52nd week of 2018 patent applcation highlights part 62 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20180374418 | DISPLAY PANEL, PIXEL DRIVING CIRCUIT, AND DRVING METHOD THEREOF - The present application provides a pixel driving circuit, which comprises a driving transistor, a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, a fourth switch, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, an initial-voltage-signal terminal, a data-voltage-signal terminal, and a driving-voltage-signal terminal. The driving transistor comprises a gate terminal, a source terminal, and a drain terminal. The first switch is disposed between the gate terminal and the drain terminal. The gate terminal is connected with the initial-voltage-signal terminal via the second switch. The source terminal is connected with the driving-voltage-signal terminal and the data-voltage-signal terminal via the third switch and the fourth switch, respectively. The first capacitor is connected between the gate terminal and a ground terminal. The second capacitor is connected between the gate terminal and the source terminal. The present application further provides a pixel driving method and a display panel. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374419 | DISPLAY PANEL, PIXEL DRIVING CIRCUIT, AND DRVING METHOD THEREOF - The present application provides a pixel driving circuit, which comprises a driving transistor, a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, a fourth switch, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, an initial-voltage-signal terminal, a data-voltage-signal terminal, a reset-voltage-signal terminal, and a driving-voltage-signal terminal. The driving transistor comprises a gate terminal, a source terminal, and a drain terminal. The first capacitor is connected between the source terminal and the gate terminal, the second capacitor is connected between the source terminal and a charge-voltage terminal. The charge-voltage terminal is respectively connected with the reset-voltage-signal terminal and the data-voltage-signal terminal via the first switch and the second switch. The drain terminal is connected with the driving-voltage-signal terminal via the third switch. The gate terminal is connected with the initial-voltage-signal terminal via the fourth switch. The present application further provides a pixel driving method and a display panel. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374420 | DISPLAY PANEL, PIXEL DRIVING CIRCUIT, AND DRVING METHOD THEREOF - The present application provides a pixel driving circuit, which comprises a driving transistor, which comprises a gate terminal, a source terminal, and a drain terminal. The source terminal is respectively connected with a driving-voltage-signal terminal and a charge-voltage terminal via a first switch and a second switch. The charge-voltage terminal is connected with a data-voltage-signal terminal via a third switch. The gate terminal is connected with an initial-voltage-signal terminal via a fourth switch, and the gate terminal is connected with the drain terminal via a fifth switch. A first capacitor is connected with the gate terminal and the charge-voltage terminal, a second capacitor is connected with the gate terminal and a ground terminal. The present application further provides a pixel driving method and a display panel. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374421 | PIXEL DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY PANEL - The present application provides a pixel driving circuit, which comprises a driving transistor which comprises a gate terminal, a source terminal, and a drain terminal. The first switch is connected between the gate terminal and the drain terminal. The gate terminal is connected with the reset-voltage-signal terminal via the second switch. The source terminal is respectively connected with the driving-voltage-signal terminal and the data-voltage-signal terminal via the third switch and the fourth switch. The first capacitor is connected between the gate terminal and the charge-voltage terminal. The charge-voltage terminal is connected with a control terminal of the first switch. The second capacitor is connected between the gate terminal and the driving-voltage-signal terminal. The present application further provides a display panel. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374422 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE AND DISPLAY PANEL - An array substrate includes pixels PX, source wires, a first column circuit portion connected to the source wires, first column connection wires connected to the first column circuit portion, a second column circuit portion, panel-side input terminal portions, second column connection wires, and diagonally arrayed circuit portions. The second column circuit portion includes unit circuits connected to the first column connection wires. Some of the panel-side input terminal portions are displaced in the row direction with respect to the corresponding unit circuits. The second column connection wires include second diagonally extending portions extending from the unit circuits to the panel-side input terminal portions. The diagonally arrayed circuit portions include the unit circuits disposed such that the closer to the middle of the second circuit portion with respect to the row direction, the closer to the first column circuit portion with respect to the column direction. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374423 | Light-Emitting Device - An organic light-emitting diode may have transparent electrodes. An organic emissive layer may be interposed between the electrodes. The emissive layer may emit light in response to current injected from the electrodes. The organic light-emitting diode electrodes may cover an electrode area. The electrode area may be square or may have other shapes. To enhance brightness uniformity, portions of the electrodes in a peripheral region (H | 2018-12-27 |
20180374424 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: a display panel including display pixels; a light sensor including sensing pixels, the light sensor generating sensing data, based on incident light; an illumination sensor for generating illumination data by sensing an external illumination; and a processing unit for calculating correction data by correcting the sensing data, using the illumination data. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374425 | ALL-AROUND DISPLAY DEVICE AND PIXEL IN THE SAME - An all-around display device according to embodiments includes a display panel including first to J-th display areas having pixels and respectively corresponding to surfaces, a gate driver for providing a gate signal to the display panel through first to N-th gate lines, and for providing an initialization signal to the display panel through first to N-th initialization lines, an emission driver for providing an emission control signal to the display panel through first to N-th emission control lines, a display area control driver for providing first to J-th global control signals respectively corresponding to the first to J-th display areas to selectively determine light emission of each of the first to J-th display areas, and a data driver for providing a data voltage to the display panel through data lines, wherein J is an integer that is greater than 1, and N is an integer that is greater than J. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374426 | DISPLAY PANEL, METHOD FOR DISPLAYING ON THE SAME, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The disclosure discloses a display panel, a method for displaying on the same, and a display device, where a display region is divided into a central display region, and an edge display region surrounding the central display region; and the brightness of a pixel in the edge display region is lower than the brightness of a pixel in the central display region at each grayscale, so that while a picture is being displayed, the brightness in the edge display region is lower than the brightness in the central display region, but the edge display region is adjacent to an edge frame of the display panel, and human eyes perceive higher brightness in the edge display region than the real brightness in the edge display region, so that the brightness in the central display region perceived by the human eyes agrees with the brightness in the edge display region. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374427 | Method of Controlling Power Level of Output Driver in Source Driver and Source Driver Using the Same - A source driver of a display system includes a plurality of channels, and each of the plurality of channels includes a first latch, a second latch, an output driver and a comparator. The first latch receives a first data code and a second data code from a timing controller of the display system. The second latch receives the first data code from the first latch. The output driver is used for transmitting the first data code to a display panel of the display system. The comparator, coupled to the first latch, the second latch and the output driver, is used for comparing the first data code stored in the second latch with the second data code stored in the first latch, to generate a signal indicating a power level for the output driver to transmit the second data code. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374428 | Liquid Crystal Display Device and Method for Driving the Same - A method for driving an LCD device includes displaying each picture with two frame images sequentially; driving voltages for two adjacent sub-pixels in each of the frame images are different, and driving voltages for each sub-pixel in the first frame image and the second frame image are different; determining backlight brightness regulation signals for each of the backlight subareas; the backlight brightness regulation signals are grouped signals, the number of the groups is identical to the number of types of the color sub-pixels; calculating an average color chroma of a current picture region corresponding to each of the backlight subareas; determining whether the average color chroma of each of the backlight subareas is within a preset range; if yes, performing a brightness regulation to a backlight source of the backlight subarea in each of the frame images of a next picture according to the backlight brightness regulation signal of the backlight subarea. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374429 | WEARABLE DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD - A wearable device includes an electrophoretic panel and a processing circuit that performs a display process of the electrophoretic panel. The processing circuit performs a second display process different from a first display process performed in a first state when an activity state of a user is determined to transition from the first state to a second state different from the first state. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374430 | BACKLIGHT DRIVING CIRCUIT AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - Provided is a backlight driving circuit, comprising voltage conversion circuit, PMW controller, zener diode, first electrical switch, optocoupler unit, boost switch and light source drive assembly. The PMW controller controls an output of the voltage conversion circuit. The light source drive assembly is connected to the boost switch and a light source to control on and off of the boost switch. A cathode of the zener diode is connected to the optocoupler unit, and an anode of the zener diode is connected to a control end of the first electric switch, and a first end of the first electrical switch is connected to the PWM controller, and a second end of the first electrical switch is grounded, and as the boost switch is short, a current outputted by the voltage conversion circuit increases, and the optocoupler unit breaks the zener diode down. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374431 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING DISPLAY AND METHOD OF APPLYING PRIVACY FILTER - A method of applying a privacy filter to display information on a display of an electronic device, includes receiving information for display on the display of the electronic device, detecting a light condition of the display, and applying a privacy filter setting based on the light condition of the display. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374432 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes a timing controller configured to generate a single clock control signal comprising a plurality of ON-control pulses and a plurality of OFF-control pulses, a gate clock generator configured to generate a plurality of clock signals based on the single clock control signal, ON-periods of the plurality of clock signals starting in response to an ON-control pulse among the ON-control pulses and OFF-periods of the plurality of clock signals starting in response to an OFF-control pulse among the OFF-control pulses, a gate driver comprising a plurality of shift registers which generates a plurality of gate signals based on the plurality of clock signals, and a display panel comprising a display area in which a plurality of pixels is arranged and a peripheral area in which the plurality of shift registers is arranged. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374433 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION REDUCTION OF LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - The present disclosure provides a device for reducing power consumption of a liquid crystal display, which includes: a screen area acquisition module for acquiring a first screen area being viewed and a second screen area not being viewed while a viewer watches a screen of the liquid crystal display; and a dynamic backlight control module for performing a dynamic backlight control adjustment on the second screen area. The present disclosure also discloses a method for reducing power consumption of the power consumption reduction device and a liquid crystal display having device. The present disclosure realizes intelligently partitioning dynamic backlight control to the screen of the liquid crystal display and also reduces the power consumption. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374434 | DRIVING METHOD FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL AND DEVICE OF THE SAME - The present disclosure provides a driving method and a driving device of a liquid crystal display panel, where the driving method includes applying a liquid crystal voltage on each pixel is obtained when a preset grayscale voltage is input. The liquid crystal voltage is a difference between a pixel voltage and a common voltage. A compensated grayscale voltage is obtained according to the liquid crystal voltage, and an initial grayscale voltage is transformed to a target grayscale voltage according to the compensated grayscale voltage, where the target grayscale voltage is input to the liquid crystal display panel. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374435 | Display Apparatus and Method for Driving the Same - The present disclosure provides a display apparatus and a method for driving the same. A method for driving a display apparatus includes: dividing blue sub-pixels on a display panel into a plurality of sub-pixel groups; the sub-pixel groups include an even number of sequentially adjacent blue sub-pixels; calculating an average gray scale value of each of the sub-pixel groups according to an image input signal; obtaining a driving voltage pair corresponding to the average gray scale value of each of the sub-pixel groups; the driving voltage pair includes a high driving voltage and a low driving voltage; and driving the blue sub-pixel of the sub-pixel group corresponding to the driving voltage pair. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374436 | Display Apparatus and Method for Driving the Same - A method for driving a display apparatus includes: dividing pixels on a display panel into a plurality of pixel groups; each of the pixel groups includes an even number of sequentially adjacent pixels; calculating a display hue of each of the pixel groups according to an image input signal; obtaining a Look Up Table (LUT) according to a hue range of the display hue; the LUT is a correspondence table between color gray scale values of blue sub-pixels and driving voltage pairs; the driving voltage pair comprises a high driving voltage and a low driving voltage; obtaining the driving voltage pair using the corresponding LUT according to an average gray scale value of the blue sub-pixels in each of the pixel groups; and driving the blue sub-pixels on the corresponding pixel group according to the driving voltage pair. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374437 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - A signal processing device includes an elongation coefficient calculation circuit receiving a first image signal including a red pixel value, a green pixel value and a blue pixel value, and determining an elongation coefficient value with respect to one frame based on the first image signal, and an image signal processing circuit receiving the first image signal and the elongation coefficient value. The image signal processing circuit includes an image signal conversion circuit converting the first image signal into a second image signal including a red pixel value, a green pixel value, a blue pixel value and a white pixel value, an elongation processing circuit elongating the second image signal based on the elongation coefficient value, an image signal analysis circuit analyzing the elongated second image signal, and an adjustment circuit adjusting the elongated second image signal. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374438 | COMMON VOLTAGE GENERATING CIRCUIT AND LCD - The present invention provides a common voltage generating circuit, which is applied to a liquid crystal display circuit and comprises M common voltage generating sub-circuits. The liquid crystal display circuit comprises a data-driving chip, a row-driving chip, a thin film transistor (TFT) array, and a liquid crystal unit array corresponding to the TFT array. The row-driving chip is used to for opening the TFT array row-by-row through scanning lines. The data-driving chip is used for charging one row of the liquid crystal unit corresponding one row of TFT through data lines. N input terminals of a first common voltage generating sub-circuit respectively connect with adjacent N data lines output from the data-driving chip, an output terminal of the first common voltage generating sub-circuit connects with a common terminal of the liquid crystal unit corresponding to the N data lines, N is an even number. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374439 | DISPLAY PIXEL STRUCTURE, ARRAY SUBSTRATE, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display pixel structure includes a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array. Each of the pixel units comprises the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, the third sub-pixel and the fourth sub-pixel. Each of the sub-pixels includes a TFT switch. A ratio between a width/length ratio of the TFT switch of one of the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, and the third sub-pixel or an average of width/length ratios of multiple TFT switches thereof and a width/length ratio of the TFT switch of the fourth sub-pixel is equal to a ratio between a storage capacitance of one of the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, and the third sub-pixel or an average of multiple storage capacitances thereof and a storage capacitance of the fourth sub-pixel. An array substrate and a liquid crystal display device are also disclosed. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374440 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD - A display device and a display method using the display device are provided. The display device includes a display panel and a driving circuit. The display panel includes a first number of pixel rows, a second number of scanning lines, and the first number of data lines. The driving circuit includes a scanning driver and a data driver. The data driver utilizes partial pixel rows reversed way during a predetermined timing circle to drive the display panel via data driving signals for displaying images frame by frame. The present disclosure may decrease power consumption of the display device. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374441 | ARRAY SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is an array substrate, including a sequence controller and gate drivers, and each of the gate drivers includes a first adjustable resistor and a gate drive unit, and one end of the first adjustable resistor is coupled to a first voltage, and the other end of the first adjustable resistor is coupled to a first input end of the gate drive unit, and the sequence controller is coupled to a control end of the first adjustable resistor to adjust a resistance value of the first adjustable resistor to make voltage difference values among the gate drive units in a preset range. In the gate driver, a first adjustable resistor is added between the first voltage and the gate drive unit. By controlling the resistance value of the first adjustable resistor, the voltages of the adjacent gate drivers are the same to prevent the appearance of the horizontal boundary. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374442 | GOA CIRCUIT DRIVING ARCHITECTURE - The present invention provides a GOA circuit driving architecture, which comprises a plurality of data lines providing data signals, a plurality of scanning lines providing scanning signals, a plurality of pixel in array arrangement, each pixel is electrically connected to one of the data lines and one of the scanning lines. Odd stage GOA circuits are sequentially arranged on one side of AA area pixel Even stage GOA circuits are sequentially arranged on one other side of AA area pixel. Each stage of the GOA circuits outputs a gate signal to scan the corresponding scanning line, and each stage of the GOA circuits respectively are connected to a first low-frequency clock signal, a second low-frequency clock signal and a DC low voltage, the odd stage GOA circuits are connected to one of a first high-frequency clock signal and a third high-frequency clock signal, and the even stage of GOA circuits are connected to one of a second high-frequency clock signal and a fourth high-frequency clock signal. First two stage and last two GOA circuits are connected to the start signal. The GOA circuit driving architecture of the present invention reduces the frame space occupied by the GOA circuit and enables the display panel to be designed narrower or borderless. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374443 | Method of Handling Operation of Source Driver and Related Source Driver and Timing Controller - A method of handling operation of a source driver of a display system used in a timing controller of a display system, which is coupled to the source driver via a data bus for delivering a plurality of line data, includes determining whether a first line data among the plurality of line data is identical to a second line data among the plurality of line data previous to the first line data; and transmitting a sleep command to the source driver when the first line data is determined to be identical to the second line data, wherein the sleep command instructs the source driver to enter a sleep mode; wherein the source driver stops receiving the plurality of line data from the timing controller when the source driver is in the sleep mode. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374444 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A gate signal line driving circuit includes plural basic circuits, each outputting to a gats signal line a gate signal which is high during a high signal period and low during a low signal period. Each of the basic circuits includes: agate line high voltage application circuit which is turned on in accordance with the high signal period to apply the high voltage to the gate signal line; a gate line low voltage application circuit which is turned on in accordance with the low signal period to apply the low voltage to the gate signal line; and a second gate line low voltage application circuit which is turned on to apply the low voltage to the gate signal line in at least a part of a period between turning off the gate line high voltage application circuit and turning on the gate line low voltage application circuit. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374445 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a driver chip. The first substrate includes a plurality of gate lines disposed in the display area and extended in a first direction, a plurality of data lines disposed on a gate insulating layer insulating the gate lines and extended in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, and a gate driving circuit section disposed in the first peripheral area adjacent to first ends of the gate lines. The second substrate is opposite to the first substrate. A liquid crystal is interposed between the first and second substrates. The driver chip is disposed in the second peripheral area adjacent to second ends of the gate lines opposite to the first ends so that the width of the upper and lower portions of the display area may be decreased. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374446 | Source Drive Circuit and Display Device - A source drive circuit and a display device. The source drive circuit includes: a detection circuit, configure to detect a change value of a common voltage; and a compensation circuit, configured to obtain a compensation data signal based on a data signal and the change value of the common voltage, and output the compensation data signal to a pixel electrode of a display panel. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374447 | METHOD FOR DRIVING DISPLAY PANEL, DATA SOURCE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - The present application discloses a method for driving a display panel, a data source, and a display apparatus. The method includes providing, during a time period of displaying a frame of image and through a data line, a first data signal having a first slew rate to a first pixel electrode in a first region and a second data signal having a second slew rate higher than the first slew rate to a second pixel electrode in a second region. The first pixel electrode in the first region and the second pixel electrode in the second region are coupled to the same data line. The second region is on a side of the first region distal to a data source configured to input the first data signal and the second data signal. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374448 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR DETECTING ACCESSORY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SAME - The present invention relates to an electronic device for detecting an accessory device and a method for operating the same, the electronic device comprising: an external housing including a first surface facing a first direction, a second surface facing a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a side surface surrounding at least a part of the space between the first surface and the second surface; a user interface exposed through at least a part of the first surface, the second surface, and/or the side surface of the housing; a communication circuit disposed inside the housing; a first sensor disposed inside the housing; a conductive member electrically connected to the first sensor and disposed adjacent to at least a part of the second surface and/or the side surface of the housing; a processor electrically connected to the communication circuit, the user interface, and the first sensor; and a memory electrically connected to the processor, wherein the memory may store instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to: detect whether the accessory device configured to be detachably mounted on the second surface of the housing comes into contact with or approaches the conductive member, using the first sensor so as to generate a first signal; compare the first signal with at least one threshold value; perform at least one action through the communication circuit and/or the user interface, on the basis of the result of the comparison. Other embodiments are also applicable. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374449 | NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM ENCODED WITH INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM READABLE BY COMPUTER OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS WHICH CAN ENHANCE ZEST, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A non-transitory storage medium encoded with an information processing program executed by a computer of an information processing apparatus connected to a display including first and second display areas according to one aspect, the information processing program causing the computer to perform first representation processing for showing a first image in the first display area and second representation processing for showing a second image in the second display area. In the second representation processing, a color of the second image in the second display area is changed based on the first image shown in the first display area. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374450 | DISPLAY PIXEL OVERDRIVE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Aspects of the subject technology relate to display circuitry including pixel overdrive circuitry. The pixel overdrive circuitry includes a compression engine that compresses a previous display frame, for storage and comparison to a current display frame without compression or decompression of the current display frame. The compression engine compresses the previous frame in such a way that the maximum compression error is always known and can be used to determine whether to perform overdrive operations for the current frame without compressing and decompressing the current display frame. The compression engine selects gradient encoding or decimation encoding for the compression of the previous display frame and can perform successive decimation operations within the gradient encoding operations to help reduce the size of the compressed previous frame while maintaining the quality of the ultimate overdriven current frame. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374451 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are an electronic device and an operation method thereof according to various embodiment, the method comprising: reproducing first content on a first display unit having variable transparency; detecting an object in response to the first display unit; controlling transparency in at least a partial area of the first display unit on the basis of the object; and reproducing second content on a second display unit, disposed to be spaced from the first display unit. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374452 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An electronic device and a control method therefor are provided. The electronic device comprises: a housing including a roll; a touch display which is wound on a roll, is capable of changing the size of a display area according to the rotation of the roll, and detects a touch of a user; a sensing part for sensing the size of the display area; and a processor which is electrically connected to the display and the sensing part, wherein if the size of the display area increases by the rotation of the roll while a user touch is detected in one area of the touch display while an execution screen of an application is being provided in the display area, the processor may control the touch display so as to provide new information to the display area. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374453 | HOLOGRAPHIC DISPLAY MIMICKING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A media display system includes a first display device configured to display a first graphic image. The media display system also includes a second display device including a transparent display configured to display a second graphic image. The first display device and the second display device are spaced apart from one another at a distance, such that the first graphic image overlaps with the second graphic image to collectively form a holographic-like presentation. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374454 | REMAPPING SOFTWARE ELEMENTS TO INCREASE THE USABILITY OF A DEVICE WITH A DAMAGED SCREEN - Remapping software elements to increase the usability of a device with a damaged screen including receiving a request to transition the device with the damaged screen into damaged screen mode; dividing, by a remapping module, the damaged screen into a plurality of sectors; determining, by the remapping module, a usability of each of the plurality of sectors of the damaged screen; remapping, by the remapping module, elements of device software to sectors based on the usability of each of the plurality of sectors of the damaged screen; and presenting the remapped elements of the device software to a user of the device. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374455 | REMAPPING SOFTWARE ELEMENTS TO INCREASE THE USABILITY OF A DEVICE WITH A DAMAGED SCREEN - Remapping software elements to increase the usability of a device with a damaged screen including receiving a request to transition the device with the damaged screen into damaged screen mode; dividing, by a remapping module, the damaged screen into a plurality of sectors; determining, by the remapping module, a usability of each of the plurality of sectors of the damaged screen; remapping, by the remapping module, elements of device software to sectors based on the usability of each of the plurality of sectors of the damaged screen; and presenting the remapped elements of the device software to a user of the device. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374456 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF - The present disclosure discloses a display device and a display method thereof. The display device includes: a display screen is configured to be switched between a landscape state and a portrait state; an information collection unit is configured to collect an image of a viewer; a sight concentration area determination unit is configured to determine a sight concentration area of the viewer before the display screen is switched between the landscape state and the portrait state; a to-be-displayed picture determination unit is configured to determine a to-be-displayed picture after the display screen is switched between the landscape state and the portrait state; and a central processing unit is configured to process the to-be-displayed picture, wherein the processed to-be-display picture may cover a whole display surface after the display screen is switched between the landscape state and the portrait state. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374457 | CURVED, ERGONOMIC PLECTRUM FOR A STRINGED INSTRUMENT - An ergonomic plectrum which includes a curve, or pitch, along the plectrum's transverse axis. The amount of curvature is reflected as the ratio of the height of the curve, or pitch, to the length of the rear width. The amount of curvature can also be reflected as the radius of curvature. This curvature, or pitch, of the plectrum increases surface area contact with the user's digits while allowing the user to select a multitude of grips. The preferred embodiment of the ergonomic plectrum resembles a curved, teardrop shaped plectrum. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374458 | KEY UNIT AND WIND INSTRUMENT - A key unit includes: a base portion that is fixable to a musical instrument body that includes a tube body; a key post that projects from the base portion; a key shaft that is attached to the key post; and a key that is attached to the key shaft. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374459 | Intuitive Music Visualization Using Efficient Structural Segmentation - Embodiments of the present invention relate to automatically identifying structures of a music stream. A segment structure may be generated that visually indicates repeating segments of a music stream. To generate a segment structure, a feature that corresponds to a music attribute from a waveform corresponding to the music stream is extracted from a waveform, such as an input signal. Utilizing a signal segmentation algorithm, such as a Variable Markov Oracle (VMO) algorithm, a symbolized signal, such as a VMO structure, is generated. From the symbolized signal, a matrix is generated. The matrix may be, for instance, a VMO-SSM. A segment structure is then generated from the matrix. The segment structure illustrates a segmentation of the music stream and the segments that are repetitive. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374460 | Enhanced System, Method, and Devices for Utilizing Inaudilbe Tones with Music - One embodiment provides a system, method, and device for utilizing inaudible tones for music. A song is initiated with enhanced features. A determination is made whether inaudible tones including information or data are associated with a portion of the song. The associated inaudible tone is played. Playback of the song is continued. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374461 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING MEDIA - A computer implemented method for automatically generating lyric videos comprising receiving an audio selection, determining timing information of the audio selection, and determining lyric information of the audio selection. The method includes receiving tone information of the audio selection and generating video content based on at least one of the timing information, the lyric information, and the tone information of the audio selection. The method also includes rendering a lyric video based on the video content and the audio selection. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374462 | AUDIO-VISUAL EFFECTS SYSTEM FOR AUGMENTATION OF CAPTURED PERFORMANCE BASED ON CONTENT THEREOF - Visual effects schedules are applied to audiovisual performances with differing visual effects applied in correspondence with differing elements of musical structure. Segmentation techniques applied to one or more audio tracks (e.g., vocal or backing tracks) are used to compute some of the components of the musical structure. In some cases, applied visual effects schedules are mood-denominated and may be selected by a performer as a component of his or her visual expression or determined from an audiovisual performance using machine learning techniques. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374463 | SOUND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND SOUND SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE - Provided is a sound signal processing method including a step of acquiring a unit time length in an input sound signal, a step of calculating a tone feature amount from the input sound signal, a step of calculating an index indicating validity of time lengths in a case where the time lengths are assumed the time lengths of one beat and one measure using the unit time length as a reference in the input sound signal with respect to the tone feature amount, and a step of estimating the time lengths of one beat and one measure using the unit time length as a reference based on the index. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374464 | AUTOMATIC ARRANGEMENT OF MUSIC PIECE BASED ON CHARACTERISTIC OF ACCOMPANIMENT - Performance information of one or more accompaniment parts is extracted from original performance information. Arranged accompaniment performance information is created using, in accordance with a predetermined arranging condition, only any one or more of pitch names included in the extracted accompaniment performance information. The predetermined arranging condition comprises instructing that any of chord component notes be thinned out in an identified chord progression, and arranged accompaniment performance information is created by thinning out an accompaniment note of a pitch name corresponding to the chord component note having been instructed to be thinned out. Another predetermined arranging condition comprises setting a ratio between chords and arpeggios in one or more measures, and a combination of chords and arpeggios in the extracted accompaniment part performance information is changed so that a ratio between chords and arpeggios in one or more measures in the extracted accompaniment performance information assumes the set ratio. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374465 | VIBRATION SOUNDING DEVICE - A vibration sounding device, including a screen, a rear cover arranged opposite to the screen, a border for supporting the screen and the rear cover, and a drive unit; wherein the border is perpendicular to the screen; the border comprises an internal surface perpendicular to the screen, an external surface arranged opposite to the internal surface, an upper surface and a lower surface, the upper surface and the lower surface connect the internal surface with the external surface, the upper surface is arranged opposite to the lower surface and is close to the screen, and the lower surface is close to the rear cover; and wherein the drive unit is fixed on the internal surface, and the drive unit drives the screen and/or the rear cover to vibrate and sound by the border. The vibration sounding device is favorable for thinning and miniaturization of the product. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374466 | ANISOTROPIC MEDIA FOR ELASTIC WAVE MODE CONVERSION, SHEAR MODE ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER USING THE ANISOTROPIC MEDIA, SOUND INSULATING PANEL USING THE ANISOTROPIC MEDIA, FILTER FOR ELASTIC WAVE MODE CONVERSION, ULSTRASOUND TRANSDUCER USING THE FILTER, AND WAVE ENERGY DISSIPATER USING THE FILTER - The anisotropic media has an anisotropic layer, is disposed between outer isotropic media, causes multiple mode transmission on an elastic wave having a predetermined mode incident into the anisotropic media, and has a mode-coupling stiffness constant not zero. A thickness of the anisotropic layer according to modulus of elasticity and excitation frequency satisfies Equation (2) which is a phase matching condition of elastic waves propagating along the same direction or Equation (3) which is a phase matching condition of elastic waves propagating along the opposite direction, to generate mode conversion Fabry-Pérot resonance, | 2018-12-27 |
