43rd week of 2017 patent applcation highlights part 58 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20170309177 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OPERATING A PARKING LOT - A method and device of a parking system includes, for example, a computer program configured for operating a parking lot, including the steps of ascertaining a route to a target position in the parking lot for autonomous travel of a vehicle in the parking lot to the target position, and blocking at least one section of the route to other vehicles before the vehicle travels through the section, so that the vehicle is able to drive autonomously through the blocked-off section of the route. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309178 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SETTING UP A MOVEMENT MODEL OF A ROAD USER - A method for setting up a movement model of a road user includes reading in a current movement vector of the road user, averaging movement vectors read in over of period of time to obtain a characteristic movement value of the road user for the period of time, and ascertaining a movement model using the movement value. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309179 | Collision Avoidance System and Collision Avoidance Method - A host vehicle is provided with a detection device that detects the behavior of an object in the surroundings of the host vehicle in a non-contact manner. The host vehicle is also provided with the following: a warning device that performs a warning operation pertaining to a warning directed at a following vehicle that is traveling behind the host vehicle; and a control device that controls the warning device on the basis of the result of detection by the detection device. The control device controls the warning device so as to perform the warning operation in a case where the result of detection by the detection device indicates that the behavior of an object in the surroundings of the host vehicle corresponds to an unnatural behavioral pattern. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309180 | OBJECT DETECTION APPARATUS - In an object detection apparatus, a proximity determination unit determines whether or not a first object and a second object are in close proximity to each other, where the first object is an object detected based on detection information acquired from a radar and the second object is an object detected based on a captured image acquired from a monocular camera. A sameness determination unit determines that the first object and the second object are the same object, if it is determined that the first object and the second object are in close proximity to each other and if a difference between a first collision time with the first object and a second collision time with the second object is less than a reference value. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309181 | APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING FOLLOWING VEHICLE AND METHOD THEREOF - An apparatus for recognizing a following vehicle includes a rear radar for detecting an object located in the rear of a subject vehicle, a guardrail area detector for detecting a guardrail area of a road using a road image of front of the subject vehicle and an image of a stationary object among objects detected by the rear radar, and a following vehicle recognizing unit for recognizing, as a following vehicle, a vehicle located on a road in the same traveling direction as that of the subject vehicle among objects detected by the rear radar, wherein the following vehicle is not included in the guardrail area detected by the guardrail area detector. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309182 | Lane Change Detection - The present invention relates to a vehicle safety system and method including a detection system, an emergency control unit and one or more safety devices. The detection system detects a target vehicle positioned longitudinally and laterally displaced relative the detection system, and defines a target vehicle rectangle that at least partly encloses the target vehicle, and constitutes an approximation of the target vehicle. The target vehicle rectangle forms a boundary (k) positioned along a second bearing having a second azimuth angle (δ′ | 2017-10-26 |
20170309183 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OPERATING A VEHICLE - A method for operating a vehicle, the vehicle being guided in a parking facility by remote control in such a way that a predetermined minimum distance to mobile objects in the surroundings of the vehicle is maintained. A device for operating a vehicle, a parking facility system for vehicles, and a computer program are also described. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309184 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING A VEHICLE IN A PARKING FACILITY - A method for monitoring a vehicle in a parking facility, the vehicle being transferred by its driver to a parking facility operator in a transfer zone, and subsequently being parked a parking space and, after unparking, being transferred to the driver again in a pick-up zone, the vehicle being at least visually monitored during the entire stay in the parking facility with the aid of a monitoring infrastructure assigned to the parking facility, the data being recorded, and the data being provided to the driver. A computer program and a system, which are configured to carry out the method, are also described. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309185 | METHOD FOR REQUESTING TRANSPORTATION SERVICES - A method is described for safely and efficiently requesting transportation services through the user of mobile communications devices capable of geographic location determination. New customers may be efficiently serviced, and the requester and transportation provider locations may be viewed in real time on the mobile devices. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309186 | METHOD FOR REQUESTING TRANSPORTATION SERVICES - A method is described for safely and efficiently requesting transportation services through the user of mobile communications devices capable of geographic location determination. New customers may be efficiently serviced, and the requester and transportation provider locations may be viewed in real time on the mobile devices. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309187 | VEHICLE PLATOON SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A vehicle platoon system comprises a trajectory module, an operation module and a control module. The trajectory module obtains and records a first data from a driving condition of the leading vehicle to establish a movement trajectory. The operation module obtains a second data and receives the first data to enable the following vehicle to move along or on the movement trajectory and carry out the driving condition of the leading vehicle. The control module measures an interval distance between the leading vehicle and the following vehicle to adjust a speed of at least one of the leading vehicle and the following vehicle so as to maintain the interval distance within a predetermined range. A vehicle platooning method is also provided. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309188 | VESSEL TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method including receiving, at a server, vessel AIS information, said AIS information including at least a vessel identifier and a vessel location. Querying a location data store in response to the vessel location, said location data store including port location information. Determining, in response to said querying, whether the vessel is in a port area or port approach area and iteratively receiving, additional AIS information which may be stored as structured data. And calculating port performance metrics in response to the location information, and transmitting those performance metrics through a network. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309189 | APPARATUS FOR MONITORING EMERGENCY RESPONSE VESSEL POSITION - An apparatus and computerized method are provided for monitoring the positions of a plurality of vessels that may be capable of responding to an event one or more vessels. The apparatus comprises a first receiver device configured to receive vessel identification and vessel position information originating from respective sources located onboard each of the plurality of vessels; a second receiver device configured to receive a plurality of vessel data fields regarding the plurality of vessels from a vessel database; a third receiver device configured to receive a data request, the data request identifying an event; and a processor configured to receive and correlate the vessel position information and the plurality of vessel data fields for each of the plurality of vessels to produce vessel response data. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309190 | SHIP TRACK DATA DISPLAY METHOD, SHIP TRACK DATA DISPLAY DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a ship track data display program that causes a computer to execute a process including: first extracting particular ship track data for a set of particular ships with a relative distance therebetween being within a predetermined range, from ship track data for a plurality of ships; second extracting a place where a distance between ship tracks thereof is at a local minimum, from the particular ship track data; and associatively displaying, for the place, point data of a ship that previously arrives at the place, in the set of particular ships, and point data of another ship at a point of time when the ship that previously arrives at the place arrives at the place. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309191 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AUTONOMOUS FLYING VEHICLE FLIGHT PATHS - A method is provided for limiting access to airspace by drones. The method includes receiving position information from a user associated with a property identified by the position information. The method also includes assembling the position information with other position information to compile a comprehensive configurable flight zone database. The method further includes pushing the configurable flight zone database to at least one drone. The drone accesses the configurable flight zone database to determine if movement is allowed, and the drone is programmed to not fly into areas identified in the configurable flight zone database. In the method, the drone may be further programmed to prohibit directing a camera into the areas identified in the configurable flight zone database. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309192 | COLLISION AVOIDANCE METHOD AND DEVICE FOR AN AIRCRAFT FORMATION RELATIVE TO AN INTRUSIVE AIRCRAFT - Collision avoidance method and device for an aircraft formation relative to an intrusive aircraft. The device manages a collision avoidance for an aircraft formation, relative to an aircraft external to the aircraft formation, the aircraft formation comprising a lead aircraft and at least one following aircraft, the device comprising a formation flight management unit with which all the aircraft of the aircraft formation are equipped and configured to manage the formation flight thereof, and management and control assemblies for determining and applying a coordinated avoidance maneuver intended for all the aircraft of the aircraft formation, this coordinated avoidance maneuver being determined so as to make it possible to avoid the collision with the intrusive aircraft while maintaining the formation flight. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309193 | Systems and Methods for Bias-Sensitive Crowd-Sourced Analytics - A bias-sensitive crowd-sourced analytic system is disclosed that provides a collaborative, moderated, computer-mediated environment that includes integrated evaluation of analytical skill and cognitive de-biasing training; a simple, binary blue-team/red-team format that incorporates teaming and dedicated devil's advocacy; and accountability through quantitative scoring of reasoning, responses and associated confidence levels. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309194 | PERSONALIZED LEARNING BASED ON FUNCTIONAL SUMMARIZATION - Personalized learning based on functional summarization is disclosed. One example is a system including a content processor, a plurality of summarization engines, at least one meta-algorithmic pattern, an evaluator, and a selector. The content processor provides course material to be learned, the course material selected from a corpus of educational content, and identifies retained material indicative of a portion of the course material retained by user. Each of the plurality of summarization engines provides a differential summary indicative of differences between the course material and the retained material. The at least one meta-algorithmic pattern is applied to at least two differential summaries to provide a meta-summary using the at least two differential summaries. The evaluator determines a value of each differential summary and meta-summary. The selector selects a meta-algorithmic pattern or a summarization engine that provides the meta-summary or differential summary, respectively, having the highest assessed value. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309195 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GATING NOTIFICATIONS - System and methods of gating notifications for content objects of an electronic learning platform are described herein. The notification may be conditioned on whether the content object is available to a user receiving the notification, or the state of the content object, for example. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309196 | USER ENERGY-LEVEL ANOMALY DETECTION - Aspects of the technology described herein can analyze user data from multiple computing devices to ascertain a user's energy level and detect anomalies. When an anomaly is detected, the technology described herein can make suggestions to increase the user's energy level. The suggestions can be generated by analyzing user data from the crowd to determine what worked for similarly situated users. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309197 | SYSTEM FOR AUTOMOTIVE QUALITY OF LIFE PROGRAM - A method and system to gather and evaluate quality of life data is disclosed. A controller is provided in a vehicle to ask a series of questions relating to quality of life to a person in the vehicle via a speaker system. The controller receives responses to the questions orally via a microphone. The controller translates the responses into quality of life data. The controller analyzes the data to evaluate the quality of life of the person. The data is stored and may be used for further evaluation of quality of life for the person. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309198 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING MISSION READINESS - The present invention is directed to systems and methods for objectively assessing mission readiness. The systems can comprise a backend system and scenario server in communication with the backend system. The backend system can comprise a planning and analysis system comprising planning and/or assessing data for one or more training missions, a common database builder comprising geographical data of a geographical region for the training mission, and a digital media replicator comprising a social media module configured to receive publically accessible data relevant to the training mission from one or more social media platforms. The scenario server is configured to receive data from each of the planning and analysis system, common database builder, and digital media replication to create the training mission. Methods in accordance with such systems are disclosed herein. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309199 | ENHANCING STRINGED INSTRUMENT LEARNING WITH A WEARABLE DEVICE - Enhanced stringed instrument learning is provided by a wearable device. A control unit comprising a processor and a memory device is integrated with a frame, of the wearable device, formed to fit over a hand of a user while playing a stringed instrument. A finger assembly is provided each finger of the hand and is coupled to the frame to immobilize a finger of the hand while playing the stringed instrument. A sensor array is coupled to each finger assembly and to the control unit to determine at least a positioning of fingers on the stringed instrument. The sensor also sends user performance data to the control unit. The control unit analyzes the user performance data and outputs feedback to the user based on the performance data analysis. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309200 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO VISUALIZE CONNECTED LANGUAGE - Systems and methods for visualizing connected speech are disclosed. The systems and methods include receiving reading content as vocalized speech; analyzing the vocalizations to determine the nature and duration of the vocalized breath strings of a text when read aloud; and generating highlighting for beginning and end points to be the visual content based on the nature and duration of the vocalized, breath strings. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309201 | QUALITY CONTROLLED ARTIFICIAL EYELASHES EXTENSION SYSTEM - The present invention is a quality controlled artificial eyelashes extension system having two main features. One of the method and materials for the application of artificial lash hairs onto existing natural eyelashes of a human subject to extend the length of the natural eyelash. This feature provides the training and materials to attach the eyelash extensions on a hair-by hair basis to a subject's existing natural eyelash. The second is the quality control feature of the present lash extension system which provides for assuring that practitioners of the system are appropriately trained, and the consumable materials utilized by the system are safe for human use. Quality control assurance of practitioners and consumable materials is accomplished by having programs for practitioner training and certification, and for materials quality assurance which controls the quality of the system's consumable materials made available to practitioners. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309202 | Affinity Knowledge Based Computational Learning System - An affinity knowledge library generates a library of word pairs having both independent and dependent affinities with one another, and uses that affinity knowledge library to create customized curriculums based upon affinities of students and teachers. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309203 | BRAILLE LEARNING APPARATUS AND BRAILLE LEARNING METHOD USING THE SAME - A braille learning apparatus includes a plurality of slave blocks for receiving braille from a learner, and a master station configured to: receive braille learning information from an external braille learning information terminal, when slave blocks corresponding to a specific braille inputted by the learner are mounted, determine whether the specific braille inputted to the slave blocks match a learning word, and transmit a determination result to the external braille learning information terminal. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309204 | MODULAR STAGED REALITY SIMULATOR - This invention is directed to a modular staged simulator and a process of simulating medical trauma and maladies for the purpose of training or certifying individuals including medical professionals. More specifically, this disclosure relates to ex vivo training exercises as opposed to traditional forms of training using intact cadavers, in vivo surgery on animal subjects; and supervised apprenticeship performing surgery on human subjects with trauma or maladies under the watch of a skilled medical practitioner. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309205 | LED MODULE AND SIGN BOX - An LED module is disclosed, which includes one or more LED light sources and one or more lenses. Each lens includes a lens body. The lens body includes an inner cavity having an incident surface, an emergent surface, and a reflective surface extending between the incident surface and the emergent surface for providing total internal reflection. One LED light source is situated in the inner cavity. Light emitted from the LED light source is transmitted by the incident surface. At least portion of transmitted light by the incident surface is reflected by the reflective surface to the emergent surface so as to provide a narrow light beam angle perpendicular to a length direction of the LED module. The emergent surface has a plurality of micro structures for enlarging a light viewing angle in the length direction. A sign box using one or more LED modules is also disclosed. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309206 | PHOTOLUMINESCENT IDENTIFIER SYSTEM FOR FIREFIGHTING EQUIPMENT - The present system provides a lightweight fire-resistant photoluminescent identifier system for firefighters, which is suitable for use on the firefighter's facemask, as well as other equipment. The system is lightweight and provides individual recognition of an individual firefighter. The identifier system lights up automatically in a low-light environment without batteries, yet prevents glare to the firefighter using the system. The components that comprise the system are fire-resistant to temperatures up to and exceeding 500 degrees Fahrenheit to facilitate personal recognition of the individual in dark and low-light areas. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309207 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A shape display device is disclosed. The shape display device includes a plurality of couplers; and a plurality of rods pivotally connected to the coupler, the rod having a varying length in a lengthwise direction, the rod including: a main frame; a circuit board accommodated in the main frame; a first slider movably mounted on the main frame, the first slider connected to a first coupler among the plurality of couplers; a second slider movably mounted on the main frame, the second slider connected to a second coupler among the plurality of couplers; and a driver installed in the main frame, the driver providing the first and second sliders with a driving force, the driver connected to the circuit board electrically. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309208 | Deep Viewer - The present invention relates to a method of displaying an artwork, comprising the steps of: i) providing a complete image, a first substrate, and a second substrate; ii) dividing the complete image into a first image segment and at least one subsequent image segment; iii) imposing the first image segment on the first substrate; iv) imposing the at least one subsequent image segment on the second substrate; and v) positioning the first substrate parallel to the second substrate such that the complete image is revealed with a perception of depth when the first substrate and the second substrate are viewed from a predetermined angle. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309209 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display panel includes a plurality of scan lines that receive scan signals, a plurality of data lines that receive data signals, lines that receive masking signals according to the scan signals, and a plurality of pixels respectively connected to the plurality of scan lines and the plurality of data lines. The error detection circuit receives the scan signals that are transmitted through the plurality of scan lines, and outputs an error detection signal based on the scan signals. Power is not supplied to the plurality of pixels when the error detection signal is at an activated level. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309210 | DISPLAY SYSTEMS WITH COMPENSATION FOR LINE PROPAGATION DELAY - A method for characterizing and eliminating the effect of propagation delay on data and monitor lines of AMOLED panels is introduced. A similar technique may be utilized to cancel the effect of incomplete settling of select lines that control the write and read switches of pixels on a row. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309211 | SHIFT REGISTER UNIT AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, SHIFT REGISTER AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The present disclosure discloses a shift register unit and a driving method thereof, a shift register circuit and a display device, and relates to the field of display technology, in order to solve problems of the conventional shift register that it has a complex structure, and occupies a too larger space. The shift register unit comprises an input module for receiving a signal of an input signal terminal and a signal of a high level terminal, a reset module for resetting an output terminal of the shift register unit and a pull-up control node, a pull-down module for discharging the pull-up control node and the output terminal of the shift register unit, a pull-down control module for generating a power supply enable signal and a power supply signal, and an output control module for generating a gate drive signal and outputting the power supply enable signal, the power supply signal and the gate drive signal. The shift register unit provided by the present disclosure is applied to the display device. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309212 | SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY DEVICE - It is an object to provide a semiconductor display device with high reliability. Further, it is an object to provide a semiconductor display device which can reduce power consumption. A decoder is provided for a scan line driver circuit and operates such that, in accordance with a signal input to the scan line driver circuit, a pulse is sequentially input only to scan lines included in pixels of rows performing display and a pulse is not input to scan lines included in pixels of rows at which display is not performed. Then, all pixels or part of pixels in the line selected by the pulse is supplied with a video signal from a signal line driver circuit, whereby display of an image is performed in pixels arranged in the specific area of the pixel portion. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309213 | DATA COMPENSATOR AND DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - A data compensator includes a voltage drop compensator configured to output a voltage drop compensation value based on input data of pixels included in a display panel, a color difference compensator configured to output a color difference compensation value to compensate for compensate the color difference of the pixels, a compensation data generator configured to generate a compensation value of the input data based on the voltage drop compensation value and the color difference compensation value, and to generate a compensation data by performing an operation on the input data and the compensation value, and a dithering block configured to generate output data by dithering the compensation data. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309214 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A display apparatus includes a display panel, a timing controller, a gate driver, and a data driver. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel groups. Each of the pixel groups includes a first pixel and a second pixel disposed adjacent to the first pixel. The first and second pixels together include n (n is an odd number equal to or greater than 3) sub-pixels. The first and second pixels share their collective {(n+1)/2}th sub-pixel. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309215 | MULTI-LAYER DISPLAY WITH COLOR AND CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT - A device can include a first display configured to produce an image and a second display. The second display can be non-emissive and transparent. The second display can also include a plurality of pixels that is electronically controllable to selectively diffuse light associated with the image produced by the first display. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309216 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CONTENT - Disclosed are a content display method and an electronic device. The content display method includes reducing display brightness of some of a plurality of pixels constituting content based on pixel information of the plurality of pixels. The content display method includes displaying the content based on the reduced display brightness. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309217 | DISPLAY DRIVING DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A display driving device may include: a source driving channel configured to provide a source driving signal corresponding to image data; a precharge unit configured to precharge a data output line of the source driving channel by selecting one of precharge voltages; and a precharge controller configured to decide whether to perform a precharge operation on the source driving channel depending on a variation of the image data, and control the precharge unit to select one of the precharge voltages when the performance of the precharge operation is decided. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309218 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device and a method for controlling the electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a substantially circular or oval display, a processor configured to generate content, a display driving unit comprising display driving circuitry including a first driver and a second driver, wherein the display driving unit is configured to control driving of the display, to identify a shape of an area of content which is displayed in the display, to identify the shape of the display, to determine a first area of the display in which the content is to be displayed, to determine a second area of the display in which the content is not to be displayed based on at least a result of the identification, to deactivate at least part of the display driving unit, corresponding to the second area, while activating the display driving unit corresponding to the first area. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309219 | DATA DRIVER, DISPLAY DRIVING CIRCUIT, AND OPERATING METHOD OF DISPLAY DRIVING CIRCUIT - A data driver and a display driving circuit are provided. The display driving circuit includes a first gamma voltage generator that supplies a first gamma voltage set, a second gamma voltage generator that supplies a second gamma voltage set, a first channel driver that outputs a selected one of gamma voltages of the first gamma voltage set, and a second channel driver that outputs a selected one of gamma voltages of the second gamma voltage set. In a first operation mode, the first channel driver and the second channel driver respectively drive a first data line and a second data line of a display panel, and in a second operation mode, the second gamma voltage generator and the second channel driver are disabled, and the first channel driver time-divisionally drives the first data line and the second data line, based on the first gamma voltage set. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309220 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device according to an embodiment of the inventive concept includes a data driving unit, a gate driving unit, a signal control unit for controlling driving of the data driving unit and the gate driving unit, and a display panel. The data driving unit generates an internal clock signal for outputting data voltages corresponding to image data, and the display panel displays an image corresponding to the data voltages in response to a gate driving signal outputted from the gate driving unit. The data driving unit includes a filtering unit for converting a first frequency control signal received from the signal control unit so as to generate a second frequency control signal, and a clock training unit for training a clock signal received from the signal control unit so as to generate the internal clock signal in response to the second frequency control signal. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309221 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a timing controller and a display. The timing controller is connected to a connector of a USB cable and receive image signals from a host through the USB cable. The display receives the image signals from the timing controller to display an image. The timing controller includes an interface controller, a control signal selector, a data transmitter, and a data processor. The interface controller outputs control signals to control an output order of the image signals. The control signal selector selects and outputs a control signal corresponding to a connection position of the connector from the interface controller. The data transmitter determines the output order of the image signals from the host based on the control signal from the control signal selector. The data processor receives the image signal from the data transmitter and provides the image signal to the display. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309222 | LED DISPLAY MODULE, DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - An LED display module, a display apparatus, and a method for controlling the LED display module and the display apparatus are provided. The LED display module includes a plurality of first LEDs arranged in a first line and a plurality of second LEDs arranged in a second line; a plurality of source interfaces, each of which is commonly connected to an anode of a corresponding one of the plurality of first LEDs and a cathode of a corresponding one of the plurality of second LEDs arranged in the same column as the corresponding one of the plurality of first LEDs; and a gate interface commonly connected to a cathode of each of the plurality of the first LEDs and an anode of each of the plurality of the second LEDs. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309223 | SMALL PITCH DIRECT VIEW DISPLAY AND METHOD OF MAKING THEREOF - A direct view display device includes a printed circuit board, an array of pixels located on a first side of the printed circuit board, each pixel including a plurality of light emitting diodes, and an isolation grid comprising a light absorbing material located between the pixels in the array of pixels. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309224 | DISPLAY WITH REDUNDANT LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES - An active matrix display where in one embodiment each cell comprises: a driving circuit for providing current to light emitting devices placed in the cell under the control of a data driver signal, a first light emitting device location connected to the driving circuit and a second light emitting device location connected in series to the first light emitting device location. A first thin-film transistor (TFT) is connected in parallel with the first light emitting device location and a second TFT is connected in parallel with the second light emitting device location, its gate node connected to the gate node of the first TFT. One terminal of a third TFT is connected to the gate nodes of the first and second TFTs and selectively connects a control signal to the first and second TFTs under the control of a scan driver signal. The control signal determines which of a first or second light emitting device placed in the cell emits light when the driving circuit provides current. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309225 | APPARATUS WITH OLED DISPLAY AND OLED DRIVER THEREOF - An OLED apparatus has an OLED driver for receiving display data from a processor. The processor gets OLED status information indicating attenuation or other status of OLED cells or related circuits. The processor calculates adjustment data according to the OLED status information and sends the adjustment data to the OLED driver. The OLED driver drives the OLED cells based on the adjustment data to overcome attenuation and other related problems. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309226 | FLEXIBLE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COMPENSATING IMAGE OF FLEXIBLE DISPLAY DEVICE - A flexible display device according to example embodiments includes a rollable display panel, a housing accommodating the rollable display panel in a rolled state and including an opening portion through which the rollable display panel is pulled out, an optical sensor disposed at the opening portion and configured to detect luminance of the rollable display panel while the rollable display panel is rolled or unrolled, a controller configured to compensate image data based on detection data generated by the optical sensor, and a display panel driver configured to control a display of rollable display panel. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309227 | ACTIVE MATRIX DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns, a plurality of first power lines that extend in a pixel column direction and through which a power supply voltage is supplied to the pixels, and a plurality of second power lines that extend in the pixel column direction and through which an initialization voltage different from the power supply voltage is to the pixels. The number of first power lines is greater than the number of second power lines. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309228 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD - A display apparatus includes: a first wiring, a second wiring, and a third wiring; a light emitting element configured to emit light due to a current flowing between an anode electrode and a cathode electrode; a driving transistor configured to control a current which is supplied from the first wiring to the anode electrode; a first switch configured to connect or disconnect the second wiring and a gate electrode of the driving transistor; a second switch configured to connect or disconnect the third wiring and the anode electrode; and a switching circuit configured to selectively apply one of an image signal voltage and a first voltage to the second wiring. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309229 | DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING SHARED COLUMN LINES - A display device having at least a plurality of pixel circuits, connected to signal lines to which data signals in accordance with luminance information are supplied, arranged in a matrix, wherein pixel circuits of odd number columns and even number columns adjacent sandwiching an axis in a column direction parallel to an arrangement direction of the signal lines have a mirror type circuit arrangement symmetric about the axis of the column direction, and there are lines different from the signal lines between signal lines of adjacent pixel circuits. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309230 | PIXEL AND A DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE PIXEL - A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of unit pixels. Each unit pixel includes a plurality of sub-pixels, each coupled to a respective data line. The plurality of sub-pixels includes a red sub-pixel, a first green sub-pixel, a blue sub-pixel, and a second green sub-pixel. The display device further includes a data driver configured to output data signals via output channels. The display device additionally includes a plurality of demultiplexers configured to selectively connect data signals output from the output channels to the plurality of sub-pixels in response to a plurality of select signals that are sequentially provided to the plurality of demultiplexers. The display device further includes a scan driver configured to provide scan signals to the unit pixels through the scan lines, and a timing controller. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309231 | DETECTION CIRCUIT, DETECTION METHOD AND PIXEL DRIVING CIRCUIT - A detection circuit, a detection method and a pixel driving circuit are disclosed in the embodiments of the present disclosure. The detection circuit comprises a first detection unit, a second detection unit, a load unit, a light emitting device and a driving unit. The first detection module is connected to the driving unit and the load unit. The second detection unit is connected to the light emitting device and the load unit. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309232 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE, DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME AND METHOD FOR POWER SUPPLY - A display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus may include a display configured to display an image using a backlight, an image signal provider configured to provide an image signal to the display and a power supply unit configured to generate first driving power and second driving power using a first converter and a second converter, respectively, and provide the first driving power to the image signal provider and provide the second driving power to the backlight, wherein the power supply unit is configured to control the first converter and the second converter alternately. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309233 | DISPLAY INCLUDING LIQUID CRYSTAL LAYER WITH ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE BACKLIGHT - Example embodiments of disclosed configurations include a display device with a liquid crystal layer and an organic light emitting diode backlight. In one or more embodiments, the liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal layer including a plurality of liquid crystals grouped into a plurality of liquid crystal portions, and the organic light emitting diode backlight coupled to the liquid crystal layer. The organic light emitting diode backlight includes a plurality of OLED backlight portions, where each OLED backlight portion faces a corresponding liquid crystal portion and is configured to project light towards the corresponding liquid crystal portion. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309234 | SEGMENTED BACKLIGHT FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - Example embodiments of disclosed configurations include a liquid crystal display with segmented backlight units that can be controlled individually. In one or more embodiments, the liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal layer including a plurality of liquid crystals grouped into a plurality of liquid crystal portions, and a backlight coupled to the liquid crystal layer. The backlight includes a plurality of backlight units, where each backlight unit faces a corresponding liquid crystal portion and is configured to project light towards the corresponding liquid crystal portion. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309235 | METHOD AND PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING A DOUBLE SCREEN - The invention relates to a method and to a portable electronic device having a double screen comprising the following steps: displaying an electronic file on a portable electronic device which includes a touch screen and an e-ink screen; differentiating between the text content and the multimedia content in said electronic file; displaying the text content on an e-ink screen of the portable electronic device; and displaying the multimedia content of the file on a touch screen of the portable electronic device. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309236 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device | 2017-10-26 |
20170309237 | METHOD OF DRIVING DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - A method of driving a display panel includes generating a first driving period having a first driving frequency, generating a second driving period having a second driving frequency, and inserting a compensating frame between the first driving period and the second driving period. A display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image, and a display panel driver configured to generate a first driving period having a first driving frequency, to generate a second driving period having a second driving frequency, and to insert a compensating frame between the first driving period and the second driving period. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309238 | DISPLAY PANEL - A display panel includes a substrate, and a pixel array and a gate driving circuit. The gate driving circuit provides gate driving signals to the pixel array, and includes shift registers, wherein each shift register includes a voltage providing unit, a first driving transistor, a voltage transmitting unit and a second driving transistor. The voltage providing unit receives a setting signal and a system high voltage to provide a first terminal voltage. The first driving transistor receives a first clock signal and the first terminal voltage to provide a first gate driving signal. The voltage transmitting unit receives the first gate driving signal to provide a second terminal voltage. The second driving transistor receives a second clock signal and the second terminal voltage to provide a second gate driving signal. Therefore, the influence caused by large difference of driving capabilities of the first and the second driving transistor is avoided. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309239 | DRIVING METHOD OF LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - An object is to provide a driving method of a liquid crystal display device with a low power consumption and a high image quality. A pixel includes a liquid crystal element and a transistor which controls supply of an image signal to the liquid crystal element. The transistor includes, in a channel formation region, a semiconductor which has a wider band gap than a silicon semiconductor and has a lower intrinsic carrier density than silicon, and has an extremely low off-state current. In inversion driving of pixels, image signals having opposite polarities are input to a pair of signal lines between which a pixel electrode is disposed. By employing such a structure, the quality of the displayed image can be increased even in the absence of a capacitor in the pixel. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309240 | SHIFT REGISTER UNIT, GATE DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A shift register unit, includes: a first output module and a second output module, configured to output a signal of a clock signal terminal to a signal output terminal under the control of a pull-up control node; an input module, configured to output a voltage of the first power supply terminal to the pull-up control node under the control of a signal of the signal input terminal; a pull-down control module, configured to pull down a signal of the pull-down control node to a voltage of the second power supply terminal under the control of the signal input terminal; a pull-down module, configured to pull down signals of the pull-up control node and the signal output terminal to the voltage of the second power supply under the control of the pull-down control node; and a reset module, configured to output a signal of the first power supply terminal to the pull-down control node under the control of the reset signal terminal. The shift register unit is capable of raising the output capability of the signal output terminal and shortening the falling time of the output waveform. A gate driving circuit and a display apparatus are also provided. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309241 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND A METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A display apparatus includes a display panel, a data driving circuit, and a gate driving circuit. The display panel is configured to display an image and includes a gate line and a data line. The data driving circuit is configured to output a data signal to the data line. The gate driving circuit is configured to output a gate signal to the gate line and to control a kick-back time of the gate signal according to a temperature of the display panel. The kick-back time is a time when the gate signal is decreased from a gate on voltage to a kick-back voltage that is between the gate on voltage and a gate off voltage. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309242 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A display device including a substrate, a gate driver disposed on the substrate and including a plurality of stages, a clock signal line disposed on the substrate, and transmitting a clock signal to at least one of the stages, a transistor disposed on the substrate, and a light blocking layer disposed between the substrate and the transistor and overlapping the transistor. The clock signal line includes a first conductive line and a second conductive line overlapping the first conductive line, and the first conductive line is disposed in the same layer as the light blocking layer. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309243 | SHIFT REGISTER UNIT AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, GATE DRIVING APPARATUS AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - There are disclosed a shift register unit ( | 2017-10-26 |
20170309244 | DATA DRIVER AND A DISPLAY APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A data driver includes an N-th amplifier including first and second input nodes and a first output node and configured to output an N-th data voltage to an N-th data line, the first input node receiving the N-th data voltage from an N-th node, the second input node being connected to the first output node, a first switch connected between the N-th node and the first input node, and a second switch connected between the first input node and the second input node. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309245 | MULTIPLE DRIVER IC FOR LCD FOR VIRTUAL REALITY - A display device that includes a liquid crystal (LC) panel, a back light unit (BLU), a first data driver, and a second data driver. The back light unit (BLU) emits light during an illumination portion of a frame period and does not emit light during a remaining portion of the frame period. A first data driver writes data to a first portion of the pixels of the LC panel. A second data driver writes data to a second portion of the pixels of the LC panel. The first and second data drivers write data at an overlapping time during a write portion of the frame period. The write portion overlaps in time with the remaining portion of the frame period during which the BLU does not emit light. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309246 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A power supply device includes n power supply circuits connected in parallel and a controller to control a number of the operating power supply. The controller includes n detectors, a comparator, and an on/off controller. The n detectors are respectively connected to the n power supply circuits. The n detectors receive feedback current from the number of operating power supply circuits. The comparator compares the feedback current with predetermined first and second reference currents and outputs first, second, and third state signals. The on/off controller determines the number of the operating power supply circuits according to a cumulative number of each of the first to third state signals during a predetermined window section, and controls a on/off state of the power supply circuits according to the determined number. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309247 | PIXEL ARRAY - A pixel array includes pixel sets adjacent to each other. A pixel set includes two pixels. Each pixel includes three sub-pixels having a quadrilateral shape. Two adjacent edges of any one of the sub-pixels adjoin the other two sub-pixels, respectively, so that each pixel has a hexagonal shape. Sub-pixels of the pixel have different colors. After a rotation by 180 degrees, shapes of three sub-pixels of one pixel in a pixel set are substantially the same as shapes of three sub-pixels of the other pixel in the pixel set, and adjacent two sub-pixels of two pixels correspond to each other. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309248 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE AND INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE - A display control device and an information display device will be provided which help, when a vehicle's abnormality is detected, the driver readily recognize the image corresponding to the vehicle's abnormal information item and accurately understand the content of the abnormality. A display control device | 2017-10-26 |
20170309249 | Display Device and Electronic Device - A dark portion in an image seen by a viewer is expressed more precisely, whereby the image given a greater sense of depth is displayed. A display device in which pixels each include a light-emitting module capable of emitting light having a spectral line half-width of less than or equal to 60 nm in a response time of less than or equal to 100 μs and are provided at a resolution of higher than or equal to 80 ppi; the NTSC ratio is higher than or equal to 80%; and the contrast ratio is higher than or equal to 500, is provided with a circuit converting an image signal having a given grayscale into an image signal capable of representing an image on the low luminance side by high-level grayscale. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309250 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREPARING, STORING, TRANSMITTING AND DISPLAYING IMAGES - An imaging and display apparatus for passive displays evaluates the illumination of an input scene and incorporates data representative of such input scene within a transfer media. The transfer media may be a storage medium storing image data, illumination data and gamma information for delivery to a passive display system. The data controls the optical characteristics of the illumination source for the passive display and the gamma and tends to minimize energy requirements, to maximize contrast or shades of gray in the displayed image, and to optimize light source operation for color fidelity. The data provided the media and/or display as a video signal, modulated video signal, s-video signal, digital signal, or other signal that can be used by a passive display system to display images. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309251 | DISPLAY DEVICE - An edge detection and labeling circuit dividing an input image from a plurality of pixels into a plurality of regions based on the feature quantity of each of the plurality of pixels, a region-specific luminance reduction rate calculation circuit calculating the reduction rate of luminance for each region based on the surface area of each of the plurality of regions, and a pixel light emission quantity calculation circuit generating an output image by correcting the luminance of each of the plurality of pixels based on the reduction rate output by the region-specific luminance reduction rate calculation circuit are provided. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309252 | IMAGE DRAWING APPARATUS - An image drawing apparatus includes a first processing apparatus and a second processing apparatus to execute drawing processing on a screen. A display preparation period of the first processing apparatus is shorter than a display preparation period of the second processing apparatus; the first processing apparatus displays an input image on the screen to receive an input manipulation by a user. Either the first processing apparatus or the second processing apparatus includes a notification section that executes notification processing that displays on the screen a notification image notifying the user. The notification processing is executable before completion of display preparation of the second processing apparatus. The notification image notifies the user that the second processing apparatus is incapable of updating an image displayed on the screen. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309253 | TIMING-BASED SCHEDULING FOR COMPUTER-GENERATED ANIMATION - A method of scheduling and performing computations for generating an interactive computer-generated animation on behalf of a client device to achieve a desired quality of service includes generating a computational configuration of computations that, when performed, produce the computer-generated animation with the desired quality of service. The configuration includes an identification of a first computation that outputs first data, a first start time for the first computation, and a first end time, where the first computation is to end before the first end time. The configuration also includes an identification of a second computation that depends on the first data, and a second start time for the second computation. The first computation is performed in response to an occurrence of the first start time and the second computation is performed in response to an occurrence of the second start time. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309254 | ESCAPE INDICATOR DISPLAY SYSTEM, READING METHOD THEREOF, AND ESCAPE INDICATOR IMAGE GENERATION AND DISPLAY METHOD - An escape indicator display system includes a storage unit, a display unit and a control unit. The storage unit includes a database, plural datarows in the database, a code corresponsive to each datarow and having at least one field, escape indication information in the field and including plural pieces of image information, text information, color information or size information. The control unit is coupled between the display unit and the storage unit for selecting a country or district name, and the reads the datarow of the code corresponsive to the country or district name from the database by the processor, and displays the escape indication information in the field on the display unit, so as to detect the location of the system and display the escape indicator image according to local escape indicator regulations. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309255 | VIDEO MONITORING - One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for monitoring a video are provided. For example, the video may be rendered within a canvas overlaying a webpage within a web browser. The video may comprise an opaque portion (e.g., a bike) and a transparent portion (e.g., a transparent background such that the bike appears to be driving across the webpage as the video plays). User input associated with the canvas may be evaluated to determine whether the user input occurs over the opaque portion or the transparent portion. Responsive to the user input occurring over the opaque portion, the web browser may be transitioned from the webpage to a biking website linked to by the video. Responsive to the user input occurring over the transparent portion, the canvas may be closed to terminate the video. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309256 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND, PROGRAM - The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program that a memory capacity necessary for deformation processing of each frame image of a moving image can be reduced. Pixel data of a first frame image being each frame image of an input moving image is written into a predetermined plurality of storage areas in a storage unit in a predetermined write-in order, and the pixel data of the first frame image written into the storage unit is reads out in a predetermined read-out order, thereby generating a second frame image being the first frame image deformed. The write-in of the pixel data and the read-out of the pixel data are performed in parallel, the first frame image is divided into blocks in 2 rows×2 columns or more, the blocks are written into each of the storage area one by one, and the block to be written next is written into the storage area that becomes vacant by reading out the pixel data immediately before. The present technology is applicable, for example, to an image processing apparatus. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309257 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE - A display control device includes a determination unit and a controller. The determination unit determines whether or not a subject viewed from a passenger falls within a display range of a virtual image based on the position information of the subject acquired from a recognition unit that recognizes the subject in the foreground of a moving object and the estimated value of a depression angle acquired from an estimation unit that estimates the depression angle when the virtual image is viewed from the passenger. In a case where the subject is determined to fall within the display range, the controller controls a display unit to generate an image that represents a first display image showing the information corresponding to the subject. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309258 | ELECTRIC GUITAR / BASS WITH DOUBLE NECK, WHICH IS DIVIDED INTO TWO SEPARATE - Electric guitar/bass with double neck, which can be divided into two separate autonomous guitars/bass (FIG. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309259 | CONTOURED BANJO BRIDGE - The present invention is directed to a Contoured Banjo Bridge with a flat upper surface for making contact with and securing the strings present on a stringed instrument and one or more convex overall lower surfaces which makes contact with the head of said stringed instrument, to maintain a uniform pressure with the banjo head surface when the strings are tightened, whereby the convex lower portion of the banjo bridge has a curved lower surface to compensate for the stress applied onto the head of the stringed instrument when the strings are tightened. The Contoured Banjo Bridge may be constructed with one or more openings to achieve the intended purpose of this application. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309260 | BACHI FOR A SHAMISEN - A bachi for playing a shamisen, comprising a handle portion having a first end and a second end, a blade portion removably disposed on the first end of the handle portion, and an attachment assembly that removably secures the blade portion to the first end of the handle portion. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309261 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT STRUCTURES FOR PERMANENT INSTALLATION IN AN OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT - A metallophone structure configured for permanent installation in an outdoor environment is provided. The metallophone structure comprises a mounting structure. The metallophone structure also comprises a set of tone producing devices each coupled to the mounting structure by a fastener, wherein each tone producing device is configured to, when actuated, produce a sound frequency. The tone producing device is coupled in a location, by the fastener, as to reduce the effect on the quality of sound produced. The metallophone structure also comprises a mallet cradle configured to receive a mallet. The mallet is configured to actuate one of the tone producing devices. The metallophone structure is configured to be weather resistant such that each tone producing device still produces the sound frequency after an outdoor exposure period. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309262 | Guitar Stand Mounting System - A guitar stand which is capable of being mounted onto the side handle of an amplifier, while also being capable of being mounted onto a multi-guitar adapter and an amplifier connector. The multi-guitar adapter and guitar stand can be attached onto the side handle of the amplifier. The multi guitar amplifier is capable of having a first and a second guitar stand mounted onto it while attached to an amplifier. The amplifier connector attaches onto the top of an amplifier and is capable of having a single guitar stand mounted onto it. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309263 | RINGTONE SEQUENCES BASED ON MUSIC HARMONY, MODULATION SYMBOLS AND CALLING TELEPHONE NUMBER - An apparatus for generating a reproducible audio information sequence includes a receiver adapted to receive and decode a signal in which at least one sequence of symbols is encoded to which an audio information sequence is to correspond, memory storing a plurality of reproducible audio elements, a processor configured for associating one of the reproducible audio elements with at least one first symbol included in the sequence of symbols on the basis of the first symbol and of at least one second symbol that, in the sequence of symbols, precedes or follows the first symbol, and a sound generator for outputting audio sequences, configured for cyclically reproducing said reproducible audio information sequence. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309264 | Acoustic Resonator Assembly Having Variable Degrees of Freedom - An acoustic resonator assembly may include a first acoustic liner and a second acoustic liner. The first acoustic liner may define a first plurality of openings extending between first and second surfaces thereof. The second acoustic liner may be rotatably coupled to the first acoustic liner and at least one of the first acoustic liner and the second acoustic liner may be configured to rotate relative to each other to attenuate one or more frequencies of acoustic energy generated by working fluid flowing past the acoustic resonator assembly. The second acoustic liner may define a second plurality of openings extending between first and second surfaces thereof. A number of degrees of freedom of the acoustic resonator assembly may be varied by rotating the first acoustic liner and/or the second acoustic liner. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309265 | Megaphone Device - A megaphone device for amplifying sound is provided. The megaphone device comprises a flat foldable sheet having an inner surface, an outer surface, a mouth edge, a bell edge, a first side edge, and a second side edge. An adhesive strip is positioned along and nearingly adjacent the first side edge. A plurality of breakable fold over tabs is formed along the mouth edge with the fold over tabs movable in a general direction toward the outer surface to a position substantially perpendicular to the foldable sheet. The foldable sheet is rollable into a substantial cone shape forming a mouth portion along the mouth edge and a bell portion along the bell edge with the first side edge contacting the second side edge and the adhesive strip maintaining the substantial cone shape. Sounds projected through the mouth portion travel through a widening interior, and exit the bell portion at an increased volume. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309266 | SOUND ABSORBING BODY - A sound absorbing body comprises a non-woven fabric or a non-woven fabric laminate, the non-woven fabric or the non-woven fabric laminate comprises a fiber that has an average fiber diameter of less than 3,000 nm, the non-woven fabric or the non-woven fabric laminate has a thickness of less than 10 mm, the non-woven fabric or the non-woven fabric laminate has a unit thickness flow resistance of greater than 4.0 E+06 Ns/m | 2017-10-26 |
