48th week of 2017 patent applcation highlights part 56 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20170345324 | CONFIGURING A VIRTUAL COMPANION - A service may be provided that allows interacting users to interact with characters presented by devices of the interacting users. The operation of the character presented to an interacting user may be customized for that interacting user. For example, a first controlling user may specify first information for configuring or controlling the operation of the character when the character is interacting with a first interacting user, and a second controlling user may specify second information for configuring or controlling the operation of the character when the character is interacting with a second interacting user. The information provided by a controlling user may be used to select a segment to be used for a session between an interacting user and the character. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345325 | AUTOMATED REMOTE LEARNING DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR USING SAME - A distance learning device for providing laboratory instruction via two-way interaction with a student at a remote location and system for using same. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345326 | PROCESS FOR USING TEST ITEM RESPONSE TIMES TO IMPROVE MEASUREMENT OF COGNITIVE ABILITY - A method includes providing user interfaces from a server to present questions to a plurality of test takers. For each question and each test taker, an elapsed time is recorded and the elapsed times are used to set a boundary time between groups of response times for each question. User interfaces are then provided from the server to present the questions to an additional test taker. For each question, a response is received and a response time is determined. The response time, the received response and the boundary time of each of the questions are then used to determine a score for the additional test taker that has more precision than using the received responses alone to determine a score for the additional test taker. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345327 | MOTIVATIONAL ONLINE STUDYING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - According to embodiments of the disclosed technology, a study method and system are provided for motivating students to conduct school exercises while allowing parents to assess whether the students fully comprehend given subject areas. The method may facilitate student interaction within given subject areas. The method & system may employ artificial intelligence in that it may monitor a student's moral and/or motivation while studying a given a subject. As such. the system may detect a dip in moral by assessing several parameters surrounding the answering of one or more questions. The system may, in turn, seek to increase moral by feeding that student easier questions or questions which are deemed to be of a subject area in which the student is proficient. The system may take countermeasures if a student is demonstrating high proficiency in a subject. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345328 | SYSTEMS AND METHODOLOGIES FOR PROVIDING TRAINING ON WARNINGS IN A VEHICLE - Methods and systems are provided for providing training on a vehicle. The method includes acquiring, using processing circuitry, one or more alert modes associated with a vehicle. Further, the method includes controlling one or more alert devices as a function of a first alert mode. The first alert mode is selected from the one or more alert modes. The method includes outputting information to a user associated with the first alert mode via one or more output devices. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345329 | Integrated System and Method for Providing Users With Non-destructive Ways of Manipulating Musical Scores and/or Audio Recordings for Student Practise, Testing and Assessment - An integrated system and method that provides users with non-destructive ways of manipulating musical scores and or audio recordings for student practise, testing and assessment. The said integrated system and method allows users to create questions that utilise one or more of the manipulated items, present questions to a student, collect the said students answer and assess the said students answer. The said integrated system is delivered via digital devices including computers, tablets, smartphones and other such devices. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345330 | ARTS-BASED LIFE COACHING METHOD - An Arts-Based Coaching (ABC) method guides each of a group of one or more participants through a personal transition process in response to a life challenge, such as a new opportunity, a new job, a trip, loss of a family member, or change of marital status. The process comprises four stages of change—identify, deconstruct, rebuild and reinforce—which each participant is coached to understand and express through the creation of a patterned artwork in four corresponding stages. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345331 | Habit Bracelet - A habit bracelet fabricated from a flexible material such as silicone or rubber. The bracelet has the a plurality of removable elements such as for example, break-off and/or punch-out elements. The removable elements can have a variety of shapes, such as, for example, triangular, square, rectangular, circular, semicircular, pentagonal, trapezoidal, star-shaped, and/or heart-shaped. In various embodiments, the bracelet has 21, 42, or 66 removable elements corresponding to a number of days a person wishes to perform a targeted behavior. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345332 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING OPERATION OF A HEALTH MAINTENANCE DEVICE - Disclosed is a method of facilitating operation of a health maintenance device. The method may include receiving a plurality of health maintenance participant information associated with a user. At least a part of the plurality of health maintenance participant information may be generated based on monitoring each of the health maintenance device and the user. Further, the method may include generating, using a processing device, a plurality of performance assessments of the user based on the plurality of the health maintenance participant information. Furthermore, the method may include generating at least one control code based on a comparing of the plurality of performance assessments with a health maintenance database. Additionally, the method may include transmitting the at least one control code to the health maintenance device. Further, the health maintenance device may be configured to be adjusted based on the at least one control code. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345333 | CONDITIONING DEVICE - A multi-layered composite for performing cardiovascular/pulmonary training comprising a first core layer, the upper surface of which is adapted for frictional contact with a body part of a user of the composite and a lower surface affixed to a second layer adapted for frictional contact with a floor of a venue occupied by the user, and a kit and method of performing cardiovascular/pulmonary conditioning. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345334 | Online Training with Live Instruction - An improved remote teaching system, whereby the instructor(s) may interact with the audience through interactive instruction, culminating in one or more proctored examinations to ensure necessary learning for safety and legal compliance. Increased frequency of and access to classes, and decreased costs will be among the benefits provided. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345335 | Electronic System and Method for Martial Arts Movement-Based Language Character Symbolization and Education - A novel electronic language education system device is configured to define, instruct, analyze, and evaluate martial arts movements as characters of a particular language. In one embodiment, the novel electronic language education system includes a martial arts movement linguistic symbolization module and a martial arts movement-to-language character evaluation module that are executed on a CPU and a memory unit of the novel electronic language education system. Preferably, the system further incorporates a visual detection sensor, a gyroscopic sensor, a human limb movement sensor, and/or another sensor to enable capturing and analysis of a martial arts movement routine to create, match, and/or evaluate a digital symbolic key representing the martial arts movement routine, which is digitally paired with a character of the particular language. Ideally, a paired martial arts movement routine resembles the pen stroke or the shape of the character of the particular language to enhance linguistic learning experience. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345336 | IMPORTING AND ANALYZING EXTERNAL DATA USING A VIRTUAL REALITY WELDING SYSTEM - A real-time virtual reality welding system including a programmable processor-based subsystem, a spatial tracker operatively connected to the programmable processor-based subsystem, at least one mock welding tool capable of being spatially tracked by the spatial tracker, and at least one display device operatively connected to the programmable processor-based subsystem. The system is capable of simulating, in virtual reality space, a weld puddle having real-time molten metal fluidity and heat dissipation characteristics. The system is further capable of importing data into the virtual reality welding system and analyzing the data to characterize a student welder's progress and to provide training. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345337 | TACTILE PIN ACTUATOR - A tactile pin actuator comprises a tactile pin assembly that includes a tactile pin and a recess that has a first screw thread formed thereon. A stop assembly is rigidly coupled relative to the tactile pin actuator. A lead screw attached to a shaft is positioned in the recess and is mechanically engaged with the first screw thread. A projection extends axially from the shaft. Rotation of the shaft in a first rotational direction relative to the tactile pin assembly causes the tactile pin assembly to move linearly in a first linear direction away from the shaft. Rotation of the shaft in the first rotational direction ceases when the projection comes into contact with the stop assembly. Rotation of the shaft in a second rotational direction causes the tactile pin assembly to move linearly in a second direction toward the shaft. Rotation of the shaft in the second direction ceases when the projection comes into contact with the stop assembly. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345338 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM - The technology disclosed herein includes a navigation system for a visually impaired person to navigate a public restroom. The navigation system may include a plurality of fixtures, a plurality of installations, wherein each installation is electronically connected to a fixture, and an electronic device, the electronic device configured to receive auditory or tactile signals from each installation and produce a signal indicative of a fixture location. The plurality of fixtures may include a toilet, a urinal, a sink, a soap dispenser, and a hand drying apparatus. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345339 | Wound Debridement Model - A wound debridement model for practicing debridement during classroom training. The wound debridement model includes a base comprising a top surface with at least one hole in the top surface of the base, wherein the bottom of the hole is painted red. The model includes a first layer at least partially covering the top surface of the base such that the first layer is built into a ridge around the hole, wherein the first layer is a flesh colored layer. Further, the wound debridement model includes a second layer coated in a portion of the red painted base of the hole, wherein the second layer comprises wax. Further, the wound debridement model includes a third layer, wherein the third layer comprises a yellow stringy and slimy material. Furthermore, the wound debridement model includes a fourth layer covering the third layer. The fourth layer includes a round piece of leather. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345340 | ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION TRAINING DEVICE FOR MEDICAL EMERGENCY TRAINING - An endotracheal intubation training device includes a head portion comprising an open mouth, a jaw located below the mouth, a tongue inside the mouth, and an elastic member disposed below the tongue; an airway portion comprising a trachea extending from the head and communicating with the mouth, and a glottis positioned inside the trachea; and a glottis narrowing portion disposed to surround the airway portion and configured to control a size of the glottis. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345341 | CRICOTHYROIDOTOMY SIMULATION DEVICE - An artificial anatomical model used in an embodiment as a simulation and training device for performing a cricothyroidotomy procedure on a patient having an upper airway obstruction is provided. Furthermore, the simulation device includes a mandible and neck base structure that geometrically mimicsa human mandible and neck region with corresponding anatomical landmarks such that a cricothyroidotomy procedure can be performed on the device for training purposes in some embodiments. Moreover, various components of the device are easily removable and replaceable independent of one another, further simplifying the training process. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345342 | TILE MAP SERVICE DEVICE AND METHOD - A tile map service (TMS) device and method are provided. The TMS device includes a storage configured to store map layers that have different map types, map data of an image tile form having a level of detail (LOD) structure of each of the map layers, and a tile map in which image tile maps of a plurality of map layers are merged; a communicator configured to receive map request information including two or more map types, an LOD level, and arbitrary map coordinates from a client; and a provider configured to provide a tile map corresponding to the map request information to the client. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345343 | MULTI-PANEL DISPLAY DEVICE, BLANK, AND METHOD OF FORMING THE DEVICE - A multi-panel display device, a blank therefor, and a method of forming a multi-panel device for display. The multi-panel display device may have a center panel, a first side panel attached to the center panel on a first side thereof, and a second side panel attached to the center panel on a second side thereof, the second side of the center panel being opposite the first side of the center panel. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345344 | FLEXIBLE LAMINATE FOR PACKAGING WITH INTEGRATED PEELABLE PORTION - A flexible laminate structure for making a package and methods for constructing such flexible laminate structures are described that provide a peelable portion integral to the laminate structure. An inner ink layer may be printed on the peelable portion that includes a promotional offer, such as in the form of a barcode, where the inner ink layer is not visible to a consumer without first peeling the peelable portion off the package due to the presence of one or more blocker ink layers. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345345 | SIGN FOR STATUS INDICATION - A sign assembly for indicating the status of dishes within a dishwasher that includes: a vertical rod; a two sided sign connected to the vertical rod; at least one magnet incorporated into the two sided sign; a first indicator designated on a first side of the sign; and a second indicator designated on a second side of the sign. The vertical rod includes a metal ball at a top end of the vertical rod and a metal ball at a bottom end of the vertical rod. The first indicator designates a clean status of dishes and the second indicator designates a dirty status of dishes. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345346 | Outdoor Display Screen and Communications Device - An outdoor display screen includes a housing, a display screen, a control module, a heat dissipation module, and a power supply component. A first cavity and a second cavity are disposed on the housing. The display screen, the control module, and the power supply component are mounted in the first cavity, and the heat dissipation module is mounted in the second cavity. A cable-through hole is disposed on the housing. An air exhaust vent connected to an air intake vent of an internal circulation path and an air intake vent connected to an air exhaust vent of the internal circulation path are disposed in the first cavity to form an internal circulation heat-dissipation air duct. An air intake vent and an air exhaust vent are disposed in the second cavity to form an external circulation heat-dissipation air duct. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345347 | LIGHT-EMITTING ASSEMBLY AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed embodiments relate to a light-emitting assembly and a display device. In some embodiments, the light-emitting assembly includes a lamp bead a lamp bead mounting plate and a lamp bead shading face mask, the lamp bead shading face mask covering the lamp bead, and there is a distance between the lamp bead shading face mask and the lamp bead, at least two side faces of the lamp bead shading face mask including light emergence holes, wherein one side, facing the lamp bead mounting plate, of the lamp bead shading face mask is provided with a first reflecting surface; one side, facing the lamp bead shading face mask, of the lamp bead mounting plate is provided with a second reflecting surface; and light emitted by the lamp bead is reflected by the first reflecting surface and the second reflecting surface and then emitted out of each of the light emergence holes. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345348 | Lighting Assembly with Multiple Lighting Units - A lighting assembly includes an assembly body. A first lighting unit is attached to the assembly body. The first lighting unit includes a number of light emitting diodes (LEDs) and optical elements arranged over the LEDs such that each optical element overlies only one associated LED. The first lighting unit is configured to illuminate a substantially rectangular region. A second lighting unit is attached to the assembly body and spaced from the first lighting unit. The second lighting unit includes a number of LEDs and optical elements arranged over the plurality of LEDs such that each optical element overlies only one associated LED. The lighting assembly is configured to direct the light toward the substantially rectangular area such that the light illuminates the substantially rectangular area with a uniformity across the substantially rectangular area that achieves at most a 3:1 ratio of the average illumination to the minimum illumination. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345349 | RUGGEDIZED PLACARD - A ruggedized placard utilizes a multilayer construction including a clear primary layer or cover and an indicia layer, the indicia being viewable through the clear primary layer. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345350 | MODULAR DISPLAY - A wall-mounted modular display includes a support bracket, an alignment bracket, and a display. The support bracket includes one or more lateral support components. The support bracket also includes one or more longitudinal alignment features. The alignment bracket includes one or more vertical alignment features that corresponds to and aligns with a portion of one or more of the longitudinal alignment feature, such that the alignment of the support bracket and the alignment bracket forms a constant angular relationship between the support bracket and the alignment bracket. The display includes one or more display fasteners that correspond to the one or more lateral support components. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345351 | FLEXIBLE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A flexible display apparatus is provided. The flexible display apparatus includes a display unit, a sensor configured to sense a bending of the flexible display apparatus, and a controller configured to display first contents on a first screen of the display unit, and to reconfigure and display the first contents on a second screen generated on an area of the display unit based on the bending. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345352 | EVALUATION OF A DISPLAY TEMPERATURE - A temperature of a display is evaluated from the image displayed. The device may be tested with various images or with various test patterns in order to obtain the heat generation response related to the image. For example, a bright image may generate more heat than a dark image. The heat generation response behavior is stored into a device memory. A heat radiation response behavior is also obtained with various test patterns. The display temperature is estimated using an image to be displayed with the predetermined heat generation and heat radiation responses. The ambient temperature may be used to improve the estimation. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345353 | DISPLAY PANEL, DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PIXEL ARRANGEMENT - A display panel, a display device and a method for pixel arrangement, which can improve picture quality. The display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in an array, and the sub-pixels arranged in a first direction are arranged in one of following modes: a first mode of sub-pixel arrangement, in which a first sub-pixel (A) or a third sub-pixel (C) is inserted between every two second sub-pixels (B); and a second mode of sub-pixel arrangement, in which the first sub-pixel (A) and the third sub-pixel (C) are inserted between every two second sub-pixels (B). | 2017-11-30 |
20170345354 | DISPLAY AND DRIVE METHOD THEREOF - A display is disclosed, including a pixel structure and pixel drive circuits. The pixel structure includes a plurality of pixel groups, each pixel group including two or more pixel units. The pixel unit includes a first sub pixel, a second sub pixel and a third sub pixel. Each of the first sub pixels is connected to a first pixel drive circuit, each of the second sub pixels is connected to a second pixel drive circuit, and all the third sub pixels in one pixel group are connected to a same third pixel drive circuit. A drive method for a display is also disclosed. In the above display and the drive method, a plurality of third sub pixels in one pixel group can be driven by a same third pixel drive circuit based on the same luminance data, which reduces the number of the pixel drive circuits and allows pixel drive of high resolution. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345355 | DISPLAY DRIVING APPARATUS - A display driving apparatus is disclosed. The display driving apparatus includes a data processing unit, a first setting unit, a second setting unit, a mapping unit and a source driving unit. The data processing unit receives and processes an image data including data lines. The first setting unit generates a first setting signal corresponding to a first gamma value. The second setting unit generates a second setting signal corresponding to a second gamma value. The mapping unit maps the first gamma value and second gamma value to odd-numbered data lines and even-numbered data lines of the data lines respectively according to the first setting signal and second setting signal. The source driving unit outputs the first gamma value and second gamma value to odd-numbered display lines and even-numbered display lines of display lines of a display panel respectively. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345356 | Display Driving Apparatus And Operating Method Thereof - A display driving apparatus includes a compression module, a storing module, a reading control module and a decompression module. The compression module performs 1-bit compression on an input data signal to generate a 1-bit compressed data and non-black data and store them in the storing module. The non-black data includes color information of each non-black bit in the input data signal. The reading control module reads the 1-bit compressed data from the storing module and the decompression module performs 1-bit decompression on the 1-bit compressed data to generate an output data signal. When the decompression module performs 1-bit decompression, the decompression module determines whether each bit of the 1-bit compressed data corresponds to black. If yes, the bit is displayed in black; if no, the reading control module reads a color corresponding to the bit from the non-black data stored in the storing module and the bit is displayed in the color. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345357 | DISPLAY SOURCE DRIVER - A source driver for a display device includes a gamma voltage generation circuit, first through (2m)-th data driving circuits, and a switch circuit. The gamma voltage generation circuit generates R, G and B gamma voltages. The (2k−1)-th data driving circuits consecutively receive red image data and blue image data, and consecutively generate a R driving voltage and a B driving voltage using the R gamma voltages and B gamma voltages, respectively, during one horizontal period. The (2k)-th data driving circuits consecutively receive first green image data and second green image data, and consecutively generate a G1 driving voltage and a G2 driving voltage, respectively, using the G gamma voltages during the one horizontal period. The switch circuit outputs the R, B, G1, and G2 driving voltages through different data lines from each other based on a first selection signal and a second selection signal. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345358 | ACTIVE MATRIX ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - A method for driving an active matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) display. The method may be used to digitally drive the AMOLED display in a way that limits the susceptibility of the AMOLED display to certain problems arising out of digital driving techniques, such as image sticking or low display lifetimes. The method involves generating compensation factors corresponding to each pixel of the display and using those compensation factors to control the illumination of the display. The aspects of the method that incorporate the operation point for generating a compensation factor may also be applied to analog driving of AMOLED displays. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345359 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a first pixel group having first, second, third, and fourth pixels arranged along a column direction, and a second pixel group having fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth pixels arranged along the column direction. A gate line is connected to the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth pixels. A first data line is connected to the first pixel, the third pixel, the fourth pixel, and the sixth pixel, and a second data line is connected to the second pixel, the fifth pixel, the seventh pixel, and the eighth pixel. The first pixel group and the second pixel group are alternately disposed along a row direction. This arrangement allows inversion driving wherein the first data line receives a voltage having a different polarity from that of the second data line so as to reduce line flickering and reduce power consumption in the display device. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345360 | METHOD OF OPERATING A DISPLAY APPARATUS AND A DISPLAY APPARATUS PERFORMING THE SAME - In a method of operating a display apparatus, during a first period in which image data is provided to a data driver, a clock embedded data signal having an output differential voltage (“VOD”) set to a first voltage value is applied to the data driver. The VOD of the clock embedded data signal relates to a voltage difference between a high level and a low level of the clock embedded data signal. During a second period in which the image data is not provided to the data driver, the VOD of the clock embedded data signal applied to the data driver is changed to a second voltage value smaller than the first voltage value. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345361 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND POWER DELIVERY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - A display device includes an interface, a power supply, a switch arrangement, and a display. The interface is driven by driving power and receives image data from an external source. The power supply generates first and second power based on a first input power in a first mode and delivers the driving power to the interface in the first mode. The switch arrangement forms a first delivery path to deliver the first power from the power supply to the interface in the first mode The display receives the second power from the power supply when driven in the first mode and receives the image data from the interface. The switch arrangement forms a second delivery path to deliver second input power to the power supply in a second mode when the interface receives the second input power from the external source in the second mode. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345362 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An image display device includes a display unit that includes a plurality of display lines, an image data input unit that receives image data including data for each display line, and an image data transmission switching circuit that transmits the image data to the display unit. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345363 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING REDUNDANT DATA AND POWER - A display system including a plurality of light-emitting diode (LED) display modules is provided. Each LED display module of the plurality of display modules may include a plurality of LEDs. The display system may also include a plurality of connection hubs, where each connection hub of the plurality of connection hubs is configured to provide power to two or more LED display modules of the plurality of LED display modules. One or more of the LED display modules of the plurality of LED display modules may be configured to selectively route the power provided by a connection hub of the plurality of connection hubs to an LED display module that is adjacent to the one or more LED display modules. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345364 | CORRECTION FOR LOCALIZED PHENOMENA IN AN IMAGE ARRAY - A method and system of compensating for localized phenomena in a display is disclosed. The display includes an array of pixels and a control system for adjusting content data signals for the array of pixels to compensate for aging of the pixels in the array. The control system measures a parameter of at least one of the pixels in the array via a read input of the at least one of the pixels. The controller determines the effect of the localized phenomena on the pixel using the parameter. A characteristic is measured for at least one of the pixels in the array via the read input of the at least one of the pixels. The measured characteristic is adjusted to reduce the effect of the localized phenomena. An adjusted aging compensation value based on the adjusted measured characteristic is calculated by the controller. The aging compensation value is applied to a data content signal to at least one of the pixels. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345365 | FOLDABLE DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVE METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are a foldable display device and a drive method thereof. Control switch units of one column are respectively located in the first display region ( | 2017-11-30 |
