43rd week of 2021 patent applcation highlights part 56 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20210335331 | IMAGE CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE - An image control system includes an estimation circuit, an obtaining circuit, and an image control circuit, which circuits can be at least one processor. The estimation circuit receives an output from a trained model in response to an input of an acoustic signal indicating a performance of a musical piece. The estimation circuit estimates musical performance information based on the output. The musical performance information is associated with the performance indicated by the acoustic signal relative to the musical piece. The obtaining circuit obtains manipulation information that is associated with a playback of an image. The image control circuit controls the playback of the image based on the musical performance information. The image control circuit controls the playback of the image based on the manipulation information upon obtaining the manipulation information. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335332 | VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD - A video processing device, which inputs a piece of music and selects and outputs one video of a plurality of video sources, is provided. The video processing device includes a music analyzing part, which analyzes a progress of the piece of music; a video selecting part, which selects the one video from the plurality of video sources; and an output part, which outputs the one video at a timing corresponding to the progress of the piece of music that has been analyzed by the music analyzing part. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335333 | COMPUTING ORDERS OF MODELED EXPECTATION ACROSS FEATURES OF MEDIA - A method implemented by a determination engine is provided. The determination engine receives a media dataset comprising target piece music information, target piece audience information, corpus music information, corpus audience information, and corpus preference data. The determination engine determines a subset of the corpus music and preference information and determines at least one surprise factor of the subset of the corpus music and preference information across features at one of a plurality of orders. The determination engine learns a model that estimates a likelihood that time-varying surprise trends across the features achieves a preference level. The determination engine determines at least one surprise factor of the target piece music information across the features at the one of the plurality of orders and predicts, using the model, preference information using the time-varying surprise trends for the target piece music information across the features. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335334 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INTERACTIVE LYRIC GENERATION - Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to a Lyric Engine. In various embodiments, the Lyric Engine receives, at a user interface, a selection of at least one song criteria. The Lyric Engine receives a first set of suggested song lyrics that correspond to the selected song criteria. The Lyric Engine presents, in the user interface, the first set of suggested song lyrics. The Lyric Engine receives, at the user interface, a selection of one or more of the suggested song lyrics in the first set. The Lyric Engine receives a second set of suggested song lyrics that correspond to the selected song criteria and the selected song lyrics. The Lyric Engine concurrently presents, in the user interface, the selected song lyrics and the second set of suggested song lyrics. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335335 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND OUTPUTTING MUSIC - The subject matter discloses a system implemented on in a mobile electronic device, the system comprising a processing system of the device; and a memory that contains instructions comprising: detecting ambient sounds in the vicinity of the mobile electronic device; determining at least one property selected from a group consisting of a relative direction and relative distance of the ambient sounds relative to the mobile electronic device; analyzing the detected ambient sounds; outputting audio Interactive Music data based on the analysis of the ambient sounds and based on at least one of a relative direction and relative distance of the ambient sounds relative to the mobile electronic device; wherein said outputting is performed on the mobile electronic device. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335336 | Managing Characteristics of Active Noise Reduction - A first input signal captured by one or more sensors associated with an ANR headphone is received. A frequency domain representation of the first input signal is computed for a set of discrete frequencies, based on which a set of parameters is generated for a digital filter disposed in an ANR signal flow path of the ANR headphone, the set of parameters being such that a loop gain of the ANR signal flow path substantially matches a target loop gain. Generating the set of parameters comprises: adjusting a response of the digital filter at frequencies (e.g., spanning between 200 Hz-5 kHz). A response of at least 3 second order sections of the digital filter is adjusted. A second input signal in the ANR signal flow path is processed using the generated set of parameters to generate an output signal for driving the electroacoustic transducer of the ANR headphone. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335337 | SPEAKER IDENTITY AND CONTENT DE-IDENTIFICATION - One embodiment of the invention provides a method for speaker identity and content de-identification under privacy guarantees. The method comprises receiving input indicative of privacy protection levels to enforce, extracting features from a speech recorded in a voice recording, recognizing and extracting textual content from the speech, parsing the textual content to recognize privacy-sensitive personal information about an individual, generating de-identified textual content by anonymizing the personal information to an extent that satisfies the privacy protection levels and conceals the individual's identity, and mapping the de-identified textual content to a speaker who delivered the speech. The method further comprises generating a synthetic speaker identity based on other features that are dissimilar from the features to an extent that satisfies the privacy protection levels, and synthesizing a new speech waveform based on the synthetic speaker identity to deliver the de-identified textual content. The new speech waveform conceals the speaker's identity. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335338 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC TESTING OF CONVERSATIONAL ASSISTANCE - A voice recognition system includes a microphone configured to receive one or more spoken dialogue commands from a user in a voice recognition session. The system also includes a processor in communication with the microphone. The processor is configured to receive one or more audio files associated with one or more audio events associated with the voice recognition system, execute the one or more audio files in a voice recognition session in an audio event, and output a log report indicating a result of the audio events with the voice recognition session. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335339 | METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH SPEECH PROCESSING - A method, the method includes determining a target segment from a speech signal, determining a target character sequence corresponding to the target segment by decoding the target segment, identifying a first overlapping portion between the target character sequence and a preceding character sequence based on an edit distance, and merging the target character sequence and the preceding character sequence based on the first overlapping portion. A cost applied to the edit distance is determined based on any one or any combination of any two or more of a type of operation performed at the edit distance, whether characters to be operated are located in the first overlapping portion, and whether the characters to be operated match. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335340 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACOUSTIC MODEL CONDITIONING ON NON-PHONEME INFORMATION FEATURES - A method and system for acoustic model conditioning on non-phoneme information features for optimized automatic speech recognition is provided. The method includes using an encoder model to encode sound embedding from a known key phrase of speech and conditioning an acoustic model with the sound embedding to optimize its performance in inferring the probabilities of phonemes in the speech. The sound embedding can comprise non-phoneme information related to the key phrase and the following utterance. Further, the encoder model and the acoustic model can be neural networks that are jointly trained with audio data. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335341 | METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH SPEECH PROCESSING - A method, the method includes determining a target segment partially overlapping a preceding segment from a speech signal, determining a target character sequence corresponding to the target segment by decoding the target segment, identifying a first overlapping portion between the target character sequence and a preceding character sequence based on an edit distance, and merging the target character sequence and the preceding character sequence based on the first overlapping portion. A cost applied to the edit distance is determined based on any one or any combination of any two or more of a type of operation performed at the edit distance, whether characters to be operated are located in the first overlapping portion, and whether the characters to be operated match. A portion overlapping the preceding segment in the target segment is greater than or equal to 8.3% of the target segment. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335342 | DETECTION AND/OR ENROLLMENT OF HOT COMMANDS TO TRIGGER RESPONSIVE ACTION BY AUTOMATED ASSISTANT - Techniques are described herein for detecting and/or enrolling (or commissioning) new “hot commands” that are useable to cause an automated assistant to perform responsive action(s) without having to be first explicitly invoked. In various implementations, an automated assistant may be transitioned from a limited listening state into a full speech recognition state in response to a trigger event. While in the full speech recognition state, the automated assistant may receive and perform speech recognition processing on a spoken command from a user to generate a textual command. The textual command may be determined to satisfy a frequency threshold in a corpus of textual commands Consequently, data indicative of the textual command may be enrolled as a hot command. Subsequent utterance of another textual command that is semantically consistent with the textual command may trigger performance of a responsive action by the automated assistant, without requiring explicit invocation. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335343 | JOINT WORKS PRODUCTION METHOD AND SERVER USING COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE - A joint works production method of a joint works production server using collective intelligence includes receiving a subject of joint works from participants of the joint works production, receiving preference information on the received subject from other participants, determining whether to adopt the subject of the joint works according to the received preference information, and classifying, when the subject of the joint works is adopted, the adopted subject of the joint works by subjects and storing the classified subject. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335344 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEVICE CAPABLE OF CONTROLLING OTHER DEVICES BASED ON DEVICE INFORMATION - An artificial intelligence device includes a microphone configured to receive a voice command of a user, a communication unit configured to wirelessly perform communication with a first slave artificial intelligence device and a second slave artificial intelligence device, and a processor configured to acquire an intention of the voice command and determine a device which will perform operation corresponding to the intention based on the acquired intention and information on each of the artificial intelligence device, the first slave artificial intelligence device and the second slave artificial intelligence device. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335345 | Real Time Audio Profanity Filter - A computer program product, method and a system for a profanity filter includes a discrete device engineered with a communications port and a plurality of intraconnected digital signal processing modules. A language of origin text generation (TG) module configured to generate text from an audio language of origin is included. Also a profanity match (PM) module is configured to match a text list of defined profanity with profanity in the generated text. Furthermore, a profanity replacement (PR) module is configured to replace the matching profanity with an antiprofanity equivalent. The profanity filter device comprises an emoji face design, a clam shell and a box design with HDMI and USB ports. The disclosure filters profanity from TV shows, movies and any audio feed. The device also connects to the TV screen, computer monitor, or other video entertainment device for the purpose of instantly and automatically filtering profanity while the user listens. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335346 | DIALOGUE ACT CLASSIFICATION IN GROUP CHATS WITH DAG-LSTMS - Systems and methods for classifying a dialogue act in a chat log are provided. Each word of the dialogue act is mapped to a word vector representation. An utterance vector representation of the dialogue act is computed based on the word vector representations. An additional utterance vector representation of the dialogue act is computed based on the utterance vector representation. The additional utterance vector representation is mapped to a classification of the dialogue act. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335347 | DIALOGUE SYSTEM, DIALOGUE PROCESSING METHOD - A dialogue system includes a Speech to Text (STT) engine configured to convert a user speech into a spoken text; a learning-based dialogue engine configured to determine a user intention corresponding to the spoken text; a storage configured to store learning data used for learning of the dialogue engine; and a controller configured to determine an actual user intention based on at least one of context information or an additional user speech, match a spoken text failing to determine the user intention with the actual user intention when the dialogue engine fails to determine the user intention corresponding to the spoken text, and the dialogue engine may perform learning using the spoken text stored in the storage and the actual user intention. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335348 | PRE-EMPTIVELY LIMITING RESPONSIVENESS OF VARIOUS ASSISTANT DEVICES IN AN ENVIRONMENT USING AN INAUDIBLE TONE OR OTHER RENDERED OUTPUT - Implementations set forth herein relate providing and/or detecting an automated assistant suppressing output for limiting responsiveness of an automated assistant that is available via another computing device. The output can be rendered as an inaudible tone in an environment, in order to pre-emptively suppress responses from automated assistants that may detect a forthcoming spoken utterance from a user. Limiting responsiveness in this way can preserve computational resources in environments, such as vehicles, in which multiple users may be carrying devices that are capable of being invoked via a spoken utterance. For instance, pre-emptively limiting responsiveness of other automated assistants can eliminate interruptions at devices that may other be inadvertently invoked as a result of detecting certain spoken utterances. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335349 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING FULFILLMENT OF MEDIA CONTENT RELATED REQUESTS VIA UTTERANCE-BASED HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACES - Systems, methods, and devices for human-machine interfaces for improving machine understanding and fulfillment of utterance-based requests provided via the interfaces. Multiple candidate understandings from multiple stages of a natural language processing flow are preserved for arbitration and choosing by an arbitrator that applies arbitration rules to the plurality of candidates and chooses a single candidate for initiation of a corresponding service. In an embodiment, the arbitrator uses a media content taste profile to choose a candidate understanding for initiation of a corresponding service. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335350 | MESSAGING SYSTEM WITH TREND ANALYSIS OF CONTENT - A messaging system performs trend analysis on content produced by users of the messaging system. The messaging system is configured to extract modifications from content items received from client devices associated with users where the content items are modified using the modifications that comprises a text caption or a media overlay. The messaging system is further configured to determine one or more words from the content items and the extracted modifications and determine a frequency of the one or more words in the content items and the extracted modifications. The messaging system is further configured to determine whether the one or more words is a trend based on the frequency and an aggregate frequency. The messaging system is further configured to in response to the one or more words being determined as the trend, generating trend content associated with the one or more words, the trend content being a text, an image, or an augmentation content. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335351 | Voice Characterization-Based Natural Language Filtering - An utterance is analyzed to determine a characteristic of the utterance and a transcription hypothesis is generated for the utterance. Grammar rules are then used to parse the transcription hypothesis to produce a plurality of interpretation hypotheses, each having a likelihood score. A set of authorized domains is determined based on the characteristic and the plurality of interpretation hypotheses are filtered according to the set of authorized domains. Of the remaining interpretation hypotheses, one is selected according to their likelihood scores. The characteristic may include one or more characteristics such as mood, prosody, or whether the utterance has a rising intonation. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335352 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus as an image forming apparatus includes an utterance period detecting section, a simple response/statement determining section, and an HDD. The utterance period detecting section detects utterance periods of utterances of each person from voice data. The simple response/statement determining section converts the voice data to a text, determines, when the utterance in the detected utterance period falling within a first period contains any predetermined keyword, that the utterance is a simple response, determines the utterance made for a second period longer than the first period to be a statement, and extracts, for each person, a frequent keyword appearing a predetermined number of times or more in the utterances. The HDD stores determination results of the simple response/statement determining section, the utterance periods for the simple responses, and the utterance periods for the statements, together with the frequent keyword. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335353 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO VERIFY TRIGGER KEYWORDS IN ACOUSTIC-BASED DIGITAL ASSISTANT APPLICATIONS - Systems and methods of verifying trigger keywords in acoustic-based digital assistant applications are provided. A system can receive, from an application developer computing device, a request to generate a voice-based software application. The request can include a uniform resource locator (URL) associated with a service provided by the voice-based software application and an identifier corresponding to the URL. The system can identify a plurality of links that include the URL as a target. The system can determine a subset of the plurality of links having a respective character string that includes a reference to the identifier for the URL. The data processing system can compare the subset of the plurality of links to a threshold to determine a match level, and can determine a verification status of the request based on the match level. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335354 | MULTI-DEVICE CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING COMPONENT FOR EXECUTING THE SAME - Disclosed is a multi-device control method including: performing a voice recognition operation on a voice command generated from a sound source; identifying distances between each of the plurality of devices and the sound source; assigning response rankings to the devices by combining a context-specific correction score of each device corresponding to the voice command and the distances; and selecting a device to respond to the voice command from among the devices according to the response rankings. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335355 | INTELLIGENT GATEWAY DEVICE AND SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - An intelligent gateway device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a communication unit configured to be connected with a plurality of recognition devices; and a processor configured to receive data including a user request from an electronic device, acquire characteristic information for the user request from the received data, select at least one recognition device from the plurality of recognition devices on the basis of the acquired characteristic information, transmit the data to a first recognition device of the selected at least one recognition device, receive a recognition result of the user request from any one recognition device of the at least one recognition device, and transmit the received recognition result to an control device connected with a control target electronic device. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335356 | DYNAMICALLY DELAYING EXECUTION OF AUTOMATED ASSISTANT ACTIONS AND/OR BACKGROUND APPLICATION REQUESTS - Implementations set forth herein allow a user to access a first application in a foreground of a graphical interface, and simultaneously employ an automated assistant to respond to notifications arising from a second application. The user can provide an input, such as a spoken utterance, while viewing the first application in the foreground in order to respond to notifications from the second application without performing certain intervening steps that can arise under certain circumstances. Such intervening steps can include providing a user confirmation, which can be bypassed, and/or time-limited according to a timer, which can be displayed in response to the user providing a responsive input directed at the notification. A period for the timer can be set according to one or more characteristics that are associated with the notification, the user, and/or any other information that can be associated with the user receiving the notification. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335357 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INTELLIGENT SPEECH APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The disclosure provides a method for controlling an intelligent speech apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes: receiving a play command comprising a target file identifier; determining a file permission of a target file corresponding to the target file identifier; playing a preset push information, when the file permission does not match a current user permission of a user of the intelligent speech apparatus; and playing the target file when receiving speech data associated with the push information within a preset time period. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335358 | ELECTRONIC FAUCET WITH SMART FEATURES - A faucet is provided that electronically controls the flow volume and temperature of water being dispensed. The faucet illustratively includes a faucet body and a faucet handle. In some embodiments, the faucet may include a faucet body and be voice controlled. The faucet illustratively includes an inertial motion unit sensor mounted in the faucet handle to sense spatial orientation of the faucet handle. The faucet illustratively includes an electronic flow control system to adjust flow volume and temperature of water being dispensed. The faucet illustratively includes a controller configured to receive signals from the inertial motion unit sensor and control the electronic flow control system to adjust flow volume and temperature of water being dispensed based upon the position of the faucet handle. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335359 | BARRIER-FREE INTELLIGENT VOICE SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A barrier-free intelligent voice system and a method for controlling thereof, wherein multiple words are recognized from a voice audio to create multiple independent semantic units. Meanwhile, the system can continuously determine whether they are one of multiple voice tags created by the user. Thereafter, a target object, a program command, and a remark corresponding to the voice tag can be determined based on the successfully compared voice tag combination. Accordingly, a corresponding program can be started or a remote device can be triggered to operate. The present disclosure can be regarded as an AI intelligent voice processing engine. By allowing users to define different types of voice tag combinations, it can eliminate the grammatical and semantic analysis of natural language processing, eliminate speech translation differences and errors between different languages, effectively reduce the amount of calculations, increase the processing speed of the system, minimize system judgment errors. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335360 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING USER UTTERANCE AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is an electronic device including a communication interface, a memory, a microphone, a speaker, a display, a main processor, and a sub-processor activating the main processor by recognizing a wake-up word included in a voice input. The at least one memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the main processor to receive a first voice input to register the wake-up word, when the first voice input does not include a specified word, to receive a second voice input including a word identical to the first voice input, through the microphone, to generate a wake-up word recognition model for recognizing the wake-up word, and to store the generated wake-up word recognition model in the at least one memory, and when the first voice input includes the specified word, to output information for requesting a third voice input, through the speaker or the display. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335361 | DYNAMIC CONTACT INGESTION - Techniques for dynamic contact ingestion are described. A system may interpret a voice command received from a first device based on contact data or other information associated with a second device connected to the first device. For example, when a data connection is made between the first device and the second device, the first device may receive the contact data and send the contact data to a remote system. The remote system may temporarily associate the contact data with the first device, enabling the remote system to interpret a voice command received from the first device using the contact data. The remote system may use the contact data to perform disambiguation, enabling the remote system to initiate outbound calls, announce inbound calls, and/or the like. When the second device is disconnected from the first device, the remote system may remove the association between the contact data and the first device. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335362 | DETERMINING A SYSTEM UTTERANCE WITH CONNECTIVE AND CONTENT PORTIONS FROM A USER UTTERANCE - A voice dialogue system includes: a voice input unit which acquires a user utterance; an intention understanding unit which interprets an intention of utterance of a voice acquired by the voice input unit; a dialogue text creator which creates a text of a system utterance; and a voice output unit which outputs the system utterance as voice data, wherein when creating a text of a system utterance, the dialogue text creator creates the text by inserting a tag in a position in the system utterance, and the intention understanding unit interprets an utterance intention of a user in accordance with whether a timing at which the user utterance is made is before or after an output of a system utterance at a position corresponding to the tag from the voice output unit. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335363 | TALK BACK FROM ACTIONS IN APPLICATIONS - Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media directed to providing talk back automation for applications installed on a mobile device. To do so actions (e.g., talk back features) can be created, via the digital assistant, by recording a series of events that are typically provided by a user of the mobile device when manually invoking the desired action. At a desired state, the user may select an object that represents the output of the application. The recording embodies the action and can be associated with a series of verbal commands that the user would typically announce to the digital assistant when an invocation of the action is desired. In response, the object is verbally communicated to the user via the digital assistant, a different digital assistant, or even another device. Alternatively, the object may be communicated to the same application or another application as input. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335364 | COMPUTER PROGRAM, SERVER, TERMINAL, AND SPEECH SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A non-transitory computer readable medium stores computer executable instructions which, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to acquire a speech signal of speech of a user; perform a signal processing on the speech signal to acquire at least one feature of the speech of the user; and control display of information, related to each of one or more first candidate converters having a feature corresponding to the at least one feature, to present the one or more first candidate converters for selection by the user. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335365 | AUTOMATED CALLING SYSTEM - Methods, systems, and apparatus for an automated calling system are disclosed. Some implementations are directed to using a bot to initiate telephone calls and conduct telephone conversations with a user. The bot may be interrupted while providing synthesized speech during the telephone call. The interruption can be classified into one of multiple disparate interruption types, and the bot can react to the interruption based on the interruption type. Some implementations are directed to determining that a first user is placed on hold by a second user during a telephone conversation, and maintaining the telephone call in an active state in response to determining the first user hung up the telephone call. The first user can be notified when the second user rejoins the call, and a bot associated with the first user can notify the first user that the second user has rejoined the telephone call. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335366 | SYSTEM FOR GENERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF VERIFIED DATA RECORDS - Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for generation and maintenance of verified data records. The system may receive a data submission from a user device over one or more communication channels and convert the data submission into a normalized text format for processing and analysis. The data submission may then be analyzed using one or more trained machined learning models in order to identify factual statements and modifiers within the data submission, and generate a confidence score of verified factual information based on corroboration with one or more additional data sources. Additionally, identified modifiers may be analyzed to determine positive or negative sentiment. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335367 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING CONVERSATION ROLES - A text mining engine running on an artificial platform is trained to perform conversation role identification, semantic analysis, summarization, language detection, etc. The text mining engine analyzes words in a transcript that represent unique characteristics of a conversation and, based on the unique characteristics and utilizing classification predictive modeling, determines a conversation role for each participant of the conversation and metadata describing the conversation such as tonality of words spoken by a participant in a particular conversation role. Outputs from the text mining engine are indexed and useful for various purposes. For instance, because the system can identify which speaker in a customer service call is likely an agent and which speaker is likely a customer, words spoken by the agent can be analyzed for compliance reasons, training agents, providing quality assurance for improving customer service, providing feedback to improve the performance of the text mining engine, etc. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335368 | METHOD FOR TRAINING A VOICEPRINT EXTRACTION MODEL AND METHOD FOR VOICEPRINT RECOGNITION, AND DEVICE AND MEDIUM THEREOF - A training method includes: acquiring voice data of a user on a plurality of devices, and extracting acoustic features based on the voice data to construct a training data set; inputting the training data set into a neural network model, training the neural network model, and acquiring a loss function of each training of the neural network model; and determining that the training of the neural network model is completed when the loss function converges, wherein the loss function is a weighted sum of a classification loss function, a reconstruction loss function, a difference loss function, and a similarity loss function. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335369 | AUDIO COLLECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOUND CAPTURE, BROADCAST, ANALYSIS, AND PRESENTATION - At least one of the present exemplary embodiments and methods introduces a unique Audio Collection System comprised of self-contained Audio Collection Devices (ACDs), Audio Distribution Devices (ADDS), and Audio Control Analysis (ACA) components/functions. The system may be used to gather audio signals from environments in ways that are not presently available with the intention being to gather audio, analyze, and learn what may be understood about a given environment or situation. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335370 | Wireless Communication Device, and Method and Apparatus for Processing Voice Data - The disclosure provides a wireless communication device and a method and apparatus for processing voice data. The wireless communication device includes: a radio frequency chip and a computing power chip. The radio frequency chip includes: a first processor and a radio frequency transceiver. The radio frequency chip and the computing power chip are connected via a preset communication interface, so that the first processor communicates with a second processor in the computing power chip, wherein the second processor is configured to: perform a processing of decoding data received by the radio frequency transceiver and encoding data to be sent for the radio frequency transceiver to send. The computing power chip is provided in the wireless communication device, and a codec with a good processing effect is supported by the second processor, thus the effect of the encoding or decoding processing may be improved. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335371 | DOWNSCALED DECODING - A downscaled version of an audio decoding procedure may more effectively and/or at improved compliance maintenance be achieved if the synthesis window used for downscaled audio decoding is a downsampled version of a reference synthesis window involved in the non-downscaled audio decoding procedure by downsampling by the downsampling factor by which the downsampled sampling rate and the original sampling rate deviate, and downsampled using a segmental interpolation in segments of ¼ of the frame length. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335372 | SAMPLE SEQUENCE CONVERTER, SIGNAL ENCODING APPARATUS, SIGNAL DECODING APPARATUS, SAMPLE SEQUENCE CONVERTING METHOD, SIGNAL ENCODING METHOD, SIGNAL DECODING METHOD AND PROGRAM - Performance of an encoding process and a decoding process for a sound signal is enhanced. A representative value calculating part | 2021-10-28 |
20210335373 | CONCEPT FOR ENCODING OF INFORMATION - An information encoder for encoding an information signal includes: a converter for converting the linear prediction coefficients of the predictive polynomial A(z) to frequency values f | 2021-10-28 |
20210335374 | CODING DEVICE, DECODING DEVICE, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - A coding method and a decoding method are provided which can use in combination a predictive coding and decoding method which is a coding and decoding method that can accurately express coefficients which are convertible into linear prediction coefficients with a small code amount and a coding and decoding method that can obtain correctly, by decoding, coefficients which are convertible into linear prediction coefficients of the present frame if a linear prediction coefficient code of the present frame is correctly input to a decoding device. A coding device includes: a predictive coding unit that obtains a first code by coding a differential vector formed of differentials between a vector of coefficients which are convertible into linear prediction coefficients of more than one order of the present frame and a prediction vector containing at least a predicted vector from a past frame, and obtains a quantization differential vector corresponding to the first code; and a non-predictive coding unit that generates a second code by coding a correction vector which is formed of differentials between the vector of the coefficients which are convertible into the linear prediction coefficients of more than one order of the present frame and the quantization differential vector or formed of some of elements of the differentials. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335375 | CODING DEVICE, DECODING DEVICE, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - A coding method and a decoding method are provided which can use in combination a predictive coding and decoding method which is a coding and decoding method that can accurately express coefficients which are convertible into linear prediction coefficients with a small code amount and a coding and decoding method that can obtain correctly, by decoding, coefficients which are convertible into linear prediction coefficients of the present frame if a linear prediction coefficient code of the present frame is correctly input to a decoding device. A coding device includes: a predictive coding unit that obtains a first code by coding a differential vector formed of differentials between a vector of coefficients which are convertible into linear prediction coefficients of more than one order of the present frame and a prediction vector containing at least a predicted vector from a past frame, and obtains a quantization differential vector corresponding to the first code; and a non-predictive coding unit that generates a second code by coding a correction vector which is formed of differentials between the vector of the coefficients which are convertible into the linear prediction coefficients of more than one order of the present frame and the quantization differential vector or formed of some of elements of the differentials. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335376 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATION, TRANSPORTATION AND PROCESSING OF IMMEDIATE PLAYOUT FRAMES (IPFS) - Described herein is an audio decoder for decoding a bitstream of encoded audio data, wherein the bitstream of encoded audio data represents a sequence of audio sample values and comprises a plurality of frames, wherein each frame comprises associated encoded audio sample values, the audio decoder comprising: a determiner configured to determine whether a frame of the bitstream of encoded audio data is an immediate playout frame comprising encoded audio sample values associated with a current frame and additional information; and an initializer configured to initialize the decoder if the determiner determines that the frame is an immediate playout frame, wherein initializing the decoder comprises decoding the encoded audio sample values comprised by the additional information before decoding the encoded audio sample values associated with the current frame. Described are further a method for decoding said bitstream of encoded audio data as well as an audio encoder, a system of audio encoders and a method for generating said bitstream of encoded audio data with immediate playout frames. Described are moreover also an apparatus for generating immediate playout frames in a bitstream of encoded audio data or for removing immediate playout frames from a bitstream of encoded audio data and respective non-transitory digital storage media. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335377 | Method and Apparatus for Detecting Correctness of Pitch Period - A method and an apparatus for detecting correctness of a pitch period, where the method for detecting correctness of a pitch period includes determining, according to an initial pitch period of an input signal in a time domain, a pitch frequency bin of the input signal, where the initial pitch period is obtained by performing open-loop detection on the input signal, determining, based on an amplitude spectrum of the input signal in a frequency domain, a pitch period correctness decision parameter, associated with the pitch frequency bin, of the input signal, and determining correctness of the initial pitch period according to the pitch period correctness decision parameter. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335378 | ENCODING PARAMETER ADJUSTMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An encoding parameter adjustment method is performed at a computer device. The method includes: obtaining a first audio signal, and determining a psychoacoustic masking threshold within a service frequency band in the first audio signal; obtaining a second audio signal, and determining a background environmental noise estimation value of the frequency within the service frequency band in the second audio signal; determining a masking tag corresponding to the service frequency band according to the psychoacoustic masking threshold of the first audio signal and the background environmental noise estimation value of the second audio signal; determining a masking rate of the service frequency band according to the masking tag corresponding to the frequency within the service frequency band; determining a first reference bit rate according to the masking rate of the service frequency band; and configuring an encoding bit rate of an audio encoder based on the first reference bit rate. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335379 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING PROGRAM - This invention provides a signal processing apparatus capable of obtaining an output signal of sufficiently high quality if the phase of an input signal is largely different from the phase of a true voice. The signal processing apparatus includes a voice detector that receives a mixed signal including a voice and a signal other than the voice and obtains existence of the voice as a voice flag, a corrector that receives the mixed signal and the voice flag and obtains a corrected mixed signal generated by correcting the mixed signal in accordance with a state of the voice flag, and a shaper that receives the corrected mixed signal and shapes the corrected mixed signal. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335380 | HEARING DEVICE AND METHOD WITH NON-INTRUSIVE SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY - A hearing device includes: an input module for provision of a first input signal; a processor configured to provide an electrical output signal based on the first input signal; a receiver configured to provide an audio output signal; and a controller comprising a speech intelligibility estimator configured to determine a speech intelligibility indicator indicative of speech intelligibility based on the first input signal, wherein the controller is configured to control the processor based on the speech intelligibility indicator; wherein the speech intelligibility estimator comprises a decomposition module configured to decompose the first input signal into a first representation of the first input signal in a frequency domain, wherein the first representation comprises one or more elements representative of the first input signal; and wherein the decomposition module comprises one or more characterization blocks for characterizing the one or more elements of the first representation in the frequency domain. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335381 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING TEXT AND SPEECH IN CONSIDERATION OF STYLE AND METHOD FOR THE SAME - According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an artificial intelligence (AI) apparatus for mutually converting a text and a speech, including: a memory configured to store a plurality of Text-To-Speech (TTS) engines; and a processor configured to: obtain image data containing a text, determine a speech style corresponding to the text, generate a speech corresponding to the text by using a TTS engine corresponding to the determined speech style among the plurality of TTS engines, and output the generated speech. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335382 | Device Impairment Detection - Examples described herein involve detecting known environmental conditions of using a neural network. An example implementation involves a playback device receiving data indicating a response of a listening environment to audio output of one or more playback devices as captured by a microphone and determining an input vector for a neural network. The playback device provides the determined input vector to the neural network, which includes an output layer comprising neurons that correspond to respective environmental conditions. The playback device detects that the input vector caused one or more neurons of the neural network to fire such that the neural network indicates that one or more particular environmental conditions are present in the listening environment. The playback device adjusts audio output of the one or more playback devices to at least partially offset the one or more particular environmental conditions. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335383 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEFENDING AGAINST LASER OR OTHER ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE-BASED AUDIO INJECTION ATTACKS ON VOICE-CONTROLLABLE DEVICES AND SYSTEMS - Embodiments may provide techniques that protect voice-controllable devices and systems such that the microphone can be shielded from attacking modulated laser beams. Embodiments may provide a physical device that may include two or more layers of integrated material that sits on top of the microphones of the voice-controllable devices and/or systems. The device may act as a physical barrier against the injected malicious laser beams while allowing sound waves reach the microphone for normal operation. For example, in an embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a first layer including at least one opening and a second layer including at least one opening, wherein the at least one opening in the first layer and the at least one opening in the second layer are arranged so as to block the passage of light, but to allow the passage of sound. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335384 | INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD - An information providing method includes: generating first information indicating that a friendly gathering is occurring in a home when (i) a threshold amount of time or longer has elapsed from a start time of food preparation by a user and (ii) the volume of sound in a dining space is a first threshold volume or greater; obtaining, from a second information processing apparatus connected to a first information processing apparatus, information indicating first request content over a network; and when content of the first information is included in the first request content, outputting, to the second information processing apparatus, second information including information for identifying the user or the home, using the first information generated. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335385 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING NOISE SUPPRESSION TO AN INTELLIGENT PERSONAL ASSISTANT - A radio frequency connection between a far field voice detection device and a further device is used to determine a first angular direction from the far field voice detection device to the further device. The determined first angular direction is then used to emphasize, during a noise processing of a plurality of sounds received via use of a plurality of microphones of the far field voice detection device, a first one of the plurality of sounds relative to a remainder of the plurality of sounds. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335386 | HEAT-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING HEAD HAVING NEAR-FIELD TRANSDUCER WITH SUNKEN PLASMONIC PLATE - A recording head includes a nanorod configured to heat a hotspot on a recording media, a plasmonic plate configured to concentrate an electric field to excite the nanorod, and a heat sink configured to dissipate heat from the nanorod. The recording head includes a first diffusion barrier plate configured to resist diffusion of materials between the plasmonic plate and the nanorod and a second diffusion barrier plate configured to resist diffusion of materials between the heat sink and the nanorod. The first diffusion barrier plate is disposed between the nanorod and the plasmonic plate and is coupled to a bottom surface of the nanorod. The second diffusion barrier plate is disposed between the heat sink and the nanorod and is coupled to the top surface of the nanorod. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335387 | MAGNETIC TAPE HAVING CHARACTERIZED MAGNETIC LAYER AND MAGNETIC RECORDING AND REPRODUCING DEVICE - The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer including ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent on the non-magnetic support, in which an absolute value ΔN of a difference between a refractive index Nxy measured regarding an in-plane direction of the magnetic layer and a refractive index Nz measured regarding a thickness direction of the magnetic layer is 0.25 to 0.40, and a logarithmic decrement acquired by a pendulum viscoelasticity test performed regarding a surface of the magnetic layer is equal to or smaller than 0.050. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335388 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE STREAMING OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - The disclosed computer-implemented method includes determining that audio quality is to be adjusted for a multimedia streaming connection over which audio data and video data are being streamed to a content player. The audio data is streamed at a specified audio quality level and the video data is streamed at a specified video quality level. The method also includes determining that a specified minimum video quality level is to be maintained while adjusting the audio quality level. Still further, the method includes dynamically adjusting the audio quality level of the multimedia streaming connection while maintaining the video quality level of the multimedia streaming connection at at least the specified minimum video quality level. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335389 | STORAGE APPARATUS - A storage apparatus includes a disk-shaped recording medium having a surface, a motor configured to drive and rotate the recording medium, a head configured to read information from and write information to the recording medium, a ramp mechanism configured to move the head from a position above the surface of the recording medium to a head receded position, and a ramp retracting mechanism configured to move the ramp mechanism from a position above the surface of the recording medium to a ramp retracted position. Each of the head receded position and the ramp retracted position is outside a range of the recording medium in a plan view viewed from above the recording medium in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the recording medium. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335390 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING DYNAMIC IMAGE - Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for generating a dynamic image, an electronic device for the same and a storage medium for the same. The electronic device obtains a video based on a trigger operation. The electronic device obtains images of the video by separating the images an audio data of the video. The images include first images and second images. The electronic device obtains target images by processing the first images. Each of the target images does not contain the target object. The electronic device generates the dynamic image based on the images and the target images. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335391 | RESOURCE DISPLAY METHOD, DEVICE, APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A resource display method includes: obtaining one or more target sub-videos of a target video; obtaining at least one key frame of any target sub-video based on image frames of the any target sub-video; dividing any key frame of the any target sub-video into a plurality of regions according to color clustering, and using a region that meets an area requirement in the plurality of regions as a candidate region of the any key frame; using candidate regions of key frames of the any target sub-video as candidate regions of the any target sub-video; and selecting a target region from candidate regions of the target sub-videos, and displaying a resource in the target region. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335392 | HEAT-DISSIPATING, SHOCK-ABSORBING STRUCTURE - Provided is a heat-dissipating, shock-absorbing structure which is applicable to an electronic module with a hard disk drive. The heat-dissipating, shock-absorbing structure includes a heat-dissipating frame, an elastomer, and a plurality of heat conduction layers. The heat-dissipating frame has a fixing segment and two extending segments. The extending segments connect with two ends of the fixing segment. The fixing segment connects with one side of the hard disk drive. The distance between the extending segments is greater than the thickness of the hard disk drive. At least a portion of the elastomer is disposed at the extending segments. The heat conduction layers cover the elastomer. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335393 | STACKED MEMORY CHIP SOLUTION WITH REDUCED PACKAGE INPUTS/OUTPUTS (I/OS) - An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a logic chip upon which a stack of memory chips is to be placed. The stack of memory chips and the logic chip to be placed within a same package, wherein, multiple memory chips of the stack of memory chips are divided into fractions, and, multiple internal channels within the package that emanate from the logic chip are to be coupled to respective ones of the fractions. The logic chip has a multiplexer. The multiplexer is to multiplex a single input/output (I/O) channel of the package to the multiple internal channels. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335394 | MEMORY WITH NON-VOLATILE CONFIGURATIONS FOR EFFICIENT POWER MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION OF THE SAME - A memory device is provided. The memory device comprises a memory array and circuitry configured to determine one or more settings for the memory array corresponding to a powered-on state of the memory device, to store the one or more settings in a non-volatile memory location, and in response to returning to the powered-on state from a reduced-power state, to read the one or more settings from the non-volatile memory location. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335395 | SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING REFERENCE VOLTAGE TRAINING OPERATION - A system to perform a reference voltage training operation may include: a controller configured to output a dock signal, a chip selection signal, a command address and data; and a semiconductor device configured to enter a training mode to control the level of a reference voltage when the chip selection signal and the command address are a first logic level combination in synchronization with the clock signal, configured to enter an ID setting mode to set a storage ID when the chip selection signal and the command address are a second logic level combination, and configured to enter an ID selection mode to update a voltage code that is generated in the training mode when the chip selection signal and the command address are a third logic level combination. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335396 | ADJUSTING PARAMETERS OF CHANNEL DRIVERS BASED ON TEMPERATURE - Methods, systems, and devices are described for adjusting parameters of channel drivers based on temperature when a calibration component is unavailable. A memory device may determine whether a calibration component is available for use by the memory device. If not, the memory device may select an impedance setting for the driver that is based on an operating temperature of the memory device. A device or system may identify a temperature of a memory device, identify that a calibration component is unavailable to adjust a parameter of a driver of a data channel, select a value of the parameter based on the temperature and on identifying that the calibration component is unavailable, adjust the parameter of the driver of the data channel to the selected value, and transmit, by the driver operating using the selected value of the parameter, a signal over the channel. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335397 | Configurable Multiplexing Circuitry - Various implementations described herein are related to a device having memory circuitry having an array of memory cells. The device may include output circuitry coupled to the memory circuitry, and the output circuitry may have a first set of multiplexers that receives column data from the array of memory cells and provides first multiplexed output data. The device may include output interface circuitry coupled to the output circuitry, and the output interface circuitry may have a second set of multiplexers that receives the first multiplexed output data from the output circuitry and selectively provides second multiplexed output data based on a configurable mode of multiplexed operation. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335398 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes: a first plane PL | 2021-10-28 |
20210335399 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT - An apparatus has a controller and an array of memory cells, including a first section comprising a plurality of rows and a second section comprising a plurality of rows. The controller configured to, in association with wear leveling, transfer data stored in a first row of the first section from the first row to a register, transfer the data from the register to a destination row of the second section while data in a second row of the first section is being sensed. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335400 | DATA SORTING CONTROL CIRCUIT AND MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A data sorting control circuit includes a phase detector suitable for detecting a phase of each of a first clock signal, a second clock signal, a third clock signal, and a fourth clock signal in response to a read command, an order determiner suitable for determining a data order as a first order or a second order based on a seed address and the detected phase of each of the clock signals, and an sorting control signal generator suitable for shifting the read command based on the first clock signal to the fourth clock signal to generate a first sorting control signal, a second sorting control signal, a third sorting control signal, and a fourth sorting control signal, and outputting the first sorting control signal to the fourth sorting control signal according to the first order or the second order. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335401 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE - According to one embodiment, there is provided a semiconductor integrated circuit including an input circuit. The input circuit includes a first amplifier and a second amplifier. The second amplifier is electrically connected to the first amplifier. The second amplifier includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, and a time constant providing circuit. The first transistor has a gate electrically connected to a first node of the first amplifier. The second transistor has a gate electrically connected to a second node of the first amplifier. The third transistor is disposed adjacent to a drain of the first transistor. The fourth transistor is disposed adjacent to a drain of the second transistor. The time constant providing circuit is electrically connected between a gate of the third transistor and a drain of the third transistor, a gate of the fourth transistor. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335402 | METHODS OF CHARGING LOCAL INPUT/OUTPUT LINES OF MEMORY DEVICES, AND RELATED DEVICES AND SYSTEMS - Methods of operating a memory device are disclosed. A method may include receiving a write command, and in response to the write command, performing a write operation without precharging a local input/output line subsequent to receipt of the write command and prior to performing the write operation. Another method may include receiving a read command, performing a read operation in response to the read command, and receiving an additional command without precharging the local input/output line subsequent to performing the read operation and prior to receiving the additional command. Memory devices and systems are also disclosed. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335403 | DELAYED LOCKED LOOP CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - A delay locked loop circuit and a semiconductor memory device are provided. The delay locked loop circuit includes a phase detection and delay control circuit configured to detect a phase difference between a first internally generated clock signal the feedback clock signal to generate a first phase difference detection signal in response to a first selection signal being activated, to detect a phase difference between a second internally generated clock signal and the feedback clock signal to generate a second phase difference detection signal in response to a second selection signal being activated, and to change a code value in response to the first phase difference detection signal or the second phase difference detection signal. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335404 | MEMORY CONTROLLER AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A memory controller may control a memory device. The memory device may be coupled to the memory controller through a channel. The memory controller may include an idle time monitor and a clock signal generator. The idle time monitor may output an idle time interval of the memory device. The idle time interval may be between an end time of a previous operation of the memory device and a start time of a current operation. The clock signal generator may generate a clock signal based on the idle time interval and output the clock signal to the memory device through the channel to perform a current operation. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335405 | MEMORY DEVICE HAVING AN ENHANCED ESD PROTECTION AND A SECURE ACCESS FROM A TESTING MACHINE - An example memory device includes an array of memory cells, a plurality of boundary cells, mixed pads connected to the memory cells, high speed pads connected to the boundary cells, a three state multiplexer block connected to the memory cells and to the boundary cells and configured to receive at least first and second input signals, and the three state multiplexer block is connected to the mixed pads. The example memory device further includes an enabling circuit connected to a mixed pad and configured to receive an external enabling signal and provide the three state MUX with an internal enabling signal, and comprising: a tester presence detector circuit connected to the mixed pad and configured to provide a presence signal to a logical gate, the logical gate having input terminals connected to the tester presence detector circuit and configured to provide the internal enabling signal. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335406 | MECHANISM TO IMPROVE DRIVER CAPABILITY WITH FINE TUNED CALIBRATION RESISTOR - Aspects of a storage device including a controller, a calibration resistor and a die having an output driver and a calibration circuit are provided, which allow for an output impedance of the output driver to be calibrated to a lower impedance than a minimum required for reading data across PVT variations of the die at maximum loading of the controller. To check whether slow corners may operate using the lower impedance, the controller determines whether the output impedance of the output driver can be calibrated to the lower impedance at a maximum temperature and minimum voltage applied to the die, or whether a calibration code generated from the calibration circuit exceeds a threshold at a nominal temperature and voltage applied to the die. Thus, slow corners are screened out from lower impedance use, while faster devices are designed with a smaller calibration resistance to benefit from increased memory and speed. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335407 | ACCESS SCHEMES FOR ACTIVITY-BASED DATA PROTECTION IN A MEMORY DEVICE - Methods, systems, and devices for activity-based data protection in a memory device are described. In one example, a memory device may include a set memory sections each having memory cells configured to be selectively coupled with access lines of the respective memory section. A method of operating the memory device may include determining a quantity of access operations performed on a set of sections of a memory device, selecting at least one of the sections for a voltage adjustment operation based on the determined quantity of access operations, and performing the voltage adjustment operation on the selected section. The voltage adjustment operation may include applying an equal voltage to opposite terminals of the memory cells, which may allow built-up charge, such as leakage charge accumulating from access operations of the selected memory section, to dissipate from the memory cells of the selected section. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335408 | DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIER SENSING SCHEMES FOR NON-SWITCHING STATE COMPENSATION IN A MEMORY DEVICE - Methods, systems, and devices for differential amplifier schemes for non-switching state compensation are described. During a read operation, a first node of a memory cell may be coupled with an input of differential amplifier while a second node of the memory cell may be biased with a first voltage (e.g., to apply a first read voltage across the memory cell). The second node of the memory cell may subsequently be biased with a second voltage (e.g., to apply a second read voltage across the memory cell), which may support the differential amplifier operating in a manner that compensates for a non-switching state of the memory cell. By compensating for a non-switching state of a memory cell during read operations, read margins may be increased. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335409 | MULTI-LEVEL STORAGE IN FERROELECTRIC MEMORY - Methods, systems, and devices for operating a ferroelectric memory cell or cells are described. In some examples, multi-level accessing, sensing, and other operations for ferroelectric memory may be based on sensing multiple charges, including a first charge associated with a dielectric of the memory cell and a second charge associated with a polarization of the memory cell. In some cases, multi-level accessing, sensing, and other operations may be based on transferring a first charge associated with a dielectric of the memory cell to a sense amplifier, isolating the sense amplifier, activating the sense amplifier, transferring a second charge associated with a polarization of the memory cell to the sense amplifier, and activating the sense amplifier a second time. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335410 | IDENTIFYING HIGH IMPEDANCE FAULTS IN A MEMORY DEVICE - Methods, systems, and devices related to identifying high impedance faults in a memory device are described. A memory device may perform a first write operation to write a first logic state to a memory cell. During the first write operation, the memory device may establish a connection between a supply line and a control line associated with applying an output of a driver of a digit line coupled to the memory cell. After performing the first operation, the memory device may configure the supply line in a floating state. After the supply line is floated, the memory device may perform a second write operation to write a second logic state to the memory cell. The memory device may perform a third operation for reading the memory cell. The memory device may determine the condition of the supply line or control based on the result of the read operation. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335411 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR PURE-TIME, SELF ADOPT SAMPLING FOR ROW HAMMER REFRESH SAMPLING - Apparatuses and methods for pure-time, self-adopt sampling for RHR refresh. An example apparatus includes a memory bank comprising a plurality of rows each associated with a respective row address, and a sampling timing generator circuit configured to provide a timing signal having a plurality of pulses. Each of the plurality of pulses is configured to initiate sampling of a respective row address associated with a row of the plurality of rows to detect a row hammer attack. The sampling timing generator includes first circuitry configured to provide a first subset of pulses of the plurality of pulses during a first time period and includes second circuitry configured to initiate provision of a second subset of pulses of the plurality of pulses during a second time period after the first time period. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335412 | UNDER-MEMORY ARRAY PROCESS EDGE MATS WITH SENSE AMPLIFIERS - An edge memory array mat with access lines that are split, and a bank of sense amplifiers formed under the edge memory array may in a region that separates the access line segment halves. The sense amplifiers of the bank of sense amplifiers are coupled to opposing ends of a first subset of the half access lines pairs. The edge memory array mat further includes access line connectors configured to connect a second subset of the half access line pairs across the region occupied by the bank of sense amplifiers to form combined or extended access lines that extend to a bank of sense amplifiers coupled between the edge memory array mat and an inner memory array mat. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335413 | METHOD OF PERFORMING INTERNAL PROCESSING OPERATION OF MEMORY DEVICE - Provided is a method of performing an internal processing operation of a memory device in a system including a host device and the memory device. The memory device includes a memory cell array and a processor-in-memory (PIM) performing an internal processing operation. In an internal processing mode, by the PIM, the memory device performs the internal processing operation based on internal processing information stored in the memory cell array. When the internal processing information is an internal processing operation command indicating a type of the internal processing operation, the memory device outputs the internal processing operation command including an internal processing read command and an internal processing write command to the host device. The host device issues to the memory device a priority command determined from among a data transaction command and the internal processing operation command. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335414 | TECHNIQUES TO COUPLE HIGH BANDWIDTH MEMORY DEVICE ON SILICON SUBSTRATE AND PACKAGE SUBSTRATE - Techniques to couple a high bandwidth memory device on a silicon substrate and a package substrate are disclosed. Examples include selectively activating input/out (I/O) or command and address (CA) contacts on a bottom side of a logic layer for the high bandwidth device based on a mode of operation. The I/O and CA contacts are for accessing one or more memory devices include in the high bandwidth memory device via one or more data channels. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335415 | MIXED DIGITAL-ANALOG MEMORY DEVICES AND CIRCUITS FOR SECURE STORAGE AND COMPUTING - A non-volatile memory device includes a plurality of memory cells arranged in a matrix, a plurality of word lines extended in a row direction, and a plurality of bit lines extended in a column direction. Each of the memory cells is coupled to one of the word lines and one of the bit lines. The memory device further includes a word-line control circuit coupled to and configured to control the word lines, a first bit-line control circuit configured to control the bit lines and sense the memory cells in a digital mode, and a second bit-line control circuit configured to bias the bit lines and sense the memory cells in an analog mode. The first bit-line control circuit is coupled to a first end of each of the bit lines. The second bit-line control circuit is coupled to a second end of each of the bit lines. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335416 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES AND REFRESH METHODS USING THE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES - A semiconductor device includes a peripheral circuit and a core circuit. The peripheral circuit enters a smart refresh mode in which a smart refresh operation is performed based on a command. The peripheral circuit generates a latch address signal from a target address signal to output the latch address signal through a global input/output (I/O) line in the smart refresh mode. The core circuit performs an adding operation and a subtracting operation of the latch address signal to generate first and second internal address signals. The core circuit performs the smart refresh operation for first and second banks based on the first and second internal address signals. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335417 | MEMORY REFRESH TECHNOLOGY AND COMPUTER SYSTEM - A memory refresh method is applied to a computer system including a processor, a memory controller, and a dynamic random access memory (DRAM). The memory controller receives a first plurality of access requests from the processor. The memory controller refreshes a first rank in a plurality of ranks at shortened interval set to T/N when a quantity of target ranks to be accessed by the first plurality of access requests is less than a first threshold and a proportion of read requests in the first plurality of access requests or a proportion of write requests in the first plurality of access requests is greater than a second threshold. T is a standard average refresh interval, and N is greater than 1. The memory refresh technology provided in this application can improve performance of the computer system in a memory refresh process. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335418 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell, a word line, a bit line, a first transistor, a second transistor and a driver. The word line is electrically coupled to a gate of the memory cell. The bit line is electrically coupled to one end of the memory cell. The first transistor includes a first gate electrically coupled to the bit line. The second transistor is coupled to a first end of the first transistor. The driver is configured to apply a voltage to the first gate of the first transistor. In a read operation, the driver varies a voltage to be applied to the first gate of the first transistor based on a read voltage applied to the word line. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335419 | SELECTION SCHEME FOR CROSSPOINT MEMORY - A selection scheme for crosspoint memory is described. In one example, the selection voltage applied across the memory cell is slowly ramped up. Once the memory cell thresholds, the voltage is reduced to a level for performing the read or write operation. Reducing the voltage once the specific cell has been selected (e.g., thresholds) minimizes the additional transient current which might be generated by further increasing the selection bias applied during read or write operation. The reduction in transient current can lead to an improvement in read disturb and write endurance issues. The selection ramp-rate and bias post-selection can be set differently depending on the cell location inside the memory array to further improve cell performance. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335420 | CROSS-POINT MEMORY COMPENSATION - The apparatuses and methods described herein may operate to measure a voltage difference between a selected access line and a selected sense line associated with a selected cell of a plurality of memory cells of a memory array. The voltage difference may be compared with a reference voltage specified for a memory operation. A selection voltage(s) applied to the selected cell for the memory operation may be adjusted responsive to the comparison, such as to dynamically compensate for parasitic voltage drop. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335421 | RESISTIVE MEMORY STORAGE APPARATUS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - A resistive memory storage apparatus including a memory cell, a selecting transistor and a memory controller is provided. The memory cell outputs a writing current during a writing pulse width period. The selecting transistor is coupled to the memory cell. The memory controller is coupled to the selecting transistor and the memory cell. The memory controller is configured to apply a control voltage that gradually changes to a predetermined voltage level to a control end of the selecting transistor during a resistance transition phase of the writing pulse width period and set the control voltage to the predetermined voltage level during a filament stabilization phase after the resistance transition phase, so as to limit the writing current to a predetermined current value. In addition, an operating method for a resistive memory storage apparatus is also provided. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335422 | METHOD OF OPERATING RESISTIVE MEMORY DEVICE TO INCREASE READ MARGIN - A method of operating a resistive memory device to increase a read margin includes applying a write pulse to a memory cell such that the memory cell is programmed to a target resistance state, and applying a post-write pulse to the memory cell to increase a resistance of the memory cell that is in the target resistance state, the post-write pulse being applied as a single pulse having at least n stepped voltage levels, n being an integer equal to or more than 2, and an n-th stepped voltage level of the post-write pulse is set to be lower than a minimum threshold voltage level of the target resistance state that is changed by an (n−1)-th stepped voltage level of the post-write pulse. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335423 | NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY INCLUDING A READ OPERATION - A memory includes first and second select gate transistors, memory cells, a source line, a bit line, a selected word line which is connected to a selected memory cell as a target of a verify reading, a non-selected word line which is connected to a non-selected memory cell except the selected memory cell, a potential generating circuit for generating a selected read potential which is supplied to the selected word line, and generating a non-selected read potential larger than the selected read potential, which is supplied to the non-selected word line, and a control circuit which classifies a threshold voltage of the selected memory cell to one of three groups by verifying which area among three area which are isolated by two values does a cell current of the selected memory cell belong, when the selected read potential is a first value. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335424 | APPARATUS FOR DISCHARGING CONTROL GATES AFTER PERFORMING A SENSING OPERATION ON A MEMORY CELL - Apparatus having a controller configured to connect a string of series-connected memory cells (e.g., a NAND string) to a node, perform a sensing operation on a selected memory cell of the NAND string while the selected memory cell is connected to the node through a first field-effect transistor (FET) between the node and the NAND string and through a second FET between the first FET and the NAND string, connect a control gate of the first FET to receive a lower voltage level after performing the sensing operation, connect the control gate of the second FET to receive the lower voltage level after connecting the control gate of the first FET to receive the lower voltage level, and connect a control gate of the selected memory cell to receive the lower voltage level after connecting the control gate of the second FET to receive the lower voltage level. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335425 | MONOTONIC COUNTERS IN MEMORIES - An apparatus, such as a memory (e.g., a NAND memory), can have a controller, a volatile counter coupled to the controller, and a non-volatile memory array coupled to the controller. The controller can be configured to write information, other than a count of the counter, in the array each time the count of the counter has been incremented by a particular number of increments. Counts can be monotonic, non-volatile, and power-loss tolerant. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335426 | Memory Device and Erasing and Verification Method Thereof - A memory device includes a plurality of memory blocks, and a control circuit. A selected memory block of the plurality of memory blocks comprises a top select gate, a bottom select gate, a plurality of word lines, a common-source line, and a P-well. The control circuit performs an erasing and verification method, wherein the erasing and verification method includes erasing the selected memory block during an erasing stage; and maintaining the bottom select gate to be turned on during a maintaining period before the top select gate are turned on during a verification stage. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335427 | MEMORY DEVICE - A memory device including: a memory area having a first memory block and a second memory block; and a control logic configured to control the first memory block and the second memory block in a first mode and a second mode, wherein in the first mode only a control operation for the first memory block is executable, and in the second mode control operations for the first memory block and the second memory block are executable, wherein the control logic counts the number of accesses made to the second memory block in the first mode, and stores the number of accesses as scan data in the second memory block. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335428 | READ LEVEL CALIBRATION IN MEMORY DEVICES USING EMBEDDED SERVO CELLS - An example memory sub-system includes a memory device and a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device is configured to identify a set of embedded servo cells stored on the memory device; determine a read voltage offset by performing read level calibration based on the set of embedded servo cells; and apply the read voltage offset for reading a memory page associated with the set of embedded servo cells. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335429 | SENSING IN FLOATING-SOURCE MEMORY ARCHITECTURE - Algorithms for fast data retrieval, low power consumption in a 3D or planar non-volatile array of memory cells, connected between an accessible drain string and a floating, not directly accessible, source string, in a NOR-logic type of architecture, are presented. | 2021-10-28 |
20210335430 | ADDRESS COUNTING CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING THE ADDRESS COUNTING CIRCUIT - An address counting circuit includes a shared address counting circuit configured to generate a first shared address and a second shared address by counting an external start address at a first edge and a second edge of a counting clock signal and a latch circuit including a plurality of latches configured to share the first shared address and the second shared address, respectively and generate a plurality of column addresses by latching the first shared address and second shared address according to a plurality of latch clock signals. | 2021-10-28 |