49th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 65 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150348516 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing device includes: a memory section that has memory areas equivalent to data of k rows of an image; a correction section that corrects data of a given pixel belonging to a row designated by a first counter, out of data stored in the memory section, using data of a pixel in a position designated by an offset vector corresponding to the given pixel; an output section that outputs data corrected by the correction section; and a write section that writes data, out of the image, of a row designated by the second counter into a corresponding memory area of the memory section. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348517 | Magnetic Guitar Slide Holder - The present invention is a slide holder for use with a guitar having a headstock and a plurality of strings to support a slide. The slide holder comprises a block having a cavity and a magnet disposed in the cavity. The housing is made from a compressible material so the slide holder can be secured between the headstock and the strings of the guitar. A slide may be magnetically secured to the strings of the guitar thereby providing a support for the slide when not used. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348518 | Device and method for cushioning the neck of a stringed instrument - A stringed instrument can be manufactured with a neck that contains a back-side soft surface layer and optionally also a front-side soft surface layer, whereby the soft surface layers can increase comfort and enjoyment, and prevent, reduce or alleviate injury during play of the instrument. Alternatively, a stringed instrument can be retrofitted with an installable soft surface component, which can be fitted on top of the surface of the back-side of the neck of the stringed instrument. Further disclosed is a method of using a neck mounted soft surface layer with a stringed instrument. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348519 | String Alignment Cover - A string alignment cover to work in conjunction with a string alignment plate. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348520 | Violin Cushioning Device - An easily attachable and removable violin-cushioning device that contains an elongated cushion pad and two looped elastic ties for attachment to the lower body of a violin. The device attachment prevents any damage to the instrument. The cushion pad provides comfort to a player and reduces the strain of the violin against the player's neck during play. The device can be used by players of any size or shape. The device does not move during long periods or continued use. The device is small and lightweight to allow for easy storage and transport in the instrument's case. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348521 | PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - A percussion musical instrument comprises an hollow sound box defining a central longitudinal axis with an open upper end portion having a first annular edge, a membrane defining a striking surface fastened to the first annular edge for closing the same, anchoring means for the stretched anchoring of the membrane to the upper end portion of the sound box comprising watertight means adapted to avoid liquid leakage through the first annular edge for allowing the instrument to be used also with the membrane in upside down position and with liquid inside the sound box and into contact with the membrane. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348522 | ADAPTOR FOR DRUM - An adaptor for coupling to a drum having a drum head, shell, and rim, the rim having an outer diameter and configured to interface with a ring coupled to the drum head to hold the drum head in place on the shell, includes a monolithic body having a clip portion and an interface, the clip portion configured to extend around an outer section of the rim between a top surface of the drum head and a bottom portion of the rim, the clip portion having a clip end and the ring having an outer diameter, wherein the clip end is configured to extend to a position that is inward of the outer diameter of the ring when the clip portion is coupled to the drum; and wherein a substantial portion of the interface is configured to extend radially from the rim when the clip portion is coupled to the drum. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348523 | Musical Score Display Device and Accessory Therefor - An electronic device adapted to display musical scores. The musical score display device includes a display for displaying a musical score, i.e. sheet music, to a user and a foot actuator accessory operatively connectable to the musical score display device that users can use to manually scroll through the displayed musical score in a hands-free manner. Alternatively, the display device comprises a microphone and is adapted to detect the playing of musical notes and automatically scroll through the displayed musical score without action by the user. Furthermore, the display device indicates to the user as to whether each note was played correctly or incorrectly via an on-screen prompt. The musical score display device is attachable to a variety of different support articles, such as a music stand or an instrument-attachable support. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348524 | TRACK TRAPPING AND TRANSFER - An apparatus includes an input for receiving session tracks, an audio converter for converting the first and second data into one of a plurality of audio formats, thereby generating converted session tracks; a storage medium for storing the converted session tracks; a session-track vectorization unit for packaging the converted session tracks into a session vector for transmission to the distributed music collaboration system, and a session-track transfer unit for effecting transfer of the session vector to the distributed music collaboration system. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348525 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, METHOD OF CONTROLLING SOUND GENERATION, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An electronic musical instrument is provided with a voice sensor for detecting a voice uttered by a user, when the user blows into the musical instrument with a voice, a breath sensor for detecting at least one of a blow pressure and a blow volume in a body of the musical instrument, when the user blows into the musical instrument with a voice, and a musical tone controlling unit for controlling generation of a musical tone based on at least one of outputs of the voice sensor and the breath sensor. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348526 | METHOD OF PLAYING CHORD INVERSIONS ON A VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT - A user interface implemented on a touch-sensitive display for a virtual musical instrument comprising a plurality of chord touch regions configured in a predetermined sequence, each chord touch region corresponding to a chord in a musical key and being divided into a plurality of separate touch zones, the plurality of chord touch regions defining a predetermined set of chords, where each of the plurality of separate touch zones in each region is associated with one or more preselected MIDI files stored in a computer-readable medium. In some embodiments, the touch zones are configured to provide different harmonic configurations of a base chord associated with the chord touch region. Some harmonic configurations provide progressively wider harmonic ranges across each adjacent touch zone. Other harmonic configurations can provide chords with a progressively higher relative pitch across each adjacent touch zone. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348527 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TIMED EVENT EVALUATION - A timing unit and method useable with a computer and user input includes a circuit and a timer. The timer establishes a reference signal having periodic occurrence and receives a trigger signal from the user input. The circuit generates information that represents the periodic occurrences of the reference signal and response timing data representing a relationship between the trigger signal and one of the occurrences. A communication channel is provided between the circuit and the computer. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348528 | MANUAL TUBULAR BELL STRUCTURE - A manual tubular bell structure is provided, which can be used conveniently and set with different audio frequencies. The manual tubular bell structure includes a pipe provided with a striker seat, a striker, and a striker head. The pipe has an audio frequency setting trough and a handle sleeve. The handle sleeve has an audio frequency setting hole. The audio frequency setting trough can be in different lengths/widths to set different audio frequencies. The audio frequency setting hole of the handle sleeve can be in different diameters to set different audio frequencies. The manual tubular bell of the present invention can provide different frequencies for people to perform. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348529 | ANTI-NOISE HEADSET DEVICE AND SOUND PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - An anti-noise headset device and a sound processing method thereof are provided. The anti-noise headset device includes an audio receiving module and a control module. The audio receiving module is configured to receive several audio signals in several periods. The control module is electrically coupled to the audio receiving module. The control module is configured to store the audio signals received from a first period to an Nth period as sound data. The control module compares the audio signal received in an (N+1)th period with the sound data so as to generate a relevance value, N is an integer larger than zero. When the relevance value is smaller than a threshold value, the control module filters out a portion of the audio signal received in the (N+1)th period, in which the portion of the audio signal received in the (N+1)th period is relevant to the sound data. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348530 | Noise Masking in Headsets - Methods and apparatuses for addressing open space noise are disclosed using both dynamic and static sound masking. In one example, an adaptive sound masking system and method portions undesired sound into time-blocks and estimates frequency spectrum and power level, and continuously generates masking noise with a matching or predetermined spectrum and loudness or power level to mask the undesired sound. In another example, a static sound masking system and method portions undesired sound into time-blocks and estimates frequency spectrum and power level, and generates a static noise-masking signal with a matching spectrum and power level to mask the undesired sound. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348531 | ULTRASOUND GENERATION - An ultrasound generator having a signal generator; and to generate a pulsed drive signal from a modulating signal, the pulsed drive signal having at least a zero output level, a positive output level and a negative output level. The position and width of pulses are defined by at least first and second switching angles per half cycle of the modulating signal. In part of the range of the modulating signal one switching angle increases while the other switching angle decreases simultaneously such that the fundamental frequency of the pulsed drive signal increases or decreases with the modulating signal and such that a selected harmonic component of the generated pulsed drive signal is maintained below a first threshold. A transducer is arranged to generate ultrasound in response to the pulsed drive signal. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348532 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAKING AND PLAYING SOUNDTRACKS - A composite variable duration soundtrack for a user to play while reading a text source, the soundtrack duration being defined by a soundtrack timeline. The soundtrack comprises multiple sound layers configured to play concurrently through the soundtrack timeline, each sound layer having an arrangement of one or more audio features that are configured to play at preset start times in the soundtrack timeline. At least one sound layer is adapted for modifying the preset start and stop times of its audio features to match the reading speed of a user based on a reading speed input. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348533 | DOMAIN SPECIFIC LANGUAGE FOR ENCODING ASSISTANT DIALOG - Systems and processes for generating output dialogs for virtual assistants are provided. An output dialog can be generated from multiple output segments that can each include a string of one or more characters or words. The contents of an output segment can be selected from multiple possible outputs based on a predetermined order, conditional logic, or a random selection. The output segments can be concatenated to form the output dialog. In one example, a dialog generation file that defines the possible outputs for each output segment, an ordering of the output segments within the output dialog, and format for the output dialog can be used to generate the output dialog. The dialog generation file can include any number of functional blocks, which can each output an output segment, that can be arranged hierarchically and in a particular order to generate a desired output dialog. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348534 | AUDIO OUTPUT OF A DOCUMENT FROM MOBILE DEVICE - Architecture for playing a document converted into an audio format to a user of an audio-output capable device. The user can interact with the device to control play of the audio document such as pause, rewind, forward, etc. In more robust implementation, the audio-output capable device is a mobile device (e.g., cell phone) having a microphone for processing voice input. Voice commands can then be input to control play (“reading”) of the document audio file to pause, rewind, read paragraph, read next chapter, fast forward, etc. A communications server (e.g., email, attachments to email, etc.) transcodes text-based document content into an audio format by leveraging a text-to-speech (TTS) engine. The transcoded audio files are then transferred to mobile devices through viable transmission channels. Users can then play the audio-formatted document while freeing hand and eye usage for other tasks. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348535 | METHOD FOR FORMING THE EXCITATION SIGNAL FOR A GLOTTAL PULSE MODEL BASED PARAMETRIC SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM - A method is presented for forming the excitation signal for a glottal pulse model based parametric speech synthesis system. In one embodiment, fundamental frequency values are used to form the excitation signal. The excitation is modeled using a voice source pulse selected from a database of a given speaker. The voice source signal is segmented into glottal segments, which are used in vector representation to identify the glottal pulse used for formation of the excitation signal. Use of a novel distance metric and preserving the original signals extracted from the speakers voice samples helps capture low frequency information of the excitation signal. In addition, segment edge artifacts are removed by applying a unique segment joining method to improve the quality of synthetic speech while creating a true representation of the voice quality of a speaker. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348536 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECOGNIZING SPEECH - A speech is recognized using ACF factors extracted from running autocorrelation functions calculated from the speech. The extracted ACF factors are a W | 2015-12-03 |
20150348537 | Source Signal Separation by Discriminatively-Trained Non-Negative Matrix Factorization - A method estimates source signals from a mixture of source signals by first training an analysis model and a reconstruction model using training data. The analysis model is applied to the mixture of source signals to obtain an analysis representation of the mixture of source signals, and the reconstruction model is applied to the analysis representation to obtain an estimate of the source signals, wherein the analysis model utilizes an analysis linear basis representation, and the reconstruction model utilizes a reconstruction linear basis representation. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348538 | SPEECH SUMMARY AND ACTION ITEM GENERATION - Techniques for generating summaries and action items associated with speech are described. Disclosed are techniques for receiving data representing an audio signal including speech, determining one or more words associated with the speech, determining one or more vocal fingerprints associated with the speech, and identifying a keyword associated with the speech using the one or more words and the one or more vocal fingerprints. Presentation of the keyword may be made at a loudspeaker, a display, another user interface, and the like. A summary, including meta-data and a content summary, may be generated from one or more keywords, and the summary may be presented to a user. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348539 | SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM - A system has a speech recognition unit | 2015-12-03 |
20150348540 | System and Method for Optimizing Speech Recognition and Natural Language Parameters with User Feedback - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for assigning saliency weights to words of an ASR model. The saliency values assigned to words within an ASR model are based on human perception judgments of previous transcripts. These saliency values are applied as weights to modify an ASR model such that the results of the weighted ASR model in converting a spoken document to a transcript provide a more accurate and useful transcription to the user. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348541 | Generating Language Models - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating language models. In some implementations, data is accessed that indicates a set of classes corresponding to a concept. A first language model is generated in which a first class represents the concept. A second language model is generated in which second classes represent the concept. Output of the first language model and the second language model is obtained, and the outputs are evaluated. A class from the set of classes is selected based on evaluating the output of the first language model and the output of the second language model. In some implementations, the first class and the second class are selected from a parse tree or other data that indicates relationships among the classes in the set of classes. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348542 | SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON USER PERSONALIZED INFORMATION - The present invention relates to a speech recognition method and system based on user personalized information. The method comprises the following steps: receiving a speech signal; decoding the speech signal according to a basic static decoding network to obtain a decoding path on each active node in the basic static decoding network, wherein the basic static decoding network is a decoding network associated with a basic name language model; if a decoding path enters a name node in the basic static decoding network, network extending is carried out on the name node according to an affiliated static decoding network of a user, wherein the affiliated static decoding network is a decoding network associated with a name language model of a particular user; and returning a recognition result after the decoding is completed. The recognition accuracy rate of user personalized information in continuous speech recognition may be raised by using the present invention. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348543 | Speech Recognition of Partial Proper Names by Natural Language Processing - A method for speech recognition of partial proper names is described which includes natural language processing (NLP), partial name candidate generation, speech recognition and post processing. Natural language processing techniques including shallow and deep parsing are applied to long proper names to identify syntactic units (for example, noun phrases). The syntactic units form a basis for generating a candidate list of partial names for each original full name. A partial name is part of the original name, with some words omitted, or word order changed, or even word substitution. After candidate partial names are generated, their phonetic transcriptions are incorporated into a model for a speech recognizer to recognize the partial names in a speech recognition system. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348544 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING MULTI-MODAL DEVICE INTERACTIONS IN A NATURAL LANGUAGE VOICE SERVICES ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for processing multi-modal device interactions in a natural language voice services environment may be provided. In particular, one or more multi-modal device interactions may be received in a natural language voice services environment that includes one or more electronic devices. The multi-modal device interactions may include a non-voice interaction with at least one of the electronic devices or an application associated therewith, and may further include a natural language utterance relating to the non-voice interaction. Context relating to the non-voice interaction and the natural language utterance may be extracted and combined to determine an intent of the multi-modal device interaction, and a request may then be routed to one or more of the electronic devices based on the determined intent of the multi-modal device interaction. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348545 | VOICE FOCUS ENABLED BY PREDETERMINED TRIGGERS - Provided are techniques for voice focus enabled by predetermined triggers. Voice recognition is used to identify one or more pre-determined triggers from a voice of a speaker. In response to identifying the one or more pre-determined triggers, a voice recognition template is dynamically created for the voice of the speaker, and the voice recognition template and voice isolation are used to focus on the voice from the speaker. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348546 | AUDIO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND AUDIO PROCESSING METHOD - An audio processing apparatus and an audio processing method are described. In one embodiment, the audio processing apparatus include an audio masker separator for separating from a first audio signal an audio material comprising a sound other than stationary noise and utterance meaningful in semantics, as an audio masker candidate. The apparatus also includes a first context analyzer for obtaining statistics regarding contextual information of detected audio masker candidates, and a masker library builder for building a masker library or updating an existing masker library by adding, based on the statistics, at least one audio masker candidate as an audio masker into the masker library, wherein audio maskers in the maker library are used to be inserted into a target position in a second audio signal to conceal defects in the second audio signal. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348547 | METHOD FOR SUPPORTING DYNAMIC GRAMMARS IN WFST-BASED ASR - Systems and processes are disclosed for recognizing speech using a weighted finite state transducer (WFST) approach. Dynamic grammars can be supported by constructing the final recognition cascade during runtime using difference grammars. In a first grammar, non-terminals can be replaced with a, weighted phone loop that produces sequences of mono-phone words. In a second grammar, at runtime, non-terminals can be replaced with sub-grammars derived from user-specific usage data including contact, media, and application lists. Interaction frequencies associated with these entities can be used to weight certain words over others. With all non-terminals replaced, a static recognition cascade with the first grammar can be composed with the personalized second grammar to produce a user-specific WEST. User speech can then be processed to generate candidate words having associated probabilities, and the likeliest result can be output. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348548 | REDUCING THE NEED FOR MANUAL START/END-POINTING AND TRIGGER PHRASES - Systems and processes for selectively processing and responding to a spoken user input are provided. In one example, audio input containing a spoken user input can be received at a user device. The spoken user input can be identified from the audio input by identifying start and end-points of the spoken user input. It can be determined whether or not the spoken user input was intended for a virtual assistant based on contextual information. The determination can be made using a rule-based system or a probabilistic system. If it is determined that the spoken user input was intended for the virtual assistant, the spoken user input can be processed and an appropriate response can be generated. If it is instead determined that the spoken user input was not intended for the virtual assistant, the spoken user input can be ignored and/or no response can be generated. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348549 | BETTER RESOLUTION WHEN REFERENCING TO CONCEPTS - Systems and processes for operating a virtual assistant programmed to refer to shared domain concepts using concept nodes are provided. In some examples, to process a textual representation of user speech using an active ontology having these concept nodes, a primary user intent can be determined from the textual representation of user speech. Concepts referred to by the primary user intent can be identified, and substrings of the textual representation of user speech corresponding to the concepts can be identified. Secondary user intents for the substrings can be determined and a task flow based on the primary user intent and the secondary user intents can be generated and performed. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348550 | Speech-to-text input method and system combining gaze tracking technology - A speech-to-text input method includes: receiving a speech input from a user; converting the speech input into text through speech recognition; displaying the recognized text to the user; determining a gaze position of the user on a display by tracking the eye movement of the user; displaying an edit cursor at the gaze position when the gaze position is located at the displayed text; receiving a speech edit command from the user; recognizing the speech edit command through speech recognition; and editing the text at the edit cursor according to the recognized speech edit command. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348551 | MULTI-COMMAND SINGLE UTTERANCE INPUT METHOD - Systems and processes are disclosed for handling a multi-part voice command for a virtual assistant. Speech input can be received from a user that includes multiple actionable commands within a single utterance. A text string can be generated from the speech input using a speech transcription process. The text string can be parsed into multiple candidate substrings based on domain keywords, imperative verbs, predetermined substring lengths, or the like. For each candidate substring, a probability can be determined indicating whether the candidate substring corresponds to an actionable command. Such probabilities can be determined based on semantic coherence, similarity to user request templates, querying services to determine manageability, or the like. If the probabilities exceed a threshold, the user intent of each substring can be determined, processes associated with the user intents can be executed, and an acknowledgment can be provided to the user. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348552 | DYNAMIC SPEECH RECOGNITION AND TRANSCRIPTION AMONG USERS HAVING HETEROGENEOUS PROTOCOLS - A system is disclosed for facilitating free form dictation, including directed dictation and constrained recognition and/or structured transcription among users having heterogeneous native (legacy) protocols for generating, transcribing, and exchanging recognized and transcribed speech. The system includes at least one system transaction manager having a “system protocol,” to receive a verified, streamed speech information request from at least one authorized user employing a first legacy user protocol. The speech information request which includes spoken text and system commands is generated using a user interface capable of bi-directional communication with the system transaction manager and supporting dictation applications, including prompts to direct user dictation in response to user system protocol commands and systems transaction manager commands. A speech recognition and/or transcription engine (ASR), in communication with the systems transaction manager, receives the speech information request from the system transaction manager, generates a transcribed response, which can include a formatted transcription, and transmits the response to the system transaction manager. The system transaction manager routes the response to one or more of the users employing a second protocol, which may be the same as or different than the first protocol. In another embodiment, the system employs a virtual sound driver for streaming free form dictation to any ASR, regardless of the ASR's ability to recognize and/or transcribe spoken text from any input source such as, for example, a live microphone or line input. In another embodiment, the system employs a buffer to facilitate the system's use of ASRs requiring input data to be in batches, while providing the user with an uninterrupted, seamless dictating experience. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348553 | VOICE FOCUS ENABLED BY PREDETERMINED TRIGGERS - Provided are techniques for voice focus enabled by predetermined triggers. Voice recognition is used to identify one or more pre-determined triggers from a voice of a speaker. In response to identifying the one or more pre-determined triggers, a voice recognition template is dynamically created for the voice of the speaker, and the voice recognition template and voice isolation are used to focus on the voice from the speaker. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348554 | INTELLIGENT ASSISTANT FOR HOME AUTOMATION - This relates to systems and processes for using a virtual assistant to control electronic devices. In one example process, a user can speak an input in natural language form to a user device to control one or more electronic devices. The user device can transmit the user speech to a server to be converted into a textual representation. The server can identify the one or more electronic devices and appropriate commands to be performed by the one or more electronic devices based on the textual representation. The identified one or more devices and commands to be performed can be transmitted back to the user device, which can forward the commands to the appropriate one or more electronic devices for execution. In response to receiving the commands, the one or more electronic devices can perform the commands and transmit their current states to the user device. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348555 | Voice Recognition Device, Voice Recognition Program, and Voice Recognition Method - It is an object of the present invention to provide a technology for a speech recognition device having higher convenience. The speech recognition device according to the present invention includes: a storage unit for storing screen definition information, in which a screen is associated with an option on the screen, and selection history information identifying a number of selected times for each of the options; a touch instruction reception unit for receiving an instruction through a touching operation; a voice instruction reception unit for receiving an instruction through an operation using a voice; and an option reading unit for conducting, when reception of the instruction conducted by the touch instruction reception unit is restricted on a predetermined screen, voice outputs of the options on the predetermined screen in order corresponding to the number of selected, times in which the voice instruction reception unit receives an instruction regarding any one of the options output by the option reading unit. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348556 | DIGITAL MEDIA FRAME - A method and a device for displaying images on a digital media frame is disclosed. In one embodiment, the device includes a memory, a processing unit, a display, an interface circuit, and a display circuit. The interface circuit has at least one receiving port capable of identifying various types of networking protocols that are used to transfer the image data. The processing unit attaches auxiliary information to each image before images are stored in a memory. The display circuit displays images according to the image data received. The digital media frame further contains a user input device, which allows a user to alter the image display sequence. The user input device is an input device other than a keyboard or a cursor control device. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348557 | VOICE-CONTROLLED THREE-DIMENSIONAL FABRICATION - An additive three-dimensional fabrication system includes voice control for user interaction. This voice-controlled interface can enable a variety of voice-controlled functions and operations, while supporting interactions specific to consumer-oriented fabrication processes. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348558 | Audio Bitstreams with Supplementary Data and Encoding and Decoding of Such Bitstreams - Methods for generating or decoding an encoded audio bitstream including audio data and supplementary data (e.g., metadata and/or unrelated audio data), where at least some of the supplementary data is included as LSBs of audio segments, and/or at least some of the supplementary data is included in guard bands. Typical embodiments provide a scalable and video synchronous format compatible with real-time and file-based infrastructure components that support the SMPTE 337 format for carrying data in AES3 serial bitstreams, and/or provide a framework for extending distribution codecs to scale beyond an 8-channel limit to support multiples of 8 channels synchronously across multiple AES3 interfaces. Another aspect is an audio processing unit configured to perform any embodiment of the method or including a buffer memory storing at least one segment of an audio bitstream generated in accordance with any embodiment of the method. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348559 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SPATIAL AUDIO OBJECT CODING EMPLOYING HIDDEN OBJECTS FOR SIGNAL MIXTURE MANIPULATION - An apparatus for encoding one or more audio objects to obtain an encoded signal is provided. The apparatus includes a for downmixing the one or more audio objects to obtain one or more unprocessed downmix signals. Moreover, the apparatus includes a processing module and a signal calculator. The signal calculator is configured to calculate each of one or more additional signals based on a difference between one of one or more processed downmix signals and one of the one or more unprocessed downmix signals. Moreover, the apparatus includes an object information generator. Furthermore, the apparatus includes an output interface for outputting the encoded signal. Moreover, a corresponding apparatus for decoding is provided. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348560 | APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING MULTICHANNEL SIGNAL AND METHOD THEREOF - Provided is an encoding/decoding apparatus and method of multi-channel signals. The encoding apparatus and method of multi-channel signals may encode phase information of the multi-channel signals using a quantization scheme and a lossless encoding scheme, and the decoding apparatus and method of multi-channel signals may decode the phase information using an inverse-quantization scheme and a lossless decoding scheme. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348561 | EFFECTIVE ATTENUATION OF PRE-ECHOES IN A DIGITAL AUDIO SIGNAL - A method is provided for processing attenuation of pre-echo in a digital audio signal decoded by transform decoding. The method includes the following acts: decomposition of the decoded signal into at least two sub-signals according to a pre-determined decomposition criterion; calculation of attenuation factors per sub-signal and per sample of a previously determined pre-echo zone; attenuation of pre-echo in the pre-echo zone of each of the sub-signals by applying attenuation factors to the sub-signals; and production of the attenuated signal by addition of the attenuated sub-signals. Also provided are a processing device implementing the acts of the described method, and a decoder including such a device. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348562 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING AN AUDIO SIGNAL IN THE SPECTRAL DOMAIN - Method of improving audio signal in the spectral domain starts by receiving audio signal that includes signals from sources including speech source and music source. Audio signal is tuned for output by sound output device. Portions of audio signal are analyzed in a spectral domain to determine whether adjustments are required. Analyzing portions of audio signal includes determining whether anomaly is present in frequency band of audio signal in spectral domain by using at least one metric. Metrics include band energy ratios, spectral centroid, spectral tilt, spectral flux, spectral variance, absolute thresholds, and relative thresholds. Audio signal is adjusted to improve audio signal in spectral domain when audio signal is determined to require adjustments. Adjusting audio signal includes adjusting values of the metric in frequency band that is determined to include anomaly to correspond to clustering of metric values for audio signal in spectral domain. Other embodiments are also described. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348563 | ENCODER AND DECODER TO ENCODE SIGNAL INTO A SCALABLE CODEC AND TO DECODE SCALABLE CODEC, AND ENCODING AND DECODING METHODS OF ENCODING SIGNAL INTO SCALABLE CODEC AND DECODING THE SCALABLE CODEC - An encoder and decoder to encode one or more input signals into a scalable codec and to decode the scalable codec, and encoding and decoding methods using a bitstream with a layered structure in the scalable codec change a top coding bit rate to encode the input signals according to a network status, and the bitstream is decoded by analyzing the top coding bit rate included in the bitstream. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348564 | DECODER, ENCODER AND METHOD FOR INFORMED LOUDNESS ESTIMATION EMPLOYING BY-PASS AUDIO OBJECT SIGNALS IN OBJECT-BASED AUDIO CODING SYSTEMS - A decoder for generating an audio output signal having one or more audio output channels is provided, having a receiving interface for receiving an audio input signal having a plurality of audio object signals, for receiving loudness information on the audio object signals, and for receiving rendering information indicating whether one or more of the audio object signals shall be amplified or attenuated, further having a signal processor for generating the one or more audio output channels of the audio output signal, configured to determine a loudness compensation value depending on the loudness information and depending on the rendering information, and configured to generate the one or more audio output channels of the audio output signal from the audio input signal depending on the rendering information and depending on the loudness compensation value. One or more by-pass audio object signals are employed for generating the audio output signal. Moreover, an encoder is provided. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348565 | DETERMINING DOMAIN SALIENCE RANKING FROM AMBIGUOUS WORDS IN NATURAL SPEECH - Systems and processes for identifying relevant domains for user inputs that include one or more ambiguous words are disclosed. The ambiguous words include words that may or may not refer to a named entity, such as a song, movie, book, etc. In one example, a textual representation of user speech can be received and processed to identify a candidate named entity. The possible parts of speech of the candidate named entity can be determined and compared to a predetermined set of parts of speech. In response to determining that the possible parts of speech of the candidate named entity do not include one or more of the predetermined set of parts of speech, a saliency score associated with the candidate named entity can be lowered. A domain for processing the textual representation of user speech can then be identified using the saliency score associated with the candidate named entity. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348566 | AUDIO CORRECTION APPARATUS, AND AUDIO CORRECTION METHOD THEREOF - An audio correction apparatus and an audio correction method. The audio correction method includes: receiving audio data, which may be input by a user and/or an instrument uttering sounds; detecting onset information by analyzing harmonic components of the received audio data; detecting pitch information of the received audio data based on the detected onset information; comparing the audio data with reference audio data and aligning the two based on the detected onset information and the detected pitch information; and correcting the aligned audio data to match the reference audio data. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348567 | DYNAMICALLY ADAPTED PITCH CORRECTION BASED ON AUDIO INPUT - Systems and methods for adjusting pitch of an audio signal include detecting input notes in the audio signal, mapping the input notes to corresponding output notes, each output note having an associated upper note boundary and lower note boundary, and modifying at least one of the upper note boundary and the lower note boundary of at least one output note in response to previously received input notes. Pitch of the input notes may be shifted to match an associated pitch of corresponding output notes. Delay of the pitch shifting process may be dynamically adjusted based on detected stability of the input notes. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348568 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC RESIDUAL NOISE SHAPING - A system and method for dynamic residual noise shaping configured to reduce hiss noise in an audio signal. The system and method may detect an amount and type of hiss noise. The system and method may limit calculated noise suppression gains responsive to the detected amount and type of hiss noise. The limited noise suppression gains may be applied to the audio signal and may reduce the hiss noise. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348569 | SEMANTIC-FREE TEXT ANALYSIS FOR IDENTIFYING TRAITS - A method, system, and/or computer program product uses speech traits of an entity to predict a future state of the entity. Units of speech are collected from a stream of speech that is generated by a first entity. Tokens from the stream of speech are identified, where each token identifies a particular unit of speech from the stream of speech, and where identification of the tokens is semantic-free. Nodes in a first speech graph are populated with the tokens, and a first shape of the first speech graph is identified. The first shape is matched to a second shape, where the second shape is of a second speech graph from a second entity in a known category. The first entity is assigned to the known category, and a future state of the first entity is predicted based on the first entity being assigned to the known category. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348570 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPEECH BEHAVIOR VISUALIZATION AND GAMIFICATION - In some example embodiments, a system is provided for real-time analysis of audio signals. First digital audio signals are retrieved from memory. First computed streamed signal information corresponding to each of the first digital audio signals is generated by computing first metrics data for the first digital audio signals, the first computed streamed signal information including the first metrics data. The computed first streamed signal information is stored in the memory. The first computed streamed signal information is transmitted to one or more computing devices. Transmitting the first computed streamed signal information to the one or more computing devices causes the first computed streamed signal information to be displayed at the one or more computing devices. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348571 | SPEECH DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, SPEECH DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND SPEECH DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM - A data processing device, method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. A data processing device may include a memory storing instructions, and at least one processor configured to process the instructions to divide a first speech data into first segments based on a data structure of the first speech data, classify the first segments into first clusters through clustering, generate a first segment speech model for each of the first clusters, and calculate a similarity between the first segment speech models and a second speech data. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348572 | DETECTING A USER'S VOICE ACTIVITY USING DYNAMIC PROBABILISTIC MODELS OF SPEECH FEATURES - Method of detecting voice activity starts with by generating probabilistic models that respectively model features of speech dynamically over time. Probabilistic models may model each feature dependent on a past feature and a current state. Features of speech may include a nonstationary signal presence feature, a periodicity feature, and a sparsity feature. Noise suppressor may then perform noise suppression on an acoustic signal to generate a nonstationary signal presence signal and a noise suppressed acoustic signal. An LPC module may then perform residual analysis on the noise suppressed data signal to generate a periodicity signal and a sparsity signal. Inference generator receives the probabilistic models and receives, in real-time, nonstationary signal presence signal, periodicity signal, and sparsity signal. Inference generator may then generate in real time an estimate of voice activity based on the probabilistic models, nonstationary signal presence signal, periodicity signal, and sparsity signal. Other embodiments are also described. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348573 | CONTROLLING DATA WRITING OF TAPE RECORDING APPARATUS - A tape recording apparatus according to one embodiment includes a magnetic head and a controller coupled to the magnetic head. The tape recording apparatus is configured to: write data on a tape medium in a direction from a first end toward a second end of the tape medium using the magnetic head; and wrap-turn a running direction of the tape medium before reaching the second end and write a first portion of data remaining to be written when the data remaining to be written is smaller than a volume of the data to be written in one running of the tape medium so that an end of the data is written at a position close to the first end, and write a second portion of data remaining to be written toward the first end. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348574 | EXTENDED SPIN TORQUE OSCILLATOR - The present disclosure generally relates to a high-frequency oscillator for use in a recording device having a microwave-assisted magnetic recording head. The microwave-assisted magnetic recording head achieves a large assist effect by using an extended spin torque oscillator disposed between a main magnetic pole and a pole opposite the main magnetic pole. The spin torque oscillator obtains a strong high-frequency magnetic field and comprises a first non-magnetic spin scatterer, a reference layer, a first non-magnetic spin transfer layer, a first magnetic field generating layer, a second non-magnetic spin transfer layer, a second magnetic field generating layer, and a second non-magnetic spin scatterer. The spin torque oscillator has a drive current flowing though in the direction from the first magnetic field generating layer to the reference layer. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348575 | Giant Magnetoresistive Sensor Having Horizontal Stabilizer - A giant magnetoresistive (GMR) sensor for reading information from a magnetic storage medium has a first non-magnetoresistive layer, a first magnetoresistive layer formed on the first non-magnetoresistive layer, a second non-magnetoresitive layer formed on the first magnetoresistive layer, a second magnetoresistive layer formed on the second non-magnetoresistive layer, and a third non-magnetoresistive layer formed on the second magnetoresistive layer. The first non-magnetoresistive layer is provided with a single step on a surface of the first non-magnetoresistive layer. The step has an edge extending in a direction substantially parallel to a plane of a working surface of the GMR sensor. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348576 | Hard Disk Drive Suspension Dimple - Approaches to a suspension for a hard disk drive (HDD) include a non-hemispherical dimple for movably coupling a flexure with a load beam, where the length of the non-hemispherical dimple exceeds the width. Therefore, in the context of a microactuator system, piezo actuating devices may be installed closer together to improve the microactuator stroke performance in moving the slider over the disk surface. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348577 | Reducing Ion Migration In A Hard Disk Drive Microactuator Flexure Assembly - Approaches to a suspension for a hard disk drive include having an adhered one or more piezo actuating device driven by a negative bias driving voltage. The negative bias driving voltage is lower than ground, therefore such voltage inhibits the migration of ions of an electrically conductive adhesive to an electrically conductive flexure layer, and inhibits the degradation of the resistance of an insulating material positioned between the conductive adhesive and the conductive flexure layer. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348578 | CREATING A SUB-MICRON PATTERN PROXIMATE A NEAR-FIELD TRANSDUCER USING IN-SLIDER WAVEGUIDE AND LASER - An air-bearing surface of a slider is coated with a photoresist having a high optical absorbance at or near an operational wavelength of the slider. Light is directed at a target wavelength through an entry of a waveguide integrated into the slider. The light exiting the waveguide forms a feature through the photoresist, the feature proximate a near-field transducer of the slider. A sub-micron pattern is formed using the feature. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348579 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A magnetic recording medium having high coercivity, in which an L1 | 2015-12-03 |
20150348580 | CAMERA ARRAY INCLUDING CAMERA MODULES - The disclosure includes a camera array comprising camera modules, the camera modules comprising a master camera that includes a processor, a memory, a sensor, a lens, a status indicator, and a switch, the switch configured to instruct each of the camera modules to initiate a start operation to start recording video data using the lens and the sensor in the other camera modules and the switch configured to instruct each of the camera modules to initiate a stop operation to stop recording, the status indicator configured to indicate a status of at least one of the camera modules. The camera modules of the camera array are configured to provide a 3× field of view overlap. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348581 | MEDIA DEVICE TURNTABLE - An assembly can include a base; and a turntable rotatably coupled to the base where the turntable can include an optical port, a mount that positions an electronic device with respect to the optical port and at least one waveguide operatively coupled to the optical port. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348582 | SPINDLE MOTOR AND DISK DRIVE APPARATUS - A motor includes a rotor hub with a first horizontal surface, a cylindrical surface, a second horizontal surface, and a projecting portion. The first horizontal surface is located above the sleeve. The cylindrical surface extends downward from the first horizontal surface. The second horizontal surface is located above a stator. The projecting portion projects downward from the second horizontal surface, and surrounds the sleeve or the holding portion. The cylindrical surface and an outer circumferential surface of the sleeve together define a tapered gap therebetween where the radial distance therebetween decreases with increasing height. The holding portion, the projecting portion, and coils are located radially in this order, and at least portions thereof are positioned to radially overlap with one another. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348583 | DISK DRIVE DEVICE - A disk drive device of the present disclosure includes a hub including a cylindrical portion with which a recording disk is to be engaged, and fixed with an annular magnet, a base including a support which supports a stator core including coils, and, a bottom which is integral with the support and which faces the coils in an axial direction, a fluid bearing mechanism supporting the hub in a manner freely rotatable relative to the base, and an annular member fixed to an inner circumference of the cylindrical portion of the hub and including a first part that is present in an area where the base and the magnet face with each other. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348584 | Coded Seeking Apparatus and Techniques for Data Retrieval - Data blocks to be stored on a disk-based data storage device (e.g., a hard disk drive, etc.) are coded together to form a plurality of linearly independent network coded blocks. The network coded blocks are then stored on the data storage device. Coded seeking may then be used to retrieve the original data blocks from the data storage device in a time-efficient manner. A read request may be sent to the data storage device requesting an innovative coded packet associated with the original data blocks. In response to the read request, the data storage device may read an innovative coded packet from the disk that is closest to current position of a read element of the device. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348585 | AUDIO EDITING AND RE-RECORDING - Instructions stored in a tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable medium executable by a computing device to record audio. The instructions include instructions to, when a first record command to record a first piece of audio is detected, generate an original audio composition, which includes a first audio file reference to a first audio file that stores a digital representation of the first piece of audio, a first waveform file reference to a first waveform file that stores a digital representation of intensity of the first piece of audio, and a first metadata. Additionally, the instructions includes instructions to, when a second record command that modifies at least a portion of the first piece of audio is detected, generate an audio fragment, which includes a second audio file reference to a second audio file that stores a digital representation of the second piece of audio, a second waveform file reference to a second waveform file that stores a digital representation of intensity of the second piece of audio, and a second metadata. More specifically, the first metadata and second metadata describe playback organization of the first audio file, the second audio file, the first waveform file, and the second waveform file, and enable recomposition of the original audio composition and the audio fragment into a composed audio composition. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348586 | LINEAR ACTUATOR WITH COIL WINDING PORTIONS HAVING OPPOSING CURRENT FLOW DIRECTIONS - A linear actuator for linearly positioning a recording head in a data storage mechanism. The disclosed linear actuator includes an electrically conductive coil having first and second parts that are both wound in the same rotary direction about an axis, and a magnet spaced from the electrically conductive coil by an air gap. Transmission of an electric current through the first part of the electrically conductive coil in a first current flow direction about the axis and through the second part of the electrically conductive coil in an opposite second current flow direction about the axis induces linear movement of one of the electrically conductive coil and magnet relative to the other of the electrically conductive coil and magnet. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348587 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WEIGHTED MEDIA CONTENT REDUCTION - A method of segmenting a set of media recordings captured by a media device includes retrieving the set of media recordings from memory and determining characteristics of the media recordings. Weights for the characteristics are applied and used in generation of one or more segments representing the set of video recordings. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348588 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO SEGMENT CROPPING - A method and apparatus for displaying a set of video segments in an ordered list for editing is presented. The system is further operative to permit a user to edit a segment of the set of segments and play back the set of segments after editing. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348589 | DIGITAL VIDEO SHOWROOM - The Digital Video Showroom is an interactive video platform used for researching, shopping for and comparing consumer products and services. Informational videos are composed of video chapters containing specific information. Each chapter can be immediately accessed without waiting for the information to appear as in a linear video. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348590 | Identifying A Locale Depicted Within A Video - A method comprising the steps of monitoring a play location within a playing of a video; selecting, from a plurality of video frame identifiers, a video frame identifier that is responsive to the play location, the selected video frame identifier being associated with information for retrieving, from a remote source, an interactive satellite map relating to a locale depicted within the video, the information further comprising magnification information; providing, during the playing of the video and responsive to the selected video frame identifier, an indication that information is available; receiving a request that is responsive to the indication; and providing, responsive to the request, an interactive satellite map relating to the locale depicted within the video, the interactive satellite map being responsive to the magnification information. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348591 | SENSOR AND MEDIA EVENT DETECTION SYSTEM - Enables detection of events using motion capture sensors and potentially other sensors electromagnetic field, temperature, humidity, wind, pressure, elevation, light, sound, or heart rate sensors to confirm and post events, differentiate similar types of motion events to determine the type of equipment or activity or quality of the event, such proficiency. Enables motion capture data and other sensor data to be utilized to curate text, images, video, sound and post the results to social networks, for example in a dedicated feed. Embodiments of the system also may post or filter to social media sites using any other filter besides location and time and the text in the social media posts for example. May use motion or other sensor data to define and event, eliminate false positive events, post true events, and/or correlate the events with social media to confirm the events, or post the events in a particular channel. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348592 | VIDEO RECORDER - Provided is a video recorder including a case body comprising a space for housing a plurality of electronic parts, the plurality of electronic parts including: an optical disk drive (ODD) holder attached to an ODD; and a hard disk drive (HDD) holder attached to an HDD; a front panel on which a front printed circuit board (PCB) is mounted and which covers a front side of the case body; and a rear panel on which a rear PCB is mounted and which covers a rear side of the case body. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348593 | Hard Drive Assemblies - The side profile of a hard drive assembly may be configured with one or more open areas to allow cooling air to pass side-to-side across the hard drive assembly through a lateral flow channel provided by a cavity defined in the base portion of the hard drive assembly. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348594 | MEMORY BANKS WITH SHARED INPUT/OUTPUT CIRCUITRY - A memory cell array includes local input/output logic configured to access memory cells in memory banks. The memory cell array includes inner memory banks disposed in either direction from the local input/output logic. The memory cell array includes outer memory banks disposed beyond the inner memory banks in either direction from the local input/output logic. The memory cell array further includes local bitlines that run in a lower metallization layer of each of the memory banks. The local bitlines of the outer memory banks connect to the local input/output logic via an upper metallization layer across regions of the inner memory banks. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348595 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY USING BI-DIRECTIONAL RESISTIVE ELEMENTS - A memory cell includes a first bi-directional resistive element having a cathode coupled to a first power rail and an anode coupled to an internal node, a second bi-directional resistive element having a cathode coupled to the internal node and an anode coupled to a second power rail, and a first transistor having a control electrode coupled to the internal node, a first current electrode coupled to a first bitline, and a second current electrode coupled to a third power rail. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348596 | SHIFT REGISTER UNIT, GATE DRIVING CIRCUIT, DRIVING METHOD AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a shift register unit, a gate driving circuit, a driving method and a display apparatus, which can simplify the design of connection lines among the shift register units and thereby is beneficial to achieve a narrow frame of the product. The shift register unit comprises an input module connected to an input terminal, a first control signal terminal and a first node; an output module connected to a first node, a second node, a second control signal terminal, an output terminal and a second level terminal; and an output control module connected to the first node, the second node, the output terminal, a first level terminal and the second level terminal. The embodiments of the present disclosure are used to manufacture displays. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348597 | CIRCUIT, METHOD OF USING THE CIRCUIT AND MEMORY MACRO INCLUDING THE CIRCUIT - A circuit includes a first latch for generating a first latched signal; and a first comparator for comparing the first latched signal and a write address, and generating a first comparator signal. The circuit includes a first logic circuit for receiving the first comparator signal and a fourth latched signal, and generating a first logic circuit output signal; and a second latch for receiving the first logic circuit output signal and generating a second latched signal. The circuit includes a third latch for generating a third latched signal; and a second comparator for comparing the third latched signal and a read address, and generating a second comparator signal. The circuit includes a second logic circuit for receiving the second comparator signal and the second latched signal, and generating a second logic circuit signal; and a fourth latch for receiving the second logic circuit signal and generating the fourth latched signal. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348598 | STATIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A static random access memory (SRAM) that includes a memory cell comprising at least two p-type pass gates. The SRAM also includes a first data line connected to the memory cell, a second data line connected to the memory cell and a voltage control unit connected to the first data line, wherein the voltage control unit is configured to control the memory cell. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348599 | PROVIDING POWER AVAILABILITY INFORMATION TO MEMORY - The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for providing power availability information to memory. A number of embodiments include a memory and a controller. The controller is configured to provide power and power availability information to the memory, and the memory is configured to determine whether to adjust its operation based, at least in part, on the power availability information. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348600 | CONFIGURABLE VOLTAGE REDUCTION FOR REGISTER FILE - A system, a memory device and a method are contemplated in which the apparatus may include a plurality of memory cells, a plurality of voltage reduction circuits, and control circuitry. The plurality of voltage reduction circuits may be configured to reduce a voltage level of a power supply coupled to the plurality of memory cells. The control circuitry may be configured to select one of the voltage reduction circuits based on one or more operating parameters. The control circuitry may be further configured to activate the selected voltage reduction circuit upon receiving a write command directed towards the memory cells. The control circuitry may be further configured to execute the write command. Upon completion of the write command, the control circuitry may be further configured to de-activate the selected one of the voltage reduction circuits. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348601 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Provided is a semiconductor device including first to fifth circuits. The first circuit includes first and second transistors. The second circuit is capable of supplying one of first and second wirings with a gradually changing potential. The third circuit is capable of supplying a predetermined potential to the other of the first and second wirings and is capable of reading data stored in the first circuit. The fourth circuit is capable of comparing first data to be written to the first circuit with second data read by the third circuit. When a comparison result obtained by the fourth circuit concludes that the first data is consistent with the second data, the fifth circuit disconnects the second circuit from the first circuit, and a potential of the one of the first and second wirings is supplied to a gate of the second transistor. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348602 | SENSE AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT - A sense amplifier circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, a first resistive device, a second resistive device, a fifth transistor and a sixth transistor. A gate of the first transistor is coupled to a drain of the fourth transistor. A drain of the first transistor is coupled to a gate of the fourth transistor. A gate of the second transistor is coupled to a drain of the third transistor. A drain of the second transistor is coupled to a gate of the third transistor. The first resistive device is coupled to a first data line and at least the drain of the first transistor or third transistor. The second resistive device is coupled to a second data line and at least the drain of the second transistor or the fourth transistor. The sources of the third and fourth transistor are coupled together. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348603 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE, A MEMORY MODULE INCLUDING THE SAME, AND A MEMORY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - A semiconductor memory device includes a ZQ calibration unit configured to generate a pull-up VOH code according to a first target VOH proportional to a power supply voltage and an output driver configured to generate a data signal having a VOH proportional to the power supply voltage based on the pull-up VOH code, wherein VOH means “output high level voltage.” | 2015-12-03 |
