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20100023323 | Multi-Reference LPC Filter Quantization and Inverse Quantization Device and Method - A multi-reference quantization device and method for quantizing an input LPC filter, comprises a plurality of differential quantizers using respective, different references, and a selector of a reference amongst the different references of the differential quantizers using a reference selection criterion. The input LPC filter is differentially quantized by the differential quantizer using the selected reference. A device and method for inverse quantizing a multi-reference differentially quantized LPC filter extracted from a bitstream, comprises an extractor from the bitstream of information about a reference amongst a plurality of possible references used for quantizing the multi-reference differentially quantized LPC filter, and a differential inverse quantizer using the reference corresponding to the extracted reference information to inverse quantize the multi-reference differentially quantized LPC filter. | 01-28-2010 |
20100023324 | Device and Method for Quanitizing and Inverse Quanitizing LPC Filters in a Super-Frame - A device and a method for quantizing, in a super-frame including a sequence of frames, LPC filters calculated during the frames of the sequence. The LPC filter quantizing device and method comprises: an absolute quantizer for first quantizing one of the LPC filters using absolute quantization; and at least one quantizer of the other LPC filters using a quantization mode selected from the group consisting of absolute quantization and differential quantization relative to at least one previously quantized filter amongst the LPC filters. For inverse quantizing, at least the first quantized LPC filter is received and an inverse quantizer inverse quantizes the first quantized LPC filter using absolute inverse quantization. If any quantized LPC filter other than the first quantized LPC filter is received, an inverse quantizer inverse quantizes this quantized LPC filter using one of absolute inverse quantization and differential inverse quantization relative to at least one previously received quantized LPC filter. | 01-28-2010 |
20100023325 | Variable Bit Rate LPC Filter Quantizing and Inverse Quantizing Device and Method - A device and a method for quantizing a LPC filter in the form of an input vector in a quantization domain, comprises a calculator of a first-stage approximation of the input vector, a subtractor of the first-stage approximation from the input vector to produce a residual vector, a calculator of a weighting function from the first-stage approximation, a warper of the residual vector with the weighting function, and a quantizer of the weighted residual vector to supply a quantized weighted residual vector. A device and a method for inverse quantizing of a LPC filter, comprises means for receiving coded indices representative of a first-stage approximation of a vector representative of the LPC filter in a quantization domain and of a quantized weighted residual version of the vector, a calculator of an inverse weighting function from the first-stage approximation, an inverse quantizer of the quantized weighted residual version of the vector to produce a weighted residual vector, a multiplier of the weighted residual vector by the inverse weighting function to produce a residual vector, and an adder of the first-stage approximation with the residual vector to produce the vector representative of the LPC filter in the quantization domain. | 01-28-2010 |
20110145003 | Simultaneous Time-Domain and Frequency-Domain Noise Shaping for TDAC Transforms - A frequency-domain noise shaping method and device interpolates a spectral shape and a time-domain envelope of a quantization noise in a windowed and transform-coded audio signal. In the method and device, transform coefficients of the windowed and transform-coded audio signal are split into a plurality of spectral bands. For each spectral band, a first gain representing a spectral shape of the quantization noise at a first transition between a first time window and a second time window is calculated, a second gain representing a spectral shape of the quantization noise at a second transition between the second time window and a third time window is calculated, and the transform coefficients of the second time window are filtered based on the first and second gains, to interpolate between the first and second transitions the spectral shape and the time-domain envelope of the quantization noise. | 06-16-2011 |
20110153333 | Forward Time-Domain Aliasing Cancellation with Application in Weighted or Original Signal Domain - The present invention relates to methods and devices for forward time-domain aliasing cancellation in a coded signal transmitted from a coder to a decoder. Information related to correction of the time-domain aliasing in the coded signal is calculated at the coder and added in a bitstream sent from the coder to the decoder. The decoder receives the bitstream and cancels the time-domain aliasing in the coded signal in response to the information comprised in the bitstream. The information may be representative of a difference between a frame of audio signal to be encoded in a first coding mode and a decoded signal from the frame including time-domain aliasing effects. | 06-23-2011 |
