18th week of 2022 patent applcation highlights part 67 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20220139334 | DATA DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a data driving circuit and a display device. In the process of a display device converting an image data received from an outside into a data signal supplied to a data driving circuit, a final color temperature target represented by the image is variably set based on a panel driving current, so that the power consumption of a display panel displaying an image can be minimized. In addition, since the final color temperature target is varied, the luminance of the image and the user's recognition level are maintained constant, thereby improving the efficiency of the display device. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139335 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - The present disclosure relates to a display panel and a display device using the same. The display panel includes a pixel array in which a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines crossing the data lines, and a plurality of pixels are disposed; a first gate driver configured to supply a gate signal to gate lines connected to pixels disposed in a first area of the pixel array; and a second gate driver configured to receive a carry signal from the first gate driver and supply a gate signal to gate lines connected to pixels disposed in a second area of the pixel array. The second gate driver includes a signal transmission unit disposed in the pixel array to receive the carry signal from the first gate driver. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139336 | Device and Method for Driving Display Panel and Display Device - In a case when a camera is disposed under a display panel, a bounded part between a camera area and a surrounding area may have a brightness difference due to a difference in pixel disposition density. The present disclosure allows minimizing such a boundary effect by compensating for greyscale values of pixels in the bounded part. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139337 | PIXEL CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY PANEL - The pixel circuit includes a data-writing module, a drive module, a storage module, a first light emission control module, a second light emission control module, a light-emitting module and a first initialization module. A first terminal of the first initialization module is electrically connected to a second light emission control signal input terminal, a second terminal of the first initialization module is electrically connected to a control terminal of the drive module; or the pixel circuit includes an initialization voltage input terminal, the first terminal of the first initialization module is electrically connected to the initialization voltage input terminal, the second terminal of the first initialization module is electrically connected to the control terminal of the drive module. The first initialization module is configured to initialize the control terminal of the drive module under a control of a control signal input into a control terminal of the first initialization module. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139338 | DRIVING SEQUENCES TO REMOVE PRIOR STATE INFORMATION FROM COLOR ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAYS - Methods for efficiently clearing previous state information when driving a multi-particle color electrophoretic medium, for example, wherein at least two of the particles are colored and subtractive and at least one of the particles is scattering. Typically, such a system includes a white particle and cyan, yellow, and magenta subtractive primary colored particles. The clearing pulse may include two different portions of alternating impulses and the overall waveform may be DC balanced. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139339 | METHODS FOR REDUCING IMAGE ARTIFACTS DURING PARTIAL UPDATES OF ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAYS - A method for driving electro-optic displays so as to reduce visible artifacts are described. Such methods include driving extra pixels where the boundary between a driven and undriven area would otherwise lead to artifact by providing paired sets of driving instructions, allowing the undriven area to be driven while maintain the desired (undriven) optical state. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139340 | ENHANCED PUSH-PULL (EPP) WAVEFORMS FOR ACHIEVING PRIMARY COLOR SETS IN MULTI-COLOR ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAYS - Enhanced push pull driving waveforms for driving a four particle electrophoretic medium including four different types of particles, for example a set of scattering particles and three sets of subtractive particles. Methods for identifying a preferred waveform for a target color state when using a voltage driver having at least five different voltage levels. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139341 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RENDERING COLOR IMAGES - There are provided methods for driving an electro-optic display A method for driving an electro-optic display having a plurality of display pixels, the method comprises receiving an input image, processing the input image to create color separation cumulate, and using a threshold array to process the color separation cumulate to generate colors for the electro-optic display. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139342 | COLOR GAMUT MAPPING METHOD AND DEVICE - The present disclosure relates to a color gamut mapping method and a color gamut mapping device. A color gamut mapping method may include converting, by a color space converter, first three-color signals into a first luminance component and a pair of first chrominance components and outputting the first luminance component and the pair of first chrominance components, controlling, by a saturation controller, a saturation of the first chrominance component for each control area using a saturation gain of the saturation controller and outputting a second chrominance component, controlling, by a hue controller, a hue of the second chrominance component for each control area and outputting a third chrominance component, interpolating, by an overall controller, a set value of a luminance gain using grayscale differences between the first three-color signals, outputting a second luminance component by controlling first luminance component using the interpolated luminance gain. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139343 | COLOR GAMUT MAPPING METHOD AND DEVICE - The present disclosure relates to a color gamut mapping method and a color gamut mapping device that allow precise color gamut tuning to be efficiently performed, and a display device including the same. A color gamut mapping method according to an aspect includes converting, by a color space converter, a first color signal of an input image into a first luminance component and a pair of first chrominance components, controlling, by a saturation controller, a saturation of the first chrominance component for each control area using a saturation gain and outputting a second chrominance component, controlling, by a hue controller, a hue of the second chrominance component for each control area and outputting a third chrominance component, entirely controlling, by an overall controller, a saturation and a hue of the third chrominance component using overall saturation gains and overall hue gains and outputting a fourth chrominance component, and inversely converting. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139344 | DISPLAY PANEL, DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - A display panel, a display device and a method for driving the display panel. The display panel includes: a rotation axis; at least one display area located at one side of the rotation axis; wherein the display area includes a plurality of display sub-areas; and a plurality of driving-control modules corresponding to the plurality of display sub-areas. The plurality of display sub-areas are sequentially arranged along a first direction; the first direction is directed from the rotation axis to the display area; when the display panel rotates around the rotation axis, areas passed by the plurality of display sub-areas form a plurality of imaging sub-areas. The plurality of driving-control modules are configured to control the plurality of display sub-areas to have different display parameters, respectively, thereby enabling imaging brightness of the plurality of imaging sub-areas to be within a preset brightness range. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139345 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND LOCAL METHOD OF CONTROLLING LOCAL DIMMING THEREOF - A display device may include a display panel, a backlight unit including a plurality of blocks for providing light to the display panel, each of the plurality of blocks comprising a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs), and a controller configured to obtain backlight control information and to activate a duty ratio control function for controlling a duty ratio and current flowing in a block during a cycle of one frame, when a low current condition is satisfied based on the obtained backlight control information. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139346 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OVERDRIVE SETTING CONTROL ON A LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A monitor includes a timing controller coupled to a liquid crystal display panel. A scaler unit receives a change event notification associated with a change to a new overdrive setting of the liquid crystal display panel, and determines a set of lookup table values associated with the change to the new overdrive setting of the liquid crystal display panel. The scaler unit determines a size of data to be transmitted based on the set of lookup table values, and divides the data to be transmitted into data portions based on factors that include the size of the data to be transmitted, speed of an inter-integrated circuit bus, or length of a vertical blank period. The scaler unit then transmits one of the data portions during the vertical blank period via the inter-integrated circuit bus. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139347 | MAINBOARD, DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAYING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A mainboard, display device, displaying method, and computer readable storage medium are provided. The mainboard has at least two display interfaces, a detecting circuit, and a processor. The at least two display interfaces are used for connecting to different displays. The detecting circuit is coupled to the at least two display interfaces, for detecting the electrical signal of the display. The processor is coupled to the detecting circuit, for determining information about the display connected to the display interface based on the electrical signal detected by the detecting circuit. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139348 | GOA CIRCUIT, TFT SUBSTRATE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - The invention discloses a gate driver on array (GOA) circuit, a TFT substrate, a display device and electronic equipment. The GOA circuit comprising m cascaded GOA units, wherein a nth GOA unit comprises: a pull-up control unit, a pull-up unit, a compensation control unit, and a pull-down unit. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139349 | DISPLAY DRIVING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Disclosed is a display driving apparatus configured to provide a signal to a display panel, including an output buffer unit configured to output the source signal to the display panel for the active period and output a porch signal to the display panel for the blank period, and a low dropout (LDO) unit configured to supply the porch signal to the output buffer unit, wherein the output buffer unit includes a buffer configured to output the source signal or the porch signal to the display panel, a first switch configured to switch a connection between the LDO unit and an input line of the buffer, and a second switch configured to switch a connection between the LDO unit and an output line of the buffer, and the buffer is turned on or off according to a switching state of each of the first switch and the second switch. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139350 | COMMON VOLTAGE COMPENSATION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DISPLAY PANEL, DISPLAY PANEL, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The present disclosure provides common voltage compensation method and device for display panel, a display panel, and a display device. The display panel includes a common electrode, a common voltage compensation unit, and common electrode lines. The common electrode lines are sequentially numbered according to a distance from the common voltage compensation unit, a number of the common electrode lines is n, and n is an integer greater than 8. The method includes: the common voltage compensation unit providing common voltage to the common electrode; the common voltage compensation unit detecting actual common voltage on one of N1-th common electrode line to N2-th common electrode line, N1 being a value rounded down from n/8, and N2 being a value rounded down from n/4; the common voltage compensation unit compensating the common voltage of the common electrode according to the detected actual common voltage. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139351 | GRAPHICS WITH ADAPTIVE TEMPORAL ADJUSTMENTS - An embodiment of an electronic processing system may include an application processor, persistent storage media communicatively coupled to the application processor, a graphics subsystem communicatively coupled to the application processor, an object space adjuster communicatively coupled to the graphics subsystem to adjust an object space parameter based on a screen space parameter, and a sample adjuster communicatively coupled to the graphics subsystem to adjust a sample parameter of the graphics subsystem based on a detected condition. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139352 | Method and Device for Image Composition, Electronic Device and Storage Medium - Described are a method and device for image composition, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes acquiring a plurality of layers of an image; determining a layer attribute of each of the plurality of layers, and the layer attribute including a first attribute and a second attribute; composing layers with the first attribute into a first composed layer by a graphics processor unit; composing the first composed layer and layers with the second attribute by a multimedia display processor. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139353 | DISPLAY METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A display method includes: obtaining a first layer comprising an interface layer of a video playback interface and a multimedia layer corresponding to a video used for being played in the video playback interface; obtaining a second layer by calling a graphics processor to synthesize the interface layer; obtaining a target image by calling a multimedia display processor to synthesize the multimedia layer and the second layer; and displaying the target image on the video playback interface. The present disclosure calls different processors to synthesize the layer to be synthesized. Power consumption of superimposing multiple layers can be saved, and a layer synthesis speed can be increased. Accordingly, an image synthesis method is more reasonable. An electronic device and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are also provided. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139354 | SCREEN COLOR GAMUT CONTROL METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Disclosed in embodiments of the present application are a screen color gamut control method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method comprises: displaying a control, the control being configured to control the screen to switch between different color gamut spaces; acquiring the state of the control, the state being used for representing the color gamut space to which the screen is controlled to switch; and adjusting the color gamut space of the screen to make same be switched to the color gamut space corresponding to the state of the control. By means of the present method, when the control is displayed, the color gamut space of the screen is adjusted by the control to switch the color gamut space to that corresponding to the state of the control, so that users can enjoy different color experiences, thereby improving user experience. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139355 | COLOR GAMUT COMPRESSION AND EXTENSION - One embodiment provides a method comprising determining a first representation of a source gamut of an input content in a first two-dimensional (2D) device-independent color space, determining a second representation of a target gamut of a display device in a second 2D device-independent color space, and determining a color transition protection zone (TPZ) based on the source gamut and the target gamut. The method further comprises utilizing a color gamut mapping (CGM) module to perform, based on the TPZ, linear color gamut compression from the first 2D device-independent color space to the second 2D device-independent color space if the target gamut is narrower than the source gamut. The method further comprises utilizing the same CGM module to perform, based on the TPZ, linear color gamut extension from the first 2D device-independent color space to the second 2D device-independent color space if the target gamut is wider than the source gamut. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139356 | Display Layout Optimization of Multiple Media Streams - A system and method for optimizing a display layout of multiple video streams at a sink device is provided. The display layout of multiple streams may be dynamically optimized based on a number of different variables, including characteristics of the sink device, total number of active incoming streams, active audio, and other characteristics of the source material or device. The source of an incoming media stream may contain useful characteristics for optimizing the display layout of multiple media streams. One such characteristic of a source device may include the device type, such as laptop, PC, phone, or tablet. Information may be extracted from each incoming stream in order to predict a source device type from which the incoming media stream originates. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139357 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE CAPABLE OF EXPANDING DISPLAY REGION AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SCREEN THEREOF - According to certain embodiments, an electronic device comprises: a flexible display; at least one sensor configured to sense changes in a size of a viewable portion of the flexible display; at least one processor operatively connected to the flexible display and the at least one sensor; and a memory operatively connected to the at least one processor, wherein the memory stores instructions that, when being executed, cause the at least one processor to perform a plurality of operations comprising: displaying a first screen on the flexible display; sensing a change in the size of the viewable portion of the flexible display through the at least one sensor; displaying a list comprising at least one selectable item in at least a partial region of the flexible display during the changing of the size of the viewable portion of the flexible display; detecting that the changing of the size of the viewable portion of the flexible display has stopped; in response to detecting the size of the viewable portion of the flexible display has stopped, displaying the first screen corresponding to the viewable portion of the flexible display with the changed size; and in response to returning of the size of the viewable portion of the flexible display to an original size without completing the change in the size of the viewable portion of the flexible display, displaying a second screen corresponding to a selectable item while the size of the viewable portion of the flexible display changes, among items included in the list, on the viewable portion of the flexible display having the original size. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139358 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES TO DETERMINE POSITIONING OF CONTENT ON A CROSS REALITY HEADSET DISPLAY BASED ON MOVEMENT OF THE CROSS REALITY HEADSET - Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting a user operating a cross reality headset, receiving a first location of the cross reality headset, providing image content and audio content to the cross reality headset, and receiving a second location of the cross reality headset. Further embodiments can include determining the cross reality headset is stationary based on the first location and the second location resulting in a determination, and providing instructions to the cross reality headset to adjust positioning the image content on a display of the cross reality headset and to provide the audio content according to the determination resulting in an adjustment of the positioning of the image content. The cross reality headset presents the image content according to the adjustment on the display. The cross reality headset provides the audio content. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139359 | Fade Away Radius For Stringed Musical Instrument - Ergonomic improvement for stringed musical instrument arrived at though the creation of a multi plane body; or neck body joining; that causes the repositioning of instrument's neck finger board radius crown in relation to performers body reducing curvature of wrist, extension of tendons, and effort required to fret notes. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139360 | Fulcrum Tremolo Spring Locking Claw and Claw Resonator Plate - Sonic improvement for all stringed instruments that employ a fulcrum tremolo bridge system with back of instrument counter tensioning springs. The improvement is provided by securing springs to claw assembly, as well as securing claw assemble to a flat plate of material which is in turn secured to instrument body. The claw and resonator plate can be fabricated as two individual pieces then fastened together or as a combined one piece assemble that is then fastened to instrument body. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139361 | MXTZ (Music Exponentially Transformed Through Time) - Music instrument and information digital mute system, for capture, processing, and conversion of sound from analog to digital signals using central processing unit (CPU) microcontroller, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi microcontrollers, sound image localization filter, global positioning and geographic information systems, universal serial bus (USB) module, and battery. Mute body is positioned in close proximity to bell or horn, body and/or voice at proximal end and/or configured to occlude sound source. Acoustically designed inner chamber within mute body captures acoustical variations of air pressure. Microphone positioned at distal end of mute, and proximal end of CB position in mute with digital signal processor (DSP) that captures, processes, converts, and transmits digital sound and data. CPU manages and controls components and modules of CB. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi microcontrollers configured to receive and send signals to and from other technological devices, components, and systems (cellphones, tablets, computers, earplugs, smart televisions, server, and cloud platforms). USB module configured to receive and send digital signals, supply power to CB, and charge and recharge battery. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139362 | FOLDING MARIMBA - A foldable idiophone musical instrument may have two frames to support accidental tone bars on the first frame and natural tone bars on the second frame. Connecting members may attach to opposite ends of the frames. The connecting members may allow the frames to rotate from 0° to 180° from a horizontal position to collapse or fold the instrument. The connecting members may have a riser portion and a stop block portion. The riser portion may elevate the accidental tone bars above the natural tone bars. The stop block portion may prevent the frames from rotating to less than 0° from the horizontal when in a performance position. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139363 | Conversion of Music Audio to Enhanced MIDI Using Two Inference Tracks and Pattern Recognition - A method and system for automatically transcribing an audio source, e.g. a WAV file or live feeds, into a computer-readable code, e.g., enhanced MIDI, are provided, specifically and limited to solving a central problem that has not been solved elsewhere: it takes a large sampling window, say from a fifth of a second to a full second for typical music, to extract many music perceptual parameters of interest, yet that transcription also needs to maintain synchronization with the source music, with the time resolution of that synchronization about a sixteenth of a second. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139364 | SANDWICH-STRUCTURED PANELS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE - Sandwich-structured noise-attenuating and/or structural panels and methods of manufacturing such panels using ultrasonic welding are described. The method includes: receiving a backing member, a sheet and a cellular structure; assembling the cellular structure between the backing member and the sheet; and ultrasonically welding the backing member and the sheet together. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139365 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING ACOUSTIC PANELS - The present disclosure relates to methods of manufacturing an acoustic absorption system. The acoustic absorption system can include a curtain that includes one or more insulating or acoustic absorption sheets. The manufacturing method uses press welding to seal the insulating sheets between a first layer of material and a second layer of material. Each insulating sheets is disposed within a corresponding compartment of the acoustic absorption system and an entire perimeter of each compartment can be sealed simultaneously, wherein the seals form a plurality of panels. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139366 | EARPHONE DEVICE, HEADPHONE DEVICE, AND METHOD - There is provided a mechanism that enables cooperation of a plurality of audio processing devices. An earphone device includes a sensor unit that detects an overlapping state of the earphone device and a headphone device and a wireless communication unit that wirelessly communicates with the headphone device which is worn to overlap an outer side of the earphone device worn by a user. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139367 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD - An information processing device includes a signal acquisition unit that acquires a voice signal of an object person outputted from a mic array and a control unit that acquires at least one of noise level information indicating a noise level of noise and first information as information indicating whether or not an obstructor is speaking while obstructing speech of the object person and changes a beam width as a width of a beam corresponding to an angular range of acquired sound, centering at the beam representing a direction in which voice of the object person is inputted to the mic array, and dead zone formation intensity as a degree of suppressing at least one of the noise and voice of the obstructor inputted to the mic array based on at least one of the noise level information and the first information. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139368 | CONCURRENT MULTI-PATH PROCESSING OF AUDIO SIGNALS FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS - A system and method for concurrent multi-path processing of audio signals for automatic speech recognition is presented. Audio information defining a set of audio signals may be obtained ( | 2022-05-05 |
20220139369 | METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING CHINESE-ENGLISH MIXED SPEECH, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A method for recognizing a Chinese-English mixed speech, includes: determining pronunciation information and scores of a language model, of speech information, in response to receiving the speech information; determining whether an English word exists in content of the speech information based on the pronunciation information; determining a Chinese word corresponding to the English word based on a preset Chinese-English mapping table in response to the English word existing in the content of the speech information, in which the Chinese-English mapping table includes a mapping relationship of at least one pair of English word and Chinese word; determining a score of the Chinese word corresponding to the English word; replacing a score of the English word in the scores of the language model with the score of the Chinese word; and obtaining a speech recognition result for the speech information based on the replaced scores of the language model. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139370 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING LANGUAGE LEVEL OF TARGET - Methods and devices for identifying language level are provided. A first automatic speech recognition (ASR) module is identified, from among a plurality of ASR modules, based on information on a target received at the electronic device. First voice data and first image data for the target are received. The first voice data and the first image data are converted to first text data using the first ASR module. A first language level of the target is identified based on the first text data. Data including at least one of a voice output and an image output is output based on the first language level satisfying a condition. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139371 | SIMULTANEOUS ACOUSTIC EVENT DETECTION ACROSS MULTIPLE ASSISTANT DEVICES - Implementations can detect respective audio data that captures an acoustic event at multiple assistant devices in an ecosystem that includes a plurality of assistant devices, process the respective audio data locally at each of the multiple assistant devices to generate respective measures that are associated with the acoustic event using respective event detection models, process the respective measures to determine whether the detected acoustic event is an actual acoustic event, and cause an action associated with the actional acoustic event to be performed in response to determining that the detected acoustic event is the actual acoustic event. In some implementations, the multiple assistant devices that detected the respective audio data are anticipated to detect the respective audio data that captures the actual acoustic event based on a plurality of historical acoustic events being detected at each of the multiple assistant devices. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139372 | NATURAL LANGUAGE DOMAIN CORPUS DATA SET CREATION BASED ON ENHANCED ROOT UTTERANCES - Systems and methods for generating a natural language domain corpus to train a machine learning natural language understanding process. A base utterance expressing an intent and an intent profile indicating at least one of categories, keywords, concepts, sentiment, entities, or emotion of the intent are received. Machine translation translates the base utterance into a plurality of foreign language utterances and back into respective utterances in the target natural language to create a normalized utterance set. Analysis of each utterance in the normalized utterance set determines respective meta information for each such utterance. Comparison of the meta information to the intent profile determines a highest ranking matching utterance within the normalized utterance set. A set of natural language data to train a machine learning natural language understating process is created based on further natural language translations of the highest ranking matching utterance. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139373 | IDENTIFICATION AND UTILIZATION OF MISRECOGNITIONS IN AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION - Techniques are disclosed that enable determining and/or utilizing a misrecognition of a spoken utterance, where the misrecognition is generated using an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model. Various implementations include determining a recognition based on the spoken utterance and a previous utterance spoken prior to the spoken utterance. Additionally or alternatively, implementations include personalizing an ASR engine for a user based on the spoken utterance and the previous utterance spoken prior to the spoken utterance (e.g., based on audio data capturing the previous utterance and a text representation of the spoken utterance). | 2022-05-05 |
20220139374 | SPEECH RECOGNITION DEVICE, SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided a speech recognition device capable of implementing end-to-end speech. recognition considering a context. The speech recognition device includes a model parameter learning unit that learns a model parameter θ by using a word sequence of concern as an observation value and using a word sequence previous to the word sequence of concern, an acoustic feature value sequence corresponding to the word sequence of concern, and the model parameter θ as parameters to perform maximum likelihood estimation for a likelihood function of a probability that the observation value occurs under the parameters and an uttered speech recognition unit that repeats, in order of time sequence, processing of recognizing a word sequence to be recognized, the processing of recognizing the word sequence to be recognized being performed by using the word sequence to be recognized as an observation value and using an already recognized word sequence previous to the word sequence to be recognized, an acoustic feature value sequence corresponding to the word sequence to be recognized, and the learned model parameter θ as parameters and based on a maximum likelihood criterion for the likelihood function of the probability that the observation value occurs under the parameters. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139375 | MEMORY DETERIORATION DETECTION AND AMELIORATION - Memory deterioration detection and evaluation includes capturing human utterances with a voice interface and generating, for a user, a human utterances corpus that comprises human utterances selected from the plurality of human utterances based on meanings of the human utterances as determined by natural language processing by a computer processor. Based on data generated in response to signals sensed by one or more sensing devices operatively coupled with the computer processor, contextual information corresponding to one or more human utterances of the corpus is determined. Patterns among the corpus of human utterances are recognized based on pattern recognition performed by the computer processor using one or more machine learning models. Based on the pattern recognition a change in memory functioning of the user is identified. The identified change is classified, based on the contextual information, as to whether the change is likely due to memory impairment of the user. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139376 | PERSONAL SPEECH RECOMMENDATIONS USING AUDIENCE FEEDBACK - Aspects of the present invention disclose a method for generating speech recommendations for a user based on feedback data corresponding to a plurality of viewers of the user. The method includes one or more processors identifying speech of a user in audio data of the user. The method further includes identifying feedback of one or more audience members of the user associated with the speech of the user. The method further includes generating an assessment of the speech of the user, wherein the assessment is based at least in part on the feedback of the one or more audience members. The method further includes generating a speech recommendation for the speech of the user based at least in part on the assessment of the speech. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139377 | METHOD FOR USER VOICE INPUT PROCESSING AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE SUPPORTING SAME - According to an embodiment, disclosed is an electronic device including a speaker, a microphone, a communication interface, a processor operatively connected to the speaker, the microphone, and the communication interface, and a memory operatively connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to receive a first utterance through the microphone, to determine a speaker model by performing speaker recognition on the first utterance, to receive a second utterance through the microphone after the first utterance is received, to detect an end-point of the second utterance, at least partially using the determined speaker model. Besides, various embodiments as understood from the specification are also possible. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139378 | TOUCH-FREE, VOICE-ASSISTANT, AND/OR TRACKING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATING INVENTORY GENERATION AND TRACKING OF CHILDCARE PRODUCTS - Touch-free, voice-assistant, and/or tracking systems and methods are described for automating inventory generation and tracking of childcare products. In various aspects, the touch-free, voice-assistant, and/or tracking systems and methods comprise receiving, by one or more processors, one or more name values corresponding to one or more children of a childcare program associated with at least one physical childcare location. A childcare product inventory, comprising a childcare product of at least one product type, is generated based on a count of the one or more name values. Child event data is received comprising information related to use of the childcare product. The child event data is based on audible input of a user as received via a voice command interface of a voice-assistant application (app) as implemented on a voice assistance device. The childcare product inventory may be updated based on the child event data. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139379 | WAKE WORD METHOD TO PROLONG THE CONVERSATIONAL STATE BETWEEN HUMAN AND A MACHINE IN EDGE DEVICES - A voice-activated system edge device cooperating with a remote command processor has a state machine defined by a listening mode state and a conversation monitoring mode state. The state machine transitions from the listening mode state to the conversation monitoring mode state in response to a wake word detection. A command accompanying the wake word is transmitted to the remote command processor for execution thereon. The conversation monitoring mode state is maintained for a conversation monitoring window time duration to receive a connection word accompanied by another command transmitted to the remote command processor for further execution thereon. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139380 | INTERNAL LANGUAGE MODEL FOR E2E MODELS - A computer device is provided that includes one or more processors configured to receive an end-to-end (E2E) model that has been trained for automatic speech recognition with training data from a source-domain, and receive an external language model that has been trained with training data from a target-domain. The one or more processors are configured to perform an inference of the probability of an output token sequence given a sequence of input speech features. Performing the inference includes computing an E2E model score, computing an external language model score, and computing an estimated internal language model score for the E2E model. The estimated internal language model score is computed by removing a contribution of an intrinsic acoustic model. The processor is further configured to compute an integrated score based at least on E2E model score, the external language model score, and the estimated internal language model score. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139381 | PREDICTION DEVICE, PREDICTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An estimation device ( | 2022-05-05 |
