24th week of 2021 patent applcation highlights part 65 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20210183332 | RUGGEDIZED REMOTE CONTROL DISPLAY LATENCY AND LOSS OF SIGNAL DETECTION FOR HARSH AND SAFETY-CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTS - Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed for overcoming latency and loss of signal detection in remote control displays. An exemplary system includes a remote control, a host computing device, and one or more target systems communicatively coupled to each other over a wired and/or wireless network. One method includes receiving, by the remote control and from a host computing device, a first video frame captured by a target device, determining a first time corresponding to receipt of the first video frame, receiving, from the host computing device, a second video frame, determining a second time corresponding to receipt of the second video frame, comparing the time difference to a latency threshold, and causing an alert graphic element to be displayed indicating a latency in communication. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183333 | BURN-IN STATISTICS WITH LUMINANCE BASED AGING - An electronic device may include an electronic display and a display pipeline. The electronic display may include multiple pixels to display images based at least in part on pixel data. The display pipeline may receive image data and process the image data to determine the pixel data. The display pipeline may include burn-in compensation circuitry to apply gains to the image data based at least in part on burn-in statistics to generate the pixel data. The gain to be applied to the image data for a pixel of the electronic display is determined by the burn-in compensation circuitry, based at least in part on an emission duty cycle of the pixel, to compensate the image data for the pixel for burn-in related aging of the pixel. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183334 | MULTI-FRAME BURN-IN STATISTICS GATHERING - An electronic device may include an electronic display to display images during frames based on image data. The electronic display may be divided into multiple regions each having multiple pixels. The electronic device may also include a display pipeline to process the image data and output the processed image data to the electronic display. The display pipeline may also determine a history update corresponding to an estimated burn-in aging effect of the pixels based on usage. A first portion of the history update corresponding to pixels in a first region may be determined during a first frame and a second portion of the history update corresponding to pixels in a second region may be determined during a second frame. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183335 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION DISPLAY AND DEVICE THEREOF - A method for controlling information display is provided. The method comprises the steps of setting a plurality of information display regions on a display screen of an electronic device; dragging at least one software to the plurality of information display regions; storing information type of the least one software in the electronic device, and the information type of the at least one software corresponds to the at least one information display region; receiving information in connection with the at least one software by a controller; and displaying the information in connection with the at least one software at the at least one information display region. Accordingly, pieces of information in connection with the at least one software are respectively displayed at the at least one information display region so as to reduce power consumption. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183336 | SUB-DISPLAY NOTIFICATION HANDLING - Disclosed in some examples are display systems, methods, devices, and machine-readable mediums which provide for a gesture-based method for specifying a region of a display in which to show shared content. Also disclosed are pairing methods for associating the region of the display with a content source device, methods for sharing content within the region, and methods for providing input from the region back to the content source device. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183337 | CONTENT SCHEDULING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A content scheduling apparatus includes a content storage storing contents, a screen division information storage storing screen division information including a screen division form having division regions and time slot information including information about time slots allocated to each of the division regions, a content information storage storing content information including content list information about a list in which contents are listed for each of the division regions among the contents and content display order information including display orders each of which includes a display order of the contents listed for each of the division regions, and a schedule generator to allocate the contents listed for each of the division regions to the time slots allocated to each of the division regions according to the content display order information so that the contents listed for each of the division regions are sequentially displayed on each of the division regions. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183338 | DEFORMABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE, FOLDABLE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A method of controlling a foldable display device including a flexible substrate and a display layer, having a foldable display portion connecting a first display portion and a second display portion of the display layer, includes providing a first predetermined angle, sensing a folding angle between the first display portion and the second display portion of the display layer, comparing the folding angle with the first predetermined angle, providing a first display status of the foldable display device when the folding angle is less than the first predetermined angle, and providing a second display status of the foldable display device when the folding angle is equal to or greater than the first predetermined angle, wherein the first display status is a turn-off status, and the second display status is a turn-on status, and the flexible substrate has a plurality of openings. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183339 | USE OF A DISPLAY OF A CONVERTER, METHOD FOR OPERATING A CONVERTER, AND CONVERTER - In the use of a display of a converter, method for operating a converter, and converter, the converter having an address code switch, in particular on its housing, and in an actuation of the address code switch and during a subsequent, predefined period of time, a respective value corresponding to the respective switch position of the address code switch is displayed by the display. Operating information of the converter is displayed in all other cases. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183340 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING TEXT CONTENT, AND ASSOCIATED DEVICE AND PROGRAMS - A method for displaying graphical content in a playback device, the graphical content being displayed and erased periodically on the display device according to successive cycles that take place at a predetermined frequency (Fd) and in that the successive display periods each have a duration (T1) comprised in an interval of values ranging from 15 to 30% of the duration (T) of the cycles that have taken place. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183341 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND DISPLAY SYSTEM - A display control device for use with a display device, including an image pre-processor configured to divide, based on an identification of a gaze region in a screen of the display device, an original image into a target area corresponding to the gaze region and a non-target area other than the target area, the image pre-processor being further configured to perform pre-processing on the non-target area, the pre-processing comprising reducing a resolution of the non-target area; and a communication interface configured to transmit the target area and the pre-processed non-target area to the display device for display at the gaze region and a region other than the gaze region in the screen, respectively. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183342 | DISPLAY SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND DISPLAY METHOD - A display system including a PC and an HMD, and in the display system, the PC includes an I/F unit configured to output image data, the HMD includes an I/F unit configured to acquire the image data output by the PC, an image display unit configured to superimpose an image on an outside scene visually recognized in a state where the HMD is worn, and to display the image, and a display controller configured to cause the image display unit to display the image data acquired by the I/F unit, and the display controller causes the image display unit to display the image data in correspondence to a position of the PC visually recognized as an outside scene. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183343 | Content Stabilization for Head-Mounted Displays - A head-mounted device may include a processor configured to receive information from a sensor that is indicative of a position of the head-mounted device relative to a reference point on a face of a user; and adjust a rendering of an item of virtual content based on the position or a change in the position of the device relative to the face. The sensor may be distance sensor, and the processor may be configured to adjust the rendering of the item of virtual content based a measured distance or change of distance between the head-mounted device and the point of reference on the user's face. The point of reference on the user's face may be one or both of the user's eyes. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183344 | Offset Guitar - An acoustic guitar top includes a sound hole or holes, a neck end that is configured for attachment to a guitar neck with a longitudinal axis, a heel end, a transverse axis normal to the longitudinal axis, a bridge structure for attaching strings to the guitar body, and a bottom surface comprising a bridge plate. The locations of the neck attachment, and the bridge are translated away from the geographic centerline of the guitar toward the treble side of the instrument. The bottom surface of the guitar top includes finger braces of varying length to transmit vibrations from specific areas on the bridge plate of the guitar to specific areas of the guitar top. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183345 | PORTABLE DEVICE TO LIMIT UNWANTED MOVEMENT OF DRUMS AND OTHER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS - A portable musical instrument blocking device ( | 2021-06-17 |
