45th week of 2017 patent applcation highlights part 49 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20170323553 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR ADHERENCE MONITORING AND DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR MONITORING USE OF CONSUMABLE DISPENSERS - Devices, systems, and methods are provided for adherence monitoring, and devices, systems, and methods are provided for monitoring use of consumable dispensers. In general, the devices, systems, and methods can facilitate an individual's adherence to a schedule for consuming consumables and can facilitate monitoring and tracking of the individual's adherence to the schedule. The devices, systems, and methods can allow data regarding the individual's historical adherence to the schedule to be accessible via a computer system. In one embodiment, an accessory is provided that can be configured to attach to consumable dispensers. The accessory can be configured to be removably and replaceably coupled to the dispenser. The accessory can be configured to provide a notification to a user indicating that a certain event occurred and/or that a certain action needs to be taken. The accessory can be configured to sense attachment thereof to and removal thereof from the dispenser. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323554 | Anti-Theft Method and Apparatus - An anti-theft method and apparatus relating to the field of anti-theft technologies, and to reduce costs. The anti-theft method includes obtaining a detection signal from a terminal device, where the detection signal is a signal sent by the terminal device when the terminal device detects an available network, and performs an alarm operation when the detection signal meets a preset condition. The anti-theft method may be applied in daily life in order to ensure family property security. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323555 | DISCRIMINATING PATIENT CARE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - According to the present disclosure, devices, systems, and methods for locating, tracking, and conducting communications between care devices and networks of care facilities through local communications hubs. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323556 | Method for creating of an improved rolling code radio control - A method for creating, with an unset radio control provided with a NFC device, an adjunct rolling code radio control controlling a user device, with which an original radio control is already associated having a rolling code based on a variation algorithm unknown by the unset radio control, wherein includes identifying the algorithm via a sniffer provided with a NFC device. If the sniffer possesses the algorithm, then the algorithm is transmitted via NFC from the sniffer to the unset radio control; if instead the sniffer does not possess the algorithm, it acquires the algorithm with an apparatus connectable to the internet and provided with a NFC device, then transmits the algorithm via NFC from the apparatus to the unset radio control. The original and the unset radio control are simultaneously activated such that the original radio control can set up the unset radio control based on the algorithm. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323557 | TRAINABLE TRANSCEIVER WITH HANDS FREE IMAGE BASED OPERATION - A method for automatically transmitting an activation signal from a trainable transceiver to a remote electronic system, includes receiving, at a control circuit of the trainable transceiver, image data from an image data source; determining, using the control circuit, if the received image data matches one or more reference images stored in memory and associated with the remote electronic system; and determining, in response to a match between the received image data and the one or more reference images, if the trainable transceiver is approaching the remote electronic system. The method includes, in response to determining that the trainable transceiver is approaching the remote electronic system, formatting an activation signal to control the remote electronic system and transmitting, using a transceiver circuit, the activation signal formatted to control the remote electronic system. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323558 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND MEDIA FOR REMOTE CONTROL OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES USING A PROXIMITY SENSOR - Systems, methods and media for remote control of electronic devices using a proximity sensor are provided. In some implementations, the system comprises: a proximity sensor comprising an infrared emitter and an infrared detector, wherein the proximity sensor is configured to emit infrared light having specific properties using the infrared emitter and sense reflected light having the specific properties using the infrared detector to determine proximity of the sensor to an object; and a hardware processor that is programmed to: receive a user instruction to cause a command to be issued to control an electronic device; determine a code to be transmitted that corresponds to the command from a plurality of codes associated with the electronic device; and provide at least one signal to the proximity sensor to cause the proximity sensor to emit an infrared signal corresponding to the code instead of emitting infrared light having the specific properties. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323559 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING INFRARED REMOTE CONTROLS OF HOME APPLIANCES - A system for integrating infrared remote controls of home appliances includes a smart electronic device, a transmission device and multiple conversion devices. The smart electronic device is collaborated with the transmission device to transmit a wireless control signal. The multiple conversion devices are respectively mounted on multiple home appliances. After receiving the wireless control signal, a selected conversion device converts the wireless control signal into an infrared remote control code that is further transmitted to a corresponding home appliance for remote control. Because of transmission using radio signals between the transmission device and the multiple conversion devices, there is no concern for communication failure arising from obstruction, limited distance and high directivity demanding to be within a receiving angle upon remote control. As only one remote control is used, operational convenience increases. Additionally, some home appliances can be jointly controlled according to a configured situation. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323560 | Terminal Having Infrared Remote Control Function and Pairing Method for Infrared Remote Control - A terminal having an infrared remote control function and a pairing method for infrared remote control, where in the terminal, a memory stores an infrared code library, a processor selects an infrared code from the infrared code library, an infrared transmitter sends an infrared signal to a to-be-remotely-controlled device according to the infrared code, a sensor senses a status change of the to-be-remotely-controlled device that occurs after the to-be-remotely-controlled device receives the infrared signal, and the processor determines, according to the status change of the to-be-remotely-controlled device sensed by the sensor, whether the terminal successfully establishes a pairing with the to-be-remotely-controlled device. Therefore, the terminal automatically establishes the pairing with the to-be-remotely-controlled device, and an automation degree of a pairing process during intelligent remote control is improved. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323561 | METHOD FOR CORRECTING ELECTRICITY METER READINGS - A device, method, and computer-readable medium for correcting at least one error in readings of electricity meters, the method including receiving first readings of regular meters measuring electric energy delivered in each of a group of cables fed from a same distribution node in an electric grid during a period of time, receiving second readings of check meters measuring electric energy delivered in each of combinations of cables in the group of cables during the period of time, the combinations of cables being formed based on a redundant matrix in a generator matrix of a linear systematic block code, and correcting, in response to determining that at least one error been detected, the at least one error in the first readings of the regular meters and the second readings of the check meters. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323562 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR A RELAY STATION FOR VEHICLE-TO-VEHICLE MESSAGES - A device and to a method for a relay station for vehicle-to-vehicle messages. The relay station communicates using vehicle-to-vehicle messages via at least one antenna. The device includes an input interface to receive a vehicle-to-vehicle message via the at least one antenna and a control module to filter the vehicle-to-vehicle message based on a relevance of the vehicle-to-vehicle message for one or more receivers in a coverage area of the at least one antenna. The control module provides the filtered vehicle-to-vehicle message via an output interface via the at least one antenna if the vehicle-to-vehicle message is relevant for the one or more receivers. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323563 | DETERMINATION OF AN AVERAGE TRAFFIC SPEED - Navigation devices, services, and methods are provided for determining an average traffic speed for a path segment using probe data from a plurality of navigation devices. The method for determining an average traffic speed may include retrieving probe data from a plurality of navigation devices, each navigation device traveling over at least a portion of a defined path segment for at least a portion of a defined time interval, wherein the probe data for each navigation device comprises an instantaneous velocity of the navigation device. The method may further include calculating a total distance traveled and a total time traveled by the plurality of navigation devices over the path segment and within the time interval using the instantaneous velocities from the retrieved probe data. The average traffic speed may then be determined based on the calculated total distance traveled and total time traveled. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323564 | PREDICTION FOR LANE GUIDANCE ASSIST - The automated lane management assist method, data structure and system receive unprocessed lane-specific limited-access highway information, including lane use and speed limits, from traffic detectors in the roadway or from other sources, process and develop predicted information from these sources and substitute the predicted information for the current information where appropriate, thus improving the timeliness of the information in a form that assists in the selection of driving lanes and target speeds for vehicles, including in partially and fully automated vehicles, and communicate the processed predicted information to the vehicles by suitable means. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323565 | PARKING FACILITY MANAGEMENT SERVER FOR A PARKING FACILITY - A parking facility management server for a parking facility, including a communication interface, which is designed to receive a request via a communication network from a user of the communication network to carry out at least one vehicle-specific service for a vehicle in the parking facility, and a processor, which is designed to process the request, in order to check whether or not the at least one service may be carried out in the parking facility for the vehicle in accordance with the request, the processor being further designed to ascertain a response as a function of the check. The communication interface further being designed to transmit the response via the communication network back to the user, the processor further being designed to plan and to coordinate the carrying out of the service in the event of a positive response that at least one service may be carried out. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323566 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, GUIDE METHOD, AND GUIDE SYSTEM - Lane travel limit zones (between a lane route deviation point and a first lane change limit point and between the lane route deviation point and a second lane change limit point), in which a lane change to a route is prohibited, are set according to the lane. If a vehicle may enter a set lane travel limit zone, a guide is provided to prompt the vehicle to make a lane change or maintain the traveling lane, according to the vehicle position and the lane on which the vehicle is traveling. To set lane travel limit zones, the lane route deviation point, which is an end point of a lane on which the vehicle can travel, the first and second lane route deviation points, which are limit points to assure that the vehicle completes a lane change before reaching the lane route deviation point, are calculated. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323567 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DRIVING A VEHICLE TO A FREE PARKING SPACE IN A PARKING FACILITY - A method for driving a vehicle to a free parking space in a parking facility having a plurality of parking spaces, each parking space assigned a parking space marking that stores at least one piece of information about the occupancy of the parking space, includes the vehicle, when pulling into a parking space, marking the space as occupied via the parking space marking and, when pulling out of the parking space, marking the space as free again via the parking space marking. A corresponding parking facility, vehicle, and system by which to carry out such a method are also provided. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323568 | RISK PREDICTION DEVICE AND DRIVING SUPPORT SYSTEM - A vehicular information display apparatus is provided which includes a display apparatus provided in a vehicle compartment and a display controller for controlling display of the display apparatus and is arranged to display specific information about a vehicle in a form to include a graphic on a screen of the display apparatus. The vehicular information display apparatus switches between a first display mode in which the specific information is displayed on a display region in the screen of the display apparatus and a second display mode in which the specific information is displayed on a display region smaller than the first display mode in the screen of the display apparatus. The display controller displays the graphic of the specific information by changing an orientation or a shape of the graphic when the display region is changed. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323569 | SLOW MOVING OBJECT ROAD WARNING SYSTEM - A computing device identifies a slow moving object and activates an alert signal a predetermined period of time when the slow moving object is identified. A sensor measurement is received from a sensor to compute a speed of travel of a moving object. When the computed speed is below a predefined speed threshold, an alert signal of an alert signal device mounted adjacent to the sensor is activated and the alert signal is deactivated when a predetermined period of time relative to a time of activation of the alert signal expires. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323570 | Digital Map Enabled Boundary Search Pattern - A system and related methods for digital map enabled search pattern generation by a flight management system retrieves from a digital map a set of pattern points corresponding to a selected search pattern parameter, such as a coastline, boundary, lateral terrain feature, or manmade structure, and a designated search area. The flight management system generates a sequence of waypoints based on the set of pattern points and a variable search radius, the sequence of waypoints optimizing efficient coverage of the search pattern parameter. The flight management system generates a full search pattern based on the generated sequence of waypoints; the generated search pattern may be approved or evaluated by the FMS, or forwarded to a rerouter for modification according to terrain avoidance factors. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323571 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING A RESULTING SETPOINT TRAJECTORY OF AN AIRCRAFT, RELATED COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND AIRCRAFT - This method makes it possible to generate a resulting setpoint trajectory of an aircraft, a guiding system controlling the trajectory of the aircraft relative to the resulting setpoint trajectory. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323572 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGEMENT OF AIRSPACE FOR UNMANNED AIRCRAFT - A system and method for management of airspace for unmanned aircraft is disclosed. The system and method comprises administration of the airspace including designation of flyways and zones with reference to features in the region. The system and method comprises administration of aircraft including registration of aircraft and mission. A monitoring system tracks conditions and aircraft traffic in the airspace. Aircraft may be configured to transact with the management system including to obtain rights/priority by license and to operate in the airspace under direction of the system. The system and aircraft may be configured for dynamic transactions (e.g. licensing/routing). The system will set rates for licenses and use/access to the airspace and aircraft will be billed/pay for use/access of the airspace at rates using data from data sources. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323573 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY REJOINING A REFERENCE VERTICAL PROFILE OF AN AIRCRAFT - A method, computer program and system are provided for calculating in an automatic manner a trajectory for rejoining a reference vertical profile of an aircraft. A reference vertical profile comprises a set of vertical constraints, and a method comprises a step of selecting an altitude constraint to be complied with, a step of calculating a vertical-profile prediction making it possible to comply with the constraint, a step of validating the vertical-profile prediction, if the vertical-profile prediction is validated, a step of applying the vertical-profile prediction, otherwise a step of determining the existence of a following altitude constraint to be complied with; if a following altitude constraint exists: a step of selecting a following altitude constraint to be complied with; a return to the step of detecting non-compliance with an altitude constraint; otherwise, a step of applying an exit procedure. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323574 | CONTEMPORANEOUS CAPTURE AND TAGGING OF MEDIA EVIDENCE FOR EDUCATION EVALUATION - An educational evidence and evaluation system for generating media files and context parameters and linking the media files and context parameters to education profiles during evaluation of a subject is disclosed. An example educational evidence and evaluation system comprises a capture engine that captures two media files, a context engine that tags the media files with context parameters, and a linking engine that links the media files and their tagged context parameters to an education profiles of a subject, wherein the evaluation engine links a first media file and its first context parameter to the education profile of a first subject before the capture engine captures a second media file. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323575 | GUIDED TOUR AUDIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS HAVING OPTICAL READER PROGRAMMING - Devices and methods for providing commentary for multiple points of interests utilize audio communication devices having an optic code reader, a microcontroller, a transmitter/receiver, a storage module and a speaker and/or headphone jack. Two or more audio communication devices may be synced to the same channel. A primary audio communication device sends a signal that triggers a dependent audio communication device to play a prerecorded commentary regarding a selected point of interest in a language selected by a person using the dependent audio communication device. A map having icons representing points of interest includes optic codes embedded within the icons. When an audio communication device scans an icon with an optic reader, a triggering signal causes the audio communication device and any dependent audio communication devices to play a corresponding commentary and a language selected by a user. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323576 | LEARNING PLATFORM FOR INCREASING MEMORY RETENTION OF DEFINITIONS OF WORDS - A processing device receives an input of a word that is to be learned by a user, performs a search for a definition of the word using a search engine, and receives the definition of the word based on the search. The processing device prompts the user to rewrite the definition and receives a user input of a new definition for the word. The processing device prompts the user to select a vocabulary learning mode from a group of vocabulary learning modes consisting of: a story mode, an etymology mode, an image mode and a word connections mode. The processing device receives a selection of a vocabulary learning mode from the group of vocabulary learning modes and provides a user interface and one or more tools for generation of a card for study of the word, wherein the one or more tools are based on the selected vocabulary learning mode. The processing device generates the card responsive to user input and then saves the card. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323577 | AUTOMATED GENERATION AND PRESENTATION OF LESSONS VIA DIGITAL MEDIA CONTENT EXTRACTION - An automated lesson generation learning system extracts text-based content from a digital programming file. The system parses the extracted content to identify a sentence, and key words within the sentences, to use as prompts in the lesson. The system also automatically generates a clip from the digital programming file, so that the clip is the portion of the file in which the sentence is spoken. The system then automatically generates and outputs a lesson containing the prompt and the clip. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323578 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIMULATING PRIOR USE OF A SURGICAL INSTRUMENT BASED ON OBTAINED SURGICAL INSTRUMENT DATA - Surgical systems and methods facilitate simulation of a prior use of a surgical instrument. Such surgical systems include a surgical instrument having a memory storing prior usage data of the surgical instrument in a usage data file(s), a processor configured to generate a simulation of the prior use based upon the usage data file(s), and a display configured to visually display the simulation of the prior use. Such methods include obtaining usage data from the prior use, storing the usage data in a usage data file(s), transmitting the usage data file(s), generating a simulation of the prior use based upon the usage data file(s), and displaying the simulation of the prior use. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323579 | TRAINING MODULE - A new and improved training module is describe herein. One embodiment of the invention includes a training combat knife. The training combat knife includes: at least one contact surface of the system; a microprocessor that processes a count relating to the amount of times the at least one contact surface touches another surface outside of the mobile training system; a storage that records the count; and a communications module that transmits the count. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323580 | BURIED ASSET DETECTION SIMULATOR USING RETROFITTED ELECTROMAGNETIC LOCATE DEVICE - A printed circuit card assembly (PCBA) configured for retrofitting a conventional electromagnetic locator device (ELD) for a simulator system is provided. The PCBA includes a printed circuit board (PCB), data connectors, each data connector configured for communicatively coupling with a separate one of antenna amplifiers on the conventional ELD, a low-power radio frequency (RF) receiver for receiving emulated electromagnetic (EM) field data, a processor for reading the emulated EM field data that includes constituent parts, wherein each constituent part corresponds to EM field data for a specific one of the antenna amplifiers on the conventional ELD, disassembling the emulated EM field data into its constituent parts, and transmitting to the antenna amplifiers, via the data connectors, the constituent part of the emulated EM field data that corresponds to said antenna amplifier, thereby emulating an EM field on the conventional ELD. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323581 | HAZARD SUPPRESSION TRAINING SIMULATOR AND METHOD OF TRAINING - A training simulator including a housing having a prop portion configured to simulate or evoke an appearance of an object encountered in firefighting activity. The simulator has a sensation emitter coupled to the housing and configured to emit a sensation to simulate or evoke an appearance of a hazardous condition. The simulator further includes a sensor coupled to the housing and configured to detect a simulated or an actual hazardous condition suppressant directed at or applied to the housing, and a controller operatively coupled to the sensor and the sensation emitter. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323582 | Mobile Computing Weight, Diet, Nutrition, and Exercise Management System With Enhanced Feedback and Goal Achieving Functionality - An illustrative mobile computing device executing weight, nutrition, health, behavior and exercise application software serves as a simulated combination personal trainer and dietician/nutritionist for the user using comprehensive databases storing personalized health, nutrition and exercise information. A mobile computing device, such as a smartphone, executing such software monitors, tracks and/or adjusts caloric intake, energy expenditure taking into account nutritional information and behavioral factors. The mobile computing device receives food consumption, exercise-related, behavior and other input using speech input and the device's GPS subsystem to ease data entry burden on users and to promote continued long-term usage. The system rewards user goal achievement in an automatic, seamless manner, through, for example, downloading music, books, or other media. In illustrative implementations, the system assists users to make healthy food and exercise choices by using a comprehensive color code system to identify good choices, bad choices and those in between. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323583 | Computer Implemented Method and System for Training a Subject's Articulation - A computer implemented method and system is for training a subject's articulation. The system will receive, access and analyze the speech audio and video data of the subject. The data will be compared to standard speech audio and video data to calculate the deviation of the articulatory parameters between the recorded data of the subject and the standard data. The system will then deconstruct the speech unit and separately play the standard tongue movements, lip movements, jaw movements, and airstream generation. The system will then enable a gradual time converging of the initial separately played standard tongue movements, jaw movements, lip movements and airstream generation in response to a magnitude of the at least articulatory parameter deviation decreasing. Similarly, the system will adapt the display speed and the number of repetitions of these movements to optimize the articulation training. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323584 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS PROVIDING A COMPUTERIZED EYEWEAR DEVICE TO AID IN WELDING - A system to support communication and control in a welding environment is disclosed. In one embodiment the system includes an internet-of-things (IoT) technology platform configured to provide scalable, interoperable, and secure communication connections between a plurality of disparate devices within a welding environment. The system also includes a welding power source configured to communicate with the IoT technology platform. The system further includes a computerized eyewear device. The computerized eyewear device includes a control and communication circuitry configured to communicate with the welding power source via the IoT technology platform. The computerized eyewear device also includes a transparent display configured to display information received from the welding power source via the IoT technology platform while allowing a user to view a surrounding portion of the welding environment through the transparent display. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323585 | ASSISTIVE READING INTERFACE - A screen reader for a computing device with a touch sensitive user interface. The screen reader operates in an investigatory mode in which touch inputs detected through the user interface are interpreted as inputs designating content on the display to verbally render. Each selection may be interpreted as designating a unit of content at the designated location. The size of the unit may be determined based on a direction of motion of pointing device arriving at the location on the display where the unit of content is designated. In this way, a user may, through simple and intuitively learned commands, designate content in units of different sizes such as characters, words, lines or paragraphs, when the content is text, and/or individual user interface elements when the displayed content being selected includes graphical elements. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323586 | MEDICAL TREATMENT SIMULATION DEVICES - Medical treatment simulation devices are disclosed. One device includes an overlay configured to be secured to a subject, a simulated treatment structure, at least one detector, and at least one feedback device. The detector is coupled to the simulated treatment structure and configured to detect an interaction with the simulated treatment structure. The feedback device is coupled to the overlay and configured to provide feedback based on the interaction detected by the at least one detector. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323587 | BLOOD-VESSEL-SHAPE CONSTRUCTION DEVICE FOR BLOOD-FLOW SIMULATION, METHOD THEREFOR, AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE PROGRAM - This device for constructing a blood-vessel-shape model in order to perform blood-flow analysis using computational fluid dynamics is provided with: an input unit which inputs a medical image; a shape-model generation unit which constructs, based on the medical image, a blood-vessel-shape model; a shape-model-quality evaluation unit which evaluates the shape reproduction degree of the constructed blood-vessel-shape model to determine the quality of the blood-vessel-shape model; and an output unit which outputs the determination result and the constructed blood-vessel-shape model. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323588 | Device For Recognizing The Authenticity Of A Packaged Product To Be Sold - The present invention regards a device for recognizing the authenticity of a packaged product to be sold, arranged in a container provided with a passage through which the product may be extracted for the utilization or consumption thereof, comprising a seal ( | 2017-11-09 |