20150348604 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY APPARATUS AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT INCLUDING THE SAME - A semiconductor memory apparatus includes: a memory cell area including a plurality of banks each having a plurality of octet banks corresponding to a first group and a plurality of octet banks corresponding to a second group; and a control unit configured to generate a plurality of control signals to input a data signal to any one octet bank of the first group and any one octet bank of the second group with a predetermined margin. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348605 | NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE AND STORAGE DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - A nonvolatile memory device includes a data path; and a FIFO memory including a plurality of registers connected to the data path. The plurality of registers sequentially receive data from the data path in response to data path input clocks and sequentially output the received data to an input/output pad in response to data path output clocks. The data path output clocks are clocks that are generated by delaying the data path input clocks as long as a delay time. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348606 | SPIN HALL EFFECT MAGNETIC APPARATUS, METHOD AND APPLICATIONS - An ST-MRAM structure, a method for fabricating the ST-MRAM structure and a method for operating an ST-MRAM device that results from the ST-MRAM structure each utilize a spin Hall effect base layer that contacts a magnetic free layer and effects a magnetic moment switching within the magnetic free layer as a result of a lateral switching current within the spin Hall effect base layer. This resulting ST-MRAM device uses an independent sense current and sense voltage through a magnetoresistive stack that includes a pinned layer, a non-magnetic spacer layer and the magnetic free layer which contacts the spin Hall effect base layer. Desirable non-magnetic conductor materials for the spin Hall effect base layer include certain types of tantalum materials and tungsten materials that have a spin diffusion length no greater than about five times the thickness of the spin Hall effect base layer and a spin Hall angle at least about 0.05. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348607 | SELF-REFERENCED MAGNETIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY (MRAM) AND METHOD FOR WRITING TO THE MRAM CELL WITH INCREASED RELIABILITY AND REDUCED POWER CONSUMPTION - MRAM cell including a magnetic tunnel junction including a sense layer, a storage layer, a tunnel barrier layer and an antiferromagnetic layer exchange-coupling the storage layer such that the storage magnetization can be pinned when the antiferromagnetic layer is below a critical temperature and freely varied when the antiferromagnetic layer is heated at or above the critical temperature. The sense layer is arranged such that the sense magnetization can be switched from a first stable direction to another stable direction opposed to the first direction. The switched sense magnetization generates a sense stray field being large enough for switching the storage magnetization according to the switched sense magnetization, when the magnetic tunnel junction is heated at the writing temperature. The disclosure also relates to a method for writing to the MRAM cell with increased reliability and reduced power consumption. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348608 | MEMORY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC COMPONENT, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Provided is a memory device having a plurality of memory cells and a refresh circuit. Each of the memory cells is configured to retain multiple data as a potential of a node connected to a gate of a first transistor, one of a source and a drain of a second transistor, and one of electrodes of a capacitor. The refresh circuit is configured to refresh the memory cells. That is, the refresh circuit is configured to determine an interval between refresh operations, estimate a change of the potential of the node due to the leakage of the charge, and provide a refresh potential to the memory cells, where the refresh potential is a sum of the potential read from the node and the potential lost due to the charge leakage. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348609 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - To provide a novel semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a circuit including a memory cell including a transistor using an oxide semiconductor; and a refresh timing determination unit including a capacitor, a transistor using an oxide semiconductor, and a comparator circuit. The potential of a floating node in the refresh timing determination unit is directly or indirectly input to the comparator circuit and compared with a reference potential. When the potential of the floating node becomes a certain value, a power switch operating in accordance with an output of the comparator circuit is turned on, power is supplied to the circuit including the memory cell, and then the reference potential is also changed. After that, refresh operation of the memory cell is performed. When the refresh operation is finished, the power switch is turned off. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348610 | MEMORY DEVICE, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPLIANCE INCLUDING THE SAME - A memory device capable of optimizing a refresh cycle is provided. The memory device includes a monitor circuit capable of generating a signal serving as a trigger for a refresh operation. The monitor circuit includes a transistor and a capacitor. The monitor circuit has a function of sensing that a potential retained in the capacitor is lower than a reference potential, a function of generating a first signal and a second signal on the basis of the sensing result, and a function of turning on the transistor in response to the second signal and resetting the potential retained in the capacitor to an initialization state. It is possible to start refresh of a memory cell in response to the first signal. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348611 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES AND SEMICONDUCTOR SYSTEMS INCLUDING THE SAME - A semiconductor memory device may include a power control signal generator and a sense amplifier circuit. The power control signal generator may generate a first power control signal, the first power control signal having an enablement period that may be controlled in response to a temperature signal having a cycle time. The cycle time may be controlled according to a mode signal and an internal temperature. The sense amplifier circuit may generate a first power signal driven to have a first drive voltage in response to the first power control signal. In addition, the sense amplifier circuit may sense and amplify a level of a bit line using the first power signal as a power supply voltage. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348612 | POWER-MANAGEMENT FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS - An integrated circuit includes a physical layer interface having a control timing domain and a data timing domain, and circuits that enable the control timing domain during a change in power conservation mode in response to a first event, and that enable the data timing domain in response to a second event. The control timing domain can include interface circuits coupled to a command and address path, and the data timing domain can include interface circuits coupled to a data path. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348613 | Multi-Die DRAM Banks Arrangement and Wiring - The various embodiments described herein include memory dies and methods for memory die communications. In one aspect, a method is performed at a first memory die with a plurality of memory banks and a plurality of contacts. The method includes: (1) coupling a first memory bank of the plurality of memory banks to a second memory die via the plurality of contacts; (2) transmitting data between the first memory bank and the second memory die via the plurality of contacts; and (3) receiving a control signal to couple a second memory bank of the plurality of memory banks to the second memory die. The method further includes, in response to receiving the control signal, coupling the second memory bank to the second memory die via the plurality of contacts; and transmitting data between the second memory bank and the second memory die via the plurality of contacts. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348614 | SENSE AMP ACTIVATION ACCORDING TO WORD LINE COMMON POINT - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with controlling when a sense amplifier is activated are described. In one embodiment, a device includes detection logic connected to a plurality of word lines in a memory and configured to generate a signal upon detecting one of the plurality of word lines being activated. The device includes a sense amplifier configured to read a value from a bit line associated with an activated word line of the plurality of word lines upon receiving the signal. | 2015-12-03 |
20150348615 | Array Power Supply-Based Screening of Static Random Access Memory Cells for Bias Temperature Instability - A method of screening complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor CMOS integrated circuits, such as integrated circuits including CMOS static random access memory (SRAM) cells, for transistors susceptible to transistor characteristic shifts over operating time. For the example of SRAM cells formed of cross-coupled CMOS inverters, separate ground voltage levels can be applied to the source nodes of the driver transistors, or separate power supply voltage levels can be applied to the source nodes of the load transistors (or both). Asymmetric bias voltages applied to the transistors in this manner will reduce the transistor drive current, and can thus mimic the effects of bias temperature instability (BTI). Cells that are vulnerable to threshold voltage shift over time can thus be identified. | 2015-12-03 |