20210183346 | SETTING DEVICE, OPERATING ELEMENT AND SETTING METHOD - A setting device includes an operating element and a light-emitting device. The operating element is used for specifying a setting value of a first parameter by moving the operating element within a first region. The light-emitting device includes a second region that is disposed inside the first region. The second region includes a light-emitting area that changes according to the setting value. The operating element covers part of the second region. The operating element is an operating element for specifying a setting value of a first parameter related to sound by moving the operating element relative to a housing. The operating element includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion blocks light. The second portion transmits light from a first surface of the operating element to a second surface facing the first surface. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183347 | PLATES AND PLATE ASSEMBLIES FOR NOISE ATTENUATORS AND OTHER DEVICES AND METHODS MAKING THE SAME - Plates and plate assemblies for noise attenuators and other devices and methods of making the same are described herein. An example disc-shaped plate described herein includes a plurality of sector-shaped plates that have openings defining flow paths. Each of the plurality of sector-shaped plates has a first radial edge forming a first mating feature and a second radial edge forming a second mating feature that is complementary to the first mating feature such that, when the plurality of sector-shaped plates are arranged together, the first mating feature of each of the plurality of sector-shaped plates mates with the second mating feature of an adjacent one of the plurality of sector-shaped plates. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183348 | PLATES AND PLATE ASSEMBLIES FOR NOISE ATTENUATORS AND OTHER DEVICES AND METHODS MAKING THE SAME - Plates and plate assemblies for noise attenuators and other devices and methods of making the same are described herein. An example plate assembly includes a support frame to be coupled to a body of the noise attenuator. The support frame has a plurality of radially extending ribs. The plate assembly also includes a disc-shaped plate having a plurality of openings forming flow paths to attenuate noise. The disc-shaped plate is coupled to the support frame such that pressure-induced loads on the disc-shaped plate are distributed to the plurality of radially extending ribs of the support frame. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183349 | REFRACTORY CORE WITH ENHANCED ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES - The disclosure is directed at a refractory core using insulators and noise dampening for use in an exhaust stack. The refractory core includes a framework that includes a plurality of spears that are used to hold insulation segments in place within the framework. The insulation segments includes noise-dampening slots. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183350 | Noise Insulation Material For Automobile - A sound-insulation material for a vehicle has high rigidity and is capable of exhibiting sufficient sound insulation performance against noise having a frequency of 500 Hz to 5000 Hz generated in a vehicle, while maintaining low weight. The sound-insulation material for a vehicle of the present invention has a multilayer structure, the material including: a hard layer having tubular cells, the tubular cells being arranged in a plurality of rows; and a soft layer provided on one surface of the hard layer, in which a ratio of a dynamic spring constant Kd to a static spring constant Ks, of a structure having the hard layer and the soft layer, is 02021-06-17 | |
20210183351 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE, TERMINAL AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A method for processing audio signal includes that: audio signals emitted respectively from at least two sound sources are acquired through at least two microphones to obtain respective original noisy signals of the at least two microphones; sound source separation is performed on the respective original noisy signals of the at least two microphones to obtain respective time-frequency estimated signals of the at least two sound sources; a mask value of the time-frequency estimated signal of each sound source in the original noisy signal of each microphone is determined based on the respective time-frequency estimated signals; the respective time-frequency estimated signals of the at least two sound sources are updated based on the respective original noisy signals of the at least two microphones and the mask values; and the audio signals emitted respectively from the at least two sound sources are determined. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183352 | ACOUSTIC TRANSFER FUNCTION PERSONALIZATION USING SOUND SCENE ANALYSIS AND BEAMFORMING - An audio system for a wearable device dynamically updates acoustic transfer functions. The audio system is configured to estimate a direction of arrival (DoA) of each sound source detected by a microphone array relative to a position of the wearable device within a local area. The audio system may track the movement of each sound source. The audio system may form a beam in the direction of each sound source. The audio system may identify and classify each sound source based on the sound source properties. Based on the DoA estimates, the movement tracking, and the beamforming, the audio system generates or updates the acoustic transfer functions for the sound sources. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183353 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NOISE CONTROL - A system for reducing noise for a user includes a first detector configured to generate a first noise signal, wherein the first noise signal is a representation of a first noise that is transmitted to the user through a first sound pathway, and a second detector configured to generate a second noise signal, wherein the second noise signal indicates a second noise perceived by the user. The system also includes a processor configured to determine a noise correction signal based on the first noise signal and/or the second noise signal, and a speaker configured to generate a sound for reducing the noise based on the noise correction signal. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183354 | DEVICE FOR GENERATING ACOUSTIC COMPENSATION SIGNALS - The invention relates to a device for generating acoustic compensation signals, which serve to compensate acoustic signals that result from the operation of a motor-vehicle drive unit, said device comprising: a signal-generating apparatus, which is designed to generate acoustic compensation signals, which serve to compensate acoustic signals that result from the operation of a motor-vehicle drive unit, a control apparatus, which is associated with the signal-generating apparatus and which is designed to control the operation of the signal-generating apparatus, a determination apparatus, which is associated with the control apparatus and which is designed to determine the propagation direction of acoustic signals and to generate direction information describing the determined propagation direction of the acoustic signals in question, the control apparatus being designed to control the operation of the signal-generating apparatus on the basis of corresponding direction information. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183355 | Audio playback apparatus and method having noise-canceling mechanism - The present disclosure discloses an audio playback apparatus having noise-canceling mechanism that includes a sound receiving circuit, a storage circuit, a filter control circuit, a filter circuit and an audio playback circuit. The sound receiving circuit receives received audio signal including noise. The storage circuit stores filter parameters. The filter control circuit includes a noise estimation circuit, a noise distribution determination circuit and a parameter generation circuit. The noise estimation circuit receives the received audio signal and calculates a stationary noise power spectrum density of the noise such that the noise distribution determination circuit determines a noise spectrum distribution accordingly. The parameter generation circuit analyses the noise spectrum distribution and retrieves a group of selected filter parameters accordingly. The filter circuit filters the received sound signal according to the group of selected filter parameters to generate an anti-noise audio signal. The audio playback circuit playbacks an actual audio signal and the anti-noise audio signal simultaneously. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183356 | ACOUSTIC OBJECT EXTRACTION DEVICE AND ACOUSTIC OBJECT EXTRACTION METHOD - In the acoustic object extraction device, beam forming processing units generate a first acoustic signal by beam forming in an arrival direction of a signal from an acoustic object with respect to a microphone array and generate a second acoustic signal by beam forming in an arrival direction of a signal from the acoustic object with respect to a microphone array, and a common component extraction unit extracts, on the basis of a similarity between the spectrum of the first acoustic signal and the spectrum of the second acoustic signal and from the first acoustic signal and the second acoustic signal, a signal containing a common component corresponding to the acoustic object. The common component extraction unit divides the spectrums of the first acoustic signal and the second acoustic signal into a plurality of frequency sections and calculates a similarity for each of the frequency sections. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183357 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING A MODAL PROCESSOR - The implementation of modal processors, which involve the parallel combination resonant filters, may be costly for applications such as artificial reverberation that can require thousands of modes. In one embodiment, the input signal is decomposed into a plurality of subbands, the outputs of which are downsampled. In each downsampled band, resonant filters are applied at the downsampled sampling rate, and their output is upsampled and filtered to form the band output. In these and other embodiments, a feature of responses of the mode filters have been optimized to minimize an aspect of a residual error after a point in time. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183358 | SPEECH PROCESSING - A first neural network model of a user device processes audio data to extract audio embeddings that represent vocal characteristics of a user of an utterance represented in the audio data. The audio embeddings may then be hashed to remove characteristics specific to the user while still maintaining a unique set of characteristics. The hashed embeddings may be sent to a remote system, which may use them to identify the user. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183359 | ROBOT, AND SPEECH GENERATION PROGRAM - The present application provides a robot that a user feels more strongly to be a living being. A robot includes a speech generating unit that generates speech and a speech output unit that outputs the generated speech. The robot outputs speech generated by the robot rather than outputting speech prepared in advance. Because of this, speech that is in accordance with sensor information can be generated and output, or speech unique to the robot can be generated and output. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183360 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED COMMUNICATION WITH AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL - Systems and methods for automated communication with Air Traffic Control. The system comprises a processor and memory. The memory stores instructions to execute a method. The method includes receiving audio communication input from an air traffic controller (ATC). The audio communication input is then converted into text input. Next, an aircraft keyword is detected in the text input. The text input is then parsed and one or more data structures are generated from the parsed input. In some examples, the one or more data structures includes command data for controlling the aircraft. Next, the command data in the one or more data structures is verified. The one or more data structures are then transmitted to an onboard flight computer of the aircraft. Last, the one or more data structures are stored in a conversation memory. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183361 | UNAMBIGUOUS PHONICS SYSTEM - An unambiguous phonics system (UPS) is capable of presenting text in a format with unambiguous pronunciation. The system can translate input text written in a given language (e.g., English) into a UPS representation of the text written in a UPS alphabet. A unique UPS grapheme can be used to represent each unique grapheme-phoneme combination in the input text. Thus, each letter of the input text is represented in the UPS spelling and each letter of the UPS spelling unambiguously indicates the phoneme used. For all the various grapheme-phoneme combinations for a given input grapheme, the corresponding UPS graphemes can be constructed to have visual similarity with the given input grapheme, thus easing an eventual transition from UPS spelling to traditional spelling. The UPS can include translation, complexity scoring, word/phoneme-grapheme searching, and other module. The UPS can also include techniques to provide efficient, level-based training of the UPS alphabet. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183362 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing device includes processing circuitry to acquire a signal representing voices corresponding to utterances made by one or more users; recognize the voices from the signal, convert the recognized voices into character strings to identify the utterances, and identify times corresponding to the utterances; identify users who have made the utterances, as speakers from among the users; store information including records indicating the utterances, the times corresponding to the utterances, and the speakers corresponding to the utterances; estimate meanings of the utterances; refer to the information and when a last utterance of the utterances and one or more of the utterances immediately preceding the last utterance are not a conversation, determine that the last utterance is a voice command for controlling a target; and when it is determined that the last utterance is the voice command, control the target in accordance with the meaning of the last utterance. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183363 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A HEARING SYSTEM AND HEARING SYSTEM - A method for operating a hearing system having a hearing aid and a mobile device includes using at least one microphone of the hearing aid to record and convert sound signals into associated electrical microphone signals. The microphone signals are checked for the presence of speech components. Existing speech components are examined by using voice recognition and a voice profile thus recognized is assigned to a specific speaker. The mobile device is used to obtain additional information about the specific speaker that goes beyond personal information and the information is presented to a user of the hearing system. A hearing system for performing the method is also provided. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183364 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING PERFORMANCE OF VOICE RECOGNITION MODEL IN USER ENVIRONMENT - Provided is an artificial intelligence apparatus for predicting a performance of a voice recognition model in a user environment including: a memory configured to store a performance prediction model; and a processor configured to: obtain first controlled environment data including first controlled environment factors corresponding to a first controlled voice recognition environment and a first controlled voice recognition performance of a target voice recognition model in the first controlled voice recognition environment; obtain first user environment factors corresponding to a first user environment, in which the performance is to be predicted; predict, using the performance prediction model, a first user voice recognition performance of the target voice recognition model in the first user voice recognition environment from the obtained first controlled environment data and the first user environment factors; and output the predicted first user voice recognition performance. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183365 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING CREATION OF RECEPTION HISTORY, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention makes it possible to efficiently create an appropriate dialogue history. This device for supporting creation of dialogue history ( | 2021-06-17 |
20210183366 | SPEECH RECOGNITION THROUGH DISAMBIGUATION FEEDBACK - A request including audio data is received from a voice-enabled device. A string of phonemes present in the utterance is determined through speech recognition. At a later time, a subsequent user input corresponding to the request may be received, in which the user input is associated with one or more text keywords. The subsequent user input may be obtained in response to an active request. Alternatively, feedback may not be actively elicited, but rather collected passively. However it is obtained, the one or more keywords associated with the subsequent user input may be associated with the string of phonemes to indicate that the user is saying or mean those words when they product that string of phonemes. A user-specific speech recognition key for the user account is then updated to associate the string of phonemes with these words. A general speech recognition model can also be trained using the association. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183367 | Training Keyword Spotters - A method of training a custom hotword model includes receiving a first set of training audio samples. The method also includes generating, using a speech embedding model configured to receive the first set of training audio samples as input, a corresponding hotword embedding representative of a custom hotword for each training audio sample of the first set of training audio samples. The speech embedding model is pre-trained on a different set of training audio samples with a greater number of training audio samples than the first set of training audio samples. The method further includes training the custom hotword model to detect a presence of the custom hotword in audio data. The custom hotword model is configured to receive, as input, each corresponding hotword embedding and to classify, as output, each corresponding hotword embedding as corresponding to the custom hotword. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183368 | LEARNING DATA GENERATION DEVICE, LEARNING DATA GENERATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Learning data is generated automatically without manually applying rules. An acoustic model learning data generation device | 2021-06-17 |
