26th week of 2016 patent applcation highlights part 63 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160189657 | DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING A MUX TO VARY VOLTAGE LEVELS OF A SWITCHING CIRCUIT USED TO DRIVE A DISPLAY PANEL - A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of data lines, a data driver to supply a source voltage to each data line through a source line, a switching circuit to connect each data line to the source line, and a multiplexer controller to produce a control signal operating the switching circuit and vary a voltage level of the control signal depending on the source voltage. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189658 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND GATE DRIVING CIRCUTI THEREOF - The invention provides a display device and a gate driving circuit thereof. The gate driving circuit includes shift register circuits cascade connected in series. Each shift register circuit includes: first and second pull-up circuits, a first capacitor, a first pull-down circuit including a third transistor, a second pull-down circuit including a fourth transistor, and a pull-down control circuit electrically coupled to preceding-stage gate and succeeding-stage gate driving signals, gates of the third and fourth transistors, and first and second voltage levels. The pull-down control circuit is for controlling the third and fourth transistors according to the preceding-stage and the succeeding-stage gate driving signals. Accordingly, the invention is suitable for CMOS process and can increase circuit stability. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189659 | GATE DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - Provided is a gate driving circuit including driving stages which provide a plurality of pixels of a display panel with gate signals, wherein any one of the driving stages includes a thin film transistor including a first control electrode, an activation part overlapping the first control electrode, an input electrode overlapping the activation part, an output electrode overlapping the activation part, and a second electrode disposed on the first control electrode and the activation part; and a capacitor including a first electrode disposed on the layer on which the first control electrode is disposed, a second electrode, which overlaps at least a portion of the first electrode and is disposed on the layer on which the input electrode is disposed, and a third electrode which overlaps the first and second electrodes and is electrically connected to the first electrode. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189660 | Power Supplying Module and Related Driving module and Electronic Device - A power supplying module for an electronic device with a display function includes a first power supplying unit, for charging an output end according to a first clock signal, wherein the output end is coupled to a driving module of the electronic device; and a clock generating unit, for adjusting the first clock signal when an event occurs to make the first power supplying unit charge the output end when the event occurs. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189661 | DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a display device that has a data transmission device for providing a differential signal to a source driver, in which the data transmission device, for example, includes a differential signaling driver including a current controller, the current controller determining a toggling of an image data and setting an output current value based on a determination of the toggling of the image data; and first and second signal lines electrically connected between the differential signaling driver and a receiver, the receiver outputting the differential signal to the source driver. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189662 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel configured to display an image, a driver configured to drive the liquid crystal panel, a timing controller configured to control the driver, and a power supply configured to be supplied by an input voltage, supply a common voltage to the liquid crystal panel, and temporarily vary a compensation ratio of the common voltage when a pattern causing a drop of the input voltage is displayed by the display device. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189663 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAY AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - An organic light-emitting display including a data driver connected to a plurality of data lines disposed in a first direction, a scan driver connected to a plurality of scan lines disposed in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a display panel including a pixel group which includes first through fourth pixel units respectively connected to j-th through (j+3)-th data lines among the data lines. The first through fourth pixel units are connected to an i-th scan line among the scan lines and disposed in the first direction, where i and j are natural numbers equal to or greater than one. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189664 | NON-QUADRANGULAR DISPLAY AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A non-quadrangular display includes a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of signal supply lines connected to the gate lines through corresponding contact points from among a plurality of contact points, and a difference between linear loads based on the signal supply lines and the gate lines connected to two contact points that have a similar symmetrical relationship from among the plurality of contact points is less than a set threshold value. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189665 | DISPLAY CONTROLLER AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICES INCLUDING THE SAME - A display controller includes a first register set by an open operating system, a second register set by a secure operating system, a first data input circuit configured to read normal data according to set information in the first register, a second data input circuit configured to read secure data according to set information in the second register, and a data processor configured to blend and output the normal data with the secure data to display the secure data over the normal data. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189666 | SEPARATING A COMPRESSED STREAM INTO MULTIPLE STREAMS - Embodiments of the invention generally provide a display device that includes a controller that is communicatively coupled between a display source and source drivers. The controller and source drivers include respective decompression engines that can decompress the compressed data received from the display source. Instead of sending all of the compressed data to the source drivers, the controller evaluates the uncompressed data and identifies what portion of the compressed data corresponds to each of the source drivers. Moreover, the controller may determine a decompression engine state that corresponds to each portion of the compressed data. The saved engine state is transmitted to the source drivers which then initialize their decompression engines using the engine states. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189667 | AUDIO OUTPUT APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An audio output apparatus a display configured to display an output image; a speaker configured to output audio; and a processor configured to control the speaker to output music content as the audio, determine, based on meta data and external environment information, an image category corresponding to the music content among presorted image categories, determine at least one image corresponding to the determined image category as a background image, and control the display to display the determined at least one image as the output image. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189668 | MULTI EMBEDDED TIMING CONTROLLER, DISPLAY PANEL, AND COMPUTER SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - A timing controller, a multi embedded timing controller (TED), and a display panel including a multi TED are provided. The timing controller includes: a first interface configured to receive data from a host device; and a second interface configured to communicate with another timing controller for driving the display panel, wherein the second interface is configured to communicate full link training information with the other timing controller. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189669 | DISPLAY PANEL - A display panel including a plurality of sub-pixel repeating units is provided. The sub-pixel repeating units are repeatedly arranged on the display panel. Each of the sub-pixel repeating units includes at least one first color sub-pixel and at least one second color sub-pixel. On the display panel, the adjacent first color sub-pixels form a first polygon, and the adjacent second color sub-pixels form a second polygon. The area of the first polygon is at least twice the area of the second polygon. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189670 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE - An organic light emitting display device, including a display panel including red, green, first blue, and second blue sub-pixels, a data drive unit configured to receive an image signal and output data output signals, a de-multiplexer circuit configured to distribute data output signals to the data lines connected to the red, green, and the first blue sub-pixels, in response to receiving a first blue drive selection signal, or to the data lines connected to the red, green, first blue, and the second blue sub-pixels, in response to receiving a mixed drive selection signal, and a control unit configured to process a raw image data into the image signal, provide the image signal to the data drive unit, and provide the first blue drive selection signal or the mixed drive selection signal to the de-multiplexer circuit in a frame unit of the raw image data. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189671 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE - An organic light emitting display device includes a display panel including red sub-pixels, green sub-pixels, first blue sub-pixels, and second blue sub-pixels. A data drive unit receives an image signal and outputs a plurality of data output signals. A demultiplexer distributes the data signals to the red sub-pixels, the green sub-pixels and either the first blue sub-pixels or both the first and second blue sub-pixels in response a drive selection signal. A control unit processes raw image data and provides an image signal to the data drive unit, and detects image data belonging to a first color gamut and a second color gamut from the image data, determines a first blue drive area belonging to the first color gamut and a mixed drive area belonging to the second color gamut, and provides the appropriate selection signal to the demultiplexer to increase efficiency and extend useful life of the display. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189672 | System for Accurately and Precisely Representing Image Color Information - A method and system for accurate and precise representation of color for still and moving images, particularly sequences of digitized color images. Spectral and/or extended dynamic range information is retained as images are captured, processed, and presented during color adjustment. Using this extra spectral information, various methodologies for further presenting or processing the color within these images can be optimized. Presentation-device independence is achieved not by attempting to discover a device-independent intermediate representation, but rather by deferring the binding and mapping of color representation onto a presentation device until its actual use. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189673 | METHOD FOR RADIOMETRIC COMPENSATED DISPLAY, CORRESPONDING SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - Color signals to be displayed on a colored display surface and having a first gamut in a color space, are subjected to radiometric compensation. An embodiment includes displaying on the colored surface a set of control points of a known color, acquiring via a camera the control points as displayed on the colored surface and evaluating at least one second color gamut of the control points displayed on the colored surface. The second color gamut(s) is/are misaligned with respect to the first color gamut due to the display surface being a colored surface. The method may also include evaluating as an intersection gamut, the misalignment of the second color gamut(s) with respect to the first color gamut, calculating the color transformation operator(s) as a function of the misalignment evaluated, and applying the color transformation operator(s) to the color signals for display on the colored display surface. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189674 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a display screen that displays an image; and a controller that: obtains a first cumulative value of a blue light output amount from the display screen during a first time period during which the display screen continuously displays the image; and decreases a blue light output from the display screen based on the first cumulative value. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189675 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a plurality of color filters positioned at a plurality of color pixels and representing different colors; and a transparent layer positioned at a white pixel and including a green colorant and a blue colorant, wherein white color coordinates represented by the white pixel are substantially equal to white color coordinates represented together by the plurality of color pixels. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189676 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A gray voltage generator includes a reference voltage generator and a gray voltage setter. The reference voltage generator generates a reference voltage lookup table (LUT) for each of a plurality of gray levels and luminances for a first luminance based on a first gamma code. The gray voltage setter calculates gray voltages for a second luminance based on the reference voltage LUT and generates a gamma code corresponding to the second luminance. The gamma code for the second luminance is generated by converting the gray voltages, which have analog values, to integers and by determining how to round some of the gray voltages based on how to round at least one other gray voltage. The first gamma code corresponds to a gamma code set based on when an image is displayed at the first luminance. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189677 | DISPLAY CIRCUIT AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display circuit and a driving method thereof and a display apparatus are provided. The display circuit comprises a pixel unit ( | 2016-06-30 |
20160189678 | ADJUSTING A TRANSPARENT DISPLAY WITH AN IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE - A system and method for adjusting a display an image capturing device is provided. The method includes receiving an image, detecting a facial feature, such as eyes squinting, and adjusting a contrast of a display accordingly. As such, by employing a facial feature detection technique, a display may more dynamically provide an updated contrast. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189679 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INTERACTIONS WITH A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Embodiments disclosed herein generally include a system and a method of controlling a portable electronic device based on the interaction of the portable electronic device with an electronic device, such as a mounting device. Embodiments of the disclosure may include a system and a method of providing information to the portable electronic device that causes the portable electronic device to perform one or more desirable functions or processes based on the portable electronic device's interaction with the mounting device. In some embodiments, the portable electronic device may respond differently when it is caused to interact with differently configured mounting devices. In some embodiments, the way that the portable device interacts with a user may be restricted and/or the functions that the portable device is able to perform may be desirably restricted after the portable device is caused to interact with a mounting device. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189680 | Selective Composite Rendering - Systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products are described below for rendering a graphical user interface by selectively compositing display contents. In general for each of one or more content producers, where each content producer is associated with content storage containing display content, display content for output is identified depending on the content consumer to which the graphical user interface is being rendered. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189681 | Ordering Mechanism for Offload Graphics Scheduling - Described herein are technologies related to a ensuring that graphics commands and graphics context are offloading and scheduled for consumption as the commands and graphics context are sent from coherent to non-coherent memory/fabric in a “processor to processor” handoff or transaction. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189682 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING REFRESH FREQUENCY THEREOF - A display apparatus and a method for controlling a refresh frequency thereof are provided. The method includes: dividing a display image into a plurality of sub-display images; calculating a plurality of refresh frequency request values respectively corresponding to the sub-display images according to a plurality of patterns respectively corresponding to the sub-display images; and, calculating a refresh frequency of the display image according to the refresh frequency request values. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189683 | DISPLAY PANEL - A display panel including a pixel array and a gate driver circuit is provided. The pixel array has a plurality of pixels. The gate driver circuit is used for providing a plurality of gate signals to the pixels and includes a plurality of shift registers and a plurality of demultiplexers. The shift registers respectively receive a first gate signal of the gate signals and a first clock signal of a plurality of clock signals to respectively provide a first control signal and a second control signal. The demultiplexers respectively receive a plurality of second clock signals of the clock signals, respectively turn-on according to the first control signal provided by the corresponding one of the shift registers, and respectively cut-off according to the second control signal provided by the corresponding one of the shift registers. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189684 | DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING A DYNAMIC CAPACITANCE COMPENSATION LOOKUP TABLE - A display device includes an external image processing set and a display assembly configured to receive converted image data from the external image processing set and display an image corresponding to the converted image data. The display assembly includes a dynamic capacitance compensation lookup table storage unit which stores therein a dynamic capacitance compensation lookup table, and the external image processing set includes a memory which receives the dynamic capacitance compensation lookup table from the display assembly and stores therein the received dynamic capacitance compensation lookup table, and a graphic processing unit which outputs converted image data in which current frame data has undergone dynamic capacitance compensation based on the stored dynamic capacitance compensation lookup table, the current frame data and previous frame data. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189685 | Methods and Apparatus for Displaying Video Including Variable Frame Rates - Methods are described for displaying video including variable frame rates. A method for displaying images includes receiving digital video data including video image data in a display system capable of displaying images at multiple frame rates; storing the digital video data in at least one frame buffer coupled to the display system; receiving in the digital video data ancillary data comprising at least configuration parameters indicating a current frame rate and a future frame rate; storing the parameters representative of a current frame rate in a first timing control buffer coupled to the display system; storing the parameters representative of a future frame rate in a second timing control buffer; displaying images from data in the frame buffer at the current frame rate; and upon detection of a swap condition, instantly displaying images from data in the frame buffer at the future frame rate. Additional methods and apparatus are described. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189686 | System And Method For Computing An Image - Disclosed are a system and method for computing a picture. Instead of loading a file that contains the image from memory, the present invention provides for a system and method for opening and retaining a procedural recipe and a small set of instructions that can be executed to compute a picture. The picture can be computed very quickly using a GPU (graphics processing unit), and can be made to move on demand. When a part of the image is needed to composite, that part is computed using a fragment program on the GPU using the procedural recipe and a specially written fragment program into a temporary VRAM buffer. After it is computed and composited, the buffer containing the result of the fragment program may be discarded. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189687 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE SAFE VISUALIZATION OF SAFETY-RELEVANT INFORMATION - A method for the safe visualization of a safety-relevant information includes the steps of:
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20160189688 | REQUESTING DISPLAY FRAMES FROM A DISPLAY SOURCE - Embodiments of the invention generally provide a display panel that uses predefined criteria to determine when to send a request for a display frame to a display source. The predefined criteria may be, for example, when the display panel needs to refresh the display faster than the display source transmits display frames, when the display source fails to send a new display frame within a specified time period, when a maximum refresh time is exceeded and the displayed image begins to decay or leak, and the like. Furthermore, the display panel may include a frame buffer for storing the display frames received from the display source. Additional predefined criteria may be when the display frame stored in the frame buffer becomes corrupted or when the frame buffer lacks enough available memory to store the frame. In response, the display panel may request the display source retransmit the previous display frame. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189689 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING DISPLAY PANEL USING THE SAME - A display apparatus includes a display panel, a gate driver and a data driver. The display panel includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines and a plurality of pixels connected to the gate lines and the data lines. The display panel displays an image. The gate driver is configured to output a gate signal to the gate line. The data driver is configured to selectively operate one of outputting a data voltage to the data line and reading the data voltage stored in the pixel through the data line. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189690 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT SUPPORT AND SOUND SOURCE BODY SUPPORT - An endpin support | 2016-06-30 |
20160189691 | KEYLESS LOCKING TREMOLO SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Embodiments disclosed herein describe keyless locking tremolo systems and methods for musical instruments that are configured to tune and restrain strings for a musical instrument without an external tool. Embodiments are configured to adjust the vertical positioning of a tightening post and string clamp without an external tool. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189692 | Heel-Toe Actuated Pedal System - A heel-toe actuated bass drum pedal system includes a pedal having a heel hinge point at a rear portion and an opposing toe hinge point at a front portion. A heel transfer arm is connected between the heel hinge point and the base. A heel rocker pivot is connected to the base and a heel linkage connected between the heel transfer arm and the heel rocker pivot such that movement of the heel linkage provides rotational movement to the heel rocker pivot which may carry a drum beater. A toe rocker pivot is connected to the base and a toe linkage connected between the toe rocker pivot and the toe hinge point for providing the rotational movement to the toe rocker pivot which may include a second drum beater. A return spring biases the rocker pivots toward a preselected rotation. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189693 | NICKEL BRASS CYMBAL HAVING LOW NICKEL CONTENT - According to some aspects, a cymbal is provided comprising a nickel brass primarily comprising copper and further comprising zinc and nickel, wherein the nickel brass comprises between 3 and 9 percent nickel by weight. According to some aspects, a method of producing a cymbal comprising the nickel brass is provided. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189694 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING PRESENTATION SYSTEM PAGE COMMANDS - Methods, systems and computer readable media for generating musical score presentation system page commands are described. In some implementations, the method can include receiving an electronic signal corresponding to a music track. The method can also include translating the received electronic signal into a page command. The method can further include generating a page command configured to be provided to an electronic musical score presentation system. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189695 | GUITAR STRAP - A guitar strap including lasso-like connectors at either end, allowing the strap to be fastened to the guitar by placing the sliding loops over the guitar's strap-buttons and pulling tight. A pull-tab near the sliding eye on the sliding loops is used to pull the loop back open and disconnect the strap end from the guitar. An elastic ring incorporated into the pull-tab stretches over the button head and fastens onto the button to prevent the sliding eye from loosening open when there is no tension on the strap. Each connector is positioned in a sling formed by folding a length of the strap band. The strap band has soft loop material on its surfaces and a section of hook tape fixed to either end to facilitate adjustment of the overall strap length. The tape adheres to nearly any location along the top surface of the band, allowing the length of the strap to be adjusted quickly in large or small increments. The loop material along both sides of the strap band allow users to affix hook-tape to a variety of objects such as wireless transmitters, audio recorders, and decorations and attach them to the strap as desired. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189696 | INSTRUMENT CASE - Methods, systems, and apparatus for the protection and transportation of musical instruments can include cases constructed of a semi-rigid and lightweight material to enable convenient transportation of the instrument and instrumental accessories, such as in internal and compartmentalized storage areas. Extendable/collapsible legs can enable the case to be placed in a standing position and to enable instruments to be retrieved and/or inserted whilst the case is in the standing position. The lid may be foldable over the front of the case or removed entirely from the case. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189697 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PLAYING SYMPHONY - A symphony playing method using an electronic device includes calculating a distance value between a first GPS device of a first detecting device and a distal terminal of a baton. An angle between a first straight line and a second straight line is calculated. A capturing device is controlled to capture images of hand gestures of a user. Once a music instrument is determined to be currently pointed to by the distal terminal of the baton, according to the first distance value and the calculated angle, and a beat is determined according to the captured images, notes on the symphony is played using a tone of the determined music instrument according to the determined beat. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189698 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYSIS AND CREATION OF MUSIC - A method and system for analyzing patterns in the relationships of notes of an input piece of music. The method comprises generating a set of the most frequently occurring note pitches in ascending pitch order that matches an interval pattern, and detecting out-of-key pitches that lie outside of this interval pattern. One or more potential key sequence bifurcations are identified which represent a list of possible key sequences according to forwards and backwards analysis. By finding patterns of repetition in the chordal sequences that may be generated according to these key sequence bifurcations, a key sequence that allows the most frequently recurring chord sequences may be chosen. Chord sequences may be analyzed by using ghost chords, temporary harmonic structures that are created, updated and finalized over time according to a combination of essential and inessential note fragments. The method further comprises identifying non-harmony pitches according to the analyzed chord sequence. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189699 | DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING AT LEAST ONE AUDIO OR VIDEO SIGNAL WITH THE DISPLAY OF INFORMATION, CORRESPONDING ELECTRONIC MIXING CONTROLLER, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - The invention has for object a device for controlling ( | 2016-06-30 |
20160189700 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING DISTORTION ECHO - Method and apparatus for reducing distortion echo are provided. K-path amplification and pre-distortion process are performed to the downlink reference signal to obtain K-path pre-distorted signals. Afterwards, filtering is performed using the self-adaptive filters which correspond to the downlink reference signal x(t) and the K-path pre-distorted signals to obtain the filtering signals. Error signals are obtained by calculating differences between the target signal and each of the filtering signals. The minimum-value fusion process is performed to the error signals to obtain the residual signal which is then output as the final self-adaptive echo cancellation. In embodiments of the present disclosure, the residual signal is relatively small as the minimum-value fusion process is performed to the error signals. That is to say, echo loss is relatively great. Therefore, the method may provide echo loss with high amplitude under a situation that a speaker has relatively serious distortion. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189701 | NETWORKED SOUND MASKING SYSTEM - A sound masking system for shaping the ambient noise level in a physical environment. The sound masking system comprises a networked and distributed system having a number of master units coupled together and to a control unit. One or more of the master units may include satellite sound masking units which function to reproduce the sound masking signal generated by the master sound masking unit. Each of the master units is addressable over the network by the control unit enabling the control unit to program the contour, spectral band, and gain characteristics of the sound masking output signal. The system may also include a remote control unit which provides the capability to tune and adjust each master sound masking unit in situ without requiring physical access through the ceiling installation. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189702 | ACOUSTIC METAMATERIAL GATE - An acoustic wave gate is provided. The gate includes one or more layers of metamaterial configured to be in a first state and a second state and configured to change from the first state to the second state when electrical and/or magnetic energy is applied thereto. The gate also includes at least one source configured in operational communication with the one or more layers and configured to supply at least one of electrical and magnetic energy to the one or more layers. The one or more layers are configured to (i) prevent the passage of acoustic energy through the one or more layers when in the first state and (ii) permit the passage of acoustic energy through the one or more layers when in the second state, wherein the one or more layers are configured to be stimulated in phase with the acoustic energy. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189704 | VOICE SELECTION SUPPORTING DEVICE, VOICE SELECTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A voice selection supporting device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an acceptance unit that accepts input of a text, an analysis knowledge storage unit that stores therein text analysis knowledge to be used for characteristic analysis for the input text, an analysis unit that analyzes a characteristic of the text by referring to the text analysis knowledge, a voice attribute storage unit that stores therein a voice attribute of each voice dictionary, an evaluation unit that evaluates similarity between the voice attribute of the voice dictionary and the characteristic of the text, and a candidate presentation unit that presents, based on the similarity, a candidate for the voice dictionary suitable for the text. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189705 | QUANTITATIVE F0 CONTOUR GENERATING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND MODEL LEARNING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR F0 CONTOUR GENERATION - [Object] An object is to provide an F0 contour synthesizing device based on statistic model, to clarify correspondence between linguistic information and F0 contour while maintaining accuracy. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189706 | ISOLATED WORD TRAINING AND DETECTION - Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for isolated word training and detection. Isolated word training devices and systems are provided in which a user may provide a wake-up phrase from 1 to 3 times to train the device or system. A concatenated phoneme model of the user-provided wake-up phrase may be generated based on the provided wake-up phrase and a pre-trained phoneme model database. A word model of the wake-up phrase may be subsequently generated from the concatenated phoneme model and the provided wake-up phrase. Once trained, the user-provided wake-up phrase may be used to unlock the device or system and/or to wake up the device or system from a standby mode of operation. The word model of the user-provided wake-up phrase may be further adapted based on additional provisioning of the wake-up phrase. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189707 | SPEECH PROCESSING - A wireless communication device is disclosed. The wireless communication device includes a processor, a memory, a transceiver configured to receive an audio signal, a codec to decode the audio signal, a dynamic range controller and a phoneme processor. The phoneme processor is configured to extract acoustic cues from each frame of the decoded audio signal and to identify a phoneme class in the each frame. The dynamic range controller is configured to apply dynamic range compression on the each frame based on the identified phoneme class. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189708 | AUDIBLE PROXIMITY MESSAGING - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing audible proximity messaging are disclosed. A computer-implemented method may include receiving a message for communication to one or more users, receiving a keyword associated with a message, analyzing an audio track to determine whether the keyword exists in the audio track, matching the keyword to the audio track, identifying one or more locations of the keyword in the audio track, converting the message to an audible format, determine whether to provide the message to a user based on one or more conditions associated with the user, and providing the message to a user when the keyword is played during the audio track. In some examples, the message may be an audio message played when the keyword plays in the audio track based on one or more of a user preference, a user location, a current user activity, and/or other factors. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189709 | SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAINTENANCE REPAIR AND OVERHAUL - Methods and systems are provided for capturing information associated with a component of a system during a maintenance procedure. In one embodiment, a method includes: managing a dialog with a user via a wearable device based on a pre-defined dialog file, wherein the pre-defined dialog file is defined for at least one of a component and a procedure; receiving speech signals at the wearable device based on the dialog; processing the speech signals by the wearable device to identify component information; and transmitting the component information from the wearable device to a host component for use by a maintenance application. The managing, receiving, and transmitting are performed during a maintenance procedure. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189710 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION - A method and apparatus for speech recognition are disclosed. The speech recognition apparatus includes a processor configured to process a received speech signal, generate a word sequence based on a phoneme sequence generated from the speech signal, generate a syllable sequence corresponding to a word element among words comprised in the word sequence based on the phoneme sequence, and determine a text corresponding to a recognition result of the speech signal based on the word sequence and the syllable sequence. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189711 | SPEECH RECOGNITION FOR INTERNET VIDEO SEARCH AND NAVIGATION - Speech representing a desired video site or video subject is detected and digitized at a TV remote, and then sent to a TV. The TV or in some embodiments an Internet server communicating with the TV use speech recognition principles to recognize the speech, enter a database using the recognized speech as entering argument, and return a link to an Internet site hosting the desired video. The link can be displayed on the TV for selection thereof by a user to retrieve the video. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189712 | ENGINE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING AUDIO TRANSCRIPTIONS FOR USE IN CONTENT RESOURCES - The present invention relates to the transcription of audio, and, more particularly, to an engine, system and method of providing audio transcriptions for use in content resources. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189713 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY CREATING AND RECORDING MINUTES OF MEETING - An electronic apparatus for automatically acquiring and revising minutes of a meeting and a method thereof includes the steps of identifying one or more speakers from audio signals which are recorded during a meeting, based on pre-sampled audio signals and a voice feature table stored in a non-transitory storage medium. The audio signals are converted to text and divided into paragraphs, one paragraph being attributable to one speaker, and each speaker has a given user name. An original minutes of the meeting, based on the text and a meeting minutes template stored in the non-transitory storage medium, is prepared and revised and issued to all relevant persons. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189714 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VOICE CONTROL OF A MOBILE DEVICE - A method and apparatus for voice control of a mobile device are provided. The method establishes a connection between the mobile device and a voice-control module. Responsive to establishing the connection, the mobile device enters into an intermediate mode; and the voice-control module monitors for verbal input comprising a verbal command from among a set of predetermined verbal commands. The voice-control module sends instructions to the mobile device related to the verbal command received; and the mobile device acts on the received instructions. An apparatus/voice control module (VCM) for voice control of a mobile device, wherein the VCM includes a connection module configured for establishing a connection between the VCM and the mobile device; a monitoring module configured for monitoring for a verbal command from among a set of predetermined verbal commands; and a communications module configured for sending instructions to the mobile device related to the verbal command received. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189715 | SPEECH RECOGNITION DEVICE AND METHOD - A terminal includes a speech acquisition unit that acquires first speech information, a first speech processor that removes noise contained in the first speech information using a first removal method and outputs the noise-removed speech information as second speech information, a first speech recognition unit that performs speech recognition on the second speech information and outputs the speech recognition result as first speech recognition result information, a communication unit that receives a speech recognition result as second speech recognition result information from a server, the speech recognition result being a result obtained by performing speech recognition on third speech information, the third speech information being obtained by removing noise contained in the first speech information using a second removal method that removes a larger amount of noise than the amount of noise removed from the first speech information using the first removal method, and a determination unit that makes a selection as to which of the first speech recognition result information and the second speech recognition result information should be outputted. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189716 | SPEECH RECOGNITION WAKE-UP OF A HANDHELD PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A system and method for parallel speech recognition processing of multiple audio signals produced by multiple microphones in a handheld portable electronic device. In one embodiment, a primary processor transitions to a power-saving mode while an auxiliary processor remains active. The auxiliary processor then monitors the speech of a user of the device to detect a wake-up command by speech recognition processing the audio signals in parallel. When the auxiliary processor detects the command it then signals the primary processor to transition to active mode. The auxiliary processor may also identify to the primary processor which microphone resulted in the command being recognized with the highest confidence. Other embodiments are also described. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189717 | DISCOVERING CAPABILITIES OF THIRD-PARTY VOICE-ENABLED RESOURCES - Techniques are described for discovering capabilities of voice-enabled resources. A voice-controlled digital personal assistant can respond to user requests to list available voice-enabled resources that are capable of performing a specific task using voice input. The voice-controlled digital personal assistant can also respond to user requests to list the tasks that a particular voice-enabled resource can perform using voice input. The voice-controlled digital personal assistant can also support a practice mode in which users practice voice commands for performing tasks supported by voice-enabled resources. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189718 | Multichannel Audio Coding - Multiple channels of audio are combined either to a monophonic composite signal or to multiple channels of audio along with related auxiliary information from which multiple channels of audio are reconstructed, including improved downmixing of multiple audio channels to a monophonic audio signal or to multiple audio channels and improved decorrelation of multiple audio channels derived from a monophonic audio channel or from multiple audio channels. Aspects of the disclosed invention are usable in audio encoders, decoders, encode/decode systems, downmixers, upmixers, and decorrelators. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189719 | FRAME ERROR CONCEALMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND AUDIO DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS - Disclosed are a frame error concealment method and apparatus and an audio decoding method and apparatus. The frame error concealment (FEC) method includes: selecting an FEC mode based on at least one of a state of at least one frame and a phase matching flag, with regard to a time domain signal generated after time-frequency inverse transform processing; and performing corresponding time domain error concealment processing on the current frame based on the selected FEC mode, wherein the current frame is an error frame or the current frame is a normal frame when the previous frame is an error frame. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189720 | Model Based Prediction in a Critically Sampled Filterbank - A method and method of extracting information from a netlist. The netlist for a device under test (DUT) is read and a circuit selected to be transformed. Transformation candidates are identified using transformation specific criteria and verification methods are applied to prove the transformation is equivalent to the circuit being transformed. If the candidate transformation is equivalent to the circuit being transformed, the system commits to the transformation. If the candidate transformation is not equivalent to the circuit being transformed, the transformation is undone. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189721 | EFFECTIVE DEPLOYMENT OF TEMPORAL NOISE SHAPING (TNS) FILTERS - The MPEG2 Advanced Audio Coder (AAC) standard limits the number of filters used to either one filter for a “short” block or three filters for a “long” block. In cases where the need for additional filters is present but the limit of permissible filters has been reached, the remaining frequency spectra are simply not covered by TNS. Two solutions are proposed to deploy TNS filters in order to get the entire spectrum of the signal into TNS. The first method involves a filter bridging technique and complies with the current AAC standard. The second method involves a filter clustering technique. Although the second method is both more efficient and accurate in capturing the temporal structure of the time signal, it is not AAC standard compliant. Thus, a new syntax for packing filter information derived using the second method for transmission to a receiver is also outlined. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189722 | ACOUSTIC SIGNAL CODING APPARATUS, ACOUSTIC SIGNAL DECODING APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, ACOUSTIC SIGNAL CODING METHOD, AND ACOUSTIC SIGNAL DECODING METHOD - An acoustic signal coding apparatus includes a subband classifier that classifies subbands obtained by dividing a frequency-domain spectrum into a plurality of perceptually important first-category subbands and the other subbands referred to as second-category subbands according to at least one of measures in terms of energy and peak property, an SBP-AVQ vector generator that generates an SBP-AVQ vector by collecting a maximum peak from each first-category subband, outputs the generated SBP-AVQ vector, and outputs peak position information indicating the positions of the maximum peaks, a bit distributor that distributes bits for AVQ coding to the SBP-AVQ vector and the second-category subband vector, and an AVQ coder that performs AVQ coding on the SBP-AVQ vector and the second-category subband vector. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189723 | Reconstructing Audio Signals With Multiple Decorrelation Techniques - A method performed in an audio decoder for decoding M encoded audio channels representing N audio channels is disclosed. The method includes receiving a bitstream containing the M encoded audio channels and a set of spatial parameters, decoding the M encoded audio channels, and extracting the set of spatial parameters from the bitstream. The method also includes analyzing the M audio channels to detect a location of a transient, decorrelating the M audio channels, and deriving N audio channels from the M audio channels and the set of spatial parameters. A first decorrelation technique is applied to a first subset of each audio channel and a second decorrelation technique is applied to a second subset of each audio channel. The first decorrelation technique represents a first mode of operation of a decorrelator, and the second decorrelation technique represents a second mode of operation of the decorrelator. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189724 | The method of codec selection in the audio transmission process in ICT systems - The object of the invention is a method for selecting a codec which is optimal in terms of the properties of the communication channel in a sound transmission system that uses packet-switched data communications. The method involves continuous measurement of the properties of communication channel in each direction and the selection of a codec optimal for the transmission in a given direction from a set of available codecs. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189725 | Voice Processing Method and Apparatus, and Recording Medium Therefor - A processing unit of a voice processing apparatus first generates a target voice signal in a time domain by adjusting a fundamental frequency of a target voice signal to a fundamental frequency of an initial voice signal, so as to generate a spectrum of the target voice signal after pitch is adjusted. Second, the processing unit reallocates, along a frequency axis, the spectrum of the target voice characteristics by having the spectrum correspond to each of the fundamental frequencies of the initial voice signal. The processing unit then generates a converted spectrum by adjusting component values of the spectrum of the target voice characteristics, which spectrum has been reallocated, so as to correspond to the component values of the spectrum of the initial voice signal, and by adapting the component values of the spectrum of the initial voice signal to specific frequency bands of the spectrum of the target voice characteristics, with each specific frequency band including one of the harmonic frequencies corresponding to the fundamental frequency of the initial voice signal. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189726 | MECHANISM FOR FACILITATING DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENT OF AUDIO INPUT/OUTPUT (I/O) SETTING DEVICES AT CONFERENCING COMPUTING DEVICES - A mechanism is described for facilitating dynamic adjustment of audio input/output setting devices at conferencing computing devices according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes maintaining awareness of proximity between a plurality of computing devices participating in a conference, detecting audio disturbance relating to the plurality of computing devices, and calculating adjustments to settings of one or more audio input/output (I/O) devices coupled to one or more of the plurality of computing devices to eliminate the audio disturbance. The adjustments may be dynamically applied to the settings of the one or more audio I/O devices. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189727 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING ECHO - The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for reducing an echo, which apply a first stage adaptive filter to a downlink reference signal to obtain a first stage filtered signal and a first error signal; after performing a K-path gain process and a K-path pre-distortion process to the downlink reference signal, apply the at least one second stage adaptive filter to a K-path pre-distorted signal to obtain a second stage filtered signal and a second error signal; and perform a minimum value fusion process to the first error signal and the second error signal so as to obtain a residue signal, which is considered as a final output of adaptive echo cancellation. Accordingly, the present disclosure realizes steadily providing a relatively high echo loss under a circumstance that a speaker suffers a relatively great distortion. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189728 | Voice Signal Processing Method and Apparatus - A voice signal processing method and apparatus, which are used to process a voice signal collected by a microphone of a terminal in order to meet requirements of the terminal in different application modes for the voice signal generated after the processing. The method includes collecting at least two voice signals, determining a current application mode of a terminal, determining, according to the current application mode from the voice signals, voice signals corresponding to the current application mode, and performing, in a preset voice signal processing manner that matches the current application mode, beamforming processing on the corresponding voice signals. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189729 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR MULTI-CHANNEL SIGNAL COMPRESSION DURING DESIRED VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION - Apparatuses and methods are described to identify desired audio. A first input of an apparatus is configured to receive a main signal. A second input of the apparatus is configured to receive a reference signal. A normalizer is configured to normalize a compressed main signal by a compressed reference signal to create a normalized main signal. A single channel normalized voice threshold comparator is configured to receive as an input the normalized main signal and to output a desired voice activity detection signal. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189730 | SPEECH SEPARATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - An example of the present invention discloses a speech separation method and a system, the method comprises: receiving a mixture speech signal to be separated; extracting a speech feature of the mixture speech signal; inputting the extracted speech feature of the mixture speech signal into a regression model for speech separation, obtaining an estimated speech feature of a target speech signal; synthesizing to obtain the target speech signal according to the estimated speech feature. Speech separation effect can be improved effectively using the present invention. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189731 | PROCESS AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM FOR SEPARATING A SPECIFIED AUDIO COMPONENT AFFECTED BY REVERBERATION AND AN AUDIO BACKGROUND COMPONENT FROM AN AUDIO MIXTURE SIGNAL - Processes are described herein for transforming an audio mixture for which a specific component is affected by reverberation, into a specific dry component (i.e. unaffected by the reverberation) and a background component. In the process described herein, the long-term effects of reverberation are explicitly taken into account by modelling the spectrogram of the specific component as the result of a matrix convolution along time between the spectrogram of the specific dry component and a reverberation matrix. Parameters of the model are estimated iteratively by minimizing a cost-function measuring the divergence between the spectrogram of the mixture signal and the model of the spectrogram of the mixture signal. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189732 | DRONE DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION METHODS AND APPARATUS - A system, method, and apparatus for drone detection and classification are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a sound signal in a microphone and recording, via a sound card, a digital sound sample of the sound signal, the digital sound sample having a predetermined duration. The method also includes processing, via a processor, the digital sound sample into a feature frequency spectrum. The method further includes applying, via the processor, broad spectrum matching to compare the feature frequency spectrum to at least one drone sound signature stored in a database, the at least one drone sound signature corresponding to a flight characteristic of a drone model. The method moreover includes, conditioned on matching the feature frequency spectrum to one of the drone sound signatures, transmitting, via the processor, an alert. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189733 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING SPEECH ACTIVITY DETECTION USING FACIAL FEATURE DETECTION - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for processing audio. A system configured to practice the method monitors, via a processor of a computing device, an image feed of a user interacting with the computing device and identifies an audio start event in the image feed based on face detection of the user looking at the computing device or a specific region of the computing device. The image feed can be a video stream. The audio start event can be based on a head size, orientation or distance from the computing device, eye position or direction, device orientation, mouth movement, and/or other user features. Then the system initiates processing of a received audio signal based on the audio start event. The system can also identify an audio end event in the image feed and end processing of the received audio signal based on the end event. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189734 | ALLOWING FAST DATA ZONE SWITCHES ON DATA STORAGE DEVICES - Some embodiments described herein are directed to reducing or eliminating latency caused by data zone switches in a rotating magnetic storage device. More specifically, some embodiments described herein are directed to storing parameters associated with different zones in a parameter register in response to one or more received commands. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189735 | MATERIALS FOR NEAR FIELD TRANSDUCERS AND NEAR FIELD TRANSDUCERS CONTAINING SAME - A method of forming a near field transducer (NFT) layer, the method including depositing a film of a primary element, the film having a film thickness and a film expanse; and implanting at least one secondary element into the primary element, wherein the NFT layer includes the film of the primary element doped with the at least one secondary element. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189736 | BEARING DEVICE - In order to prevent leaking of lubricant, the bearing device includes a rolling bearing having an outer ring and an inner ring, a shaft fixed to the inner ring, and a sleeve fixed to the outer ring. A flange part is formed on at least one end part of the shaft. The flange part includes a disk part extending from the shaft toward an outside in a radial direction and a cylindrical part extending from the disk part along an axial direction. The cylindrical part is disposed at an outside of the outer ring, and a labyrinth gap which bends at two places is formed by gaps. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189737 | CALIBRATING A TAPE DRIVE - A method for calibrating a tape drive is disclosed herein. The method includes writing a calibration track onto a tape cartridge using a first tape drive. The method includes reading the calibration track using a plurality of tape drives to measure a plurality of write element offset values, in which each write element offset value corresponds to each of the plurality of tape drives. The method includes determining a calibration factor based on an average write element offset value, in which the calibration factor is used to align a write element of a drive head of the first tape drive. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189738 | TAPE HEAD SURFACE WITH NON-UNIFORM CROSS-WIDTH EDGE PROFILES - A tape head having offset transducer spans between adjacent modules of the tape head that serves to maintain the balance between debris removal and reduced magnetic layer/recording device spacing on the one hand and reduced tape/tape head friction on the other hand. In one aspect, opposite edges of each module are relatively sharper adjacent the transducer span and relatively rounded (e.g., less sharp) away from the transducer span. The sharp edges reduce magnetic spacing loss and scrape debris off of the tape while the rounded edges reduce or eliminate contact between the tape and the head in regions where no transducer spans are present and thus where no tape writing or reading would be taking place. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189739 | Magnetic tape and method of manufacturing the same - Provided is a magnetic tape, which comprises, on a nonmagnetic support, a nonmagnetic layer comprising nonmagnetic powder and binder, and on the nonmagnetic layer, a magnetic layer comprising ferromagnetic powder and binder; wherein a total thickness of the magnetic tape is less than or equal to 4.80 μm; at least the magnetic layer comprises one or more components selected from the group consisting of a fatty acid and a fatty acid amide; and a C—H derived carbon, C, concentration calculated from a C—H peak area ratio in a C1s spectrum obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy conducted at a photoelectron take-off angle of 10 degrees on a surface on the magnetic layer side of the magnetic tape is greater than or equal to 45 atom %. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189740 | MAGNETIC TAPE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Provided is a magnetic tape, which comprises, on a nonmagnetic support, a nonmagnetic layer comprising nonmagnetic powder and binder, and on the nonmagnetic layer, a magnetic layer comprising ferromagnetic powder and binder; wherein at least the magnetic layer comprises one or more components selected from the group consisting of a fatty acid and a fatty acid amide; a quantity of components selected from the group consisting of a fatty acid and a fatty acid amide per unit area of the magnetic tape among components that are extracted from a surface on the magnetic layer side of the magnetic tape is less than or equal to 15.0 mg/m | 2016-06-30 |
20160189741 | THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF LASER DIODE MODE HOPPING FOR HEAT ASSISTED MEDIA RECORDING - A method and apparatus provide for determining a temperature at a junction of a laser diode when the laser diode is operated in a lasing state that facilitates heat-assisted magnetic recording, comparing the junction temperature and an injection current supplied during the lasing state to stored combinations of junction temperature and injection current, and determining a likelihood of mode hopping occurring for the laser diode during the lasing state based on the comparison to stored combinations of junction temperature and injection current. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189742 | ASYMMETRICAL DRIVER - A drive circuit having asymmetrical drivers. In an embodiment, a brushless DC motor may be driven by a drive circuit having three high-side MOSFETs and three low-side MOSFETs. A driver controller turns the MOSFETs on and off according to a drive algorithm such that phase currents are injected into motor coils to be driven. The high-side MOSFETs may be sized differently than the low-side MOSFETs. As such, when a MacDonald waveform (or similar drive algorithm) is used to drive the phases of the motor, less power may be required during disk spin-up because the MOSFETs that are on more (e.g., the low-side MOSFETs with a MacDonald waveform) may be sized larger than the MOSFETs that are on less (e.g., the high-side MOSFETs). In this manner, less power is dissipated in the larger size MOSFETs that are on more than the others. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189743 | DISC SPIN SPEED PROFILE FOR AN OPTICAL DISC - Creating a disc spin speed profile allows the player to store this disc spin speed profile and control disc spin speed based on this disc spin speed profile, simplifying the disc spin speed adjustment. Instead of using a Constant Linear Velocity profile matched to the highest data rate prescribed by the standard, the playback device can establish its own disc spin speed profile that is adapted to the data rate requirements as they vary across the record carrier. Starting the disc spin speed profile with a Constant Angular Velocity part, followed by a Constant Linear Velocity part reduces the disc spin speed at zones at the innermost of the disc, reducing noise and energy consumption. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189744 | ERASING RECORDED DATA BY UTILIZING READ HEAD AND WRITE HEAD - Techniques for reducing the time required for erasing specific data recorded on a tape medium. A specific group of records is erased without preliminarily locating the erasure end position. This is carried out by simultaneously utilizing three heads, that is, two read heads and one write head, to detect the erasure end position during data erasure. Various embodiments are applicable to tape media as well as other storage media. Various embodiments are not only applicable as a file system cooperating as a combination of hardware (H/W) and software (S/W), but also applicable in systems, such as databases, that directly use storage without an intermediary file system. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189745 | PHASE ERROR DETECTOR AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - A phase error detector includes a sine wave generation circuit that generates a sine wave signal, based on a first input signal of a first period, a cosine wave generation circuit that generates a cosine wave signal, based on the first input signal, a first calculator that calculates a phase difference between the sine wave signal and a second input signal of a second period, a second calculator that calculates a phase difference between the cosine wave signal and the second input signal, and a first selection unit that outputs the phase difference calculated by the first calculator when the phase difference calculated by the second calculator is within a predetermined range, and outputs a predetermined value having a same sign as a sign of the phase difference calculated by the first calculator when the phase difference calculated by the second calculator is out of the predetermined range. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189746 | MAGNETIC RECORDING AND REPRODUCING DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording and reproducing device includes a magnetic recording medium and a magnetic head. The magnetic recording medium includes a first track including a first sub-track extending along a first direction, and a second sub-track extending along the first direction. The second sub-track is arranged with the first sub-track in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The magnetic head includes a recording unit and a reproducing unit. The recording unit records information in the magnetic recording medium. The reproducing unit reproduces the information recorded in the magnetic recording medium. The recording unit includes a magnetic pole, a write shield separated from the magnetic pole in the first direction, and a side shield separated from the magnetic pole in the second direction. The reproducing unit includes a reproducing element having a reproducing width along the second direction. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189747 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An imaging apparatus comprises an imaging unit, a recording unit configured to record a piece of moving image data, a setting unit configured to set a frame rate of a piece of moving image data, a selection unit configured to select a piece of moving image data to be edited from among a plurality of pieces of moving image data, and a generation unit configured to generate a piece of moving image data having a first frame rate by combining pieces of moving image data, wherein the selection unit sets, as the first frame rate, a frame rate that has been set by the setting unit, and selects, as the piece of moving image data to be edited, a piece of moving image data having a second frame rate that is related to the first frame rate. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189748 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR PRIORITY PROCESSING - A method of scheduling processing of a plurality of recorded media content items, each recorded media content item having one or more media segments which each represent a coverage option for a story fragment. The method receives a quality measure for each media segment in the plurality of recorded media content items, and determines a fitness score for each of a plurality of candidate sequences formed from the media segments, said fitness score being determined using the corresponding quality measure associated with media segments in the corresponding candidate sequence. The method determines a media segment score for each media segment from the corresponding fitness scores of candidate sequences that include that media segment, and then schedules processing of the plurality of recorded media content items in an order determined from media segment scores of the media segments in the recorded media content item. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189749 | AUTOMATIC SELECTIVE UPLOAD OF USER FOOTAGE FOR VIDEO EDITING IN THE CLOUD - A method for automatic selective upload of user footage to a cloud for video production purposes is provided herein The method may include obtaining user generated media entities at a mobile device; analyzing said media entities to derive metadata related to the content of the media entities automatically selecting a subset of the analyzed media entities based on the derived metadata; uploading said selected subset to a remote server; and using the uploaded subset at the remote server to generate a video production. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189750 | AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF VIDEO FROM STRUCTURED CONTENT - Apparatus for generation of playable media from structured data, comprises a structured data reading unit for reading in of content of a first structure, a transformation unit for transforming said content into a second structure, said transformation comprising incorporating media play instructions, and a rendering unit for rendering content from the second structure using said media play instructions to generate playable media from the content. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189751 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTIMEDIA SUMMARY GENERATION - A method for multimedia summary generation, adapted to a multimedia system, the method comprising: capturing a multimedia information from a multimedia source, the multimedia information comprise at least video clips or pictures; processing the multimedia information according to a pre-defined conditions to generate a multimedia summary candidate; generating a multimedia summary list, by checking a system threshold, if the system threshold is null, then output multimedia summary candidate and join the multimedia summary candidate to multimedia summary list; if the system threshold is not null, check the multimedia summary candidate according to the system threshold, if meet the system threshold, then output multimedia summary candidate and join to the multimedia summary candidate to multimedia summary list; if not meet the system threshold, then ignore the multimedia summary candidate; and generating a multimedia summary, by combining the multimedia summary candidate in the multimedia summary candidate list. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189752 | CONSTRAINED SYSTEM REAL-TIME CAPTURE AND EDITING OF VIDEO - A method and apparatus for performing real-time capture and editing of video are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises editing, on a capture device, raw captured media data by extracting media data for a set of highlights in real-time using tags that identify each highlight in the set of highlights from signals generated from triggers; creating, on the capture device, a video clip by combining the set of highlights; and processing, during one or both of editing the raw input data and creating the video clip, a portion of the raw captured media data that is being stored in a memory on the capture device but not included in the video clip during one or both of editing the raw input media data and creating the video. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189753 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR CREATING MULTIPLE UNIQUE VERSIONS OF A VIDEO FOR PLACEMENT ON UNIQUE GENERATED WEB PAGES AND VIDEO-SHARING WEB SITES - A video creation system and process that allows users to create multiple unique versions of a video is disclosed. The system allows online marketers, online SEO management firms, online business owners, small business owners, and other users to create multiple unique versions of a video that can be used for promotional purposes online using a set of chosen keywords. Each video is unique by varying the length, progression, audio, metadata or search terms, video descriptions, and information about where the video was geographically produced. By performing the video creation process, the video creation system greatly reduces the time it takes to generate multiple unique versions of a single source video. The generated multiple unique versions of the video are published as unique generated web pages and may be placed on video-sharing web sites and any other website that can accept video. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189754 | Three-Dimensional One-Time-Programmable Memory Comprising Off-Die Read/Write-Voltage Generator - The present invention discloses a three-dimensional one-time-programmable memory (3D-OTP) comprising an off-die read/write-voltage generator (V | 2016-06-30 |
20160189755 | LOW POWER MEMORY DEVICE - A memory device includes a plurality of word lines elongated along a first direction, and at least one memory unit. The at least one memory unit includes a plurality of memory cells, at least one bit line, and at least one column word line. The plurality of memory cells are arranged along a second direction different from the first direction. The at least one bit line is elongated along the second direction, and configured to transmit data of a selected memory cell. The at least one column word line is elongated along the second direction, and configured to control electrical connections between the memory cells and the at least one bit line, wherein the selected memory cell is selected by a corresponding word line and the at least one column word line. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189756 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE AND SENSE AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT - A cross-coupled circuit provided between first and second bit lines that form a bit line pair includes first to fourth fin transistors of p-channel type. The first transistor has its source connected to a first power supply and its gate connected to the second bit line. The second transistor has its source connected to the first power supply and its gate connected to the first bit line. The third transistor has its source connected to the first transistor's drain and its drain connected to the first bit line. The fourth transistor has its source connected to the second transistor's drain and its drain connected to the second bit line. | 2016-06-30 |
20160189757 | MANAGING DISTURBANCE INDUCED ERRORS - In an embodiment, a memory controller may determine that one or more neighboring memory cells associated with a target memory cell in a memory device are to be refreshed. The controller may generate a command associated with refreshing the one or more neighboring memory cells. The controller may transfer the command from the memory controller to the memory device containing the target memory cell. The command may direct the memory device to refresh the neighboring memory cells and/or return one or more addresses associated with the neighboring memory cells. | 2016-06-30 |