20170345366 | EMISSION CONTROL DRIVER AND DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - An emission control driver includes a plurality of stages. Each stage includes three circuit blocks and two output transistors. A first circuit block generates first and second control signals based on a first clock signal and a start signal or carry signal. A second circuit block controls the voltage level of the first control signal based on the first control signal and a second clock signal. A third circuit block generates a third control signal based on the second control signal and the second clock signal. The first output transistor outputs a first voltage as an emission control signal based on the first control signal. A second output transistor outputs a second voltage as the emission control signal based on the third control signal. The second circuit block maintains the voltage level of the first control signal while the first output transistor is turned off. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345367 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a first pixel region and a second pixel region having different widths. First pixels in the first pixel region each include a first transistor. Second pixels in the second pixel region each include a second transistor performing a same function as the first transistor. At least one of a channel width and a channel length of the first transistor of the first and second pixels is be different from one another. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345368 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE - The present disclosure relates to an organic light emitting display device which is implemented to reduce or suppress the residual image and the flicker. According to an embodiment, a circuit includes an organic light emitting diode disposed between a first node and a first power source, a driving transistor disposed between the first node and a second power source and driving the organic light emitting device, a first transistor transmitting a data signal to the driving transistor, and a first control transistor disposed between the first node and a second node. The first control transistor applies a reverse current to the driving transistor during a first period and holes accumulated on the active layer of the driving transistor are removed during the first period, whereby a current path efficiency is improved. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345369 | PIXEL DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY APPRATUS THEREOF - A display apparatus includes a plurality of pixel units. Each pixel unit is driven by a pixel driving circuit. The 4T-2C type pixel driving circuit is consist of the first switch, the second switch, the third switch, the transistor, the capacitor and an organic light emitting diode. In one frame, the pixel driving circuit operates sequentially a reset period, a compensation period, a first writing period, a second writing period, and an illumination period. During the reset period and the compensation period, the first switch turns on, and the transistor receives an offset electric potential from the data line. During the first writing period, the first switch turns on, and the transistor receives a signal electric potential from the data line. During the second writing period and the illumination period, the first switch turns off and electrically disconnects the connection between the transistor and the data line. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345370 | Novel Architecture for Very High Resolution AMOLED Display Backplane - A display according to various embodiments is disclosed. The display has a frontplane including at least one OLED pixel having multiple subpixels connected to at least one power line. A backplane of the display includes at least one driver circuit connected to two or more of the multiple subpixels. Methods for powering the display are also disclosed. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345371 | PIXEL UNIT AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE PIXEL UNIT - A pixel unit includes a first organic light emitting diode for a front-side emission, a second organic light emitting diode for a back-side (both-sides) emission, and a pixel circuit configured to driver the first and second organic light emitting diodes. The pixel unit PU may include a pixel circuit, a first organic light emitting diode and a second organic light emitting diode. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345372 | GATE DRIVING APPARATUS FOR PIXEL ARRAY AND DRIVING METHOD THEREFOR - Disclosed are a gate driving apparatus for a pixel array and a driving method therefor. The pixel array includes N gate lines. The gate driving apparatus includes: a plurality of gate drivers, wherein the N gate lines are divided into a plurality of groups, each group includes a plurality of gate lines, each gate driver corresponds to the plurality of groups on a one-to-one basis, and is used for generating a gate driving signal for the plurality of gate lines in the group corresponding thereto; and a driver control module which is used for generating a plurality of driver control signals corresponding to the plurality of gate drivers on a one-to-one basis, and state switching between any two driver control signals has at least a difference of first time, wherein under control of the driver control signals, the gate drivers are switched from first state to second state in sequence. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345373 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a plurality of pixel circuits and a gate driver including a plurality of stages configured to output a gate signal to a plurality of gate lines, respectively, to provide the gate signal to the pixel circuits. Each of the stages is divided into a plurality of sub-blocks. At least one of the pixel circuits is located between two adjacent sub-blocks of the sub-blocks. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345374 | DISPLAY DRIVING APPARATUS - A display driving apparatus including a lightness adjusting unit, a gamma adjusting unit, a pre-charging voltage adjusting unit and a source driving unit is disclosed. The lightness adjusting unit receives and adjusts a lightness of an image data. The gamma adjusting unit adjusts a gamma voltage corresponding to the image data to generate a source data voltage. The pre-charging voltage adjusting unit calculates a highest data voltage and a lowest data voltage which can be outputted by a source electrode and adjusts a pre-charging voltage accordingly to make the adjusted pre-charging voltage the same with the highest data voltage or the lowest data voltage or only a shifted voltage different from the highest data voltage or the lowest data voltage of the image data. The source driving unit outputs the adjusted pre-charging voltage and the source data voltage to a display panel respectively. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345375 | TIMING CONTROLLER, DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A timing controller includes an input signal processor that receives a data enable signal and a frame frequency information signal, generates one of a first internal data enable signal having a first frame frequency and a second internal data enable signal having a second frame frequency, the first and second frame frequencies being selected based on the frame frequency information signal. A gate control signal output unit generates and outputs a first gate control signal based on the first internal data enable signal or a second gate control signal based on the second internal data enable signal. A data control signal output unit generates and outputs a first data control signal based on the first internal data enable signal or a second data control signal based on the second internal data enable signal. The pulse widths of the first and second internal data enable signals are the same. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345376 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display is discussed. The OLED display is capable of duty driving for controlling an emission duty of an OLED in one frame. One frame for the duty driving includes a programming period, an emission period, and a non-emission period. In the programming period, a first data voltage is applied to a gate node in response to a scan signal and a reference voltage is applied to a source node in response to a sensing signal. In the non-emission period, a second data voltage is applied to the gate node in response to the scan signal. The first data voltage corresponds to input video data to be applied to a first pixel. The second data voltage corresponds to input video data to be applied to a second pixel different from the first pixel. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345377 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND MODULE AND METHOD FOR COMPENSATING PIXELS OF DISPLAY DEVICE - A pixel compensation module according to one embodiment of the present disclosure detects a degraded region with reference to degradation data corresponding to each of pixels included in a display panel, determines a first compensation gain so as to decrease final compensation data of pixels included in the degraded region, and determines a second compensation gain so as to increase final compensation data of pixels included in an adjacent degraded region to correct compensation data of the pixels. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345378 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is an organic light emitting display including: a display panel having a plurality of pixels arranged thereon; a degradation reduction circuit configured to detect a highly luminous still image pattern by analyzing input image data, and change a correlated color temperature (CCT) of a vulnerable color having the shortest lifespan in still image data corresponding to pixels displaying the highly luminous still image pattern so as to modulate the input image data into a degradation reduced data; and a display panel driving circuit configured to provide an analog data voltage, corresponding to the degradation. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345379 | BACKLIGHT CONTROL METHODS OF LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICES (LCDS), BACKLIGHT CONTROL DEVICES, AND LCDS - The present disclosure relates to a backlight control method of LCDs. The method includes dividing an effective display area of the LCD into a plurality of sub-display areas along a predetermined direction, obtaining an average brightness of display images of each of the sub-display areas, and adjusting a backlight brightness of the LCD in accordance with the average brightness of the display images of each of the sub-display areas. As such, the backlight brightness of the LCD within each of image display periods is compatible with the average brightness of the displayed images of each of the sub-display areas. The present disclosure also relates to a LCD and the backlight control method thereof. The effective display area of the LCD is divided into a plurality of display areas. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345380 | BACKLIGHT CONTROL METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A backlight control method and an electronic device are provided. The backlight control method, comprises: determining an input state of an electronic device; and adjusting a backlight brightness parameter of an input area of the electronic device according to the input state of the electronic device, wherein the backlight brightness parameter of the input area of the electronic device is adjusted from a plurality of backlight luminance values that indicate a plurality of backlight brightness levels of the input area. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345381 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DYNAMIC VOLTAGE CONTROLLER - A dynamic voltage controller applied to a display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus includes a display panel and a power supply. The power supply is coupled to the display panel. The dynamic voltage controller includes a data analyzing module and a voltage control module. The data analyzing module receives and analyzes an image data to obtain a maximum brightness, an average brightness and an average current to further estimate a minimum driving voltage needed for the display panel to display the image data. The voltage control module coupled between the data analyzing module and power supply is used to output a voltage control signal to the power supply according to the minimum driving voltage, so that the power supply is controlled by the voltage control signal to output the minimum driving voltage to the display panel to drive the display panel to display the image data. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345382 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of data lines; a plurality of gate lines and a pixel array including a plurality of subpixels formed of first-color to fourth-color subpixels. The plurality of subpixels has a first arrangement or a second arrangement. The first arrangement is an arrangement in which in each row of the pixel array two of the first-color to fourth-color subpixels is interleaved. The second arrangement is a different arrangement than the first arrangement in which in each row of the pixel array two of the first-color to fourth-color subpixels are interleaved. A data driver is configured to drive the pixel array according to a first driving method when the pixel array has the first arrangement and drive the pixel array according to at least one second driving method that is different from the first driving method when the pixel array has the second arrangement. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345383 | ADAPTIVE SPATIAL OFFSET CANCELLATION OF SOURCE DRIVER - A display panel subsystem adaptively employs one of three types of input offset voltage cancellation modes based on an analysis of gray level values of sub-pixels for each row un a frame of image data. The system selects a candidate row within a selected group of rows and applies a first chopper mode to each sub-pixel in the candidate row. Under a row-based mode, the system applies a second chopper mode to each sub-pixel included in a row having gray level values matching the candidate row. Under a per-column row-based mode, the system applies the row-based mode on a per-column basis. Under a sub-pixel-wise mode, for each column, the system changes a chopper mode applied to a sub-pixel in a subsequent row relative to the last state of the chopper mode in a row having the same gray level value as a corresponding sub-pixel in the subsequent row. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345384 | DEMULTIPLEX TYPE DISPLAY DRIVING CIRCUIT - The present invention provides a demultiplex type display driving circuit, including: a plurality of drive units. Each drive unit comprises three demultiplex modules, and each demultiplex module includes two switch elements. The first switch element and the second switch element are controlled to be alternately on with the first branch control signal and the second branch control signal. The third branch control signal controls the two switch elements of the second and the third demultiplex modules to be alternately on to sequentially input the data signal to the first, the second, the third and the fourth data lines. Thus, division one to four of the data signal can be achieved with the three branch control signals. In comparison with prior art, the amount of the branch control signals is decreased, and meanwhile, the CMOS transmission gate is employed to be the switch element in the demultiplex modules. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345385 | AREA-SAVING DRIVING CIRCUIT FOR DISPLAY PANEL - The present invention relates to an area-saving driving circuit for a display panel, which comprises a plurality of digital-to-analog converting circuits convert input data, respectively, and produce a pixel signal. A plurality of driving units are coupled to the plurality of digital-to-analog converting circuits, respectively. They produce a driving signal according to the pixel signal and transmit the driving signal to the display panel for displaying. A plurality of voltage booster units are coupled to the plurality of driving units, respectively, and produce a supply voltage according to a control signal. Then the supply voltage is provided to the plurality of driving units. Thereby, by providing the supply voltage to the plurality of driving units of the display panel by means of the plurality of voltage booster units, the area of the external storage capacitor is reduced. Alternative, the external storage capacitor can be even not required. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345386 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND A METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A display apparatus includes a display panel to display an image, a first frame counter to count a first number of frames during a first duration and to be reset when the first number reaches a first reference number, a second frame counter to count a second number of the frames during a second duration and to be reset when the second number reaches a second reference number, wherein the second duration occurs after and is shorter than the first duration, a level counter to hold a count value at a first count value during the first duration, to change the count value when the first frame counter is reset, and to change the count value when the second frame counter is reset, and a common voltage generator to control a level of a common voltage to correspond to the count value and to output the common voltage. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345387 | METHOD OF DRIVING DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - A method for driving a display panel includes non-sequentially outputting gate signals to a plurality of gate lines in a gate line group, outputting data voltages to a plurality of data lines, and displaying a grayscale value based on the gate signal and the data voltage. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345388 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a power generator to supply a driving voltage to the display and a controller to control the display and the power generator and to generate a power control signal. The power generator includes a DC-DC converter and bypass cut-off logic. The DC-DC converter receives an input power voltage and the power control signal, selectively boosts the input power voltage based on the power control signal, and generates the driving voltage. The bypass cut-off logic selectively cuts off supply of the input power voltage to the DC-DC converter based on the power control signal. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345389 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - To facilitate selection of a display manner in a display device capable of displaying an image(s) based on a plurality of image signals, the display device according to the present invention includes: a video inputter including a plurality of input terminals configured to acquire a plurality of image signals including image data to be displayed by a display unit; a detector configured to detect characteristics of the image signals; a group determinator configured to classify the image signals into at least one group based on the characteristics detected by the detector; and an output control unit configured to output information indicating a display mode of the display unit associated with at least one group. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345390 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAY COLOR ADJUSTMENT - A color adjustment circuit includes: a correction processing circuit configured to generate an output image data by performing color adjustment correction on an input image data; and a correction factor calculation circuit configured to calculate correction factors used for the color adjustment correction. The correction factor calculation circuit calculates a white color distance, a complementary color distance, and an elementary color distance and calculates the correction factors based on the white color distance, the complementary color distance and the elementary color distance. The correction factors are calculated based on: white point correction parameters, top correction parameters, and intermediate correction parameters. The intermediate correction parameters are defined to control the R, G, and B grayscale values of the output image data for the case when the input image data corresponds to each of elementary colors R, G, and B, and complementary colors C, M, and Y of an intermediate grayscale value. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345391 | HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND DISPLAY METHOD - A head-mounted display apparatus ( | 2017-11-30 |
20170345392 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes: a first acquiring unit configured to acquire first image data; a second acquiring unit configured to acquire information related to a first exposure value; a setting unit configured to set any of a plurality of display modes; and a generating unit configured to generate second image data from the first image data, wherein in a case where a first display mode has been set, the generating unit generates second image data having brightness corresponding to the first exposure value, in a case where a second display mode has been set, the generating unit generates second image data having brightness corresponding to a second exposure value, and the second exposure value used in the second display mode is changeable in accordance with a user instruction. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345393 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND EYE PROTECTING METHOD THEREFOR - An eye protecting method in an electronic device with storage device determines eyesight of a user who is using an electronic device, acquires light intensity of the environment, and distance of eyes of a user from the device, and applies a preferred display brightness value which is associated with the readings. The method may also cause display of warnings to the user as to eye-distance from the device and current time period spent watching the device. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345394 | MULTI-DEVICE ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE FRAMEWORK - A user manipulates a document using a desktop computer with a large screen. Upon deciding to sign the document, the user invokes a “Sign with Mobile” workflow that causes a two-dimensional barcode to be displayed. Using a signature acquisition application executing on his or her smartphone, the user scans the displayed barcode and creates an electronic signature by snapping a photograph of a conventional pen-and-paper signature or by detecting a handwritten signature drawn on a touch sensitive surface. The signature acquisition application sends the resulting electronic signature to the desktop computer, for example via an electronic signature server. The user is then able to apply the electronic signature to the document as desired. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345395 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A display device which supports a panel self refresh (“PSR”) mode includes a source unit and a synchronizing unit, and a signal is transmitted between the source unit and the synchronizing unit through an interface. The source unit determines on/off of the PSR mode in response to a PSR setting value, and additionally determines whether to activate the PSR mode in response to luminance information. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345396 | CONFIGURING VIRTUAL DISPLAY ZONES WITHIN ONE FLEXIBLE DISPLAY - In one aspect, a device includes a processor, a display accessible to the processor, and storage accessible to the processor. The storage bears instructions executable by the processor to identify a location of at least one fold line along which the display is folded, where a first display zone is established on a first side of the fold line and a second display zone is established on a second side of the fold line. The instructions are also executable to, based on identification of the location of the at least one fold line, establish a first display mode in the first display zone and a second display mode in the second display zone, where the first display mode is different from the second display mode. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345397 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - A flexible display device includes a first image display region and a second image display region having predetermined positions and sizes. In a case where a positional relationship between the first image display region and the second image display region changes to a tent mode, a cross border task bar is displayed on the first image display region. The cross border task bar is a graphical user interface for enabling a user to operate on an object displayed on the second image display region. The cross border task bar includes a tunnel window to which an object displayed on the first image display region can be dragged. The object dragged to the tunnel window is then displayed on the second image display region. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345398 | MINIMAL-LATENCY TRACKING AND DISPLAY FOR MATCHING REAL AND VIRTUAL WORLDS IN HEAD-WORN DISPLAYS - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for minimal-latency tracking and display for matching real and virtual worlds in head-worn displays are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method for minimal-latency tracking and display for matching real and virtual worlds in head-worn displays includes calculating a desired image, calculating an error image as the difference between the desired image and an image currently being perceived by a user, identifying as an error portion a portion of the error image having the largest error, updating a portion of a projected image that corresponds to the error portion, and recalculating the image currently being perceived by a user based on the updated projected image. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345399 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING DISPLAY CONTROL OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE IN RESPONSE TO A USER ACTIVITY, AND ASSOCIATED APPARATUS - A method for performing display control of an electronic device and an associated apparatus are provided, where the method may include: detecting a user activity of a user to determine a user orientation of the user with respect to a display area of the electronic device; and according to the user orientation of the user with respect to the display area, selectively adjusting at least one portion of a plurality of display contents in the display area to emulate what is viewed from a normal direction of the display area, to allow the user to view the at least one portion of the plurality of display contents without need of changing a display area orientation of the display area. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345400 | METHOD OF VISION CORRECTION IN A VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENT - A method of vision correction in a virtual reality environment, comprising: judging if a user is for the first time entering the virtual reality environment, if yes, providing the user with an initial visual position; monitoring in real time action of the user, and judging if the user is in a stable state in the virtual reality environment; if the user is in a stable state, adjusting the visual position of the user according to change of sight lines of the user; and if the user is in an unstable state, renewedly providing the user with an initial visual position; and monitoring in real time change of a scene in the virtual reality environment, and if the scene is taking discontinuous switching, renewedly providing the user with an initial visual position according to a new scene. The present disclosure performs automatic vision correction according to the usage scenes and the cognition custom of the user, which reduces user operation and improves the user experience. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345401 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM SELECTIVELY OPERATING AS ONE OF A BIG ENDIAN OR LITTLE ENDIAN SYSTEM - The present invention is to provide a semiconductor device that can correctly switch endians on the outside even if the endian of a parallel interface is not recognized on the outside. The semiconductor device includes a switching circuit and a first register. The switching circuit switches between whether a parallel interface with the outside is to be used as a big endian or a little endian. A first register holds control data of the switching circuit. The switching circuit regards the parallel interface as the little endian when first predetermined control information, that is unchanged in the values of specific bit positions even if its high-order and low-order bit positions are transposed, is supplied to the first register, and regards the parallel interface as the big endian when second predetermined control information, that is unchanged in the values of specific bit positions even if its high-order and low-order bit positions are transposed, is supplied to the first register. Whatever the endian setting status, the control information can be correctly inputted without being influenced by the endian setting status. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345402 | LIGHT FIELD DISPLAY CONTROL METHODS AND APPARATUS, AND LIGHT FIELD DISPLAY DEVICES - Embodiments of the present application disclose various light field display control methods and apparatus, and various light field display devices. One of the methods comprises: determining a first display region of a display of a light field display device according to target vision adjustment range information; adjusting display pixel density distribution of the display, to cause that display pixel density distribution of the first display region in the display after the adjustment is different from that of another display region of the display; performing sampling processing on a first light field image according to location information of display pixels of the display after the adjustment, the first light field image being corresponding to vision information in the target vision adjustment range and related to a source image; and displaying, by the light field display device after the adjustment, the first light field image undergone the sampling processing. The embodiments of the present application improve a vision correction precision of viewing an image by naked eyes for users having different vision information in a target vision adjustment range. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345403 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PLAYING VIRTUAL MUSIC INSTRUMENT THROUGH TRACKING OF FINGERS WITH CODED LIGHT - Finger-tracking systems and methods for virtual instruments playback. The described system tracks the position of user's ten fingers on a projection surface and can be used to play virtual instruments such as virtual piano, drums, and bells. The system tracks the movement of user's ten fingers while keeping them free of encumbrance or excessive postural constraints. More specifically, in one or more embodiments, a coded light based projector is used to send out location signal onto a flat surface, and ten light sensors are mounted on user's fingers to receive these signals and locate user's fingers. Based on their locations and relative distance to a fixed point, a printed music instrument can be used for virtual instrument music playback. With the described tracking system, various embodiments of virtual music instruments may be implemented, including a system and method for virtual piano playing as well as virtual Chinese bell playing on printed keyboard and printed Chinese bell set. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345404 | ELECTRONIC KEYBOARD MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - An electronic keyboard musical instrument with a plurality of keys is provided. The electronic keyboard musical instrument comprises a detection sensor configured to detect a gentle key press to an adjacent position that is shallower than and adjacent to a resonant performance position; a computer configured to, when the detection sensor detects a gentle key press to the adjacent position of at least one first key, execute a resonance permission process to give a permission to output a resonant tone of the at least one first key; and a tone emission device configured to, when at least one second key different from the at least one first key and having a resonant relationship with the at least one first key is regularly pressed, emit a regular tone of the at least one second key and the resonant tone of the at least one first key. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345405 | TEMPERATURE RISE CONTROLLABLE ANECHOIC SOUND ABSORBER USING TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF SCATTERING PARTICLE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The present disclosure relates to a temperature controllable anechoic sound absorber using two different kinds of scattering particles and a method for manufacturing the same. More specifically, a temperature rise controllable anechoic sound absorber using two different kinds of scattering particles, which absorbs a sound wave which is transmitted through a medium, includes a composite material which induces a scattering process of the sound wave and has a first scattering particle and a second scattering particle; and a base material which fills a base of the absorber during the scattering process of the sound wave. Herein, volume content ratios of the base material, the first scattering particle, and the second scattering particles are adjusted so that a heat capacity of the absorber is within a set heat capacity range. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345406 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND ITEM - A method of enabling a hearer to hear desired sound while also being able to be aware of ambient sound, comprises providing a first non-audio signal representative of said desired sound, deriving a second non-audio signal from said ambient sound, combining the first and second non-audio signals in providing a third non-audio signal, and converting said third non-audio signal into sound. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345407 | ACTIVE NOISE REDUCTION - A noise reducing sound reproduction system comprises a loudspeaker that is connected to a loudspeaker input path and that radiates noise reducing sound. A microphone is connected to a microphone output path and picks up the noise or a residual thereof. An active noise reduction filter is connected between the microphone output path and the loudspeaker input path, and the active noise reduction filter comprises at least one shelving filter. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345408 | Active Noise Reduction Headset Device with Hearing Aid Features - A headset device with active noise reduction includes a housing configured to be mounted near or in a human ear, a speaker unit equipped within the housing and configured to emit a sound signal, one or more microphone units configured to collect ambient sound and a signal processor electrically connected to the one or more microphone units. The signal processor is configured to selectively operate either in a hearing aid mode in which ambient sound coming in from the outside through the one or more microphone units is emitted, or in a noise reduction mode in which ambient sound coming in from the outside is inverted and the inverted ambient sound is emitted through the speaker unit to reduce the ambient sound. A corresponding method of operating the headset device is also provided. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345409 | SOUND EFFECT PRODUCING APPARATUS, METHOD OF PRODUCING SOUND EFFECT AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - A sound effect producing apparatus includes an input portion, a memory portion, a pseudo sound reflection producing portion, and an effect provision portion. The input portion performs inputting of an audio signal. The memory portion stores sound effect information that includes production information for producing a pseudo sound reflection corresponding to a sound reflection generated in a predetermined acoustic space and sound source position information showing a sound source position of the pseudo sound reflection. The pseudo sound reflection producing portion produces a pseudo sound reflection based on the production information. The effect provision portion performs a process of localizing the pseudo sound reflection using a predetermined direction as a reference, based on the audio signal and the sound source position information. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345410 | TEXT TO SPEECH SYSTEM WITH REAL-TIME AMENDMENT CAPABILITY - An application configured to be a text-to-speech (“TTS”) application wherein the application is capable of reading a document aloud to a reviewer via a device, such as a smartphone, an mp3 device, or a tablet, while the reviewer is able to make amendments to the document in real-time is presented. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345411 | UNIT-SELECTION TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS BASED ON PREDICTED CONCATENATION PARAMETERS - Systems and processes for performing unit-selection text-to-speech synthesis are provided. In an example process, text to be converted to speech is received. The text is represented as a sequence of target units. A plurality of candidate speech segments corresponding to the sequence of target units are selected. Predicted statistical parameters of acoustic features associated with the sequence of target units are determined. The predicted statistical parameters of acoustic features are used to determine target costs and concatenation costs associated with the plurality of candidate speech segments. Based on a combined cost determined from the target costs and concatenation costs, a subset of candidate speech segments is selected from the plurality of candidate speech segments. Speech corresponding to the received text is generated using the subset of candidate speech segments. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345412 | SPEECH PROCESSING DEVICE, SPEECH PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A speech processing device according to an aspect of the present invention examines precision and quality of each piece of data stored in a database so that it is able to generate highly stable synthesized speech close to human voice | 2017-11-30 |
