46th week of 2021 patent applcation highlights part 57 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20210358445 | DRIVE CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR DISPLAY APPARATUS - A drive circuit for a display apparatus includes: a switching module, including a first input end, a second input end, a control end, and an output end, where the first input end obtains a first signal, the second input end obtains a second signal, the output end is connected to a pixel electrode, the control end obtains a control signal, the switching module selectively outputs the first signal and the second signal to the output end according to a level change of the control signal; and a controller, connected to the control end, and including a first end and a second end, where the first end obtains a first input signal, the second end obtains a second input signal, and the controller outputs the first input signal according to a period change of the second input signal, to serve as the control signal. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358446 | COMMON VOLTAGE COMPENSATION CIRCUIT AND COMPENSATION SYSTEM FOR DISPLAY PANEL - A common voltage compensation circuit and a compensation system for a display panel are provided. A compensation circuit includes a compensating unit configured to receive a common voltage outputted by the display panel; compensate the common voltage according to a compensation coefficient; and output the compensated common voltage to the display panel; and an adjusting unit configured to connect with a controlling unit in a phase of adjusting the display panel; receive an adjustment signal outputted by the controlling unit; and adjust the compensation coefficient of the compensating unit according to the adjustment signal. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358447 | DRIVING CIRCUIT AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present disclosure provides a driving circuit and a liquid crystal display device. The driving circuit is configured to drive the liquid crystal to display and includes liquid crystal driving chips configured to receive original Gamma voltage; a time sequence control chip configured to receive the original Gamma voltages transmitted by the liquid crystal driving chips and output Gamma voltage adjust correcting parameters to the liquid crystal driving chips; the liquid crystal driving chip compensating and correcting the original Gamma voltage according to the Gamma voltage adjust correcting parameters to make Gamma voltages of each of the liquid crystal driving chips equal | 2021-11-18 |
20210358448 | GAMMA VOLTAGE GENERATING CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DRIVING DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A gamma voltage generating circuit includes a gamma buffer configured to output a gamma voltage, a first gamma line and a second gamma line providing an output path of the gamma voltage, an output selecting unit configured to connect an output terminal of the gamma buffer to one of the first gamma line and the second gamma line, and an output resistor unit having a first resistor connected to the first gamma line and a second resistor connected to the second gamma line. The second resistor has a resistance value different from that of the first resistor. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358449 | DISPLAY DRIVER INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A display device includes: a host which transmits a first signal through a first interface, and transmits a second signal through a second interface different from the first interface; a display driver integrated circuit including a first interface unit which receives the first signal through the first interface, and a second interface unit which receives the second signal through the second interface; and a display panel which receives a data signal corresponding to the first signal and the second signal from the display driver integrated circuit, and displays an image. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358450 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, DEVICE, SYSTEM AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The present disclosure relates to a data transmission method, device, system, and display device. The method includes encoding clock training data to obtain two sets of encoded data corresponding to the clock training data and complementary to each other, sending a specified set of encoded data in the two sets of encoded data to a receiving end when positive and negative pins of the transmitting end and the receiving end are correspondingly connected, sending other set of coded data in the two sets of coded data than the specified set of encoded data to the receiving end when the positive and negative pins of the transmitting end and the receiving end are reversely connected. The receiving end may be configured to perform clock training according to the received encoded data. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358451 | VIDEO REPRODUCTION SYSTEM, VIDEO REPRODUCTION DEVICE, AND CALIBRATION METHOD FOR VIDEO REPRODUCTION SYSTEM - A video reproduction device includes a calibration image generator configured to generate calibration images to be displayed by a display and a display device; a receiver configured to receive, from an image capturing device, a captured image in which the calibration image displayed by the display and the calibration image displayed by the display device are captured or information generated on the basis of the captured image; a corrected data calculator configured to calculate color-component-corrected data from a color component difference between the calibration image displayed by the display and the calibration image displayed by the display device; and a second video signal output configured to perform color correction on a video signal representing the same video as the video signal that is output to the display according to the corrected data obtained by the corrected data calculator and output a color-corrected video signal to the display device. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358452 | METHOD FOR RENDERING COLOR IMAGES - A system for rendering color images on an electro-optic display when the electro-optic display has a color gamut with a limited palette of primary colors, and/or the gamut is poorly structured (i.e., not a spheroid or obloid). The system uses an iterative process to identify the best color for a given pixel from a palette that is modified to diffuse the color error over the entire electro-optic display. The system additionally accounts for variations in color that are caused by cross-talk between nearby pixels. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358453 | DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTING BRIGHTNESS OF DISPLAY SCREEN, AND TERMINAL EQUIPMENT - A display device, a method for automatically adjusting brightness of a display screen and a terminal equipment are provided. An ambient light detection device is integrated in an operable region of the display device. The ambient light detection device includes a light blocking layer and a photoelectric sensor. The display device includes a display assembly and a control device. The display assembly includes a backpanel assembly, the light blocking layer being arranged in the backpanel assembly and provided with a light passing hole suitable for the passing of ambient light, the photoelectric sensor being disposed under the backpanel assembly; a display screen disposed over the backpanel assembly; a display connected to the display screen; and a control device connected to the photoelectric sensor The display chip is connected to the control device, to adjust brightness of the display screen according to variance of the ambient light. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358454 | FLIPPED OR FROZEN DISPLAY MONITOR - A system and method for monitoring the status of a pixelated display defines one or more pixel locations or clusters of pixels to be dithered. A monitor determines if the specified pixels or clusters of pixels demonstrate dithering. Detection of the expected dithering indicates a functional display while failure to detect the dithering indicates a failed display. Brightness levels are monitored to detect a failure in brightness leveling. Brightness is monitored at the same locations. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358455 | MOVEMENT BASED GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE - A system or a method may be provided that may detect a movement or activity of a user via the user's mobile and/or wearable devices. The system may adjust the display interface based on the user's detected movement or activity. When a user is very active (biking or jogging), the user may have very limited amount of time or attention to interact with a display interface. The movement or activity of the user may be detected by a motion detection device installed on the mobile device or on the wearable device. When the user is active, the display interface may adjust to enlarge the information to make it easier for the user to view, read, or interact with. The system may also select and display important information, without other peripheral information (less important information) when the user is active. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358456 | DYNAMICALLY TRANSITIONING BETWEEN VISUAL MEDIA ITEMS AT A DIGITAL-CONTENT-DISPLAY DEVICE - This disclosure describes a digital-content-transition system that dynamically determines a content-transition type for a visual media transition and converts a display of a digital-content-display device from one visual media item to another visual media item according to the content-transition type. For example, the digital-content-transition system can intelligently determine a type and time of transition from multiple content-transition types and content-transition times for transitioning between visual media items or visual media collections displayed at a digital-content-display device. By intelligently determining a content-transition type and a corresponding content-transition time based on metadata of the visual media items, the digital-content-transition system can transition a display of the digital-content-display device between visual media items or visual media collections according to the content-transition type and content-transition time. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358457 | AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPARATUS FOR CALIBRATING OUTPUT POSITION OF DISPLAY PANEL OF USER AND METHOD FOR THE SAME - An artificial intelligence apparatus for calibrating an output position of a display panel according to an embodiment includes a camera configured to capture an image displayed by the display panel; and a processor configured to: transmit a signal for outputting a position reference image to the display panel, receive, via the camera, a captured image for the display panel, calculate an output position offset for the display panel in a predetermined unit based on the position reference image and the captured image, determine an output position calibration value for the display panel using the calculated output position offset, and transmit the determined output position calibration value to the display panel. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358458 | OUTPUT CONTENT GENERATION APPARATUS, OUTPUT CONTENT GENERATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - An output content generation device, includes: a first calculation unit that calculates a size, in a display region of a display device, of each of pieces of information to be displayed in the display region; a determination unit that determines whether or not the pieces of information are arrangeable in the display region, based on the size of each of the pieces of information and a size of the display region; and a generation unit that allocates the pieces of information in a plurality of screens accommodated in the display region in a distributed manner, and generates output content of the pieces of information, when the pieces of information are not arrangeable in the display region, thereby enabling information to be legibly viewable. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358459 | Piano playing machine - A machine that attaches to any piano and pushes its keys and foot pedals in the order of any song. The machine can download songs from a software program and record songs played manually on a piano to replay them. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358460 | PLAYBACK, RECORDING, AND ANALYSIS OF MUSIC SCALES VIA SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION - Playback, recording, and analysis of music scales via software configuration. In an embodiment, a graphical user interface is generated with staff and keyboard canvases, visually representing a music staff and keyboard, respectively, a scale input, parameter input(s), and a play input. In response to selection of a scale, the staff canvas is updated to visually represent the notes in the scale. In response to the selection of a musical parameter, the staff canvas and/or keyboard canvas are updated to reflect the musical parameter. In response to selection of the play input, a soundtrack of the scale is output, while simultaneously highlighting the note, being played, on the staff canvas and the key, associated with the note being played, on the keyboard canvas. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358461 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus | 2021-11-18 |
20210358462 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT TUNER, MUSICAL PERFORMANCE SUPPORT DEVICE AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MANAGEMENT DEVICE - The musical instrument tuner includes: a sensor device that is attached to a musical instrument; and an operation device that is able to perform wireless communication mutually with the sensor device, in which the sensor device includes an acceleration sensor that has at least two detection axes, frequency detection means for detecting, as a detected frequency, a frequency of a vibration of musical sound generated through an operation of the musical instrument based on an output from the acceleration sensor, and sensor-side communication means for transmitting transmission information including information regarding the detected frequency to the operation device, and the operation device includes operation-side communication means for receiving the transmission information transmitted from the sensor device, display means, and control means for generating tuning information of the musical instrument and causing the display means to display the tuning information based on the transmission information received from the sensor device. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358463 | SWITCH LOCK APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A switch lock apparatus for a guitar having a pickup selector switch is disclosed herein for locking a position of the pickup selector switch. The switch lock apparatus may include a body plate, a mounting hole, a switch opening defined in the body plate which is configured to receive the pickup selector switch. The switch lock apparatus may also include at least one first side receptacle positioned along the first switch opening side and at least one second side receptable positioned along the second switch opening side. The at least one second side receptacle may be offset from the at least one first side receptacle along the switch opening length to define a central passageway that enables free movement of the pickup selector switch. The switch lock apparatus may define a locked position when the pickup selector switch is received by one of the first or second side receptacles. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358464 | FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY DETECTION USING PEAK DETECTORS WITH FREQUENCY-CONTROLLED DECAY TIME - Methods and digital circuits provide frequency correction to frequency synthesizers. Dual switched-capacitor voltage detectors connected to an input signal periodically sample the voltage of the input signal, and then determine a fundamental frequency of the input signal from the output of the dual switched-capacitor voltage detectors. The sample period of the dual switched-capacitor voltage detectors is proportional to a time period between a previous pair of voltage peaks detected in the input signal, thereby eliminating harmonic components in the original signal which might otherwise cause errors in frequency estimation without causing unwanted sluggishness in the transient response of the frequency detection process. The time period between the previous pair of detected voltage peaks is used to create a decay signal that initiates a capacitor decay time for each voltage detector. Two additional digital methods of extracting the fundamental frequency as well as an envelope of an analog audio signal are also described, one utilizing a sliding sample rate, and the other utilizing a fixed sample rate. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358465 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The present application discloses a display panel and a display device including the display panel. The display panel includes a display panel body, a magnet structure and a drive membrane. The drive membrane is located on the display panel body, and the magnet structure is located on a side of the drive membrane facing away from the display panel body. One or more conductive traces are arranged within the drive membrane, and the magnet structure is configured for generating a magnetic field. The drive membrane is configured to deform under an interaction between the magnetic field and a modulation current applied onto the one or more conductive traces, thereby driving the display panel body to vibrate and produce sounds. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358466 | Dual Density Acoustic Insulation - A dual layer nonwoven acoustic insulating material having a more densified layer and a less densified layer that is comprised of shoddy fibers and other fibers. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358467 | NOISE REDUCING COVER - A noise reducing cover, such as a noise reducing baby cover, is provided. The noise reducing cover includes a body having a noise reducing portion, the noise reducing portion being made of a noise reducing fabric. In one version, the noise reducing fabric is a noise reducing composite fabric having a layer of fabric with a permeability reducing coating on a surface of the layer of fabric. The permeability, density, and thickness of the noise reducing composite fabric are selected to reduce the transmission of noise through the noise reducing portion so that the noise reducing composite fabric reduces the noise transmitted through the noise reducing portion of the noise reducing cover while remaining flexible. The noise reducing cover may be adapted to be used as a child's car seat cover, an apron, and/or a baby stroller cover. Alternatively, the noise reducing cover can be a pet cover or pet compartment cover, or the like. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358468 | SPARSE ACOUSTIC REFLECTOR - A broadband sparse acoustic reflector includes a periodic array of laterally spaced apart unit cells, each unit cell having a plurality of longitudinally positioned Helmholtz resonators. Each unit cell includes a Helmholtz resonator having a neck that places the resonator interior in fluid communication with an ambient fluid, in the lateral direction. Each Helmholtz resonator of the unit cell has a different resonance frequency, providing broadband reflection. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358469 | Noise Cancellation For Aerial Vehicle - A noise cancelation system for an unmanned aerial vehicle may have an audio capture module, a metadata module and a filter. The audio capture module may be configured to receive an audio signal captured from a microphone, e.g., on a camera. The metadata module may be configured to retrieve noise information associated with noise generating components operating on the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The filter may be configured to receive the audio signal and noise information from the audio capture module. The filter also may be configured to retrieve a baseline profile from a database based on the noise information. The baseline profile includes noise parameter to filter out audio frequencies from the audio signal corresponding to the noise generating component. The filter may generate a filtered audio signal for output. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358470 | ACTIVITY-BASED SMART TRANSPARENCY - A method performed by a head-mounted wearable audio output device is provided. The audio output device is worn on a head of a user and includes at least one sensor. The device detects a user activity based on motion of the user's body using the at least one sensor. The devices detects an orientation of the head of the user is one of upward or downward using the at least one sensor. The devices controls at least one of: a level of attenuation applied to external noise or audio output based on the detected user activity and the detected orientation of the head of the user. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358471 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREVENTING OVERHEARING OF PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS - A method and system to obscure inappropriate sounds and ensure privacy in conversations through Near Field communication. The method includes applying a passive NFC tag on a first object associated to an individual who advances inside an enclosed area designed for a specific purpose. Further, the method includes activating an NFC reader on a second object when the first object and the second object are within a short range. Furthermore, the method includes sending a signal to a WIFI router wherein the signal speaks to a speaker module inside the enclosed area. Moreover, the method includes automatically streaming sound files, from a storage, thereby making it difficult for the individual inside the enclosed area to hear private conversations between two or more people due to a fogging sound effect produced by the sound files. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358472 | INSPECTION DEVICE - An inspection device is provided, including a base, a circuit assembly, an electrocardiogram sensor, a diaphragm, an annular member, and a positioning member. The base has a top surface, a bottom surface, a guiding portion, an opening, and an accommodating space. The guiding portion is formed on the top surface, the opening is formed on the bottom surface, and the accommodating space is formed between the top surface and the bottom surface. The circuit assembly is disposed in the accommodating space, and has a first contact and a second contact. The electrocardiogram sensor is disposed on the bottom surface and electrically connected to the circuit assembly. The diaphragm covers the opening. The annular member is rotatably connected to the base and has a guiding member. The guiding member is slidably connected to the guiding portion. The positioning member is affixed to the annular member and has a contacting portion. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358473 | SPEECH SYNTHESIZER USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, METHOD OF OPERATING SPEECH SYNTHESIZER AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A speech synthesizer using artificial intelligence includes a memory, a communication unit for receiving utterance information of words uttered by a user, and a processor for acquiring a plurality of utterance intonation phrase (IP) ratios respectively corresponding to a plurality of words uttered by the user based on the utterance information, acquiring a plurality of non-utterance IP ratios respectively corresponding to a plurality of unuttered words based on the utterance information and the plurality of utterance IP ratios, and generating a personalized synthesized speech model based on the plurality of utterance IP ratios and the plurality of non-utterance IP ratios. A plurality of classes indicating reading break of a word includes first to third classes. A minor class has a smallest count among the first to third classes. Each of the utterance and non-utterance IP ratios is a ratio in which a word is classified as the minor class. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358474 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AUDIBLE VERSIONS OF TEXT SENTENCES FROM AUDIO SNIPPETS - A method is performed at a server system of a media-providing service. The server system has one or more processors and memory storing instructions for execution by the one or more processors. The method includes receiving a text sentence including a plurality of words from a device of a first user and extracting a plurality of audio snippets from one or more audio tracks. A respective audio snippet in the plurality of audio snippets corresponds to one or more words in the plurality of words of the text sentence. The method also includes assembling the plurality of audio snippets in a first order to produce an audible version of the text sentence. The method further includes providing, for playback at the device of the first user, the audible version of the text sentence including the plurality of audio snippets in the first order. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358475 | INTERPRETATION SYSTEM, SERVER APPARATUS, DISTRIBUTION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In order to solve a conventional problem that there is no interpretation system realized by a server apparatus and one or more terminal apparatuses, and configured to distribute, to one or more users, one or more pieces of interpreted speech obtained from speech of one speaker through interpretation performed by one or more interpreters, wherein the server apparatus properly manages information regarding languages of one or more interpreters, a server apparatus includes an interpreter information group storage unit in which an interpreter information group, which is a group of one or more pieces of interpreter information, is stored, the information being information regarding an interpreter who interprets speech in a first language to a second language, and having a first language identifier for identifying the first language, a second language identifier for identifying the second language, and an interpreter identifier for identifying the interpreter. Accordingly, it is possible to properly manage information regarding languages of one or more interpreters. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358476 | Monotone Speech Detection - Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for detecting monotone speech. In aspects, audio data provided by a user may be received a device. Pitch values may be calculated and/or extracted from the audio data. The non-zero pitch values may be divided into clusters. For each cluster, a Pitch Variation Quotient (PVQ) value may be calculated. The weighted average of PVQ values across the clusters may be calculated and compared to a threshold for determining monotone speech. Based on the comparison, the audio data may be classified as monotone or non-monotone and an indication of the classification may be provided to the user in real-time via a user interface. Upon the completion of the audio session in which the audio data is received, feedback for the audio data may be provided to the user via the user interface. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358477 | JOB RECORD SPECIFYING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, SERVER, JOB RECORD SPECIFYING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A user inputs a speech including a keyword via a speech input device; a first processor searches a job history by the keyword, the job history being stored on a storage, the job history including a job record, the job record including a set of values having ever been used for a job executed by an image processing apparatus. A job record specifying device includes a second processor that conducts an analysis on different values in multiple job records; selects a speech with reference to the different values; transfers the speech to a speech generator; and finds a specific job record from the multiple job records using a keyword extracted from a speech inputted via the speech input device in response to the speech outputted by the speech generator. The image processing apparatus reflects a target set of values in the specific job record, to the setting of a job. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358478 | MODEL-AGNOSTIC VISUALIZATIONS USING LINEAR PROGRAMMING APPROXIMATION - A method of determining influence of language elements in script to an overall classification of the script by perturbing the dataset representing a conversation. In some instances, for example, in the conversation, the language elements and turns within the conversation (e.g., in a chat bot) are analyzed for their influence in escalation or non-escalation of the conversation to a higher level of resolution, e.g., to a human representative or manager. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358479 | LANGUAGE MODEL BIASING SYSTEM - Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving audio data corresponding to a user utterance and context data, identifying an initial set of one or more n-grams from the context data, generating an expanded set of one or more n-grams based on the initial set of n-grams, adjusting a language model based at least on the expanded set of n-grams, determining one or more speech recognition candidates for at least a portion of the user utterance using the adjusted language model, adjusting a score for a particular speech recognition candidate determined to be included in the expanded set of n-grams, determining a transcription of user utterance that includes at least one of the one or more speech recognition candidates, and providing the transcription of the user utterance for output. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358480 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device including an analysis unit configured to analyze a character string indicating contents of utterance obtained as a result of speech recognition, and a display control unit configured to display the character string indicating the contents of the utterance and an analysis result on a display screen. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358481 | LOCALLY DISTRIBUTED KEYWORD DETECTION - In one aspect, a playback device includes a command-keyword engine having a local natural language unit (NLU). The playback device detects, via the command-keyword engine, a first command keyword in voice input of sound detected by one or more microphones of the playback device. The playback device determines whether the sound input data includes a keyword from a first predetermined library of keywords via a local natural language unit (NLU). The playback device transmits the input sound data to a second playback device over a local area network, the second playback device employing a second local NLU with a second predetermined library of keywords. The playback device receives a response from the second playback device and performs an action based on an intent determined by at least one of the first NLU or the second NLU according to the keywords in the voice input. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358482 | VOICE AWARE AUDIO SYSTEM AND METHOD - A voice aware audio system and a method for a user wearing a headset to be aware of an outer sound environment while listening to music or any other audio source. An adjustable sound awareness zone gives the user the flexibility to avoid hearing far distant voices. The outer sound can be analyzed in a frequency domain to select an oscillating frequency candidate and in a time domain to determine if the oscillating frequency candidate is the signal of interest. If the signal directed to the outer sound is determined to be a signal of interest the outer sound is mixed with audio from the audio source. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358483 | HOT-WORD FREE PRE-EMPTION OF AUTOMATED ASSISTANT RESPONSE PRESENTATION - The presentation of an automated assistant response may be selectively pre-empted in response to a hot-word free utterance that is received during the presentation and that is determined to be likely directed to the automated assistant. The determination that the utterance is likely directed to the automated assistant may be performed, for example, using an utterance classification operation that is performed on audio data received during presentation of the response, and based upon such a determination, the response may be pre-empted with another response associated with the later-received utterance. In addition, the duration that is used to determine when a session should be terminated at the conclusion of a conversation between a user and an automated assistant may be dynamically controlled based upon when the presentation of a response has completed. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358484 | Low-Power Automatic Speech Recognition Device - A decoder includes a feature extraction circuit for calculating one or more feature vectors. An acoustic model circuit is coupled to receive one or more feature vectors from and assign one or more likelihood values to the one or more feature vectors. A memory architecture that utilizes on-chip state lattices and an off-chip memory for storing states of transition of the decoder is used to reduce reading and writing to the off-chip memory. The on-chip state lattice is populated with at least one of the states of transition stored in the off-chip memory. An an on-chip word is generated from a snapshot from the on-chip state lattice. The on-chip state lattice and the on-chip word lattice act as an on-chip cache to reduce reading and writing to the off-chip memory. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358485 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DESTINATION SEARCH METHOD - An information processing apparatus is connected to a voice processing server that analyzes text data transmitted from a voice input/output apparatus that converts an instruction by an utterance of a user to the text data and outputs the text data, and outputs an instruction obtained by analysis and utterance language information indicating a language of the utterance, and the information processing apparatus includes: a communicator that communicates with the voice processing server; a destination searcher that determines on the basis of the utterance language information whether to include a space character in a target of the search, and searches for a name indicated in a search character string from a destination list on the basis of a result of the determination; and a hardware processor that performs control to transmit a search result of a destination by the destination searcher to the voice processing server via the communicator. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358486 | METHOD FOR EXPANDING LANGUAGE USED IN SPEECH RECOGNITION MODEL AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING SPEECH RECOGNITION MODEL - Disclosed is a system comprising a memory storing a first natural language understanding model. The memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause a processor to: receive a request for generating a second natural language understanding model in a second language different from the first language; translate the first set of utterances into a second set of utterances in the second language; provide a second set of tags or intents to the second set of utterances; provide a user interface for receiving at least one input for modifying from among the second set of utterances or the second set of tags or intents; generate a third set of utterances and a third set of tags or intents on the basis of the input received through the user interface; and establish the second natural language understanding model including the third set of utterances and the third set of tags or intents. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358487 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for providing communication recommendations to users. The system receives electronic transcripts associated with a first user and generates, based on the transcripts, a communication profile of the user. The system also receives additional user transcripts associated with a plurality of additional users and generates additional communication profiles for those additional users based on the additional transcripts. The system receives a request to communicate with at least one user within the plurality of additional users regarding a specified topic, identifies a second user from within the plurality of additional users, and generates a communication initiation recommendation for the first user to communicate with the second user. The system then transmits the communication initiation recommendation to a first user computing device associated with the first user. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358488 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING REAL-TIME SENTIMENT MODULATION IN CONVERSATION SYSTEMS - A method and system for performing real-time sentiment modulation in conversation systems is disclosed. The method includes generating an impact table comprising a plurality of sentiment vectors and a plurality of emotion vectors associated with the plurality of sentences. The method further includes generating for each of the plurality of sentences, a dependency vector based on the associated sentiment vector and the associated emotion vector. The method further includes stacking the dependency vector generated to generate a waveform representing variance in sentiment and emotions across words within the plurality of sentences. The method further includes altering at least one portion of the waveform based on a desired emotional output to generate a reshaped waveform. The method further includes generating a set of rephrased sentences associated with the at least one portion, based on the reshaped waveform, the set of sentences, a user defined sentiment output. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358489 | INTERFACING WITH APPLICATIONS VIA DYNAMICALLY UPDATING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING - Dynamic interfacing with applications is provided. For example, a system receives a first input audio signal. The system processes, via a natural language processing technique, the first input audio signal to identify an application. The system activates the application for execution on the client computing device. The application declares a function the application is configured to perform. The system modifies the natural language processing technique responsive to the function declared by the application. The system receives a second input audio signal. The system processes, via the modified natural language processing technique, the second input audio signal to detect one or more parameters. The system determines that the one or more parameters are compatible for input into an input field of the application. The system generates an action data structure for the application. The system inputs the action data structure into the application, which executes the action data structure. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358490 | END OF SPEECH DETECTION USING ONE OR MORE NEURAL NETWORKS - Apparatuses, systems, and techniques are presented to recognize speech in an audio signal. In particular, various embodiments can indicate an end of one or more speech segments based, at least in part, on one or more characters predicted to be within these one or more speech segments. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358491 | MINIMUM WORD ERROR RATE TRAINING FOR ATTENTION-BASED SEQUENCE-TO-SEQUENCE MODELS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable storage media, for speech recognition using attention-based sequence-to-sequence models. In some implementations, audio data indicating acoustic characteristics of an utterance is received. A sequence of feature vectors indicative of the acoustic characteristics of the utterance is generated. The sequence of feature vectors is processed using a speech recognition model that has been trained using a loss function that uses N-best lists of decoded hypotheses, the speech recognition model including an encoder, an attention module, and a decoder. The encoder and decoder each include one or more recurrent neural network layers. A sequence of output vectors representing distributions over a predetermined set of linguistic units is obtained. A transcription for the utterance is obtained based on the sequence of output vectors. Data indicating the transcription of the utterance is provided. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358492 | VOICE INTERACTION METHOD AND VEHICLE USING THE SAME - A voice interaction method and a vehicle using the same are disclosed. A voice interaction method according to an embodiment of the present invention activates a personal terminal through which a voice signal of an occupant is received as a voice interaction assisting device between the vehicle and the occupant and changes presence or absence of a voice interaction between the vehicle and the occupant and voice interaction settings according to states of the vehicle and the occupant. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358493 | METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH UTTERANCE TIME ESTIMATION - A processor-implemented utterance time estimation method includes: determining a plurality of attention weight matrices using an attention-based sequence-to-sequence model; selecting an attention weight matrix from the plurality of attention weight matrices; and estimating an utterance time corresponding to an output sequence based on the selected attention weight matrix. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358494 | AGENT CONTROL DEVICE, AGENT CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An agent control device capable of executing a plurality of agents, the agent control device including a processor. The processor is configured to output information from an agent that is being executed to a reporting section, and change a reporting style of the reporting section for each of the agents. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358495 | AGENT CONTROL DEVICE - An agent control device configured to execute a plurality of agents and including a processor, the processor being configured to store an interruptibility list that stipulates interruptibility of execution for each function of one given agent being executed or for an execution status of the one given agent; request execution of each of the agents at a prescribed trigger, or request execution of another given agent at a specific trigger, reference the interruptibility list in order to set permissibility information relating to executability of the other given agent in conjunction with execution of the one given agent; and perform management such that, in a case in which there is a request at the specific trigger for execution of the other given agent while the one given agent is executing, the other given agent is executed based on the request. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358496 | A VOICE ASSISTANT SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE COCKPIT SYSTEM - A method of operating a voice assistant system ( | 2021-11-18 |
20210358497 | WAKEWORD AND ACOUSTIC EVENT DETECTION - A system processes audio data to detect when it includes a representation of a wakeword or of an acoustic event. The system may receive or determine acoustic features for the audio data, such as log-filterbank energy (LFBE). The acoustic features may be used by a first, wakeword-detection model to detect the wakeword; the output of this model may be further processed using a softmax function, to smooth it, and to detect spikes. The same acoustic features may be also be used by a second, acoustic-event-detection model to detect the acoustic event; the output of this model may be further processed using a sigmoid function and a classifier. Another model may be used to extract additional features from the LFBE data; these additional features may be used by the other models. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358498 | MULTIMODAL TRANSMISSION OF PACKETIZED DATA - A system of multi-modal transmission of packetized data in a voice activated data packet based computer network environment is provided. A natural language processor component can parse an input audio signal to identify a request and a trigger keyword. Based on the input audio signal, a direct action application programming interface can generate a first action data structure, and a content selector component can select a content item. An interface management component can identify first and second candidate interfaces, and respective resource utilization values. The interface management component can select, based on the resource utilization values, the first candidate interface to present the content item. The interface management component can provide the first action data structure to the client computing device for rendering as audio output, and can transmit the content item converted for a first modality to deliver the content item for rendering from the selected interface. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358499 | COLLABORATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method and system of audibly broadcasting responses to a user based on user queries about a specific patient molecular report, the method comprising receiving an audible query from the user to a microphone coupled to a collaboration device, identifying at least one intent associated with the audible query, identifying at least one data operation associated with the at least one intent, associating each of the at least one data operations with a first set of data presented on the molecular report, executing each of the at least one data operations on a second set of data to generate response data, generating an audible response file associated with the response data and providing the audible response file for broadcasting via a speaker coupled to the collaboration device. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358500 | PLATFORM SELECTION FOR PERFORMING REQUESTED ACTIONS IN AUDIO-BASED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS - Systems and methods of selecting digital platforms for execution of voice-based commands are provided. The system receives an application that performs an action associated with a service via digital platforms. The system debugs the application to validate parameters of the action on at least two platforms of the digital platforms. The system receives data packets comprising an input audio signal detected by a sensor of a client device, and parses the input audio signal to identify the action and the service. The system selects a first platform from the digital platforms to perform the action. The system initiates, responsive to selection of the first platform, an interactive data exchange to populate parameters of an action data structure corresponding to the action. The system executes the action via the selected platform using the action data structure. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358501 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION, MESSAGE COMPRESSION AND/OR MESSAGE REPLAY IN A COMMUNICATIONS ENVIRONMENT | 2021-11-18 |