20180374467 | SOUNDPROOF MEMBER - This soundproof member is mounted to a drive device provided with a rotating body and comprises: an elastic member having a base material consisting of a resin or elastomer, the elastic member also having a magnetic filler contained in the base material so as to be interconnected and oriented in one direction; and a mass disposed on a surface with the elastic member provided therebetween, the surface extending in the direction of the rotation axis of the rotating body, the mass being supported by the elastic member. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374468 | VEHICLE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE VEHICLE, AND AUDIO DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A vehicle having a plurality of electronic components includes: a communicator configured to receive communicated signals from the plurality of electronic components, at least one electronic component of the plurality of electronic components outputting noise; a storage configured to store noise-related information of the plurality of electronic components; a speaker configured to output sound; and a controller configured to produce an antiphased sound signal to the noise output from the at least one electronic component based on the noise-related information stored in the storage when the at least one electronic component is operating, and control the speaker to output a sound corresponding to the antiphased sound signal. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374469 | Active Noise Control Microphone Array - An apparatus and method are presented for an active noise control system with a selector mechanism to select an appropriate reference signal for an active noise control algorithm responsive to several noise sources, some of which generate may sounds intermittently. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374470 | Centralized Control of Multiple Active Noise Cancellation Devices - The invention relates to a method for centralized control of multiple active noise cancellation devices. The method includes identifying a trigger event. Also, the method includes identifying at least one zone of a mapped area in response to identifying the trigger event. Further, the method includes identifying two or more devices based on the at least one zone of the mapped area, and transmitting a command to disable active noise cancellation on the two or more devices. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374471 | AN ACOUSTIC LENS FOR AN ULTRASOUND ARRAY - An acoustic lens suitable for a CMUT array ( | 2018-12-27 |
20180374472 | Audio Control Systems And Methods Based On Road Characteristics And Vehicle Operation - A sound control module is configured to, based on a type of road over which a vehicle is traveling and a smoothness of the road, at least one of: determine a first frequency and a first increase at which to increase a first magnitude of a microphone signal; and determine a second frequency and a first decrease at which to decrease a second magnitude of the microphone signal. An audio driver module is configured to: receive the microphone signal from a microphone of the vehicle; generate an adjusted microphone signal by at least one of: increasing the first magnitude of the microphone signal at the first frequency based on the first increase; and decreasing the second magnitude of the microphone signal at the second frequency based on the first decrease; and apply power to a speaker of the vehicle based on the adjusted microphone signal. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374473 | SOUND GENERATION ASSEMBLY UNIT - A sound generation assembly unit, for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, includes a sound generation module ( | 2018-12-27 |
20180374474 | Method and Apparatus for Broadcasting a Response Based on Artificial Intelligence, and Storage Medium - The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for broadcasting a response based on artificial intelligence, and a storage medium, wherein the method comprises: obtaining a user-input speech query; generating a response corresponding to the query; obtaining a recorded speech of a mood meaning corresponding to a modal particle in the response and matched with the response; combining the obtained recorded speech with a TTS-generated speech to perform TTS broadcast of the response. The solution of the present disclosure may be applied to enhance an effect of broadcasting the response. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374475 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPERATING A VOICE-BASED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CONTROLLER - A system for voice-based process management is provided. The system includes a microphone, a speaker, and a computer device in communication with the microphone and the speaker. The computer device includes at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device. The computer device is programmed to (i) receive, via the microphone, one or more audible statements from an individual; (ii) parse the one or more audible statements into discrete data elements to allow normalized semantic definition of the meaning of conveyed information; (iii) compare the conveyed information with stored data; (iv) determine whether there is a discrepancy based on the comparison; and (v) if the determination is that there is a discrepancy, request, via the speaker, a clarification. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374476 | SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR SELECTING SPEECH RECOGNITION MODEL - A system includes network interface, processor operatively connected to the network interface, and memory operatively connected to the processor. The memory stores a plurality of language models of a first language. The plurality of language models be different from one another. Each of the plurality of language models is provided for speakers whose native language is different from the first language. The memory further stores instructions that cause the processor to receive a user's speech data associated with a plurality of sample texts from an external electronic device, to perform automatic speech recognition (ASR) on the speech data using the plurality of language models, to select one language model from the plurality of language models based on results from the performed ASR, and to use the selected one language model as a default language model for speech of the user. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374477 | SPEECH RECOGNITION USING ACOUSTIC FEATURES IN CONJUNCTION WITH DISTANCE INFORMATION - An example method includes receiving, by a computing system, an indication of one or more audible sounds that are detected by a first sensing device, the one or more audible sounds originating from a user; determining, by the computing system and based at least in part on an indication of one or more signals detected by a second sensing device, a distance between the user and the second sensing device; determining, by the computing system and based at least in part on the indication of the one or more audible sounds, one or more acoustic features that are associated with the one or more audible sounds; and determining, by the computing system, and based at least in part on the one or more acoustic features and the distance between the user and the second sensing device, one or more words that correspond to the audible sounds. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374478 | SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD AND DEVICE - A speech recognition method and a speech recognition device are disclosed. The speech recognition method includes: obtaining features of a speech signal to be recognized; performing a path search in a search space generated by establishing a map according to the features to output a decoding result; judging whether a rejection is needed according to the decoding result; and when the rejection is needed, determining that a speech recognition result is the rejection, and when the rejection is not needed, obtaining the speech recognition result according to the decoding result. The method has a good recognition rejection effect. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374479 | DEVELOPER PLATFORM FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATED ASSISTANT IN NEW DOMAINS - A system that provides a sharable language interface for implementing automated assistants in new domains and applications. A dialogue assistant that is trained in a first domain can receive a specification in a second domain. The specification can include language structure data such as schemas, recognizers, resolvers, constraints and invariants, actions, language hints, generation template, and other data. The specification data is applied to the automated assistant to enable the automated assistant to provide interactive dialogue with a user in a second domain associated with the received specification. In some instances, portions of the specification may be automatically mapped to portions of the first domain. By having the ability to learn new domains and applications through receipt of objects and properties rather than retooling the interface entirely, the present system is much more efficient at learning how to provide interactive dialogue in new domains than previous systems. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374480 | DEVELOPER VOICE ACTIONS SYSTEM - Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving data identifying an application and a voice command trigger term, validating the received data, inducting the received data to generate an intent that specifies the application, the voice command trigger term, and one or more other voice command trigger terms that are determined based at least on the voice command trigger term, and storing the intent at a contextual intent database, wherein the contextual intent database comprises one or more other intents. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374481 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PERFORMING OPERATION CORRESPONDING TO VOICE INPUT - An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a speaker, a microphone, a display, a communication circuit, at least one processor operatively connected to the speaker, the microphone, the display, and the communication circuit, and a memory operatively connected to the at least one processor, and storing instructions to cause the at least one processor to receive a first user utterance, including a request to perform a task by using an application program, through the microphone, transmit first data associated with the first user utterance to an external server, receive second data including a text generated by an automatic speech recognition (ASR) module, from the external server, identify the application program based on the second data, receive a first response including information of a sequence of states of the electronic device from the external server to perform at least part of the task, and perform the at least part of the task by controlling the electronic device to enter the sequence of the states by using the application program. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374482 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING USER UTTERANCE AND SERVER - A system for processing a user utterance is provided. The system includes at least one network interface; at least one processor operatively connected to the at least one network interface; and at least one memory operatively connected to the at least one processor, wherein the at least one memory stores a plurality of specified sequences of states of at least one external electronic device, wherein each of the specified sequences is associated with a respective one of domains, wherein the at least one memory further stores instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to receive first data associated with the user utterance provided via a first of the at least one external electronic device, wherein the user utterance includes a request for performing a task using the first of the at least one external device. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374483 | INTERPRETING ASSISTANT SYSTEM - An interpreting assistant system which provides to a user captions of auditory communications in the user's vicinity. The interpreting assistant system includes a smart microphone transmitter that defines an input device which converts auditory communications into audio signals and transmit the signals a translation device, with a smart phone defining the translation device which generates a text transcript from the audio signals and send the transcript file to a display device, with the display device being defined by a wearable display interface which displays the transcript for a user to see. When in use, the interpreting assistant system provides for the display of a real time transcription and display of auditory communications such as spoken words for a user that may have hearing difficulties. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374484 | APPLYING NEURAL NETWORK LANGUAGE MODELS TO WEIGHTED FINITE STATE TRANSDUCERS FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION - Systems and processes for converting speech-to-text are provided. In one example process, speech input can be received. A sequence of states and arcs of a weighted finite state transducer (WFST) can be traversed. A negating finite state transducer (FST) can be traversed. A virtual FST can be composed using a neural network language model and based on the sequence of states and arcs of the WFST. The one or more virtual states of the virtual FST can be traversed to determine a probability of a candidate word given one or more history candidate words. Text corresponding to the speech input can be determined based on the probability of the candidate word given the one or more history candidate words. An output can be provided based on the text corresponding to the speech input. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374485 | INITIALIZATION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SMART HOME - The disclosure relates to an initialization method for the smart home and the device thereof. The method includes receiving an initialization audio signal played by a target device, wherein the initialization audio signal is an audio signal of target characters obtained by encoding source data of initialization data for the smart home; decoding the initialization audio signal based on pre-stored correspondences between pre-set characters and source data of the pre-set characters so as to obtain the source data of the initialization data, wherein the pre-set characters include at least the target characters; and initializing the smart home based on the source data of the initialization data. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374486 | SPEAKER RECOGNITION - Improvements in speaker identification and verification are provided via an attention model for speaker recognition and the end-to-end training thereof. A speaker discriminative convolutional neural network (CNN) is used to directly extract frame-level speaker features that are weighted and combined to form an utterance-level speaker recognition vector via the attention model. The CNN and attention model are join-optimized via an end-to-end training algorithm that imitates the speaker recognition process and uses the most-similar utterances from imposters for each speaker. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374487 | DETECTION OF REPLAY ATTACK - Detecting a replay attack on a voice biometrics system comprises receiving a speech signal; forming an autocorrelation of at least a part of the speech signal; and identifying that the received speech signal may result from a replay attack based on said autocorrelation. Identifying that the received speech signal may result from a replay attack may be achieved by: comparing the autocorrelation with a reference value; and identifying that the received speech signal may result from a replay attack based on a result of the comparison of the autocorrelation with the reference value, or by: supplying the autocorrelation to a neural network trained to distinguish autocorrelations formed from speech signals resulting from replay attacks from autocorrelations formed from speech signals not resulting from replay attacks. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374488 | SPEECH/AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - The present invention discloses a speech/audio signal processing method and apparatus. In an embodiment, the speech/audio signal processing method includes: when a speech/audio signal switches bandwidth, obtaining an initial high frequency signal corresponding to a current frame of speech/audio signal; obtaining a time-domain global gain parameter of the initial high frequency signal; performing weighting processing on an energy ratio and the time-domain global gain parameter, and using an obtained weighted value as a predicted global gain parameter, where the energy ratio is a ratio between energy of a historical frame of high frequency time-domain signal and energy of a current frame of initial high frequency signal; correcting the initial high frequency signal by using the predicted global gain parameter, to obtain a corrected high frequency time-domain signal; and synthesizing a current frame of narrow frequency time-domain signal and the corrected high frequency time-domain signal and outputting the synthesized signal. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374489 | BIT ERROR DETECTOR FOR AN AUDIO SIGNAL DECODER - A method comprising: receiving lattice vector quantised parameter data, the parameter data representing at least one audio signal; determining within the data at least one bit error; and controlling the decoding of the data to generate an audio signal based on the determining of the bit error. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374490 | CODING DEVICE AND METHOD, DECODING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technology relates to a coding device and method, and a decoding device and method, and a program capable of reducing the amount of calculations for decoding. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374491 | Systems and Methods for Recognizing Sound and Music Signals in High Noise and Distortion - A method for recognizing an audio sample locates an audio file that closely matches the audio sample from a database indexing a large set of original recordings. Each indexed audio file is represented in the database index by a set of landmark timepoints and associated fingerprints. Landmarks occur at reproducible locations within the file, while fingerprints represent features of the signal at or near the landmark timepoints. To perform recognition, landmarks and fingerprints are computed for the unknown sample and used to retrieve matching fingerprints from the database. For each file containing matching fingerprints, the landmarks are compared with landmarks of the sample at which the same fingerprints were computed. If a large number of corresponding landmarks are linearly related, i.e., if equivalent fingerprints of the sample and retrieved file have the same time evolution, then the file is identified with the sample. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374492 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technology relates to a signal processing apparatus, a signal processing method, and a program by which, in reproducing transmitted encoded data in real time, buffer overflow can be prevented from occurring on a reception apparatus side even if it is transmitted with a compression rate of the encoded data being varied in a manner that depends on communication condition. Encoded data including transmitted audio data is buffered by a reception buffer. At this time, the quantity of encoded data buffered by the reception buffer is managed in units of processing according to an encoding method. The present technology is applicable to a real-time content reproduction system utilizing a communication system. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374493 | SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL TERMINAL - Provided is a system including: a first reproduction device including a first signal processor and being configured to reproduce audio data; a second reproduction device configured to reproduce the audio data, wherein the first reproduction device is configured to: receive the audio data from a content server in response to a request for reproduction of the audio data by the second reproduction device; cause the first signal processor to execute predetermined signal processing on the received audio data; and transfer the audio data subjected to the predetermined signal processing to the second reproduction device. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374494 | SOUND SOURCE SEPARATION INFORMATION DETECTING DEVICE CAPABLE OF SEPARATING SIGNAL VOICE FROM NOISE VOICE, ROBOT, SOUND SOURCE SEPARATION INFORMATION DETECTING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - A voice input unit has predetermined directivity for acquiring a voice. A sound source arrival direction estimation unit operating as a first direction detection unit detects a first direction, which is an arrival direction of a signal voice of a predetermined target, from the acquired voice. Moreover, a sound source arrival direction estimation unit operating as a second direction detection unit detects a second direction, which is an arrival direction of a noise voice, from the acquired voice. A sound source separation unit, a sound volume calculation unit, and a detection unit having an S/N ratio calculation unit detect a sound source separation direction or a sound source separation position, based on the first direction and the second direction. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374495 | BEAM SELECTION FOR BODY WORN DEVICES - Systems and methods for beamforming audio signals received from a microphone array. One method includes receiving, with an electronic processor communicatively coupled to the microphone array, a plurality of audio signals from the microphone array. The method includes generating a plurality of beams based on the plurality of audio signals. The method includes detecting that an electronic device is in a body-worn position. The method includes, in response to the device being in the body-worn position, determining at least one restricted direction based on the body-worn position. The method includes generating, for each of the plurality of beams, a likelihood statistic. The method includes, for each of the beams, assigning a weight to the likelihood statistic based on the at least one restricted direction to generate a weighted likelihood statistic. The method includes generating an output audio stream from the plurality of beams based on the weighted likelihood statistic. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374496 | SUPPRESSION OF BREATH IN AUDIO SIGNALS - Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to audio signal processing. A method of processing an audio signal is disclosed. The method includes detecting, based on a power distribution of the audio signal, a type of content of a frame of the audio signal, generating a first gain based on a sound level of the frame for adjusting the sound level, processing the audio signal by applying the first gain to the frame; and in response to the type of content being detected to be a breath sound, generating a second gain for mitigating the breath sound and processing the audio signal by applying the second gain to the frame. Corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374497 | SOUND SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT DEVICE - A first signal weighting processor outputs a weighted signal obtained by performing a weighting on part of an input signal representing a feature of a target signal included in the input signal. A neural network processor outputs an enhancement signal for the target signal by using a coupling coefficient. An inverse filter cancels the weighting on the feature representation of the target signal in the enhancement signal. A second signal weighting processor outputs a weighted signal obtained by performing a weighting on part of a supervisory signal representing a feature of a target signal. An error evaluator output a coupling coefficient to have a value indicating that a learning error between the weighted signal output from the second signal weighting processor and the output signal of the neural network processor is less than or equal to a set value. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374498 | Electronic Device, Emotion Information Obtaining System, Storage Medium, And Emotion Information Obtaining Method - An electronic device includes an audio receiver which receives audio of a user and converts the audio into audio information, and a processor. The processor performs first obtaining emotion information on a basis of the audio information converted by the audio receiver and second obtaining user-related information or environment information. In the first obtaining, the emotion information is obtained on a basis of the audio information of a predetermined timing which is decided on a basis of the user-related information or the environment information obtained in the second obtaining. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374499 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CARDIAC PARAMETERS AND PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS BY ANALYSING SPEECH SAMPLES - The present disclosure describes a system and method for determining cardiac parameters and physiological conditions of a user by analysing speech samples of said user. A user device of the user may record specifics of speech and use these specifics of speech as a speech sample of user's utterance. The user device may transmit the speech samples to a backend system. The system may isolate phonation segments from the speech samples. The system may filter one or more phonation segments. The system may isolate uttered speech segments from one or more phonation segments. The system may perform an acoustic-phonetic analysis of the uttered speech segments. The acoustic-phonetic analysis may use plurality of features for the analysis. The IPA phonemes may be used to derive speech markers that correspond to specific cardiac parameters and physiological conditions. The system may generate a resulting report after analysis which is transmitted to the user. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374500 | Voice Activity Detection Using A Soft Decision Mechanism - Voice activity detection (VAD) is an enabling technology for a variety of speech based applications. Herein disclosed is a robust VAD algorithm that is also language independent. Rather than classifying short segments of the audio as either “speech” or “silence”, the VAD as disclosed herein employees a soft-decision mechanism. The VAD outputs a speech-presence probability, which is based on a variety of characteristics. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374501 | DETECTING PAUSE IN AUDIBLE INPUT TO DEVICE - A device includes a processor and a memory accessible to the processor and bearing instructions executable by the processor to process an audible input sequence provided by a user of the device, determine that a pause in providing the audible input sequence has occurred at least partially based on a first signal from at least one camera communicating with the device, cease to process the audible input sequence responsive to a determination that the pause has occurred, determine that providing the audible input sequence has resumed based at least partially based on a second signal from the camera, and resume processing of the audible input sequence responsive to a determination that providing the audible input sequence has resumed. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374502 | OSCILLATOR AND CALCULATING DEVICE - According to one embodiment, an oscillator includes a first element. The first element includes first and second magnetic layers, and a first nonmagnetic layer. The first magnetic layer includes first and second magnetic films, and a first nonmagnetic film. The second magnetic film is provided between the second magnetic layer and the first magnetic film. The first nonmagnetic layer is provided between the second magnetic film and the second magnetic layer. An orientation of a first magnetization of the first magnetic film has a reverse component of an orientation of a second magnetization of the second magnetic film. A first magnetic field is applied to the first element. The first element is in a first state when a first current flows in the first element An electrical resistance of the first element in the first state includes first and second electrical resistances repeating alternately. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374503 | MAGNETIC TAPE - The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support; a magnetic layer including ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent on one surface side of the non-magnetic support; and a back coating layer including non-magnetic powder and a binding agent on the other surface side of the non-magnetic support, in which a thickness of the back coating layer is equal to or smaller than 0.20 μm, and an isoelectric point of a surface zeta potential of the back coating layer is equal to or greater than 4.5. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374504 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - The magnetic recording medium includes a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer including ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent on the non-magnetic support, in which an isoelectric point of a surface zeta potential of the magnetic layer is equal to or greater than 5.5. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374505 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - The magnetic recording medium includes a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer including ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent on the non-magnetic support, in which an isoelectric point of a surface zeta potential of the magnetic layer is equal to or smaller than 3.8. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374506 | MAGNETIC TAPE - The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support; a magnetic layer including ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent on one surface side of the non-magnetic support; and a back coating layer including non-magnetic powder and a binding agent on the other surface side of the non-magnetic support, in which a thickness of the back coating layer is equal to or smaller than 0.30 μm, and an isoelectric point of a surface zeta potential of the back coating layer is equal to or smaller than 3.0. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374507 | MAGNETIC TAPE AND MAGNETIC TAPE DEVICE - The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer including ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent on the non-magnetic support, in which the magnetic layer includes a timing-based servo pattern, the ferromagnetic powder is ferromagnetic hexagonal ferrite powder having an activation volume equal to or smaller than 1,600 nm | 2018-12-27 |