20170345413 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MANUALLY DESIGNED AND AUTOMATICALLY OPTIMIZED SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEMS - Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and tangible computer-readable storage media for generating a natural language spoken dialog system. The method includes nominating a set of allowed dialog actions and a set of contextual features at each turn in a dialog, and selecting an optimal action from the set of nominated allowed dialog actions using a machine learning algorithm. The method includes generating a response based on the selected optimal action at each turn in the dialog. The set of manually nominated allowed dialog actions can incorporate a set of business rules. Prompt wordings in the generated natural language spoken dialog system can be tailored to a current context while following the set of business rules. A compression label can represent at least one of the manually nominated allowed dialog actions. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345414 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING ACOUSTIC MODEL, COMPUTER FOR IMPROVING ACOUSTIC MODEL AND COMPUTER PROGRAM THEREOF - Embodiments include methods and systems for improving an acoustic model. Aspects include acquiring a first standard deviation value by calculating standard deviation of a feature from first training data and acquiring a second standard deviation value by calculating standard deviation of a feature from second training data acquired in a different environment from an environment of the first training data. Aspects also include creating a feature adapted to an environment where the first training data is recorded, by multiplying the feature acquired from the second training data by a ratio obtained by dividing the first standard deviation value by the second standard deviation value. Aspects further include reconstructing an acoustic model constructed using training data acquired in the same environment as the environment of the first training data using the feature adapted to the environment where the first training data is recorded. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345415 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING ACOUSTIC MODEL, COMPUTER FOR IMPROVING ACOUSTIC MODEL AND COMPUTER PROGRAM THEREOF - Embodiments include methods and systems for improving an acoustic model. Aspects include acquiring a first standard deviation value by calculating standard deviation of a feature from first training data and acquiring a second standard deviation value by calculating standard deviation of a feature from second training data acquired in a different environment from an environment of the first training data. Aspects also include creating a feature adapted to an environment where the first training data is recorded, by multiplying the feature acquired from the second training data by a ratio obtained by dividing the first standard deviation value by the second standard deviation value. Aspects further include reconstructing an acoustic model constructed using training data acquired in the same environment as the environment of the first training data using the feature adapted to the environment where the first training data is recorded. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345416 | System and Method for Machine-Mediated Human-Human Conversation - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for processing speech. A system configured to practice the method monitors user utterances to generate a conversation context. Then the system receives a current user utterance independent of non-natural language input intended to trigger speech processing. The system compares the current user utterance to the conversation context to generate a context similarity score, and if the context similarity score is above a threshold, incorporates the current user utterance into the conversation context. If the context similarity score is below the threshold, the system discards the current user utterance. The system can compare the current user utterance to the conversation context based on an n-gram distribution, a perplexity score, and a perplexity threshold. Alternately, the system can use a task model to compare the current user utterance to the conversation context. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345417 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING FOLLOW-UP RESPONSES TO PRIOR NATURAL LANGUAGE INPUTS OF A USER - In certain implementations, follow-up responses may be provided for prior natural language inputs of a user. As an example, a natural language input associated with a user may be received at a computer system. A determination of whether information sufficient for providing an adequate response to the natural language input is currently accessible to the computer system may be effectuated. A first response to the natural language input (that indicates that a follow-up response will be provided) may be provided based on a determination that information sufficient for providing an adequate response to the natural language input is not currently accessible. Information sufficient for providing an adequate response to the natural language input may be received. A second response to the natural language input may then be provided based on the received sufficient information. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345418 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RAPID CUSTOMIZATION OF SPEECH RECOGNITION MODELS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for generating domain-specific speech recognition models for a domain of interest by combining and tuning existing speech recognition models when a speech recognizer does not have access to a speech recognition model for that domain of interest and when available domain-specific data is below a minimum desired threshold to create a new domain-specific speech recognition model. A system configured to practice the method identifies a speech recognition domain and combines a set of speech recognition models, each speech recognition model of the set of speech recognition models being from a respective speech recognition domain. The system receives an amount of data specific to the speech recognition domain, wherein the amount of data is less than a minimum threshold to create a new domain-specific model, and tunes the combined speech recognition model for the speech recognition domain based on the data. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345419 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A REDUCED POWER ALARM SYSTEM - A monitoring system comprising at least one audio sensing device, at least one audio signal processor adapted to perform audio processing electrically connected to the audio sensing device, a central hardware processor adapted to receive digital electronic information from the audio signal processor, an electronic communication interface adapted to deliver the digital electronic information between the audio signal processor and the central hardware processor and a dry contact electrically connected to the electronic communication interface and electrically connected to the audio signal processor. The audio sensing device is configured to deliver audio signals to the audio signal processor the audio signal processor processes the audio signals by applying audio processing algorithms and the audio signal processor delivers an electric current to the dry contact upon recognition of a predetermined audio event within the audio signals. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345420 | Internet of Things (IoT) Human Interface Apparatus, System, and Method - Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing Internet of Things (“IoT”) functionality. In some embodiments, microphones of an IoT human interface device might receive user voice input. The IoT human interface device and/or a computing system might identify explicit commands in the voice input, identify first IoT-capable devices to which the explicit commands are applicable, receive sensor data from IoT sensors, and analyze the voice input in view of previous user voice inputs and in view of the sensor data to determine whether the voice input contains any implicit commands. If so, second IoT-capable devices to which an implicit command is additionally applicable might be identified, instructions based on a combination of the explicit and implicit commands may be generated and sent to the second IoT-capable devices. Instructions based only on the explicit commands are generated and sent to first IoT-capable devices to which implicit commands are not applicable. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345421 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - An electronic apparatus and a controlling method thereof are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a communicator configured to communicate with an external apparatus including a microphone, a storage configured to store a voice recognition application and a middleware which relays the voice recognition application, and a processor configured to, in response to receiving an initiation signal from the external apparatus through the communicator, control the communicator to generate a microphone activation signal for activating the microphone using the middleware, transmit the generated microphone activation signal to the external apparatus, generate a voice recognition application signal for loading the voice recognition application, and initiate an operation of the voice recognition application. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345422 | ELECTRONIC DEVICES HAVING SPEECH RECOGNITION FUNCTIONALITY AND OPERATING METHODS OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES - Disclosed are electronic devices having speech recognition functionality and operating methods of the electronic devices. Operating methods may include selectively activating or deactivating speech recognition functionality of one or more electronic devices based on comparing priorities associated with the electronic devices, respectively. Speech recognition functionality of one or more devices may be controlled based on transmitting an activation or deactivation command to the one or more devices. | 2017-11-30 |
20170345423 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING, AND PROGRAM - [Object] The technology that can improve accuracy of speech recognition for collected sound data is provided. [Solution] Provided is an information processing device including: a collected sound data acquisition portion that acquires collected sound data; and an output controller that causes an output portion to output at least whether or not a state of the collected sound data is suitable for speech recognition. | 2017-11-30 |