20170309267 | PILLOW SET WITH SNORING NOISE CANCELLATION - Active noise control systems, devices, and methods are disclosed herein. Anti-snoring systems can include a first pillow unit having at least one error microphone and at least one speaker, at least one reference microphone configured to capture sound produced proximate to the at least one reference microphone, and a control unit operatively coupled to the first pillow unit and the at least one reference microphone. In some aspects, the control unit can be configured to produce an anti-noise in the at least one speaker disposed in the first pillow unit by processing signals received from the at least one error microphone and the at least one reference microphone using gated dynamic adjustments such that the anti-noise cancels any sound produced proximate the at least one reference. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309268 | Systems and Methods for Enhancing A Signal-To-Noise Ratio - Provided are methods and apparatus for enhancing a signal-to-noise ratio. In an example, provided is an apparatus configured to modify audio to better match the way the human brain processes audio by modifying the audio to a form which takes advantage of human echolocation capabilities. When humans listen to audio, they subconsciously listen for an echo and thus subconsciously focus on listening to, and for, meaningful information in audio. The focus causes humans to ignore noise in the audio, which results in enhancing a signal-to-noise ratio. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309269 | INFORMATION PRESENTATION SYSTEM - An information presentation system | 2017-10-26 |
20170309270 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An electronic apparatus, a method for controlling an electronic apparatus, and a recording medium are disclosed. In one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes an input unit, a sound output unit, and at least one processor configured to perform a copy process. In the copy process, the at least one processor causes the sound output unit to perform a speech output of first text information, judges whether a first input to the input unit has been done by a user during the speech output, and determines, when judging that the first input has been done, a copy range in the first text information based on a first timing of the first input. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309271 | SPEAKING-RATE NORMALIZED PROSODIC PARAMETER BUILDER, SPEAKING-RATE DEPENDENT PROSODIC MODEL BUILDER, SPEAKING-RATE CONTROLLED PROSODIC-INFORMATION GENERATION DEVICE AND PROSODIC-INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD ABLE TO LEARN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES AND MIMIC VARIOUS SPEAKERS' SPEAKING STYLES - A speaking-rate dependent prosodic model builder and a related method are disclosed. The proposed builder includes a first input terminal for receiving a first information of a first language spoken by a first speaker, a second input terminal for receiving a second information of a second language spoken by a second speaker and a functional information unit having a function, wherein the function includes a first plurality of parameters simultaneously relevant to the first language and the second language or a plurality of sub-parameters in a second plurality of parameters relevant to the second language alone, and the functional information unit under a maximum a posteriori condition and based on the first information, the second information and the first plurality of parameters or the plurality of sub-parameters produces speaking-rate dependent reference information and constructs a speaking-rate dependent prosodic model of the second language. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309272 | Method to Synthesize Personalized Phonetic Transcription - Technology related to improving synthesis of foreign regional nouns using personalized and culturally correct phonetic transcription is described. The technology includes systems and methods for generating personalized speech by receiving an input, the input including textual data, identifying a regional noun in the textual data, and determining a user accent classification based on a context of the input. The method may further include determining a personalized phonetic transcription of the regional noun corresponding to the user accent classification and using a phonetic inventory stored in a database and outputting the personalized phonetic transcription. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309273 | LISTEN AND USE VOICE RECOGNITION TO FIND TRENDS IN WORDS SAID TO DETERMINE CUSTOMER FEEDBACK - In some embodiments, apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided herein for performing sound analysis in a shopping facility. A system for performing sound analysis comprises: an array of sound sensors distributed throughout a shopping facility and configured to receive at least sounds resulting from people in the shopping facility, an audio database including information associated with one or more audio indicia, and a control circuit communicatively coupled to the array of sound sensors and configured to receive, from a plurality of sensors of the array of sound sensors, audio data, wherein the audio data includes audio from throughout the shopping facility, determine, based at least in part on the audio data and the information associated with the one or more audio indicia included in the audio database, an action be taken, and transmit, to a terminal, an indication of the action to be taken. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309274 | MULTI-LEVEL VOICE MENU - Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are described herein related to a user interface (UI) that can be implemented on a head-mountable device (HMD). The UI can include a voice-navigable UI. The voice-navigable UI can include a voice navigable menu that includes one or more menu items. The voice-navigable UI can also present a first visible menu that includes at least a portion of the voice navigable menu. In response to a first utterance comprising one of the one or more menu items, the voice-navigable UI can modify the first visible menu to display one or more commands associated with the first menu item. In response to a second utterance comprising a first command, the voice-navigable UI can invoke the first command. In some embodiments, the voice-navigable UI can display a second visible menu, where the first command can be displayed above other menu items in the second visible menu. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309275 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING SPEECH BY LIP READING - A dictation device includes: an audio input device configured to receive a voice utterance including a plurality of words; a video input device configured to receive video of lip motion during the voice utterance; a memory portion; a controller configured according to instructions in the memory portion to generate first data packets including an audio stream representative of the voice utterance and a video stream representative of the lip motion; and a transceiver for sending the first data packets to a server end device and receiving second data packets including combined dictation based upon the audio stream and the video stream from the server end device. In the combined dictation, first dictation generated based upon the audio stream has been corrected by second dictation generated based upon the video stream. | 2017-10-26 |
20170309276 | Automated Speech Recognition Proxy System for Natural Language Understanding - An interactive response system mixes HSR subsystems with ASR subsystems to facilitate overall capability of voice user interfaces. The system permits imperfect ASR subsystems to nonetheless relieve burden on HSR subsystems. An ASR proxy is used to implement an IVR system, and the proxy dynamically determines how many ASR and HSR subsystems are to perform recognition for any particular utterance, based on factors such as confidence thresholds of the ASRs and availability of human resources for HSRs. | 2017-10-26 |