20110173004 | Device and Method for Noise Shaping in a Multilayer Embedded Codec Interoperable with the ITU-T G.711 Standard - A device and method for shaping noise during encoding of an input sound signal comprise pre-emphasizing the input signal or a decoded signal from a given sound signal codec to produce a pre-emphasized signal, computing a filter transfer function based on the pre-emphasized signal, and shaping the noise by filtering the noise through the transfer function to produce a shaped noise signal, wherein the noise shaping comprises producing a noise feedback. A device and method for noise shaping in a multilayer codec, including at least Layer 1 and 2, comprise: at an encoder, producing an encoded sound signal in Layer 1 including Layer 1 noise shaping, and producing a Layer 2 enhancement signal; at a decoder, decoding the Layer 1 encoded sound signal to produce a synthesis signal, decoding the enhancement signal, computing a filter transfer function based on the synthesis signal, filtering the enhancement signal through the transfer function to produce a Layer 2 filtered enhancement signal, and adding the filtered enhancement signal to the synthesis signal to produce an output signal including contributions from Layer 1 and 2. | 07-14-2011 |
20110173010 | Audio Encoder and Decoder for Encoding and Decoding Audio Samples - An audio encoder for encoding audio samples has a first time domain aliasing introducing encoder configured to decode audio samples in a first encoding domain and having a first framing rule, a start window and a stop window. The audio encoder further has a second encoder configured to encode samples in a second encoding domain and having a predetermined frame size number of audio samples, and a coding warm-up period number of audio samples, the second encoder having a different second framing rule, a frame of the second encoder being an encoded representation of a number of successive audio samples that is equal to the predetermined frame size number of audio samples. The audio encoder further has a controller switching from the first to the second encoder and for modifying the second framing rule or for modifying the start or the stop window of the first encoder. | 07-14-2011 |
20110173011 | Audio Encoder and Decoder for Encoding and Decoding Frames of a Sampled Audio Signal - An audio encoder adapted for encoding frames of a sampled audio signal to obtain encoded frames, wherein a frame includes a number of time domain audio samples. The audio encoder includes a predictive coding analysis stage for determining information on coefficients of a synthesis filter and a prediction domain frame based on a frame of audio samples. The audio encoder further includes a time-aliasing introducing transformer for transforming overlapping prediction domain frames to the frequency domain to obtain prediction domain frame spectra, wherein the time-aliasing introducing transformer is adapted for transforming the overlapping prediction domain frames in a critically-sampled way. Moreover, the audio encoder includes a redundancy reducing encoder for encoding the prediction domain frame spectra to obtain the encoded frames based on the coefficients and the encoded prediction domain frame spectra. | 07-14-2011 |
20110202354 | Low Bitrate Audio Encoding/Decoding Scheme Having Cascaded Switches - An audio encoder has a first information sink oriented encoding branch such as a spectral domain encoding branch, a second information source or SNR oriented encoding branch such as an LPC-domain encoding branch, and a switch for switching between the first encoding branch and the second encoding branch, wherein the second encoding branch has a converter into a specific domain different from the spectral domain such as an LPC analysis stage generating an excitation signal, and wherein the second encoding branch furthermore has a specific domain coding branch such as LPC domain processing branch, and a specific spectral domain coding branch such as LPC spectral domain processing branch, and an additional switch for switching between the specific domain coding branch and the specific spectral domain coding branch. An audio decoder has a first domain decoder such as a spectral domain decoding branch, a second domain decoder such as an LPC domain decoding branch for decoding a signal such as an excitation signal in the second domain, and a third domain decoder such as an LPC-spectral decoder branch and two cascaded switches for switching between the decoders. | 08-18-2011 |
20110202355 | Audio Encoding/Decoding Scheme Having a Switchable Bypass - An apparatus for encoding includes a first domain converter, a switchable bypass, a second domain converter, a first processor and a second processor to obtain an encoded audio signal having different signal portions represented by coded data in different domains, which have been coded by different coding algorithms. Corresponding decoding stages in the decoder together with a bypass for bypassing a domain converter allow the generation of a decoded audio signal with high quality and low bit rate. | 08-18-2011 |
20120022880 | FORWARD TIME-DOMAIN ALIASING CANCELLATION USING LINEAR-PREDICTIVE FILTERING - In a coder, a method for producing forward aliasing cancellation (FAC) parameters for cancelling time-domain aliasing caused to a coded audio signal in a first transform-coded frame by a transition between the first transform-coded frame using a first coding mode with overlapping window and a second frame using a second coding mode with non-overlapping window, comprising: calculating a FAC target representative of a difference between the audio signal of the first frame prior to coding and a synthesis of the coded audio signal of the first transform-coded frame; and weighting the FAC target to produce the FAC parameters. In a decoder, weighted forward aliasing cancellation (FAC) parameters are received and inverse weighted to produce a FAC synthesis. Upon synthesis of the coded audio signal in the first frame, the time-domain aliasing is cancelled from the audio signal synthesis using the FAC synthesis. | 01-26-2012 |
