23rd week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 28 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100142518 | Hierarchical Data Collection Network Supporting Packetized Voice Communications Among Wireless Terminals and Telephones - A packet-based, hierarchical communication system, arranged in a spanning tree configuration, is described in which wired and wireless communication networks exhibiting substantially different characteristics are employed in an overall scheme to link portable or mobile computing devices. The network accommodates real time voice transmission both through dedicated, scheduled bandwidth and through a packet-based routing within the confines and constraints of a data network. Conversion and call processing circuitry is also disclosed which enables access devices and personal computers to adapt voice information between analog voice stream and digital voice packet formats as proves necessary. Routing pathways include wireless spanning tree networks, wide area networks, telephone switching networks, internet, etc., in a manner virtually transparent to the user. A voice session and associate call setup simulates that of conventional telephone switching network, providing well-understood functionality common to any mobile, remote or stationary terminal, phone, computer, etc. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142519 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AN ETHERNET IP TELEPHONE CHIP - Methods and systems for an Ethernet IP phone chip are provided. In this regard, data may be received via a first port of an Ethernet switch in the Ethernet IP phone chip, and the port(s) via which the data is forwarded may be determined based on characteristics of the data. The Ethernet switch may receive data from a network via a first port, and communicate the received data to one or more on-chip interfaces via a second port. The on-chip interfaces may process the received data and may communicate video contained in the data to an off-chip video processing device. The Ethernet IP phone chip may receive video data from an off-chip video processing device via one or more on-chip interfaces, packetize the video data into one or more Ethernet packets; and communicate the packet(s) onto a network link via the Ethernet switch. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142520 | Mobile Communication Method and System Thereof - A mobile communication method for a mobile originating (MO) side communicating with a mobile terminating (MT) side is disclosed. A first media gateway (MGW) is included in the communication network serving the MO side, and a second MGW is included in the communication network serving the MT side. The mobile communication method includes: after a SETUP message is received from the mobile originating side, determining if the mobile originating side is in Circuit Switching (CS) Domain. If the MO side is under CS domain, determining if the MT side is under CS domain. When the MO side and the MT side are both under CS domain, voice communication signals between the MO side and the MT side are transmitted with CS bearer between the first MGW and the second MGW. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142581 | CONTACT PADS ON ARRAYS OF OPTICAL DEVICES - A monolithic laser array ( | 2010-06-10 |
20100142582 | GAS DISCHARGE LASER CHAMBER - One aspect of the disclosed subject matter describes a gas discharge laser chamber. The gas discharge laser chamber includes a discharge region formed between a first electrode and a second electrode, a tangential fan for circulating gas through the discharge region, wherein the fan is proximate to an input side of the discharge region, an input side acoustic baffle proximate to the input side of the discharge region. The input side acoustic baffle includes a vanishing point leading edge, a vanishing point trailing edge, a gas flow smoothing offset surface aligning a gas flow from a surface of the input side acoustic baffle to an input side of a cathode support in the discharge region, a plurality of ridges separated by a plurality of trenches, wherein the plurality of ridges and the plurality of trenches are aligned with a direction of gas flow through the discharge region and wherein the plurality of ridges have a random pitch between about 0.3 and about 0.7 inch. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142583 | System, method, and apparatus for the calibration of analog type thermometers for use in providing temperature quality control in the production of beverage and/or food products - An analog thermometer calibration apparatus may comprise a substantially flat piece of steel or other suitably rigid material having at least one hexagonal or appropriately non-circular shaped aperture or opening formed designed to be at least generally complimentary in size and shape to the calibration adjustment member or projection of an analog type thermometer such that the two may engage in a substantially complimentary manner that will permit rotation of the thermometer readout dial and to prevent the relative rotation of the base or lower portion of the analog thermometer connected to a temperature sensing stem probe during the rotation of the analog thermometer dial face during a calibration procedure. A round or other suitably shaped aperture opening may be included to accommodate support and passage of the temperature sensing probe of a more accurate digital type thermometer (or a recently calibrated thermometer of any type) in order to provide a calibration reference temperature reading. The dial of an analog thermometer may be rotated relative to the base and temperature sensing probe stem portion until the temperature indication pointer on the dial face of the analog thermometer substantially equals or matches the reference temperature reading of the digital thermometer reading or the known temperature of the calibration reference liquid without the need to remove, adjust and/or reinsert the analog thermometer into the calibration reference temperature liquid multiple times to perform an accurate analog thermometer temperature readout calibration process on one or a plurality of analog thermometers in a substantially simultaneous manner. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142584 | DIGITAL LINEAR HEAT DETECTOR WITH THERMAL ACTIVATION CONFIRMATION - The present invention provides a digital linear heat detector with thermal activation confirmation. In operation, a run of the digital linear heat detector with thermal activation confirmation may be made throughout a building and operatively interconnected with a monitoring circuit. Opposite the monitoring circuit at the end of the length of digital linear heat detector with thermal activation confirmation is a resistor that terminates the digital linear heat detector with thermal activation confirmation. A digital linear heat detector with thermal activation confirmation comprises a pair of spring conductors. At least one of which is coated with a thermoplastic NTC material and at least one of which is coated with a non-conductive heat sensitive material. One or both of the conductors may be coated with both the NTC material and the non-conductive heat sensitive material in alternative embodiments of the present invention. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142585 | THERMAL ANALYSIS DEVICE - The present invention provides a sampling device for thermal analysis of molten metal, in particular molten cast iron, said sampling device being intended to be filled with liquid metal to be analysed, said sampling device being a container having an upper side and a lower side, said container comprising one common filling inlet on the upper side of said container and at least two cavities, each cavity having a protective tube adapted for enclosing a temperature responsive sensor member, characterised in that said common filling inlet is branched into at least two filling channels ending in said cavities. The invention also provides a kit of parts intended for thermal analysis of solidifying metal, said kit comprising a temperature responsive sensor means and a sampling device as disclosed above. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142586 | ELECTRONIC THERMOMETER WITH AUTOMATIC SWITCH - An electronic thermometer includes a housing having a display, a power, and a processor, wherein the display and the power are electrically connected to the processor; a sensing member having an end extended out of the housing, wherein the sensing member is electrically connected to the processor; and an automatic switch having two electrodes extended out of the housing and separated from each other, wherein the electrodes are electrically connected to the processor respectively. The automatic switch is normally turned off because the electrodes are not conducted, and the automatic switch is turned on automatic when the electrodes touch water to cause the electrodes conducted. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142587 | TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT CIRCUIT - A temperature measurement circuit includes a diode including a pair of terminals between which a constant voltage is applied and passing therethrough a current that changes depending on a temperature; and a temperature detection section that detects the temperature based on the current passing through the diode. The temperature measurement circuit measures the temperature with a higher accuracy. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142588 | PARALLEL SEQUENCE SPREAD SPECTRUM TYPE CHAOTIC SIGNAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE - A parallel sequence spread spectrum type chaotic signal transmission device is disclosed to convert a serial data signal into a parallel data signal and transmit a chaotic signal according to the converted data signal. The parallel sequence spread spectrum type chaotic signal transmission device includes: a signal converting unit that converts serial data desired to be transmitted into parallel data having a pre-set unit; a chaotic signal generating unit that generates a pre-set chaotic signal; and an amplifying unit that amplifies the chaotic signal from the chaotic signal generating unit according to the data which has been converted by the signal converting unit. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142589 | Multi-Carrier Code Dividing Multiplex Transfer System and Method, and Receiving Device - The multi-carrier code dividing multiplex transfer system of the present invention includes a direct demodulator that discriminates transmitted signals according to a receiving signal point composed of a combination of receiving values in a spread state of sub-carriers in a range where one modulated symbol is spread, and according to reference signal composing values that can be taken by the combination of the receiving values in the spread state of the sub-carriers. As a result, it is possible to prevent from affects of inter-code interference, and improve receiving characteristics as well. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142590 | CALIBRATION IN A SPREAD SPECTRUM COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A method comprising: selecting an available orthogonal spreading code from a set of orthogonal spreading codes that are used for separating overlapping radio transmissions in a spread spectrum multiple access communication system; spreading a predetermined sequence using the selected spreading code; transmitting the spread predetermined sequence as a calibrating radio transmission; detecting a calibration signal corresponding to the calibrating radio transmission; and using the detected calibration signal to modify subsequent radio transmissions within the spread spectrum multiple access communication system. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142591 | CDMA WIRELESS SYSTEMS - Information symbols are transmitted simultaneously on independent streams using the same spreading code but from different transmit antennas at the transmitter. These simultaneous data stream could be intended for the same user (and thereby the data rate for any particular user can be increased) or for different users (thereby increasing the system capacity). Each stream of data can belong to a different signal constellation and use a different channel code. At the receiver, a number of receive antennas equal to at least the number of multiple data streams is used to separate the different data streams. We consider two different cases. The first one when no transmit diversity is used (this case can also include the case when transmit diversity with simple antenna weighting is used) and the second when transmit diversity with space-time block coding is used. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142592 | METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH NOTCHED TRANSMIT FREQUENCY BINS - A wireless network ( | 2010-06-10 |
20100142593 | Cross-Talk Mitigation In Global Navigation Satellite Systems - Embodiments related to cross-talk mitigation are described and depicted. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142594 | METHOD OF PROCESSING AN RF SIGNAL - A method of receiving and processing an RF signal comprises receiving ( | 2010-06-10 |
20100142595 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SIGNAL IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system generates a continuously orthogonal spreading code for a user, a user signal is spreading-modulated by using the continuously orthogonal spreading codes, and then the spread signal is pre-rake combined and transmitted. A receiver processes the received signal by using a matched filter for one path. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142596 | SYNCHRONIZATION ERROR TRACKING DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - Provided is a synchronization error tracking device and method. The method and system estimates and corrects the synchronization error generated by time and frequency offsets during the data transmission interval and uses a module designed for initial synchronization or channel estimation without adding a new correlation operator. Further, a combining mark value and a synchronization position value acquired during the synchronization process are used. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142597 | DIGITAL MBOILE USB TRANSCEIVER - A digital mobile TV transceiver having improved performance is integrated as a USB dongle device for wireless devices. The antenna is not readily obvious to the user as it is hidden in the swing arms and cap of the device. The extendable arms act as telescoping antenna that increase the antenna length for improved antenna performance in the frequency range of 700 to 780 MHz. The antenna can swing into a position away from the body of the device, greatly improving the antenna gain performance and its radiation patterns. In addition, the antenna can be top-loaded design with dielectrics in the cap to further improve its performance. The USB transceiver comprises a USB adaptor, a retractable antenna, and a cap for protecting the USB adaptor when the antenna is retracted. The adaptor, antenna and cap lie in a plane rotatable by 360 degrees. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142598 | Wireless Frequency-Domain Multi-Channel Communications - A circuit for transmission and reception of multi-channel communications is disclosed. The transmitter path includes a digital modulation circuit receiving multiple channel binary data, and for each channel generating a digital representation of the data. A digital-to-analogue (D/A) conversion circuit ( | 2010-06-10 |
20100142599 | System and Method for Employing a Six-Bit Rank 1 Codebook for Four Transmit Antennas - A system and method for employing a six-bit rank 1 codebook for four transmit antennas is provided. A method for communications device operation includes estimating a communications channel between the communications device and a controller serving the communications device, thereby producing a channel estimate, quantizing the channel estimate using a codebook, thereby producing a selected codeword, and transmitting an index corresponding to the selected codeword from the codebook to the controller. The codebook includes a plurality of first level codewords, and each first level codeword includes a plurality of subsidiary codewords. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142600 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REDUCING TRANSMISSION POWER OF PACKET ORIENTED DATA AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM COMPRISING SUCH DEVICE - A method and a device for transmitting packet-oriented data are provided. The packet-oriented data includes information data and idle data. The idle data includes at least one symbol of lower amplitude. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142601 | DSL RING SIGNAL COMPATIBILITY - A method of detecting that a condition exists that adversely impacts a digital subscriber line service (DSL) over a telephone line shared by the DSL service and a telephone service. The method includes obtaining information regarding operation of the DSL service over a plurality of different time periods, comparing the information for a first of the plurality of time periods with the information for a second of the plurality of time periods, and determining the condition exists based on the comparison. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142602 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOOP LENGTH AND BRIDGED TAP LENGTH DETERMINATION OF A TRANSMISSION LINE - Through the use of a least squares minimization concept, the loop length, the number of bridged taps and length of the bridged taps on a transmission line can be determined from readily available modem data. In particular, the loop length, the number of bridge taps and the length of bridged taps can be estimated by comparing a measured frequency domain channel impulse response of the transmission line to a model of a loop that is comprised of multiple sections and multiple bridge taps. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142603 | Testing of Elements Used in Communication Links - A receiver for a communications link includes a receiver module and a host receiver. These two components can be tested independently. In one embodiment, the receiver module is characterized with respect to noise and distortion. The noise performance can be determined by comparing input and output signals of the receiver module, to determine the relative noise of the receiver module. The distortion performance can be determined by comparing the distortion of input and output signals of the receiver module, using a reference host receiver that includes an equalizer. The host receiver can be tested by using a reference receiver module. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142604 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF FREQUENCY DOMAIN ECHO CANCELLER - A frequency-domain based echo and NEXT canceller is claimed. The canceller uses log | 2010-06-10 |
