52nd week of 2021 patent applcation highlights part 67 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20210407475 | MUSICAL PERFORMANCE SYSTEM, TERMINAL DEVICE, METHOD AND ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - A musical performance system includes an instrument and a term1nal. Terminal includes a processor. Processor executes outputting first track data or first pattern data obtained by arbitrarily combining pieces of track data. Processor executes automatically outputting second track data or second pattern data obtained by arbitrarily combining pieces of track data. Instrument includes a processor. Processor executes acquiring first track/pattern data from terminal. Processor executes generating a sound of a music composition in accordance with first track/pattern data. Processor executes acquiring second track/pattern data from terminal. Processor executes generating a sound of a music composition in accordance with second track/pattern data. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407476 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORED WITH AUTOMATIC MUSIC ARRANGEMENT PROGRAM, AND AUTOMATIC MUSIC ARRANGEMENT DEVICE - A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stored with an automatic music arrangement program, and an automatic music arrangement device are provided. An outer voice note having a highest pitch among notes of which sound production start times are approximately the same in a melody part acquired from musical piece data is identified. A melody part acquired by deleting inner voice notes of which sound production starts within a sound production period of the outer voice note and of which pitches are low from the melody part is generated. Candidate accompaniment parts in which root notes of chords of chord data of the musical piece data are arranged to be produced at sound production timings thereof for each pitch range acquired by shifting a range of pitches corresponding to one octave by one semitone at each time are generated, and an accompaniment part is selected among them. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407477 | COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AESTHETIC CHORD PROGRESSIONS AND KEY MODULATIONS IN MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS - Computer-based systems, devices, and methods for automatically generating aesthetic chord progressions and key modulations in musical compositions are described. Known harmonic relationships are expanded upon to produce a much richer set of harmonic transition probability models compared to conventional music theory, and these models are leveraged by a computer-based musical composition system to generate new musical compositions and variations of existing musical compositions. Techniques for enabling a computer-based musical composition system to automatically determine when to introduce a key modulation, what key to module to, and what chord progression(s) to use within the new key are all described. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407478 | Adaptive Music Playback System - An adaptive music playback system is disclosed. The system includes a composition system that receives information corresponding to user activity levels. The composition system determines target musical criteria corresponding to the user activity levels and modifies the composition of a song in response to changes in user activity. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407479 | METHOD FOR SONG MULTIMEDIA SYNTHESIS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The disclosure provides a method for synthesizing a song multimedia, an electronic device and a storage medium. Material obtaining modes are provided based on a song multimedia synthesis request. User audios provided by a user are obtained based on a selected material obtaining mode. A user timbre output by a timbre extraction model is obtained by inputting the user audios into the timbre extraction model. Lyrics to be synthesized and a tune to be synthesized provided by the user are obtained based on the selected material obtaining mode, and a synthesized song multimedia is obtained by inputting the user timbre, the lyrics to be synthesized and the tune to be synthesized into a song synthesis model. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407480 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, SOUND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An electronic musical instrument includes a plurality of performance elements that specify pitch data; a sound source that produces musical sounds; and a processor configured to perform the following: when a user performance of the plurality of performance elements satisfies a prescribed condition, instructing the sound source to produce automatic arpeggio playing sounds corresponding to pitch data specified by the user performance; and when the user performance of the plurality of performance elements does not satisfy the prescribed condition, instructing the sound source to produce a sound of a pitch data specified by the user performance without producing the automatic arpeggio playing sound. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407481 | ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, ACCOMPANIMENT SOUND INSTRUCTION METHOD AND ACCOMPANIMENT SOUND AUTOMATIC GENERATION DEVICE - The present invention aims to change contents of an automatic accompaniment in accordance with a pitch range of a key that a user plays. The electronic musical instrument includes operated keys and a processor. The processor acquires the number of operated keys for each pitch range in accordance with the operation of the keyboard and instructs to switch an automatic accompaniment pattern accompaniment sounds to be emitted in accordance with the acquired number of operated keys for each pitch range. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407482 | EFFECTS DEVICE AND EFFECTS PROCESSING METHOD - An input musical sound signal is input to band pass filters, and pass musical sound signals for each sound pitch are acquired. Total level ratios based on a total of levels of a sound pitch lower than those of the pass musical sound signals are calculated from the levels that are levels of the pass musical sound signals, and output coefficients are acquired on the basis of the total level ratios. Levels of octave musical sound signals acquired by converting the pass musical sound signals into sound pitches lower than those of the pass musical sound signals by one octave are multiplied by the output coefficients. In accordance with this, the octave musical sound signals of a low sound pitch can be extracted from among the octave musical sound signals. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407483 | COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR GENERATING MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS THAT ARE SYNCHRONIZED TO VIDEO - Computer-based systems, devices, and methods for generating musical compositions that are purposefully synchronized with video are described. A video timeline is defined with various time-markers that demarcate specific events in the video. A music timeline is generated based on the video timeline. The music timeline preserves the various time-markers from the video timeline. A computer-based musical composition system generates a musical composition based on the music timeline. The musical composition includes various musical events that align, synchronize, or coincide with the time-markers such that when the video and musical composition are played together the musical events align, synchronize, or coincide with the demarcated events in the video. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407484 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING AUDIO-FILE LOOP-PLAYBACK FUNCTIONALITY - Systems and methods for providing audio-file loop-playback functionality are provided. The system includes a processor that performs a method including setting a playback loop start-point based on a first selection of a button; setting a loop end-point, associating a loop with an audio file, and entering into the loop based on a second selection of the button; and exiting the loop based on a third selection of the button. Associating the loop with the audio file includes adding metadata to the audio file. The metadata associates the loop with a button. The method includes reentering the loop based on a fourth selection of the button and exiting the loop based on a fifth selection of the button. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407485 | Variable wind guitar pickup - A process for winding guitar pickups in which I tap in on different places on the bobbins giving the player the ability to change the number of windings and sound with switches. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407486 | Electric Stringed Instrument Using Movable Pickups and Humbucking Circuits - This invention discloses a hollow-body guitar with a large rectangular sound hole between the neck and bridge, with two pickup mounting slots on each side of the sound hole in removable top plates, including a system of top plates and mounting adapters for 7 different single-coil and dual-coil pickup types. The invention has a system humbucking pickup circuit mixing modules that can be cascaded in linear or tree form to mix all the types of pickups in the output, providing a much wider range of tones than current 3-way and 5-way switching systems. For example, three matched single-coil pickups and one humbucker can be mixed to provide 19 humbucking circuits and 18 circuits with hum. Mixed a different way, using switchless analog circuits, they can produce the tones of all 19 switched humbucking circuits, plus all the continuous variations in between. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407487 | ELECTRIC GUITAR WITH REPLACEABLE PICKUP, AND PICKUP ELEMENT FOR SAME - The electric guitar contains at least one pickup in a recess on the guitar body. This pickup can be installed in a mounting frame and has electrical contact points which lead via a cable to the output port on the guitar body. The pickup has a fixing plate on its rear side, which is screwed onto the height adjuster of the pickup via a threaded bush at a variable distance from the base plate of the pickup. It contains spring-loaded pins which are electrically connected to the coils of the pickup. The fixing plate can be inserted without tools from the rear of the guitar body into a recess in the pickup frame and removed again from the pickup frame without tools. When the pickup is inserted, the pins on the fixing plate are connected to the electrical contact points on the mounting frame and the fixing plate is held in place on the mounting frame by means of permanent magnets. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407488 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes a display panel configured to include first to eleventh regions, at least one first to third vibration devices respectively at the first to third regions, at least one fourth to eighth vibration devices respectively at the fourth to eighth regions, at least one ninth to eleventh vibration devices respectively at the ninth to eleventh regions, a first partition between the first and third regions, a second partition between the second and third regions, a third partition between the fourth and seventh regions, a fourth partition between the fourth and eighth regions, a fifth partition between the sixth and seventh regions, and a sixth partition between the sixth and eighth regions. A length of one or more among the first and second partitions may differ from a length of one or more among the third to sixth partitions. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407489 | Soundproof Material - A soundproof material may comprise, in order: a first electrically conductive ferromagnetic layer, a charged insulator layer, and a second electrically conductive ferromagnetic layer. A charged site at the charged insulator layer may be electrically insulated from the first electrically conductive ferromagnetic layer and/or the second electrically conductive ferromagnetic layer. When a sound causes vibration of any among the first electrically conductive ferromagnetic layer, the charged insulator layer, and/or the second electrically conductive ferromagnetic layer, this causes alteration of a magnetic field at the first electrically conductive ferromagnetic layer and/or the second electrically conductive ferromagnetic layer, soundproofing being carried out when acoustic energy of the sound wave is lost as thermal energy. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407490 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING GROUP COMMUNICATION OVER A WIRELESS NETWORK - A communications enhancement computing system for connecting multiple users while balancing audio noise comprises a memory, a network interface device and a processor configured for applying signal processing techniques to a dataset of environmental sounds to extract sound characteristics of said sounds, executing a first deep neural network algorithm to train a first machine learning classification model for classifying sounds by label, executing a second deep neural network algorithm to train a second machine learning classification model for classifying sounds by environment, receiving, via the communications network, input sounds from a user and executing the first and second classification models to classify the input sounds by label and by environment, defining a sound softening technique configured to apply to audio from the user, wherein said sound softening technique is based on the environment and label, and executing the sound softening techniques to a continuous audio feed from the user. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407491 | VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THEREOF - A vehicle selects various sound sources and outputs driving sound based on information received from the navigation system. A database stores sound sources classified as first and second emotions. A controller outputs a landmark name based on a route guidance text and outputs a ratio of the first and second emotions corresponding to the landmark name. The controller selects a first sound source from the sound sources classified as the first emotion based on the first emotion ratio, selects a second sound source from the sound sources classified as the second emotion based on the second emotion ratio and determines first and second playback periods based on the ratios of the first and second emotions. The controller outputs a first sound generated based on the first sound source during the first playback period and a second sound generated based on the second sound source during the second playback period. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407492 | DRIVING SOUND LIBRARY, APPARATUS FOR GENERATING DRIVING SOUND LIBRARY AND VEHICLE COMPRISING DRIVING SOUND LIBRARY - A driving sound library provides driving sounds classified in various themes to a user by analyzing frequency characteristics and temporal characteristics of sound sources classified into categories and determining a chord corresponding to each sound source based on the frequency characteristics and the time characteristics. Modulated sound sources in which each sound source is modulated are generated by applying a chord corresponding to each sound source. The driving sound sources are generated using the sound sources and the modulated sound sources as input data. Pitches of the driving sound sources are then changed based on the driving sound sources and engine sound orders corresponding to an engine RPM of a preset range. Scores for each theme for the driving sounds are generated. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407493 | Audio Anomaly Detection in a Speech Signal - Systems and methods for audio anomaly detection in a voice signal are provided. In some embodiments, a system comprises a voice history database storing historic audio metadata of past voice signals acquired during operation of a user audio device; a data clustering processor, connected to the voice history database and configured for cluster analysis of the historic audio metadata into a normal operation cluster and an anomalous operation cluster and to provide a user audio model therefrom; a voice model database, configured to receive and to store the user audio model; and a classification processor, connected with the voice model database. The classification processor may receive current audio metadata of the voice signal from the user audio device; compare the current audio metadata with the user audio model; and determine if the voice signal corresponds to a normal operating mode or an anomalous operating mode of the user audio device. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407494 | CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL APPARATUS FOR SPEECH INTERACTION - The present disclosure discloses a control method and a control apparatus for speech interaction. The detailed implementation solution of the control method for the speech interaction includes: collecting an audio signal; detecting a wake-up word in the audio signal to obtain a wake-up word result; and playing a prompt tone and/or executing a speech instruction in the audio signal based on the wake-up word result. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407495 | METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR SEMANTIC RECOGNITION - A method for semantic recognition includes: in response to performing semantic analysis on information acquired by a terminal, a sentence to be processed is acquired; word recognition is performed on the sentence, to obtain a plurality of words and part-of-speech information corresponding to each of the words; a target set update operation is determined with a word processing model, according to one or more words to be input, part-of-speech information of the words to be input, and a dependency relationship of a first word. The word processing model is configured to calculate first and second feature vectors according to a word feature vector of the words to be input, a part-of-speech feature vector of the part-of-speech information and a relationship feature vector of the dependency relationship of the first word, calculate confidence levels of the preset set update operations according to the first feature vector and the second feature vector. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407496 | CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL APPARATUS FOR SPEECH INTERACTION, STORAGE MEDIUM AND SYSTEM - The present disclosure discloses a control method and a control apparatus for speech interaction. The detailed implementation solution of the control method for the speech interaction includes: collecting an audio signal; detecting a wake-up word in the audio signal to obtain a wake-up word result; and playing a prompt tone and/or executing a speech instruction in the audio signal based on the wake-up word result. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407497 | METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION - A computer-implemented method for speech recognition is disclosed. The method includes extracting a feature word associated with location information from a speech to be recognized, and calculating a similarity between the feature word and respective ones of a plurality of candidate words in a corpus. The corpus includes a first sub-corpus associated with at least one user, and the plurality of candidate words include, in the first sub-corpus, a first standard candidate word and at least one first erroneous candidate word. The at least one first erroneous candidate word has a preset correspondence with the first standard candidate word. The method further includes in response to the similarity between the feature word and one or more of the at least one first erroneous candidate word satisfying a predetermined condition, outputting the first standard candidate word as a recognition result based on the preset correspondence. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407498 | ON-DEVICE CUSTOM WAKE WORD DETECTION - Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for on-device detection of a wake word. A device can include a memory including model parameters that define a custom wake word detection model, the wake word detection model including a recurrent neural network transducer (RNNT) and a lookup table (LUT), the LUT indicating a hidden vector to be provided in response to a phoneme of a user-specified wake word, a microphone to capture audio, and processing circuitry to receive the audio from the microphone, determine, using the wake word detection model, whether the audio includes an utterance of the user-specified wake word, and wake up a personal assistant after determining the audio includes the utterance of the user-specified wake word. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407499 | AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING CONFERENCE MINUTES - A conference minutes generation method is provided, which relates to the technical field of natural language processing. The conference minutes generation method comprises: acquiring a text conference record; dividing the text conference record into a plurality of conference paragraphs, generating a conference paragraph summary for each conference paragraph, and generating a conference record summary based on the conference paragraph summary of each conference paragraph; extracting conference instructions based on the text conference record; and generating the conference minutes based on the conference record summary and the conference instructions. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407500 | INTERACTIVE COMPANION LEARNING SYSTEM - An interactive artificial intelligence language learning system including an audio receiver, a data storage device comprising a database that stores a plurality of terminology in a first language and a corresponding plurality of terminology in a second language, and a processor that learns to generate a message to a term received by the audio receiver from a first user, the message based upon a statistical probability analysis comparing the received term with the stored plurality of terminology in the first language and the plurality of terminology in the second language. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407501 | PHONETIC KEYBOARD AND SYSTEM TO FACILITATE COMMUNICATION IN ENGLISH - A system to facilitate communication in English uses a keyboard having at least one phoneme key that displays a phonetic pronunciation symbol that represent sounds of spoken English. The system also includes a computer board disposed within the keyboard and a processor and associated memory in electrical communication with an input from the phoneme key. The processor executes a set of computer instructions that bi-directionally translates the input as a standard English letter to a phonetic pronunciation or from a phonetic input to a standard English letter. An output device in electrical communication with the keyboard wherein the standard English letter is displayed is also provided. In one embodiment, a computing device configured to execute a set of computer instructions is provided that display a digitally produced keyboard for display that uses a downloadable APP to translate between a phonetic input and a standard English letter and displays a result. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407502 | INTELLIGENT AUTOMATED ASSISTANT FOR DELIVERING CONTENT FROM USER EXPERIENCES - Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. In one example process, a speech input is received from a user. In response to determining that the speech input corresponds to a user intent of obtaining information associated with a user experience of the user, one or more parameters referencing a user experience of the user are identified. Metadata associated with the referenced user experience is obtained from an experiential data structure. Based on the metadata, one or more media items associated with the referenced are retrieved based on the metadata. The one or more media items associated with the referenced user experience are output together. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407503 | AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING SPEECH OF USER AND METHOD FOR THE SAME - An embodiment of the present invention provides an artificial intelligence (AI) apparatus for recognizing a speech of a user, the artificial intelligence apparatus includes a memory to store a speech recognition model and a processor to obtain a speech signal for a user speech, to convert the speech signal into a text using the speech recognition model, to measure a confidence level for the conversion, to perform a control operation corresponding to the converted text if the measured confidence level is greater than or equal to a reference value, and to provide feedback for the conversion if the measured confidence level is less than the reference value. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407504 | GENERATION AND OPERATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASED CONVERSATION SYSTEMS - A computer process provide for users employing a conversation program to dynamically program automated assistants with information and processes that can later be invoked to accomplish task(s) on one or more of the users' devices. The conversation program might generate an automated assistant from a text or graphic source. The conversation program might access multiple automated assistants and determine which is most appropriate to use in order to address a user's request. The user can generate avatars for the conversation program that parallel human emotion, facial expression and body gestures that can be displayed in visual context. A resulting automated assistant can be used for software system testing. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407505 | DEVICE CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS - Provided are a device control method and apparatus. The method is applied to a server, and includes: receiving user voice instruction information, wherein the user voice instruction information is sent by a voice acquisition device after acquiring a user voice instruction, and the user voice instruction information indicates to-be-processed information and an information processing mode; determining, from a device set according to device information of devices in the device set, a target device capable of processing the to-be-processed information in the information processing mode, wherein the device set comprises the voice acquisition device, and all devices in the device set are bound to a same login account for logging into the server; and controlling the target device to process the to-be-processed information in the information processing mode. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407506 | AUGMENTED REALITY-BASED TRANSLATION OF SPEECH IN ASSOCIATION WITH TRAVEL - Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing augmented reality content in association with travel, The program and method provide for receiving, by a messaging application, a request to perform a scan operation in association with an image captured by a device camera; determining a travel parameter associated with the request and an attribute of an object depicted in the image; selecting an augmented reality content item based on at least one of the travel parameter or the attribute, the augmented reality content item being configured to present augmented reality content based on speech input; receiving the speech input; obtaining at least one of a transcription or translation of the speech input; and presenting the augmented reality content item, including the transcription or translation, in association with the image. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407507 | Speech Control Method and Electronic Device - A speech control method and an electronic device. The method includes displaying a first interface of an application, where the first interface includes a control used to update the first interface, enabling a speech application in the background in response to a wake-up signal entered by a user, displaying M speech input prompts on the first interface, where each speech input prompt corresponds to at least one control on the first interface, collecting a speech control signal entered by the user, where the speech control signal corresponds to a first speech input prompt in the M speech input prompts, and displaying a second interface of the application in response to the speech control signal, where the second interface is an interface obtained through updating after a first control on the first interface is triggered, and the first control corresponds to the first speech input prompt. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407508 | METHOD OF PROVIDING VOICE COMMAND AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE SUPPORTING THE SAME - Disclosed is a portable communication device, including a display, at least one microphone, a memory, and a processor operably connected to the display, the at least one microphone and the memory, wherein the processor is configured to display guide information, via the display, in response to a user input, the guide information including a first display object related to guide a user voice input for generation of a new voice command and a second display object related to at least one application executed by the new voice command via the portable communication device, receive audio data corresponding to the first display object from a user through the at least one microphone, generate the new voice command corresponding to the audio data, and store, in the memory, the new voice command corresponding to the received audio data and mapping information indicating that the new voice command and the at least one application are mapped. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407509 | DISPLAY MODE DEPENDENT RESPONSE GENERATION WITH LATENCY CONSIDERATIONS - The present disclosure is generally related to a data processing system to process data packets in a voice activated computer network environment. The data processing system can improve the efficiency of the network by generating non-video data responses to voice commands received from a client device if a display associated with a client device is in an OFF state. A digital assistant application executed on the client device can send to the data processing system client device configuration data, which includes the state of the display device, among status data of other components of the client device. The data processing system can receive a current volume of speakers associated with the client device, and set a volume level for the client device based on the current volume level and a minimum response volume level at the client device. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407510 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CORRELATING SPEECH AND LIP MOVEMENT - The disclosed computer-implemented method includes analyzing, by a speech detection system, a media file to detect lip movement of a speaker who is visually rendered in media content of the media file. The method additionally includes identifying, by the speech detection system, audio content within the media file, and improving accuracy of a temporal correlation of the speech detection system. The method may involve correlating the lip movement of the speaker with the audio content, and determining, based on the correlation between the lip movement of the speaker and the audio content, that the audio content comprises speech from the speaker. The method may further involve recording, based on the determination that the audio content comprises speech from the speaker, the temporal correlation between the speech and the lip movement of the speaker as metadata of the media file. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407511 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS RELATED TO AUTOMATED TRANSCRIPTION OF VOICE COMMUNICATIONS - A method for selectively transcribing voice communications that includes: receiving keywords; receiving an audio stream of audio data of speech; searching the audio stream to detect keywords or keyword detections and recording parameter data for each that includes a location of the keyword within the audio stream; generating one or more cumulative datasets for one or more portions of the audio stream that each includes parameter data for the keyword detections occurring therein; for each of the one or more portions of the audio stream, calculating a transcription favorableness score via inputting the corresponding one of the one or more cumulative datasets into an algorithm; and determining whether to transcribe each of the one or more portions of the audio stream by comparing the corresponding transcription favorableness score against a predetermined threshold. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407512 | System for Voice-To-Text Tagging for Rich Transcription of Human Speech - A computer-implemented method of voice-to-text tagging for transcription of a human voice signal by one of an automatic speech recognition system, or a natural conversation, includes generating a speech-to-text verbal transcript of the verbal vocalizations of an audio signal at a verbal timestamp of the audio signal. A voice-to-text non-verbal transcript of the one or more non-verbal vocalizations of the audio signal is generated at a non-verbal timestamp of the audio signal. The non-verbal transcript and the verbal transcript are combined to generate an enhanced transcript. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407513 | DISPLAY EYEWEAR WITH AUDITORY ENHANCEMENT - Some embodiments provide display eyewear with auditory enhancement. In general, one aspect disclosed features a head-wearable apparatus comprising: a microphone; a display panel visible to the wearer; a gaze tracker configured to determine a direction of a gaze of a wearer of the head-wearable apparatus; and a controller configured to: extract speech from sound collected by the microphone from the determined direction, and present the extracted speech on the display panel. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407514 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNDERSTANDING AND EXPLAINING SPOKEN INTERACTIONS USING SPEECH ACOUSTIC AND LINGUISTIC MARKERS - A method includes providing audio signals of an interaction between a plurality of human speakers, the speakers speaking into electronic devices to record the audio signals. The audio signals, which are optionally combined, include agent audio and subject audio. The method further includes automatically processing the audio signals to generate a speaker separated natural language transcript of the interaction from the audio signals. For each identified question, a subject response is identified. From the agent text, it is determined whether the question asked by the at least one agent is an open question or a closed question. A decision engine is used to determine the veracity of the subject response and the subject response is flagged if the indicia of the likelihood of deception in the subject response exceeds a predetermined value. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407515 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD OF TRANSCRIBING AN AUDIO STREAM AND TRANSCRIPTION MECHANISM - A computer-implemented method of transcribing an audio stream can include transcribing the audio stream using a first transcribing instance having a first predetermined transcription size that is smaller than the total length of the audio stream. The first transcribing instance can provide a plurality of consecutive first transcribed text data snippets of the audio stream and the size of the first transcribed text data snippets can respectively corresponding to the first predetermined transcription size. The audio stream can also be transcribed using at least a second transcribing instance having a second predetermined transcription size that is smaller than the length of the audio stream. The second transcribing instance can provide a plurality of consecutive second transcribed text data snippets each corresponding to the second predetermined transcription size. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407516 | Processing Overlapping Speech from Distributed Devices - A computer implemented method includes receiving audio signals representative of speech via multiple audio streams transmitted from corresponding multiple distributed devices, performing, via a neural network model, continuous speech separation for one or more of the received audio signals having overlapped speech, and providing the separated speech on a fixed number of separate output audio channels. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407517 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ROBOT FOR PROVIDING VOICE RECOGNITION FUNCTION AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - An artificial intelligence robot for providing a voice recognition service includes a memory configured to store voice identification information, a microphone configured to receive a voice command; and a processor configured to extract voice identification information from a wake-up command included in the voice command and used to activate the voice recognition service and operate the voice recognition function in a deactivation state when the extracted voice identification information does not match the voice identification information stored in the memory. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407518 | ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT OF CASTING REQUESTS AND/OR USER INPUTS AT A RECHARGEABLE DEVICE - Implementations set forth herein relate to management of casting requests and user inputs at a rechargeable device, which provides access to an automated assistant and is capable of rendering data that is cast from a separate device. Casting requests can be handled by the rechargeable device despite a device SoC of the rechargeable device operating in a sleep mode. Furthermore, spoken utterances provided by a user for invoking the automated assistant can also be adaptively managed by the rechargeable device in order mitigate idle power consumption by the device SoC. Such spoken utterances can be initially processed by a digital signal processor (DSP), and, based on one or more features (e.g., voice characteristic, conformity to a particular invocation phrase, etc.) of the spoken utterance, the device SoC can be initialized for an amount of time that is selected based on the features of the spoken utterance. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407519 | Synthesizing Patient-Specific Speech Models - An apparatus includes a communication interface and a processor. The processor is configured to receive, via the communication interface, a plurality of speech samples {u | 2021-12-30 |
20210407520 | DETECTING USER IDENTITY IN SHARED AUDIO SOURCE CONTEXTS - Computerized systems are provided for determining an identity of one or more users that use a same audio source, such as a microphone. The identity of one or more users that use a same audio source can based on generating a list of participant candidates who are likely to participate in an associated event, such as a meeting. For instance, embodiments can generate one or more network graphs of a meeting invitee any only voice input samples of the meeting invitee's N closest connections are compared to an utterance to determine the identity of the user associated with the utterance. One or more indicators that identify the users who are using the same audio source, as well as additional information or metadata associated with the identified user can be caused to be presented. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407521 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING A VOICE ASSISTANT, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A method for speech assistant control includes: after a speech assistant is woken up, displaying a target interface corresponding to a control instruction corresponding to received speech data; when the target interface is different from an interface of the speech assistant, displaying a speech reception identifier in the target interface and controlling to continuously receive speech data; determining, based on second speech data received when the target interface is displayed, whether a target control instruction to be executed is included in the second speech data; and displaying an interface corresponding to the target control instruction when the target control instruction is included in the second speech data. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407522 | MANAGING DIALOG DATA PROVIDERS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for managing dialogs. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request associated with a task from a user device; submitting the request to each of a plurality of distinct data providers; receiving a plurality of suggested dialog responses from two or more of the data providers; scoring the one or more suggested dialog responses based on one or more scoring factors; determining a particular dialog response to provide to the user based on the scoring; and providing the determined dialog response to the user device. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407523 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO ESTIMATE SPEAKER CHARACTERISTICS ON-THE-FLY FOR UNKNOWN SPEAKER WITH HIGH ACCURACY AND LOW LATENCY - A computer-implemented technique is presented for profiling an unknown speaker. A DNN-based frame selection allows the system to select the relevant frames necessary to provide a reliable speaker characteristic estimation. A frame selection module selects those frames that contain relevant information for estimating a given speaker characteristic and thereby contributes to the accuracy and the low latency of the system. Real-time speaker characteristics estimation allows the system to estimate the speaker characteristics from a speech segment of accumulated selected frames at any given time. The frame level processing contributes to the low latency as it is not necessary to wait for the whole speech utterance to predict a speaker characteristic but rather a speaker characteristic is estimated from only a few reliable frames. Different stopping criteria also contribute to the accuracy and the low latency of the system. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407524 | METHOD FOR CONVERTING A FIRST SET OF SIGNALS REPRESENTATIVE OF A SOUND FIELD INTO A SECOND SET OF SIGNALS AND ASSOCIATED ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A conversion method comprises the following steps:
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20210407525 | DETERMINATION OF SPATIAL AUDIO PARAMETER ENCODING AND ASSOCIATED DECODING - An apparatus comprising means for: receiving values for sub-bands of a frame of an audio signal, the values comprising at least one azimuth value, at least one elevation value at least one energy ratio value and at least one spread and/or surround coherence value for each sub-band; determining a codebook for encoding at least one spread and/or surround coherence value for each sub-band based on the at least one energy ratio value and at least one azimuth value for each sub-band for a frame; discrete cosine transforming at least one vector, the at least one vector comprising the at least one spread and/or surround coherence value for a sub-band for the frame; and encoding a first number of components of the discrete cosine transformed vector based on the determined codebook. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407526 | BANDWIDTH EXTENSION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - Embodiments of this application disclose a bandwidth extension (BWE) method and apparatus. The method is performed by an electronic device, and includes: performing a time-frequency transform on a to-be-processed narrowband signal to obtain a corresponding initial low-frequency spectrum; obtaining a correlation parameter of a high-frequency portion and a low-frequency portion of a target broadband spectrum based on the initial low-frequency spectrum by using a neural network model; obtaining an initial high-frequency spectrum based on the correlation parameter and the initial low-frequency spectrum; and obtaining a broadband signal according to a target low-frequency spectrum and a target high-frequency spectrum. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407527 | OPTIMIZING INTERACTION RESULTS USING AI-GUIDED MANIPULATED VIDEO - Real-time modification of audio of humans allows for the audio to be modified so that an expression of a subject human may be changed. Customer service agents may have more successful interactions with customers if they provide vocalization attribute in their speech that are appropriate, such as to provide a particular emotional state. By determining an appropriate vocalization attribute, and any deviation from a customer service agent's current vocalization attribute, a modification to the audio of the customer service agent's speech may be determined and applied. As a result, agents may not have a vocalization attribute that is best suited to successfully resolve a purpose of the interaction, altered to have the customer be presented with the customer service agent's speech having the best-suited vocalization attribute. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407528 | ACOUSTIC NOISE SUPPRESSING APPARATUS AND ACOUSTIC NOISE SUPPRESSING METHOD - An acoustic noise suppressing apparatus includes a sound pickup circuit, a first and second suppression circuits, and an output signal selection circuit. The sound pickup circuit picks up sound. The first suppression circuit processes the sound, in which the first suppression circuit is configured to calculate a first suppression sound signal in which acoustic noise is suppressed from the sound by using a first algorithm suitable for multiple sound sources. The second suppression circuit processes the audio signal in parallel with the first suppression circuit, in which the second suppression circuit is configured to calculate a second suppression sound signal in which acoustic noise is suppressed from the sound signal by using a second algorithm suitable for a single sound source. The output signal selection circuit outputs only one of the first suppression audio signal and the second suppression audio | 2021-12-30 |
20210407529 | Personal Audio Device - A personal audio device configured to be worn on the head or body of a user and including a plurality of microphones configured to provide a plurality of separate microphone signals capturing audio from an environment external to the personal audio device, and a processor configured to process a first subset of the plurality of separate microphone signals using a first array processing technique to provide a first array signal, compare the first array signal to a microphone signal from the plurality of separate microphone signals, and select the first array signal or the microphone signal based on the comparison. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407530 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REDUCING CROSSTALK IN AUTOMATIC SPEECH TRANSLATION SYSTEM - Disclosed are a method, a device, and a computer-readable storage medium for reducing crosstalk when performing automatic speech translation between at least two users speaking different languages. The method for reducing crosstalk includes receiving a signal inputted to an out-ear microphone of a first user, wherein the first user is wearing a headset equipped with an in-ear microphone and the out-ear microphone and the signal includes a voice signal A of the first user and a voice signal b of a second user, receiving a voice signal B | 2021-12-30 |
20210407531 | Removal of Audio Noise - A system for removing noise from an audio signal is described. For example, noise caused by content playing in the background during a voice command or phone call may be removed from the audio signal representing the voice command or phone call. By removing noise, the signal to noise ratio of the audio signal may be improved. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407532 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING WEARABLE DEVICE - A wearable device and a method of operating the wearable device are provided. The wearable device includes: a memory configured to store one or more instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the one or more instructions to: receive, as an input, a surrounding sound of surroundings of the wearable device: determine an operation mode from among a plurality of operation modes, based on the received input; and perform a preset operation according to the determined operation mode | 2021-12-30 |
20210407533 | AUGMENTED REALITY SPEECH BALLOON SYSTEM - Disclosed is an augmented reality system to generate and cause display of an augmented reality interface at a client device. Various embodiments may detect speech, identify a source of the speech, transcribe the speech to a text string, generate a speech bubble based on properties of the speech and that includes a presentation of the text string, and cause display of the speech bubble at a location in the augmented reality interface based on the source of the speech. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407534 | MAGNETIC RECORDING DEVICES HAVING NEGATIVE POLARIZATION LAYER TO ENHANCE SPIN-TRANSFER TORQUE - Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to a magnetic recording head of a spintronic device, such as a write head of a data storage device, for example a magnetic media drive. In one example, a magnetic recording head includes a main pole, a trailing shield, and a spin torque layer (STL) between the main pole and the trailing shield. The magnetic recording head a first layer structure on the main pole, and the first layer structure includes a negative polarization layer. The magnetic recording head also includes a second layer structure disposed on the negative polarization layer and between the negative polarization layer and the STL. The negative polarization layer is an FeCr layer. The second layer structure includes a Cr layer disposed on the FeCr layer, and a Cu layer disposed on the Cr layer and between the Cr layer and the STL. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407535 | ENERGY-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING HEAD WITH PROTECTIVE CAP - Aspects of the present disclosure provide various magnetic recording slider structures and fabrication methods that can reduce head overcoat (HOC) thickness without significantly reducing the lifetime and reliability of a slider by using a protective cap placed on preselected locations on the outermost surface or HOC of the slider. A slider includes a writer comprising an energy-assisted recording element. The writer is configured to store information on a magnetic medium using the energy-assisted recording element. The slider includes a head overcoat (HOC) layer providing an outermost media facing surface. The slider further includes a protective cap positioned on the HOC layer to at least partially cover the energy-assisted recording element, the protective cap including a preselected shape configured to protect the energy-assisted recording element. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407536 | Soft Mount Voice Coil Motor Assembly - The present disclosure generally relates to a voice coil motor (VCM) yoke assembly mounted to an actuator block for a data storage device. One or more fastening mechanisms couple the VCM assembly to the actuator block. The fastening mechanisms are coupled to the VCM assembly by one or more soft mounts. The one or more soft mounts reduce undesirable movement of the magnetic recording head by spacing the VCM assembly from the actuator block, yet still ensuring the VCM assembly is properly coupled to the actuator block. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407537 | DISK DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a first actuator assembly and a second actuator assembly which are respectively supported by a first bearing unit and a second bearing unit to be rotatable about a support shaft. The first bearing unit includes a first sleeve and a ball bearing. The second bearing unit includes a second sleeve and a ball bearing. The first sleeve includes a first end surface opposed to the second sleeve and an annular first step projecting from the first end surface, and the second sleeve includes a second end surface opposed to the first step with a gap and an annular second step projecting from the second end surface. The second step is opposed to the first step and the first end surface with a gap. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407538 | RETRACTABLE RAMP FOR DATA STORAGE DEVICES - A data storage device includes a ramp that supports at least one head, and a retraction mechanism that moves the ramp from a non-retracted position to a retracted position. The movement of the ramp is enabled by at least one of expansion or contraction of at least a portion of the retraction mechanism. The data storage device further includes a ramp retraction control module operably coupled to the retraction mechanism. The ramp retraction control module provides the retraction mechanism with a first control signal that causes the retraction mechanism to move the ramp from the non-retracted position to the retracted position. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407539 | FLEXIBLE ON-CYLINDER LIMIT FOR DRIVE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT - The technology disclosed herein provides a method for generating an on-cylinder limit (OCLIM), the method including performing servo certification of a plurality of drives in a storage device to generate servo adaptive parameters (SAPs) by heads, generating a plurality of read adjust parameters (RAPs) by heads for the plurality of drives, generating an interim OCLIM value based on the SAPs by heads and RAPs by zones, and operating a disc drive write element using the interim OCLIM value. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407540 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - A magnetic recording medium is a magnetic recording medium having a tape-like shape and includes a base substrate and a magnetic layer provided on the base substrate. A plurality of data tracks can be formed in the magnetic layer, a width of a data track is 2900 nm or less, and in a case of defining, as w | 2021-12-30 |
20210407541 | MAGNETIC DEVICES WITH OVERCOAT THAT INCLUDES A TITANIUM OXYNITRIDE LAYER - Described are magnetic recording heads that include an overcoat that includes a titanium oxynitride (TiON) layer. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407542 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA DESIGN WITH REDUCED LATTICE MISMATCH BETWEEN ADJACENT INTERMEDIATE LAYERS - Magnetic recording media including an interlayer configured to reduce lattice mismatch with adjacent layers of the media, such as an adjacent seed layer or an adjacent underlayer. In one example, an interlayer alloy is provided that includes tungsten (W) along with Cobalt (Co), Chromium (Cr), and Ruthenium (Ru). The atomic percentages of W and Ru within the interlayer are selected so that the amount lattice mismatch between the interlayer and its adjacent layers is below a preselected amount, such as below 3% as quantified by d-spacing. In some examples, the atomic percentage of Ru is greater than 25% and the atomic percentage of W is 2-10%. Methods of fabricating the magnetic recording media are also provided. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407543 | HEAT ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA WITH AMORPHOUS MAGNETIC GRAIN BOUNDARY MATERIAL - Aspects of the present disclosure provide a heat assisted magnetic recording HAMR media structure and methods for reducing the Curie temperature distribution to improve the signal-to-noise characteristics of HAMR media. A magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, a heat sink layer on the substrate, and a magnetic recording layer on the heat sink layer. The magnetic recording layer includes a plurality of magnetic recording grains configured for recording and comprising a first magnetic alloy. The magnetic recording layer further includes a plurality of segregants disposed to isolate the plurality of magnetic recording grains and comprising a second magnetic alloy. A Curie temperature of the second magnetic alloy is higher than a Curie temperature of the first magnetic alloy. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407544 | SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC DISK, MAGNETIC DISK, AND HARD DISK DRIVE APPARATUS - A substrate for a magnetic disk includes a substrate main body having two main surfaces and an outer circumferential edge surface that has a side wall surface and chamfered surfaces, and a film that is an alloy film containing Ni and P and provided on a surface of the substrate main body. A disk shape of the substrate main body has an outer diameter of 90 mm or more. A thickness T of the substrate that includes the film provided on the main surfaces is 0.520 mm or less. A total thickness D mm of the film on the main surfaces and the thickness T mm satisfy D≥0.0082/T−0.0015. A film thickness of the film on the outer circumferential edge surface is larger than a film thickness of the film on the main surfaces, and is 150% or less of the film thickness of the film on the main surfaces. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407545 | Double Bend VCM Yoke Structure - The present disclosure generally relates to a voice coil motor (VCM) yoke for a data storage device. The VCM yoke has a unitary body turned back on itself at opposite ends to form a “C” shape. The unitary body is electrically conductive. The body has a substantially flat inner surface upon which the coil is disposed. The unitary body also has a substantially flat top and a substantially flat bottom surface. A coil is disposed within the turns of the unitary body. The VCM yoke can be coupled to an actuator block using one or more fastening mechanisms that extend through openings in the VCM yoke. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407546 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MODULATING A LASER POWER SIGNAL DURING HEAT-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING - A disk drive apparatus determines a pattern of bits of a data signal applied to a magnetic write transducer of a heat-assisted magnetic recording apparatus. The magnetic write transducer applies a magnetic field to a recording medium in response to the data signal. A laser power signal is applied to a laser that heats the recording medium while the magnetic field is applied. The laser power signal is modulated based on the pattern of bits. The modulation reduces differences between track widths of recorded marks having different elapsed time values and/or increases a signal-to-noise ratio of the recorded marks having different elapsed time values. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407547 | Multimedia Compositing and Storage Management System - A multimedia compositing method comprises selecting, from a plurality of video clip templates stored in a database of the computing system, a first video clip template that includes frames that depict a first object template moving in a first manner. The method further includes selecting, from a plurality of static images stored in the database of the computing system, a first static image that depicts a surface of a first object associated with the first object template; and overlaying the first static image over the first object template depicted in the first video clip template, respectively, to thereby provide a first rendered video clip associated with the first video clip template that includes frames that depict the first object moving in the particular manner. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407548 | SEGMENT ACTION DETECTION - Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a storage medium storing a program and method for receiving a video comprising a plurality of video segments; selecting a target action sequence that includes a sequence of action phases; receiving features of each of the video segments; computing, based on the received features, for each of the plurality of video segments, a plurality of action phase confidence scores indicating a likelihood that a given video segment includes a given action phase of the sequence of action phases; identifying a set of consecutive video segments of the plurality of video segments that corresponds to the target action sequence, wherein video segments in the set of consecutive video segments are arranged according to the sequence of action phases; and generating a display of the video that includes the set of consecutive video segments and skips other video segments in the video. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407549 | MULTIBODY CHAMBERED ACOUSTIC ATTENUATOR FOR A DATA STORAGE SYSTEM - A data storage system includes a chassis housing multiple data storage devices, such as hard disk drives, a compartment housing cooling fans, and an air plenum positioned between the fans and the storage devices. A multibody chambered acoustic attenuator, which may be installed in the air plenum, includes a plate part having airflow holes therethrough and may include a convex arched part having airflow holes therethrough and coupled with the plate part to form a chamber. Acoustic damping material lines an interior surface of the plate part and the interior and exterior surfaces of the arched part, and the airflow holes of the plate part and of the arched part are not aligned, such that direct acoustic emissions and reflections would contact the acoustic damping material and a circuitous airflow path is provided from the cooling fans to the storage devices, to reduce the acoustic sound pressure upon the devices. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407550 | DISK DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a housing including a hole, a magnetic disk, a control board closing the hole, and an electronic component. The electronic component is mounted on the control board, and assists a control operation for recording and reproducing information on and from the magnetic disk. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407551 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE WITH COMPOSITE SPACER FOR DISK STACK ASSEMBLY - Aspects of the disclosure provide for mitigating a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) mismatch between glass components and adjacent metal components in a disk storage device to improve thermal and shock performance. The methods and apparatus provide a hub, provide a first recording disk comprising a glass material and a center hole on the hub such that the hub extends through the center hole of the first recording disk, provide a first spacer on the first recording disk, the first spacer comprising a nickel-iron alloy, and provide a second recording disk comprising a glass material and a center hole on the first spacer such that the hub extends through the center hole of the second recording disk, wherein the first recording disk and the second recording disk each comprise a magnetic recording layer configured to store information. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407552 | MEMORY COMPONENT FOR A SYSTEM-ON-CHIP DEVICE - The present disclosure relates to a memory component for a System-on-Chip (SoC) structure including at least a memory array and at least a logic portion for interacting with the memory array and with the SoC structure wherein the memory component is a structurally independent semiconductor device coupled to and partially overlapping the SoC structure. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407553 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED MEMORY MODULE SUPPLY CURRENT SURGE RESPONSE - An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a power management integrated circuit (PMIC) to generate a supply voltage for a memory module. The PMIC is to perform a measurement during bring-up of the memory module of a worst case current draw of the memory module and/or corresponding droop in the supply voltage. The PMIC is to apply a step-up to the supply voltage in accordance with the measurement in response to detection by the PMIC of a surge in the memory module's current draw during operation of the memory module. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407554 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes a storage chip and a temperature sensor for detecting the temperature of the storage chip, the temperature sensor and the storage chip being powered by different power supplies. The storage chip and the temperature sensor can use different power supplies. As such, the activations of both of them can be controlled separately, i.e., the activation of the temperature sensor is free from whether a storage chip is activated, so that the detection of the temperature of the storage chip is not affected by whether a storage chip is activated, thereby providing a reference for the activation and operation of the storage chip, and in turn avoiding the activation or operation of the storage chip under low temperatures and improving the stability of the storage chip. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407555 | PROGRAM PULSE CONTROL USING ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS - A method comprising receiving, at a memory sub-system from a host system, receiving, at one or more configuration parameters reflecting an expected type of use of the memory sub-system; receiving one or more environmental parameters of the memory sub-system, wherein the environmental parameters reflect characteristics of an environment of the memory sub-system; and selecting a programming operation parameter to be utilized by the memory sub-system based on the configuration parameters and environmental parameters. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407556 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR READING AND WRITING MEMORY MANAGEMENT DATA THROUGH A NON-VOLATILE CELL BASED REGISTER - Methods, systems, and devices for system and method for reading and writing memory management data through a non-volatile cell based register are described. A memory device may include a set of latch units addressable via a set of row lines and a set of column lines. Each latch unit may include a sense amplifier coupled with a first line and a first non-volatile capacitor coupled with the first line and a second line, where the first capacitor is configured to store a charge representing one or more bits. Additionally, each latch unit may include a second capacitor coupled with the first line and a third line, where the second capacitor is configured to amplify a voltage at the first line based on the charge stored in the first capacitor. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407557 | Sensitivity Amplifier, Its Control Method, Memory and Its Read-Write Circuit - The present invention provides a sensitivity amplifier, its control method, a memory read-write circuit and a memory device. The sensitivity amplifier includes: a first PMOS transistor and a second PMOS transistor, a first NMOS transistor and a second NMOS transistor, a first input/output terminal, and a second input/output terminal; four switch unit, the first PMOS and the first NMOS transistors are respectively connected to the first input/output terminal through one switch unit, the second PMOS and the second NMOS transistors are respectively connected to the second input/output terminal through another switch unit. The switch units configure each PMOS transistor and each NMOS transistor in an amplifier mode or in a diode mode. The first NMOS transistor's gate connects to the bit line, and the second NMOS transistor's gate connects to the reference bit line. The disclosed sensitivity amplifier has improved performance. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407558 | SENSE AMPLIFIER, STORAGE DEVICE AND READ-WRITE METHOD - A sense amplifier includes a first switch unit, a second switch unit, and an amplifier-latch module. A first port of the amplifier-latch module is electrically connected, via the first switch unit, to a bit line connected with a storage unit, and a second port of the amplifier-latch module is electrically connected to a reference voltage signal via the second switch unit. The amplifier-latch module is configured to amplify a signal in a sensing amplification phase. The first switch unit is configured to transmit a voltage on the bit line to the first port before the sensing amplification phase. The second switch unit is configured to transmit the reference voltage signal to the second port before the sensing amplification phase, and disconnect an electrical connection between the reference voltage signal and the second port in the sensing amplification phase. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407559 | MEMORY DEVICE WITH BUILT-IN FLEXIBLE DOUBLE REDUNDANCY - A memory device with built-in flexible redundancy is provided according to various aspects of the present disclosure. In certain aspects, a memory device includes a first sense amplifier, a second sense amplifier, a first comparator, a second comparator, a reference circuit, and a logic gate. During a redundant read operation, the first sense amplifier, the first comparator, and the reference circuit are used to read one copy of a redundant bit stored in the memory device, and the second sense amplifier, the second comparator, and the reference circuit are used to read another copy of the redundant bit stored in the memory device. The logic gate may then determine a bit value based on the bit values of the read copies of the redundant bit (e.g., determine a bit value of one if the bit value of at least one of the read copies of the redundant bit is one). | 2021-12-30 |
20210407560 | PSEUDO-ANALOG MEMORY COMPUTING CIRCUIT - A pseudo-analog memory computing circuit includes at least one input circuit, at least one output circuit and at least one pseudo-analog memory computing unit. Each pseudo-analog memory computing unit is coupled between one of the at least one input circuit and one of the at least one output circuit and has at least one weight mode. Each pseudo-analog memory computing unit generates at least first computing result for a coupled output circuit according to a weight of a selected weight mode and at least one input signals of a coupled input circuit. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407561 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A CONFIGURABLE TIMING CONTROL FOR A MEMORY SYSTEM - A system and method for providing a configurable timing control of a memory system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system has a first interface to receive a DIMM clock and configuration information, a second interface to a first data bus, and a third interface to a second data bus. The system further has a plurality of flip-flops, a multiplexor coupled to the plurality of flip-flops, a first control block for controlling to hold an input data within the plurality of flip-flops, and a second control block for controlling a timing of an output data from the plurality of flip-flops via the multiplexor with a programmable delay. The input data is received via the second interface. The programmable delay is received via the first interface. The output data is sent out with the timing delay via the third interface. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407562 | PERFORMING LOGICAL OPERATIONS USING SENSING CIRCUITRY - The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to performing logical operations using sensing circuitry. An example apparatus comprises an array of memory cells and sensing circuitry coupled to the array of memory cells. The sensing circuitry includes a primary latch and a secondary latch. The primary latch is coupled to a pair of complementary sense lines and selectively coupled to a pair of adjacent complementary sense lines. The secondary latch is selectively coupled to the primary latch. The primary latch and secondary latch are configured to shift a data value between the pair of adjacent complementary sense lines and the primary latch. The primary latch and secondary latch are configured to shift the data value from the pair of adjacent complementary sense lines without activating a row line. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407563 | SHIFT REGISTER UNIT, DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, AND DEVICE - Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a shift register unit, a driving method thereof, and a device. The shift register unit includes an input circuit, a node control circuit, a first control output circuit, a second control output circuit and an output circuit. By providing the first control output circuit and the second control output circuit, the first control output circuit and the second control output circuit may operate alternately, so that the first control output circuit and the second control output circuit may have time for characteristics recovery respectively, thus improving the service life and output stability of the shift register unit. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407564 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO PERFORM A READ OF A COLUMN IN A MEMORY ACCESSIBLE BY ROW AND/OR BY COLUMN - A memory accessed by rows and/or by columns in which an array of bits can be physically stored in multi-bit wide columns in physically contiguous rows is provided. A multi-bit wide logical column is arranged diagonally across (M/multi-bits) physical rows and (M/multi-bits) physical columns with each of the plurality of multi-bit wide logical columns in the logical row stored in a different physical row and physical multi-bit column. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407565 | DISTRIBUTED GROUPED TERMINATIONS FOR MULTIPLE MEMORY INTEGRATED CIRCUIT SYSTEMS - The disclosed apparatuses and method provide transmission line termination. An apparatus include a stack of uniform memory dies and a storage controller. Each uniform memory die in the stack of uniform memory dies couples to a transmission line in series through wire bonds to form a transmission path. Each memory die includes an on-die termination resistance circuit connected to the transmission line. The on-die termination resistance circuit provides a minimum termination resistance. The storage controller addresses a target uniform memory die of the for an operation. The storage controller enables the on-die termination resistance circuits of a plurality of uniform memory dies along the transmission path. The storage controller transmits a data signal for the operation to the target uniform memory die with the on-die termination resistance circuit enabled for the plurality of uniform memory dies. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407566 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE - A semiconductor storage device includes a memory cell array, and a peripheral circuit that is connected to the memory cell array, and that inputs and outputs user data in response to an input of a command set including command data and address data. The peripheral circuit includes a command register, an address register, and a queue register. The command register includes an n-bit first register column capable of storing n-bit data forming the command data. The address register includes an n-bit second register column capable of storing n-bit data forming the address data. The queue register includes a plurality of third register columns, each capable of storing at least (n+1) bit data, and each third register column is capable of storing the n-bit data forming the command data or the n-bit data forming the address data. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407567 | ELECTRONIC DEVICES EXECUTING ACTIVE OPERATION - An electronic device includes a controller and a semiconductor device. The controller outputs a clock signal, a chip selection signal, and a command/address signal and receives and outputs a first data and a second data. The semiconductor device is synchronized with the clock signal to receive or output the first data through a first memory region that is selected by the command/address signal when the chip selection signal and the command/address signal have a logic level combination to perform a first active operation. In addition, the semiconductor device is synchronized with the clock signal to receive or output the second data through the first memory region and a second memory region that are selected by the command/address signal based on the chip selection signal during a second active operation after the first active operation. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407568 | MAGNETIC STORAGE DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD OF MAGNETIC STORAGE DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a magnetic storage device includes a nonvolatile magnetic memory including a magnetoresistance effect element capable of storing data. A magnetic sensor is configured to measure the magnitude of an external magnetic field. A controller is configured to detect errors in the data at first time intervals when the measured magnitude of the external magnetic field is less than a threshold value and to detect errors in the data at second time intervals shorter than the first time interval when the measured magnitude of the external magnetic field is equal to or greater than the threshold value. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407569 | Memory Array Including Dummy Regions - 3D memory arrays including dummy conductive lines and methods of forming the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a memory array includes a ferroelectric (FE) material over a semiconductor substrate, the FE material including vertical sidewalls in contact with a word line; an oxide semiconductor (OS) layer over the FE material, the OS layer contacting a source line and a bit line, the FE material being between the OS layer and the word line; a transistor including a portion of the FE material, a portion of the word line, a portion of the OS layer, a portion of the source line, and a portion of the bit line; and a first dummy word line between the transistor and the semiconductor substrate, the FE material further including first tapered sidewalls in contact with the first dummy word line. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407570 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of memory blocks including a plurality of word lines; a plurality of sense amplifying circuits, each being shared by adjacent memory blocks among the memory blocks; a refresh counter suitable for generating a counting address, a value of which increases according to a refresh command; an address storing circuit suitable for storing first and second target addresses by sampling an active address at different times; and a control circuit suitable for activating a word line corresponding to one of the counting address and the first target address according to the refresh command, and activating at least one word line corresponding to one or more of the active address and the second target address according to an active command. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407571 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes a memory chip and a temperature detection module. The temperature detection module is configured to detect a temperature of the memory chip. The temperature detection module includes: a temperature detection unit, configured to detect the temperature of the memory chip and to output an analog signal corresponding to the temperature; and an Analog/Digital (A/D) conversion module including multiple comparison units. Each of the comparison units includes an input end, a reference end and an output end. The input end receives the analog signal output by the temperature detection unit. The output end outputs a digital signal. Reference voltages received by the reference ends of respective multiple comparison units increase non-uniformly. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407572 | DIE VOLTAGE REGULATION - Methods, systems, and devices for die voltage regulation are described. A device may include a first die and second die. A component that generates voltage on the first die may be connected to a capacitor on the second die through a conductive line. The conductive line may allow the capacitor on the second die to regulate voltage generated by the component on the first die. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407573 | TECHNIQUES FOR SATURATING A HOST INTERFACE - Methods, systems, and devices related to techniques for saturating a host interface are described. A set of data stored at a first memory device may be communicated over an interface during a read operation performed in response to receiving a read request associated with the set of data. A control component may determine if the interface entered an idle state during portions of the read operation. Based on detecting an idle state of the interface, the control component may transfer the set of data from the first memory device to a second memory device. After receiving a second read request for the set of data, the memory device may access the set of data from the second memory device and communicate the set of data over the interface, where the interface may remain in a saturated state throughout the second read operation. | 2021-12-30 |
20210407574 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING LATENCY SETTING CIRCUIT - A semiconductor memory device includes: a memory cell array including banks; a command/address buffer receiving a command/address based on a system clock; a data input/output circuit inputting/outputting data based on a data clock; a mode control circuit generating mode selection signals indicating different latencies according to a burst length signal and operation information on a first operation mode differentiated based on a ratio of the data clock to the system clock, and a second operation mode differentiated based on a bank mode; and a latency setting circuit setting a latency according to an activated one of the mode selection signals, generating an internal write command by delaying a write command at least by the set latency according to the system clock during a write operation, and generating an internal read command by delaying a read command by the set latency according to the system clock during a read operation. | 2021-12-30 |