20210183369 | LEARNING DATA GENERATION DEVICE, LEARNING DATA GENERATION METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - To improve prediction accuracy of utterance types in a dialog. A learning data generation device ( | 2021-06-17 |
20210183370 | WAKE WORD BASED ON ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS - A sound-enabled detection system responds to a wakeup sound, and notifies a central server. Based on which wakeup sound is detected; the system's configuration is modified accordingly. More particularly, at least one sensor in the system has its wakeup sound reconfigured to “wake up” upon detection of a second wakeup sound when the first wakeup sound is detected. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183371 | INTERACTION METHOD, DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND OPERATING SYSTEM - A method including in response to voice information, acquiring a response object to which corresponding voice information is registered and which occupies an interactive medium; and informing the response object to respond to the voice information. The technical solution enables an operating system to automatically determine a response object responding to voice information triggered by a user from numerous response objects in view of voice information registered at each response object and the occupation of interactive media by each response object. The technical solution removes the restriction that a user must speak a wakening phrase to activate a required response object each time before speaking voice information. Thus, a user only needs to speak short voice information that shows the intention for use thereof during a process of using a certain response object, thereby improving the convenience of a user performing voice interaction. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183372 | MASKING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Term masking is performed by generating a time-alignment value for a plurality of identifiable units of sound in vocal audio content contained in a mixed audio track, force-aligning each of the plurality of identifiable units of sound to the vocal audio content based on the time-alignment value, thereby generating a plurality of force-aligned identifiable units of sound, identifying from the plurality of force-aligned identifiable units of sound a force-aligned identifiable unit of sound to be muddled, and audio muddling the force-aligned identifiable unit of sound to be muddled. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183373 | System and Method for Streaming end-to-end Speech Recognition with Asynchronous Decoders - A speech recognition system successively processes each encoder state of encoded acoustic features with a frame-synchronous decoder (FSD) and label-synchronous decoder (LSD) modules. Upon identifying an encoder state carrying information about new transcription output, the system expands a current list of FSD prefixes with FSD module, evaluates the FSD prefixes with LSD module, and prunes the FSD prefixes according to joint FSD and LSD scores. FSD and LSD modules are synchronized by having LSD module to process the portion of the encoder states including new transcription output identified by the FSD module and to produce LSD scores for the FSD prefixes determined by the FSD module. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183374 | COMMUNICATION OF TRANSCRIPTIONS - A method may include obtaining audio originating at a remote device during a communication session conducted between a first device and the remote device and obtaining a transcription of the audio. The method may also include processing the audio to generate processed audio. In some embodiments, the audio may be processed by a neural network that is trained with respect to an analog voice network and the processed audio may be formatted with respect to communication over the analog voice network. The method may further include processing the transcription to generate a processed transcription that is formatted with respect to communication over the analog voice network and multiplexing the processed audio with the processed transcription to obtain combined data. The method may also include communicating, to the first device during the communication session, the combined data over a same communication channel of the analog voice network. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183375 | METHOD FOR GENERATING ACOUSTIC MODEL - A method for generating an acoustic model is disclosed. The method can generate the acoustic model with high accuracy through learning data including various dialects by training the acoustic model using text data, to which regional information is tagged, and changing a parameter of the acoustic model based on the tagged regional information. The acoustic model can be associated with an artificial intelligence module, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, devices related to 5G services, and the like. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183376 | SPEECH RECOGNITION USING NEURAL NETWORKS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech recognition using neural networks. A feature vector that models audio characteristics of a portion of an utterance is received. Data indicative of latent variables of multivariate factor analysis is received. The feature vector and the data indicative of the latent variables is provided as input to a neural network. A candidate transcription for the utterance is determined based on at least an output of the neural network. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183377 | SPEAKER RECOGNITION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A speaker recognition method and apparatus receives a first voice signal of a speaker, generates a second voice signal by enhancing the first voice signal through speech enhancement, generates a multi-channel voice signal by associating the first voice signal with the second voice signal, and recognizes the speaker based on the multi-channel voice signal. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183378 | DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENT OF STORY TIME SPECIAL EFFECTS BASED ON CONTEXTUAL DATA - The disclosure provides technology for enabling a computing device to provide context sensitive special effects that supplement a text source as it is read aloud. An example method includes receiving, by a processing device, audio data comprising a spoken word of a user, analyzing contextual data associated with the user, determining a match between the audio data and data of a text source; and initiating a physical effect in response to the determining the match, wherein the physical effect corresponds to the text source and is based on the contextual data. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183379 | DETECTION OF STORY READER PROGRESS FOR PRE-CACHING SPECIAL EFFECTS - The disclosure provides technology for enhancing the ability of a computing device to conserve computing resources while providing special effects that are aligned with a text source being read aloud. An example method includes identifying effects data for a text source, wherein the effects data correlates a physical effect with an audible action of a user; receiving audio data comprising a plurality of audible actions, wherein at least one of the plurality of audible actions comprises a spoken word of the text source; determining, by a processing device, a triggering condition based on the effects data and the text source; responsive to satisfying the triggering condition, loading content for the physical effect, wherein the triggering condition is satisfied prior to the occurrence of the audible action; and providing the physical effect to modify an environment of the user. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183380 | Keyword Spotting Using Machine Learning - A system and method of keyword spotting using two neural networks is disclosed. The system is in sleep mode most of the time, and wakes up periodically. Upon waking, a limited duration of audio is examined. This may be performed using an auxiliary neural network. If any audio activity is detected in this duration, the system fully wakes and examines a longer duration of audio for keywords. The keyword spotting is also performed by the main neural network, which may be a convolutional neural network (CNN). | 2021-06-17 |
20210183381 | DEPICTING CHARACTER DIALOGUE WITHIN ELECTRONIC TEXT - A computer-implemented method for depicting character dialogue within a story. The computer-implemented method includes identifying dialogue between one or more characters in the story using one or more natural langue processing techniques. The computer-implemented method further includes creating a knowledge graph, wherein the knowledge graph comprises each of the one or more characters in the story, a relationship between each of the one or more characters in the story, and a role for each of the one or more characters in the story. The computer-implemented method further includes depicting the dialogue between the one or more characters, based on one or more characteristics of the one or more characters during the dialogue. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183382 | METHOD FOR ASSISTING IN ADJUSTING THE DIMENSIONS OF AN INDUSTRIAL MACHINE, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM - A method for assisting in adjusting the dimensions of an industrial machine, the machine being driven by an operator provided with a portable device that is provided with a microphone and with a speaker, the device being connected to a remote server hosting a database and software means, comprises the following steps: The operator transmits, via the microphone, a voice request for assistance in relation to a step in a procedure for adjusting the dimensions of the machine, the request is analysed by voice recognition means, on the basis of the request, a set of data relevant to the step to be performed is selected from the database, the relevant data are converted into an audio signal understandable to the operator, via voice synthesis means, and the audio signal is transmitted to the operator via the speaker. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183383 | Machine Learning for Interpretation of Subvocalizations - Provided is an in-ear device and associated computational support system that leverages machine learning to interpret sensor data descriptive of one or more in-ear phenomena during subvocalization by the user. An electronic device can receive sensor data generated by at least one sensor at least partially positioned within an ear of a user, wherein the sensor data was generated by the at least one sensor concurrently with the user subvocalizing a subvocalized utterance. The electronic device can then process the sensor data with a machine-learned subvocalization interpretation model to generate an interpretation of the subvocalized utterance as an output of the machine-learned subvocalization interpretation model. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183384 | METHOD AND AN EQUIPMENT FOR CONFIGURING A SERVICE - An equipment and a method for configuring a service on an equipment. A method includes receiving a first voice input from a user to configure an equipment with a service. The equipment is configured with a voice-bot to interact with the user. The method also includes validating the first voice input, initiating configuration of the service and outputting a first voice response based on the validation of the first voice input. The method includes receiving a second voice input from the user in response to the first voice response and validating the second voice input. The method includes outputting a second voice response based on the validation of the second voice input and configuring the service on the equipment based on the voice inputs from the user. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183385 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device including a speaker; a microphone; a memory configured to store a voice recognition model; and a processor configured to: identify, while a first sound signal is input through the microphone, whether a wake-up word is included in a second sound signal that is output through the speaker by inputting the second sound signal into a wake-up word detection model, and identify, based on identifying that the wake-up word is not included in the second sound signal, whether the wake-up word is included in the first sound signal by inputting the first sound signal into the wake-up word detection model. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183386 | Voice Interaction Method and Apparatus, Terminal, and Storage Medium - A voice interaction method, where a service type set on which a user has a voice interaction intention is predicted based on a target event that can trigger voice interaction, and when a service type of a first service expressed by a voice instruction is a target service type in the service type set, the first service is executed. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183387 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND STORAGE MEDIA FOR PERFORMING ACTIONS IN RESPONSE TO A DETERMINED SPOKEN COMMAND OF A USER - Systems, methods, and storage media for performing actions in response to a determined spoken command of a user are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: output audio information representing sounds within audible range of a mobile client computing platform in an ongoing manner; cause the audio information to be wirelessly transmitted over a network; receive the audio information transmitted from the mobile client computing platform; perform speech recognition on the audio information to identify any spoken instances of a predetermined keyword; responsive to identification of a spoken instance of the predetermined keyword, identify a spoken command in speech temporally adjacent to the spoken instance of the predetermined keyword that is present in the sounds represented by the audio information; and effectuate transmission of instructions corresponding to the spoken command to the wireless transmitter of the mobile client computing platform to cause the mobile client computing platform to execute the spoken command. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183388 | VOICE RECOGNITION METHOD AND DEVICE, PHOTOGRAPHING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A voice recognition method includes obtaining a voice command inputted by a user for performing a voice control of a terminal device; determining an operation state of the terminal device; determining a target voice recognition model corresponding to the operation state; and recognizing the voice command using the target voice recognition model. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183389 | ASYNCHRONOUS VIRTUAL ASSISTANT - Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining an input, e.g., from a human operator, comprising a request. A number of activities are identified, e.g., by a virtual assistant, based on the request. Performance of the number of activities is facilitated, e.g., by the virtual assistant. A result is determined, e.g., by the virtual assistant, based on the performance of the number of activities, wherein a response to the request is based on the result. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183390 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING AUDIBLE ALERTS - Systems, devices and methods for delivering audible alerts are described. In one aspect, an event for generating an audible alert for a user is detected. In response to detection of the event for generating the audible alert, it is determined whether an authorized audible interface device is within a threshold distance of the user based on a location of the user and a location of one or more authorized audible interface devices. In response to determining that an audible interface device is within the threshold distance of the user, alert instructions for the audible interface device are generated. The alert instructions cause the audible interface device to generate the audible alert in accordance with alert data provided in the alert instructions. The alert instructions are sent to the audible interface device over a wireless network via a communication module. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183391 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR RECOGNIZING SPEECH USING DEPTH INFORMATION - In an embodiment, a method includes receiving a plurality of first images including at least a mouth-related portion of a human speaking an utterance, wherein each first image has depth information; extracting a plurality of viseme features using the first images, wherein one of the viseme features is obtained using depth information of a tongue of the human in the depth information of a first image of the first images; determining a sequence of words corresponding to the utterance using the viseme features, wherein the sequence of words comprises at least one word; and outputting, by a human-machine interface (HMI) outputting module, a response using the sequence of words. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183392 | PHONEME-BASED NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING - A natural language processing method and apparatus are disclosed. A natural language processing method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes extracting a phoneme string from a text corpus labeled with recognition information including at least one of one named entity (NE) or speech intention, generating a phoneme-based training data set by labeling the recognition information in the extracted phoneme string, and generating an artificial neural network-based learning model (LM) using the generated training data set. The natural language processing method of the present disclosure may be associated with an artificial intelligence module, a drone (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, UAV), a robot, an AR (Augmented Reality) device, a VR (Virtual Reality) device, a device associated with 5G services, etc. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183393 | HUB DEVICE, MULTI-DEVICE SYSTEM INCLUDING THE HUB DEVICE AND PLURALITY OF DEVICES, AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A hub device, a multi-device system including the hub device, and a method of operating the same may include: converting, by the hub device, received voice input into text; identifying, by the hub device, a device capable of performing an operation corresponding to the text; identifying which device stores a function determination model corresponding to the device capable of performing the operation corresponding to the text, from among the hub device, and a plurality of other devices connected to the hub device; and based on the identified device that stores the function determination model being a device that is different from the hub device, transmitting at least part of the text to the identified device. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183394 | Fault detection and management in a real-time communication - Electronic conferences are a common method of conducting a meeting when the participants are not at the same location. When a conference drops a portion of the audio, such carrying speech from a speaker, participants may be excluded from the full content of the conference. By having a device associated with a speaking participant convey both audio and generated text from the speech provided by the speaking participant, a server may be able to determine that speech is missing from the audio portion and automatically insert text content. As a result, poor audio quality may be mitigated with text and omitting unwanted text when the audio quality is sufficient. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183395 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY DIARISING A SOUND RECORDING - Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for performing automatic diarisation of sound recordings including speech from one more speakers. The automatic diarisation has a development or training phase and a utilisation or evaluation phase. In the development or training phase background models and hyperparameters are generated from already annotated sound recordings. These models and hyperparameters are applied during the evaluation or utilisation phase to diarise new or not previously diarised or annotated recordings. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183396 | VOICE PROCESSING - A method including searching, on the basis of a voiceprint feature of a speaker, for an identifier of the speaker in a speaker registry, the voiceprint feature of the speaker being a parameter obtained according to a voice signal of the speaker captured by a microphone array; if position information corresponding to the identifier of the speaker in the speaker registry is different from position information of the speaker, updating the speaker registry, the position information of the speaker being a parameter obtained according to the voice signal of the speaker captured by the microphone array; and labeling the voice signal of the speaker with the identifier of the speaker, so as to track the speaker. The present disclosure enables voice tracking of multiple persons. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183397 | Multiple Wake Words for Systems with Multiple Smart Assistants - In one embodiment, a method includes by a client system associated with a user, receiving, at the client system, a user input from the user, parsing, by the client system, the first user input to identify a request to execute a function to be performed by an assistant system of several assistant systems associated with the client system, determining whether the user is authorized to access the assistant system by comparing a voiceprint of the user to several voiceprints stored on the client system, sending, from the client system to the assistant system in response to determining the user is authorized to access the assistant system, a request to set an assistant xbot of the assistant system into a listening mode, and receiving, at the client system from the assistant system, an indication that the assistant xbot is in listening mode. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183398 | INTER-CHANNEL ENCODING AND DECODING OF MULTIPLE HIGH-BAND AUDIO SIGNALS - A device includes an encoder configured to generate a first high-band portion of a first signal based on a left signal and a right signal. The encoder is also configured to generate a set of adjustment gain parameters based on a high-band non-reference signal and a synthesized signal. The high-band non-reference signal corresponds to one of a left high-band portion of the left signal or a right high-band portion of the right signal. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183399 | WATERMARKING WITH PHASE SHIFTING - Apparatus, devices, systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for watermarking with phase shifting. An example watermark decoding apparatus includes a component detector to identify watermark components in a media signal and detect phases of the respective ones of the watermark components in the media signal. The example apparatus also includes a phase reference determiner to identify a phase reference for the watermark components. The example apparatus also includes a phase comparator to perform comparisons of the phases of the respective ones of the watermark components with the phase reference. The example apparatus also includes a phase shift determiner to determine phase shifts associated with respective ones of the watermark components based on the comparisons. In addition, the example apparatus also includes a symbol determiner to determine a symbol based on the phase shifts. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183400 | AUDITORY STYLUS SYSTEM - A speech enhancement system including an auditory stylus and optionally one or both of an earpiece and communication device. The auditory stylus, by itself and/or in cooperation with one or both of earpiece or communication device, provide users with multiple operating mode functions that can enhance the users' ability to understand speech and other sound. Embodiments may operate in one or more of an original speech mode, filtered speech mode, transcription mode or translation mode. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183401 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUDIO SOURCE SEPARATION VIA MULTI-SCALE FEATURE LEARNING - Various embodiments of a system and methods for audio source separation via multi-scale feature learning are disclosed. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183402 | ADAPTIVE SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY CONTROL FOR SPEECH PRIVACY - In some examples, adaptive speech intelligibility control for speech privacy may include determining, based on background noise at a near-end of a speaker, a noise estimate associated with speech emitted from the speaker, and comparing, by using a specified factor, the noise estimate to a speech level estimate for the speech emitted from the speaker. Adaptive speech intelligibility control for speech privacy may further include determining, based on the comparison, a gain value to be applied to the speaker to produce the speech at a specified level to maintain on-axis intelligibility with respect to the speaker, and applying the gain value to the speaker. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183403 | FREQUENCY EXTRACTION METHOD USING DJ TRANSFORM - A method, of which each step is performed by a computer, for extracting a frequency of an input sound according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises the steps of: modeling a plurality of springs which have natural frequencies different from each other and oscillate according to an input sound; calculating transient-state-pure-tone amplitudes of the plurality of modeled springs; calculating expected steady-state amplitudes of the plurality of modeled springs; calculating predicted pure-tone amplitudes based on the expected steady-state amplitudes; calculating filtered pure-tone amplitudes by multiplying the transient-state-pure-tone amplitudes with the predicted pure-tone amplitudes ; and extracting the natural frequency of the spring which corresponds to a local maximum value among the filtered pure-tone amplitudes. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183404 | USING CLOSED CAPTIONS AS PARALLEL TRAINING DATA FOR CUSTOMIZATION OF CLOSED CAPTIONING SYSTEMS - Method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for customizing an automatic closed captioning system. In some embodiments, at a data use (DU) location, an automatic closed captioning system that includes a base model is provided, search criteria are defined to request from one or more data collection (DC) locations, a search request based on the search criteria is sent to the one or more DC locations, relevant closed caption data from the one or more DC locations are received responsive to the search request, the received relevant closed caption data are processed by computing a confidence score for each of a plurality of data sub-sets of the received relevant closed caption data and selecting one or more of the data sub-sets based on the confidence scores, and the automatic closed captioning system is customized by using the selected one or more data sub-sets to train the base model. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183405 | Audio Playout Report for Ride-Sharing Session - In one aspect, an example method to be performed by a computing device includes (a) determining that a ride-sharing session is active; (b) in response to determining the ride-sharing session is active, using a microphone of the computing device to capture audio content; (c) identifying reference audio content that has at least a threshold extent of similarity with the captured audio content; (d) determining that the ride-sharing session is inactive; and (e) outputting an indication of the identified reference audio content. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183406 | EMBEDDED AUDIO SENSOR SYSTEM AND METHODS - An embedded sensor can include an audio detector, a digital signal processor, a library, and a rules engine. The digital signal processor can be configured to receive signals from the audio detector and to identify the environment in which the embedded sensor is located. The library can store statistical models associated with specific environments, and the digital signal processor can be configured identify specific events based on detected sounds within the particular environment by utilizing the statistical model associated with the particular environment. The DSP can associate a probability of accuracy for the identified audible event. A rules engine can be configured to receive the probability and transmit a report of the detected audible event. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183407 | DIRECTLY PRINTABLE IMAGE RECORDING MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF - The present invention belongs to the field of functional materials, and particularly relates to a directly printable image recording material, a preparation method and application thereof. The image recording material comprises 25 to 78.8 parts by mass of a photopolymerizable monomer, 0.2 to 5 parts by mass of a photoinitiator, 20 to 70 parts by mass of an inert component, and 0.05 to 2 parts by mass of a thermal polymerization inhibitor, and has an initial viscosity of 200 to 800 mPa·s. The photopolymerizable monomer includes a thiol monomer and an olefin monomer, at least one of which is a silicon-based monomer with polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane as a silicon core. By introducing a POSS-based thiol or olefin monomer into the photopolymerizable monomer in combination with other material components, the recording material is allowed to have an initial viscosity of 200 to 800 mPa·s, and meanwhile, the low thermal conductivity characteristic of the POSS-based photopolymerizable monomer is utilized, so that image storage quality is ensured, continuous industrial production of the image recording material is achieved, the process cost is reduced and the production efficiency is improved. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183408 | GAPLESS VIDEO LOOPING - Techniques of playing back a looping video file involve providing multiple video codecs for decoding a video file. Each video codec performs its own decoding operation on the looping video file, resulting in multiple buffers of video frames and a buffer of audio frames. Then, as the GPU renders the ending video frames from a first buffer, it begins rendering the beginning video frames from a second buffer. In this way, the beginning of a next video cycle is already rendered for viewing by the time a current video cycle is ending. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183409 | Media Recording System - A system and method for synchronizing clocks including synchronizing a first clock to a second clock, the first clock associated with a first device, the first device associated with a first device type, the second clock associated with a second device, the second device associated with a second device type; subsequent to synchronizing the first clock to the second clock, synchronizing a third clock to the first clock, where the third clock is associated with a third device, the third device associated with the first device type; synchronizing the second clock to a fourth clock, the fourth clock associated with a fourth device, the fourth device associated with a third device type; subsequent to synchronizing the second clock to the fourth clock, resynchronizing the first clock to the second clock; and subsequent to resynchronizing the first clock to the second clock, resynchronizing the third clock to the first clock. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183410 | IMPROVED MEMORY MODULE THAT CONSERVES MOTHERBOARD WIRING SPACE - An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a module to plug-into a printed circuit board. The module has a connector along a center axis of the module. The module further has a first semiconductor chip disposed in a first region of the module that resides between an edge of the module and a side of the connector. The module has a second semiconductor chip disposed in a second region of the module that resides between an opposite edge of the module and an opposite side of the connector. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183411 | MEMORY ARRAY WITH ACCESS LINE CONTROL - An example apparatus includes an array of memory cells. Each memory cell includes an access device. Each access device includes a first source/drain region, a second source/drain region, and a gate opposing a channel connecting the first source/drain region and the second source/drain region. Each access device further includes a storage node. The example apparatus further includes a plurality of sense lines coupled to the first source/drain region of a different respective memory cell of the array of memory cells. The example apparatus further includes a plurality of access lines, wherein each access line includes at least one conductive pathway formed between the access line and a source/drain region of an access device coupled to the access line. The example apparatus further includes a shunt sense line coupled to the additional access device where the conductive pathway is formed. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183412 | MULTI-CHIP DEVICES - Some examples described herein relate to multi-chip devices. In an example, a multi-chip device includes first and second chips. The first chip includes a power supply circuit and a logic circuit. The first and second chips are coupled together. The second chip is configured to receive power from the power supply circuit. The second chip includes a programmable circuit, a pull-up circuit, and a detector circuit. The detector circuit is configured to detect a presence of a power voltage on the second chip and responsively output a presence signal. The power voltage on the second chip is based on the power from the power supply circuit. The logic circuit is configured to generate a pull-up signal based on the presence signal. The pull-up circuit is configured to receive the pull-up signal and configured to pull up a voltage of a node of the programmable circuit responsive to the pull-up signal. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183413 | MEMORY DEVICE AND MEMORY SYSTEM HAVING INPUT CIRCUIT - An input circuit includes: a buffer circuit coupled to a pad, the buffer circuit being driven by a first power voltage; a level shifter circuit coupled to an output terminal of the buffer circuit, the level shifter circuit being driven by a second power voltage; and a voltage stabilization circuit coupled to an input node of the level shifter circuit, the voltage stabilization circuit being driven by the first power voltage and the second power voltage. The voltage stabilization circuit maintains a voltage of the input node of the level shifter circuit equal to or less than a given level sufficient to keep an output signal of the level shifter circuit at a specific logic value, when a voltage level of the second power voltage is rising and a voltage level of the first power voltage is kept at a low level. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183414 | Memory Calibration During Boot - In an embodiment, a system includes an energy source and an integrated circuit that is coupled to one or more memory devices via a plurality of memory channels. A memory controller in the integrated circuit is programmable with a plurality of identifiers corresponding to the plurality of channels, and is further programmable with a command and a first identifier associated with the command. Responsive to the command, the memory controller is configured to perform one or more calibrations on a subset of the plurality of channels for which corresponding identifiers of the plurality of identifiers match the first identifier. Other ones of the plurality of channels, for which the corresponding identifiers do not match the first identifier, do not perform the calibration. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183415 | MEMORY CONTROLLER AND RELATED MEMORY - A memory controller includes a command processor. When an access command is performed by the memory controller, the command processor generates a row address information to the memory before issuing an active command to the memory. The row address information and the active command are issued by the command processor based on the access command. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183416 | CENTRALIZED PLACEMENT OF COMMAND AND ADDRESS SWAPPING IN MEMORY DEVICES - Memory devices are disclosed. A memory device may include a bonding pad region for coupling command-and-address (CA) input signals and a memory cell region for storing information in memory cells. The memory device may also include a centralized CA interface region including input circuits coupled to the CA input signals. At least two of the input circuits are configured in pairs. Each pair includes a swap circuit configured to select one of a first CA output and a second CA output for a first internal CA signal and select the other of the first CA output and the second CA output for a second internal CA signal responsive to a control signal. Memory systems and systems are also disclosed. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183417 | SEMICONDUCTOR SYSTEM AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes: a command generation circuit configured to generate a write strobe signal; a pipe control circuit configured to generate first to fourth input control signals and first to fourth output control signals which are sequentially enabled, when first and second write command pulses are inputted, and generate first to fourth internal output control signals after a preset period; and an address processing circuit configured to latch an address inputted through a command address, when the write strobe signal and the first to fourth input control signals are inputted, generate a bank group address and a column address from the latched address, when the first to fourth output control signals are inputted, and generate the bank group address and the column address by inverting the latched address, when the first to fourth internal output control signals are inputted. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183418 | BOOST BYPASS CIRCUITRY IN A MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE - The present disclosure describes various exemplary memory storage devices that can be programmed to bypass one or more memory cells in a bypass mode of operation. The various exemplary memory storage devices can adjust, for example, pull-up or pull-down, the electronic data as the electronic data passes through these exemplary memory storage devices in the bypass mode of operation. In some situations, the various exemplary memory storage devices may introduce an unwanted bias into the electronic data as the electronic data passes through these exemplary memory storage devices in the bypass mode of operation. The various exemplary memory storage devices can pull-down the electronic data and/or pull-up the electronic data as the electronic data is passing through these exemplary memory storage devices in the bypass mode of operation to compensate for this unwanted bias. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183419 | DATA OUTPUT METHOD AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE USING THE DATA OUTPUT METHOD - A semiconductor device includes a read control circuit configured to generate first and second output control signals including pulses which are selectively generated, from first and second strobe signals depending on burst information; and a data output circuit configured to latch first internal data depending on the pulse of the first output control signal, transfer second internal data at a time when the second output control signal level-transitions, and generate output data from the latched first internal data and the transferred second internal data. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183420 | CLOCK SYNCHRONIZING METHOD OF A MULTIPLE CLOCK DOMAIN MEMORY DEVICE - A memory device includes: a first clock receiver configured to receive a first clock signal; a second clock receiver configured to receive a second clock signal when data is input or output, wherein the second clock signal has a first clock frequency in a preamble period, and has a second clock frequency different from the first clock frequency after the preamble period; a command decoder configured to receive a clock synchronization command synchronized with the first clock signal and generate a clock synchronization signal, wherein the clock synchronization signal is generated during the preamble period; and a clock synchronizing circuit configured to generate a plurality of division clock signals in response to the second clock signal, latch the clock synchronization signal during the preamble period, and selectively provide the plurality of division clock signals as internal data clock signals according to a result of the latching. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183421 | DISCHARGE CURRENT MITIGATION IN A MEMORY ARRAY - Methods, systems, and devices for discharge current mitigation in a memory array are described. Access lines of a memory array may be divided into discrete segments, with each segment coupled with a driver for the access line by one or more vias respective to the segment. For example, a first segment of an access line may be coupled with a first set of memory cells, a second segment of the access line may be coupled with a second set of memory cells, and a driver may be coupled to the first segment by a first via and to the second segment by a second via. To access a memory cell in either the first set or the second, both the first segment of the access line and the second segment of the access line may be activated together by the common driver. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183422 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING WORD LINE DISCHARGE - Apparatuses and methods for controlling the discharge of subword lines are described. The rate of discharge and/or the voltage level discharged to may be controlled. In some embodiments, a main word line may be driven to multiple low potentials to control a discharge of a subword line. In some embodiments, a first word driver line signal and/or a second word driver line signal may be reset to control a discharge of a subword line. In some embodiments, a combination of driving the main word line and the first word driver line signal and/or the second word driver line signal resetting may be used to control a discharge of the subword line. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183423 | SHARED DECODER CIRCUIT AND METHOD - A circuit includes a selection circuit configured to receive a first address from a first port and a second address from a second port, a first latch circuit coupled to the selection circuit and configured to output each of the first address and the second address received from the selection circuit, a decoder, and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to generate a plurality of signals configured to cause the decoder to decode each of the first address and the second address. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183424 | ENABLE SIGNAL GENERATION CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A semiconductor apparatus includes a command decoding circuit and an enable signal generation circuit. The command decoding circuit generates an operation code and a strobe pulse based on a command signal and a clock signal. The enable signal generation circuit generates a seed signal based on the operation code and the strobe pulse and generates an enable signal by shifting the seed signal. The enable signal generation circuit generates a plurality of guard keys based on a plurality of operation codes and the strobe pulse and prevents the generation of the enable signal for a predetermined time when the plurality of guard keys are not sequentially enabled. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183425 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell including a switching element and a resistance change element. A first circuit supplies a constant current to the memory cell for an amount of time and a second circuit applies a constant voltage to the memory cell for an amount of time. The semiconductor memory device places the memory cell into an ON state by applying, while applying a first current to the memory cell by the first circuit, a first voltage to the memory cell by the second circuit and performs readout on the memory cell in the ON state by the first current. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183426 | Memory Cells and Arrays of Memory Cells - A memory cell comprises first, second, third, and fourth transistors individually comprising a transistor gate. First and second ferroelectric capacitors individually have one capacitor electrode elevationally between the transistor gates of the first, second, third, and fourth transistors. Other memory cells are disclosed, as are arrays of memory cells. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183427 | COMPENSATING CIRCUIT FOR COMPENSATING CLOCK SIGNAL AND MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A memory device includes a delay locked loop (DLL), a clock compensating circuit, and a data input/output (I/O) circuit. The DLL outputs a first clock signal and a second clock signal. The clock compensating circuit adjusts a voltage level of an output node and generates an inner clock signal based on the voltage level of the output node. The data I/O circuit outputs data to an outside based on the inner clock signal. The clock compensating circuit includes first and second pulse adjusting circuits. The first pulse adjusting circuit connected to a first output node and outputs a first adjusting current based on the first clock signal and a voltage level of the first output node. The second pulse adjusting circuit connected to a second output node and outputs a second adjusting current based on the second clock signal and a voltage level of the second output node. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183428 | Integrated Memory Assemblies Comprising Multiple Memory Array Decks - Some embodiments include an integrated memory assembly having a first memory array deck over a second memory array deck. A first series of conductive lines extends across the first memory array deck, and a second series of conductive lines extends across the second memory array deck. A first conductive line of the first series and a first conductive line of the second series are coupled with a first component through a first conductive path. A second conductive line of the first series and a second conductive line of the second series are coupled with a second component through a second conductive path. The first and second conductive lines of the first series extend through first isolation circuitry to the first and second conductive paths, respectively; and the first and second conductive lines of the second series extend through second isolation circuitry to the first and second conductive paths, respectively. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183429 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING DRIVING SIGNALS IN SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES - Apparatuses and methods for controlling driving signals are disclosed herein. Word drivers may be included in a memory device for driving hierarchical structured main word lines and subword lines. The subword lines may be driven by subword drivers that are activated by main word drivers and word drivers. In driving the word lines, driving signals are driven between an active state having an active voltage and an inactive state having an inactive voltage. The active voltage may be a voltage of a power supply and the inactive voltage may be an intermediate voltage between the active voltage and a reference voltage, such as ground. Driving the driving signals in such a manner may reduce current consumption of the memory device in some operations, for example, such as refresh operations. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183430 | STATIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY SRAM UNIT AND RELATED APPARATUS - A static random access memory SRAM unit and a related apparatus are provided, to reduce power consumption of an SRAM when the SRAM memory is accessed. The SRAM unit is located in an SRAM memory, and the SRAM memory includes an SRAM storage array including a plurality of SRAM units. The SRAM unit includes: a storage circuit, connected to each of a write circuit and a read circuit, and configured to store data; the write circuit, configured to write data into the storage circuit; and the read circuit, configured to: after a read enabling signal is valid, enable data on a read bit line connected to the SRAM unit to be the data stored in the storage circuit. | 2021-06-17 |
20210183431 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES - A semiconductor device includes a flag pipe, a pattern mode control circuit, and a data copy control circuit. The flag pipe is configured to latch a pattern mode flag, a first pattern control flag, a second pattern control flag, a data copy flag, and an enlargement data copy flag based on a pipe input control signal and output a delayed pattern mode flag, a first delayed pattern control flag, a second delayed pattern control flag, and a synthesis data copy flag based on a pipe output control signal. The pattern mode control circuit is configured to set a first data pattern or a second data pattern based on the delayed pattern mode flag, the first delayed pattern control flag, and the second delayed pattern control flag. The data copy control circuit is configured to copy data inputted through a first data pad onto a data path electrically connected to a second data pad based on the synthesis data copy flag. | 2021-06-17 |