20180374508 | TAPE TRANSPORT CONTROL WITH SUPPRESSION OF TIME-VARYING TENSION DISTURBANCES - Embodiments of the present invention provide a tape transport control system with enhanced regulation of tape tension and velocity over the entire length of the tape. The tape transport control system comprises of circuitry adapted to output and circuitry adapted to receive one or more signals representing a tape velocity, at least one radius of either the first tape reel or the second tape reel, and a tape tension, and based on the received signals, generate at least one control signal to control at least one of the first reel motor or the second reel motor so as to reduce a tension disturbance at a minimum, one frequency corresponding to a time-varying reel-rotation frequency, based on controller parameters that depend on the tape velocity and on the at least one radius of either the first tape reel or the second tape reel. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374509 | Intermittent Operation Of Compartmented Pneumatics For Sealed Data Storage System - A data storage system includes multiple hermetically-sealed enclosures containing a lighter-than air gas, multiple data storage devices housed in each enclosure and containing the lighter-than-air gas, a tray pneumatic control system each corresponding to and pneumatically coupled to a corresponding hermetically-sealed enclosure, and a rack pneumatic control system pneumatically coupled to each tray pneumatic control system. The tray pneumatic control system may include a tray valve operable in a first way to provide a vacuum in a space between first and second sealing members of the enclosure, and operable in a second way to provide the lighter-than-air gas to the enclosure. The rack pneumatic control system may include a vacuum source operable to provide a vacuum to each tray valve and a lighter-than-air gas source operable to provide the lighter-than-air gas to each tray valve. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374510 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND OPERATION METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - Disclosed are: an image processing device; an operation method for the image processing device; and a computer-readable recording medium. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the operation method for the image processing device, which can be connected to a storage medium storing a file system, can comprise the steps of: communicating with a storage medium; storing, in a file system, logic information on the bad sector of the storage medium; and blocking the bad sector from accessing data on the basis of the logic information when recording data in the storage medium or reading the recorded data according to a request of a user. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374511 | Recording System and Method for Multi-Track Recording - A management device has a plurality of tracks (MTR) corresponding to a plurality of terminal devices, commands the terminal devices to start/stop recording in response to recording start/stop instructions (recording command circuitry), and creates, in each of the tracks, a provisional segment identifying a recording time corresponding to the instructions (provisional segment creation circuitry). Each of the terminal devices records sound data in response to the recording start/stop instructions (recording circuitry) and transfers the recorded sound data to the management device (transfer circuitry). The management device | 2018-12-27 |
20180374512 | METHOD TO AUTOMATE MEDIA STREAM CURATION UTILIZING SPEECH AND NON-SPEECH AUDIO CUE ANALYSIS - A method to automate media stream curation implements verbal and non-verbal audio cue analysis of an audio track recorded contemporaneously with a media stream. The media stream may be a video stream or an audio stream. The audio track is recorded contemporaneously with the media stream using a recording device separate from the media recording device used to record the media stream. Audio cue analysis of the audio track is performed to detect for audio cues which indicate the locations or timestamps associated with elements of interest. The identified elements of interest are then used to extract segments of the media stream to form a curated media stream containing clips associated with the elements of interest. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374513 | Split-Shaft Pivot With Interface Spacer For A Dual-Actuator Hard Disk Drive - A split-shaft pivot assembly for a dual-actuator data storage device may include a first pivot shaft around which a first bearing assembly is affixed, a second pivot shaft around which a second bearing assembly is affixed, and whereby the two pivot shafts are coupled together by way of an interface spacer between the shafts. The interface spacer may include a receiving structure at each end of a housing, for receiving an end of a respective shaft, and an annular slot circumscribing the housing between the receiving structures, where an elastomeric damper is positioned within the slot. The interface spacer housing may be composed of a material having a lower elastic modulus than the material of which the shafts are composed, thereby making the interface spacer relatively compliant. Such features may serve to inhibit and/or damp transmission of vibrational energy among the actuators through the shared split-shaft. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374514 | BASE UNIT AND DISK DRIVE APPARATUS - A base member includes a recessed portion extending in radial directions and recessed upward from a lower surface of the base member and a hole extending through the recessed portion in the vertical direction. The recessed portion includes a recessed portion loop-shaped surface defining a loop-shaped surface in the radial direction. A connector is located on a lower side of the recessed portion to cover the hole portion. An adhesive is located between the connector and the recessed portion. A minimum value of a gap distance in the radial direction between an outer end of the connector and an inner end of the recessed portion in which the outer end of the connector and the inner end of the recessed portion are opposed to each other with the adhesive therebetween is greater than a minimum value of a gap in the vertical direction distance between an upper surface of the connector and the recessed portion loop-shaped surface, in which the upper surface of the connector and the recessed portion loop-shaped surface are opposed to each other with the adhesive therebetween. The adhesive includes an inorganic filler. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374515 | MEMORY DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD OF MEMORY DEVICE - A memory device includes a memory cell array that includes memory cells, a row decoder that is connected to the memory cell array through word lines, a column decoder that is connected to the memory cell array through bit lines and source lines, a write driver that transfers a write voltage to a bit line, which is selected by the column decoder, from among the bit lines by using a gate voltage in a write operation, and control logic that generates the gate voltage. The gate voltage is higher than the write voltage. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374516 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE - To minimize failures in data writing in a semiconductor storage device in which a transistor is provided for each memory cell. A first transistor has a gate connected to a gate signal line and a source connected to a first source signal line. A second transistor has a gate connected to the gate signal line and a source connected to a second source signal line. A storage element is connected to drains of the first transistor and the second transistor. A gate signal line potential control unit controls a potential of the gate signal line such that the potential becomes a predetermined high potential that is higher than a predetermined reference potential in a case in which the storage element is caused to store data. A source signal line potential control unit causes one of the potentials of the first source signal line and the second signal line to drop such that the one of the potentials becomes lower than the predetermined reference potential, on a basis of the data. A potential fixing unit fixes the one of the potentials at a specific potential in a case in which the one of the potentials has dropped and reached the specific potential that is lower than the predetermined reference potential. | 2018-12-27 |
20180374517 | Current-Mode Sense Amplifier - A current sense amplifier is provided. The amplifier comprises a first cross coupled inverter, a second cross coupled inverter, and a transmission gate. The first cross coupled inverter has a first source coupled to sense current input. The second cross coupled inverter has a second source coupled to a reference current input. The transmission gate comprises a first transmission end, a second transmission end, and a gate input. The first transmission end is operatively coupled to a first input of the first cross coupled inverter. The second transmission end is operatively coupled to a second input of the second cross coupled inverter. The gate input is operatively coupled to the control line input. Each cross coupled inverter is configured for switching a coupling of the sense current input and the reference current input. | 2018-12-27 |