20210358502 | SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD IN EDGE COMPUTING DEVICE - Disclosed herein is a speech recognition method in a distributed network environment. A method of performing a speech recognition operation in an edge computing device includes receiving a natural language understanding (NLU) model from the cloud server, storing the received NLU model, receiving voice data spoken by a user from the client device, performing a natural language processing operation on the received voice data using the NLU model, performing speech recognition according to the natural language processing operation, and transmitting a result of the speech recognition to the client device. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358503 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING FRAUD RINGS - A system and method may identify a fraud ring based on call or interaction data by analyzing by a computer processor interaction data including audio recordings to identify clusters of interactions which are suspected of involving fraud each cluster including the same speaker; analyzing by the computer processor the clusters, in combination with metadata associated with the interaction data, to identify fraud rings, each fraud ring describing a plurality of different speakers, each fraud ring defined by a set of speakers and a set of metadata corresponding to interactions including that speaker; and for each fraud ring, creating a relevance value defining the relative relevance of the fraud ring. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358504 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING VOICEPRINTS FOR LARGE POPULATIONS - A system and method for receiving from a network multiple speech signals communicated by respective communication devices, and obtaining respective voiceprints for the communication devices. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358505 | ADVANCED PACKET-BASED SAMPLE AUDIO CONCEALMENT - In a reliable multi-cast, a concealment scheme may be applied to recover or conceal lost or otherwise corrupted packets of audio information for one channel based on the audio information of other channels in the reliable multi-cast. The concealment scheme may employ correction factors for channels derived from the channel relationships. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358506 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - In an audio signal processing method, an audio signal processing apparatus receives an audio signal that meets a screening condition at a listening position, where the screening condition includes one or more of the following conditions: a volume at the listening position being greater than or equal to a volume threshold, a listening distance between the sound source and the listening position being less than or equal to a preset listening distance, or the sound source being in a range corresponding to a listening orientation. The apparatus decodes the audio signal meeting the screening condition to obtain a decoded audio signal. The apparatus then renders the decoded signal based on a sound channel transfer function in a playing device to obtain an output signal. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358507 | DATA SEQUENCE GENERATION - A method for audio signal filtering. The method includes generating a pair of filters for a certain location specified by an elevation angle ϑ and an azimuth angle φ, the pair of filters consisting of a right filter (ĥ | 2021-11-18 |
20210358508 | NOISE FILLING IN MULTICHANNEL AUDIO CODING - In multichannel audio coding, an improved coding efficiency is achieved by the following measure: the noise filling of zero-quantized scale factor bands is performed using noise filling sources other than artificially generated noise or spectral replica. In particular, the coding efficiency in multichannel audio coding may be rendered more efficient by performing the noise filling based on noise generated using spectral lines from a previous frame of, or a different channel of the current frame of, the multichannel audio signal. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358509 | DIRECT MAPPING - A single-bit audio stream can be converted to a modified single-bit audio stream with a constant edge rate while maintaining a modulation index of the original audio stream using direct mapping. With direct mapping, a pre-filter bank may be combined with a multi-bit symbol mapper to select symbols for the modified audio stream with a constant edge rate per symbol and the same modulation index as the original audio stream. The output of the pre-filter bank may be an audio stream with no consecutive full-scale symbols. Using the output of the pre-filter bank, a multi-bit symbol mapper may use the symbol selector to output a symbol with a constant edge rate per symbol and the same modulation index as the original signal. The symbols may be converted to an analog signal for reproduction of audio content using a transducer. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358510 | DECT BASE STATION, MOBILE TERMINAL AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING DATA FRAME - The present application discloses a DECT base station, mobile terminal and system for transmitting data frame. The DECT base station comprises the first codec module and the first RF module. The first codec module is configured to store the acquired encoded data frame in the encoding buffer area of the first codec module; wherein, between the length of the encoded data frame and the length of a B-field data in the TDMA frame, there is a multiple relationship. The first RF module is configured to send, when receiving the first trigger signal, the encoded data frame in the encoding buffer area to mobile terminal. The present application can transmit data frame under the action of the trigger signal, to ensure the completeness and effectiveness of the data frame, thereby increasing the number of broadband voice communication channels. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358511 | OUTPUT APPARATUS, OUTPUT METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An output apparatus according to the present application includes a prediction unit and an output unit. The prediction unit predicts whether or not waveform information having a predetermined context is generated on the basis of detection information detected by a predetermined detection device. The output unit outputs waveform information having an opposite phase to the waveform information having the predetermined context in a case where it has been predicted that the waveform information having the predetermined context is generated. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358512 | AUDIO PROCESSING DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED AUDIO PROCESSING METHOD - An audio processing device is disclosed. The audio processing device includes a filter and an output circuit. The filter is configured to receive an audio signal to generate a filtered audio signal, wherein the filter includes a plurality of parameters that are adjustable for changing a bandwidth, a center frequency or a gain of response of the filter. The output circuit is configured to receive the filtered audio signal to generate an output audio signal to a speaker. When the parameters of the filter are changed, the filter reduces changes in the audio signal caused by the parameters, and the output circuit continuously receives the filtered audio signal to generate the output audio signal for the speaker to play without interruption. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358513 | A SOURCE SEPARATION DEVICE, A METHOD FOR A SOURCE SEPARATION DEVICE, AND A NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a source separation method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a source separation apparatus. The source separation apparatus includes an input means for inputting mixture data obtained by mixing a plurality of data; and a matrix decomposition means for separating the input mixture data by estimating a mixing/unmixing matrix, a basis matrix for each source, an activations matrix for each source and a reliability vector for each source, and a means for unmixing of input mixture data using the estimated matrices from the matrix decomposition means to estimate the sources. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358514 | AUDIO CROPPING - A method of cropping a portion of an audio signal captured from a plurality of spatially separated audio sources in a scene, the method comprising: capturing the audio signal with one or more recording devices; separating the audio signal into a plurality of components each associated with one or more of the plurality of audio sources; selecting a spatial region in the scene; determining which of the plurality of components are associated with an audio source positioned outside of the selected spatial region; and cropping the plurality of components associated with an audio source positioned outside of the selected spatial region out of the audio signal. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358515 | System and Method for Determining Audio Output Device Type - A method performed by a processor of an audio source device. The method drives an audio output device of the audio source device to output a sound with an audio output signal. The method obtains a microphone signal from a microphone of the audio source device, the microphone signal capturing the outputted sound. The method determines whether the audio output device is a headset or a loudspeaker based on the microphone signal and configures an acoustic dosimetry process based on the determination. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358516 | DEVICE AND METHOD TO RECOGNIZE VOICE - A voice recognition device includes a plurality of mics disposed toward different directions and a processor connected with the plurality of mics, wherein the processor is configured to determine, in a setup mode, a direction of a first sound received through the plurality of mics; set a non-detecting zone, which includes the direction of the first sound; | 2021-11-18 |