20120089389 | Flexible and Scalable Combined Innovation Codebook for Use in CELP Coder and Decoder - In a CELP coder, a combined innovation codebook coding device comprises a pre-quantizer of a first, adaptive-codebook excitation residual, and a CELP innovation-codebook search module responsive to a second excitation residual produced from the first, adaptive-codebook excitation residual. In a CELP decoder, a combined innovation codebook comprises a de-quantizer of pre-quantized coding parameters into a first excitation contribution, and a CELP innovation-codebook structure responsive to CELP innovation-codebook parameters to produce a second excitation contribution. | 04-12-2012 |
20120271644 | AUDIO SIGNAL ENCODER, AUDIO SIGNAL DECODER, METHOD FOR ENCODING OR DECODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL USING AN ALIASING-CANCELLATION - An audio signal decoder includes a transform domain path configured to obtain a time-domain representation of a portion of an audio content on the basis of a first set of spectral coefficients, a representation of an aliasing-cancellation stimulus signal and a plurality of linear-prediction-domain parameters. The transform domain path applies a spectrum shaping to the first set of spectral coefficients to obtain a spectrally-shaped version thereof. The transform domain path obtains a time-domain representation of the audio content on the basis of the spectrally-shaped version of the first set of spectral coefficients. The transform domain path includes an aliasing-cancellation stimulus filter to filter the aliasing-cancellation stimulus signal in dependence on at least a subset of the linear-prediction-domain parameters. The transform domain path also includes a combiner configured to combine the time-domain representation of the audio content with an aliasing-cancellation synthesis signal to obtain an aliasing reduced time-domain signal. | 10-25-2012 |
20130066640 | AUDIO ENCODING/DECODING SCHEME HAVING A SWITCHABLE BYPASS - An apparatus for encoding includes a first domain converter, a switchable bypass, a second domain converter, a first processor and a second processor to obtain an encoded audio signal having different signal portions represented by coded data in different domains, which have been coded by different coding algorithms. Corresponding decoding stages in the decoder together with a bypass for bypassing a domain converter allow the generation of a decoded audio signal with high quality and low bit rate. | 03-14-2013 |
20130226570 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AN AUDIO SIGNAL AND FOR PROVIDING A HIGHER TEMPORAL GRANULARITY FOR A COMBINED UNIFIED SPEECH AND AUDIO CODEC (USAC) - An apparatus for processing an audio signal is provided. The apparatus has a signal processor and a configurator. The configurator is adapted to configure the signal processor based on configuration information such that a configurable upsampling factor is equal to a first upsampling value when a first ratio of the second configurable number of samples to a first configurable number of samples has a first ratio value. Moreover, the configurator is adapted to configure the signal processor such that the configurable upsampling factor is equal to a different second upsampling value, when a different second ratio of the second configurable number of samples to the first configurable number of samples has a different second ratio value. The first or the second ratio value is not an integer value. | 08-29-2013 |
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20100051187 | Method and Apparatus for Labelling - In a method and apparatus for applying a label having an adherent coating to a package having a front and sides to stick the label to the package, the label and the package are tacked together with a predetermined relative positioning. A conformable tamp block is brought against the package to press the label against and around the package sides. The block has articulated elements which enable conformance of one element against the front of the package and articulation and constrained deformation of a second element to press the label around the sides of the package. The label is of stiff material, both to enable independent suspension of the label ready for labelling and to faciliate separation of labels from an adhering release liner. | 03-04-2010 |
20100264158 | AUTOMATED DISPENSARY APPARATUS FOR DISPENSING PILLS - A pill dispensing apparatus has a pill delivery station, a pill receiving station, and a pill singulator. The singulator receives and supports pills delivered from the delivery station and is spun to drive pills supported on the tray around the tray axis. A wiper guide guides the driven pills towards the pill receiving station and at the same time singulates the pills by establish spacing between them. The singulated pills are then deflected to a pill drop zone where they drop into a container. | 10-21-2010 |
20110014018 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PICKING A PACKAGE FROM A DISPENSING SYSTEM - A storage apparatus has an rack of storage bins, a a pick head drive unit to drive a pick head to an access location for a selected bin, and a platform drive unit to drive a platform forming part of the pick head into and out of the rack to pick or load packages at a selected bin of the rack. The platform has a cam formation which, in the course of entry of the platform into the rack acting to lift a desired package until the platform reaches a clearance position at which the cam formation clears the package. Subsequent withdrawal of the platform from the rack acts to drag the desired package from the selected bin. | 01-20-2011 |
20110036856 | RACK ARRANGEMENT FOR KIOSK DISPENSER - A rack assembly of storage bins has a back wall, series of vertical slots in the back wall, partition members having tongues for fixing the partition member to the back wall. Extending between the partition members are bin floors, the edges of the floor members located in slots in the partition members. The spacing of the slots in the back wall and of the slots in the partition members is selected to permit a range of spacings of horizontally adjacent partition members and a range of spacings of vertically adjacent floor members. By suitable selection of the spacings, a large variety of bin sizes can be obtained. | 02-17-2011 |