20220139382 | CONTEMPORANEOUS MACHINE-LEARNING ANALYSIS OF AUDIO STREAMS - Described techniques select portions of an audio stream for transmission to a trained machine learning application, which generates response recommendations in real-time. This real-time response is facilitated by the system identifying, selecting and transmitting those portions of the audio stream likely to be most relevant to the conversation. Portions of an audio stream less likely to be relevant to the conversation are identified accordingly and not transmitted. The system may identify the relevant portions of an audio stream by detecting events in a contemporaneous event stream, use a trained machine learning model to identify events in an audio stream, or both. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139383 | REAL-TIME VIDEO CONFERENCE CHAT FILTERING USING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS - In various examples, as a user is speaking or presenting content during an online video conference, the data stream may be processed to generate a textual representation (e.g., transcript) of the audio and/or information relating to the video. The textual representation and/or video related information may then be processed to determine a context or one or more topic(s) of discussion. Based on the determined context/topic(s), a corresponding neural network(s) may be selected. Once a neural network has been selected, comments may be retrieved from a chat feature of the application and applied to the neural network. The neural network may then output data to indicate the relevance of the comments to the determined discussion topic. Based on the relevance of the comment, the comment may be allowed, prioritized, deleted, de-emphasized, or otherwise filtered in the chat feature. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139384 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR TRAINING TASK-ORIENTED DIALOGUE (TOD) LANGUAGE MODELS - Embodiments described herein provide methods and systems for training task-oriented dialogue (TOD) language models. In some embodiments, a TOD language model may receive a TOD dataset including a plurality of dialogues and a model input sequence may be generated from the dialogues using a first token prefixed to each user utterance and a second token prefixed to each system response of the dialogues. In some embodiments, the first token or the second token may be randomly replaced with a mask token to generate a masked training sequence and a masked language modeling (MLM) loss may be computed using the masked training sequence. In some embodiments, the TOD language model may be updated based on the MLM loss. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139385 | SCALABLE MULTI-SERVICE VIRTUAL ASSISTANT PLATFORM USING MACHINE LEARNING - The present invention is a masterbot architecture in a scalable multi-service virtual assistant platform that can construct a fluid and dynamic dialogue by assembling responses to end user utterances from two kinds of agents, information agents and action agents. A plurality of information agents obtain at least one information value from a parsed user input and/or contextual data. A plurality of action agents perform one or more actions in response to the parsed user input, the contextual data, and/or the information value. A masterbot arbitrates an activation of the plurality of information agents and the plurality of action agents. The masterbot comprises access to a machine-learning module to select an appropriate action agent, where one or more information agents are activated based on the selected appropriate action agent. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139386 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHINESE PUNCTUATION RESTORATION USING SUB-CHARACTER INFORMATION - A system and a method for predicting punctuations for a text. The text is in a logographic language having characters. Most of the characters contain sub-characters representing meaning of the characters. The text lacks punctuations. The method includes receiving the text; providing a sub-character encoding based on a sub-character input editor (IME), such that each character in the logographic language corresponds to a specific sub-character code; encoding the text using the sub-characters encoding to obtain sub-character codes; generating sentence pieces from the sub-character codes; representing the sentence pieces by sentence piece vectors; and subjecting the vectors of the sentence pieces to a neural network to obtain the punctuations for the text. The method may be implemented using a computing device. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139387 | RECORDED MEDIA HOTWORD TRIGGER SUPPRESSION - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for suppressing hotword triggers when detecting a hotword in recorded media are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, by a computing device, audio corresponding to playback of an item of media content. The actions further include determining, by the computing device, that the audio includes an utterance of a predefined hotword and that the audio includes an audio watermark. The actions further include analyzing, by the computing device, the audio watermark. The actions further include based on analyzing the audio watermark, determining, by the computing device, whether to perform speech recognition on a portion of the audio following the predefined hotword. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139388 | Voice Filtering Other Speakers From Calls And Audio Messages - A method includes receiving a first instance of raw audio data corresponding to a voice-based command and receiving a second instance of the raw audio data corresponding to an utterance of audible contents for an audio-based communication spoken by a user. When a voice filtering recognition routine determines to activate voice filtering for at least the voice of the user, the method also includes obtaining a respective speaker embedding of the user and processing, using the respective speaker embedding, the second instance of the raw audio data to generate enhanced audio data for the audio-based communication that isolates the utterance of the audible contents spoken by the user and excludes at least a portion of the one or more additional sounds that are not spoken by the user The method also includes executing. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139389 | Speech Interaction Method and Apparatus, Computer Readable Storage Medium and Electronic Device - Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a speech interaction method and apparatus. The method includes: acquiring videos shot by a camera device in a target space and at least one channel of audio acquired by at least one audio acquisition device; determining to-be-recognized audio that respectively corresponds to each of the sound areas in the target space based on the at least one channel of audio; determining a target sound area from the target space based on the video and at least one channel of to-be-recognized audio; performing speech recognition on the at least one channel of to-be-recognized audio to obtain a recognition result; and controlling a speech interaction-targeting device in the target sound area for speech interaction in a preset mode according to the recognition result. The speech interaction method and apparatus in the embodiments of the present disclosure may detect a target object by the method of integration of an image and speech, a speech control mode corresponding to the target object is automatically entered according to a detection result, making objects on the speech recognition and corresponding speech control for various types more targeted, and helping to avoid misoperation caused by recognized sound of the target object during speech control. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139390 | VEHICLE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - The present disclosure is related to a vehicle capable of outputting a sensible response voice in response to an utterance command of a user. The vehicle includes a voice processor configured to convert an utterance command of a user into text information and recognize a domain and an named entity corresponding to the utterance command based on the text information; a database configured to store answer text corresponding to the domain and the named entity; a speaker; and a controller configured to receive information corresponding to the domain and the named entity, correct the answer text stored in the database based on the information corresponding to the domain and the named entity, and control the speaker to output the corrected answer text. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139391 | ACTIVATION MANAGEMENT FOR MULTIPLE VOICE ASSISTANTS - Systems and methods include activation of a first voice assistant application to execute a first user dialog session, the first application associated with a first voice keyword and, while the first application is active and executing the first session, reception of second audio signals representing a second voice keyword associated with a second voice assistant application, determination, in response to reception of the second audio signals, that the first application is uninterruptable, wherein the second application remains inactive in response to reception of the second audio signals, reception of a signal from the first application indicating that the first application is interruptable, reception of third audio signals representing the second keyword and, in response to reception of the third audio signals, determination that the first application is interruptable and transmission of an activation signal to the second application to activate the second application and execute a second user dialog session. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139392 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes an interface configured to receive a first audio signal from a first microphone set and receive a second audio signal from a second microphone set provided at a position different from that of the first microphone set; a processor configured to: obtain a plurality of first sound-source components based on the first audio signal and a plurality of second sound-source components based on the second audio signal; identify a first sound-source component, from among the plurality of first sound-source components, and a second sound-source component, from among the plurality of second sound-source components, that correspond to each other; identify a user command based on the first sound-source component and the second sound-source component; and control an operation corresponding to the user command. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139393 | DRIVER INTERFACE WITH VOICE AND GESTURE CONTROL - A driver interface for use within an automobile provides responses to voice commands issued for example by a driver of the automobile. The interface includes a camera and microphone for capturing image data such as gestures and audio data from the automobile driver. The image data and audio data are processed to extract image and linguistic features from the image and audio data, which image and linguistic features are processed to interpret and infer a meaning of the voice command. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139394 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VOICE ACTUATED CONFIGURATION OF A CONTROLLING DEVICE - A speech recognition engine is provided voice data indicative of at least a brand of a target appliance. The speech recognition engine uses the voice data indicative of at least a brand of the target appliance to identify within a library of codesets at least one codeset that is cross-referenced to the brand of the target appliance. The at least one codeset so identified is then caused to be provisioned to the controlling device for use in commanding functional operations of the target appliance. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139395 | CONFIGURABLE OUTPUT DATA FORMATS - Configurable core domains of a speech processing system are described. A core domain output data format for a given command is originally configured with default content portions. When a user indicates additional content should be output for the command, the speech processing system creates a new output data format for the core domain. The new output data format is user specific and includes both default content portions as well as user preferred content portions. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139396 | METHODS AND USER INTERFACES FOR VOICE-BASED CONTROL OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES - The present disclosure generally relates to voice-control for electronic devices. In some embodiments, the method includes, in response to detecting a plurality of utterances, associating the plurality of operations with a first stored operation set and detecting a second set of one or more inputs corresponding to a request to perform the operations associated with the first stored operation set; and performing the plurality of operations associated with the first stored operation set, in the respective order. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139397 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An apparatus includes: a hardware processor that executes, based on recognized information obtained by voice recognition, a process requiring an execution authority; and an authenticator that performs authentication to determine, using first confidential information that is preset, whether the execution authority has been given. Upon determining that the recognized information corresponds to the preset confidential information, the hardware processor provides a user with a predetermined notification regarding security of the preset confidential information. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139398 | AUDIO CONTENT PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - This disclosure relates to systems and methods for processing content and, particularly, but not exclusively, systems and methods for processing audio content. Systems and methods are described that provide techniques for processing, analyzing, and/or structuring of longer-form content to, among other things, make the content searchable, identify relevant and/or interesting segments within the content, provide for and/or otherwise generate search results and/or coherent shorter-form summaries and/or highlights, enable new shorter-form audio listening experiences, and/or the like. Various aspects of the disclosed systems and methods may further enable relatively efficient transcription and/or indexing of content libraries at scale, while also generating effective formats for users interacting with such libraries to engage with search results. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139399 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF VIDEO CAPTURE AND SEARCH OPTIMIZATION FOR CREATING AN ACOUSTIC VOICEPRINT - Systems and method of diarization of audio files use an acoustic voiceprint model. A plurality of audio files are analyzed to arrive at an acoustic voiceprint model associated to an identified speaker. Metadata associate with an audio file is used to select an acoustic voiceprint model. The selected acoustic voiceprint model is applied in a diarization to identify audio data of the identified speaker. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139400 | SPEECH TRANSCRIPTION USING MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES - This disclosure describes transcribing speech using audio, image, and other data. A system is described that includes an audio capture system configured to capture audio data associated with a plurality of speakers, an image capture system configured to capture images of one or more of the plurality of speakers, and a speech processing engine. The speech processing engine may be configured to recognize a plurality of speech segments in the audio data, identify, for each speech segment of the plurality of speech segments and based on the images, a speaker associated with the speech segment, transcribe each of the plurality of speech segments to produce a transcription of the plurality of speech segments including, for each speech segment in the plurality of speech segments, an indication of the speaker associated with the speech segment, and analyze the transcription to produce additional data derived from the transcription. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139401 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FUSING VOICEPRINT FEATURES, VOICE RECOGNITION METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A method and device for fusing voiceprint features. The method includes: obtaining at least two voiceprint features of a voice sample of a target speaker (S | 2022-05-05 |
20220139402 | VOICE AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, VOICE AUTHENTICATION METHOD, AND A RECORDING MEDIUM - The disclosure provides a voice authentication apparatus including an output unit that preferentially outputs a question with which text information indicating an answer is associated than a question with which text information indicating an answer is not associated, and an authentication unit that performs voice authentication using voice information in which an answer to a question output by the output unit is uttered. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139403 | Audio System Height Channel Up-Mixing - Audio system height channel up-mixing that is configured to develop two or more height channels from audio sources that do not include height-related encoding. The up-mixing involves determining correlations and normalized channel energies between input audio signals. At least two height channels (e.g., left and right height audio signals) are developed from the correlations and normalized energies. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139404 | TIME-DOMAIN STEREO ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD AND RELATED PRODUCT - An audio encoding and decoding method and a related apparatus are provided. The audio encoding method may include: determining a coding mode of a current frame; when determining that the coding mode of the current frame is an anticorrelated signal coding mode, performing time-domain downmix processing on left and right channel signals in the current frame by using a time-domain downmix processing manner corresponding to the anticorrelated signal coding mode, to obtain a primary channel signal and a secondary channel signal, where the time-domain downmix processing manner corresponding to the anticorrelated signal coding mode is a time-domain downmix processing manner corresponding to an anticorrelated signal channel combination scheme, and the anticorrelated signal channel combination scheme is a channel combination scheme corresponding to a near out of phase signal; and encoding the obtained primary channel signal and secondary channel signal in the current frame. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139405 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - An audio signal processing apparatus in which different pieces of predetermined parameter information regarding acoustic transfer in a head of a listener are retained as preset candidates, a parameter information list including the retained preset candidates is presented, to prompt a user to select parameter information, and an audio signal for the user is generated by using the user-selected parameter information. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139406 | AUDIO ENCODER FOR ENCODING A MULTICHANNEL SIGNAL AND AUDIO DECODER FOR DECODING AN ENCODED AUDIO SIGNAL - Audio encoder for encoding a multichannel signal is shown. The audio encoder includes a downmixer for downmixing the multichannel signal to obtain a downmix signal, a linear prediction domain core encoder for encoding the downmix signal, wherein the downmix signal has a low band and a high band, wherein the linear prediction domain core encoder is configured to apply a bandwidth extension processing for parametrically encoding the high band, a filterbank for generating a spectral representation of the multichannel signal, and a joint multichannel encoder configured to process the spectral representation including the low band and the high band of the multichannel signal to generate multichannel information. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139407 | AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER AND RELATED METHODS USING TWO-CHANNEL PROCESSING WITHIN AN INTELLIGENT GAP FILLING FRAMEWORK - An apparatus for generating a decoded two-channel signal, comprising: a parametric decoder for providing parametric data for a second set of second spectral portions and a two-channel identification identifying for a second spectral portion of the second set of second spectral portions either a first two-channel representation for the second spectral portion of the second set of second spectral portions or a second two-channel representation for the second spectral portion of the second set of second spectral portions, the second two-channel representation being different from the first two-channel representation; and a frequency regenerator for regenerating the second spectral portion of the second set of second spectral portions depending on a first spectral portion of a first set of first spectral portions, the parametric data for the second spectral portion of the second set of second spectral portions and the two-channel identification for the second spectral portion of the second set of second spectral portions to acquire a regenerated second spectral portion of the second set of second spectral portions. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139408 | Transform Encoding/Decoding of Harmonic Audio Signals - An encoder for encoding frequency transform coefficients of a harmonic audio signal include the following elements: A peak locator configured to locate spectral peaks having magnitudes exceeding a predetermined frequency dependent threshold. A peak region encoder configured to encode peak regions including and surrounding the located peaks. A low-frequency set encoder configured to encode at least one low-frequency set of coefficients outside the peak regions and below a crossover frequency that depends on the number of bits used to encode the peak regions. A noise-floor gain encoder configured to encode a noise-floor gain of at least one high-frequency set of not yet encoded coefficients outside the peak regions. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139409 | AUDIO SCENE ENCODER, AUDIO SCENE DECODER AND RELATED METHODS USING HYBRID ENCODER-DECODER SPATIAL ANALYSIS - An audio scene encoder for encoding an audio scene, the audio scene having at least two component signals, has: a core encoder for core encoding the at least two component signals, wherein the core encoder is configured to generate a first encoded representation for a first portion of the at least two component signals, and to generate a second encoded representation for a second portion of the at least two component signals, a spatial analyzer for analyzing the audio scene to derive one or more spatial parameters or one or more spatial parameter sets for the second portion; and an output interface for forming the encoded audio scene signal, the encoded audio scene signal having the first encoded representation, the second encoded representation, and the one or more spatial parameters or one or more spatial parameter sets for the second portion. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139410 | HIGH-BAND SIGNAL GENERATION - A device for signal processing includes a memory and a processor. The memory is configured to store a parameter associated with a bandwidth-extended audio stream. The processor is configured to select a plurality of non-linear processing functions based at least in part on a value of the parameter. The processor is also configured to generate a high-band excitation signal based on the plurality of non-linear processing functions. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139411 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING PROGRAM - An audio signal processing device comprises a discontinuity detector configured to determine an occurrence of a discontinuity from a sudden increase of an amplitude of decoded audio obtained by decoding the first audio packet which is received correctly after an occurrence of a packet loss, and a discontinuity corrector for correcting the discontinuity of the decoded audio. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139412 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DIRECTIONAL SOUND - Different embodiments of methods and apparatus to produce audio output signals are disclosed. In one embodiment, an ultrasonic speaker outputting ultrasonic signals can be transformed into first audio output signals, which are directional. A non-ultrasonic speaker can output second audio output signals. The embodiment can be configured to output the first audio output signals or the second audio output signals in a vehicle. Another embodiment can be configured to output the first and the second audio output signals together. Yet another embodiment can be configured to be personalized to hearing characteristics of a user, or to depend on sound level of an environment of the user. One embodiment can include a directional speaker attached to a vehicle, with its output steerable towards a user in the vehicle. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139413 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An electronic apparatus includes an interface configured to connect with an external apparatus, and a processor. The processor is configured to, in response to a first user speech received by the electronic apparatus including a trigger word, identify a first noise level corresponding to the first user speech received by the electronic apparatus. The processor is configured to identify a first recognition apparatus among a plurality of recognition apparatuses having a highest first noise level corresponding to the first user speech. The plurality of recognition apparatuses identify the first user speech as the trigger word and include the electronic apparatus and the external apparatus. The processor is configured to perform a control operation to implement a function corresponding to a second user speech in response to identifying a second recognition apparatus as having a highest second noise level corresponding to the second user speech among the plurality of recognition apparatuses. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139414 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND SIDETONE VOLUME ADJUSTING METHOD THEREOF - A communication device and a sidetone volume adjusting method thereof are disclosed. The communication device includes a sound processor, a far-end sound receiver, a near-end sound receiver, a volume adjuster, and a sound player. The far-end sound receiver is configured to receive a far-end sound and transmit it to the sound processor. The near-end sound receiver is configured to receive a near-end sound such that the sound processor receives the near-end sound to form a sidetone. The volume adjustment module is configured to adjust the volume of the far-end sound and the sidetone to form the adjusted far-end sound and the adjusted sidetone, wherein the volume of the adjusted sidetone is based on the near-end sound and the adjusted far-end sound. The sound player is used to play the adjusted sidetone and the adjusted far-end sound. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139415 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VOICE SEPARATION BASED ON DEGENERATE UNMIXING ESTIMATION TECHNIQUE - The present disclosure provides method and system for voice separation based on DUET algorithm, and the method comprises receiving signals from microphones; performing a Fourier transform on the received signals; calculating a relative attenuation parameter and a relative delay parameter for each data point; selecting a clustering range for the relative delay parameters based on a distance between the microphones and a sampling frequency of the microphones, clustering the data points within the clustering range for the relative delay parameters into subsets, and performing an inverse Fourier transform on each subsets. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to provide an efficient and intelligent solution to deploy DUET on the software and/or hardware. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139416 | DIGITAL AUDIO PROCESSING DEVICE, DIGITAL AUDIO PROCESSING METHOD, AND DIGITAL AUDIO PROCESSING PROGRAM - An even-numbered harmonic adder adds a correction value to a first adjacent sample that is the next sample after a first local minimum sample, and subtracts a correction value from a second adjacent sample that is one sample before a local maximum sample. The even-numbered harmonic adder adds a correction value to a third adjacent sample that is the next sample after the local maximum sample, and subtracts a correction value from a fourth adjacent sample that is one sample before a second local minimum sample. An odd-numbered harmonic adder subtracts a correction value from the first local minimum sample and the second local minimum sample, and adds a correction value to the local maximum sample. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139417 | PERFORMING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SIGN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION SERVICES IN A VIDEO RELAY SERVICE ENVIRONMENT - Video relay services, communication systems, non-transitory machine-readable storage media, and methods are disclosed herein. A video relay service may include at least one server configured to receive a video stream including sign language content from a video communication device during a real-time communication session. The server may also be configured to automatically translate the sign language content into a verbal language translation during the real-time communication session without assistance of a human sign language interpreter. Further, the server may be configured to transmit the verbal language translation during the real-time communication session. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139418 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - The present invention addresses the problem of providing a technique for assisting the realization of more efficient business activities, while taking account of objective indicators. In a server | 2022-05-05 |
20220139419 | Method of Manufacturing Piezoelectric Microactuators Having Wrap-Around Electrodes - A method of manufacturing a piezoelectric microactuator having a wrap-around electrode includes forming a piezoelectric element having a large central electrode on a top face, and having a wrap-around electrode that includes the bottom face, two opposing ends of the device, and two opposing end portions of the top face. The device is then cut through the middle, separating the device into two separate piezoelectric microactuators each having a wrap-around electrode. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139420 | Hard Disk Drive with Composite Permanent Magnet - A hard disk drive includes a drive case and a cover plate, the storage media platers and a spindle, the recording heads and actuators, the connection port, the control logic board and one or more voice coil motor, where the actuators are operated via a voice coil motor; wherein the voice coil motor magnets comprise of a pair of composite permanent magnets on both sides of the voice coil, where each piece of composite permanent magnet comprising: a first core magnet M | 2022-05-05 |
