47th week of 2021 patent applcation highlights part 57 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20210366454 | SOUND SIGNAL SYNTHESIS METHOD, NEURAL NETWORK TRAINING METHOD, AND SOUND SYNTHESIZER - A sound signal synthesis method includes generating first data representing a deterministic component of a sound signal based on second control data representing conditions of the sound signal, generating, using a first generation model, second data representing a stochastic component of the sound signal based on the first data and first control data representing conditions of the sound signal, and combining the deterministic component represented by the first data and the stochastic component represented by the second data and thereby generating the sound signal. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366455 | SOUND SIGNAL SYNTHESIS METHOD, GENERATIVE MODEL TRAINING METHOD, SOUND SIGNAL SYNTHESIS SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A computer-implemented sound signal synthesis method generates control data including pitch notation data indicative of a pitch name of a pitch of a sound signal to be synthesized and octave data indicative of an octave of the pitch of the sound signal to be synthesized; and estimates output data indicative of the sound signal to be synthesized by inputting the generated control data into a generative model that has learned a relationship between training control data including training pitch notation data indicative of a pitch name of a pitch of a reference signal and training octave data indicative of an octave of the pitch of the reference signal; and training output data indicative of the reference signal. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366456 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image, a vibration generating device at a rear surface of the display panel to vibrate the display panel, and a supporting member at the rear surface of the display panel and including a first hole. The first hole may be disposed at a whole region or periphery of the vibration generating device. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366457 | ACTIVE ADAPTIVE NOISE AND VIBRATION CONTROL - Methods and systems for actively and adaptively cancelling the noise and vibration generated by medical devices. A method includes receiving data from one or more sensors of a medical device. The method includes determining a signature signal for the medical device based at least on the data. The signature signal is a representation of one or more physical byproducts of the medical device, and one or more environmental conditions of a physical environment proximate to the medical device. The method incudes determining an inverted signal based on the signature signal, the inverted signal configured to mask the signature signal. The method includes generating a physical representation of the inverted signal by one or more electrical or electromechanical components of the medical device, and masking the signature signal with the inverted signal. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366458 | ULTRA-THIN ACOUSTIC LENS FOR SUBWAVELENGTH FOCUSING IN MEGASONIC RANGE, AND DESIGN METHOD THEREFOR - The present invention relates to an ultra-thin acoustic lens for subwavelength focusing in a megasonic range and a design method thereof. More particularly, the present invention relates to a super-oscillatory planar ultra-thin acoustic lens for subwavelength focusing in the megasonic range, which includes a plurality of concentric regions arranged in a concentric shape with reference to the center point, wherein the concentric regions include a plurality acoustic insulation region for insulating incident acoustic waves, and a plurality of transmission regions for transmitting acoustic waves, the acoustic insulation regions and the transmission regions being formed alternatively in a radial direction from the center point so as to focus incident acoustic wave energy onto a subwavelength region. The acoustic lens has flat surfaces on both sides thereof respectively and has a plate shape having a constant thickness, and a layout, which is a radius of each of the plurality of acoustic insulation regions and transmission regions in the concentric region, is determined by a topology optimization reverse design method. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366459 | Hotword-Aware Speech Synthesis - A method includes receiving text input data for conversion into synthesized speech and determining, using a hotword-aware model trained to detect a presence of a hotword assigned to a user device, whether a pronunciation of the text input data includes the hotword. The hotword is configured to initiate a wake-up process on the user device for processing the hotword and/or one or more other terms following the hotword in the audio input data. When the pronunciation of the text input data includes the hotword, the method also includes generating an audio output signal from the text input data and providing the audio output signal to an audio output device to output the audio output signal. The audio output signal when captured by an audio capture device of the user device, configured to prevent initiation of the wake-up process on the user device. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366460 | TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method, computer program product, and computer system for text-to-speech synthesis is disclosed. Synthetic speech data for an input text may be generated. The synthetic speech data may be compared to recorded reference speech data corresponding to the input text. Based on, at least in part, the comparison of the synthetic speech data to the recorded reference speech data, at least one feature indicative of at least one difference between the synthetic speech data and the recorded reference speech data may be extracted. A speech gap filling model may be generated based on, at least in part, the at least one feature extracted. A speech output may be generated based on, at least in part, the speech gap filling model. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366461 | GENERATING SPEECH SIGNALS USING BOTH NEURAL NETWORK-BASED VOCODING AND GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL TRAINING - Systems and methods are described for generating speech signals using an encoder/decoder that synthesizes human voice signals (a “vocoder”). A processor may receive inputs that include a plurality of mel scale spectrograms, a fundamental frequency signal, and a constant noise signal. The received inputs may be encoded into two vector sequences by concatenating the received inputs and then filtering a result of the concatenating operation. A plurality of harmonic samples may be generated from one of the two generated vector sequences using an additive oscillator. The harmonic samples may be generated using processing steps that include applying a sigmoid non-linearity to the one of the two generated vector sequences. Each of the plurality of harmonic samples may then be used to create a vector, which may be used as an input for a convolutional decoder for adversarial training. The convolutional decoder may output the speech signals based on the vector made up of the plurality of harmonic samples. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366462 | EMOTION CLASSIFICATION INFORMATION-BASED TEXT-TO-SPEECH (TTS) METHOD AND APPARATUS - Disclosed are an emotion classification information-based text-to-speech (TTS) method and device. The emotion classification information-based TTS method according to an embodiment of the present invention may, when emotion classification information is set in a received message, transmit metadata corresponding to the set emotion classification information to a speech synthesis engine and, when no emotion classification information is set in the received message, generate new emotion classification information through semantic analysis and context analysis of sentences in the received message and transmit the metadata to the speech synthesis engine. The speech synthesis engine may perform speech synthesis by carrying emotion classification information based on the transmitted metadata. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366463 | END-TO-END TEXT-TO-SPEECH CONVERSION - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating speech from text. One of the systems includes one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to implement: a sequence-to-sequence recurrent neural network configured to: receive a sequence of characters in a particular natural language, and process the sequence of characters to generate a spectrogram of a verbal utterance of the sequence of characters in the particular natural language; and a subsystem configured to: receive the sequence of characters in the particular natural language, and provide the sequence of characters as input to the sequence-to-sequence recurrent neural network to obtain as output the spectrogram of the verbal utterance of the sequence of characters in the particular natural language. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366464 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION WITH HIGHLY EFFICIENT DECODING - A system, article, and method of automatic speech recognition with highly efficient decoding is accomplished by frequent beam width adjustment. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366465 | EVENT SENSING SYSTEM - An event sensing system includes one or more sensor assemblies, each sensor assembly including a housing, a microphone, and an audio signal processor. The audio signal processor is configured to generate one of an event classification, which is indicative of a type of event, and an event characteristic, which is indicative of a severity of an event, from the audio signal. The sensor assembly is configured to transmit event records that contain the generated event data to a cloud infrastructure component. The cloud infrastructure component is configured to calculate the probability of an event occurring at a plurality of locations in a region within a bounded time window based on the event records received from a plurality of sensor assemblies. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366466 | MEMORY ALLOCATION FOR KEYWORD SPOTTING ENGINES - Network microphone devices configured to detect keywords can include microphones for capturing sound samples. Features can be extracted from the sound samples by storing the sound samples in a first portion of a dynamic-access memory block, performing first computations based on spectral coefficients of the sound samples using a second portion of the memory block, and storing results of the first computations as extracted features in a third portion of the memory block. The second and third portions of the memory block can be designated as temporary memory. The extracted features are then processed using a neural network by storing the extracted features in a fourth portion of the memory block, performing second computations on the extracted features using the temporary memory, the second computations comprising computing at least one layer of the neural network, and storing an output of the neural network as a classification in the temporary memory. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366467 | SLANG IDENTIFICATION AND EXPLANATION - A plurality of slang sentences and respective explanations for the plurality of slang sentences are extracted from audio or video data. A set of training samples are generated by clustering the plurality of slang sentences and the explanations. Each of the training samples comprises at least one slang sentence and at least one explanation corresponding to same slang. A model is trained based on the set of training samples, such that the trained model identifies slang from an input sentence and provides at least one explanation for the identified slang. In other embodiments, another method, systems and computer program products are disclosed. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366468 | Textual Analysis System for Automatic Language Proficiency Assessment - A language proficiency analyzer automatically evaluates a person's language proficiency by analyzing that person's oral communications with another person. The analyzer first enhances the quality of an audio recording of a conversation between the two people using a neural network that automatically detects loss features in the audio and adds those loss features back into the audio. The analyzer then performs a textual and audio analysis on the improved audio. Through textual analysis, the analyzer uses a multi-attention network to determine how focused one person is on the other and how pleased one person is with the other. Through audio analysis, the analyzer uses a neural network to determine how well one person pronounced words during the conversation. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366469 | ADAPTIVE INTERFACE IN A VOICE-ACTIVATED NETWORK - The systems and methods of the present disclosure generally relate to a data processing system that can identify and surface alternative requests when presented with ambiguous, unclear, or other requests to which a data processing system may not be able to respond. The data processing system can improve the efficiency of network transmissions to reduce network bandwidth usage and processor utilization by selecting alternative requests that are responsive to the intent of the original request. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366470 | VOICE CONTROL OF A MEDIA PLAYBACK SYSTEM - An example system is configured to cause a first playback device in a first playback zone to operate in a given playback state including play back of media items identified in a playback queue associated with the first playback zone. The system is also configured to, while the first playback device is operating in the given playback state, (i) receive data corresponding to a detected voice input including an indication of (a) a command word and (b) one or more zone variable instances and (ii) determine, based on the command word and the one or more zone variable instances, an intent to transfer the given playback state to a second playback zone. The system is also configured to transfer the given playback state to the second playback zone, thereby causing a second playback device in the second playback zone to play back the media items identified in the playback queue. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366471 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING AUDIO COMMUNICATIONS OVER A NETWORK - A method of processing audio communications over a social networking platform, comprising: at a server: receiving a first audio transmission from a second client device in a source language distinct from a default language associated with the first client device; obtaining current user language attributes for the first client device, which are indicative of a current language used for the audio and/or video communication session at the first client device; when the current user language attributes suggest a target language currently used for the audio and/or video communication session at the first client device is distinct from the default language: obtaining a translation of the first audio transmission from the source language into the target language; and sending, to the first client device, the translation of the first audio transmission in the target language to be presented to a user at the first client device. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366472 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPARATUS FOR SPEECH INTERACTION AND METHOD FOR THE SAME - An artificial intelligence apparatus for a speech interaction comprises: a microphone configured to obtain speech data corresponding to an utterance sentence of a user; a memory configured to store a first platform framework corresponding to a default platform of the artificial intelligence apparatus and at least one second platform framework; a communication unit configured to communicate with at least one of an Internet of Things (IoT) device or an external platform apparatus; and a processor configured to: obtain intention information corresponding to the speech data, determine at least one target device among the artificial intelligence apparatus, the IoT device, or the external platform apparatus based on the intention information, determine a target platform framework among the first platform framework or the second platform framework based on the intention information, generate a command corresponding to the speech data using the determined target platform framework, and perform an operation corresponding to the speech data for the target device using the generated command. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366473 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, OPERATING METHOD THEREOF, SYSTEM HAVING PLURAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEVICES - The present disclosure relates to an electronic device, an operating method thereof, and a system including a plurality of artificial intelligence devices. An electronic device according to the present invention includes a voice receiving unit configured to receive a voice, a communication unit configured to perform communication with an artificial intelligence (AI) server set to be activated by a preset wake-up word, and a control unit configured to acquire profile information through communication with at least one artificial intelligence device communicating with the artificial intelligence server, and register the at least one artificial intelligence device by storing the acquired profile information and a list of executable commands matched to the profile information. The control unit searches for an artificial intelligence device to perform an execution command based on the profile information and the list and transmits the execution command to the searched artificial intelligence device, in response to the voice including the preset wake-up word being received by the registered artificial intelligence device and the execution command corresponding to the voice being received from the registered artificial intelligence device. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366474 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEVICE - An artificial intelligence device includes a microphone configured to receive a speech command, a speaker, a communication unit configured to perform communication with an external artificial intelligence device, and a processor configured to receive a wake-up command through the microphone, acquire a first speech quality level of the received wake-up command, receive a second speech quality level of the wake-up command input to the external artificial intelligence device from the external artificial intelligence device through the communication unit, output a notification indicating that the artificial intelligence device is selected as an object to be controlled through the speaker, when the first speech quality level is larger than the second speech quality level, receive an operation command through the microphone, acquire an intention of the received operation command and transmit the operation command to an external artificial intelligence device which will perform operation corresponding to the operation command according to the acquired intention through the communication unit. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366475 | SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR RESPONDING TO LOCATION-VARIABLE GROUP ELECTRONIC DIGITAL ASSISTANT INQUIRIES - A process for responding to location-variable group electronic digital assistant requests includes monitoring audio communications transmitted between a plurality of communication devices (CDs) on a group communication channel (CC) and detecting an audio inquiry from a first CD of the plurality of CDs. A location of each CD is determined, including different first and second determined locations of the first and second CDs. The audio inquiry is processed and it is determined that a response will vary based on the different first and second locations. Two different first and second responses to the audio inquiry are generated as a function of the determined locations and are caused to be provide to respective ones of the first and second CDs via one of (i) two private call CCs, (ii) one individual private call CC and the group CC, and (iii) the group CC and a second group CC. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366476 | COMMAND KEYWORDS WITH INPUT DETECTION WINDOWING - A device, such as Network Microphone Device or a playback device, receives an indication of a track change associated with a playback queue output by a media playback system. In response, an input detection window is opened for a given time period. During the given time period the device is arranged to receive an input sound data stream representing sound detected by a microphone. The input sound data stream is analyzed for a plurality of command keywords and/or a wake-word for a Voice Assistant Service (VAS) and, based on the analysis, it is determined that the input sound data stream includes voice input data comprising a command keyword or a wake-word for a VAS. In response, the device takes appropriate action such as causing the media playback system to perform a command corresponding to the command keyword or sending at least part of the input sound data stream to the VAS. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366477 | INPUT DETECTION WINDOWING - A device, such as Network Microphone Device or a playback device, detecting an event associated with the device or a system comprising the device. In response, an input detection window is opened for a given time period. During the given time period the device is arranged to receive an input sound data stream representing sound detected by a microphone. The input sound data stream is analyzed for a plurality of keywords and/or a wake-word for a Voice Assistant Service (VAS) and, based on the analysis, it is determined that the input sound data stream includes voice input data comprising a keyword or a wake-word for a VAS. In response, the device takes appropriate action such as causing the media playback system to perform a command corresponding to the keyword or sending at least part of the input sound data stream to the VAS. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366478 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREON INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information processing system according one embodiment includes: a voice receiver which receives a first voice uttered by a first user of a first information processing device; a voice recognizer which recognizes the first voice received by the voice receiver; a display controller which causes a first text, which corresponds to the first voice recognized by the voice recognizer, to be displayed in each of first display areas of the first information processing device and a second information processing device, and a second display area of the first information processing device; and a correction reception portion which receives a correction operation of the first user for the first text displayed in the second display area. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366479 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EMPHASIZING A USER'S NAME - System and methods for processing audio signals are disclosed. In one implementation, a system may include at least one microphone configured to capture sounds from an environment of a user; and at least one processor. The processor may be programmed to receive at least one audio signal representative of at least part of the sounds captured by the microphone; identify at least one word in the at least one audio signal; and in response to identifying the at least one word, cause feedback to be provided the user. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366480 | VIRTUAL ASSISTANT ACTIVATION - At an electronic device with a display, a microphone, and an input device: while the display is on, receiving user input via the input device, the user input meeting a predetermined condition; in accordance with receiving the user input meeting the predetermined condition, sampling audio input received via the microphone; determining whether the audio input comprises a spoken trigger; and in accordance with a determination that audio input comprises the spoken trigger, triggering a virtual assistant session. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366481 | DETECTION OF DUPLICATE PACKETIZED DATA TRANSMISSION - A system of reducing transmissions 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 candidate interfaces and determine if prior instances of the packetized data was transmitted to the candidate interfaces. The interface management component can prevent the transmission of the packetized data if determined to be redundant. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366482 | Voice control system for ophthalmic laser systems - A voice control system for ophthalmologic laser treatment systems sets parameters for delivering laser energy based on voice commands and prevents potentially harmful parameters due to operator mistakes and misunderstood voice commands by providing incremental parameter adjustment and restricting the amount by which the parameters can be adjusted for each executed voice command. Valid voice commands include indications of which parameter to set, a value for the parameter, and whether to increase or decrease the value of the parameter. In one example, parameter values can only be increased or decreased by a certain percentage with respect to the current value. In another example, the parameters are adjusted by selecting the next highest or lowest value with respect to the current parameter value from a predetermined sequence of possible values for particular parameters. Voice control functionality can also be deactivated under certain conditions such as when it is determined that a parameter was not set. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366483 | METHOD, INTERACTION DEVICE, SERVER, AND SYSTEM FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, an apparatus, and a system for speech recognition. a third-party application corresponding to a speech signal of a user can be determined according to the speech signal and by means of semantic analysis; and third-party application registry information is searched for and a third-party program is started, so that the user does not need to tap the third-party application to start the corresponding program, thereby providing more intelligent service for the user and facilitating use for the user. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366484 | CONTEXT-SENSITIVE DYNAMIC UPDATE OF VOICE TO TEXT MODEL IN A VOICE-ENABLED ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A voice to text model used by a voice-enabled electronic device is dynamically and in a context-sensitive manner updated to facilitate recognition of entities that potentially may be spoken by a user in a voice input directed to the voice-enabled electronic device. The dynamic update to the voice to text model may be performed, for example, based upon processing of a first portion of a voice input, e.g., based upon detection of a particular type of voice action, and may be targeted to facilitate the recognition of entities that may occur in a later portion of the same voice input, e.g., entities that are particularly relevant to one or more parameters associated with a detected type of voice action. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366485 | AUDIO ANALYSIS SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY ASSESSMENT - A language proficiency analyzer automatically evaluates a person's language proficiency by analyzing that person's oral communications with another person. The analyzer first enhances the quality of an audio recording of a conversation between the two people using a neural network that automatically detects loss features in the audio and adds those loss features back into the audio. The analyzer then performs a textual and audio analysis on the improved audio. Through textual analysis, the analyzer uses a multi-attention network to determine how focused one person is on the other and how pleased one person is with the other. Through audio analysis, the analyzer uses a neural network to determine how well one person pronounced words during the conversation. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366486 | INFERRING SENTIMENT TO MANAGE CROWDED SPACES BY USING UNSTRUCTURED DATA - Facilities of a shared environment are automatically optimized by inferring sentiment from unstructured conversational data towards various environmental entities such as heat, light, service levels, etc. Conversational audio streams from different areas are analyzed to identify an entity and associated sentiment, and a heatmap is created representing the sentiment across the different areas. The conversational audio streams are captured by directional microphones and are assigned metadata such as a location tag indicating a position of a microphone within the shared environment. Heatmap creation can be supplemented by other sensory data. A cognitive system is used to generate actions for control of the facilities based on the heatmap. A suggested action may still be subject to operational policies for the facility. In some scenarios a first suggested facility action compensates for an effect of a second suggested facility action. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366487 | VIRTUAL ASSISTANT IDENTIFICATION OF NEARBY COMPUTING DEVICES - In one example, a method includes method comprising: receiving audio data generated by a microphone of a current computing device; identifying, based on the audio data, one or more computing devices that each emitted a respective audio signal in response to speech reception being activated at the current computing device; and selecting either the current computing device or a particular computing device from the identified one or more computing devices to satisfy a spoken utterance determined based on the audio data. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366488 | Speaker Identification Method and Apparatus in Multi-person Speech - The present disclosure relates to a speaker identification method and apparatus in a multi-person speech, and an electronic device and a storage medium, and relates to the technical field of computers. The method comprises: acquiring speech contents in a multi-person speech; extracting and processing a harmonics band in a voice segment of a pre-set length from the speech contents; making a calculation and analysis of the number of harmonics in the harmonics band and their relative strengths so as to determine the same speaker accordingly; identifying, by analyzing speech contents corresponding to different speakers, identity information about each of the speakers; and finally generating a corresponding relationship between the speech contents of the different speakers and the identity information about the speakers. The present disclosure can effectively distinguish identity information about speakers according to their speech contents. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366489 | VOICE AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for setting the false acceptance (FA) rate of an individual voiceprint used for enrolling a user with a voice biometric authentication system, the individual voiceprint derived from a Universal Background Model (UBM) selected by the system, the method comprising: (a) selecting a cohort of impostor voice files containing voice samples spoken by persons other than the enrolling user; (b) determining one or more acoustic feature files for each voice file in the selected cohort of impostor voice files; (c) determining, for each acoustic feature files, the top n GMM mixture components for the selected Universal Background Model (UBM); (d) scoring the acoustic features against only the corresponding top n mixture components in the individual voiceprint to generate a distribution of impostor scores; and (e) setting the FA rate for the individual voiceprint based on the resultant distribution. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366490 | MOBILE DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TASK MANAGEMENT BASED ON VOICE INTERCOM FUNCTION - A mobile device, a system and a method for task management based on voice intercom function are provided. A mobile device receives a voice message associated with at least one task. Semantic information of the voice message is analyzed to determine at least one message receiver of the voice message and generate a task message. Another mobile device corresponding to one of the at least one message receiver receives the task message. Task management information associated with the at least one task is updated according to the semantic information of the voice message. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366491 | Neural Networks For Speaker Verification - This document generally describes systems, methods, devices, and other techniques related to speaker verification, including (i) training a neural network for a speaker verification model, (ii) enrolling users at a client device, and (iii) verifying identities of users based on characteristics of the users' voices. Some implementations include a computer-implemented method. The method can include receiving, at a computing device, data that characterizes an utterance of a user of the computing device. A speaker representation can be generated, at the computing device, for the utterance using a neural network on the computing device. The neural network can be trained based on a plurality of training samples that each: (i) include data that characterizes a first utterance and data that characterizes one or more second utterances, and (ii) are labeled as a matching speakers sample or a non-matching speakers sample. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366492 | AUTHENTICATING RECEIVED SPEECH - A speech signal is received by a device comprising first and second transducers, and the first transducer comprises a microphone. A method comprises performing a first voice biometric process on speech contained in a first part of a signal received by the microphone, in order to determine whether the speech is the speech of an enrolled user. A first correlation is determined, between said first part of the signal received by the microphone and a corresponding part of the signal received by the second transducer. A second correlation is determined, between said second part of the signal received by the microphone and the corresponding part of the signal received by the second transducer. It is then determined whether the first correlation and the second correlation satisfy a predetermined condition. If it is determined that the speech contained in the first part of the received signal is the speech of an enrolled user and that the first correlation and the second correlation satisfy the predetermined condition, the received speech signal is authenticated. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366493 | MISSING DATA PACKET COMPENSATION - Methods of compensating for lost data packets in hearing aid systems wherein a data streaming device streams packets of data to at least two hearing aids are disclosed. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366494 | PROCESSING OF AUDIO SIGNALS DURING HIGH FREQUENCY RECONSTRUCTION - The application relates to HFR (High Frequency Reconstruction/Regeneration) of audio signals. In particular, the application relates to a method and system for performing HFR of audio signals having large variations in energy level across the low frequency range which is used to reconstruct the high frequencies of the audio signal. A system configured to generate a plurality of high frequency subband signals covering a high frequency interval from a plurality of low frequency subband signals is described. The system comprises means for receiving the plurality of low frequency subband signals; means for receiving a set of target energies, each target energy covering a different target interval within the high frequency interval and being indicative of the desired energy of one or more high frequency subband signals lying within the target interval; means for generating the plurality of high frequency subband signals from the plurality of low frequency subband signals and from a plurality of spectral gain coefficients associated with the plurality of low frequency subband signals, respectively; and means for adjusting the energy of the plurality of high frequency subband signals using the set of target energies. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366495 | SPEECH CODING USING AUTO-REGRESSIVE GENERATIVE NEURAL NETWORKS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for coding speech using neural networks. One of the methods includes obtaining a bitstream of parametric coder parameters characterizing spoken speech; generating, from the parametric coder parameters, a conditioning sequence; generating a reconstruction of the spoken speech that includes a respective speech sample at each of a plurality of decoder time steps, comprising, at each decoder time step: processing a current reconstruction sequence using an auto-regressive generative neural network, wherein the auto-regressive generative neural network is configured to process the current reconstruction to compute a score distribution over possible speech sample values, and wherein the processing comprises conditioning the auto-regressive generative neural network on at least a portion of the conditioning sequence; and sampling a speech sample from the possible speech sample values. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366496 | ESTIMATION OF BACKGROUND NOISE IN AUDIO SIGNALS - Background noise estimators and methods are disclosed for estimating background noise in an audio signal. Some methods include obtaining at least one parameter associated with an audio signal segment, such as a frame or part of a frame, based on a first linear prediction gain, calculated as a quotient between a residual signal from a 0th-order linear prediction and a residual signal from a 2nd-order linear prediction for the audio signal segment. A second linear prediction gain is calculated as a quotient between a residual signal from a 2nd-order linear prediction and a residual signal from a 16th-order linear prediction for the audio signal segment. Whether the audio signal segment comprises a pause is determined based at least on the obtained at least one parameter; and a background noise estimate is updated based on the audio signal segment when the audio signal segment comprises a pause. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366497 | METHODS OF ENCODING AND DECODING SPEECH SIGNAL USING NEURAL NETWORK MODEL RECOGNIZING SOUND SOURCES, AND ENCODING AND DECODING APPARATUSES FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - Methods of encoding and decoding a speech signal using a neural network model that recognizes sound sources, and encoding and decoding apparatuses for performing the methods are provided. A method of encoding a speech signal includes identifying an input signal for a plurality of sound sources; generating a latent signal by encoding the input signal; obtaining a plurality of sound source signals by separating the latent signal for each of the plurality of sound sources; determining a number of bits used for quantization of each of the plurality of sound source signals according to a type of each of the plurality of sound sources; quantizing each of the plurality of sound source signals based on the determined number of bits; and generating a bitstream by combining the plurality of quantized sound source signals. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366498 | DECODER AND DECODING METHOD FOR LC3 CONCEALMENT INCLUDING FULL FRAME LOSS CONCEALMENT AND PARTIAL FRAME LOSS CONCEALMENT | 2021-11-25 |
20210366499 | LOW-COMPLEXITY TONALITY-ADAPTIVE AUDIO SIGNAL QUANTIZATION - The invention provides an audio encoder for encoding an audio signal so as to produce therefrom an encoded signal, the audio encoder including: a framing device configured to extract frames from the audio signal; a quantizer configured to map spectral lines of a spectrum signal derived from the frame of the audio signal to quantization indices, wherein the quantizer has a dead-zone, in which the input spectral lines are mapped to quantization index zero; and a control device configured to modify the dead-zone; wherein the control device includes a tonality calculating device configured to calculate at least one tonality indicating value for at least one spectrum line or for at least one group of spectral lines, wherein the control device is configured to modify the dead-zone for the at least one spectrum line or the at least one group of spectrum lines depending on the respective tonality indicating value. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366500 | Cross Product Enhanced Harmonic Transposition - The present invention relates to audio coding systems which make use of a harmonic transposition method for high frequency reconstruction (HFR). A system and a method for generating a high frequency component of a signal from a low frequency component of the signal is described. The system comprises an analysis filter bank providing a plurality of analysis subband signals of the low frequency component of the signal. It also comprises a non-linear processing unit to generate a synthesis subband signal with a synthesis frequency by modifying the phase of a first and a second of the plurality of analysis subband signals and by combining the phase-modified analysis subband signals. Finally, it comprises a synthesis filter bank for generating the high frequency component of the signal from the synthesis subband signal. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366501 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING QUALITY OF ATTENTION-BASED SEQUENCE-TO-SEQUENCE MODEL - A method and apparatus for improving the quality of an attention-based sequence-to-sequence model. The method includes determining an output sequence corresponding to an input sequence based on an attention-based sequence-to-sequence model, selecting at least one target attention head from among a plurality of attention heads, detecting at least one error output token among output tokens constituting the output sequence based on the target attention head, and correcting the output sequence based on the error output token. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366502 | ESTIMATION DEVICE, LEARNING DEVICE, ESTIMATION METHOD, LEARNING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An estimation device includes a memory, and processing circuitry coupled to the memory and configured to receive an input of an input audio signal that is an audio signal in which sounds from a plurality of sound sources are mixed, and an input of supplemental information, and output an estimation result of mask information that identifies a mask for extracting a sound of any one of the sound sources included in an entire or a part of a signal included in the input audio signal, the signal being identified by the supplemental information, cause a neural network to iterate a process of outputting the estimation result of the mask information, and cause the neural network to output an estimation result of the mask information for a different sound source, by inputting a different piece of the supplemental information to the neural network at each iteration. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366503 | Method For Determining Delay Between Signals, Apparatus, Device And Storage Medium - The present application discloses a method for determining a delay between signals, an apparatus, a device and a storage medium, and relates to voice technology. In the method, apparatus, device, and storage medium provided by the present disclosure, by performing down-sampling processing on the signals, the amount of calculation for determining the delay can be reduced, thereby improving the determination efficiency. Moreover, signal segments including alignment positions of the two signals can be estimated in the signal through a currently determined delay, and then the processing can be performed again on the signal segments. In this way, a range for determination can be gradually reduced, that is, an accurate delay can be obtained by just processing shorter signals, which not only ensures the accuracy of the determination, but also reduces the amount of data processing. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366504 | ADAPTIVE DYNAMIC AUDIO HUM EXTRACTOR AND EXTRACTION PROCESS - An adaptive dynamic audio hum extractor eliminates line frequency hum components and associated higher harmonics from an audio signal. An audio signal containing line frequency hum can be processed by providing dynamically controlled notch filters at the fundamental line frequency and additional harmonic multiples of the fundamental frequency. The audio signal is detected to provide dynamic control of the depth of the notch filters. Alternatively, an audio signal containing hum can be processed by dividing the spectrum into at least two frequency bands, an unaltered high band combined with a dynamically processed low band. The adaptive dynamically controlled notch filters vary the depth of the notches in relation to the envelope or time averaged level of the bandwidth limited audio signal. This allows masking of the hum components with higher levels of audio, thereby providing transparency devoid of audio path notches. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366505 | VISUALLY PRESENTING AUDITORY INFORMATION - Systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable media for processing audio and visually presenting information are provided. Audio data captured by one or more audio sensors included in a wearable apparatus from an environment of a wearer of the wearable apparatus may be obtained. The audio data may be analyzed to obtain textual information. The audio data may be analyzed to associate different portions of the textual information with different speakers. A head mounted display system may be used to present each portion of the textual information in a presentation region associated with the speaker associated with the portion of the textual information. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366506 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEVICE CAPABLE OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF ANOTHER DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - An artificial intelligence device includes a microphone configured to receive a command uttered by a user, a wireless communication unit configured to perform communication with an external artificial intelligence device, and a processor configured to receive a first operation command through the microphone, acquire a first speech quality level and a first intention of the received first operation command, determine a first external artificial intelligence device to perform the acquired first intention, transmit a first control command corresponding to the first intention to the determined first external artificial intelligence device, receive a second operation command through the microphone, acquire a second speech quality level and a second intention of the received second operation command, and determine that a device to be controlled is changed when a difference between the first speech quality level and the second speech quality level is equal to or greater than a predetermined level range. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366507 | Audio Quality Enhancement System - A language proficiency analyzer automatically evaluates a person's language proficiency by analyzing that person's oral communications with another person. The analyzer first enhances the quality of an audio recording of a conversation between the two people using a neural network that automatically detects loss features in the audio and adds those loss features back into the audio. The analyzer then performs a textual and audio analysis on the improved audio. Through textual analysis, the analyzer uses a multi-attention network to determine how focused one person is on the other and how pleased one person is with the other. Through audio analysis, the analyzer uses a neural network to determine how well one person pronounced words during the conversation. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366508 | VOWEL SENSING VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTOR - Methods and apparatuses for detecting user speech are described. In one example, a method for detecting user speech includes receiving a microphone output signal corresponding to sound received at a microphone and identifying a spoken vowel sound in the microphone signal. The method further includes outputting an indication of user speech detection responsive to identifying the spoken vowel sound. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366509 | RECORDING DEVICE, READING DEVICE, RECORDING METHOD, RECORDING PROGRAM, READING METHOD, READING PROGRAM, AND MAGNETIC TAPE - An information processing device includes a recording unit that records a plurality of objects including data and metadata related to the data on a magnetic recording medium, and executes, after recording at least one of the objects, processing of recording first set data which is a set of the metadata included in the object. The first set data is the set of the metadata included in the object recorded after recording the first set data that is recorded immediately before. The magnetic recording medium has a magnetic layer containing a ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent on a non-magnetic support. A difference between spacings S | 2021-11-25 |
20210366510 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND MAGNETIC STORAGE APPARATUS - A magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, an underlayer disposed above the substrate, and a first magnetic layer disposed above the underlayer. The first magnetic layer has a granular structure including magnetic grains having a L1 | 2021-11-25 |
20210366511 | SPLIT-ACTUATOR DISK DRIVE THAT USES MICROACTUATOR FEEDFORWARD TO REDUCE EFFECTS OF CROSS-ACTUATOR COUPLING - In a multi-actuator drive, the effect of moving a first actuator (the so-called “aggressor actuator”) in on a second actuator (the so-called “victim actuator”) is reduced or compensated for. A victim feedforward signal for a particular head of the victim actuator is added to a microactuator control signal of the victim actuator in response to a voice-coil motor (VCM) control signal that is applied to the aggressor actuator. The feedforward signal is configured to compensate for disturbances to the victim microactuator caused by VCM commands provided to the aggressor actuator. The feedforward signal is based on a transfer function that models commands added to the victim microactuator, which is coupled to the particular head of the victim actuator, as a function of the aggressor VCM control signal applied to the aggressor actuator. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366512 | SPLIT-ACTUATOR DISK DRIVE THAT USES MICROACTUATOR FEEDFORWARD TO REDUCE EFFECTS OF CROSS-ACTUATOR COUPLING - In a multi-actuator drive, the effect of moving a first actuator (the so-called “aggressor actuator”) in on a second actuator (the so-called “victim actuator”) is reduced or compensated for. A victim feedforward signal is added to a microactuator control signal of the victim actuator in response to a voice-coil motor (VCM) control signal that is applied to the aggressor actuator. The feedforward signal is configured to compensate for disturbances to the victim microactuator caused by VCM commands provided to the aggressor actuator. The feedforward signal is based on a transfer function that models commands added to the victim microactuator, which is coupled to the head of the victim actuator, as a function of the aggressor VCM control signal applied to the aggressor actuator. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366513 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, MAGNETIC RECORDING AND REPRODUCING DEVICE AND COMPOSITION FOR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM INCLUDING POLYALKYLENEIMINE COMPOUND - The magnetic recording medium includes: a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent on the non-magnetic support, in which the magnetic layer further includes a compound including a polyalkyleneimine chain and a vinyl polymer chain. The composition for a magnetic recording medium includes: ferromagnetic powder; and a compound including a polyalkyleneimine chain and a vinyl polymer chain. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366514 | CARTRIDGE MEMORY AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, CARTRIDGE, AND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING SYSTEM - A cartridge memory is a cartridge memory used in a recording medium cartridge and includes an antenna section that induces an induced voltage by means of electromagnetic induction, a load modulation section including a load whose magnitude is variable, and a control section that measures the induced voltage and controls the load modulation section on the basis of the measured induced voltage. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366515 | HEATSINK STRUCTURES FOR HEAT-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING HEADS - A recording head comprises a write pole extending to an air-bearing surface. A near-field transducer is positioned proximate a first side of the write pole in a down-track direction. A heatsink structure is proximate the near-field transducer and positioned between the near-field transducer and the write pole. The heatsink structure extends beyond the near-field transducer in a cross-track direction and extends in a direction normal to the air-bearing surface. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366516 | MAGNETIC TAPE DEVICE, MAGNETIC RECORDING DEVICE, AND TAPE LIFTING METHOD FOR MAGNETIC TAPE DEVICE - A magnetic tape device includes: a magnetic head; a head actuator that holds the magnetic head; and a tape lifting mechanism including a lifter arm. The lifter arm comes into contact with the magnetic tape to separate a magnetic tape from the magnetic head. The tape lifting mechanism moves the lifter arm in a push-out direction in conjunction with the head actuator moving in a first direction. The tape lifting mechanism moves the lifter arm in a retreating direction in conjunction with the head actuator moving in a second direction. The lifter arm pushes out the magnetic tape to separate the magnetic tape from the magnetic head, in response to the lifter arm moving in the push-out direction. The lifter arm separates from the magnetic tape to bring the magnetic tape into contact with the magnetic head, in response to the lifter arm moving in the retreating direction. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366517 | MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE HAVING FIRST AND SECOND ASSIST ELEMENTS AND WRITE OPERATION METHOD - According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes: a disk; a head including a main magnetic pole, a write shield that faces the main magnetic pole in a first direction and is separated from the main magnetic pole by a gap, a first assist element that is disposed in the gap and a second assist element that is disposed in the gap and is positioned relative to the first assist element in a second direction intersecting the first direction; and a controller configured to: cause a first assist energy from the first assist element to be applied to the disk and affect a coercive force of the disk; and cause a second assist energy from the second assist element to be applied to the disk and affect a coercive force of the disk, wherein the first assist energy is different from the second assist energy. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366518 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING VIDEO - The present disclosure provides a method and device for processing a video. The method includes: determining a special effect video frame of a video, where a target feature area of the special effect video frame includes a preset special effect map; and modifying a display effect of the special effect map upon determining that a shielded area exists in the target feature area. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366519 | SPLIT BAND MULTICHANNEL MAGNETIC RECORDING HEAD HAVING SCALED READER WIDTHS - An apparatus, in accordance with one aspect of the present invention, includes an inner array of data transducers on a module, the data transducers of the inner array being aligned along a common axis that extends between distal ends of the module. Two outer arrays of data transducers are positioned to sandwich the inner array therebetween. Inner servo readers are positioned between the inner array and the outer arrays. Outer servo readers are positioned toward outer ends of the outer arrays. Widths of at least some of the outermost data transducers in the inner array are less than widths of at least some of the innermost data transducers in the inner array. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366520 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC VIDEO BOOKMARKING - Methods and systems for dynamic bookmarking in branched video are described. An application provides a video tree having a plurality of video segments, with each video segment including a predefined portion of one or more paths in the video tree, and each path being associated with a different video presentation. One of the paths in the video tree is traversed based on one or more decisions made by a user during playback of the video presentation associated with the path being traversed. A selection of a particular location in the path being traversed is received by the application, which stores a bookmark of the location for subsequent retrieval. The bookmark identifies a sequence of video segments in the video tree having been traversed to reach the location. The structure of the video tree is modified, and the bookmark is automatically updated, if necessary. At a later time, the application receives a selection of the stored bookmark and seeks to the bookmarked location. The application further restores the decisions made by the user during the previous playback of the presentation. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366521 | RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - In a recording and reproducing apparatus and a recording and reproducing method for the recording and reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing image information on a scene obtained through photographing, relative to a predetermined first recording medium and being capable of setting one or more chapters to each scene, a face recognizing process is executed for a photographed image based on the image information, an importance level of each chapter is set in accordance with a result of the face recognizing process for a very important person (VIP) set by a user, and each chapter having a relevant importance level among importance levels of respective chapters is selectively reproduced. A user can therefore find an object chapter and scene quickly and easily. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366522 | SELF-TIMED SENSING ARCHITECTURE FOR A NON-VOLATILE MEMORY SYSTEM - A self-timed sensing architecture for reading a selected cell in an array of non-volatile cells is disclosed. The sensing circuitry generates a signal when a stable sensing value has been obtained from the selected cell, where the stable sensing value indicates the value stored in the selected cell. The signal indicates the end of the sensing operation, causing the stable sensing value to be output as the result of the read operation. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366523 | SENSITIVITY AMPLIFIER, DRIVING METHOD AND MEMORY DEVICE - The present disclosure describes a sensitivity amplifier in the field of storage technology. The sensitivity amplifier includes: a first inverter, a second inverter, a first switch unit, a second switch unit, a third switch unit, a fourth switch unit, a fifth switch unit, the sixth switch unit, the seventh switch unit, and the eighth switch unit. The sensitivity amplifier can control the fifth switch unit, the sixth switch unit, the seventh switch unit, and the eighth switch unit to turn on or off, so that the sensitivity amplifier works in two different power rails, to achieve reduction of the static operating point deviation of the sensitivity amplifier during the noise cancellation stage. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366524 | TWO PIN SERIAL BUS COMMUNICATION INTERFACE AND PROCESS - A two pin communication interface bus and control circuits are used with circuit boards, integrated circuits, or embedded cores within integrated circuits. One pin carries data bi-directionally and address and instruction information from a controller to a selected port. The other pin carries a clock signal from the controller to a target port or ports in or on the desired circuit or circuits. The bus may be used for serial access to circuits where the availability of pins on ICs or terminals on cores is minimal. The bus is used for communication, such as serial communication related to the functional operation of an IC or core design, or serial communication related to test, emulation, debug, and/or trace operations of an IC or core design. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366525 | Memory Arrays And Methods Used In Forming A Memory Array - A method used in forming a memory array comprises forming digitlines above and electrically couple to memory cells there-below. The digitlines are laterally-spaced relative one another in a vertical cross-section. An upwardly-open void-space is laterally-between immediately-adjacent of the digitlines in the vertical cross-section. Conductive material of the digitlines is covered with masking material that is in and less-than-fills the upwardly-open void-spaces. The masking material is removed from being directly above tops of the digitlines to expose the conductive digitline material and to leave the masking material over sidewalls of the conductive digitline material in the upwardly-open void-spaces. Insulative material is selectively grown from the exposed conductive digitline material relative to the masking material across the upwardly-open void-spaces to form covered void-spaces there-from between the immediately-adjacent digitlines in the vertical cross-section. Structures independent of method are disclosed. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366526 | REFERENCE VOLTAGE TRAINING CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A reference voltage training circuit may include: a normal buffer configured to generate a first received signal by receiving one of differential signals based on the other; a calibration signal generation circuit configured to generate a second received signal by receiving the one of the differential signals according to a reference voltage, and generate reference voltage calibration signals by comparing the phase of the second received signal to the phase of the first received signal; and a reference voltage generation circuit configured to calibrate the level of the reference voltage according to the reference voltage calibration signals. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366527 | MEMORY DEVICES WITH USER-DEFINED TAGGING MECHANISM - A memory device includes a memory array with memory blocks each having a plurality of memory cells, and one or more current monitors configured to measure current during post-deployment operation of the memory device; and a controller configured to identify a bad block within the memory blocks based on the measured current, and disable the bad block for preventing access thereof during subsequent operations of the memory device. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366528 | MEMORY CONTROLLER AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO A MEMORY MODULE - The application discloses a memory controller coupled between a memory module and a host controller to control access of the host controller to the memory module, comprising a central buffer coupled between the host controller and the memory module. The central buffer is configured to receive a command/address signal from the host controller via a command/address channel and selectively provide the command/address signal to the memory module. The command/address signal has an identity authentication message for identifying a source. The central buffer comprises: a verification module coupled to the command/address channel to receive the command/address signal and the identity authentication message, and configured to determine whether the command/address signal conforms to an authority management rule based on the identity authentication message; and an access control module coupled to the command/address channel to receive the command/address signal and coupled to the verification module to receive the determination result, and configured to process the command/address signal based on the determination result to selectively provide the command/address signal to the memory module. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366529 | TRANSISTORLESS MEMORY CELL - In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes an operative memory device coupled to a bit-line. The operative memory device is configured to store a data state. A regulating access apparatus is coupled between the operative MTJ device and a first word-line. The regulating access apparatus includes one or more regulating MTJ devices that are configured to control a current provided to the operative memory device. The one or more regulating MTJ devices respectively include a free layer, a dielectric barrier layer on the free layer, and a pinned layer separated from the free layer by the dielectric barrier layer. The pinned layer covers a center of a surface of the dielectric barrier layer that faces the pinned layer. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366530 | FERROELECTRIC RANDOM-ACCESS MEMORY READ ONLY MEMORY WORDLINE ARCHITECTURE - Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an architecture for random access memory (RAM) circuit configurations. For example, certain embodiments relate to a ferroelectric RAM (FRAM) read only memory (ROM) wordline architecture. A method for power-on reset of a memory can include powering on the memory. The method can also include reading a first flag in a first bit of a first configuration wordline of the memory, wherein the first configuration wordline is one of a plurality of redundant configuration wordlines. The method can further include reading, when the first flag indicates the first configuration wordline is valid, a predetermined number of bytes of the wordline. The method can additionally include configuring operations of the memory based on the predetermined number of bytes, when the first flag indicates the first configuration wordline is valid. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366531 | SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURE AND PREHEATING METHOD THEREOF - A semiconductor structure and a preheating method thereof are provided. The semiconductor structure includes: a storage chip; a temperature detection unit configured to detect a temperature of the storage chip before the storage chip initiates; and a control chip configured to: before the storage chip initiates, heat the storage chip and determine whether the temperature detected by the temperature detection unit reaches a specified threshold; and if the temperature reaches the specified threshold, control the storage chip to initiate. When the semiconductor structure provided in the present invention works at a low temperature, the storage chip may be heated to the specified threshold, thereby preventing an increase of the resistances on the bit line, the word line, and the metal connection line in the storage chip, and improving the performance of read/write operations of the memory. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366532 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY - A semiconductor memory is provided. The semiconductor memory comprises a memory chip and a voltage regulation unit. The memory chip includes at least a storage array and the voltage regulation unit includes at least an operational amplifier. The voltage regulation unit is configured to convert an external input first voltage into a second voltage to be provided to a word line driver circuit associated with the memory chip. The first voltage is greater than the second voltage. According to the semiconductor memory provided, power consumption of the memory chip (or the semiconductor memory) is reduced and the second voltage provided to the word line driver circuit reaches a threshold voltage. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366533 | VOLTAGE SUPPLY CIRCUIT OF SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A semiconductor memory device includes a common driver suitable for generating a preliminary driving signal according to a voltage at a first node; and a plurality of individual drivers suitable for providing a core voltage to a sense amplifying circuit of a corresponding one of a plurality of cell mats, according to the preliminary driving signal, wherein each of the individual drivers includes: a level shifting circuit suitable for outputting a main driving signal by shifting a level of the preliminary driving signal when a corresponding mat select signal and a pull-up driving signal are activated; a pull-up driver suitable for driving a pull-up power line with the core voltage according to the main driving signal; and a switch suitable for coupling the first node to the pull-up power line when the corresponding mat select signal and the pull-up driving signal are activated. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366534 | Edge Memory Array Mats With Sense Amplifiers - An edge memory array mat with access lines that are split in half, and a bank of sense amplifiers formed in a region that separates the access line segment halves extending perpendicular to the access line segments. 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 digit line (DL) jumpers or another structure 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. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366535 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING COMMAND INPUT - An electronic device includes a command generation circuit configured to generate a refresh command and a driving control signal, which are enabled during an all-bank refresh operation, according to a logic level combination of an internal chip selection signal and an internal command address. The electronic device also includes a buffer control circuit configured to generate, from the refresh command and the driving control signal, a first buffer enable signal for enabling a first group of buffers and a second buffer enable signal for enabling a second group of buffers. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366536 | Gate-All-Around Memory Devices - Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) cells and memory structures are provided. An SRAM cell according to the present disclosure includes a first pull-up gate-all-around (GAA) transistor and a first pull-down GAA transistor coupled to form a first inverter, a second pull-up GAA transistor and a second pull-down GAA transistor coupled to form a second inverter, a first pass-gate GAA transistor coupled to an output of the first inverter and an input of the second inverter, a second pass-gate GAA transistor coupled to an output of the second inverter and an input of the first inverter; a first dielectric fin disposed between the first pull-up GAA transistor and the first pull-down GAA transistor, and a second dielectric fin disposed between the second pull-up GAA transistor and the second pull-down GAA transistor. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366537 | 8T Dual Port SRAM and a Manufacturing Method Thereof - The memory comprises a first pass gate transistor, a second pass gate transistor, a third pass gate transistor, and a fourth pass gate transistor. On-resistance of the second pass gate transistor is smaller than that of the first pass gate transistor, so that first read current flowing from a first read/write port of a first group of read/write dual ports is equal to second read current flowing from a second read/write port of the first group of read/write dual port. On-resistance of the fourth pass gate transistor is smaller than that of the third pass gate transistor, so that third read current flowing from a first read/write port of a second group of read/write dual ports is equal to fourth read current flowing from a second read/write port of the second group of read/write dual port. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366538 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE - A semiconductor storage device includes a memory transistor and a word line connected to a gate electrode of the memory transistor. When a write sequence is interrupted before a k+1 | 2021-11-25 |
20210366539 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD - An operating method for a non-volatile memory device includes; performing a read operation on adjacent memory cells connected to an adjacent word line proximate to a target word line to determine adjacent data, classifying target memory cells connected to the target word line into groups according to the adjacent data, setting a read voltage level for each of the groups by searching for a read voltage level for target memory cells in at least one of the groups, and performing a read operation on target memory cells using the read voltage level set for each of the groups. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366540 | Read Spike Mitigation in Integrated Circuit Memory - An integrated circuit memory device, having: a first wire; a second wire; a memory cell connected between the first wire and the second wire; a first voltage driver connected to the first wire; and a second voltage driver connected to the second wire. During an operation to read the memory cell, the second voltage driver is configured to start ramping up a voltage applied on the second wire after the first voltage driver starts ramping up and holding a voltage applied on the first wire. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366541 | SEGREGATION-BASED MEMORY - Methods, systems, and devices for operating memory cell(s) are described. A resistance of a storage element included in a memory cell may be programmed by applying a voltage to the memory cell that causes ion movement within the storage element, where the storage element remains in a single phase and has different resistivity based on a location of the ions within the storage element. In some cases, multiple of such storage elements may be included in a memory cell, where ions within the storage elements respond differently to electric pulses, and a non-binary logic value may be stored in the memory cell by applying a series of voltages or currents to the memory cell. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366542 | APPARATUS AND METHOD WITH IN-MEMORY PROCESSING - An apparatus for performing in-memory processing includes a memory cell array of memory cells configured to output a current sum of a column current flowing in respective column lines of the memory cell array based on an input signal applied to row lines of the memory cells, a sampling circuit, comprising a capacitor connected to each of the column lines, configured to be charged by a sampling voltage of a corresponding current sum of the column lines, and a processing circuit configured to compare a reference voltage and a currently charged voltage in the capacitor in response to a trigger pulse generated at a timing corresponding to a quantization level, among quantization levels, time-sectioned based on a charge time of the capacitor, and determine the quantization level corresponding to the sampling voltage by performing time-digital conversion when the currently charged voltage reaches the reference voltage. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366543 | MEMORY WITH FRAM AND SRAM OF IC - Memories are provided. A memory includes a plurality of ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM) cells arranged in a first memory array, and a plurality of static random access memory (SRAM) cells arranged in a second memory array. The first memory array and the second memory array share the same bus. Each of the FRAM cells includes a ferroelectric field-effect transistor (FeFET). A gate structure of the FeFET includes a gate electrode over a channel of the FeFET, and a ferroelectric layer over the gate electrode. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366544 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL VERTICAL NOR FLASH THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR STRINGS - A memory structure, includes (a) active columns of polysilicon formed above a semiconductor substrate, each active column extending vertically from the substrate and including a first heavily doped region, a second heavily doped region, and one or more lightly doped regions each adjacent both the first and second heavily doped region, wherein the active columns are arranged in a two-dimensional array extending in second and third directions parallel to the planar surface of the semiconductor substrate; (b) charge-trapping material provided over one or more surfaces of each active column; and (c) conductors each extending lengthwise along the third direction. The active columns, the charge-trapping material and the conductors together form a plurality of thin film transistors, with each thin film transistor formed by one of the conductors, a portion of the lightly doped region of an active column, the charge-trapping material between the portion of the lightly doped region and the conductor, and the first and second heavily doped regions. The thin film transistors associated with each active column are organized into one or more vertical NOR strings. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366545 | 3D NAND FLASH AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - An operation method for a 3D NAND flash includes writing data into a WLn layer of the plurality of wordline layers of an unselect bit line of the plurality of bit lines in a write operation; and applying a first pass voltage on at least a first WL layer of the plurality of wordline layers of the unselect bit line of the plurality of bit lines and applying a second pass voltage on at least a second WL layer of the plurality of wordline layers of the unselect bit line of the plurality of bit lines; wherein the operation method is operated when a pre-pulse phase is removed from a verify phase. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366546 | MULTI-CHIP PACKAGE WITH REDUCED CALIBRATION TIME AND ZQ CALIBRATION METHOD THEREOF - A multi-chip package with reduced calibration time and an impedance control (ZQ) calibration method thereof are provided. A master chip of the multi-chip package performs a first ZQ calibration operation by using a ZQ resistor, and then, the other slave chips simultaneously perform second ZQ calibration operations with respect to data input/output (DQ) pads of the slave chips by using a termination resistance value of a DQ pad of the master chip on the basis of a one-to-one correspondence relationship with the DQ pad of the master chip. The multi-chip package completes ZQ calibration by performing two ZQ calibration operations, thereby decreasing a ZQ calibration time. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366547 | MEMORY DEVICE - A memory device includes a first plane defined in a second wafer stacked on a first wafer; a second plane defined in a third wafer stacked on the second wafer, and overlapping with the first plane in a vertical direction; a first page buffer circuit including a first column driver coupled to bit lines of the first plane and a first column operator; and a second page buffer circuit including a second column driver coupled to bit lines of the second plane and a second column operator. The first column driver is disposed in the second wafer, the second column driver is disposed in the third wafer and overlaps with the first column driver in the vertical direction, and the first and second column operators are disposed in a cell region of the first wafer and overlap with the first and second planes in the vertical direction. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366548 | MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING MEMORY DEVICE - The present technology includes a memory device and a method of operating the memory device. The memory device includes a memory block including a plurality of memory cells connected to word lines, peripheral circuits configured to generate operation voltages to be applied to the word lines, and control logic configured to control the peripheral circuits in response to a program command, a read command, or an erase command. The peripheral circuits include a voltage generator that adjusts a section of threshold voltage distributions of memory cells to be programmed among the memory cells, according to a distance between the word lines. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366549 | Scrambling Using Different Scrambling Seeds for Defect Reduction and Improved Programming Efficiency - Aspects of a storage device including a memory and a controller are provided which allow for efficient programming of cells on word lines using different scrambling seeds. The controller attempts to program cells of the memory by applying data scrambled using a first scrambling seed to the word line. If this attempt to program fails, the controller scrambles the data using a second, different scrambling seed and attempts to program the cells by applying the re-scrambled data to the word line. If this re-attempt also fails, the word line is listed. Then when the controller receives other data, the controller performs a final programming attempt with the other data scrambled using the second scrambling seed. If this further attempt fails, the controller identifies the block including the failed word line as a GBB. Thus, fewer GBBs may be incorrectly identified, reducing DPPM and improving memory yield of the storage device. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366550 | MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - Provided herein may be a memory device and a method of operating the same. The memory device may include a plurality of cell strings, a peripheral circuit, and control logic. Each of the cell strings includes a drain select transistor, a source select transistor, and a plurality of memory cells that are coupled in series between the drain select transistor and the source select transistor. The peripheral circuit may be configured to perform a program operation and a program verify operation on a cell string that is selected from among the plurality of cell strings. The control logic may be configured to control the peripheral circuit to boost a channel voltage of at least one unselected cell string, among the plurality of cell strings, based on a comparison between a degree of progress of the program operation and a reference degree of progress during the program verify operation. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366551 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, a peripheral circuit, a current sensing circuit, and control logic. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory cells. The peripheral circuit performs a program operation on selected memory cells connected to a selected word line among the plurality of memory cells. The current sensing circuit generates a pass signal or a fail signal by performing a current sensing operation on the selected memory cells. The control logic receives the pass signal or the fail signal and controls an operation of the peripheral circuit and the current sensing circuit. The control logic controls the current sensing circuit and the peripheral circuit to perform the current sensing operation and an operation of applying a program pulse to the selected word line based on a program progress state of the selected memory cells. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366552 | CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROLLER OF PROGRAM SUSPENDING AND RESUMING FOR MEMORY - A control method, for a memory array, the control method comprises programming the bit-cell of the memory array in a programming stage; and discharging the bit-cell of the memory array in a discharge stage; wherein the programming stage comprises: programming the bit-cell of the memory array with a plurality of programming voltage pulses; wherein the discharge stage comprises: isolating a select line of the bit-cell of the memory array; and generating a programming voltage pulse to the bit-cell of the memory array; wherein the programming stage can be suspended to a suspend stage by a suspend command after the discharge stage; wherein the suspend command is received during one of the plurality of programming voltage pulse. | 2021-11-25 |
20210366553 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR ORGANIZING DATA IN A MEMORY DEVICE - Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to organizing data to correspond to a matrix at a memory device are described. Data can be organized by circuitry coupled to an array of memory cells prior to the processing resources executing instructions on the data. The organization of data may thus occur on a memory device, rather than at an external processor. A controller coupled to the array of memory cells may direct the circuitry to organize the data in a matrix configuration to prepare the data for processing by the processing resources. The circuitry may be or include a column decode circuitry that organizes the data based on a command from the host associated with the processing resource. For example, data read in a prefetch operation may be selected to correspond to rows or columns of a matrix configuration. | 2021-11-25 |