20210358517 | MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE - According to one embodiment, among a plurality of magnetic heads, the larger the magnetic pole width of the magnetic pole of the magnetic head in the width direction of a recording track formed in a recording layer or the larger an area width of the magnetic head capable of reading the magnetic characteristics of an area of the recording layer on which magnetic recording has been carried out by means of the magnetic head, the farther is the magnetic head arranged outwardly from the vicinity of the center in the parallel arrangement direction of the magnetic disks. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358518 | Actuator Joint with Non-Straight Edge - A suspension is described. The suspension includes a base plate and a load beam coupled to the base plate. The base plate includes a distal elongated element and a proximal elongated element. The distal elongated element includes at least one non-straight baseplate edge and the proximal elongated element includes at least one non-straight baseplate edge. The load beam includes a first mounting shelf and a second mounting shelf. The load beam is coupled to the base plate such that the first mounting shelf is exposed adjacent to the distal elongated element, and the second mounting shelf is exposed adjacent to the proximal elongated element. The first and second mounting shelves are configured to receive an actuator, such that an edge of the actuator and the at least one non-straight baseplate edge forms a gap. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358519 | ADAPTABLE SERVO CONTROLLERS - A device includes a servo controller that includes or that is coupled to memory. The memory stores multiple distinct disturbance control schemes. The servo controller is configured to select and implement one of the disturbance control schemes in response to receiving a command from a host. The servo controller can be implemented on a system on a chip. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358520 | ALUMINUM ALLOY SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC DISK AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, ALUMINUM ALLOY BASE DISK FOR MAGNETIC DISK AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, AND MAGNETIC DISK AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - An aluminum alloy substrate for a magnetic disk including an aluminum alloy containing 0.1 to 3.0 mass % of Fe, 0.005 to 1.000 mass % of Cu, and 0.005 to 1.000 mass % of Zn, with a balance of Al and inevitable impurities, wherein in an outer peripheral surface thereof, the number of holes having maximum diameters of 10 μm or more is 200/mm | 2021-11-18 |
20210358521 | 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 the magnetic layer includes one or more components selected from the group consisting of fatty acid and fatty acid amide, a C—H derived C concentration calculated from a C—H peak area ratio of C1s spectra obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic analysis performed on a surface of the magnetic layer at a photoelectron take-off angle of 10 degrees is equal to or greater than 45 atom %, and 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. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358522 | SOUND SOURCE FILE STRUCTURE, RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SOUND SOURCE FILE - The present disclosure relates to a sound source file structure, to output lyrics as audible sounds right before melodies corresponding to the lyrics start, to help a user to remind the lyrics based on accompaniment for a song after the accompaniment starts to be provided, and to help the user to sing based on correct lyrics corresponding to the melodies. The sound source file structure may include one or more backing sound source layers in which backing sounds based on beats and rhythms are placed, a melody sound source layer in which melody notes corresponding to lyrics based on beats and rhythms and a rest section corresponding to a rest are placed, and a lyric voice source layer in which a lyric voice is placed at a position corresponding to a rest section. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358523 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing method. The method includes: An electronic device obtains N images, where the N images have a same quantity of pixels and a same pixel location arrangement, and N is an integer greater than 1; the electronic device obtains, based on feature values of pixels located at a same location in the N images, a reference value of the corresponding location; the electronic device determines a target pixel of each location based on a reference value of the location; and the electronic device generates a target image based on the target pixel of each location. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358524 | METHOD AND DEVICE OF EDITING A VIDEO - The present disclosure describes techniques of editing a video. The techniques described in the present disclosure comprise converting a to-be-edited video comprising a plurality of frames into an image sequence comprising a plurality of images, wherein a resolution of each image in the image sequence is lower than a resolution of a corresponding frame in the to-be-edited video; generating a script of editing the to-be-edited video based at least in part on selecting and editing at least some of the plurality of images in the image sequence; displaying a preview of editing effects based on the script; and sending the script to a server computing device in response to determining the preview satisfies requirements, wherein the to-be-edited video is processed by the server computing device based on the script of editing the to-be edited video. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358525 | ASYNCHRONOUS VIDEO COLLABORATION - Video may be edited to include collaborations by users. Collaborations may be added to the video and associated with a span of the video. The span of the collaborations may be determined according to an action that is received from a user contemporaneously with the playback of the video. In some cases, the span of the collaborations may be determined automatically by analyzing the collaboration and the video frames to which the user initial added the collaborations. Analysis of the collaborations and video frame may be used to determine span criteria for the frames of the video that should be associated with the collaborations. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358526 | TRANSMITTING DATA SIGNALS ON SEPARATE LAYERS OF A MEMORY MODULE, AND RELATED METHODS AND APPARATUSES - Apparatuses and methods for routing and transmitting signals in an electronic device are described. Various signal paths may be routed to avoid or limit reference transitions or transitions between layers of a structure of a device (e.g., printed circuit board (PCB)). In a memory module, for example, different data inputs/outputs (e.g., DQs) may be routed through different layers of a PCB according to their relative location to one another. For instance, DQs associated with even bits of a byte may be routed on one layer of a PCB near one ground plane, and DQs associated with odd bits of the byte may be routed on a different layer of the PCB near another ground plane. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358527 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES AND SEMICONDUCTOR SYSTEMS - A semiconductor device includes an input control circuit and an internal command generation circuit. The input control circuit is synchronized with a first pulse of an internal clock signal to generate an internal chip selection signal and a first internal command/address signal from a chip selection signal and a command/address signal. In addition, the input control circuit is synchronized with a second pulse of the internal clock signal to inhibit generation of the internal chip selection signal. The internal command generation circuit generates a first active command and a second active command which are sequentially enabled when the internal chip selection signal and the first internal command/address signal have a predetermined logic level combination. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358528 | Physically Unclonable Function Circuit Having Lower Gate-to-Source/Drain Breakdown Voltage - A physically unclonable function (PUF) circuit includes a at least a PUF bit storage transistor. The at least a PUF bit storage transistor has a gate-to-source/drain breakdown voltage lower than a gate-to-channel breakdown voltage and a gated source/drain junction breakdown voltage. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358529 | DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY (DRAM) DEVICE AND MEMORY CONTROLLER THEREFOR - A memory system includes a memory controller and a memory. The memory controller selectively operates in a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, the memory controller transmits a first command continuously during a plurality of clock cycles. In the second mode, the memory controller to mix a second command with the first command and transmit the mixture of the first command and the second command. The memory changes command latch timing depending on the first or second mode. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358530 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, ELECTRONIC COMPONENT, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The operation speed of a semiconductor device is improved. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358531 | MEMORY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A memory and an electronic device are provided. The memory includes a storage element ( | 2021-11-18 |
