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| 20090179632 | Magnetic Resolver - A magnetic resolver includes: a plurality of columnar cores disposed on an annular plate; a coil portion disposed around each of the columnar cores; and an annular rotor having a sinusoidal profile that rotates in a plane parallel to the top faces of the columnar cores around a rotation axis that passes through the center of the annular plate. The coil portion may be formed of a patterned coil formed on an annular substrate that has a plurality of through holes made therein through which the plurality of cores are passed, the patterned coil being formed around the through hole. | 07-16-2009 |
| 20090237189 | STOP LAMP SWITCH - A stop lamp switch including: an enclosure; a reed switch disposed in the enclosure; a magnet, disposed in the enclosure, a magnetic field of which opens and closes the contacts of the reed switch; an actuating shaft that is movable along an axial direction of the enclosure; a blocking member provided on the actuating shaft, that moves with the movement of the actuating shaft, between a first position, at which the magnetic field from the magnet directed toward the first reed switch is blocked, and a second position, at which the blocking of the magnetic field from the magnet directed toward the first reed switch is no longer blocked. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20100156401 | MAGNETIC RESOLVER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A magnetic resolver that includes: an annular stator portion having a protruding core; an annular coil substrate on which a coil portion, which is disposed around the protruding core, is formed as a patterned thin-film coil; and a rotor portion disposed to face the stator portion from above, with the coil substrate interposed therebetween, wherein the amount of overlap between a top face of the protruding core and the rotor portion, when viewed from above, varies as a rotation angle of the rotor portion relative to the stator portion varies. The annular coil substrate may be constituted of substrate pieces that have shapes obtained by dividing the annular shape, which facilitates increasing the yield rate in the number of substrate pieces that can be produced from a substrate material. | 06-24-2010 |
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| 20080199152 | Sound processing apparatus, sound processing method and program - A sound processing apparatus includes a sound determination portion operable to determine whether an input sound includes a first sound emitted from a particular source based on location information of the source, a sound separation portion operable to separate the input sound into the first sound and a second sound emitted from a source different from the particular source if the sound determination portion determines that the input sound includes the first sound, and a sound mixing portion operable to mix the first sound and the second sound separated by the sound separation portion at a prescribed volume ratio. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20090089052 | Signal Recording and Reproducing Apparatus and Method - A signal recording and reproducing apparatus includes an encoder encoding an input signal to produce a first group of encoded data, and a second group of encoded data used for reproducing a signal of higher quality than a signal resulting from decoding of the first group of encoded data, a recording unit recording record-data, including the first group and the second group of encoded data, into a recording medium, a reproducing unit reproducing the record-data from the recording medium, a decoder decoding at least the first group of encoded data out of the record-data from the reproducing unit, and a controller controlling an operation of each part of the recording and reproducing apparatus, and the controller performs control so as to cause the recording unit to erase the second group of encoded data according to a command to increase the amount of free storage capacity of the recording medium. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20100111290 | Call Voice Processing Apparatus, Call Voice Processing Method and Program - There is provided a call voice processing apparatus including an input correction unit that corrects characteristics of a first input sound input from a first input apparatus to characteristics of a second input sound input from a second input apparatus, a sound separation unit that separates the second input sound into a plurality of sounds, a sound type estimation unit that estimates sound types of the plurality of sounds separated by the sound separation unit, a mixing ratio calculation unit that calculates a mixing ratio of each sound in accordance with the sound type estimated by the sound type estimation unit, a sound mixing unit that mixes the plurality of sounds separated by the sound separation unit in the mixing ratio calculated by the mixing ratio calculation unit, and an extraction unit that extracts a specific sound from the first input sound corrected by the input correction unit. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100111313 | Sound Processing Apparatus, Sound Processing Method and Program - There is provided a sound processing apparatus including a sound separation unit that separates an input sound into a plurality of sounds caused by a plurality of sound sources, a sound type estimation unit that estimates sound types of the plurality of sounds separated by the sound separation unit, a mixing ratio calculation unit that calculates a mixing ratio of each sound in accordance with the sound type estimated by the sound type estimation unit, and a sound mixing unit that mixes the plurality of sounds separated by the sound separation unit in the mixing ratio calculated by the mixing ratio calculation unit. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20110293176 | DETECTION APPARATUS, DETECTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An apparatus for detecting a cut change based on a similarity between a first image and a second image, includes a unit for generating one of a luminance histogram and a color histogram of each of the first image and the second image, a unit for generating a spatial correlation image representing a correlation between spatial layouts of the first image and the second image, a unit for calculating a histogram similarity representing a similarity between the histogram of the first image and the histogram of the second image, a unit for calculating a spatial correlation image similarity representing a similarity between the spatial correlation image of the first image and the spatial correlation image of the second image, and a unit for determining whether a border between the first image and the second image is a cut change based on the histogram similarity and the spatial correlation image similarity. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20120150054 | RESPIRATORY CONDITION ANALYSIS APPARATUS, RESPIRATORY CONDITION DISPLAY APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD THEREIN, AND PROGRAM - A respiratory condition analysis apparatus includes a respiratory signal acquisition section configured to acquire a time-series respiratory signal including respiratory sound of a living body, a respiratory segment identification section configured to identify a respiratory segment that is a time segment including the respiratory sound in the respiratory signal, a feature value generation section configured to generate a predetermined feature value of the respiratory signal for the identified respiratory segment, and a respiratory abnormality degree generation section configured to generate a degree of abnormality of the respiratory sound included in the respiratory signal on the basis of the feature value. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120157857 | RESPIRATORY SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, RESPIRATORY SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A respiratory signal processing apparatus includes a pulse-based component detection unit configured to detect a pulse-based component from a first signal acquired from a living being, and a pulse-based component removal unit configured to remove the detected pulse-based component from a second signal acquired from the living being, the second signal including respiratory sounds. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120203719 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An audio signal processing device includes: a time-frequency analysis unit performing a time-frequency analysis of an input audio signal; a base factorization unit inputting learning data that is generated in advance based on an audio signal for learning including a sound from a plurality of sound sources and is made with base frequencies corresponding to the respective sound sources and carrying out base factorization of a time-frequency analysis result to the input audio signal inputted from the time-frequency analysis unit by applying a total base frequency that has the base frequencies corresponding to the respective sound sources combined therein to generate a base activity to the input audio signal; and a command identification unit inputting the base activity from the base factorization unit to carry out command identification by performing an identification process of the inputted base activity. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20130182857 | SOUND PROCESSING APPARATUS, SOUND PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A sound processing apparatus includes a sound determination portion operable to determine whether an input sound includes a first sound emitted from a particular source based on location information of the source, a sound separation portion operable to separate the input sound into the first sound and a second sound emitted from a source different from the particular source if the sound determination portion determines that the input sound includes the first sound, and a sound mixing portion operable to mix the first sound and the second sound separated by the sound separation portion at a prescribed volume ratio. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130255473 | TONAL COMPONENT DETECTION METHOD, TONAL COMPONENT DETECTION APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a tonal component detection method including performing a time-frequency transformation on an input time signal to obtain a time-frequency distribution, detecting a peak in a frequency direction at a time frame of the time-frequency distribution, fitting a tone model in a neighboring region of the detected peak, and obtaining a score indicating tonal component likeness of the detected peak based on a result obtained by the fitting. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20140140519 | SOUND PROCESSING DEVICE, SOUND PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a sound processing device including an input signal processing unit configured to calculate a first acoustic feature quantity indicating a likelihood being of a sinusoidal wave of a signal in each time frequency domain and a second acoustic feature quantity different from the first acoustic feature quantity based on an input signal of content to be identified, a reference signal processing unit configured to calculate the first acoustic feature quantity and the second acoustic feature quantity based on a reference signal of content prepared in advance, and a matching processing unit configured to calculate a similarity between the input signal and the reference signal based on the first and second acoustic feature quantities of the input signal and the first and second acoustic feature quantities of the reference signal. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140321680 | SOUND FIELD CONTROL DEVICE, SOUND FIELD CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, SOUND CONTROL SYSTEM AND SERVER - A sound field control device according to the present disclosure includes a display target object position information acquisition unit for acquiring position information of a viewer from information obtained by imaging, and a virtual sound source position control unit for controlling a virtual sound source position on the basis of the position information. Thus, it becomes possible to optimally adjust virtual sound source reproduction in consideration of size or orientation of a head. Accordingly, it becomes possible to provide a sound field without unnatural feeling to viewers. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20150043737 | SOUND DETECTING APPARATUS, SOUND DETECTING METHOD, SOUND FEATURE VALUE DETECTING APPARATUS, SOUND FEATURE VALUE DETECTING METHOD, SOUND SECTION DETECTING APPARATUS, SOUND SECTION DETECTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a sound detecting apparatus including: a feature value extracting unit which extracts a feature value per every predetermined time from an input time signal; a feature value maintaining unit which maintains a feature value sequence of a predetermined number of detection target sound items; and a comparison unit which respectively compares a feature value sequence extracted by the feature value extracting unit with a feature value sequence of the maintained predetermined number of detecting target sound items and obtains detection results of the predetermined number of detection target sound items every time the feature value extracting unit newly extracts a feature value, wherein the feature value extracting unit includes a time frequency transform unit and a likelihood distribution detecting unit, smooths the obtained likelihood distribution in frequency and time directions, and extracts a feature value per the predetermined time. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150046103 | OPERATIONAL STATE ESTIMATING APPARATUS FOR ELECTRICAL DEVICE, OPERATIONAL STATE ESTIMATING METHOD FOR ELECTRICAL DEVICE, PROGRAM, FEATURE VECTOR REGISTERING APPARATUS FOR ELECTRICAL DEVICE, FEATURE VECTOR REGISTERING METHOD FOR ELECTRICAL DEVICE, SERVER DEVICE, AND OPERATIONAL STATE ESTIMATING SYSTEM FOR ELECTRICAL DEVICE - Estimating operational states of a plurality of electrical devices connected to an electrical power line, that is, an electricity usage condition is appropriately carried out. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150117656 | SAMPLING POINT ADJUSTMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided a sampling point adjustment apparatus including: a frequency conversion unit that converts a first signal and a second signal into a first narrow band signal and a second narrow band signal through frequency conversion; a central position determination unit that determines a central position of a window of the frequency conversion for the second signal based on an estimated value of a sampling interval offset between the first narrow band signal and the second narrow band signal; and a phase control unit that controls a phase of the second narrow band signal based on the estimated value. | 04-30-2015 |