20220139421 | RESTRICTION OF SUSPENSION DIMPLE CONTACT POINT - A head gimbal assembly (HGA) for a hard disk drive includes a primary dimple having a secondary structure protruding from the primary dimple, where a flexure is movably coupled with a load beam via the primary dimple, and where the secondary structure is configured to restrict the point of contact between the load beam and the flexure. Such an arrangement avoids any shift in the axis of rotation of the flexure, and the attached slider, due to any undesirable protrusion from the primary dimple which may arise in the manufacturing process. Examples of secondary structures include a micro-dimple, a ridge, and an embedded mass of material. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139422 | HEAT-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING (HAMR) MEDIUM WITH MULTILAYERED UNDERLAYER FOR THE RECORDING LAYER - A heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) medium has a multilayered underlayer between the heat-sink layer and the recording layer. One embodiment of the underlayer is a multilayer of a thermal barrier layer consisting essentially of MgO and TiO, and a seed layer containing MgO and nitrogen (N) directly on the thermal barrier layer, with the recording layer on and in contact with the seed layer. The interface between the thermal barrier layer and the seed layer contains Ti and N, some of which may be present as TiN to act as a diffusion barrier to prevent diffusion of the Ti into the recording layer. The Ti-containing thermal barrier layer has a higher thermal resistivity than the conventional MgO thermal barrier/seed layer and thus allows for reduced laser power to the recording layer while still achieving a high thermal gradient at the recording layer. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139423 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - [Solving Means] A tape-shaped magnetic recording medium includes: a base; and a magnetic layer that is provided on the base and includes a magnetic powder. The magnetic powder includes magnetic particles that have a uniaxial crystal magnetic anisotropy and contain cobalt ferrite. A ratio L4/L2 of a component L4 having a multiaxial crystal magnetic anisotropy to a component L2 having a uniaxial crystal magnetic anisotropy is 0 or more and 0.25 or less, the components being obtained by applying Fourier transformation to a torque waveform of the magnetic recording medium. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139424 | GLASS COMPOSITION, GLASS SHEET AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND SUBSTRATE FOR INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention provides a glass composition including, as components, in mol %: 50 to 70% SiO | 2022-05-05 |
20220139425 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING TIME-LAPSE VIDEOS - Video content may be captured by an image capture device during a capture duration. The video content may include video frames that define visual content viewable as a function of progress through a progress length of the video content. Rotational position information may characterize rotational positions of the image capture device during the capture duration. Time-lapse video frames may be determined from the video frames of the video content based on a spatiotemporal metric. The spatiotemporal metric may characterize spatial smoothness and temporal regularity of the time-lapse video frames. The spatial smoothness may be determined based on the rotational positions of the image capture device corresponding to the time-lapse video frames, and the temporal regularity may be determined based on moments corresponding to the time-lapse video frames. Time-lapse video content may be generated based on the time-lapse video frames. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139426 | MEMORY WITH FINE GRAIN ARCHITECTURES - Methods, systems, and devices for memory with fine grain architectures are described. An apparatus may include a memory device, a first organic substrate, and a second organic substrate. The first organic substrate may include a plurality of first conductive lines arranged with a first pitch that may power one or more components of the memory device. The second organic substrate may be coupled with the memory device and the first organic substrate. The second organic substrate may include a plurality of second conductive lines arranged with a second pitch smaller than the first pitch and may be configured to route signals between the memory device with a host device. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139427 | MEMORY MODULE WITH BATTERY AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEM HAVING THE MEMORY MODULE - A memory module may include: a battery; a plurality of devices including a first memory, a second memory, and a controller; and a power management integrated circuit configured to adjust a level of a battery power, received from the battery, and configured to supply a power supply voltage to each of the plurality of devices. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139428 | MEMORY MODULE WITH BATTERY AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEM HAVING THE MEMORY MODULE - A memory module may include: a battery; a plurality of devices including a first memory, a second memory, and a controller; and a power management integrated circuit configured to adjust a level of a battery power, received from the battery, and configured to supply a power supply voltage to each of the plurality of devices. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139429 | SENSE AMPLIFIER AND SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SENSE AMPLIFIER - A sense amplifier includes a bit line sense amplifier including a first transistor and a second transistor spaced apart from each other in a first direction, a second conductive line configured to electrically connect the first transistor to the second transistor and extending in the first direction and a local sense amplifier configured to at least partially overlap the second conductive line and disposed between the first transistor and the second transistor. The local sense amplifier includes an active region, a plurality of gate patterns at least partially extending in the first direction and disposed on the active region, a first contact disposed between the plurality of gate patterns and including a long side extending in the first direction and a short side extending in a second direction crossing the first direction and a first conductive line electrically connected to the first contact while overlapping the first contact in a plan view and including a first conductive region extending in the first direction. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139430 | MEMORY DEVICE - A memory device is disclosed, including a first switch and multiple first memory cells that are arranged in a first column, a second switch and multiple second memory cells that are arranged in a second column, a first data line and a second data line. The first data line is coupled to the first memory cells and the second memory cells. The second data line is coupled connected to the first memory cells and the second memory cells. The first switch transmits a data signal in the first data line in response to a control signal. The second switch outputs the data signal received from the second data line in response to the control signal. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139431 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME, AND MEMORY AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME - A semiconductor structure and a method for forming the same, and a memory and a method for forming the same are provided. The method for forming the semiconductor structure includes: providing a substrate, in which a sacrificial layer and an active layer on the sacrificial layer are formed on the substrate; patterning the active layer and the sacrificial layer to form grooves which divide the active layer and the sacrificial layer into a plurality of active areas; filling the grooves to form a first isolation layer surrounding the active areas; patterning the active layer in the active areas to form a plurality of separate active patterns; removing the sacrificial layer via openings between adjacent active patterns to form gaps between bottoms of the active patterns and the substrate; forming bit lines in the gaps; and forming semiconductor pillars on partial tops of the active patterns. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139432 | MEMORY PACKAGE, STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDING MEMORY PACKAGE, AND STORAGE DEVICE OPERATING METHOD - A memory package includes; a first memory chip including first memory pads, and a buffer chip including first buffer pads respectively connected with the first memory pads and second buffer pads connected with an external device. The buffer chip respectively communicates signals received via the second buffer pads to the first buffer pads in response to a swap enable signal having a disabled state, and the buffer chip swaps signals received via the second buffer pads to generate first swapped signals, and respectively communicates the first swapped signals to the first buffer pads in response to the swap enable signal having an enabled state. | 2022-05-05 |
20220139433 | MEMORY DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING NEW COMMAND INPUT SCHEME AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A method of operating a memory device including row pins and column pins includes receiving a first active command through the row pins during 1.5 cycles of a clock signal, receiving a first read command or a first write command through the column pins during 1 cycle of the clock signal, receiving a first precharge command through the row pins during a 0.5 cycle of the clock signal corresponding to a rising edge of the clock signal, receiving a second active command through the row pins during the 1.5 cycles of the clock signal, receiving a second read command or a second write command through the column pins during the 1 cycle of the clock signal, and receiving a second precharge command through the row pins during the 0.5 cycle of the clock signal corresponding to a falling edge of the clock signal. | 2022-05-05 |