20100142605 | COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE INCLUDING A FILTER FOR NOTCHING WIDEBAND TRANSMIT SIGNALS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - A communications device includes a modulator and a filter downstream therefrom and operable to generate an output wideband complex signal with a frequency notch therein. The filter includes a finite impulse response (FIR) filter with L taps to generate N output values, with L>N. A Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) block is downstream from the FIR filter and has a length N so that filter transition regions occur between frequency bins of the FFT block. A notching block is downstream from the FFT block to generate the frequency notch. An Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) block is downstream from the notching block and has the length N. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142606 | Transmission line loss compensation circuit and transmission line loss compensation method - A transmission line loss compensation circuit and transmission line loss compensation method is provided. The transmission line loss compensation circuit includes a linear equalizer that compensates for a transmission line loss of high frequency components, a high-pass filter that extracts high frequency components from an output of the linear equalizer, a peak detector that compares the peak voltage of a high-pass filter output to first and second reference voltages, and a control circuit that controls the compensation intensity of the linear equalizer based on the detection results of the peak detector so that the peak voltage becomes an intermediate voltage between the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142607 | Methods and Systems for Transmitting Data by Modulating Transmitter Filter Coefficients - A signaling system supports main and auxiliary communication channels between integrated circuits in the same direction over a single link. An equalizing transmitter applies appropriate filter coefficients to minimize the impact of intersymbol interference when transmitting the main data over a communication channel. The transmitter modulates at least one of the filter coefficients with the auxiliary data to induce apparent ISI in the transmitted signal. A main receiver ignores the apparent ISI to recover the main data, while an auxiliary receiver detects and demodulates the apparent ISI to recover the auxiliary data. The auxiliary data may be encoded using spread-spectrum techniques to reduce the impact of the auxiliary data on the main data. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142608 | TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING BROADCAST SIGNAL IN TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING SYSTEM - A receiving system and a method of processing broadcast signal are disclosed herein. The receiving system includes a signal receiving unit, a known sequence detector, a channel equalizer, a block decoder, and an error correction unit. The signal receiving unit receives a broadcast signal, which includes mobile service data and a data group including multiple known data sequences. The known sequence detector detects the multiple of known data sequences from the broadcast signal. The channel equalizer repeats a process of updating equalization coefficients and filtering as many times as a pre-determined number of iterations, based upon the detected known data sequences, so as to converge the equalization coefficient. Then, the channel equalizer interpolates or extrapolates using the converged equalization coefficients, thereby channel-equalizing the mobile service data. The block decoder performs turbo-decoding in block units on the channel-equalized mobile service data. And, the error correction unit performs error correction decoding on the decoded mobile service data, thereby correcting an error occurred in the mobile service data. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142609 | Reception Station, Communication System And Transmission Diversity Control Method - In a transmission diversity control method in which a request to start or stop transmission diversity is issued by a reception station to a transmission station having a transmission diversity function, the reception station is provided with an equalizer to reduce multipath interference on the basis of a signal correlation, a transmission diversity start request is issued from the reception station to the transmission station when an effect generated by the equalizer is small, and a transmission diversity stop request is issued from the reception station to the transmission station when the effect generated by the equalizer is large. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142610 | PARTIAL RESPONSE RECEIVER - A signaling system is described. The signaling system comprises a transmit device, a receive device including a partial response receive circuit, and a signaling path coupling the transmit device and the receive device. The receive device observes an equalized signal from the signaling path, and includes circuitry to use feedback from the most recent previously resolved symbol to sample a currently incoming symbol. The transmit device equalizes transmit data to transmit the equalized signal, by applying weighting based on one or more data values not associated with the most recent previously resolved symbol value. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142611 | DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A digital communication system for transmitting and receiving video data signals and control data signals over a transmission line comprises an open-loop equalizer circuit and a control data extension circuit. The open-loop equalizer circuit is operable to receive video signals transmitted over the transmission line and output equalized video data signals. The control data extension circuit is operable to inject a boost current at the receive end of the transmission line during a positive transition in the control data signal, and clamp the receive end of the transmission line during a negative transition of the control data signal. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142612 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INCREASING DATA RATE IN A MOBILE TERMINAL USING SPATIAL MULTIPLEXING FOR DVB-H COMMUNICATION - A method and system for increasing data rate in a mobile terminal using spatial multiplexing for digital video broadcasting for handhelds (DVB-H) communication are provided. A reconfigurable orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) chip may be utilized in a mobile terminal to process received spatially multiplexed signals. The mobile terminal may be utilized in a spatially multiplexed multiple-input-multiple-output (SM-MIMO) wireless system. The spatially multiplexed signals may be quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) modulated and may utilize OFDM subcarries. A processor may be utilized to configure the OFDM chip to process signals such as IEEE 802.11 and 802.16, and DVB. The OFDM chip may generate channel weights to be applied to the spatially multiplexed signals received in multiple receive antennas. The weighted signals may be combined to generate multiple RF received signals from which channel estimates may be generated. Subsequent channel weights may be dynamically generated from generated channel estimates. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142613 | METHOD FOR ENCODING VIDEO DATA IN A SCALABLE MANNER - The invention concerns a method for encoding video data in a scalable manner according to H.264/SVC standard. The method comprises the steps of
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20100142614 | INTER-VIEW PREDICTION - At least one disclosed method and apparatus relate to inter-view prediction with different resolution reference picture. A particular method includes accessing at least a portion of an encoded picture ( | 2010-06-10 |