20110229296 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORAGE AND DISPENSING OF ITEMS - A method and apparatus for picking items from a stack of items stored in one of a number of bins in a kiosk dispensary. Each bin has a bin identifier identifying its position in the rack and each bin accommodates one or more items with multiple items in a bin arranged in a stack. Each item in the stack has an order identifier corresponding to its position in the stack. An item to be picked is identified by its bin identifier and order identifier. Items between the item to be picked and an access position of the stack are removed from the stack and parked until the item to be picked is in the access position whereupon it is removed from the bin and an index of order identifiers and bin identifiers is updated to match the repositioning of the items. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231010 | Pill counting and control system for a pill transport apparatus - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for dispensing varying quantities of pills quickly, conveniently, securely, accurately operable to incorporate one or more sensors and at least two data sets for the purpose of monitoring the activity of transferring pills from a pill singulation to a bottle. For example, a counting means may be operable, in real-time or near-real time, to count the pills transferred to a bottle. A sensor array data-acquisition means may be utilized to facilitate the collection and monitoring of data relating to transfer of pills to a bottle. The counting means and sensor array data-acquisition means may be applied in a cooperative manner so as to facilitate examinations for the purpose of identifying pill events, such as overlapping pill dispensing, that have the potential to invalidate the counting means results. | 09-22-2011 |
20120004770 | VENDING MACHINE FOR STORAGE, LABELING AND DISPENSING OF A CONTAINER - A vending machine, in communication with a remote station, delivers a labeled container to a user from storage holding containers of different sizes and shapes and containing different products such as medicaments. A control system is operable to select a specific unlabeled container from among the other containers in storage, and to move the selected unlabeled container to a labeling module where a label is applied after the position of the label and/or the selected unlabeled container are/is adjusted so as to result in the label being applied at a desired position and angular orientation with respect to the selected unlabeled container. The control system is further operable to move the labeled container to a delivery zone accessible to the user. | 01-05-2012 |
20120061338 | Method of configuring rack storage and a rack assembly so configured - A method of configuring storage in a dispensing kiosk and an assembly of rack modules forming a rack, the assembly selected using the configuration method. The selection uses one or more rack modules from a set of rack modules, each having an array of bins having a range of bin sizes and a range of quantities of bins of each size, so as to present a predetermined bin size distribution. The bin size distribution of one rack module of the set differs from the bin size distribution of the other rack modules of the set so that different combinations of members of the set can be assembled to maximize efficiency of stocking of items in the rack. A target inventory of items for stocking the dispensing kiosk is picked, the inventory having a range of item sizes and a range of quantities of each item size. Combinations of the rack modules are then investigated as candidates for mounting to form the rack, and the rack module combination is selected that, according to stocking rules, will maximize efficiency of stocking of the target inventory in the rack. | 03-15-2012 |
20130140257 | RACK ARRANGEMENT FOR KIOSK DISPENSER - A rack assembly of storage bins has a back wall, series of vertical slots in the back wall, partition members having tongues for fixing the partition member to the back wall. Extending between the partition members are bin floors, the edges of the floor members located in slots in the partition members. The spacing of the slots in the back wall and of the slots in the partition members is selected to permit a range of spacings of horizontally adjacent partition members and a range of spacings of vertically adjacent floor members. By suitable selection of the spacings, a large variety of bin sizes can be obtained. | 06-06-2013 |
20130204432 | PILL COUNTING AND CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A PILL TRANSPORT APPARATUS - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for dispensing varying quantities of pills quickly, conveniently, securely, accurately operable to incorporate one or more sensors and at least two data sets for the purpose of monitoring the activity of transferring pills from a pill singulation to a bottle. For example, a counting means may be operable, in real-time or near-real time, to count the pills transferred to a bottle. A sensor array data-acquisition means may be utilized to facilitate the collection and monitoring of data relating to transfer of pills to a bottle. The counting means and sensor array data-acquisition means may be applied in a cooperative manner so as to facilitate examinations for the purpose of identifying pill events, such as overlapping pill dispensing, that have the potential to invalidate the counting means results. | 08-08-2013 |