20210358532 | MRAM REFERENCE CURRENT - A reference circuit for generating a reference current includes a plurality of resistive elements including at least one magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ). A control circuit is coupled to a first terminal of the at least one MTJ and is configured to selectively flow current through the at least one MTJ in the forward and inverse direction to generate a reference current. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358533 | A CONTINUOUS THIN FILM OF A METAL CHALCOGENIDE - There is provided a continuous thin film comprising a metal chalcogenide, wherein the metal is selected from the periodic groups 13 or 14 and the chalcogen is: sulphur (S), selenide (Se), or tellurium (Te), and wherein the thin film has a thickness of less than 20 nm. There is also provided a method of forming the continuous thin film. In a particular embodiment, molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) is used to grow indium selenide (In | 2021-11-18 |
20210358534 | MULTI-PHASE CLOCK GENERATOR, MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING MULTI-PHASE CLOCK GENERATOR, AND METHOD OF GENERATING MULTI-PHASE CLOCK OF MEMORY DEVICE - A multi-phase clock generator includes first and second variable delay lines, a first phase splitter configured to phase-split a first phase-delayed clock, output from a clock tree, to output a first divided clock and a third divided clock, a second phase splitter configured to phase-split a second phase-delayed clock, output from the clock tree, to output a second divided clock and a fourth divided clock, a first duty cycle detector configured to detect a first duty error between the first divided clock and the third divided clock, and a second duty cycle detector configured to detect a second duty error between the second divided clock and the fourth divided clock. The first variable delay line is controlled according to the first duty error, and the second variable delay line is controlled according to the second duty error. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358535 | MEMORY COMPONENT WITH STAGGERED POWER-DOWN EXIT - An integrated circuit includes a physical layer interface having a control timing domain and a data timing domain, and circuits that enable the control timing domain during a change in power conservation mode in response to a first event, and that enable the data timing domain in response to a second event. The control timing domain can include interface circuits coupled to a command and address path, and the data timing domain can include interface circuits coupled to a data path. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358536 | Interrupt-Driven Content Protection of a Memory Device - The disclosed embodiments describe methods, devices, and computer-readable media for protecting the integrity of volatile memory devices. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising detecting a power interrupt condition of a memory device; and executing at least one operation in response to detecting the power interrupt condition, the operation selected from the group of operations consisting of: placing the memory device in a pre-charge mode, pausing a self-refresh mode of the memory device, forcing the memory device into a reset mode, or rewriting data in the memory device. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358537 | DATA PROTECTION SYSTEM AND PROTECTION METHOD OF DISPLAY APPARATUS - This application relates to a data protection system and protection method of a display apparatus, and the system comprises a memory, a TCON, and a switcher. The switcher selectively outputs a constant potential signal and a read/write control signal to a memory according to a potential change of a control signal. When the switcher transmits and outputs the constant potential signal to the memory, the switcher disconnects an electrical coupling between the read/write control signal and a protection control end. The memory maintains timing control data to be write-protected according to the obtained signal, or switches the timing control data to be readable-and-writable or write-protected. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358538 | SINGLE WORD LINE GAIN CELL WITH COMPLEMENTARY READ WRITE CHANNEL - Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods of forming the apparatuses. One of the apparatuses includes multiple two-transistor (2T) memory cells. Each of the multiple 2T memory cells includes: a p-channel field effect transistor (PFET) including a charge storage node and a read channel portion, an n-channel field effect transistor (NFET) including a write channel portion that is directly coupled to the charge storage node of the PFET; a single bit line pair coupled to the read channel portion of the PFET; and a single access line overlapping at least part of each of the read channel portion and the write channel portion. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358539 | METHODS FOR ROW HAMMER MITIGATION AND MEMORY DEVICES AND SYSTEMS EMPLOYING THE SAME - Memory devices and methods of operating memory devices in which refresh management operations can be scheduled on an as-needed basis for those memory portions where activity (e.g., activations in excess of a predetermined threshold) warrants a refresh management operation are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a memory including a memory location, and circuitry configured to determine a count corresponding to a number of activations at the memory location, to schedule a refresh management operation for the memory location in response to the count exceeding a first predetermined threshold, and to decrease the count by an amount corresponding to the first predetermined threshold in response to executing the scheduled refresh management operation. The circuitry may be further configured to disallow, in response to determining that the count has reached a maximum permitted value, further activations at the memory location until after the count has been decreased. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358540 | REFRESH MANAGEMENT FOR DRAM - A memory controller interfaces with a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) over a memory channel. A refresh control circuit monitors an activate counter which counts a rolling number of activate commands sent over the memory channel to a memory region of the DRAM. In response to the activate counter being above an intermediate management threshold value, the refresh control circuit only issue a refresh management (RFM) command if there is no REF command currently held at the refresh command circuit for the memory region. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358541 | Apparatuses And Methods For Deactivating A Delay Locked Loop Update In Semiconductor Devices - A semiconductor device may include a delay locked loop (DLL) control circuit coupled to an update trigger generator and a DLL update circuit. The DLL control circuit may receive an update trigger signal and an internal refresh signal and configured to activate the DLL update circuit responsive to an update trigger in the update trigger signal and deactivate the DLL update circuit responsive to an active internal refresh signal. The DLL update circuit may perform DLL update to one or more memory cell arrays when activated and not perform DLL update to the memory cell arrays when deactivated. The DLL control circuit may reactivate the DLL update circuit once the internal refresh signal becomes inactive. In other scenarios, once the DLL update circuit is deactivated, the DLL update circuit stays deactivated until the next update trigger in the update trigger signal. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358542 | NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING A FAST READ PAGE AND A STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A nonvolatile memory device including: a memory cell array, the memory cell array including a plurality of cell strings, at least one of the cell strings including a plurality of memory cells stacked in a direction perpendicular to a surface of a substrate, at least one of the memory cells is a multi-level cell storing at least three bits; and a control logic circuit configured to control a page buffer to read a fast read page of the memory cells with one read voltage and at least two normal read pages of the memory cells with the same number of read voltages. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358543 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY WITH MULTI-LEVEL CELL ARRAY AND ASSOCIATED READ CONTROL METHOD - A non-volatile memory includes a cell array, a current supply circuit, a path selecting circuit and a judging circuit. The cell array includes plural multi-level memory cells in an mxn array. The cell array is connected with m word lines and n lines. The current supply circuit provides one of plural reference currents according to a current control value. The path selecting circuit is connected with the current supply circuit and the n bit lines. The judging circuit is connected with the path selecting circuit, and generates n output data. A first path selector of the path selecting circuit is connected with a path selecting circuit and a first bit line. A first judging device of the judging circuit is connected with the first path selector and generates a first output data. | 2021-11-18 |
20210358544 | MEMORY DEVICES AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME - The present disclosure generally relates to memory devices and methods of forming the same. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to resistive random-access (ReRAM) memory devices incorporating reference cells for achieving high sensing yield. The present disclosure provides a memory device including a main cell structure including a switching element arranged between a pair of conductors, and a reference cell structure electrically coupled to the main cell structure. The reference cell structure includes a switching element arranged between a pair of conductors, in which the switching element of the reference cell structure has a dimension that is different from a dimension of the switching element of the main cell structure. | 2021-11-18 |