20100142615 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCALABLE VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING - Disclosed is a scalable video coding algorithm. A method for video coding includes temporally filtering frames in the same sequence to a decoding sequence thereof to remove temporal redundancy, obtaining and quantizing transformation coefficients from frames whose temporal redundancy is removed, and generating bitstreams. A video encoder comprises a temporal transformation unit, a spatial transformation unit, a quantization unit and a bitstream generation unit to perform the method. A method for video decoding is basically reverse in sequence to the video coding. A video decoder extracts information necessary for video decoding by interpreting the received bitstream and decoding it. Thus, video streams may be generated by allowing a decoder to decode the generated bitstreams, while maintaining the temporal scalability on an encoder-side. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142616 | BI-DIRECTIONAL VIDEO COMPRESSION FOR REAL-TIME VIDEO STREAMS DURING TRANSPORT IN A PACKET SWITCHED NETWORK - A method, a system and a computer device for initiating bi-directional compression of a video stream in a packet switched network, based on delay tolerance of a service or application. A video frame recompression (VFR) utility determines an end-to-end (E2E) delay tolerance retrieved from a Real-time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP) report. The VFR utility then determines the actual expected delay based on a deep inspection of packet headers. The VFR utility utilizes a processing opportunity delay (which determines whether the E2E delay tolerance is greater than the actual expected delay) to reprocess video content comprising Intra-coded (I) pictures/frames and Predicted (P) frames to improve compression efficiency. The VFR utility may also utilize a complexity ratio which is a ratio of the I-Frame rate and the P-Frame rate to select frames for compression. The VFR utility recompresses video content by replacing P-Frames with B-Frames. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142617 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING A VIDEO SIGNAL - An apparatus for processing a video signal and method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes determining an intra reference block in a current view layer by using an intra motion information of an inter-reference unit in a reference view layer, the inter-reference unit being partially decoded and decoding the current block in the current view layer by using the intra-reference block. Accordingly, in coding a video signal, pictures failing to be substantially referred to for reconstruction of a current picture can be omitted. According to another aspect of the present invention, residual information having high redundancy is omitted to raise a compression ratio. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142618 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR THE USE OF SLICE GROUPS IN ENCODING MULTI-VIEW VIDEO CODING (MVC) INFORMATION - There are provided methods and apparatus for the use of slice groups in encoding and decoding multi-view video coding (MVC) information. An apparatus ( | 2010-06-10 |
20100142619 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE - An asynchronous IDR detecting unit detects occurrence of scene change and, upon noticing that at the scene change superiority and inferiority of image quality can hardly be recognized by a human eye and a high-image-quality interpolation frame cannot be generated, a frame interpolation process controlling unit controls a frame interpolation unit to generate an interpolation frame by a simplified process before and after a case where a frame including the scene change (aperiodic IDP frame) is detected (necessity of frame interpolation is small) or generate a high-image-quality interpolation frame in the other case (a case where necessity of the frame interpolation is great). | 2010-06-10 |
20100142620 | METHOD OF GENERATING SIDE INFORMATION BY CORRECTING MOTION FIELD ERROR IN DISTRIBUTED VIDEO CODING AND DVC DECODER USING THE SAME - Disclosed is a technique that shifts the position of a motion compensation block by an error of a motion field and then performs motion compensation to estimate a current frame from past and future frames in digital video coding (DVC), thereby enhancing the accuracy of current frame estimation results. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142621 | SCRAMBLING, DESCRAMBLING AND SECURED DISTRIBUTION OF AUDIO-VISUAL SEQUENCES FROM VIDEO CODERS BASED ON WAVELETS PROCESSING - A process for secured distribution of video sequences according to a digital stream format stemming from an encoding based on a processing by wavelets including frames including blocks containing coefficients of wavelets describing the visual elements, including analyzing the stream prior to transmission to client equipment to generate a modified main stream by deletion and replacement of selected information coding the original stream and having the format of the original stream, and complementary information of any format comprising the digital information coding the original stream and suitable for permitting reconstruction of the modified frames; and transmitting the modified main stream and the complementary information separately from a server to addressed equipment. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142622 | VIDEO CODING METHOD AND DEVICE - The video coding method comprises:
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20100142623 | MULTI-PROTOCOL DEBLOCK ENGINE CORE SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention facilitates efficient and effective detection of pixel alteration. The number and configuration of pixels in a block partition can be flexibly changed. The filter inputs in the multi-protocol filter can be flexibly changed to meet the deblocking requirement in the target video compression standard. In one embodiment, the deblock engine includes an input interface, a neighbor buffer, a current data buffer; and a multi-protocol filter. The input interface receives reconstructed data. The neighbor buffer temporarily stores neighbor information. The current data buffer receives the reconstructed data and the neighbor information. The multi-protocol filter filters information selected from the reconstructed data and neighbor information. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142624 | Decoder and decoding method - A decoder is disclosed. A video decoder extracts, when receiving a video stream, video output time information attached to each video frame. Thereafter, a difference value calculator calculates a difference value between an occurrence time of a synchronizing signal and the video output time information. Further, an audio output time corrector corrects, using the difference value, audio output time information attached to each audio frame. Then, a video source outputs video represented by a video frame in synchronization with a synchronizing signal. An audio source outputs, when a value of reference time information and a corrected value of the audio output time information are synchronized, audio represented by an audio frame with the synchronized audio output time information. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142625 | METHOD FOR GENERATING AND PROCESSING HIERARCHICAL PES PACKET FOR DIGITAL SATELLITE BROADCASTING BASED ON SVC VIDEO - A method for generating and processing a hierarchical packetized elementary stream (PES) packet for digital satellite broadcasting based on SVC (Scalable Video Coding) video is disclosed. That is, when SVC video is applied to a digital satellite broadcasting system, a transmitter side can generate a hierarchical PES packet in consideration of a hierarchical structure of SVC video and a receiver side can effectively process a received hierarchical PES packet. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142626 | BLOCK DISTORTION DETECTION METHOD, BLOCK DISTORTION DETECTION APPARATUS, BLOCK DISTORTION REMOVAL METHOD, AND BLOCK DISTORTION REMOVAL APPARATUS - A video decoder is connected with a block distortion detector for specifying the boundary of blocks where block boundary occurs, using decoded image data and information of motion vectors, which are supplied from the video decoder; and a block distortion remover for subjecting pixels in the vicinity of the block boundary of the decoded image to filtering on the basis of the result of detection from the block distortion detector, thereby removing the block distortion. Therefore, block distortion is accurately detected when a compressed and coded image is decoded, and the detected block distortion is removed while minimizing the blurriness of the image. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142627 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - In a single-wire data communication characterized in that a data communication unit time is different in accordance with the polarity of a signal, a communication control time is dependent on a communication data pattern, and hence, the control of the whole system is difficult. A counter for counting a clock continues the counting until a count value thereby obtained reaches a predetermined upper limit value, retains the predetermined upper limit value as the count value until a next pulse is detected in a reception signal after the count value reaches the predetermined upper limit value, and initializes the count value when the next pulse is detected. A data value judger judges a data value depending on whether or not the pulse is detected during a period before the time when the count value reaches the predetermined upper limit value. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142628 | REMOTE ANTIJAMMING TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE SAME - A remote antijamming transmission device and method for the same is provided. A signal current transmission line is between the host and the sub-machine arranged along a path of signal current transmission line and kept at a distance from the signal current transmission line. The sub-machine comprises a signal sensor component. The interval is a range where the signal sensor component may sense a signal current transmitted by the host connected to the sub-machine in a non-contact manner. Thus, no load effect is caused. The signal current transmitted by the host is not attenuated due to current bypass, so the effect of remote transmission is achieved. The transmission current in the signal current transmission line does not make the transmission signal to be attenuated even if the amount of sub-machines increases and then the current is divided. Unlimited amounts of sub-machines may be arranged near the signal current transmission line. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142629 | HIGH SPEED TRANSIENT ACTIVE PULL-UP I2C | 2010-06-10 |
