of memory cells. The memory device may be coupled with a circuit using a pad of the memory device; that is, the memory device may be coupled with other circuitry within a package or board. The memory device may determine an impedance associated with the circuit, and may couple one or more capacitors with the first voltage rail based on the impedance. The memory device may include a second voltage rail for distributing a second supply voltage to the array of memory cells. The memory device may compare the performance of the first and second voltage rails and couple one or more capacitors with the first voltage rail or the second voltage rail based on the comparison. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044710 | MULTI-DIE PEAK POWER MANAGEMENT FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY - Embodiments of a peak power management (PPM) circuit on a memory die are disclosed. The PPM circuit includes a first transistor and a second transistor arranged in parallel, wherein the first and second transistors each has a drain terminal electrically connected to a first power source and a second power source, respectively. The PPM circuit also includes a resistor having a first terminal electrically connected to respective source terminals of the first and second transistors. The PPM circuit further includes a first contact pad on the memory die, electrically connected to a second contact pad on a different memory die through a die-to-die connection. The PPM circuit also includes a third transistor with a drain terminal electrically connected to a second terminal of the resistor, and a source terminal electrically connected to the first contact pad. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044711 | INTERNAL VOLTAGE GENERATION CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - An internal voltage generation circuit may include: a voltage comparison circuit configured to generate a control voltage by comparing a reference voltage and an internal voltage which is fed back thereto; a voltage driving circuit configured to generate an internal voltage based on the control voltage; and a drivability control circuit configured to control the voltage level of the control voltage based on an enable signal which is activated during an active operation, in order to control drivability of the voltage driving circuit. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044712 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND READING METHOD - A semiconductor device capable of performing high-speed read or high-reliability read is provided. A reading method of a NAND flash memory includes: pre-charging a sensing node through a voltage-supply node; discharging the sensing node to the voltage-supply node for a prescribed operation; recharging the sensing node by the voltage-supply node after the prescribed operation; and discharging a NAND string and sensing a memory cell. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044713 | READ BROADCAST OPERATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH A MEMORY DEVICE - Methods, systems, and devices related to write broadcast operations associated with a memory device are described. In one example, a memory device in accordance with the described techniques may include a memory array, a sense amplifier array, and a signal development cache configured to store signals (e.g., cache signals, signal states) associated with logic states (e.g., memory states) that may be stored at the memory array (e.g., according to various read or write operations). The memory device may enable read broadcast operations. A read broadcast may occur from the memory array to multiple locations of the signal development cache, for example via one or more multiplexers. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044714 | MEMORY UNIT FOR MULTI-BIT CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK BASED COMPUTING-IN-MEMORY APPLICATIONS BASED ON CHARGE SHARING, MEMORY ARRAY STRUCTURE FOR MULTI-BIT CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK BASED COMPUTING-IN-MEMORY APPLICATIONS BASED ON CHARGE SHARING AND COMPUTING METHOD THEREOF - A memory unit includes at least one memory cell and a computational cell. The at least one memory cell stores a weight. The at least one memory cell is controlled by a first word line and includes a local bit line transmitting the weight. The computational cell is connected to the at least one memory cell and receiving the weight via the local bit line. Each of an input bit line and an input bit line bar transmits a multi-bit input value. The computational cell is controlled by a second word line and an enable signal to generate a multi-bit output value on each of an output bit line and an output bit line bar according to the multi-bit input value multiplied by the weight. The computational cell is controlled by a first switching signal and a second switching signal for charge sharing. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044715 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SOURCE SYNCHRONOUS DEVICES - Circuitry and methods of operating the same to strobe a DQ signal with a gated DQS signal are described. Some aspects are directed to a gating scheme to selectively pass a received strobe signal such as a DQS strobe signal based on a state of a drive enable (DE) signal in a drive circuit in the ATE, such that edges generated by the drive circuit are prevented from mistakenly strobing a received data signal such as a DQ signal. | 2022-02-10 |
20220044716 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes an operation flag generation circuit configured to generate an operation flag at a time when a flag period elapses from a time when an internal setting signal is generated to perform a write operation accompanied by an auto-precharge operation; and an auto-precharge pulse generation circuit configured to generate an auto-precharge pulse by shifting the operation flag by a pulse generation period set by a period code based on divided clocks generated by dividing an internal clock. | 2022-02-10 |