20170323589 | A LABEL FACESTOCK - The invention relates to a facestock for adhesive label, an adhesive label and an adhesive label laminate comprising an uniaxially in machine direction oriented facestock. According to an embodiment core layer comprises the following components: propylene homopolymer; a modifier consisting of at least one of the following: olefin elastomer, olefin plastomer and olefin block copolymer; and low density polyethylene. Further the invention relates to a use of the adhesive label for labelling of an article. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323590 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus including a poster board having adhesive on one of its major surfaces. The display apparatus may include a poster board comprising a front surface and a rear surface opposite the front surface; a first strip of adhesive and a second strip of adhesive positioned on the rear surface of the poster board; a first release sheet coupled to and covering the first strip of adhesive and a second release sheet coupled to and covering the second strip of adhesive; and wherein the first and second strips of adhesive are formed from rubber cement. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323591 | ILLUMINATED SIGN FOR AUDIO/VIDEO RECORDING AND COMMUNICATION DEVICES - An illuminated sign for providing a warning that an area adjacent the illuminated sign is within a field of view of an audio/video (A/V) recording and communication device. The illuminated sign may include a front panel having translucent portions and opaque portions, and an illumination source located behind the front panel. The illumination source illuminates the front panel such that the opaque portions block transmission through the front panel of at least a portion of the light from the illumination source to provide the warning that the area adjacent the illuminated sign is within the field of view of the A/V recording and communication device. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323592 | Display, LED Chip Therefor, Pixel Therefor, Controlling Method Therefor, Computer Program Therefor - A display ( | 2017-11-09 |
20170323593 | DISPLAY PANEL DRIVER AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A display panel driver includes a plurality of stages. An N-th stage of the plurality of stages is configured to output a scan signal and an emission signal synchronized with each other based on a first power voltage, a second power voltage, and at least one clock signal. N is a natural number. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323594 | PIXEL ARRAY AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A pixel array is implemented in a display device. The display device includes a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines. The pixel array includes a first sub pixel row, a second sub pixel row, and a third sub pixel row. The first sub pixel row includes a first sub pixel, a second sub pixel, and a third sub pixel. The second sub pixel row includes a fourth sub pixel, a fifth sub pixel, and a sixth sub pixel. The third sub pixel row includes a seventh sub pixel, an eighth sub pixel, and a ninth sub pixel. The seventh sub pixel is electrically coupled to a first data line. The first sub pixel, the fourth sub pixel, and the fifth sub pixel are electrically coupled to a second data line. The second sub pixel, the third sub pixel, and the eighth sub pixel are electrically coupled to a third data line. The sixth sub pixel and the ninth sub pixel are electrically coupled to a fourth data line. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323595 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PRODUCT TO COMPENSATE FOR MISALIGNED OR OVERLAPPED ELECTRONIC WALLPAPERS - A method of compensating for misalignments along a seam of first and second electronic panels installed for a display device is provided. Each of the first and second electronic panels includes a plurality of pixels formed in an i×j matrix, wherein i and j are integers at least one. The method includes controlling a camera device to be placed over the seam, alternately turning on first pixels in a first column of the first electronic panel, the first column being closest to the seam, capturing, using the camera device, images for the respective first pixels, detecting, using a pattern detector, each of the first pixels based on a corresponding one of the captured images, determining one of at least one horizontal displacement or a vertical displacement along the seam, and compensating for the misalignments along the seam based on the determined at least one horizontal displacement or the vertical displacement. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323596 | WHITE OR OFF-WHITE HIDDEN DISPLAY APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD - A hidden display apparatus, system, and method. A display apparatus embodiment may include a face layer and a projection layer, with the projection layer positioned behind the face layer. The face layer may include a front side and a back side. The front side may include a first area configured to display high resolution images and a second area positioned around the first area. The first area and the second area may be made of the same material, and have similar color(s) and/or patterns. The projection layer may include a light source operative in an active mode and an inactive mode. When in the active mode, the projection layer may project light to the face layer to display images in the first area. When in the inactive mode, the face layer may be visually obscured so that the first area and the second area together display a colored surface. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323597 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE HAVING PIXEL CIRCUIT AND DRIVING CIRCUIT, DRIVING METHOD OF ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electro-optical device includes a first storage capacitor that has a first electrode and a second electrode, and a second storage capacitor that has a third electrode and a fourth electrode, and a first pixel circuit. The first pixel circuit includes a first transistor having a first gate, a first drain, and a first source, an electro-optical element, a second transistor through which a first data line is electrically connected to the first gate during the second transistor is in an on-state, and a third transistor through which the first gate is electrically connected to the first drain or the first source. The second electrode and the third electrode are electrically connected to the first data line. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323598 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAY - An organic light-emitting display includes a first pixel adjacent to a second pixel and a plurality of driving voltage lines to apply driving voltages to the first pixel and the second pixel. The driving voltage lines extend in a first direction crossing the first pixel and the second pixel and a second direction crossing the first direction. Each of the first and second pixels includes a first driving transistor and a second driving transistor that are symmetrical to each other with respect to a boundary between the first pixel and the second pixel, and a first compensation transistor and a second compensation transistor that are asymmetrical to each other with respect to the boundary. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323599 | PIXEL CIRCUITS INCLUDING FEEDBACK CAPACITORS AND RESET CAPACITORS, AND DISPAY SYSTEMS THEREFORE - A display with a pixel circuit for driving a current-driven emissive element includes a feedback capacitor in series between the emissive element and a programming node of the pixel circuit. During driving, variations in the operating voltage of the emissive element due to variations in the current conveyed through the emissive element by a driving transistor are accounted for. The feedback capacitor generates voltage adjustments at the programming node that correspond to the variations at the emissive element, and thus reduces variations in light emission. A reset capacitor connected to a select line is selectively connected to the gate terminal of the driving transistor and resets the driving transistor prior to programming. The select line adjusts the voltage on the gate terminal to reset the driving transistor by the capacitive coupling of the select line to the gate terminal created by the reset capacitor. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323600 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - According to an aspect, a display apparatus includes: a plurality of light sources; a display device that includes a display area provided with n | 2017-11-09 |