20100142630 | MULTICARRIER TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, MULTICARRIER RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND THEIR METHODS - A multicarrier transmitting apparatus capable of improving the data symbol error rate characteristic to improve the reception quality. In this apparatus, a replacement position deciding part ( | 2010-06-10 |
20100142641 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING A DIGITAL SIGNAL IN A DIGITAL DELTA-SIGMA MODULATOR, AND DIGITAL DELTA-SIGMA MODULATOR THEREFOR - The digital delta-sigma modulator includes a signal input for receiving digital samples of N bits, and a digital filter connected to the signal input. The digital filter performs addition/subtraction and integration operations according to a redundant arithmetic coding for delivering digital filtered samples. A quantizer performs a nonexact quantization operation so as to deliver digital output samples of n bits, with n being less than N. The input of the quantizer is connected within the digital filter. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142642 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION IN MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT SYSTEM - A method for transmitting feedback information in a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) system is provided. The method constructs and transmits CQI (Channel Quality Information) channel including at least one CQI for uplink control information, wherein additional feedback information is included in at least one punctured bit among a plurality of bits allocated for the CQI channel. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142643 | MULTI-CARRIER SIGNAL TRANSMITTER, MULTI-CARRIER SIGNAL RECEIVER, AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING MULTI-CARRIER SIGNAL - A multi-carrier signal transmitter includes a multi-carrier modulation circuit, a power converter, a frequency converter and an interference protection determination circuit, and that the interference protection determination circuit determines a difference in power levels between a higher layer component and a lower layer component of multi-carrier signals in a manner to avoid digital interference. The power converter converts a power level of the multi-carrier signals when necessary based on a data of the determination, and the frequency converter converts a center frequency band of the multi-carrier signals when necessary based on the data of the determination. The digital interference of the hierarchical multi-carrier signals can be prevented. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142644 | Hierarchical Modulation - A method for modulating first and second bit streams in a communications network that supports at least one of a binary phase-shift keying (BPSK), a quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK) or a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) constellation uses hierarchical modulation. A hierarchical modulation parameter that varies within the network is set. The first bit stream is modulated based on a first constellation of the hierarchical modulation and the hierarchical modulation parameter. The second bit stream is modulated based on a second constellation in the first constellation. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142645 | Communication Apparatus and Communication Method - Modulated signal A is transmitted from a first antenna, and modulated signal B is transmitted from a second antenna. As modulated signal B, modulated symbols S | 2010-06-10 |
20100142646 | System And Method For Improved Communication Utilizing Velocity Related Information - According to one embodiment, a method for communication includes receiving, by a receiver, a first modulated signal. The first modulated signal includes at least one error. The method also includes demodulating the first modulated signal. The demodulation includes compensating for the at least one error utilizing information related to a velocity of the receiver. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142647 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING A SAMPLED RECTIFIED ULTRA WIDE BAND SIGNAL - A method for processing, in an ultra-wide band receiver, a sampled rectified ultra-wide band received signal, including: at least one sliding correlation between a selection of samples of the sampled ultra-wide band received signal and a correlation sequence, the sliding correlation carrying out a succession of n elementary correlation steps, n being an integer larger than or equal to 2, at a frequency f, between the selection of samples and the correlation sequence, an elementary correlation producing a series of intermediate correlation samples, and summation of the intermediate correlation samples delivered by each of the n elementary correlation steps to form n correlation samples which form a correlation vector. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142648 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR I/Q MISMATCH CALIBRATION - There is provided an apparatus and method for In-phase/Quadrature-phase (I/Q) mismatch calibration. The apparatus includes: a symmetrical point extracting part receiving continuous wave signals and extracting an I/Q channel average locus of the continuous wave signals; an error extracting part extracting a degree of distortion of the continuous wave signals from the extracted I/Q channel average locus; and a calibrating part calibrating a mismatch between I-channel signals and Q-channel signals of the continuous wave signals using the degree of distortion of the continuous wave signals. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142649 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GENERATING SOFT BITS - A receiver receives a received signal from a communication link, the received signal comprising a stream of symbols modulated onto a carrier, each of the stream symbols selected from a constellation of symbols to represent a plurality of encoded data bits. The receiver comprises a demodulator to produce a stream of received symbols derived from the received signal; a channel decoder to produce a received stream of data bits derived from the stream of received symbols; and a memory device to store information related to the plurality of symbols in the constellation. For each of the symbols in the stream of received symbols, the demodulator: determines which of the plurality of symbols in the constellation is a respective closest symbol to that received symbol; identifies a respective nearest neighbor symbol for each data bit represented by the closest symbol for that received symbol based on the information stored in the memory device; and for each data bit represented by the respective closest symbol for that received symbol, subtracts the distance between the respective closest symbol and that received symbol from the distance between the respective nearest neighbor symbol and that received symbol in order to produce respective soft bits for that received symbol. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142650 | Apparatus and Method for Adaptive Rotation Angle Control, Wireless Apparatus, and Computer Program - An adaptive rotation angle control apparatus of this invention includes a communication quality approximating equation storage portion which stores a communication quality approximating equation including as variables reception quality information, amplitude fluctuation information, and a rotation angle; a computation portion which substitutes into the communication quality approximating equation the reception quality information and amplitude fluctuation information of the input information, and a rotation angle, and calculates the value of the communication quality approximating equation; and an adaptive control portion which provides a rotation angle to the computation portion, receives from the computation portion communication quality information, which is the value of the communication quality approximating equation calculated using the rotation angle provided, and determines the optimum rotation angle based on the received communication quality information. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142681 | ARRANGEMENT FOR GENERATION OF X-RAY RADIATION WITH A LARGE REAL FOCUS AND A VIRTUAL FOCUS ADJUSTED ACCORDING TO REQUIREMENTS - An arrangement for generating X-ray radiation includes an anode ( | 2010-06-10 |
