27th week of 2022 patent applcation highlights part 49 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20220215773 | Interactive Educational Electronic Toy System - A method of providing a challenge to a user, the method including receiving a selection of a selected challenge to be presented to the user, the challenge being selected from a challenge repository, and providing the selected challenge to a projecting device. The selected challenge is processed to form a projectable challenge, which is projected onto a projection surface using the projecting device. A user interacts with the projected challenge to complete the challenge, and at least one user response to the challenge is captured by a response capturing device. The captured response is analyzed to determine whether it is a correct response to the challenge, and based on the analysis, feedback is provided to the user regarding the response or regarding a manner of responding to the challenge. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215774 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC TEXT DISPLAY - The invention is a complete electronic display solution which allows a reader/user to learn and examine unfamiliar terminology while reading and without requiring the act of accessing additional outside resources. The invention automatically systematizes data obtained during the reading process while allowing the user to customize the data displayed adjacent to unknown terms, thereby increasing the efficiency of the reader's perception of such unfamiliar words, phrases, or sentences. The display involves both simplified and advanced informative displays, modules for managing the explanatory data provided, user interactivity features within the display, and multifunctional tools and buttons. The user is therefore able to not only intensively analyze complex grammatical constructions as desired but also to enjoy reading various literature in a less familiar language, all within the area of a single device screen. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215775 | HARDWARE SOFTWARE COMPLEX FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING WITH AD SUPPORT - A network of purpose-specialized servers, databases, high-speed media delivery clusters and client systems making up a language learning system uses software-ordered methods to teach foreign language, allowing for a novel method of in-line advertising to support unpaid access by students. Reinforcements present practice problems for typed translation, multiple choice or spoken response. Advertisers can sponsor a practice problem by replacing a word in a practice problem with the advertiser's brand, product term, audio message, image or video. The advertiser's branding is seen, heard, typed and spoken by the student in appropriate language contexts and without distracting from language learning. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215776 | Language Fluency System - A computerized method and system for teaching foreign language. Users can define flashcards for study words and words in study sentences and select associated images to be shown with the flashcards during review. An improved method and system for identifying and searching for images to show is provided. Improved methods for presenting flashcards for words with multiple definitions and improved database architecture for storing flashcard data for plural users is also provided. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215777 | FABRICATION OF MICROMODELS FOR CARBONATE RESERVOIRS - A carbonate microfluidic model with controllable nanoscale porosity and methods are described. The method for fabricating a carbonate nanofluidic micromodel with controllable nanoscale porosity for studying fluid behaviors in an underground oil-reservoir environment includes: disposing a plurality of polymer spheres into a transparent flow cell; initiating crystallization of the plurality of polymer spheres to form a template with an opal structure; filling the transparent flow cell with a calcium-based solution and a carbonate-based solution to form nanocrystals in voids of the opal structure; and removing the template formed by crystallization of the plurality of polymer spheres from the transparent flow cell leaving an inverse opal structure with a plurality of nanoscale pores and a carbonate surface. The model includes: a transparent flow cell including a first end defining an inlet and a second end defining an outlet; and an inverse opal structure of carbonate inside the transparent flow cell. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215778 | TRAINING METHOD FOR EVALUATING BONDING ACCURACY OF ORTHODONTIC BRACKETS - A training method for evaluating the bonding accuracy of orthodontic brackets is provided. The evaluation method includes a training device for racket bonding accuracy evaluation which includes virtual teeth with root-shaped connectors and an evaluation base to fix the virtual teeth. Multiple reference lines are marked on the evaluation base, and their intersection is set as the evaluation point. When the virtual tooth is fixed to the evaluation base, the reference lines and the evaluation points are utilized for rapid evaluation of the bonding accuracy of the bracket. Moreover, thanks to their horizontal arrangement, when there are multiple virtual teeth, the evaluation of bracket bonding would be more intuitive and efficient than using the traditional articulator. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215779 | DRIVE MECHANISM FOR A MEDICAMENT DELIVERY TRAINING DEVICE - A drive mechanism for a medicament delivery training device is presented having a plunger rod having a proximal end and a distal end, a stopper provided on the proximal end of the plunger rod, and a container having an inner chamber, a proximal container end, and an open distal container end leading into the inner chamber, wherein the inner chamber has a distal portion and a proximal portion, wherein in an initial state of the delivery mechanism the plunger rod is axially fixedly arranged in a first position in which the stopper is arranged distally relative to the proximal portion, and the plunger rod is biased towards the proximal container end, and wherein the plunger rod is configured to be released from the first position, causing the plunger rod to move towards the proximal container end and the stopper to impact with a stopper contact surface, resulting in an initial signal, and to subsequently move into the proximal portion. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215780 | SIMULATED REALITY TECHNOLOGIES FOR ENHANCED MEDICAL PROTOCOL TRAINING - Introduced here are teaching system for realistically simulating medical situations in such a manner to test individuals as to the adequacy of their learning. A teaching system may include a manikin representative of a patient, an image projection mechanism, a simulation mechanism, a headpiece, a pair of hand coverings, a controller, a performance review mechanism, a recording device, a scenario generation mechanism, or any combination thereof. The teaching system can improve upon conventional simulation in several respects. First, the script corresponding to a simulation session may be dynamically traversed to mimic the unpredictability of an actual medical situation. Second, the action(s) of an individual may be actively monitored to discover whether her behavior complied with the relevant protocol(s). | 2022-07-07 |
20220215781 | PROJECTION APPARATUS AND PROJECTION METHOD THEREOF - A projection apparatus includes a main control circuit, a power supply, a display driving circuit, an audio playback component and a display component. The main control circuit is configured to send a first image signal to the display driving circuit. The display driving circuit is configured to receive the first image signal, and control the display component to display an image corresponding to the first image signal. The main control circuit is further configured to send a second image signal and an audio signal corresponding to the second image signal to the display driving circuit and the audio playback component, respectively. The display driving circuit is configured to receive the second image signal and control the display component to display an image corresponding to the second image signal, and the audio playback component is configured to receive the audio signal and play audio corresponding to the audio signal. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215782 | METHOD FOR GENERATING IMAGE WITH UNIFORM BRIGHTNESS - The disclosure provides a method for generating an image with uniform brightness. The method includes: providing a first sub-image having a first overlapping portion and a first non-overlapping portion; providing a second sub-image having a second overlapping portion and a second non-overlapping portion; and superimposing the first sub-image with the second sub-image through the first overlapping portion and the second overlapping portion. The brightness of the first overlapping portion of the first sub-image is complementary to the brightness of the second overlapping portion of the second sub-image. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215783 | DISPLAY DRIVER INCLUDING CRACK RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF MEASURING CRACK OF DISPLAY PANEL - A display driver including a crack resistance measurement circuit according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a crack resistance measurement circuit connected to a crack resistance circuit of a display panel to measure a crack resistance of the crack resistance circuit, wherein the crack resistance measurement circuit includes a reference resistance generation circuit configured to generate a reference resistance using at least two resistors connected in series and at least two switches connected to correspond to the at least two resistors, a comparator configured to compare a magnitude of the crack resistance with a magnitude of the reference resistance and output a resistance comparison result, and a circuit controller configured to output a reference resistance control signal for controlling the at least two switches according to the resistance comparison result. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215784 | METHOD FOR REPAIRING DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A method for repairing a display device, the display device comprising: a plurality of inorganic light emitters arrayed in a matrix (row-column configuration); and a counter electrode provided in a traveling direction of light emitted from the inorganic light emitters and coupled to the inorganic light emitters, the method comprising steps of: detecting a defective inorganic light emitter serving as one of the inorganic light emitters and having a defect; and removing a target portion of the counter electrode by irradiating the target portion with light while leaving the defective inorganic light emitter unremoved, the target portion including a portion between a portion coupled to the defective inorganic light emitter and a portion coupled to an inorganic light emitter adjacently disposed with the defective inorganic light emitter. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215785 | SCREEN DISPLAY METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE SUPPORTING SAME - Disclosed is an electronic device that includes a display that outputs display data, an antenna arranged on a display area of the display, at least one processor electrically connected to the display, and a memory electrically connected to the processor, where the memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to correct the display data based on characteristic information of the antenna when a display location of the display data overlaps an arranged location of the antenna when the instructions are executed. In addition, various embodiments that are understood through the present disclosure are possible. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215786 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display device includes a processor and a display panel for receiving observation grayscale values from the processor. The display panel includes a data driver for applying data voltages to data lines, a target pixel coupled to at least one of the data lines, and observation pixels each coupled to at least one of the data lines, and located adjacent to the target pixel. The display panel applies a first data voltage to the target pixel, when the observation grayscale values for the observation pixels exceed a reference value. The display panel applies a second data voltage to the target pixel, when at least one of the observation grayscale values does not exceed the reference value. The first data voltage and the second data voltage are different from each other. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215787 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A MULTI-PRIMARY WIDE GAMUT COLOR SYSTEM - Systems and methods for a multi-primary color system for display. A multi-primary color system increases the number of primary colors available in a color system and color system equipment. Increasing the number of primary colors reduces metameric errors from viewer to viewer. One embodiment of the multi-primary color system includes Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta primaries. The systems of the present invention maintain compatibility with existing color systems and equipment and provide systems for backwards compatibility with older color systems. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215788 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A SIX-PRIMARY WIDE GAMUT COLOR SYSTEM - Systems and methods for a multi-primary color system for display. A multi-primary color system increases the number of primary colors available in a color system and color system equipment. Increasing the number of primary colors reduces metameric errors from viewer to viewer. A six-primary color system includes Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta primaries. The systems of the present invention maintain compatibility with existing color systems and equipment and provide systems for backwards compatibility with older color systems. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215789 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A display device includes first pixels partitioned into a plurality of blocks, each of the plurality of blocks being categorized as a first block or a second block, a sensor configured to generate first sensing data for at least two of the first pixels in each of the plurality of blocks during a first period, and a sensing controller configured to generate interpolated data for the first pixels that are not sensed by the sensor by interpolating the first sensing data, for the first block, and configured to forgo interpolation of the first sensing data, for the second block. The sensor generates second sensing data for the first pixels that are not sensed by the sensor, for the second block, during a second period after the first period. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215790 | DISPLAY DRIVING METHOD, DISPLAY DRIVER, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display driving method, a display driver and a display device are provided. The display driving method includes acquiring a first grayscale of at least one to-be-displayed sub-pixel, performing a first compensation manner to compensate the first grayscale and acquire a second grayscale, determining whether the second grayscale is less than a critical value; if yes, performing a second compensation manner to compensate the second grayscale and acquire a third grayscale, and acquiring a data voltage based on the third grayscale to control the sub-pixel to emit light and display, and if no, acquiring a data voltage based on the second grayscale to control the sub-pixel to emit light and display. The problem of displaying color deviation when the display panel is displayed at a low grayscale can be avoided. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215791 | SHIFT REGISTER HAVING TWO OUTPUT SIGNALS WITH PHASE LAGGING AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, SCAN DRIVING CIRCUIT, DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The present disclosure provides a shift register and a driving method thereof, a scan driving circuit, a display panel, and a display device. The shift register includes an input module; a control module; a reset module; a first output module; a second output module; and a stabilization module, that a phase of a signal output from the second output module lags behind a phase of a signal output from the first output module, and does not overlap with the phase of the signal output from the first output module. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215792 | DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention relates to a display device which changes the quality of displayed images in real time according to the genres of the images, the display device comprising: a storage unit which stores picture quality according to the genres of images; a display unit which displays an image corresponding to an input image signal; and a control unit which acquires the genre of an image and changes the quality of the image to the picture quality corresponding to the genre. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215793 | DISPLAY APPARATUSES, PIXEL CIRCUITS AND METHODS OF DRIVING PIXEL CIRCUIT - The present disclosure provides a display apparatus, a pixel circuit and a method of driving a pixel circuit. In one or more embodiments, the pixel circuit includes a driving transistor, a data signal module and a bias signal module. A first electrode of the driving transistor is connected with a first power signal terminal, a second electrode of the driving transistor is connected with a first terminal of a light emitting element, and the driving transistor includes a first control electrode and a second control electrode. The data signal module is connected with the driving transistor, a data writing signal terminal and a data signal terminal. The bias signal module is connected with the driving transistor, a bias writing signal terminal and a bias signal terminal, and is configured to adjust a threshold voltage of the driving transistor under control of the bias writing signal terminal and the bias signal terminal. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215794 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - A light emitting device of the present disclosure includes: a circuit board; a plurality of substrates including a first substrate and a second substrate, wherein the first substrate is disposed on the circuit board, and the second substrate is disposed on the circuit board and overlapped with the first substrate; a plurality of light emitting units disposed on the first substrate; a plurality of pixel driving circuits electrically connected to the plurality of light emitting units; and a plurality of gate driving circuits electrically connected to the plurality of pixel driving circuits, wherein at least a part of the plurality of pixel driving circuits or at least a part of the plurality of gate driving circuits are disposed on the second substrate. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215795 | PIXEL DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DRIVING METHOD THEREFOR, DISPLAY PANEL, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A pixel driving circuit includes: a driving control sub-circuit configured to write at least a first data signal into a first driving sub-circuit in response to a first scanning signal and cause a driving transistor to output a driving signal to an element to be driven according to the first data signal and a first power supply voltage signal in response to an enable signal, and a time control sub-circuit configured to write at least a second data signal into a second driving sub-circuit in response to a second scanning signal and cause the second driving sub-circuit to be connected to a second power supply voltage signal terminal and the element in response to the enable signal. The second driving sub-circuit is configured to output a second power supply voltage signal to the element in response to the second data signal and a common voltage signal. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215796 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DRIVING METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display panel, a display device and a method for driving a display panel are provided. The display panel includes N types of display areas which includes an i-th type display area and a j-th type display area. The display panel includes M display parts which include a first display part and a second display part. The first display part includes at least one i-th type display area, and the second display part includes at least one i-th type display area. At least one j-th type display area is arranged between the i-th type display area included in the first display part and the i-th type display area included in the second display part. Light-emitting time periods of the i-th type display area and the j-th type display area at least partially do not overlap, to reduce the number of sub-pixels driven at the same time period. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215797 | PIXEL DRIVING CIRCUIT, DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided are a pixel driving circuit, a driving method thereof, a display panel and a display device. The pixel driving circuit includes a pulse-width adjustment module, an amplitude adjustment module and a light-emitting element. The pulse-width adjustment module is electrically connected to a sweep signal terminal and includes a pulse-width drive transistor. The pulse-width drive transistor is configured to supply a sweep signal supplied from the sweep signal terminal to the amplitude adjustment module. The amplitude adjustment module is configured to control the light emission duration of the light-emitting element according to the sweep signal. In the provided pixel driving circuit, driving method thereof, display panel and display device, a switching-off voltage for switching off the amplitude adjustment module does not need to be supplied additionally, thereby reducing the circuit complexity of a pixel driving circuit. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215798 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD OF OPERATING AN ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY DEVICE - An organic light emitting diode (“OLED”) display device, which operates in a variable frame mode, includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a power management circuit which supplies a power supply voltage to the plurality of pixels, and a controller which determines a panel load, a first representative gray level and a second representative gray level by analyzing input image data, determines an initial level of the power supply voltage based on the panel load and the first representative gray level, and determines a step level of the power supply voltage based on the panel load and the second representative gray level. The power management circuit generates the power supply voltage having the initial level during an active period, and gradually increases a voltage level of the power supply voltage from the initial level based on the step level during a variable blank period. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215799 | DISPLAY PANEL, DRIVING METHOD THEREOF AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display panel and a driving method thereof and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element, the pixel circuit including a driving transistor, a first reset transistor and a second reset transistor; the first reset transistor being connected with a gate electrode of the driving transistor and configured to reset the gate electrode of the driving transistor, and the second reset transistor being configured to reset the first electrode of the light-emitting element; a first initialization signal line, connected with the gate electrode of the driving transistor through the first reset transistor; and a second initialization signal line, connected with the first electrode of the light-emitting element through the second reset transistor. The first initialization signal line and the second initialization signal line are insulated from each other and are configured to supply signals respectively. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215800 | METHOD OF DRIVING A LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY AND DISPLAY - Provided is a method of driving a light emitting a display in which variations in image quality and brightness are suppressed despite long-term use, without adding a complicated circuit configuration. The driving a light emitting method includes a step (A) of applying a voltage based on image data to be displayed to a gate electrode of a vertical organic light emitting transistor and a step (B) of, after the step (A), applying a voltage, having a polarity opposite to that of the voltage applied to the gate electrode of the vertical organic light emitting transistor in the step (A), to the gate electrode of the vertical organic light emitting transistor based on a value of a voltage being applied to a source electrode of the vertical organic light emitting transistor. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215801 | METHOD OF COMPENSATING BRIGHTNESS OF DISPLAY AND DISPLAY - Provided is a method of compensating brightness of a display using a vertical organic light emitting transistor that suppresses variations in brightness over a long period of time and a display. This method is a method of compensating brightness of a display including a plurality of vertical organic light emitting transistors and a memory that stores characteristic information of the vertical organic light emitting transistor. This method includes a step (A) of applying a voltage for brightness inspection to a gate electrode of the vertical organic light emitting transistor to be corrected, a step (B) of measuring a current flowing through a current supply line through which the current is supplied to a source electrode of the vertical organic light emitting transistor by the application of the voltage for brightness inspection to the gate electrode of the vertical organic light emitting transistor to be corrected, and a step (C) of determining a corrected value of the voltage to be applied to the gate electrode of the vertical organic light emitting transistor based on a value of the current measured in the step (B) and the characteristic information of the vertical organic light emitting transistor stored in the memory. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215802 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVE METHOD FOR SAME - The present application discloses a current-driven display device that can perform accurate external compensation in consideration of a temperature distribution in a display panel while preventing the configuration from being complicated. A display portion of an organic EL display device is provided with a plurality of temperature detection circuits in addition to pixel circuits arranged in a matrix. A data-side drive circuit measures a current flowing through a transistor in each temperature detection circuit. A display control circuit obtains a temperature from the measured value based on a temperature characteristic of the transistor, estimates a temperature of each pixel circuit from the temperature, corrects a current value measured at the time of characteristic detection for a drive transistor of each pixel circuit considering the estimated temperature, and updates correction data for compensating for variations in the threshold voltage and gain of the drive transistor based on the corrected current value. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215803 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND POWER SETTING METHOD THEREOF - A display device includes: a display panel including pixels; a timing controller configured to generate image data based on input image data; a data driver configured to generate a data signal corresponding to the image data and supplying the data signal to the pixels; a power supply configured to supply a first power supply voltage to the display panel; and a power controller configured to calculate a load value and a peak grayscale of the entire display panel based on the input image data, receive feedback voltages of the first power supply voltage from relatively lower quality areas in which IR drop of the first power supply voltage occurs relatively more frequently, and generate a power control signal for changing the level of the first power supply voltage based on the load value, the peak grayscale, and the feedback voltages. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215804 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: a display panel including an active area and a peripheral area adjacent to the active area and including a plurality of pixels overlapping the active area and a scan driving circuit overlapping a portion of each of the active area and the peripheral area. The scan driving circuit is configured to drive the plurality of pixels. A sensing sensor is disposed on the display panel and includes first sensing electrodes and second sensing electrodes overlapping the active area and insulated from each other and sensing lines connected to the first sensing electrodes and the second sensing electrodes. The plurality of pixels include: first pixels that do not overlap the scan driving circuit; and second pixels that overlap the scan driving circuit, wherein at least a portion of the sensing lines overlaps the scan driving circuit. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215805 | DATA DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A display device includes a display panel having pixels. A timing controller generates a first control signal and data control signals. Data driving circuits each recover a data signal from a corresponding data control signal of the data control signals in response to the first control signal, generate a data voltage corresponding to the data signal, and provide the data voltage to the display panel. Each of the data driving circuits includes: a setting unit configured to acquire a setting value from the data control signal; an equalizer configured to compensate for distortion of the corresponding data control signal according to the setting value to output compensated data control signal; and a recoverer configured to recover a clock signal from the compensated data control signal and recover the data signal from the compensated data control signal based on the clock signal. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215806 | COLOR DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHODS THEREFOR - The invention relates to electrophoretic layers containing at least five different particles, and to driving methods for displaying at least five, and in some embodiments, six different colors at each pixel or sub-pixel. The electrophoretic layers may also contain uncharged neutral buoyancy particles, and the driving methods may include special shaking waveform sequences. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215807 | ELECTRO-OPTIC DISPLAYS AND DRIVING METHODS - A driving method for driving an electrophoretic display comprising four types of particles, the first type of particles and the third type of particles are positively charged, and the second type of particles and the fourth type of particles are negatively charged, the method comprises the steps of: (i). applying a first driving voltage to the pixel of the electrophoretic display for a first period of time at a first amplitude to drive the pixel to a color state of the fourth type of particle at the viewing side; and (ii). applying a second driving voltage to the pixel of the electrophoretic display for a second period of time, opposite to that of the first driving voltage and a second amplitude smaller than that of the first amplitude, to drive the second type particle towards the non-viewing side. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215808 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY PANEL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device includes a display panel including a first substrate and a second substrate disposed on the first substrate. Each of the first substrate and the second substrate includes a curved surface. The second substrate has a display surface including a first region and a second region with different curvatures. The display panel outputs a first light in the first region, having a first normal brightness in a normal view angle and a first oblique brightness in an oblique view angle, and a second light, having a second normal brightness in the normal view angle and a second oblique brightness in the oblique view angle. A ratio of a difference between the first normal brightness and the second normal brightness to the first normal brightness is less than a ratio of a difference between the first oblique brightness and the second oblique brightness to the first oblique brightness. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215809 | DISPLAY PANEL - A display panel is provided. The display panel includes a plurality of scan lines and a gate driving circuit. The scan lines are disposed on the display panel along a first direction, and respectively provide a plurality of gate driving signals. The gate driving circuit is disposed on a first side of the display panel along a second direction. The second direction intersects the first direction. The gate driving circuit includes a plurality of bias generators and a plurality of signal output circuits. The signal output circuits are divided into a plurality of groups. The bias generators respectively correspond to the groups. The bias generators generate a plurality of first bias voltages. The groups generate the gate driving signals respectively according to the first bias voltages. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215810 | Semiconductor Device, Driver Circuit, and Display Device - To provide a semiconductor device including a narrowed bezel obtained by designing a gate driver circuit. A gate driver of a display device includes a shift register unit, a demultiplexer circuit, and n signal lines. By connecting the n signal lines for transmitting clock signals to one stage of the shift register unit, (n-3) output signals can be output. The larger n becomes, the smaller the rate of signal lines for transmitting clock signals which do not contribute to output becomes; accordingly, the area of the shift register unit part is small compared to a conventional structure in which one stage of a shift register unit outputs one output signal. Therefore, the gate driver circuit can have a narrow bezel. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215811 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - Provided are a liquid crystal display device and a method for driving the same. The liquid crystal display device includes: a display panel; a gate driver; a data driver; and a timing controller configured to control operations of the gate driver and the data driver, and the timing controller configured to output a data signal, an internal clock signal, and a polarity control signal to the data driver based on image data, wherein the data driver is configured to invert polarity of a data voltage every predetermined, or alternatively, desired rows based on the polarity control signal, and in a plurality of adjacent pixel rows loaded with data voltages of the same polarity, an on-width of the internal clock signal of a first pixel row is greater than that of the internal clock signals of other pixel rows; and wherein when an original grayscale value of a target pixel row in the other pixel rows is different from the original grayscale value of a previous pixel row in the other pixel rows, the timing controller is configured to automatically adjust the grayscale value of the target pixel row, and output the adjusted grayscale value as the data signal of the target pixel row. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215812 | ROW CROSSTALK MITIGATION - A method and light-emitting diode (LED) device configured to compensate for crosstalk between rows of the LED device. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215813 | Holographic displays with light modulation in amplitude and phase - Techniques for holographic display by modulating optical images in amplitude and phase via a layer of liquid crystals are described. According to one aspect of the techniques, a voltage being applied or coupled across the layer of liquid crystals is controlled by gradually increasing the voltage from a low level to a high level to perform the AM in a first range and the PM in second range, where the characteristics of the liquid crystals is significant, for example, by increasing the thickness or optical birefringence of the layer of liquid crystals. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215814 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image display device, image display system, image display method and computer program which are configured so that not only the gradation characteristic at the luminance over 0.05 (cd/m2) but also the gradation characteristic at the luminance less than 0.05 (cd/m2) satisfies the DICOM. The image display device includes an image display unit; and an image processing unit. The image processing unit is configured to display the image data on the image display unit based on first and second gradation characteristics, a luminance of the first gradation characteristic is 0.05 (cd/m2) or more, a luminance of the second gradation characteristic is less than 0.05 (cd/m2), the first gradation characteristic complies with GSDF (Grayscale Standard Display Function) gradation characteristic of DICOM standard, and the first and second gradation characteristics are defined to satisfy a relationship between a JND value and a corresponding luminance. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215815 | FOLDABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND MULTI-WINDOW OPERATION METHOD USING SAME - Disclosed is a foldable electronic device comprising: a foldable housing which includes a first housing and a second housing; a first display which is disposed at a first surface of the foldable housing, can be folded according to folding operations of the first housing and the second housing, and includes an exposure region exposed to the outside in a folded state; a second display which is disposed in at least a portion of a second surface of the first housing, positioned opposite to the first surface; a sensor which senses a folding angle of the foldable housing; and a processor which is operatively connected to the first display, the second display, and the sensor. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215816 | ELECTRIC BOWED STRING INSTRUMENT STRUCTURE - An electric bowed string instrument structure comprises a longitudinally elongated frame ( | 2022-07-07 |
20220215817 | DRUMSTICK - Provided is a drumstick being excellent in durability and enabling a drum performer to achieve a more sensitive performance with vibration transmitted to the drumstick. A drumstick includes: a first rod-like portion, which is made of a synthetic resin, and includes a tip and a shoulder; and a second rod-like portion, which is coupled to the first rod-like portion, and includes a grip, wherein the first rod-like portion has a cavity defined therein so as to extend along an axial direction and over an entire length of the first rod-like portion, and wherein the cavity is open to an outside at an opening portion formed at a distal end of the tip. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215818 | MUSICAL ANALYSIS DEVICE, MUSICAL ANALYSIS METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A musical analysis device comprises an electronic controller including at least one processor. The electronic controller is configured to execute a plurality of modules including a detection module configured to detect, using a detection model through a model training process with machine learning, bar lines based on audio information indicating a musical piece, and a correction module configured to correct positions of the bar lines detected by the detection module based on a reference meter identified from the musical piece. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215819 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND DEVICES FOR FACILITATING THE INTERACTIVE CREATION OF LIVE MUSIC BY MULTIPLE USERS - Disclosed herein is a method for facilitating creating of music in real time by multiple users, in accordance with some embodiments. Accordingly, the method comprises receiving first music segment selections from a first user device, receiving second music segment selections from a second user device, transmitting the first music segment selections to the second user device, and transmitting the second music segment selections to the first user device. Further, each of the first user device and the second user device is configured for retrieving the first music segments, retrieving the second music segments, determining a universal time, synchronizing the second music segments with the first music segments to a common musical beat based on the universal time, mixing the second music segments with the first music segments based on the synchronizing, and generating a mixed music comprising the first music segments and the second music segments based on the mixing. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215820 | AUDIO SIGNAL ANALYSIS METHOD, AUDIO SIGNAL ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An audio signal analysis system comprises an electronic controller that is configured to execute a plurality of modules including an acquisition module configured to acquire a first spectrum, which is a time average of a plurality of frequency spectra of an audio signal, a specification module configured to acquire a plurality of reference values corresponding to different pitches that follow a prescribed temperament and configured to specify, by a problem-solving search algorithm, a frequency difference corresponding to a second spectrum which includes a plurality of components each having a frequency difference with respect to each of the plurality of reference values, the second spectrum being similar to the first spectrum with a degree of similarity exceeding a prescribed threshold value, and a correction module configured to correct the frequency difference so as to reduce systematic error included in the frequency difference specified by the specification module. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215821 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING AUDIO AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Provided is a method for processing audio including: acquiring an accompaniment audio signal and a voice signal of a current to-be-processed musical composition; determining a target reverberation intensity parameter value of the acquired accompaniment audio signal, wherein the target reverberation intensity parameter value is configured to indicate a rhythm speed, an accompaniment type, and a performance score of a singer of the current to-be-processed musical composition; and reverberating the acquired vocal signal based on the target reverberation intensity parameter value. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215822 | AUDIO PROCESSING METHOD, AUDIO PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An audio processing method obtains observed envelopes of picked-up sound signals including a first observed envelope representing a contour of a first sound signal including a first target sound from a first sound source and a second spill sound from a second sound source and a second observed envelope representing a contour of a second sound signal including a second target sound from the second sound source and a first spill sound from the first sound source; and generates, based on the observed envelopes, output envelopes including a first output envelope representing a contour of the first target sound in the first observed envelope and a second output envelope representing a contour of the second target sound in the second observed envelope, using a mix matrix including a mix proportion of the second spill sound in the first sound signal and a mix proportion of the first spill sound in the second sound signal. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215823 | Novel wind chime - A novel wind chime, whereby deficiencies in the prior art, for example, it is necessary to drill holes in the wind chime tubes and grind the holes, which consumes time and manpower, affects beauty of the wind chime, deteriorates tone quality thereof and is liable to cause safety hazards, are addressed, and the wind chime, including a connection ring, a plurality of suspension cords passing the connection ring, a hanger connected at upper ends of the plurality of suspension cords, a striker connected at lower ends of the plurality of suspension cord and a plurality of wind chime tubes, jump rings are connected respectively at the lower ends of the plurality of suspension cords, limiting and connection structures are respectively provided between central positions of the jump rings and the plurality of suspension cords, and the jump rings are connected at inner sides of the plurality of wind chime tubes. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215824 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ATTENUATING SOUND IN A CONDUIT OR CHAMBER - Occlusion devices, earpiece devices and methods of forming occlusion devices are provided. An occlusion device is configured to occlude an ear canal, but other biological and non-biological conduits or chambers can be occluded using the devices and methods herein. The occlusion device includes an insertion element and at least one occluding member or element (which can be expandable) disposed on the insertion element. The occluding member is configured to receive a medium via the insertion element and is configured to expand, responsive to the medium, to contact the ear canal. Alternatively, the occluding member is made of a non-Newtonian fluid and can be enclosed by a balloon or not. Physical parameters of the occlusion device are selected to produce a predetermined sound attenuation characteristic over a frequency band. Use of a non-Newtonian fluid provides additional options or variables in customizing or designing a predetermined sound attenuation characteristic. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215825 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ELIMINATING UNSTABLE NOISE - A method for eliminating unstable noise is provided and applicable to a sound recording device and implemented by a codec. The method includes: activating the sound recording device to start recording; setting a suppression duration and a cutoff frequency switching duration according to unstable noise and a DC offset value of the sound recording device; processing a front-end audio of a recorded sound by a filter having a first cutoff frequency to make the unstable noise in the front-end audio quickly converge, and outputting a filtered audio signal; suppressing the filtered audio signal according to the suppression duration to eliminate the unstable noise; and adjusting the first cutoff frequency of the filter to a second cutoff frequency according to the cutoff frequency switching duration, where the first cutoff frequency is greater than the second cutoff frequency. A device for eliminating unstable noise is also provided. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215826 | NOISE REDUCTION DEVICE, VEHICLE, AND NOISE REDUCTION METHOD - An active noise reduction device includes: a reference signal inputter; an adaptive filter; a μ adjuster that calculates a step size parameter by multiplying a reference value for the step size parameter by a correction coefficient that is proportional to a reciprocal of a first representative input value that indicates a signal level of the reference signal in a first predetermined period; a filter coefficient updater that updates adaptive filter coefficient W by using the step size parameter calculated; and a determiner. When it is determined that a second representative input value is greater than a threshold value, at least one of the adaptive filter or the filter coefficient updater is transitioned from a normal state to a restriction state in which an effect of reducing noise is smaller than in the normal state. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215827 | AUDIO SYNTHESIS METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - This application discloses a method, an apparatus, a computer readable medium, and an electronic device for audio synthesis. The method includes: acquiring mixed language text information comprising text characters corresponding to at least two language types; performing text coding processing on the mixed language text information based on the at least two language types, to obtain an intermediate semantic coding feature of the mixed language text information; acquiring a target tone feature corresponding to a target tone subject, and performing decoding processing on the intermediate semantic coding feature based on the target tone feature to obtain an acoustic feature; and performing acoustic coding processing on the acoustic feature to obtain an audio corresponding to the mixed language text information. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215828 | BIASING VOICE CORRECTION SUGGESTIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for natural language processing. One of the method includes receiving a voice input from a user device; generating a recognition output; receiving a user selection of one or more terms in the recognition output; receiving a user input of one or more letters replacing the user selected one or more terms; determining suggested correction candidates based in part on the user input and the voice input; and providing one or more suggested correction candidates to the user device as suggested corrected recognition outputs. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215829 | TIME-BASED FREQUENCY TUNING OF ANALOG-TO-INFORMATION FEATURE EXTRACTION - A sound recognition system including time-dependent analog filtered feature extraction and sequencing. An analog front end (AFE) in the system receives input analog signals, such as signals representing an audio input to a microphone. Features in the input signal are extracted, by measuring such attributes as zero crossing events and total energy in filtered versions of the signal with different frequency characteristics at different times during the audio event. In one embodiment, a tunable analog filter is controlled to change its frequency characteristics at different times during the event. In another embodiment, multiple analog filters with different filter characteristics filter the input signal in parallel, and signal features are extracted from each filtered signal; a multiplexer selects the desired features at different times during the event. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215830 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LIP-SYNCING A FACE TO TARGET SPEECH USING A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL - A processor-implemented method for generating a lip-sync for a face to a target speech of a live session to a speech in one or more languages in-sync with improved visual quality using a machine learning model and a pre-trained lip-sync model is provided. The method includes (i) determining a visual representation of the face and an audio representation, the visual representation includes crops of the face; (ii) modifying the crops of the face to obtain masked crops; (iii) obtaining a reference frame from the visual representation at a second timestamp; (iv) combining the masked crops at the first timestamp with the reference to obtain lower half crops; (v) training the machine learning model by providing historical lower half crops and historical audio representations as training data; (vi) generating lip-synced frames for the face to the target speech, and (vii) generating an in-sync lip-synced frames by the pre-trained lip-sync model. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215831 | Audio Processing in a Low-Bandwidth Networked System - The present disclosure is generally directed a system to detect activation phrases within input audio signals transmitted over a low-bandwidth network. The system can use a two-stage activation phrase detection process. First a sensing device, which can include a plurality of microphones for detecting an input audio signal, can detect an input audio signal that includes a candidate activation phrase. Second, the sensing device can transmit the recordings of the input audio signal to a client device for confirmation that the input audio signal includes the activation phrase. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215832 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION BASED ON GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS - The present disclosure relates to an automatic speech recognition system and a method thereof. The system includes a conformer encoder and a pair of ping-pong buffers. The encoder includes a plurality of encoder layers sequentially executed by one or more graphic processing units. At least one encoder layer includes a first feed forward module, a multi-head self-attention module, a convolution module, and a second feed forward module. The convolution module and the multi-head self-attention module are sandwiched between the first feedforward module and the second feed forward module. The four modules respectively include a plurality of encoder sublayers fused into one or more encoder kernels. The one or more encoder kernels respectively read from one of the pair of ping-pong buffers and write into the other of the pair of ping-pong buffers. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215833 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONVERTING SPOKEN WORDS TO TEXT FORM - An electronic device is provided that includes a processor, and a data storage device having executable instructions accessible by the processor. Responsive to execution of the instructions, the processor obtains primary context data, and obtains secondary context data from a secondary electronic device. The processor also analyzes the primary context data and the secondary context data utilizing an electronic device context (EDC) model to determine a context of a spoken word, and converts the spoken word into a text form based on the context of the spoken word. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215834 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPEECH TO TEXT CONVERSION - The present invention relates to a system and a method for enabling automatic conversion of speech input to text. The implementation involves receiving an audio file pertaining to speech of a user, extracting a first set of attributes indicative of plurality of time frames spaced along the duration of the audio file, extracting a second set of attributes indicative of speech patterns, predicting a first set of characters to generate a first output sentence, determining, through an AI engine, a first data set comprising a corpus of sentences of a predefined language based on a predefined language usage parameters and generating a textual output in the predefined language based on a combination of said extraction, said prediction and said AI engine based determination. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215835 | EVALUATING USER DEVICE ACTIVATIONS - Methods and systems are disclosed for determining a probability that a prospective wakeup or activation word is not an actual wakeup or activation word for a user device but instead is a word that has characteristics of, or otherwise sounds similar to, a wakeup or activation word and is received as a result of output of a content asset as opposed to being spoken by a user of the user device. Audio data associated with output of a content asset may be received and evaluated to determine if a prospective wakeup word in the audio data is an actual wakeup word or is, instead, not a wakeup word. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215836 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING USER UTTERANCE IN THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - According to an embodiment, an electronic device comprises: a communication module comprising communication circuitry, a memory, and at least one processor. The memory stores instructions which, when executed, cause the at least one processor to control the electronic device to: transmit, to a first electronic device through the communication module, first response data obtained by processing a first speech input corresponding to a first utterance received from the first electronic device, identify a second electronic device including circuitry configured to detect a second utterance associated with the first response data within a designated time after the first utterance, transmit a wake-up signal to the second electronic device, receive, from the second electronic device, a speech input corresponding to an utterance obtained by a microphone turned on based on the wake-up signal, identify whether the received speech input corresponding to the utterance is a second speech input corresponding to the second utterance, obtain second response data obtained by processing the second speech input based on the first speech input and the first response data in response to identifying that the received speech input corresponding to the utterance is the second speech input corresponding to the second utterance, and transmit the second response data to at least one of the first electronic device or the second electronic device through the communication module. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215837 | CONTEXT-BASED DEVICE ARBITRATION - This disclosure describes, in part, context-based device arbitration techniques to select a voice-enabled device from multiple voice-enabled devices to provide a response to a command included in a speech utterance of a user. In some examples, the context-driven arbitration techniques may include determining a ranked list of voice-enabled devices that are ranked based on audio signal metric values for audio signals generated by each voice-enabled device, and iteratively moving through the list to determine, based on device states of the voice-enabled devices, whether one of the voice-enabled devices can perform an action responsive to the command. If the voice-enabled devices that detected the speech utterance are unable to perform the action responsive to the command, all other voice-enabled devices associated with an account may be analyzed to determine whether one of the other voice-enabled devices can perform the action responsive to the command in the speech utterance. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215838 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING REMOTE CONTROLLER TO AVOID LOSS OF FUNCTION THROUGH A LOW VOLTAGE CONDITION, REMOTE CONTROLLER DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM - A method of controlling a battery-powered remote controller to decrease a duty cycle to allow continued operations despite the quantity of the battery is bad determines a drop in voltage of the battery in standby mode as voltage of the battery is being read. When receiving a command to activate a voice function, determining whether the drop in voltage in standby mode is greater than or equal to a preset value. If yes, the method then determines whether the drop in voltage falls in a preset range. If yes, the method regulates a duty cycle of the pulse signal activating the voice function, and activates the voice function as required. A remote controller and a non-transitory storage medium are also provided. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215839 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING VOICE RESPONSE SPEED, RELATED DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and device for determining voice response speed, an electronic equipment, computer-readable storage medium, and computer program product, relate to the fields of artificial intelligence technology such as voice recognition, natural language processing, and deep learning. The method includes reading a data stream constituting a test audio file, and determining a time point when a complete data stream is read as an interaction start time point; determining a voice instruction information contained in a complete data stream, and determining an execution time point of an action indicated by the voice instruction information as an interaction end time point; and determining the voice response speed based on the interaction start time point and the interaction end time point. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215840 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND APPARATUSES FOR IMPROVED SPEECH RECOGNITION AND TRANSCRIPTION - Methods, systems, and apparatuses for improved speech recognition and transcription of user utterances are described herein. User utterances may be processed by a speech recognition computing device as well as an acoustic model. The acoustic model may be trained using historical user utterance data and machine learning techniques. The acoustic model may be used to determine whether a transcription determined by the speech recognition computing device should be overridden with an updated transcription. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215841 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, SYSTEM, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing method, a system, an apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium, where the method is applied to a client, and includes: receiving a transcript and a sentence identifier of the transcript sent by a service server; reading a local sentence identifier, and when the received sentence identifier is the same as the local sentence identifier, updating a displayed caption content corresponding to the local sentence identifier with the transcript. When the received sentence identifier of the client is the same as the local sentence identifier, the displayed caption content is replaced with the received transcript, | 2022-07-07 |
20220215842 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING VOICE RECOGNITION RESULT, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER MEDIUM - The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for processing a voice recognition result, relates to the technical fields of Internet of Vehicles, smart cabins, voice recognition and the like. An implementation is: acquiring push text data corresponding to push information; expanding the push text data to obtain expanded push data; acquiring recognized text data output by a voice assistant, the recognized text data being obtained by performing voice recognition on a voice of a user reading the push information; and in response to determining that the recognized text data matches the expanded push data, determining that the recognized text data hits the push information. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215843 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION BASED ON GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS - An automatic speech recognition system and a method thereof are provided. The system includes an encoder and a decoder. The encoder comprises a plurality of encoder layers. At least one encoder layer includes a plurality of encoder sublayers fused into one or more encoder kernels. The system further comprises a first pair of ping-pong buffers communicating with the one or more encoder kernels. The decoder comprises a plurality of decoder layers. At least one decoder layer includes a plurality of decoder sublayers fused into one or more decoder kernels. The decoder receives a decoder output related to the encoder output and generates a decoder output. The encoder sends the decoder output to a beam search kernel. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215844 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING AUDIO SIGNALS CONTAINING SPEECH DATA - Methods and systems for processing audio signals containing speech data are disclosed. Biometric data associated with at least one speaker are extracted from an audio input. A correspondence is determined between the extracted biometric data and stored biometric data associated with a consenting user profile, where a consenting user profile is a user profile indicates consent to store biometric data. If no correspondence is determined, the speech data is discarded, optionally after having been processed. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215845 | AUTOMATIC GENERATION AND/OR USE OF TEXT-DEPENDENT SPEAKER VERIFICATION FEATURES - Implementations relate to automatic generation of speaker features for each of one or more particular text-dependent speaker verifications (TD-SVs) for a user. Implementations can generate speaker features for a particular TD-SV using instances of audio data that each capture a corresponding spoken utterance of the user during normal non-enrollment interactions with an automated assistant via one or more respective assistant devices. For example, a portion of an instance of audio data can be used in response to: (a) determining that recognized term(s) for the spoken utterance captured by that the portion correspond to the particular TD-SV; and (b) determining that an authentication measure, for the user and for the spoken utterance, satisfies a threshold. Implementations additionally or alternatively relate to utilization of speaker features, for each of one or more particular TD-SVs for a user, in determining whether to authenticate a spoken utterance for the user. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215846 | AUDIO ENCODING DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM, AND AUDIO DECODING DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM - An audio packet error concealment system includes an encoding unit for encoding an audio signal consisting of a plurality of frames, and an auxiliary information encoding unit for estimating and encoding auxiliary information about a temporal change of power of the audio signal. The auxiliary information is used in packet loss concealment in decoding of the audio signal. The auxiliary information about the temporal change of power may contain a parameter that functionally approximates a plurality of powers of subframes shorter than one frame, or may contain information about a vector obtained by vector quantization of a plurality of powers of subframes shorter than one frame. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215847 | SELECTIVE FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION FOR SPATIAL AUDIO CODECS - Systems and methods for providing forward error correction for a multi-channel audio signal are described. Blocks of an audio stream are buffered into a frame. A transformation can be applied that compacts the energy of each block into a plurality of transformed channels. The energy compaction transform may compact the most energy of a block into the first transformed channel and to compact decreasing amounts of energy into each subsequent transformed channel. The transformed frame may be encoded using any suitable codec and transmitted in a packet over a network. Improved forward error correction may be provided by attaching a low bit rate encoding of the first transformed channel to a subsequent packet. To reconstruct a lost packet, the low bit rate encoding of the first channel for the lost packet may be combined with a packet loss concealment version of the other channels, constructed from a previously-received packet. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215848 | VOICE PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A voice processing method includes: determining a historical voice frame corresponding to a target voice frame; determining a frequency-domain characteristic of the historical voice frame; invoking a network model to predict the frequency-domain characteristic of the historical voice frame, to obtain a parameter set of the target voice frame, the parameter set including a plurality of types of parameters, the network model including a plurality of neural networks (NNs), and a number of the types of the parameters in the parameter set being determined according to a number of the NNs; and reconstructing the target voice frame according to the parameter set. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215849 | WIRELESS CONNECTION BASE INTEGRATING AN INFERENCE PROCESSING UNIT - A connection base includes a first connection interface for connecting to and receiving an audio stream from a first endpoint, and a second connection interface for connecting to and transmitting the audio stream to a second endpoint. The connection base further includes an inference processing unit (IPU), connected to the first connection interface and the second connection interface, the IPU configured to execute an inference algorithm on an audio stream to obtain an inference result. The connection base is configured to output the inference result. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215850 | AUDIO DECODER, APPARATUS FOR GENERATING ENCODED AUDIO OUTPUT DATA AND METHODS PERMITTING INITIALIZING A DECODER - An audio decoder decodes a bit stream of encoded audio data, which bit stream represents a sequence of audio sample values and includes a plurality of frames, wherein each frame includes associated encoded audio sample values. The audio decoder includes a determiner configured to determine whether a frame of the encoded audio data is a special frame including encoded audio sample values associated with the special frame and additional information, wherein the additional information include encoded audio sample values of a number of frames preceding the special frame, wherein the encoded audio sample values of the preceding frames are encoded using the same codec configuration as the special frame, wherein the number of preceding frames is sufficient to initialize the decoder to be in a position to decode the audio sample values associated with the special frame if the special frame is the first frame upon start-up of the decoder. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215851 | DATA CONVERSION LEARNING DEVICE, DATA CONVERSION DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention realizes conversion into data having a desired attribute. A training unit | 2022-07-07 |
20220215852 | SOUND PICKUP DEVICE AND SOUND PICKUP METHOD - A sound pickup device for picking up a target sound includes: a first input interface that inputs image data generated by a camera; a second input interface that inputs an audio signal output from a microphone array; a controller that determines a sound pickup direction in which the target sound is picked up, based on the image data and the audio signal; and an output interface that outputs information to be presented to the user. The controller determines whether an image indicated by the input image data and an audio sound indicated by the input audio signal are in a predetermined state. When determining that the image and the audio sound are in the predetermined state, the controller causes the output interface to output an instruction to the user, and inputs additional image data and an additional audio signal after the instruction is output, to determine the sound pickup direction. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215853 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, MODEL TRAINING METHOD, AND RELATED APPARATUS - This application discloses an audio signal processing method, a model training method, and related apparatus. The audio signal processing method includes inputting a first audio input signal into a machine learning model to obtain a first howling point, and obtaining a first gain value according to the first howling point, the first howling point corresponding to an effective audio signal in the first audio input signal, and the first gain value indicating a suppression parameter of the first howling point; processing the first audio input signal according to the first gain value to obtain a second audio input signal; detecting a second howling point, and obtaining a second gain value according to the second howling point, the second howling point corresponding to a frequency band of an ineffective audio signal in the second audio input signal; and processing the second audio input signal to obtain an audio output signal. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215854 | SPEECH SOUND RESPONSE DEVICE AND SPEECH SOUND RESPONSE METHOD - A speech sound response device includes a microphone, a processor, and a speaker. The microphone is configured to acquire sound. The processor is configure to detect a voice in the sound, generate a response to the voice, determine a response volume for outputting the response based on (i) a voice volume of the voice in the sound and (ii) an environmental volume of an environmental sound other than the voice, and control the speaker to output the response at the response volume. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215855 | AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An automatic gain control method and apparatus, and a readable storage medium. The automatic gain control method includes: for a far-field speech signal of a current frame, distinguishing between a target signal and a non-target signal; according to a result of the distinguishing between the target signal and the non-target signal, determining a gain table calculation parameter of the far-field speech signal, and obtaining a gain variation of the far-field speech signal of the current frame relative to a previous frame; determining a gain value for the far-field speech signal of the current frame according to the gain variation; and processing the far-field speech signal of the current frame according to the gain value determined, to obtain a processed speech signal. The automatic gain control method can effectively increase the gain of the target signal and reduce the gain of the non-target signal when gaining the far-field speech signal. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215856 | VOICE CAPTURING METHOD AND VOICE CAPTURING SYSTEM - A voice capturing method includes following operations: storing, by a buffer, voice data from a plurality of microphones; determining, by a processor, whether a target speaker exists and whether a direction of the target speaker changes according to the voice data and target speaker information; inserting a voice segment corresponding to a previous tracking direction into a current position in the voice data to generate fusion voice data when the target speaker exists and the direction of the target speaker changes from the previous tracking direction to a current tracking direction; performing, by the processor, a voice enhancement process on the fusion voice data according to the current tracking direction to generate enhanced voice data; performing, by the processor, a voice shortening process on the enhanced voice data to generate voice output data; and playing, by a playing circuit, the voice output data. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215857 | SYSTEM, USER TERMINAL, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATIC INTERPRETATION SERVICE BASED ON SPEAKER SEPARATION - Provided is a method of performing automatic interpretation based on speaker separation by a user terminal, the method including: receiving a first speech signal including at least one of a user speech of a user and a user surrounding speech around the user from an automatic interpretation service providing terminal, separating the first speech signal into speaker-specific speech signals, performing interpretation on the speaker-specific speech signals in a language selected by the user on the basis of an interpretation mode, and providing a second speech signal generated as a result of the interpretation to at least one of a counterpart terminal and the automatic interpretation service providing terminal according to the interpretation mode. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215858 | MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE AND HEAD CHANGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a first disk, the second disk, and a first head which writes and reads to the first disk, a second head which writes and reads to the second disk, and a controller which calculates an estimated position at which the second head is estimated to be disposed on the second disk based on first relative position information related to a relative position in a radial direction between the first head and the second head when the first head is switched to the second head. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215859 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE, RECORDING DEVICE, AND DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE - An image capture device for recording HDR (high dynamic range) image data obtained through image capture performs control so as to, when encoding HDR image data obtained by capturing an image with an image sensor, divide part of the HDR image data corresponding to a coding area to be encoded into a plurality of divided HDR image data, encode each of the plurality of divided HDR image data by using encoding means, and record the plurality of divided HDR image data that are encoded on a recording medium in a predetermined recording format. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215860 | ENHANCING REVIEW VIDEOS - Review videos on product pages are enhanced with user interface elements that cause playback of the review videos at points at which particular topics are discussed. A review video is processed by converting speech to text and timestamping the text. Topics are identified in the text, and a time in the review video corresponding to each topic is identified from the timestamps for the text. In some configurations, sentiment is also determined for each topic. User interface elements corresponding to each identified topic are presented with the review video on the product page. When a user viewing the product page selects a user interface element, the review video is played at a time corresponding to the topic of the selected user interface element. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215861 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC VIDEO BOOKMARKING - Methods and systems for dynamic bookmarking in branched video are described. An application provides a video tree having a plurality of video segments, with each video segment including a predefined portion of one or more paths in the video tree, and each path being associated with a different video presentation. One of the paths in the video tree is traversed based on one or more decisions made by a user during playback of the video presentation associated with the path being traversed. A selection of a particular location in the path being traversed is received by the application, which stores a bookmark of the location for subsequent retrieval. The bookmark identifies a sequence of video segments in the video tree having been traversed to reach the location. The structure of the video tree is modified, and the bookmark is automatically updated, if necessary. At a later time, the application receives a selection of the stored bookmark and seeks to the bookmarked location. The application further restores the decisions made by the user during the previous playback of the presentation. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215862 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCED MULTI-ADDRESS READ OPERATIONS IN LOW PIN COUNT INTERFACES - A memory device supporting multi-address read operations improves throughput on a bi-directional serial port. The device includes a memory array and an input/output port having an input mode and an output mode. The input/output port has at least one signal line used alternately in both the input and output modes. A controller includes logic configured to execute a multi-address read operation in response to receiving a read command on the input/output port, the multi-address read operation including receiving a first address and a second address using the at least one signal line before outputting data. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215863 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND MEMORY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - A semiconductor memory device includes first and second memory cell arrays spaced apart from each other in a first direction, a plurality of column selection transistors in a second direction which intersects the first direction, between the first and second memory cell arrays, at least two of the column selection transistors include respective portions of a central gate pattern, which intersects a central line extending in the first direction at a center of the first memory cell array and has a closed loop shape, and first and second local input/output lines configured to provide electric potential through the first memory cell array to a local sense amplifier based on operations of the column selection transistors. The first and second local input/output lines are electrically connected to the central gate pattern, and the center line is spaced apart from and does not intersect the first and second local input/output lines. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215864 | BUFFERS AND MULTIPLEXERS - A buffer circuit and a multiplexer using the buffer are provided. The buffer may selectively operate at a first mode or a second mode. The buffer includes a first signal input terminal, a first signal output terminal, and a path circuit coupled between the first signal input terminal and the first signal output terminal. The path circuit has a voltage source terminal. In response to the buffer operating at the first mode, a first signal transmission path is formed in the path circuit and between the first signal input terminal and the first signal output terminal. The first signal transmission path is disconnected from the voltage source terminal. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215865 | RECEIVER RECEIVING MULTI-LEVEL SIGNAL, MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME AND METHOD OF RECEIVING DATA USING THE SAME - A receiver that receives a multi-level signal includes a compensation circuit, a sampling circuit, an output circuit and a mode selector. The compensation circuit generates a plurality of data signals and a plurality of reference voltages by compensating intersymbol interference on an input data signal. The sampling circuit generates a plurality of sample signals based on the plurality of data signals and the plurality of reference voltages. The output circuit generates output data based on the plurality of sample signals, and selects a current value of the output data based on a previous value of the output data. The mode selector generates a mode selection signal used to select one of first and second operation modes based on an operating environment. The compensation circuit and the sampling circuit are entirely enabled in the first operation mode, and the compensation circuit and the sampling circuit are partially enabled in the second operation mode. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215866 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A semiconductor device including a memory device which has improved reliability is provided. The semiconductor device comprises at least one data pin configured to transfer a data signal, at least one command address pin configured to transfer a command and an address, at least one serial pin configured to transfer a serial data signal, and processing circuitry connected to the at least one data pin and the at least one serial pin. The processing circuitry is configured to receive the data signal from outside through the at least one data pin, and the processing circuitry is configured to output the serial data signal through the at least one serial pin in response to the received data signal. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215867 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH ASYMMETRIC ARRANGEMENTS OF MEMORY ARRAYS - An integrated circuit includes multiple memory cells, a first pair of complementary data lines, a second pair of complementary data lines, multiple first word lines, and multiple second word lines. The memory cells include a first array of memory cells and a second array of memory cells. The first pair of complementary data lines are coupled to the first array of memory cells. The second pair of complementary data lines are coupled to the second array of memory cells. Lengths of the first pair of complementary data lines are shorter than lengths of the second pair of complementary data lines. The first word lines and the second word lines are arranged according to a predetermined ratio of a number of the first word lines to a number of the second word lines. The predetermined ratio is less than 1. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215868 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH ASYMMETRIC ARRANGEMENTS OF MEMORY ARRAYS - An integrated circuit includes a plurality of memory cells, a first pair of complementary data lines, and a second pair of complementary data lines. The plurality of memory cells include a first array of memory cells and a second array of memory cells. The first pair of complementary data lines are coupled to the first array of memory cells. The second pair of complementary data lines are different from the first pair of complementary data lines and are coupled to the second array of memory cells. A number of memory cells in the first array of memory cells is different from a number of memory cells in the second array of memory cells. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215869 | CURRENT STEERING IN READING MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION - The disclosed MTJ read circuits include a current steering element coupled to the read path. At a first node of the current steering element, a proportionally larger current is maintained to meet the requirements of a reliable voltage or current sensing. At a second node of the current steering element, a proportionally smaller current is maintained, which passes through the MTJ structure. The current at the first node is proportional to the current at the second node such that sensing the current at the first node infers the current at the second node, which is affected by the MTJ resistance value. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215870 | FERROELECTRIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING READ AND WRITE THEREOF - A ferroelectric random access memory device comprises: a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells each having one ferroelectric transistor (FeFET) connected between a read line of a plurality of read lines and a source line of a plurality of source lines and one transistor connected between a bit line of a plurality of bit lines and a gate of the FeFET and having a gate connected to a corresponding word line of a plurality of word lines; and a read/write control unit, when address information for a memory cell to be written is applied with a write command and data, selecting a word line and a read line corresponding to a row address and applying a write voltage having a positive voltage level, and applying a ground voltage to the selected read line, and applying the write voltage to a bit line corresponding to a memory cell. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215871 | ACCELERATOR CONTROLLING MEMORY DEVICE, COMPUTING SYSTEM INCLUDING ACCELERATOR, AND OPERATING METHOD OF ACCELERATOR - Provided are an accelerator controlling a memory device, a computing system including the accelerator, and an operating method of the accelerator. The accelerator includes: a signal control/monitoring circuit configured to detect an entry to a self-refresh mode of a memory device and an exit from the self-refresh mode based on monitoring a signal provided from a host; an accelerator logic configured to generate a first command/address signal and a first piece of data; and a selector configured to output the first command/address signal and the first piece of data to the memory device based on detection of the entry to the self-refresh mode, and output a second command/address signal and a second piece of data provided from the host, to the memory device, based on detection of the exit from the self-refresh mode. | 2022-07-07 |
20220215872 | LOW-LEAKAGE SENSE CIRCUIT, MEMORY CIRCUIT INCORPORATING THE LOW-LEAKAGE SENSE CIRCUIT, AND METHOD - A disclosed sense circuit for a memory circuit includes sense amplifiers that detect differences in voltage levels on complementary bitlines during read operations. Instead of the sense amplifiers having built-in footer devices that lead to significant leakage, the sense circuit incorporates a common footer device for all sense amplifiers. To ensure that this footer device has sufficient drive strength to enable voltage differential detection by each sense amplifier, the sense circuit also includes a sense signal generation and boost circuit (SSG&B circuit) that generates a sense mode control signal (SEN) to control the on/off states of the footer device and that further boosts SEN, at the appropriate time, to increase the drive current. By using the common footer device and the SSG&B circuit, leakage from the sense circuit is reduced during a pre-charge operation mode without sacrificing performance during a read operation mode. Also disclosed are associated method embodiments. | 2022-07-07 |