| 09th week of 2016 patent applcation highlights part 61 |
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| 20160063928 | LIGHTING DEVICE, LIGHTING CONTROL METHOD, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A lighting device includes a light source and a control section. The control section has a first mode and a second mode as luminance setting modes of the light source and sets, in order to exercise variable control of a reach time taken to change luminance of the light source to a determined value, the reach time on the basis of the first mode for a determined period at the time of switching from the first mode to the second mode. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063929 | CONFIGURABLE, LOCALIZED BACKLIGHTING WITH PLANAR EMISSION DEVICES - An electronic device includes a backlight unit and a liquid crystal layer adjacent the backlight unit. The backlight unit has a plurality of planar emission devices distributed over a viewable display area. The plurality of planar emission devices are disposed in a configurable zone arrangement having a plurality of zones of the viewable area. Each zone includes at least one planar emission device. The liquid crystal layer is configured to selectively filter light generated by the plurality of planar emission devices. The electronic device further includes a processor coupled to the backlight unit and configured to control a brightness level of the at least one planar emission device in each zone separately from other planar emission devices in other zones. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063930 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - The electro-optical device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and an electro-optical material that is sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate. Pixel electrodes on the first substrate and pixel electrodes on the second substrate are arranged to coincide. The first substrate is driven by a first power supply, the second substrate is driven by a second power supply, and a potential of the first power supply and a potential of the second power supply are different from each other. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063931 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes pixel electrodes formed in an image display area of a substrate, a common electrode formed in the image display area, inside signal lines formed inside the image display area, and electrically connected to the pixel electrodes, outside signal lines formed outside the image display area, and electrically connected to the inside signal lines, and a common line formed inside and outside the image display area, and electrically connected to the common electrode. An image is displayed under a control of a light using an electric field developed between the pixel electrodes and the common electrode. A coupling capacitance is formed between the inside signal lines and the common electrode. The outside signal lines each include a first portion, and a second portion higher in electric resistance than the first portion and the inside signal lines. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063932 | OVERDRIVE METHOD, CIRCUIT, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An overdrive method, a circuit, and a display device are disclosed, which belong to the field of display technologies. The technical problem of inconsistent brightness of left-eye pictures and right-eye pictures with respect to each other occurring in the prior art can be eliminated. The overdrive method comprises: acquiring grayscale of a present frame; judging whether the present frame is a left-eye picture or a right-eye picture; and looking up an overdrive grayscale value in a first overdrive table according to the grayscale of the present frame and that of a previous frame, if the present frame is a left-eye picture; or looking up an overdrive grayscale value in a second overdrive table according to the grayscale of the present frame and that of a previous frame, if the present frame is a right-eye picture. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063933 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREFOR - The invention provides a liquid crystal display device capable of preventing a reduction in display quality by suppressing the occurrence of flicker during alternating-voltage drive, as well as a method for driving the same. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063934 | METHOD OF DRIVING DISPLAY PANEL, TIMING CONTROLLER FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A method of driving a display panel is provided. The method includes generating first compensated and second compensated data based on input image data, outputting the first compensated data to a data driver during a first frame, outputting the first smoothing data to the data driver during a second frame subsequent to the first frame, and outputting the second compensated data to the data driver during an n-th frame subsequent to the second frame (where n is a natural number greater than two). The first smoothing data has a value between a value of the first compensated data and a value of the second compensated data. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063935 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: an image display unit that includes a plurality of main pixels in an image display region, the image display unit including sub-pixels; a light source that irradiates the image display region; a light source control unit that controls luminance of the light source; and a color information correction processing unit that corrects first color information that is obtained based on the luminance of the light source and an input video signal to second color information, when color information of at least one of a red pixel, a green pixel, and a blue pixel included in the first color information exceeds a predetermined threshold, the second information is corrected by degenerating color information of the red pixel, the green pixel, and the blue pixel, and by adding color information of the white pixel included in the first color information based on the degenerated color information. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063936 | Pixel and Display Device - A pixel unit and a display device are proposed. The pixel unit includes a primary subpixel, a white subpixel, a display data line, a display scanning line, a common line and a mode scanning line. When the display device is in a 2D display mode, the white subpixel appears bright under the control of the display mode signal. Ehen the display device is in a 3D display mode, the white subpixel appears dark under the control of the display mode signal. Owing to the design of the present invention, power which the convention pixel and display device consumes is obviously reduced. Besides, crosstalk occurring in the conventional display device is successfully solved. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063937 | ARRAY SUBSTRATE, DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The invention discloses an array substrate, a display panel and a display device, and belongs to the field of array substrate test technology, which can solve the problem that the performance of the thin film transistor at the display region of the array substrate in an ADS mode cannot be accurately tested. The array substrate in the invention comprises a plurality of pixel units, each of which comprises a pixel electrode, an insulating layer above the pixel electrode, and a common electrode above the insulating layer, wherein at least one of the pixel units is a test pixel unit, wherein an opening is provided in the insulating layer of the test pixel unit to be above the pixel electrode and separated from the common electrode. The display panel and the display device in the invention comprise the above array substrate. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063938 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DISPLAY DEVICE USING A MASK - Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a display device having a display area and a non-display area, the method including aligning a mask over a substrate, the mask including a central shield portion, a peripheral shield portion outside the central shield portion, with an opening between the central shield portion and the peripheral shield portion, a holding portion in the opening that connects the central shield portion with the peripheral shield portion, and a diffusion area under the holding portion defined by a thickness difference of the mask between the holding portion and one of the central and peripheral shield portions; depositing a conductive material on the substrate through the mask to form a single pieced, loop-shaped conductive path surrounding the display area in the non-display area; and forming a transparent conductive layer on the substrate, the transparent conductive layer being continuously formed in the display and non-display areas and formed to be in direct contact with the single pieced, loop-shaped conductive path. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063939 | DISPLAY PANEL CONTROLLER AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A display panel controller includes a display driver integrated circuit that drives a display panel to display a still image at a predetermined frame rate, an application processor that provides the display driver integrated circuit with still image data for implementing the still image and a plurality of control signals generated by a timing controller, and a synchronization controller that controls a frame synchronization of the display panel based on a minimum refresh rate of the display panel. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063940 | APPARATUS HAVING SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR AND CONVERTING UNIT CONVERTING INPUT VALUE TO CONTROL VALUE TO CONTROL SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR - In an apparatus for modulating light, an spatial light modulator includes a plurality of pixels and configured to modulate input light in response to a drive voltage for each of the pixels. An input value setting unit is configured to set an input value for the each of pixels. The input value is a digital value, an entire gray level of the digital value is “N”, and “N” is a natural number. A converting unit is configured to convert the input value to a control value. A control value is a digital value, an entire gray level of the control value is “M”, and “M” is a natural number greater than “N”. A driving unit is configured to convert the control value to a voltage value and drive the each of the pixels in response to the drive voltage corresponding to the voltage value. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063941 | COMMON VOLTAGE COMPENSATION CIRCUIT, COMPENSATING METHOD THEREOF, ARRAY SUBSTRATE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - The present disclosure discloses a common voltage compensation circuit, a compensating method thereof, an array substrate and a display apparatus, when a difference between the common voltage on the common electrode line and a reference voltage is great, the comparison module outputs a zero voltage signal to an inversion module, the common voltage on the common electrode line is compensated by the common voltage compensation circuit; when the difference between the common voltage on the common electrode line and the reference voltage is small, the comparison module outputs a first level signal to the inversion module, the common voltage on the common electrode line is not compensated by the common voltage compensation circuit, The common voltage on the common electrode line can be stabilized, thus a problem of abnormities occurred in a display picture of the display panel could be avoided. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063942 | VOLTAGE CONVERTER AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A voltage converter includes a conversion unit, a self driver and an output unit. The conversion unit includes at least one inductor and provides a boosting power based on an input voltage and a first driving signal. The self driver includes at least one inductor that forms a magnetic coupling with the at least one inductor of the conversion unit. The self driver generates a second driving signal that is synchronized with the first driving signal through the magnetic coupling. The output unit generates an output voltage based on the boosting power and the second driving signal. Switching loss and conduction loss may be reduced by replacing an output diode with an output transistor and voltage spike and electromagnetic interference may be reduced through zero voltage switching. The driving signal of the output transistor may be controlled efficiently by adjusting the inductance of the driving inductor. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063943 | DEGRADATION COMPENSATING PIXEL CIRCUIT AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A degradation compensating pixel circuit includes: an organic light emitting diode (OLED); a driving circuit including a first capacitor and a first transistor, the first capacitor being configured to be charged in response to a data signal and a scan signal, the first transistor being configured to drive the OLED according to a first voltage between first and second terminals of the first capacitor, the first terminal of the first capacitor being configured to receive a supply voltage, the second terminal of the first capacitor being coupled to a gate terminal of the first transistor; and a degradation compensating circuit coupled to a source terminal of the first transistor and the gate terminal of the first transistor, the degradation compensating circuit being configured to change the first voltage according to a first current of the first transistor. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063944 | Information Processing Method And Electronic Device - An information processing method and an electronic device are described. The method includes acquiring a first sensing parameter through a first sensor; determining whether the first sensing parameter satisfies a first predetermined condition, the first predetermined condition being a distance threshold of a distance between an object that operates the electronic device and a display output area to which a display unit of the first display module of the electronic device corresponds; generating a first control instruction when the first sensing parameter satisfies the first predetermined condition; and controlling the first display module to switch from a first state to a second state based on the first control instruction. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063945 | TIMING CONTROLLER AND DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - A timing controller includes a display mode detection circuit configured to detect an image display mode of a display panel based on a plurality of first image data signals that are output in synchronization with a first clock signal having a first frequency, and to selectively activate at least one clock signal generation selected among a plurality of clock signal generators based on the detected image display mode, the clock signal generators configured to generate a second clock signal having a second frequency, respectively when activated by the display mode detection circuit, and to apply the second clock signal to a plurality of signal converting circuits, respectively, and the signal converting circuits configured to convert the first image data signals into a plurality of second image data signals that are output in synchronization with the second clock signal. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063946 | TIMING CONTROL UNIT AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING USING THE SAME - Provided are a timing control unit and method for adjusting a speed of a system and a display apparatus and method using the same. The display apparatus includes: a panel unit including a plurality of cells and a plurality of electrodes for driving the plurality of cells; and a driving controller which, when a three-dimensional (3D) image signal is input, sends a common signal to an electrode group combining a certain number of electrodes of the plurality of electrodes. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063947 | System and method for interacting multi-screen in a car - A system and method for interacting multi-screen in a car are presented. A memory of a main device is configured to form a main frame buffer corresponding to the main device and to form at least one secondary frame buffer corresponding to the at least one secondary device. The memory is further configured to form a frequently executed icon frame buffer corresponding to a frequently executed icon to store a user interface image when the controller is performing function of the frequently executed icon. A user interface is used to select a touch screen icon and frequently executed icon for the touch screen to be directed to a corresponding frame buffer and immediately display and control images in the corresponding touch screen to improve the interaction between touch screens. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063948 | DISPLAY DRIVER INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, DISPLAY MODULE AND DISPLAY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - A display driver integrated circuit includes a first slave module and a second slave module. The first slave module is initially set as a primary module to receive a mode conversion command, and is disabled based on the mode conversion command. The second slave module is initially set as a secondary module that does not receive the mode conversion command, and is set as the primary module instead of the first slave module when the first slave module is disabled. The first and second slave modules control processing or transfer of data through a channel included in or coupled to a display according to a predetermined protocol. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063949 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image processing system which transmits a transmission video signal in which information indicating that an image is prepared by using a second reproduction color gamut standard which is capable of reproducing a color gamut wider than a first reproduction color gamut standard is described in control information in a predetermined description form, the control information being multiplexed in the transmission video signal. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063950 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND CALIBRATION METHOD THEREOF - A display device includes: a plurality of pixels; a plurality of data lines coupled to the pixels and grouped into a plurality of groups; a plurality of channels corresponding to the plurality of groups, each of the channels being configured to sense a current flowing to a data line of a corresponding group from among the data lines to output a code value; and a controller configured to calibrate a deviation of a gain and an offset of the channels based on the code value of each of the channels. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063951 | ENVIRONMENTALLY ADAPTIVE DISPLAY ADJUSTMENT - A device includes a memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The at least one processor is configured to: generate, an original image for display, store the original image in the memory, adjust color tone of the original image by suppressing blue energy of a color spectrum of the original image to produce an adjusted image, store the adjusted image in the memory, and output the adjusted image for display. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063952 | MULTI OPERATION SLIDER - Some embodiments provide an image editing application with a novel color modification slider tool. In some embodiments, this tool adjusts one or more color attributes (e.g., one or more color channels) of different pixels differently when moved in one direction, and adjusts one or more color attributes of the same pixel differently when moved in another direction. The movement of this tool is in a straight line in some embodiments, while it is along an angular arc (e.g., along the circumference of a full or partial circle or elliptical shape) in other embodiments. This tool in some embodiments is a novel saturation tool that produces non-photorealistic effects by treating differently the highly saturated and lowly saturated pixels of an image. Specifically, in some embodiments, the saturation tool performs either (1) a positive de-saturation effect that de-saturates the low saturated pixels of an image while enhancing the saturation of the high saturated pixels, or (2) a negative de-saturation effect that de-saturates the high saturated pixels of the image while leaving intact or slightly modifying the saturation level of the lowly saturated pixels. For an original image that has some saturated pixels, both these effects produce grey looking images but the first effect has more saturated pixels and hence looks a bit more non-photorealistic because of it contains grey and colorful pixels. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063953 | TRANSACTION TERMINAL DEVICE - When settlement terminal device performs a settlement process with a settlement destination device (for example, an acquirer or a settlement processor), settlement terminal device displays a screen regarding the settlement process on display unit of touch panel and detects an input operation of important key input reception icon displayed on display unit. CPU determines whether an input operation with respect to this important key input reception icon, that is, an operation for selecting important key input reception icon and dragging and dropping important key input reception icon to YES icon has been performed. When a drag and drop operation of important key input reception icon is detected, CPU executes content of the input operation with respect to important key input reception icon, and transmits a settlement processing request to the settlement destination device. Settlement terminal device facilitates the operator being conscious of an operation with respect to a specific target. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063954 | METHOD FOR REMOVING IMAGE STICKING IN DISPLAY DEVICE - A method for remove image sticking in a display device is disclosed. Herein, the display device includes a display unit, and a controller, and the controller may be configured to execute an application for removing image sticking, to control the display unit to display a specific screen, to detect an image sticking area from the specific screen, and to adjust a luminance of the display unit corresponding to a surrounding area of a detected image sticking area. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063955 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display device includes: a display unit, a driver unit, and a control unit. The display unit includes a plurality of pixel units arranged in a matrix. The driver unit includes an output transistor configured to drive a plurality of scanning lines connected to the plurality of pixel units. The control unit is configured to supply to the driver unit in a display period, a signal for displaying an image on the display unit, and control a bias state of the output transistor in a display suspension period, so that an absolute value of a threshold voltage of the output transistor which is increased in the display period decreases. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063956 | External Device Screen Targeting - Techniques for external device screen targeting are described. In one or more implementations, location information of a mobile computing device is calculated based on a distance between the mobile computing device and multiple signal transmitters having predefined locations. In addition, a compass heading of the mobile computing device is identified that indicates an orientation of the mobile computing device. The location information and the compass heading of the mobile computing device is then applied to correlate with display-location data of an application for interaction with one or more objects displayed on a display device. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063957 | DISPLAY DRIVER - A display driver is provided which can prevent concentration of currents flowing into a display device and display a high-quality image without uneven luminance. A plurality of delayed clock signals used to apply a plurality of pixel driving voltages to data lines of the display device at respective different timings are generated by a DLL circuit including a variable delay circuit group constituted by variable delay circuits are connected in series, and a phase comparator that detects a phase difference of a delayed clock signal with respect to a reference clock signal and adjusts a delay amount of each of the variable delay circuits so that the phase difference converges to zero. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063958 | Driving Circuit - A driving circuit comprises a plurality of shift register (SR). An i | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063959 | SOURCE DRIVER CIRCUIT, METHOD FOR DRIVING DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The present disclosure provides a source driver IC. A first sub-driver circuit is provided to, within a time period, control polarities of driving voltages for a first subpixel and a third subpixel in pixel units at odd-numbered positions in a pixel row to be reverse to polarities of driving voltages for a second subpixel and a fourth subpixel in the pixel units at the odd-numbered positions in the pixel row, and a second sub-driver circuit is provided to, within the time period, control polarities of driving voltages for a first subpixel and a third subpixel in the pixel units at even-numbered positions to be identical to polarities of driving voltages for the second subpixel and the fourth subpixel in the pixel units at the odd-numbered positions but reverse to polarities of driving voltages for the second subpixel and the fourth subpixel in the pixel units at the even-numbered positions. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063960 | METHOD OF DRIVING DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - A method of driving a display panel includes charging a pixel with first data during a first charging period, comparing a first grayscale of the first data and a second grayscale of second data, charging the pixel with compensated data during a second charging period if the first grayscale is greater than the second grayscale, and charging the pixel with the second data during a third charging period. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063961 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE - An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device includes: a display panel including a first through (2M)-th row pixel blocks; a data driver including a first data driving unit to provide N odd row data signals to (2K−1)-th row pixel blocks and a second data driving unit to provide N even row data signals to (2K)-th row pixel blocks; a scan driver including a first scan driving unit configured to provide (2K−1)-th scan signals to (2K−1)-th row pixel blocks and a second scan driving unit configured to provide (2K)-th scan signals to (2K)-th row pixel blocks. The first frame period includes an activation period and a vertical blank period. The first scan driving unit is configured to activate the (2K−1)-th scan signals sequentially in pulse form in an activation period. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063962 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes: a timing control block which outputs image data based on external image data and control signals, and generates data and gate-side control signals based on the external control signal; a source drive block which converts the image data into a data voltage based on the data control signal; a low frequency detection block which detects a low power drive period based on the external control signal and generates a power control signal, a state of which is determined based on a result of the detection; an integrated chip which receives first and second drive voltages and includes a first switch block that turns off a circuit of the source drive block based on the power control signal during the low power drive period; a gate drive circuit which generates a gate signal based on a gate control signal from the integrated chip; and a display panel. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063963 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - A method for driving a display device includes steps of providing a data signal in a first scan period and maintaining a level of the data signal until a second scan period, and providing a scan signal in the first scan period and maintaining a level of the scan signal until the second scan period. A display device is also disclosed herein. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063964 | STREAMING VIDEO DATA IN THE GRAPHICS DOMAIN - In one example, a method for transmitting video data includes capturing, by a source device, a plurality of tokens of graphical commands renderable into video data along with one or more texture elements; and generating, by the source device, a plurality of command frames that each correspond to at least one token of the plurality of tokens. In this example, each respective command frame of the plurality of command frames includes: an identification of at least one graphical command corresponding to the at least one token, and one or more arguments associated with the at least one token. In this example, the method also includes outputting, by the source device and for transmission to a sink device, the plurality of command frames. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063965 | METHOD OF DRIVING DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - A method of driving a display apparatus, the method including; measuring a distance between a viewer and the display apparatus, and adjusting a frame rate of an image displayed on a display panel based on the distance, wherein the display apparatus includes the display panel. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063966 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENT STORAGE OF FREQUENCY VALUES FOR A DISPLAY DEVICE - A device and corresponding operational method for storing frequency values to a memory of the device, comprising an internal memory and an external memory, are provided. A frequency value in a memory cell of the internal memory is actualized by an increment or a decrement. After a specific number of increments and decrements in the memory cells of the internal memory, a maximum frequency value of the frequency values stored in the memory cells of the internal memory is determined, and the maximum frequency value is transferred to a corresponding memory cell of the external memory. The memory cell of the internal memory that contains the transferred maximum frequency value is reset. After a period, content of each memory cell of the internal and external memory is read, and each memory cell of the internal and external memory is reset. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063967 | MEASURING DEVICE WITH A DISPLAY MEMORY HAVING MEMORY CELLS WITH A REDUCED NUMBER OF BITS AND A CORRESPONDING METHOD - A method for reducing a number of bits used for a frequency value of a measuring signal stored in each memory cell of a display memory in a measuring device determines the frequency value in each memory cell by assigning the frequency of sampled values in several measuring portions of a measured signal within an update cycle of the display to a corresponding memory cell. It then displays each pixel of the display with a brightness or a color corresponding to the frequency value in the corresponding memory cell after each update cycle. The determined frequency value is a sum of a first frequency value, which is determined in a number of first measuring portions of the measured signal within the update cycle, and at least one compressed second frequency value, which is determined by compression of a corresponding compressed second frequency value with a compression factor. Each uncompressed second frequency value can be determined in a corresponding part of a number of second measuring portions of the measured signal within the update cycle. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063968 | Carbon Fiber Guitar - A stringed musical instrument has a molded sound box and neck where the sound box is formed of between 20% to 60% carbon fibers, or other suitable fibers, and a polymeric resin or binder. The composition of materials utilized in the sound box is selected to increase stiffness and to control the tone of the instrument. The sound box includes an adjustable attachment mechanism having a pivot which is used to secure the neck to the sound box. The sound box includes a molded bracing structure having a plurality of braces and a molded bridge having a plurality of pockets which are used to enhance the structure for the sound box and provide a desired tone quality for the stringed instrument. The neck may include a molded neck insert and a molded fingerboard which are used to enhance the stiffness and stability of the neck. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063969 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR ALTERING TONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF A STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - Apparatus and methods for altering the tonal characteristics of output of a stringed instrument are disclosed. The stringed instrument may include a neck and a plurality of strings, the plurality of strings disposed about the neck. The apparatus may include a slide bar, the slide bar for contacting one or more strings of the plurality of strings and a support arm attached to the slide bar. The apparatus includes a retractable string depressor retractably connected to the support bar, the retractable string depressor for depressing one or more strings of the plurality of strings at a location on the neck forward of the slide bar. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063970 | Stringed Instrument System - A tremolo device for static retention of a plurality of musical instrument strings in a stringed instrument. The tremolo device has a body with an upper surface, a neck portion, and a plurality of strings anchored at a first end of the neck and extending over at least a portion and secured to the tremolo device at the other end of the neck portion and the body and possesses an inertia block mechanism with substantially solid construction disposed to receive and securely retain a plurality of raw instrument strings without removal of a ball end from each string. The inertia block has an upper portion, a lower portion, and a plurality of internal, longitudinally displaced, cylindrically shaped, string retaining chambers designed to pass through an entirety of the block mechanism. The string retaining chambers have an upper and lower portion corresponding with the upper and lower portions of the block. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063971 | Stringed Instrument System - A tremolo device for static retention of a plurality of musical instrument strings in a stringed instrument. The tremolo device has a body with an upper surface, a neck portion, and a plurality of strings anchored at a first end of the neck and extending over at least a portion and secured to the tremolo device at the other end of the neck portion and the body and possesses an inertia block mechanism with substantially solid construction disposed to receive and securely retain a plurality of raw instrument strings without removal of a ball end from each string. The inertia block has an upper portion, a lower portion, and a plurality of internal, longitudinally displaced, cylindrically shaped, string retaining chambers designed to pass through an entirety of the block mechanism. The string retaining chambers have an upper and lower portion corresponding with the upper and lower portions of the block. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063972 | Stringed Instrument System - A set of tremolo devices and bridge devices for static retention of a plurality of musical instrument strings in a stringed instrument. The tremolo device has a body with an upper surface, a neck portion, and a plurality of strings anchored at a first end of the neck and extending over at least a portion and secured to the tremolo device at the other end of the neck portion and the body and possesses an inertia block mechanism with substantially solid construction disposed to receive and securely retain a plurality of raw instrument strings without removal of a ball end from each string. The inertia block has an upper portion, a lower portion, and a plurality of internal, longitudinally displaced, cylindrically shaped, string retaining chambers designed to pass through an entirety of the block mechanism. The string retaining chambers have an upper and lower portion corresponding with the upper and lower portions of the block. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063973 | Device and Method for Tuning a Drum Pedal Assembly - A device for tuning a drum pedal assembly. The device is a rod, a weight with an aperture that is slidably mountable on the rod, and a means for fastening the weight in position along the rod. The present device can be used to tune a drum pedal assembly by setting the spring tension on the drum assembly according to user preference, removing the mallet shaft from the mallet base, attaching a rod and one or more slidable weights to the rod, moving the one or more weights along the rod until the rod reaches a desired reference position with respect to the pedal base, locking the one or more weights in position along the rod, and removing the combined rod and weight assembly from the mallet base is also provided. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063974 | Instrument Case - An instrument case for violins and violas provides an accessory-receiving region next to an instrument-receiving region in order to allow a shoulder rest to remain connected to the instrument when placed in the case. The case is formed by a bottom shell and a top shell, with the bottom shell being defined by a lateral surface. The instrument-receiving region, interior to the bottom shell, is delineated by a rim, an upper interior wall, and an elevated surface. The accessory-receiving region, just below the instrument-receiving region, is delineated by the elevated surface, lower interior wall, and the floor. The instrument-receiving region can be divided into a neck portion and a body portion, with the accessory-receiving region being positioned directly below the body portion. As a result, accessories such as shoulder rests can remain attached to violins when placed into the present invention. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063975 | PERFORMANCE METHOD OF ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AND MUSIC - An electronic music instrument and music performance method mainly comprises the following steps: a, selecting a music score to be played in an electronic music score management unit, and selecting a played voice part and/or an automatic accompaniment voice part, the type of a music instrument, a corresponding input device, a performance music instrument, an output device and a reference voice part; b, starting an electronic music instrument performance device for playing said music score, transmitting a performance control signal to a digital music instrument unit under the control of a performance control unit to enable the digital music instrument unit to carry out corresponding performance actions or transmitting the performance control signal to a signal output unit. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063976 | Enclosure with windows for audio effects and guitar pedals - One embodiment of a rigid enclosure | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063977 | ELECTRONIC MUSIC INSTRUMENT WITH TOUCH-SENSITIVE MEANS - An electronic music instrument is provided comprising at least one input element configured to trigger an output sound signal when pressed. The electronic music instrument further comprises a controlling device adapted to alter at least one parameter of at least one output sound signal triggered with the at least one input element. Furthermore, the electronic music instrument comprises a housing adapted to house the at least one input element and the controlling device. The controlling device comprises at least one touch-sensitive means wherein the parameter of the at least one output sound signal is altered corresponding to the position of at least one marker. The controlling device is adapted to set the position of the at least one marker by a simulation of a physical system, and wherein the state of the simulated physical system is alterable by a touching gesture on the at least one touch-sensitive means. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063978 | ELECTRONIC MUSIC INSTRUMENT, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTRONIC MUSIC INSTRUMENT - An electronic music instrument comprises an input configured for receiving at least one note event from an input device having a plurality of input elements configured for generating at least one note event when activated; a software module configured for including: at least one instrument plugin configured for defining sounding note events and non-sounding control events, and at least one play assistant module, wherein the software module is further configured for at least one of the group comprising excluding the control events from being processed by play assistant functions and excluding play assistant functions generating control events. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063979 | MANUFACTURING METHOD AND STRUCTURE OF ELECTRIC GUITAR - Provided are a manufacturing method and a structure of an electric guitar, which help simplify the difficult of manufacturing an electric guitar by using a hollow box, at least one fibrous board, and at least one metal board to replace the conventional way of manufacturing an electric guitar with solid wood. Further, through the inherent difference between the fibrous board and the metal board, electrical currents generated by a pickup may induce an effect of tone holding due to difference of conductivity. Further, the alternate arrangement of the fibrous board and the metal board varies the tone quality of the electric guitar. Advantages of easy manufacturing and better tone quality can be achieved. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063980 | ELECTRONIC MUSIC INSTRUMENT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTRONIC MUSIC INSTRUMENT - An electronic music instrument comprises a keyboard having a plurality of keys configured for generating a digital signal corresponding to a particular note when pressed; and a software module, wherein the software module is configured for receiving the digital signal and for including a play assistant module, wherein the play assistant module is configured for setting at least one element of the group consisting of a desired root note and a desired scale and further configured for remapping the note of the digital signal to the set element. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063981 | Electronic organ with free-combined keys and a method to realize free combination - The present invention discloses a kind of electronic organ with free-combined keys and the method to realize free combination of key groups. The electronic organ comprises host processor and key groups. The method includes steps: S | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063982 | Wearable Movement Alert System - The present disclosure provides a wearable movement alert system comprising an enclosure, a divider positioned within the enclosure, a quiet chamber positioned within one longitudinal end of the enclosure, a noise chamber positioned within the longitudinal end of the enclosure that is opposite from the quiet chamber, at least one chime fixed within the noise chamber, and an agitator free to move about within the enclosure. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063983 | Novel Electronic Tablet Sound Amplifying Device - A deployable curved plane is deployed below the speaker outlet of an electronic tablet. The curve conforms to the tablet when not deployed, and projects sound towards the user when deployed. When the amplifying curve is not deployed, it retracts and conforms to the tablet shape. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063984 | A COMPOSITE HAVING ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES, MANUFACTURING THE COMPOSITE, A COMPONENT COMPRISING A COMPOSITE, MANUFACTURING THE COMPONENT AND USES THEREOF - The invention relates to a composite comprising matrix material and organic natural fiber material. The composite may be a compound, a granulate, or at least a part of a sound reproduction device. The composite may be made by injection molding. According to an embodiment a composite comprises matrix material and organic natural fiber based material, wherein the matrix material comprises a thermoplastic polymer matrix. The composite may comprise a relative sound wave resistance of 1500-5000. The composite may comprise a relative damping of sound radiation of 1.5-5.0. The composite may comprise a dynamic modulus of 2000-11000 measured according to ISO 6721-3. The composite may comprise a relative acoustic quality factor of 5-200. The composite may comprise a relative factor of viscous damping of 0.500-0.005. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063985 | SOUND ABSORBERS - Balls changing volume when activated efficiently filing a gap providing acoustic and thermal insulation. A method of manufacturing of means for acoustic and thermal insulation, particularly at high temperatures, comprising providing an insulating and damping material; shaping of the insulating and damping material having geometric shapes, such as spherical or elliptical shapes, by a shaping processes, such as forming into a ball and/or foaming up. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063986 | EARPHONE ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL - A method of active noise reduction. The method comprises instructing a microphone electronically coupled by a client terminal to record a nonaural noise signal, instructing a circuit of the client terminal to record an aural noise signal using at least one electroacoustic transducer of an earphone, calculating a noise reduction signal based on a function combining nonaural noise signal and the aural noise signal, calculating a noise reduced signal based on a combination of a content signal prepared to be played by the at least one electroacoustic transducer and the noise reduction signal, and instructing the circuit to play the noise reduced signal via the at least one electroacoustic transducer. The nonaural noise signal and the aural noise signal are recorded at least partly simultaneously. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063987 | UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAV) FOR COLLECTING AUDIO DATA - A UAV is provided to cancel background noise from audio data collected by the UAV. The UAV is provided with one or more background microphones in a proximity of one or more background noise-producing components. The UAV is also provided with one or more audio source collecting microphones. The audio data collected by the background microphones may be used to reduce or cancel interfering background noise from the audio signal detected by the audio source collecting microphone. The target audio may be captured or recorded with little or no background noise. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063988 | OVERSIGHT CONTROL OF AN ADAPTIVE NOISE CANCELER IN A PERSONAL AUDIO DEVICE - A personal audio device, such as a wireless telephone, includes an adaptive noise canceling (ANC) circuit that adaptively generates an anti-noise signal from a reference microphone signal and injects the anti-noise signal into the speaker or other transducer output to cause cancellation of ambient audio sounds. An error microphone is also provided proximate the speaker to measure the ambient sounds and transducer output near the transducer, thus providing an indication of the effectiveness of the noise canceling. A processing circuit uses the reference and/or error microphone, optionally along with a microphone provided for capturing near-end speech, to determine whether the ANC circuit is incorrectly adapting or may incorrectly adapt to the instant acoustic environment and/or whether the anti-noise signal may be incorrect and/or disruptive and then take action in the processing circuit to prevent or remedy such conditions. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063989 | NATURAL HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION FOR VIRTUAL PERSONAL ASSISTANT SYSTEMS - Technologies for natural language interactions with virtual personal assistant systems include a computing device configured to capture audio input, distort the audio input to produce a number of distorted audio variations, and perform speech recognition on the audio input and the distorted audio variants. The computing device selects a result from a large number of potential speech recognition results based on contextual information. The computing device may measure a user's engagement level by using an eye tracking sensor to determine whether the user is visually focused on an avatar rendered by the virtual personal assistant. The avatar may be rendered in a disengaged state, a ready state, or an engaged state based on the user engagement level. The avatar may be rendered as semitransparent in the disengaged state, and the transparency may be reduced in the ready state or the engaged state. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063990 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INTERPRETING CLIPPED SPEECH USING SPEECH RECOGNITION - A method for receiving and analyzing data compatible with voice recognition technology is provided. The method receives speech data comprising at least a subset of an articulated statement; executes a plurality of processes to generate a plurality of probabilities, based on the received speech data, each of the plurality of processes being associated with a respective candidate articulated statement, and each of the generated plurality of probabilities comprising a likelihood that an associated candidate articulated statement comprises the articulated statement; and analyzes the generated plurality of probabilities to determine a recognition result, wherein the recognition result comprises the articulated statement. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063991 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMBINING FRAME AND SEGMENT LEVEL PROCESSING, VIA TEMPORAL POOLING, FOR PHONETIC CLASSIFICATION - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for combining frame and segment level processing, via temporal pooling, for phonetic classification. A frame processor unit receives an input and extracts the time-dependent features from the input. A plurality of pooling interface units generates a plurality of feature vectors based on pooling the time-dependent features and selecting a plurality of time-dependent features according to a plurality of selection strategies. Next, a plurality of segmental classification units generates scores for the feature vectors. Each segmental classification unit (SCU) can be dedicated to a specific pooling interface unit (PIU) to form a PIU-SCU combination. Multiple PIU-SCU combinations can be further combined to form an ensemble of combinations, and the ensemble can be diversified by varying the pooling operations used by the PIU-SCU combinations. Based on the scores, the plurality of segmental classification units selects a class label and returns a result. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063992 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-AGENT ARCHITECTURE FOR INTERACTIVE MACHINES - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices are for an event-driven multi-agent architecture improves via a semi-hierarchical multi-agent reinforcement learning approach. A system receives a user input during a speech dialog between a user and the system. The system then processes the user input, identifying an importance of the user input to the speech dialog based on a user classification and identifying a variable strength turn-taking signal inferred from the user input. An utterance selection agent selects an utterance for replying to the user input based on the importance of the user input, and a turn-taking agent determines whether to output the utterance based on the utterance, and the variable strength turn-taking signal. When the turn-taking agent indicates the utterance should be output, the system selects when to output the utterance. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063993 | FACET RECOMMENDATIONS FROM SENTIMENT-BEARING CONTENT - A “Facet Recommender” creates conversational recommendations for facets of particular conversational topics, and optionally for things associated with those facets, from consumer reviews or other social media content. The Facet Recommender applies a machine-learned facet model and optional sentiment-model, to identify facets associated with spans or segments of the content and to determine neutral, positive, or negative consumer sentiment associated with those facets and, optionally, things associated with those facets. These facets are selected by the facet model from a list or set of manually defined or machine-learned facets for particular conversational topic types. The Facet Recommender then generates new conversational utterances (i.e., short neutral, positive or negative suggestions) about particular facets based on the sentiments associated with those facets. In various implementations, utterances are fit to one or more predefined conversational frameworks. Further, responses or suggestions provided as utterances may be personalized to individual users. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063994 | Query Rewrite Corrections - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for natural language processing. One of the methods includes receiving a first voice query; generating a first recognition output; receiving a second voice query; determining from a recognition of the second voice query that the second voice query triggers a correction request; using the first recognition output and the second recognition to determine a plurality of candidate corrections; scoring each candidate correction; and generating a corrected recognition output for a particular candidate correction having a score that satisfies a threshold value. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063995 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING VOICE - A display apparatus which is capable of recognizing a voice and a method thereof are provided. The method includes receiving an uttered voice of a user, extracting a plurality of similar words which are similar to the uttered voice by extracting voice information from the uttered voice and measuring reliability of a plurality of words based on the extracted voice information, setting a word satisfying a predetermined condition from among the plurality of extracted similar words as a target word with respect to the uttered voice, and displaying at least one of the target word and a similar word list including similar words other than the target word. In this manner, a display apparatus may improve a recognition rate on an uttered voice of a user without changing an internal component related to voice recognition, such as, an acoustic model, a pronunciation dictionary, or the like. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063996 | KEYWORD SPOTTING SYSTEM FOR ACHIEVING LOW-LATENCY KEYWORD RECOGNITION BY USING MULTIPLE DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING TABLES RESET AT DIFFERENT FRAMES OF ACOUSTIC DATA INPUT AND RELATED KEYWORD SPOTTING METHOD - A keyword spotting system includes a decoder having a storage device and a decoding circuit. The storage device is used to store a log-likelihood table and a plurality of dynamic programming (DP) tables generated for recognition of a designated keyword. The decoding circuit is used to refer to features in one frame of an acoustic data input to calculate the log-likelihood table and refer to at least the log-likelihood table to adjust each of the DP tables when recognition of the designated keyword is not accepted yet, where the DP tables are reset by the decoding circuit at different frames of the acoustic data input, respectively. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063997 | Multi-Sourced Noise Suppression - Systems and methods for multi-sourced noise suppression are provided. An example system may receive streams of audio data including a voice signal and noise, the voice signal including a spoken word. The streams of audio data are provided by distributed audio devices. The system can assign weights to the audio streams based at least partially on quality of the audio streams. The weights of audio streams can be determined based on signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). The system may further process, based on the weights, the audio stream to generate cleaned speech. Each audio device comprises microphone(s) and can be associated with the Internet of Things (IoT), such that the audio devices are Internet of Things devices. The processing can include noise suppression and reduction and echo cancellation. The cleaned speech can be provided to a remote device for further processing which may include Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063998 | AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION BASED ON USER FEEDBACK - Systems and processes for processing speech in a digital assistant are provided. In one example process, a first speech input can be received from a user. The first speech input can be processed using a first automatic speech recognition system to produce a first recognition result. An input indicative of a potential error in the first recognition result can be received. The input can be used to improve the first recognition result. For example, the input can include a second speech input that is a repetition of the first speech input. The second speech input can be processed using a second automatic speech recognition system to produce a second recognition result. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160063999 | AIRCRAFT AND INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEM FOR VOICE TRANSCRIPTION OF RADIO COMMUNICATIONS - Aircraft instrumentation systems, aircraft, and controllers are provided for transcribing radio communications. An aircraft instrumentation system and an aircraft include a radio device, a display device, and a controller. The controller is communicatively coupled with the radio device and the display device. The controller is configured to monitor the radio device and recognize a voice communication received over the radio device. The controller is further configured to generate an electronic transcript of the voice communication and control the display device to display a transcript of the voice communication. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160064000 | SOUND SOURCE-SEPARATING DEVICE AND SOUND SOURCE -SEPARATING METHOD - A sound source-separating device includes a sound-collecting part, an imaging part, a sound signal-evaluating part, an image signal-evaluating part, a selection part that selects whether to estimate a sound source direction based on the first sound signal or the first image signal, a person position-estimating part that estimates a sound source direction using the first image signal, a sound source direction-estimating part that estimates a sound source direction, a sound source-separating part that extracts a second sound signal corresponding to the sound source direction from the first sound signal, an image-extracting part that extracts a second image signal of an area corresponding to the estimated sound source direction from the first image signal, and an image-combining part that changes a third image signal of an area other than the area for the second image signal and combines the third image signal with the second image signal. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160064001 | VAD Detection Apparatus and Method of Operation the Same - At a processing device, a first signal from a first microphone and a second signal from a second microphone are received. The first signal indicates whether a voice signal has been determined at the first microphone, and the second signal indicates whether a voice signal has been determined at the second microphone. When the first signal indicates potential voice activity or the second signal indicates potential voice activity, the processing device is activated to receive data and the data is examined for a trigger word. When the trigger word is found, a signal is sent to an application processor to further process information from one or more of the first microphone and the second microphone. When no trigger word is found, the processing device is reset to deactivate data input and allowing the first microphone and the second microphone to enter or maintain an event detection mode of operation. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160064002 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VOICE RECORDING AND PLAYBACK - Methods and apparatuses are provided for controlling an electronic device that includes a plurality of microphones configured to receive voice input, a storage unit configured to store a sound recording file, and a display unit configured to visually display speaker areas of individual speakers when recording a sound or playing a sound recording file. The electronic device also includes a control unit configured to provide a user interface relating a speaker direction to a speaker by identifying the speaker direction while recording the sound or performing playback of the sound recording file, and to update at least one of speaker information, direction information of a speaker, and distance information of the speaker through the user interface. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160064003 | Methods and Systems for Generating and Rendering Object Based Audio with Conditional Rendering Metadata - Methods and audio processing units for generating an object based audio program including conditional rendering metadata corresponding to at least one object channel of the program, where the conditional rendering metadata is indicative of at least one rendering constraint, based on playback speaker array configuration, which applies to each corresponding object channel, and methods for rendering audio content determined by such a program, including by rendering content of at least one audio channel of the program in a manner compliant with each applicable rendering constraint in response to at least some of the conditional rendering metadata. Rendering of a selected mix of content of the program may provide an immersive experience. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160064004 | MULTIPLE CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL ENCODER MODE DETERMINER - It is inter alia disclosed a method comprising: determining an indication of similarity between a first audio frame of a multiple channel input audio signal and a second audio frame of the multiple channel input audio signal; and determining a coding mode for a multiple channel audio spatial encoder dependent on each of: data indicating a coding mode of a mono audio encoder for the first audio frame of the multiple channel input audio signal; a coding mode of the multichannel spatial audio encoder for the first audio frame of the multiple channel input audio signal; and the indication of similarity. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160064005 | INTERMEDIATE COMPRESSION FOR HIGHER ORDER AMBISONIC AUDIO DATA - In general, techniques are directed to intermediate compression of higher order ambisonic audio data. For example, a device comprising a processor and a memory may be configured to perform the techniques. The memory may be configured to store an intermediately formatted audio data generated as a result of an intermediate compression of higher order ambisonic audio data. The one or more processors may be configured to process the intermediately formatted audio data. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160064006 | AUDIO OBJECT SEPARATION FROM MIXTURE SIGNAL USING OBJECT-SPECIFIC TIME/FREQUENCY RESOLUTIONS - An audio decoder is proposed for decoding a multi-object audio signal including a downmix signal X and side information PSI. The side information includes object-specific side information PSI | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160064007 | AUDIO ENCODER AND DECODER - The present document relates an audio encoding and decoding system (referred to as an audio codec system). In particular, the present document relates to a transform-based audio codec system which is particularly well suited for voice encoding/decoding. A transform-based speech encoder ( | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160064008 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NOISE REDUCTION USING SPEECH RECOGNITION AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS - The present disclosure describes a system ( | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160064009 | Adaptively Reducing Noise While Limiting Speech Loss Distortion - The present technology provides adaptive noise reduction of an acoustic signal using a sophisticated level of control to balance the tradeoff between speech loss distortion and noise reduction. The energy level of a noise component in a sub-band signal of the acoustic signal is reduced based on an estimated signal-to-noise ratio of the sub-band signal, and further on an estimated threshold level of speech distortion in the sub-band signal. In various embodiments, the energy level of the noise component in the sub-band signal may be reduced to no less than a residual noise target level. Such a target level may be defined as a level at which the noise component ceases to be perceptible. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160064010 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ELIMINATING MUSIC NOISE VIA A NONLINEAR ATTENUATION/GAIN FUNCTION - A system including first and second gain modules, an operator module, and a priori and posteriori modules. The first gain module applies a non-linear function to generate a gain signal based on an amplitude of a first speech signal and an estimated a priori variance of noise included in the first speech signal. The operator module generates an operator based on the gain signal and the estimated a priori variance of noise. The a priori module determines an a priori signal-to-noise ratio based on the operator. The posteriori module determines a posteriori signal-to-noise ratio based on the amplitude of the first speech signal and (ii) the estimated a priori variance of noise. The second gain module: determines a gain value based on the a priori signal-to-noise ratio and the a posteriori signal-to-noise ratio; and generates, based on the amplitude of the first speech signal and the gain value, a second speech signal that corresponds to an estimate of an amplitude of the first speech signal, where the second speech signal is substantially void of music noise. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160064011 | REVERBERATION SUPPRESSION APPARATUS USED FOR AUDITORY DEVICE - A reverberation suppression apparatus includes: an instantaneous value calculation unit that calculates an instantaneous value/instantaneous values in an envelope of values correlating with the absolute value or the square of an input signal; a reverberation estimation unit that calculates an exponential moving average of the instantaneous value(s) as an estimated reverberation component; a gain derivation unit that derives a gain corresponding to the input signal according to the estimated reverberation component and the instantaneous value(s) when the each instantaneous value is larger than the estimated reverberation component, and derives a lower limit of the gain as the gain corresponding to the input signal when the each instantaneous value is smaller than the estimated reverberation component; a smoothing unit that performs a smoothing process on the gain; and a gain processing unit that applies the gain to amplitude adjustment of the input signal thereafter. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160064012 | VOICE PROCESSING DEVICE, VOICE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING THEREIN PROGRAM FOR VOICE PROCESSING - A voice processing device includes a first sound collecting unit for generating a first voice signal; a human-body vibration obtaining unit for generating a human-body vibration signal; a first distance calculating unit for calculating a ratio in power or amplitude between the human-body vibration signal and the first voice signal and for calculating a first distance from the first sound collecting unit to a sound source in accordance with the ratio and distance estimation information; a second distance calculating unit for calculating, for each of a plurality of frequencies, a second distance from the first sound collecting unit to a sound source which produces a component of a frequency of a first frequency signal; a gain determining unit for determining, for each of the plurality of frequencies, a gain based on a comparison result between the first distance and the second distance. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160064013 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING SIGNAL FOR HIGH FREQUENCY BANDWIDTH EXTENSION - An apparatus and method for encoding and decoding a signal for high frequency bandwidth extension are provided. An encoding apparatus may down-sample a time domain input signal, may core-encode the down-sampled time domain input signal, may transform the core-encoded time domain input signal to a frequency domain input signal, and may perform bandwidth extension encoding using a basic signal of the frequency domain input signal. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160064014 | METHOD OF PRODUCING A DATA STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention relates a method of producing a data storage medium comprising the steps of: a) coating a layer comprising a polymer material onto at least a part of a template surface thereby to obtain a modified template surface; b) clamping the modified template surface produced in step (a) with a target surface thereby to obtain an assembly; and c) introducing a liquid to an environment of the assembly obtained in step (b) thereby to transfer the layer comprising the polymer material of the modified template surface onto at least an adjacent region on the target surface. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160064015 | High Frequency Data Writer Field Generator Device - A data writing device may be constructed and operated with at least a data writer that has at least a write pole and a magnetic feature. A controller may selectively activate the magnetic feature to magnetically oscillate and produce a radio frequency signal proximal the write pole on an air bearing surface (ABS). | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160064016 | DETERMINING OSCILLATION CHARACTERISTIC FOR HIGH-FREQUENCY ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING DEVICE - A magnetic disk device according to an embodiment includes a magnetic head including a write head with a high-frequency oscillator and a read head, a recording medium, a driving unit configured to moves the magnetic head on the recording medium, a measuring unit configured to obtain a first read signal with no current or a smaller current and a second read signal with a normal current supplied in the normal writing operation, a comparison unit configured to calculate comparative data indicating a comparison result between the first and second read signals, and a determination unit configured to determine an oscillation characteristic from the comparative data. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160064017 | DATA WRITER WITH FLUX DENSITY INSERT - A data writer may be generally configured at least with a write pole adjacent to and separated from a side shield and a trailing shield. The side shield may be formed of a first material and configured with a trailing box region that is at least partially filled with a flux density insert formed of a second material that is different than the first material. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160064018 | WRITE HEAD WITH COIL STRUCTURE ALIGNED WITH YOKE - A write head having a main pole having a pole tip proximate an air bearing surface (ABS), the main pole having a leading side and a trailing side. The write head also includes a yoke having a yoke tip recessed from the ABS, and a helical coil wrapped around the main pole and the yoke. The helical coil has a first turn with its front edge at least substantially aligned with the yoke tip. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160064019 | SLIDER FOR MAGNETIC RECORDING APPARATUS WITH PROJECTION COMPRISING OPTICAL TURNING ELEMENT AND METHODS OF FABRICATION THEREOF - An apparatus includes a slider, a light source disposed upon an outer surface of the slider and a projection extending above the outer surface of the slider. The light source comprises a resonant cavity aligned with the outer surface of the slider. The projection comprises an optical turning element that is optically coupled to the light source. Also included are methods of fabrication thereof. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160064020 | MAGNETIC HEAD AND MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a magnetic head is arranged opposite a magnetic recording medium including a recording layer. The magnetic head includes a magnetic pole, a light emitting unit, and a distance adjusting unit. The magnetic pole includes a soft magnetic material. The light emitting unit is arranged with respect to the magnetic pole in a travel direction of the magnetic head, and emits light with respect to the recording layer. The distance adjusting unit adjusts a distance between the magnetic pole and the light emitting unit. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160064021 | DISC DEVICE, CONTROLLING DEVICE AND METHOD - According to one embodiment, a disc device outputs a first signal for canceling out a first disturbance at a predetermined frequency of a position error, outputs a second signal which gain or phase of the first signal are changed, and corrects an operation amount or the position error by using the second signal. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160064022 | Low Power Thermally Assisted Data Recording Media - In some embodiments, a thermally assisted data recording medium has a recording layer formed of iron (Fe), platinum (Pt) and a transition metal T selected from a group consisting of Rhodium (Rh), Ruthenium (Ru), Osmium (Os) and Iridium (Ir) to substitute for a portion of the Pt content as Fe | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160064023 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING/REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium includes a silicon oxide underlayer having a recess pattern having a plurality of recesses, a nonmagnetic underlayer having a first hole pattern having a plurality of holes corresponding to the recess pattern, and a magnetic recording layer having a second hole pattern having a plurality of holes connected with the first hole pattern. The silicon oxide underlayer, the nonmagnetic underlayer, and the magnetic recording layer are formed in order on the substrate. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160064024 | MAGNETIC TAPE - The magnetic tape comprises, on one surface of a nonmagnetic support, a nonmagnetic layer comprising nonmagnetic powder, lubricant, and binder, comprises, on a surface of the nonmagnetic layer, a magnetic layer comprising magnetic powder, lubricant, and binder, and comprises, on the opposite surface of the nonmagnetic support from the surface on which the nonmagnetic layer and magnetic layer are present, a backcoat layer comprising nonmagnetic powder, lubricant, and binder, wherein the contact angle for water of a surface of the magnetic layer ranges from 95° to 100°, and the contact angle for water of a surface of the backcoat layer ranges from 95° to 100°. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160064025 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - The magnetic recording medium comprises a nonmagnetic layer comprising nonmagnetic powder and binder on a nonmagnetic support and a magnetic layer comprising ferromagnetic powder and binder on the nonmagnetic layer, wherein the magnetic layer comprises a lubricant and a 1-bromonaphthalene contact angle adjusting agent that is capable of adjusting a contact angle for 1-bromonaphthalene, the contact angle for 1-bromonaphthalene being measured on a surface of the magnetic layer, and the contact angle measured on the surface of the magnetic layer ranges from 45.0° to 55.0° for 1-bromonaphthalene, and ranges from 90.0° to 100.0° for water. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160064026 | METHOD FOR MAKING A PATTERNED PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING DISK USING GLANCING ANGLE DEPOSITION OF HARD MASK MATERIAL - A method for making a bit-patterned media (BPM) magnetic recording disk by etching the recording layer using a patterned hard mask layer uses glancing angle deposition (GLAD) of additional hard mask material as a capping layer onto the tops of the patterned hard mask pillars while the disk is rotated about an axis orthogonal to the plane of the disk. In one embodiment the capping layer is deposited after the pillars have been only partially eroded during a partial ion-milling of the recording layer. Ion-milling is then again performed to remove the remaining recording layer material. In another embodiment, before ion-milling of the recording layer, the capping layer is deposited onto the tops of the un-eroded hard mask pillars. This increases the lateral dimension of the hard mask pillars so that after ion-milling of the recording layer, the magnetic islands have an increased lateral dimension. | 2016-03-03 |
| 20160064027 | METHOD FOR MAKING AN IMPRINT TEMPLATE WITH DATA REGIONS AND NON-DATA REGIONS USING BLOCK COPOLYMERS - A method to fabricate an imprint template for bit-patterned magnetic recording media using block copolymers (BCPs) integrates data region patterning and servo region patterning. A heat sink layer is formed on the imprint substrate only in the data regions. A sublayer for the BCP is deposited over both the data regions and the servo regions and patterned to form stripes in the data regions and servo features in the servo regions. A BCP is then deposited in both the data and servo regions. Only the BCP in the data regions is heated, which causes phase separation of the BCP in the data regions into the two BCP components. The selective heating may be accomplished by directed controlled laser radiation to only the data regions. The heat sink layer below the data regions absorbs the heat from the laser radiation, confining it to the data regions. | 2016-03-03 |