20100142682 | SPEAKERPHONE CONTROL TECHNIQUES AND EMERGENCY CALL SYSTEMS - Emergency call system which enables an individual to summon assistance includes an emergency call unit connectable to a telephone line, at least one remote speakerphone unit having a speakerphone and connectable to the same telephone line as the emergency call unit, and at least one pendant adapted to be worn by the individual and including a button. The emergency call unit is arranged to determine whether any remote speakerphone units are off-hook when the button on the pendant is actuated and if so, send a signal to each remote speakerphone unit to disconnect from the telephone line. If one of the remote speakerphone units is off-hook, it will not interfere with the functioning of the emergency call unit. The emergency call unit is also arranged to dial a predetermined emergency telephone number when the button on the pendant is actuated and the telephone line is available for an outbound call. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142683 | Method and apparatus for providing video relay service assisted calls with reduced bandwidth - The bandwidth use for Video Relay Service (VRS) assisted calls for hearing impaired individuals is reduced by transmitting a sequence of corresponding sign identification (ID) numbers rather than a video of the signing itself. The signs may be captured by a video camera and recognized by a previously trained sign recognition algorithm, which advantageously converts the signs to sign ID numbers for transmission. Then, at the receiving end, the sequence of ID numbers may be advantageously re-converted back into signs, which may, for example, be displayed on a video screen with use of an artificially created (e.g., a “cartoon”) image comprising (at least) a pair of hands. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142684 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY TRANSCRIBING VOICEMAIL - Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and tangible computer-readable media for automatically transcribing voicemail. The method includes receiving a plurality of voicemail messages from callers, identifying for each voicemail message in the plurality of voicemail messages a first frequency with which the respective caller leaves voicemails, identifying for each voicemail message in the plurality of voicemail messages a second frequency with which a user requests transcription of each voicemail, assigning a priority ranking to each voicemail message in the plurality of voicemail messages based on the respective first frequency and the respective second frequency, and transcribing untranscribed voicemail messages with a highest priority ranking. The method can include establishing a priority ranking threshold and repeatedly transcribing a next highest ranking untranscribed voicemail message until no further untranscribed voicemail messages remain above the priority ranking threshold. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142685 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING EXPANDED TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE - The present invention relates to telephone call processing. In one embodiment, a call processing system receives from a caller a first call for a user, the first call including call signaling information. The call processing system determines whether the call signaling information includes caller identification information and whether the call signaling information indicates that the caller identification information is restricted. If the caller identification information is restricted, the call processing system instructs the caller to take a first action so that the caller identification information can be provided to the user. The call processing system determines whether the caller has performed the first action during the first call, and if the caller has performed the first action during the first call, the call processing system provides at least a portion of the caller identification information to the user. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142686 | HIGH AVAILABILITY AND OPERATIONS ARCHITECTURE FOR IVR APPLICATIONS - A method for managing voice response services in a call center for interactive voice response (IVR) applications that provides full IVR call capacity during the installation and testing of new IVR application software. The call center includes web application servers, a network dispatcher, IVR clusters, databases and a network switch, which are reconfigured during the installation and testing of new IVR application software so that full IVR call capacity is maintained at all times. The call center further includes the ability to uninstall newly installed IVR application software and restore the call center to the original IVR application software configuration without reducing the call center IVR call capacity. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142687 | HIGH AVAILABILITY ARCHITECTURE FOR COMPUTER TELEPHONY INTERFACE DRIVER - A method of providing communication services includes configuring a primary computer telephony interface driver to interface a computer telephony interface server with an application for transmitting client information between the application and the computer telephony interface server and configuring a secondary computer telephony interface driver to redundantly interface the same computer telephony interface server with the same application for transmitting the same client information between the same application and the same computer telephony interface server. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142688 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATIONS - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller to detect a selection of an image from a graphical user interface, identify an entry in a contact book responsive to the detected selection of the image, and retrieve one or more communication identifiers associated with the party from the entry of the contact book for initiating a communication session. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142689 | Method and apparatus for providing electrical power to a broadband digital subscriber line access - Power is supplied to telecom equipment in DSLAM outdoor/remote cabinets with relatively short distances between the subscriber and the cabinet. All of the subscriber Customer Premises Equipment connected to the DSLAM each provide a portion of the required power to the remote cabinet via the telephone line connecting the DSLAM and the subscriber CPE. The CPE at the subscriber premises is already connected to power mains in the subscriber premises so, providing power, via the telephone line to the outdoor cabinet is relatively simple. The remote cabinet includes a circuit for receiving the power input from each subscriber and then distributing the power, required by the DSLAM load, equally among the subscribers. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142690 | DOMESTIC TO INTERNATIONAL COLLECT CALL BLOCKING - A method and device for preventing fraud in collect calls from a domestic origin point to an international terminating point through a long-distance telecommunications system is described. In the system and method, a Screening for International Calls database is added to the call processing platform. This Screening of International Calls database contains records keyed by country codes, and each record has a blocked collect call field listing destination numbers that are blocked from receiving collect calls. When a domestic-to-international collect call is made, the record corresponding to the country code of the international terminating point of the collect call is retrieved from the Screening for International Calls database. This record is checked to determine if the destination number of the collect call matches any destination numbers listed in the blocked collect call field of the country code database record. If there is a match, the call is blocked. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142711 | GROUP KEY MANAGEMENT RE-REGISTRATION METHOD - In an embodiment, a fast group key management re-registration is described. One computer-implemented method comprises, at a key server: receiving a registration request from a network element to join a group of network elements managed by the key server; generating and storing a group member registration state comprising information identifying the network element within the group of network elements; generating a token using information from the group member registration state, wherein the token identifies the network element within the group; deleting the group member registration state for the network element at the key server; generating an encrypted token by encrypting the token using a secret key that is local to the key server; sending the encrypted token to the network element; receiving the encrypted token along with a re-registration request from the network element to re-join the group of network elements; and re-registering the network element using the encrypted token. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142712 | Content Delivery Network Having Downloadable Conditional Access System with Personalization Servers for Personalizing Client Devices - A content delivery network and method employing a Downloadable Conditional Access System (“DCAS”) includes first and second personalization servers. A unit key list having unique keys is segmented into different blocks. Each block is encrypted with a separate transmission key corresponding to that block such that first and second blocks are respectively encrypted with first and second transmission keys. The encrypted blocks are communicated to the personalization servers. The first transmission key is communicated to the first personalization server without being communicated to another personalization server such that the first server can decrypt the first block using the first transmission key to access the keys of the first block. The second transmission key is communicated to the second personalization server without being communicated to another personalization server such that the second server can decrypt the second block using the second transmission key to access the keys of the second block. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142713 | NEARLY-STATELESS KEY ESCROW SERVICE - Some embodiments provide a system to generate a key pair. During operation, the system can receive a request to generate the key pair, wherein the key pair is generated by a key assigner, and wherein the key pair is associated with a user. Next, the system can determine a secret associated with the key assigner. Specifically, the system can determine the secret by determining an initial secret associated with the key assigner, and by applying a one-way hash function to the initial secret one or more times. The system can then determine a seed based on the secret. Specifically, the system can determine the seed by cryptographically combining the secret with information associated with the user. Next, the system can generate the key pair by using the seed as an input to a key generator. The system can then return the key pair to a requestor. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142714 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACOUSTIC SHOCK PROTECTION - An acoustic shock protection method and device are provided. A pattern analysis-based approach is taken to an input signal to perform feature extraction. A parameter space is identified, which is corresponding to, the signal space of the input signal. A rule-based decision approach is taken to the parameter space to detect an acoustic shock event. The device may be advantageously implemented using a weighted overlap-add approach to provide low group delay, high-fidelity and a high degree of protection from acoustic shock events. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142715 | Sound Library and Method - At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a website configured to collect sound signatures from around the world and beyond. A communication device automatically stores acoustic information received by a microphone of the communication device. The acoustic information is analyzed for a trigger event. The trigger event stores the acoustic information, attaches metadata, creates a Gaussian Mixture Model, and measures sound pressure level. The communication device automatically sends the sound signature to a database when a communication path is opened to communication device. Each sound signature has associated metadata including a time stamp and geocode. Automatically collecting sounds using a communication device adapted for the process enables a database that captures sounds globally on a continuous basis. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142716 | NETWORK AUDIO PROCESSOR - An audio circuit and associated method for enhanced intelligibility of audio content includes a first means for receiving reproduced audio content, a microphone for providing a microphone output signal in accordance with ambient noise, a second means for enabling the microphone output signal when the reproduced audio content is off, and disabling the microphone output signal when the reproduced audio content is on, and a signal processor, in communication with the first and second means. The signal processor applies a transfer function to the reproduced audio content for increasing gain to the reproduced audio content as a function of increasing amplitude of the microphone output signal, and decreasing gain to the reproduced audio content signal as a function of decreasing amplitude of the microphone output signal, and applies an equalization curve to the audio content to boost frequencies in a range that enhances consonant perception thus increasing speech intelligibility. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142717 | AUDIOMETER WITH INTERCHANGEABLE TRANSDUCER - An audiometer including a processor controlled test signal generator is adjustable so as to produce a uniform output signal when coupled with a transducer load. Each transducer set to be used with the test signal generator includes recordable indicia in written or electronic form, upon which correction values for adjusting the electronic signal output of the audiometer module to produce a desired sound output from the each transducer in the transducer set. When the transducer set is connected to the audiometer module, the correction values are either retrieved automatically from the electronic indicia, which may be an EEPROM, or are input to the processor manually by a user through an interface such as a keyboard. These correction values are then used by the processor to dynamically adjust the output of the audiometer to correct for sound output response deviation of each transducer in the transducer set. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142718 | NOISE CANCELLING HEADPHONE - A noise cancelling headphone is described. The noise cancelling headphone utilizes a low power consuming noise cancellation circuit wherein an audio input signal is directly fed into the headphone without the use of an additional headphone amplifier. The noise cancelling circuit uses a microphone to pick up ambient noise and produces a signal which is equal in amplitude but opposite in polarity to the ambient noise signal. The resultant signal is mixed with the audio input signal and fed into the speakers of the headphone. This method is advantageous because it uses fewer components than conventional noise cancellation circuits and it also consumes less power due to the use of fewer components. The distortion of the audio input signal is also reduced since no amplification is performed to the audio input signal onboard the noise cancellation circuit. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142719 | ACOUSTIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING AN ACOUSTIC APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an acoustic apparatus comprises an electro-acoustic transducer with a first function of converting an electric signal to an acoustic signal and a second function of converting an acoustic signal to an electric signal, the electro-acoustic transducer configured to convert a measuring electric signal to a measuring acoustic signal using the first function, and to convert an acoustic response signal responding to the measuring acoustic signal from an object to an electric response signal using the second function, a switch configured to switch the first function to the second function, or vice versa, and a switch controller configured to control a function switching of the switch in accordance with a sound source signal. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142720 | MUSIC REPRODUCING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A music reproducing system has a music reproducing unit and a transducer unit connected to the music reproducing unit. The transducer unit includes a transducer, a main sensor, and attachment-state detector. The music reproducing unit includes an information processing part and a detection controller. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142721 | CONFERENCE AUDIO SYSTEM - Even in a conference audio system having an automatic mute release device, it is possible to reduce a delay time from an utterance to output from a speaker. The system includes: an A/D converter ( | 2010-06-10 |
20100142722 | CONVERSATION ASSISTANT FOR NOISY ENVIRONMENTS - An infrared (IR) emitter having a broad emission pattern driven by a frequency-modulated (FM) carrier signal enables electronic communication between multiple talkers and multiple listeners. A narrow reception pattern on the listener's receiving unit combined with the inherent capture effect of FM coding provides each listener with the means of easily and naturally selecting one of many talkers from a group. A close microphone for the talking party and a close earphone for the listening party enables the system to assist conversation particularly in the case of noisy environments by improving the signal to noise ratio. A similar system of broad emission transmitters and narrow reception can be used in other systems, such as a teleconferencing unit in which users have transmitters and receivers and a teleconferencing unit has multiple receivers arranged to receive signals in multiple different sectors. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142723 | Multimedia Switching Over Wired Or Wireless Connections In A Distributed Environment - The present invention may include a wireless AV transmission system to support wireless transmission of AV data from an AV source device to an AV sink device. Each sink device may be associated with an AV output component, for example, a speaker. The sink devices each may have a unique address in the system. During operation, AV data having a format corresponding to a wired data protocol may be modulated onto RF channels and broadcast to the AV sink device(s). Each AV sink device may identify portion(s) of the RF channels that contain data to be output at the sink device and any timing signals to be decoded to keep the sink devices synchronized. Each AV sink device may demodulate and decode its respective AV channel from within the RF broadcasts, synchronize operation to the timing references in the broadcast signal and output its respective AV channel data. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142724 | Infotainment system with surround sound media navigation - An infotainment system is for a vehicle having a body defining an interior space. The infotainment system includes a playback device receiving and processing a plurality of sets of infotainment data. The infotainment data is organized in a hierarchy. The playback device transmits a plurality of sound signals. Each sound signal corresponds to a respective one of the sets of infotainment data. A plurality of speakers are communicatively coupled to the playback device. Each speaker is disposed at a different respective location within the interior space. Each of the speakers is adapted to receive a respective one of the sound signals and convert the respective sound signal into a corresponding audible sound. A user interface is communicatively coupled to the playback device. The user interface enables a user to navigate between levels of the hierarchy of infotainment data by making selections. Each of the selections corresponds to a respective one of the sets of infotainment data. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142725 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SOUND MONITORING OVER A NETWORK - A mobile communication ( | 2010-06-10 |
20100142726 | Noise Cancellation Earphone - An active noise cancellation earphone ( | 2010-06-10 |
20100142727 | SOUND PROCESSING METHODS AND APPARATUS - A sound processing method includes transforming an input signal from a time domain to a frequency domain to produce a spectrum, detecting a peak of the spectrum, calculating a target attenuation amount based on one of the input signal and the spectrum, calculating attenuation amounts of respective frequency components of the spectrum based on the target attenuation amount and the detected peak, correcting levels of the spectrum by attenuating the spectrum in response to the calculated attenuation amounts of respective frequency components, and performing inverse frequency transform with respect to the level-corrected spectrum to produce an output signal. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142728 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS PROCESSING NOTIFICATION SOUND AND AUDIO-BASED CONTENTS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - In a user terminal, a reproducing unit reads out from a music file memory unit a music file selected and input by a user and reproduces the music file. In a normal reproduction, an output unit outputs the reproduced sound as an audio. When a notification information reception unit receives information that needs to be noticed such as an e-mail or a phone call, a notification information analysis unit analyzes the setting of the information or notification sound and determines the degree of importance. A frequency band allocation unit selects from allocation patterns of frequency bands stored in an allocation information memory unit a pattern for the music and for the notification sound according to the degree of importance and the frequency band of the notification sound. An audio processing unit extracts and synthesizes the components of the frequency bands allocated to music and the notification sound, and the output unit outputs accordingly. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142729 | SOUND VOLUME CORRECTING DEVICE, SOUND VOLUME CORRECTING METHOD, SOUND VOLUME CORRECTING PROGRAM AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A sound volume correcting device includes: a first component gain control unit configured to control a gain of a main first component signal, which contains a part of a plurality of audio components as a main component, out of input audio signals including the plurality of audio components and outputting the main first component signal; a first component gain control signal generator configured to generate a first component gain control signal for allowing the first component gain control unit to control the gain of the main first component signal in a first gain control way; and an other component output unit configured to output other audio components other than the first component of the input audio signals in a second gain control way different from the first gain control way. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142730 | CROSSFADING OF AUDIO SIGNALS - A technique is disclosed to implement crossfading of audio tracks. In one embodiment, the function describing the fade out of the ending audio track and/or the slope describing the fade in of the beginning audio track may be altered to increase the perceptible overlap of the two tracks. In another embodiment, the duration of the fade out and/or of the fade in may be altered to increase the perceptible overlap of the two tracks. In other embodiments, one or both of the function and/or duration of the fade out and/or fade in effect may be altered to improve the perceptibility of the overlap or the audio tracks. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142731 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AN AUDIO SIGNAL - A method of processing an audio signal, comprising: receiving a downmix signal, a residual signal and object information; extracting at least one of a background-object signal and a foreground-object signal from the downmix signal using the residual signal; receiving mix information comprising gain control information for the background-object signal; generating a downmix processing information based on the object information and the mix information; and, generating a processed downmix signal comprising a modified background-object signal to which an adjusted gain corresponding to the gain control information is applied, by applying the downmix processing information to the at least one of the background-object signal and the foreground-object signal is disclosed. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142732 | MICROPHONE ARRAY - A sound capture device comprises a symmetric microphone array that includes non-radially-oriented directional sensors ( | 2010-06-10 |
20100142733 | Apparatus and Method for Generating Directional Sound - An apparatus and method for generating directional sound are provided to output sound towards a specific sound zone. The apparatus includes an internal loudspeaker array having at least one sound source and edge loudspeakers, each with a sound source having directivity, located at respective ends of the internal loudspeaker array. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142734 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED THREE DIMENSIONAL SOUND FIELD REPRODUCING UNIT - In correspondence with the left and right external ears of a listener occupying a seat, a three dimensional sound field reproducing unit includes at least more than two speakers disposed on a headrest on the top of a backrest of the seat, and three dimensional signal processing means which converts an output signal from a sound source into a three dimensional sound field signal for supplying it to each of the speakers. Three dimensional sound field with high accuracy and fidelity is reproduced near the external ears of the listener. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142735 | AUDIO APPARATUS AND SIGNAL CALIBRATION METHOD THEREOF - An audio system to calibrate an audio signal based on a wirelessly received signal, and a signal calibration method are provided. The audio system includes a sound output unit to output a sound corresponding to a received audio signal. A transceiver is connected to an external device to enable wireless communication between a main unit and the external device. The external device converts the sound output from the sound output unit into an electric signal to generate a calibration audio signal. The main unit performs calibration on an audio signal to be played back through the sound output unit using the calibration audio signal. | 2010-06-10 |
20100142736 | HEARING DEVICE WITH USER CONTROL - The hearing device comprises
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20100142737 | METHOD FOR ASSISTING A USER OF A HEARING SYSTEM AND CORRESPONDING HEARING SYSTEM - The hearing system comprises at least one request-receiving unit for receiving requests for assistance from a user and an assistance unit operationally connected to the request-receiving unit adapted to carrying out an assistance function providing assistance for the user. The assistance unit is adapted to carrying out an analysis of a current status of at least one device of the hearing system. The assistance unit is furthermore adapted to attempting to correct the current status if a faulty or inappropriate current status has been detected. The hearing system comprises a communication interface, wherein the assistance unit is adapted to attempting to establish a communication link to a remote assistance provider using the communication interface. The method for assisting a user of a hearing system, comprises the steps of receiving a request for assistance from the user by a request-receiving unit and automatically carrying out an assistance function upon the receiving. | 2010-06-10 |