20170323601 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device including a display panel; a frame at a rear of the display panel; a first substrate at a front surface of the frame, the first substrate elongated in a direction along a first side of the frame; a plurality of first light sources disposed on the first substrate at predetermined intervals in the direction along the first side of the frame; and a first protrusion and a second protrusion between the first substrate and the frame, the first protrusion positioned at an end of the first substrate adjacent to a foremost light source in the first substrate, and the second protrusion positioned at an end of the first substrate adjacent to a rearmost light source in the first substrate, the first protrusion and the second protrusion being inclined. Further, the first protrusion and the second protrusion are inclined so that a height of the first protrusion close to a second side of the frame connected to the first side of the frame is greater than a height of the first protrusion far away from the second side of the frame and a height of the second protrusion close to a third side of the frame connected to the first side opposite the second side of the frame is greater than a height of the second protrusion far away from the third side of the frame. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323602 | A LOCAL DIMMING ALGORITHM AND DEVICE - A method for displaying an input frame on an edge-lit display lit by a multitude of light emitting diodes (LED) placed only along one or more sides of the display, comprises the steps of determining a brightness level for each LED of the multitude of LEDs, based on the input frame and an influence of each LED on the brightness of a pixel of the display, such that the brightness of the pixel essentially corresponds to the brightness level required by the input frame and an energy consumption of the LEDs and/or a difference between a resulting backlight and the input frame is essentially minimal, according to a given measure; dimming the light emitting diodes (LED), based on at least one input frame; and displaying the input frame on the display. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323603 | Liquid Crystal Display Apparatus and Television Receiver - A liquid crystal television increases or decreases a gradation value when the gradation value of an image signal to be displayed on a liquid crystal panel is within a prescribed range. Further, the liquid crystal television decreases or increases the luminance depending to the gradation value of the image signal based on the increase or decrease in the gradation value. The liquid crystal television applies a voltage depending on the gradation value after the change to the liquid crystal panel, such that a transmittance in the liquid crystal panel is changed (increased or decreased). Further, the liquid crystal television controls each light source to emit light with the luminance after the change, such that the luminance of the light radiated to the liquid crystal panel from the light source is changed (decreased or increased). | 2017-11-09 |
20170323604 | IMAGE DISPLAY PANEL, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - According to an aspect, an image display panel includes: a first pixel including (d−1) sub pixels, which are first to (d−2)-th sub pixels and a (d−1)-th sub pixel, and a second pixel that is adjacent to the first pixels and includes (d−1) sub pixels, which are first to (d−2)-th sub pixels and a d-th sub pixel. A region of the image display panel includes a first pixel display region and a second pixel display region. The first to (d−2)-th sub pixels of the first pixel, one part of the (d−1)-th sub pixel, and one part of the d-th sub pixel are arranged in the first pixel display region. The first to (d−2)-th sub pixels of the second pixel, the other part of the (d−1)-th sub pixel, and the other part of the d-th sub pixel are arranged in the second pixel display region. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323605 | SCAN DRIVING CIRCUIT - A scan driving circuit is provided for driving scan line in cascade, including a pull-down controlling module, a pull-down module, a reset-controlling module, a resetting module, a downward-transferring module, a first bootstrap capacitor, a constant low voltage level source, and a constant high voltage level source. By disposing the resetting module, the scan driving circuit of the present invention raises the reliability of the scan driving circuit and simplifies the entire structure of the scan driving circuit. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323606 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel; at least one source driving unit including at least one first fan-out line and at least one second fan-out line which are disposed alternately; at least one demultiplexer electrically coupled to the first fan-out line and the second fan-out line, the demultiplexer including a plurality of buses, a plurality of first output lines, and a plurality of second output lines; and a plurality of pixel units, each of the pixel units including four sub-pixels. The liquid crystal display device is capable of solving the flicker problem and the crosstalk problem in the prior art. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323607 | CURVED LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A curved liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a curved liquid crystal panel assembly. The curved liquid crystal panel assembly includes: a lower panel including a first linear polarizer having a first polarization axis; an upper panel including a second linear polarizer having a second polarization axis, the second polarization axis cross the first polarization axis in a plan view; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the lower panel and the upper panel. An angle formed by a first polarization axis and a second polarization axis does not meet at a right angle in a plan view. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323608 | GATE DRIVER ON ARRAY CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A gate driver on array (GOA) circuit and a display device are provided. The GOA circuit is formed on an array substrate, and has a plurality of GOA units. Each of the GOA units has a drive module, a pull-down module, a pull-down output module, and a pull-up output module, which has a forward and reverse scanning function and avoids providing a forward and reverse scanning control unit and receiving a signal of the forward and reverse scanning control unit by connecting a circuit input of a pull-down output module and a drive module. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323609 | Gate Driving Circuit And Display Panel - A gate driving circuit is disclosed. The output circuit is connected with the input circuit and the pulling circuit at a first node, responding to scanning driving signal of previous stage to set the pulling circuit in a first status, using a first reference voltage level to set the first node at a first voltage, and held. The output circuit outputs scanning driving signal of current stage according to a first clock signal. The stabilizing circuit is connected with the pulling circuit at a second node, using the first reference voltage level to set the second node at the first voltage, and held. The pulling control circuit responds to a second clock signal to set the pulling circuit in a second status, using a second reference voltage level to pull voltages of the first and second nodes and to hold the voltages. Accordingly, a current leakage can be reduced. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323610 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - The invention provides a liquid crystal display device and a driving method thereof. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel and a driver. The liquid crystal display panel includes scan lines, data lines, and pixel units. The pixel units are respectively disposed at intersections of the scan lines and the data lines, and the pixel units are divided into pixel groups. The driver is coupled to the scan lines and the data lines and respectively provides scan driving signals and data driving signals to the scan lines and the data lines according to display data, so as to drive the pixel groups on the liquid crystal display panel at different driving time points or with a fluctuating driving frequency, thereby effectively preventing a flicker phenomenon that occurs when a scan driving frequency is reduced and significantly improving the display quality of the liquid crystal display device. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323611 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND A METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A display apparatus includes a display panel and a data driver. The display panel is configured to display an image and includes first through fourth data line groups. The first and second data line groups are adjacent to each other, and the third and fourth data line groups are adjacent to each other. The data driver includes a first data driving circuit configured to output first data voltages to the second data line group later than to the first data line group by a first delay time, and configured to output second data voltages to the fourth data line group later than to the third data line group by a second delay time that is different from the first delay time. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323612 | UNIT SHIFT REGISTER CIRCUIT, SHIFT REGISTER CIRCUIT, CONTROL METHOD FOR UNIT SHIFT REGISTER CIRCUIT, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - In a forward shift operation, a second input signal having a higher voltage than a voltage of a first input signal is input to a second gate terminal in a case that a first gate terminal of a first transistor is charged, and a fourth input signal having a higher voltage than a voltage of a third input signal is input to a third gate terminal in a case that the first gate terminal of the first transistor is discharged. In a backward shift operation, the fourth input signal having a higher voltage than a voltage of the third input signal is input to the third gate terminal in a case that the first gate terminal of the first transistor is charged, and the second input signal having a higher voltage than a voltage of the first input signal is input to the second gate terminal in a case that the first gate terminal of the first transistor is discharged. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323613 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a plurality of gate lines extended in a first direction, a plurality of common electrodes extended in the first direction, a gate scanning circuit that scans the plurality of the gate lines, and a common scanning circuit that scans the plurality of the common electrodes. The common scanning circuit includes a shift register unit, an interconnection connecting unit, and a switch unit. The gate scanning circuit and the common scanning circuit are configured of single channel thin film transistors. The gate scanning circuit is disposed between the shift register unit and the interconnection connecting unit, and the interconnection connecting unit is disposed between the gate scanning circuit and the switch unit in a planar view. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323614 | SWITCHED COLUMN DRIVER OF DISPLAY DEVICE - A column driver of a display device provides a high slew rate with lowered power requirements by using external switches connected to upper and bottom output buffers. The upper output buffer is driven between a first voltage rail and a second voltage rail, and outputs a first output signal in response to a first input signal and a second input signal. The bottom output buffer is driven between the second voltage rail and a third voltage rail, and outputs a second output signal in response to a third input signal and a fourth input signal. A first switch group selectively provides input for the upper output buffer and the bottom output buffer. A second switch group feeds back the first and the second output signals to the first or the second input terminal of each of the upper output buffer and the bottom output buffer. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323615 | Methods and Apparatus for Active Transparency Modulation - A viewing system is provided including an active transparency modulation film in the form of addressable arrays of electrochromic pixel structures. The viewing system may be used in, for instance, a head-mounted display (HMD) or head-up display (HUD). The film is located on one side of a viewing lens of the system and is selectively variable from opaque to transparent at certain regions on the lens to provide an opaque silhouetted image upon which a virtual image is projected. The viewing system including the film and pixel structure therefore provide improved viewing by minimizing the undesirable effects of image ghosting in a viewed scene. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323616 | IMAGE DEVICE WITH IMPROVED CHROMINANCE QUALITY - An image device includes a plurality of first sub-pixels, a plurality of second sub-pixels, a plurality of third sub-pixels, a plurality of fourth sub-pixels, and a plurality of fifth sub-pixels. The image device further is consisted by a plurality of basic repeating units in a 2×8 matrix. Each of the basic repeating units comprises the first sub-pixels, the second sub-pixels, the third sub-pixels, the fourth sub-pixels, and the fifth sub-pixel. A ratio of the first sub-pixels to the second sub-pixels to the third sub-pixels to the fourth sub-pixels and to the fifth sub-pixel in the basic repeating unit is 4:4:4:3:1. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323617 | RGB TO YUV FORMAT CONVERSION AND INVERSE CONVERSION METHOD AND CIRCUIT FOR DEPTH PACKING AND DEPACKING - A conversion method includes: obtaining two R's, two G's and two B's sub-pixel values having interleaved positions from four pixels of the RGB format; obtaining four Y-luminance value, one U-chrominance value and one V-chrominance value of the YUV format according to the obtained sub-pixel values. The Y-luminance values of the first, second, third and fourth pixels in the YUV format are calculated from R's of the first pixel, G's of the second pixel, G's of the third pixel and B's sub-pixel value of the fourth pixel respectively. The U-chrominance value of the first pixel is calculated from B's of the first pixel, R's of the first pixel and the G's sub-pixel value of the third pixel. The V-chrominance value of the first pixel is calculated from the R of the fourth pixel, G of the second pixel and B of the fourth pixel. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323618 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus includes a display unit that displays an image based on an input image and a display control unit that controls the display unit based on the input image. The display control unit controls the display unit in such a manner as to display a value indicative of specific luminance as display luminance in which pixels with predetermined pixel values of the input image are displayed on the display unit. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323619 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND LUMINANCE CORRECTION METHOD OF THE SAME - A display device includes a display unit including a plurality of pixels to display a display image, a luminance detector to detect luminance of an image on the display unit, and a display driver. The display divider is to divide the display unit into image areas symmetrical to each other and to adjust a luminance of an image area having a relatively lower luminance value among the image areas symmetrical to each other based on a luminance detection result. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323620 | Lens Touch Graphic Effect for Mobile Devices - A method including detecting a touch input to a display, where the touch input includes a location on the display and an amount of force, determining a magnification level based on the amount of force, generating a lens animation effect, where the lens animation effect magnifies a region of content shown on the display adjacent to the location by the magnification level, and displaying the lens animation effect on the display adjacent to the location. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323621 | INSTRUMENT PROVIDED WITH AN ASSEMBLED SOUNDBOARD - The invention relates to an instrument provided with an assembled soundboard. The nerve structures of the soundboard components are linked to the bass and middle registers on the one hand and the descant on the other hand and are positioned in a different angle with respect to the keyboard. The different positioning of the nerve structures contributes to an improved sound quality, a balanced volume and a warmer timbre. Moreover, such assembled soundboard offers a better resistance to changing weather conditions (i.e. cold and humidity). | 2017-11-09 |
20170323622 | BRIDGE FOR STRINGED INSTRUMENT - A string instrument comprising an instrument body, a neck, a bridge, and at least one string extending forwardly and rearwardly over the instrument body. The instrument body is topped by a sound table. The bridge may be removably located onto the sound table by virtue of a tension applied to the at least one string. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323623 | ATTACHMENT DEVICE FOR STRINGED INSTRUMENT AND COUPLING SYSTEM FOR USE WITH THE SAME - An attachment for use with a stringed musical instrument comprises a rotatable shaft and groups of one or more string engaging elements coupled to the rotatable shaft. Each string engaging element of a group is positionable in a first orientation for driven rotary engagement with a corresponding string of the musical instrument. Each string engagement element is further positionable in a second orientation. The attachment further includes key actuators operatively associated with the string engaging elements, and each key actuator is manipulable so as to urge each string engaging element of a group into at least one of the first orientation or the second orientation. In an embodiment, the string engaging element(s) operated by each key actuator are rotatable wheels that rotate at a slower rate or a faster rate, depending on whether or not corresponding strings is/are bent toward the corresponding wheel(s). | 2017-11-09 |
20170323624 | Interval-Based Musical Instrument - Embodiments are directed to a musical instrument having buttons, where the buttons determine the magnitude of the interval by which the melody will jump from the last note played. With a small number of interval buttons and an up/down strum bar, embodiments can play almost any melody and more notes than a piano. One embodiment is directed to an interval-based guitar including fret buttons whose input signals are used to calculate the interval by which to change the pitch of the prior note. Providing input via a strum bar or a sensor, a new note is generated by adding or subtracting the interval to/from the prior note to generate a new note. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323625 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TIMED EVENT EVALUATION - A timing unit and method useable with a computer and user input includes a circuit and a timer. The timer establishes a reference signal having periodic occurrence and receives a trigger signal from the user input. The circuit generates information that represents the periodic occurrences of the reference signal and response timing data representing a relationship between the trigger signal and one of the occurrences. A communication channel is provided between the circuit and the computer. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323626 | ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER - An ultrasound transducer is provided. The ultrasound transducer include at least one emitter made from a piezoelectric material, having first and second emitting surfaces opposite one another provided to emit first and second ultrasound beams. The transducer comprises at least first and second mirrors placed across from the first and second emitting surfaces, respectively, and configured so as to deflect back the first and second ultrasound beams by forming a reflected beam with a predetermined shape. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323627 | METHOD OF FABRICATING STRUCTURES, AND STRUCTURES, WITH INTEGRATED PROPERTY ENHANCING FILL MATERIAL - Structures with integrally formed property enhancing fill material, and a method for fabricating such structures, are presented. In one or more embodiments, the method of the present invention includes forming the structural members of a structure out of a powdered material using selective laser sintering (“SLS”) such that the structural members of the structure enclose one or more internal cavities. In one or more embodiments, the structure is provided with an internal passage that forms a direct connection between first and second external apertures. One or more internal apertures and or passages form a passage from one or more of the internal cavities to the internal passage connecting the external apertures. The internal passages and internal and external apertures are configured such that most of the compressed air applied to one of the external apertures flows directly to and out of the other external aperture without traversing the internal cavities, such that the bulk of unsintered powder remains in the cavities. In one or more embodiments, the powdered material is left inside selective portions of the structure's interior volume, while being removed from others. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323628 | ROAD NOISE MASKING SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE - A method of masking road noise for a vehicle includes monitoring, through a processor, one or more vehicle mounted transducers for noise produced by an interaction between the vehicle and a road surface, detecting, through the processor, an audible signal having one of an undesirable frequency and an undesirable magnitude associated with the interaction between the vehicle and the road surface, generating, through the processor, a masking signal having a frequency that will mask the audible signal having the one of the undesirable frequency and undesirable magnitude, and emitting the masking signal through one or more vehicle speakers. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323629 | AREA-SOUND REPRODUCTION SYSTEM AND AREA-SOUND REPRODUCTION METHOD - An area-sound reproduction system is provided that includes a speaker array having a plurality of speakers arranged side by side, a sound collector configured to collect an environment sound in an environment where the area-sound reproduction system is installed, a processor, and a memory having a computer program stored thereon. The computer program causes the processor to execute operations, including adjusting signals that the plurality of speakers are caused to output as reproduced sounds according to a reproduction condition on a control line, and causing the plurality of speakers to output the reproduced sounds. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323630 | SNORING ACTIVE NOISE-CANCELLATION, MASKING, AND SUPPRESSION - A kit for attenuation of noise includes a noise source audio transducer, two ear pieces, and a control unit. The two ear pieces have respective resilient bodies that engage outer portions of ear canals of respective ears of a user while respective in-ear transducers of the two ear pieces are respectively positioned in inner portions of the ear canals. The respective in-ear transducers detect discrepancies (e.g., incomplete superpositioning) between the noise and the anti-noise. The respective in-ear transducers optionally detect respective secondary path effects in the ear canals. The noise source audio transducer detects noise generated by a noise source (e.g., snoring noise). The control unit configures an adaptive filter based at least in part on an error signal, and optionally based in part on secondary path effects. The control unit generates signals representative of anti-noise. The two ear pieces produce the anti-noise responsive to the signals. The two ear pieces produce masking noise with sound level that varies in direct correlation with sound level of the noise generated by the noise source. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323631 | VEHICLE INCLUDING NOISE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM HAVING AUTOMOTIVE AUDIO BUS (A2B) INTERFACE - A vehicle includes at least one sensor and a body having an exterior portion and an interior portion. The sensor is configured to detect noise existing in the exterior portion and the interior portion, and to output at least one noise signal indicative of the detected noise. The vehicle further includes at least one noise cancellation and enhancement (NCE) controller and an automotive audio bus (A2B) interface. One or more of the NCE controllers are configured to perform at least one noise management signal processing operation based on the at least one noise signal. The automotive audio bus (A2B) interface receives the at least one noise signal and delivers the at least one noise signal to the at least one NCE controller. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323632 | REVERBERATOR AND METHOD FOR REVERBERATING AN AUDIO SIGNAL - A reverberator for reverberating an audio signal includes a feedback delay loop processor for delaying at least two different frequency subband signals representing the audio signal by different loop delays to obtain reverberated frequency subband signals. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323633 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING A VOICE TO USE DURING A COMMUNICATION WITH A USER - A computing device having the capability to dynamically select a voice that will be used by a speech synthesizer in creating synthesized speech for use in communicating with a user of the computing device is provided. For example, in some embodiments, the computing device: i) employs the speech synthesizer to have a first audible communication with the user using a first voice; ii) stores user satisfaction data that can be used to determine a user's satisfaction with an action the user took in response to the first audible communication; and iii) determines whether a different voice should be used during a second audible communication with the user based on the stored user satisfaction data. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323634 | Apparatus and Methods Using a Pattern Matching Speech Recognition Engine to Train a Natural Language Speech Recognition Engine - The technology of the present application provides a speech recognition system with at least two different speech recognition engines or a single engine speech recognition engine with at least two different modes of operation. The first speech recognition being used to match audio to text, which text may be words or phrases. The matched audio and text is used by a training module to train a user profile for a natural language speech recognition engine, which is at least one of the two different speech recognition engines or modes. An evaluation module evaluates when the user profile is sufficiently trained to convert the speech recognition engine from the first speech recognition engine or mode to the natural language speech recognition or mode. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323635 | DISAMBIGUATION OF VEHICLE SPEECH COMMANDS - A system and method of recognizing speech in a vehicle. The method includes receiving a voice command at the vehicle via a microphone in the vehicle, and obtaining a recognition result from speech recognition performed on the received voice command. The recognition result may represent the voice command and be indicative of any of two or more available vehicle commands. The method may further include selecting one of the two or more available vehicle commands based on a secondary characteristic and an attribute of the selected one of the vehicle commands. The system may be implemented as vehicle electronics that include a microphone located within the vehicle and configured to receive a voice command from a user located within the vehicle, and a controller in communication with the microphone. The controller may be configured to perform speech recognition on the voice command and obtain a disambiguated recognition result. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323636 | SEMANTIC PARSING USING DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS FOR PREDICTING CANONICAL FORMS - A method for predicting a canonical form for an input text sequence includes predicting the canonical form with a neural network model. The model includes an encoder, which generates a first representation of the input text sequence based on a representation of n-grams in the text sequence and a second representation of the input text sequence generated by a first neural network. The model also includes a decoder which sequentially predicts terms of the canonical form based on the first and second representations and a predicted prefix of the canonical form. The canonical form can be used, for example, to query a knowledge base or to generate a next utterance in a discourse. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323637 | NAME RECOGNITION SYSTEM - A speech recognition system uses, in one embodiment, an extended phonetic dictionary that is obtained by processing words in a user's set of databases, such as a user's contacts database, with a set of pronunciation guessers. The speech recognition system can use a conventional phonetic dictionary and the extended phonetic dictionary to recognize speech inputs that are user requests to use the contacts database, for example, to make a phone call, etc. The extended phonetic dictionary can be updated in response to changes in the contacts database, and the set of pronunciation guessers can include pronunciation guessers for a plurality of locales, each locale having its own pronunciation guesser. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323638 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION USING PARALLEL PROCESSING FOR WEIGHTED FINITE STATE TRANSDUCER-BASED SPEECH DECODING - A system, article, and method of automatic speech recognition using parallel processing for weighted finite state transducer-based speech decoding. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323639 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING OCCUPANT-SPECIFIC ACOUSTIC FUNCTIONS IN A VEHICLE OF TRANSPORTATION - A system, for implementation at a vehicle of transportation, having multiple arrangements of occupant-zone-specific acoustic equipment in the vehicle. Each arrangement is positioned at a respective occupant-specific acoustic zone of the vehicle. Each arrangement is configured to communicate with a hardware-based processing unit that, when executing code of a hardware-based storage device in operation of the system, interacts, via the arrangement, primarily only with a vehicle occupant occupying a corresponding occupant-specific acoustic zone. In some implementations, along with or instead of the acoustic equipment, the system includes multiple arrangements of occupant-zone-specific acoustic equipment in the vehicle. In various embodiments, based on identification of occupants at respective vehicle zones in operation of the vehicle, operations are performed, such as provision of media, vehicle-occupant conversation, and customized HVAC delivery. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323640 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECIPE MANAGEMENT - Systems and methods for obtaining content over the Internet, identifying text within the content (e.g., such as closed captioning or recipe text) or creating text from the content using such technologies as speech recognition, analyzing the text for actionable directions, and translating those actionable directions into instructions suitable for network-connected cooking appliances. Certain embodiments provide additional guidance to avoid or correct mistakes in the cooking process, and allow for the customization of recipes to address, e.g., dietary restrictions, culinary preferences, translation into a foreign language, etc. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323641 | VOICE INPUT ASSISTANCE DEVICE, VOICE INPUT ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, AND VOICE INPUT METHOD - Provided is a technology for enabling an operation to be conducted through use of words shortened more for an operation item estimated to be desired stronger. A voice input assistance device includes: a shortened-phrase storing unit configured to store an operation item and a shortened phrase corresponding to a desirability of the operation item in association with each other; a desirability estimation unit configured to estimate the desirability of each operation item through use of a predetermined index, and to identify the shortened phrase from the shortened-phrase storing unit based on the desirability; and an output processing unit configured to present the shortened phrase identified by the desirability estimation unit. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323642 | 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. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323643 | Method for Speaker Diarization - Disclosed is a speaker diarization process for determining which speaker is speaking at what time during the course of a conversation. The entire process can be most easily described in five main parts: Segmentation where speech/non-speech decisions are made; frame feature extraction where useful information is obtained from the frames; segment modeling where the information from the frame feature extraction is combined with segment start and end time information to create segment specific features; speaker decisions when the segments are clustered to create speaker models; and corrections where frame level corrections are applied to the information extracted. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323644 | SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REGISTERING FEATURES OF REGISTERED SPEECH FOR IDENTIFYING SPEAKER - [Problem] To suppress an erroneous identification resulting from registration speech, and identify the speaker stably and precisely. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323645 | KEYWORD DETERMINATIONS FROM CONVERSATIONAL DATA - Topics of potential interest to a user, useful for purposes such as targeted advertising and product recommendations, can be extracted from voice content produced by a user. A computing device can capture voice content, such as when a user speaks into or near the device. One or more sniffer algorithms or processes can attempt to identify trigger words in the voice content, which can indicate a level of interest of the user. For each identified potential trigger word, the device can capture adjacent audio that can be analyzed, on the device or remotely, to attempt to determine one or more keywords associated with that trigger word. The identified keywords can be stored and/or transmitted to an appropriate location accessible to entities such as advertisers or content providers who can use the keywords to attempt to select or customize content that is likely relevant to the user. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323646 | DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND VOICE INPUT APPARATUS - Methods, systems, and media for managing a plurality of target devices are provided. A voice command is received by an input associated with a first target device. The voice command includes first voice information and indicates an operation instruction. The first voice information includes identification information. The first target device is specified by referencing a database in which the identification information and a device ID of the first target device are associated. It is determined whether the voice command includes second voice information that identifies a second target device as an operation object for the operation instruction. When the second voice information is not included, the first target device is caused to execute the operation instruction. When the second voice information is included, a control command is transmitted to the second target device for causing the second target device to execute the operation instruction. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323647 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AN ENCODED AUDIO SIGNAL - An apparatus for processing an encoded audio signal having a plurality of downmix signals associated with a plurality of input audio objects and object parameters E. The apparatus includes a grouper configured to group the downmix signals into groups of downmix signals associated with a set of input audio objects. The apparatus includes a processor configured to perform at least one processing step individually on the object parameters E | 2017-11-09 |
20170323648 | NOISE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, NOISE SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD, ENCODER, DECODER, AND ENCODING AND DECODING SYSTEM - Present disclosure provide a linear prediction-based noise signal processing method includes: acquiring a noise signal, and obtaining a linear prediction coefficient according to the noise signal; filtering the noise signal according to the linear prediction coefficient, to obtain a linear prediction residual signal; obtaining a spectral envelope of the linear prediction residual signal according to the linear prediction residual signal; and encoding the spectral envelope of the linear prediction residual signal. According to the noise processing method, the noise generation method, the encoder, the decoder, and the encoding and decoding system that are in the embodiments of the present disclosure, more spectral details of an original background noise signal can be recovered, so that comfort noise can be closer to original background noise in terms of subjective auditory perception of a user, and subjective perception quality of the user is improved. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323649 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR BANDWIDTH EXTENSION FOR AUDIO SIGNALS - An audio signal decoding apparatus is provided that includes a receiver that receives an encoded information, a memory, and a processor that demultiplexes the encoded information, including encoding parameters that are used for decoding a low frequency spectrum and index information that identifies a most correlated portion from a low frequency spectrum for one or more high frequency subbands. The processor also replicates a high frequency subband spectrum based on the index information using a synthesized low frequency spectrum, the synthesized low frequency spectrum being obtained by decoding the encoding parameters. The processor further estimates a frequency of a harmonic component in the synthesized low frequency spectrum, adjusts a frequency of a harmonic component in the high frequency subband spectrum using the estimated harmonic frequency, and generates an output signal using the synthesized low frequency spectrum and the high frequency subband spectrum. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323650 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENCODING OR DECODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL USING A TRANSIENT-LOCATION DEPENDENT OVERLAP - An apparatus for encoding an audio or image signal, includes: a controllable windower for windowing the audio or image signal to provide the sequence of blocks of windowed samples; a converter for converting the sequence of blocks of windowed samples into a spectral representation including a sequence of frames of spectral values; a transient location detector for identifying a location of a transient within a transient look-ahead region of a frame; and a controller for controlling the controllable windower to apply a specific window having a specified overlap length to the audio or image signal in response to an identified location of the transient, wherein the controller is configured to select the specific window from a group of at least three windows, wherein the specific window is selected based on the transient location. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323651 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A FREQUENCY ENHANCED SIGNAL USING TEMPORAL SMOOTHING OF SUBBANDS - An apparatus for generating a frequency enhancement signal has: a signal generator for generating an enhancement signal from a core signal, the enhancement signal having an enhancement frequency range not included in the core signal, wherein a current time portion of the enhancement signal or the core signal has subband signals for a plurality of subbands; a controller for calculating the same smoothing information for the plurality of subband signals of the enhancement frequency range or the core signal, and wherein the signal generator is configured for smoothing the plurality of subband signals of the enhancement frequency range or the core signal using the same smoothing information. | 2017-11-09 |
20170323652 | VERY SHORT PITCH DETECTION AND CODING - System and method embodiments are provided for very short pitch detection and coding for speech or audio signals. The system and method include detecting whether there is a very short pitch lag in a speech or audio signal that is shorter than a conventional minimum pitch limitation using a combination of time domain and frequency domain pitch detection techniques. The pitch detection techniques include using pitch correlations in time domain and detecting a lack of low frequency energy in the speech or audio signal in frequency domain. The detected very short pitch lag is coded using a pitch range from a predetermined minimum very short pitch limitation that is smaller than the conventional minimum pitch limitation. | 2017-11-09 |