20140154044 | Method For Picking A Package - A storage apparatus has an rack of storage bins, a pick head drive unit to drive a pick head to an access location for a selected bin, and a platform drive unit to drive a platform forming part of the pick head into and out of the rack to pick or load packages at a selected bin of the rack. The platform has a cam formation which, in the course of entry of the platform into the rack acting to lift a desired package until the platform reaches a clearance position at which the cam formation clears the package. Subsequent withdrawal of the platform from the rack acts to drag the desired package from the selected bin. | 06-05-2014 |
20150019008 | VENDING MACHINE CONTAINER LABELING AND DISPENSING METHOD - A vending machine, in communication with a remote station, delivers a labeled container to a user from storage holding containers of different sizes and shapes and containing different products such as medicaments. A control system is operable to select a specific unlabeled container from among the other containers in storage, and to move the selected unlabeled container to a labeling module where a label is applied after the position of the label and/or the selected unlabeled container are/is adjusted so as to result in the label being applied at a desired position and angular orientation with respect to the selected unlabeled container. The control system is further operable to move the labeled container to a delivery zone accessible to the user. | 01-15-2015 |
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20100268553 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONICALLY MANAGING MEDICAL DATA FILES IN ORDER TO FACILITATE GENETIC RESEARCH - A network server arrangement including a processor with a machine readable storage encoded with software for execution by the processor. The network server arrangement is responsive to requests to access a medical record of an individual and generates summary medical record data including summary information having a plurality of data elements associated with the individual, at least one of the data elements conveying medical information about the individual, and a pointers component including at least one pointer pointing to a network location containing importable medical information in connection with the individual that is not contained in the summary information component. The pointer includes a machine readable address part for processing by the client, allowing the client to import the medical information from the network location, and a label part for displaying to a user the nature of the medical information residing at the network location. | 10-21-2010 |
20110276551 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONICALLY MANAGING MEDICAL DATA FILES - A network server arrangement including a processor with a machine readable storage encoded with software for execution by the processor. The network server arrangement is responsive to requests to access a medical record of an individual and generates summary medical record data including summary information having a plurality of data elements associated with the individual, at least one of the data elements conveying medical information about the individual, and a pointers component including at least one pointer pointing to a network location containing importable medical information in connection with the individual that is not contained in the summary information component. The pointer includes a machine readable address part for processing by the client, allowing the client to import the medical information from the network location, and a label part for displaying to a user the nature of the medical information residing at the network location. | 11-10-2011 |
20130024210 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONICALLY MANAGING MEDICAL DATA FILES - A network server arrangement including a processor with a machine readable storage encoded with software for execution by the processor. The network server arrangement is responsive to requests to access a medical record of an individual and generates summary medical record data including summary information having a plurality of data elements associated with the individual, at least one of the data elements conveying medical information about the individual, and a pointers component including at least one pointer pointing to a network location containing importable medical information in connection with the individual that is not contained in the summary information component. The pointer includes a machine readable address part for processing by the client, allowing the client to import the medical information from the network location, and a label part for displaying to a user the nature of the medical information residing at the network location. | 01-24-2013 |
20140108051 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONICALLY MANAGING MEDICAL DATA FILES - A network server arrangement including a processor with a machine readable storage encoded with software for execution by the processor. The network server arrangement is responsive to requests to access a medical record of an individual and generates summary medical record data including summary information having a plurality of data elements associated with the individual, at least one of the data elements conveying medical information about the individual, and a pointers component including at least one pointer pointing to a network location containing importable medical information in connection with the individual that is not contained in the summary information component. The pointer includes a machine readable address part for processing by the client, allowing the client to import the medical information from the network location, and a label part for displaying to a user the nature of the medical information residing at the network location. | 04-17-2014 |