03rd week of 2022 patent applcation highlights part 51 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20220020291 | DENTAL TRAINING DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS - A training system includes a tool connected to a control module. The tool includes a tip and a grip having two or more force sensing transducers configured to enable determination of sensor force measurement data. The control module receives the sensor force measurement data. The control module includes a storage device configured to store zeroed force data, and a data processing unit including a processor and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to obtain the sensor force measurement data and the zeroed force data; determine, based upon the sensor force measurement data and the zeroed force data, a load force magnitude that is independent of grasp forces; determine whether the load force is within a set range; and, provide a corresponding indication where the load force is within the set range and/or where the load force is outside of the set range. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020292 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF CREATING A REPLICA OF AN ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE - Creating a replica of an anatomical structure. In one embodiments a method includes: accepting pictures of the anatomical structure of a subject; creating an object file that contains an initial model of an outside surface of the anatomical structure; cutting the initial model to a predetermined exterior shape circumscribing the anatomical structure to create a positive model; creating a negative model from the positive model; placing a stem tool object on an outside surface of the negative model in relationship to an orifice, thereby creating a final negative model; placing a zeroing and angling object to align the negative model to a predetermined angle; placing a base tool object by coupling the base tool object to the outside surface; printing, by way of a three-dimensional printer, the final negative model to create a negative mold; and casting the replica of the anatomical structure using the negative mold. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020293 | PROSTHETIC INTERNAL ORGAN MODULE - A wearable device for simulating wounds and injuries received during a trauma event includes a raiment and vest for covering the torso of a person. The raiment has an outer surface with a color and a texture comparable to human skin. Mounted on the outer surface is at least one wound simulator formed with an orifice that is in fluid communication with a fluid reservoir. Thus, the person can selectively expel a blood-like fluid from the reservoir, and through the wound simulator orifice, to simulate a trauma event. The vest includes an artificial rib cage and prosthetic internal organs juxtaposed with at least one wound simulator to simulate internal effects of a trauma event. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020294 | TRAINING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FRACTURE REDUCTION - A training device ( | 2022-01-20 |
20220020295 | 3D Paintball Strategy Board - A strategy board apparatus suited for strategic paintball play is presented. The strategy board apparatus contains a board body and at least one strategy piece. The board body comprises a mounting surface. The mounting surface traverses along the board body. The at least one strategy piece is removably attached and distributed about the mounting surface through a fastening element. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020296 | Resin Formed Product with Label, Production Method of Resin Formed Product with Label, and Label - To provide a resin formed product with a label, for which information can be provided on the label without using ink and the information can be visually recognized from the external appearance even in a condition where the label is adhered. A resin formed product | 2022-01-20 |
20220020297 | PRESSURE-SENSITIVE LABEL - A pressure sensitive label and method for preparing same, the pressure sensitive label comprising: (a) a support portion, said support portion including at least a carrier layer; and (b) a transfer portion over said support portion for transfer of the transfer portion from the support portion to an article upon application of pressure to the transfer portion while the transfer portion is in contact with the article. The transfer portion may include at least (i) a printable layer in confronting relationship with the carrier layer, and ( | 2022-01-20 |
20220020298 | Cover Window and Flexible Display Device Having the Same - The present disclosure relates to a cover window and a flexible display device including the same. The cover window according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first layer having a first modulus, a second layer disposed on the first layer and having a second modulus smaller than the first modulus, and a third layer disposed on the second layer and having a third modulus equal to or larger than the first modulus, and in which the third layer includes a nanoparticle-polyurethane complex in which polyurethane is bonded with nanoparticles by a covalent bond. Therefore, the cover window of the present disclosure provides effects that the folding and rolling are possible with excellent surface characteristic and the restorability against the pressing and excellent optical property. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020299 | SIGN FOR ON-BOARD USE IN RIDE SHARING VEHICLES - A sign for on-board use in ride sharing vehicles comprising a case having front and rear portions and the case is configured to be removably coupled to an inside of a windshield. The sign also includes at least one visual display carried by the front portion of the case, and a power supply coupled to the at least one visual display. In addition, the sign includes a plurality of electronic components coupled to a remote application, the power supply, and the at least one visual display. The electronic components are configured to receive a name of a rider from the remote application and to display the name on the at least one visual display. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020300 | MAGNETIC FLUID DISPLAY - The purpose of the present invention is to provide a magnetic fluid display in which a magnetic fluid moves in response to a magnetic field and which may display a unique visual image according to the meeting and parting of the magnetic fluid. A magnetic fluid display according to the present invention comprises: a display unit including a transparent liquid into which a magnetic fluid is injected; and a magnetic field generating unit for applying a magnetic field to the magnetic fluid at a rear surface of the display unit. When the magnetic field is applied, the magnetic fluid moves in the transparent liquid in a directional manner, so that an image may be displayed on the display unit. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020301 | PORTABLE, SELF-ILLUMINATING TRAFFIC SIGN - A portable, self-illuminating traffic sign having a sign face with two opposite sides. One side indicates a first traffic signal, and the other side indicates a second traffic signal. Light assemblies are attached to each side of the sign. The light assemblies emit light that may match the predominant color of one of the sides of the sign. A battery may be disposed in a pole that connects to the sign. A handlegrip allows for the sign to be held and provides a switch to allow for the lights to be selectively turned on and off. The light assemblies are disposed within collar assemblies so as to reduce, or prevent, light emitted from the light assemblies reflecting off of the sign faces. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020302 | WEARABLE DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING AUGMENTED REALITY - A wearable display system comprises a head mounted structure, a first display module mounted at one side of the head mounted structure to provide first content, a second display module mounted at the other side of the head mounted structure to provide second content, and an application processor connected to a first reception device of the first display module and a second reception device of the second display module via common transmission lanes, wherein the application processor transmits both the first content and the second content via the common transmission lanes. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020303 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a driving controller which provides a first start signal and a second start signal corresponding to an operation mode to a scan driving circuit. The scan driving circuit includes a first scan driving circuit having first dummy driving stages and first driving stages which sequentially drive scan lines corresponding to a first display region among a plurality of scan lines in synchronization with the first start signal and a second scan driving circuit having second dummy driving stages and second driving stages which sequentially drive scan lines corresponding to a second display region among the plurality of scan lines in synchronization with the second start signal. The first dummy driving stages are disposed on a first side surface of the display panel and the second dummy driving stages are disposed on a second side surface of the display panel. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020304 | DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTABLE DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHODS OF DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING A DISPLAY - Dynamically adjustable display systems for adjusting the position of a flexible display in response to ambient light. The display system includes a flexible display that is capable of reversibly bending along one or more bending axes. The display system further includes an adjustable support on which the flexible display is mounted, the adjustable support being able to selectively bend the flexible display. The display system includes photodetectors for detecting ambient light. The photodetectors may be positioned about a perimeter of the flexible display. A control unit in communication with the adjustable support and the plurality of photodetectors may cause the adjustable support to bend the flexible display in response to ambient light detected at the plurality of photodetectors. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020305 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY PANEL TO DISPLAY IMAGES FOR DETECTION - A method for controlling a display panel to display images for detection implemented in an electronic device includes adjusting at least one detection parameter of a display panel in a first control board; predetermining optical compensation parameters of the display panel; storing the adjusted parameter of the display panel and the optical compensation parameters into a main control board of the display panel; acquiring the adjusted detection parameter and the optical compensation parameters from the main control board when the display panel is re-detected; and controlling the display panel to display images to be re-detected according to the adjusted detection parameter and the optical compensation parameters acquired from the main control board. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020306 | IMAGE DATA CORRECTOR AND DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - A display device includes: a pixel unit including first pixels disposed in a first pixel area and second pixels disposed in a second pixel area; an image data corrector adjusting a limit grayscale of first image data corresponding to the first pixel area based on a dimming level defining a maximum luminance at which the pixel unit is able to emit light, and correcting the first image data based on the limit grayscale; a data driver supplying data signals to the pixel unit based on the corrected first image data and second image data corresponding to the second pixel area; and a scan driver supplying scan signals to the pixel unit. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020307 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a first display area, a second display area, a first multiplexer, and a second multiplexer. The first display area includes a plurality of first data lines. The second display area is adjacent to the first display area and includes a plurality of second data lines. The first multiplexer is electrically connected to one of the first data lines. The second multiplexer is electrically connected to one of the second data lines. The first data line is electrically connected to a first number of sub-pixels. The second data line is electrically connected to a second number of sub-pixels. The first number is less than the second number. The size of the first multiplexer is smaller than that of the second multiplexer. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020308 | DISPLAY DEVICE PERFORMING CLOCK MODULATION AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE DISPLAY DEVICE - A method of operating a display device includes: receiving image data at an input frame frequency; generating a modulated clock signal by modulating an input clock signal according to a modulation frequency; randomly selecting an output frame frequency within a data frequency selection range, the input frame frequency being within the data frequency selection range; determining an output start timing of the image data based on the output frame frequency; initiating, at the output start timing, output of the image data in synchronization with the modulated clock signal; and displaying an image based on the outputted image data. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020309 | Control Method and Control Apparatus for Brightness of Display Panel, Storage Medium and Processor - The present disclosure discloses a control method and a control apparatus for brightness of display panel, a storage medium and a processor. The method comprises: acquiring a plurality of pixel values processed by an image processor, wherein the bit width of each of the plurality of pixel values is a first preset bit width; performing data type conversion on each pixel value to obtain a plurality of pixel values of a second preset bit width, wherein the second preset bit width is greater than the first preset bit width; sending the plurality of pixel values of the second preset bit width to a digital-to-analog conversion module to determine the voltage output value of each sub-pixel of a display panel, wherein the voltage output value has a first linear relationship with the screen brightness of the display panel; and adjusting the voltage output value to control the screen brightness of the display panel. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020310 | ADDRESSING AND REDUNDANCY SCHEMES FOR DISTRIBUTED DRIVER CIRCUITS IN A DISPLAY DEVICE - Embodiments relate to a display device that includes a control circuit, an array of light emitting diode (LED) zones, and an array of zone integrated circuits that are distributed in the display area. The zone integrated circuits may comprise integrated a LED, driver circuits, and at least one redundant driver circuit. A non-operational driver circuit is bypassed, and the LED driving responsibility is assumed by the neighboring driver circuit. The neighboring driver circuit may be another one of the driver circuits or the redundant driver circuit. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020311 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device of the invention includes: a pixel portion including first pixel rows connected to first scan lines and second pixel rows connected to second scan lines; a scan driver including first and second stages connected to the first scan lines and the second scan lines; and a data driver connected to the first and second pixel rows through same data lines. The first stages are connected to first clock lines, the second stages are connected to second clock lines, a first start stage of the first stages and a second start stage of the second stages are connected to a same scan start line, each first stage excluding the first start stage is connected to a first scan line of a previous first stage, and each second stage excluding the second start stage is connected to a second scan line of a previous second stage. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020312 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS - The display apparatus of the present disclosure is configured to superimpose an image on an observation target, and includes a display unit and a display controller. The display unit is configured to display an object image. The display controller is configured to adjust a display position of the object image in a display region of the display unit in a horizontal direction on a pixel line basis. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020313 | DRIVING METHOD OF A DISPLAY PANEL - A driving method of a display panel is provided by the present invention. First, a display panel including sub-pixels, gate lines, two gate driver circuits and clock signal lines is provided. Each of the gate lines is electrically connected to a portion of the sub-pixels, and each of the gate lines is electrically connected to one of the gate driver circuits. Each of the gate driver circuits is electrically connected to a portion of the clock signal lines. Moreover, the gate driver circuits is controlled through the clock signal lines to output scan signals to the gate lines in a plurality of frames. Furthermore, make the gate driver circuits have a first scan order in a first frame, and make the gate driver circuits have a second scan order in a second frame, and the first scan order is different from the second scan order. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020314 | DISPLAY DEVICE - The objective of the present invention is to provides a display device for automatically recognizing an external device connected to external input terminals, the display device receiving pieces of control information about external devices connected to the same Internet, and then sensing whether a change in the output images occurs during the transmission of a control signal by using the pieces of received control information, while sequentially outputting images received from the external input terminals, thereby recognizing the external device connected to the input terminals. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020315 | ANALOG PULSE-WIDTH-MODULATION CONTROL CIRCUITS - An analog pulse-width-modulation circuit comprises an analog storage circuit, a load circuit responsive to control signals to load (e.g., store analog information in) the analog storage circuit, a discharge circuit that discharges the analog storage circuit over time, a constant-current supply providing a constant current, a digital switch responsive to the discharge circuit that switches the constant current, and a functional element connected to the digital switch that operates in response to the constant current. The analog pulse-width-modulation circuit can comprise an output control circuit that isolates or connects the discharge circuit from the analog storage circuit. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020316 | Display Device With Two-Dimensional Shared Lines For Controlling Distributed Driver Circuits - A display device comprises an array of driver circuits and LED zones distributed in a display area. A set of shared lines couple includes column lines coupling driver circuits in respective columns and row lines coupling driver circuits in respective rows. During an addressing mode, a control circuit assigns addresses to the driver circuits using a combination of the row lines and the column lines. During an operational mode, the control circuit sends driver control commands to the driver circuits utilizing the assigned addresses to control brightness of the LED zones. The control circuit may also send readback commands to the driver circuits to obtain readback data relating to sensed conditions. The control circuit may adjust the driver control commands based on the sensed conditions. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020317 | PIXEL CIRCUIT AND PIXEL CIRCUIT DRIVING METHOD - The present disclosure relates to a pixel circuit including a light emitting element, a driving circuit, a first data storage circuit and a second data storage circuit. The driving circuit is electrically coupled to the light emitting element. The first data storage circuit is electrically coupled to the driving circuit, and is configured to transmit a first data signal to the driving circuit during a first frame period, so that the driving circuit drives the light emitting element according to the first data signal. The second data storage circuit is electrically coupled to the driving circuit, and is configured to receive a second data signal during the first frame period. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020318 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND LIGHT EMISSION CONTROL METHOD - Provided are a light source device, a light emission control method, and a computer program for mitigating flickers. The light source device includes a plurality of light sources, and a controller configured to individually control the plurality of light sources to emit light. The controller controls one or more of the plurality of light sources to emit light at random in a time domain or controls such that light emission timings of the plurality of light sources do not overlap. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020319 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - The purpose of the present invention is to minimize the shortening of the lifespan of a pixel while maintaining the luminance of an image, and the present invention comprises: a display unit including a plurality of pixels; and a control unit for controlling the plurality of pixels according to pixel data of an input image, wherein the control unit may acquire a block of similar color in an area where an image is output by the display unit and adjust the luminance of at least one of the pixels belonging to the block to be low. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020320 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND A VEHICLE WITH THE DISPLAY DEVICE - A display panel in a display device has a pixel matrix and control circuitry designed to actuate pixel elements of the pixel matrix for displaying at least one graphic display object. A luminosity sensor is designed to estimate an intensity of the light independently for different portions of the display panel and provide an intensity signal to the control circuitry. The control circuitry is adapted to adjust the intensity of the light radiating from the pixel elements in the respective portion of the display panel individually. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020321 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING DISPLAY - An example device includes a housing including a first surface facing a first direction and a second surface facing a second direction; a transparent cover formed on at least a portion of the first surface of the housing; a display disposed between the transparent cover and the second surface; a sensor disposed between the display and the second surface; and a control circuit, electrically connected to the sensor, for controlling the sensor, wherein the display can include: a first region including a plurality of pixels capable of displaying color; and a second region aligned on at least a portion of the sensor such that light acquired from the outside of the electronic device passes through the sensor. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020322 | ARRAY SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes: a base substrate, and a GOA circuit, a source electrode IC and PLG wires arranged on the base substrate, and the PLG wires connect the GOA circuit with the source electrode IC. The GOA circuit transmits a GOA signal, and the GOA signal comprises a cascade signal and a non-cascade signal. The PLG wires comprise a first PLG wire group and at least one second PLG wire group, the first PLG wire group transmits the cascade signal, the second PLG wire group transmits the non-cascade signal, a line width of the first PLG wire group is smaller than that of the second PLG wire group, and the first PLG wire group is located at a side of the second PLG wire group distal to an active area of the base substrate. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020323 | PULSE WIDTH MODULATION FOR MULTI-PIXEL DENSITY OLED DISPLAY - A method for driving an organic light emitting diode display having a first plurality of pixel lines having a first pixel density and a second plurality of pixel lines having a second pixel density higher than the first pixel density, the method including driving the first and second plurality of pixel lines with corresponding drive signals at a frame rate at which frames are displayed, where during each of the frames the drive signals have a pixel on time during which pixels in the pixel lines driven by the drive signals emit light and a pixel off time during which pixels in the pixel lines driven by the drive signals are dark, where the pixel on times and the pixel off times are varied between the drive signals to reduce variations in luminance. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020324 | SHIFT REGISTER UNIT, DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, GATE DRIVING CIRCUIT, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A shift register unit and a driving method thereof, a gate driving circuit, and a display device. The shift register unit includes: an input circuit, a first capacitor circuit, an output circuit, an output pull-down circuit, a coupling circuit, and an inverter circuit. The inverter circuit is coupled to an input control terminal, a first node, a second node, and a first level signal input terminal, and a second level signal input terminal; and used to control to connect or disconnect the second node and the first level signal input under the control of the input control terminal and the first level signal input terminal; also used to control to connect or disconnect the second node and the second level signal input terminal under the control of the first node and the second level signal input terminal. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020325 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: a substrate including a display area configured to display images and a non-display area around the display area; a plurality of driving voltage lines in the display area; a plurality of initialization voltage lines in the display area; a plurality of driving voltage transmission lines in the non-display area and configured to transmit a driving voltage to the driving voltage line, and including a first driving voltage transmission line and a second driving voltage transmission line adjacent to each other; an initialization voltage transmission line in the non-display area and configured to transmit an initialization voltage to the initialization voltage line; and a bridge connecting the first driving voltage transmission line and the second driving voltage transmission line and overlapping the initialization voltage transmission line. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020326 | SHIFT REGISTER UNIT, GATE DRIVING CIRCUIT, DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD - A shift register unit, a gate driving circuit, a display device, and a driving method are disclosed. The shift register unit includes a first sub-circuit, a second sub-circuit, and a leakage prevention circuit. The first sub-circuit includes a first input circuit and a first output circuit, the first input circuit is configured to control a level of a first node in response to a first input signal. The second sub-circuit includes a second input circuit and the second output circuit. The leakage prevention circuit is connected to the first node, and is configured to control a level of the leakage prevention node under control of the level of the first node, so that a circuit connected between the first node and the leakage prevention node is turned off, and a circuit connected between the second node and the leakage prevention node is turned off. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020327 | LIGHT EMISSION DRIVING CIRCUIT, SCAN DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING SAME - A light emission driving circuit includes a driving circuit configured to output a light emission driving signal to a first output terminal and output a switching signal to a first node in response to clock signals and a first carry signal, and a first masking circuit configured to output a second carry signal to a second output terminal in response to a masking clock signal, the light emission driving signal, and the first switching signal. The masking clock signal is a signal which is maintained at a first level during a normal mode and periodically changes during a low power mode. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020328 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a pixel, wherein the pixel includes a light emitting element, a first transistor connected to a first power line and the light emitting element and controlled by a voltage of a first node, a second transistor connected to a data line and the first transistor and controlled by an i-th scan signal, a third-first transistor connected to the first transistor and a second node and controlled by a first control signal, a third transistor connected to the second node and the first node and controlled by a second control signal, and a dummy transistor including a first electrode receiving a reference voltage, a second electrode connected to the second node, and a control electrode connected to an emission line. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020329 | DATA DRIVER, DISPLAY APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME AND METHOD OF SENSING THRESHOLD VOLTAGE OF PIXEL USING THE SAME - A data driver includes a plurality of amplifiers configured to output a plurality of data voltages to a plurality of data lines. The amplifiers are configured to output the data voltages to the corresponding data lines in a writing mode. Only one of the plurality of amplifiers is configured to output a sensing data voltage to the plurality of data lines in a sensing mode. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020330 | PIXEL DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, DISPLAY DEVICE - A pixel driving circuit includes a reset sub-circuit, an input sub-circuit, a driving sub-circuit, a compensation sub-circuit and an voltage control sub-circuit. The reset sub-circuit is configured to be turned on in response to a control signal, and transmit a reference voltage to a first node to reset a voltage of the first node. The input sub-circuit is configured to transmit a data signal to a second node in response to a gate scan signal. The driving sub-circuit is configured to be turned on or off in response to a voltage of the first node; and to write the data signal and a compensation signal into a third node. The compensation sub-circuit is configured to transmit the data signal and the compensation signal to a fourth node in response to the gate scan signal. The voltage control sub-circuit is configured to control the voltage of the first node according to a voltage of the fourth node. The driving sub-circuit is further configured to output a driving signal according to the voltage of the first node. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020331 | DISPLAY APPARATUS INCLUDING PIXEL THAT INCLUDES FIRST THROUGH THIRD TRANSISTORS - A display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels. A pixel includes a first capacitor connected between a first voltage line receiving a first driving signal and a first node, a first transistor comprising a control electrode connected to the first node, a first electrode connected to a second voltage line receiving a first power source signal and a second electrode connected to a second node, an organic light emitting diode comprising an anode electrode connected to the second node and a cathode electrode receiving a second power source signal, a second capacitor connected between an m-th data line and the second node (wherein, ‘m’ is a natural number) and a second transistor comprising a control electrode connected to an n-th scan line (wherein, ‘n’ is a natural number), a first electrode connected to the first node and a second electrode connected to the second node. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020332 | SCAN DRIVING UNIT - A scan driver includes stage circuits, wherein each of the stage circuits includes a first transistor, wherein a first electrode thereof is coupled to a first node, a second electrode thereof is coupled to an input carry line, and a gate electrode thereof is coupled to a first clock line; and a capacitor, wherein a first electrode thereof is coupled to the first node and a second electrode thereof is coupled to a second node, wherein the second node is coupled to an output carry line, and the second node is selectively coupled to one of a first power voltage line and a second power voltage line. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020333 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display device includes: a plurality of pixels; a scan driver configured to supply scan signals of a turn-on level to the scan lines at a cycle of a horizontal synchronization signal; a plurality of first sensors and a plurality of second sensors overlapping at least some of the pixels; and a sensor driver configured to concurrently supply first sensing signals to the first sensors during a first sensing period, to concurrently supply second sensing signals to the second sensors during a second sensing period, and to sequentially supply third sensing signals to the first sensors during a third sensing period, wherein the number of the first sensing signals is an integer greater than 2, wherein the first sensing signals are divided into first groups, and wherein an initial first sensing signal in each of the first groups is synchronized with the horizontal synchronization signal. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020334 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels connected to data lines and sensing lines, a data driver including a plurality of buffer amplifiers which supplies a first sensing voltage to the data lines during a first sensing period and a sensor which receives a first sensing signal from the pixels through the sensing lines during the first sensing period, and a global amplifier which supplies a second sensing voltage to the data lines during a second sensing period different from the first sensing period. The sensor receives a second sensing signal corresponding to the second sensing voltage from the pixels through the sensing lines during the second sensing period, and generates compensation data based on a difference value between the first sensing signal and the second sensing signal. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020335 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - The present disclosure provides a display panel which comprises a backlight module, a first-part body, and a second-part body. The backlight module includes a control module, a first driving module, a second driving module, and light-emitting diodes. The control module includes a first control unit connected to the first driving module and a second control unit connected to the second driving module. The light-emitting diodes in the first-part body are electrically connected to the first driving module, and the light-emitting diodes in the second-part body are electrically connected to the second driving module. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020336 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: light-emitting elements in a backlight divided into a plurality of areas, the light-emitting elements being arranged in such a manner as to correspond to the plurality of areas; and a drive unit configured to drive the light-emitting elements in the plurality of areas by time division based on an input image every prescribed period of time, the drive unit turning on all the light-emitting elements in the plurality of areas in a partial period of the prescribed period of time and driving those light-emitting elements in at least one of the plurality of areas based on the input image in a remaining period of the prescribed period of time. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020337 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - This application discloses a display panel and a display device. The display panel ( | 2022-01-20 |
20220020338 | BACKLIGHT CONTROL SIGNAL DUTY CYCLE EXTENSION SCHEME TO AVOID FLICKER - Certain aspects are directed to a circuit for brightness control. The circuit generally includes: a duty cycle adjustment circuit configured to receive a first backlight control signal having a first duty cycle and generate a second backlight control signal having a second duty cycle, the second duty cycle being greater than the first duty cycle if the first duty cycle is less than a threshold; a digital processor configured to set a value of a software brightness code based on the second duty cycle; and a backlight control circuit configured to drive a backlight in accordance with the software brightness code and the second duty cycle of the second backlight control signal. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020339 | DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS - One example display method includes in response to receiving a display request from a target display device, determining a first display device and a second display device that support display of a target service, when a first distance between the first display device and a user is less than a. second distance between the second display device and the user, obtaining current first display data of the target service from the target display device and sending the current first display data to the first display device, and when that the first distance reported by the first display device is greater than the second distance reported by the second display device is subsequently obtained, obtaining current second display data of the target service from the target display device and sending the current second display data to the first display device and the second display device. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020340 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DATA CONTENT INTEGRITY - The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for data processing, e.g., a display processing unit (DPU). The apparatus may receive data including a plurality of data bits, the data being associated with at least one data source. The apparatus may also determine whether at least a portion of the data corresponds to priority data, the priority data being within a region of interest (ROI). The apparatus may also detect an adjustment amount of the received data when at least a portion of the data corresponds to priority data, the data being displayed or stored based on the detected adjustment amount. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020341 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A video input interface receives video data on which a known character is to be drawn. A memory stores reference graphic data describing the known character. A visibility detector checks the visibility of the known character drawn on the video data based on the reference graphic data. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020342 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A video input interface receives video data. An OSD circuit draws an on screen display (OSD) character on the video data. The visibility detector checks whether the visibility of the OSD character is good or poor. A determination criterion for the visibility dynamically changes in a manner that depends on a background of the OSD character. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020343 | TUNING MACHINE FOR STRINGED INSTRUMENTS - A tuning machine for a stringed instrument comprising: an input shaft having a first end, and an opposite second end having an eccentric, the input shaft being rotatable in response to an input from a user; a gear member or rotor with a central axial bore to receive the eccentric to move the rotor though a circular motion as the input shaft rotates, the rotor having a first or upper gear portion with external first lobes, and a second or lower gear portion with external second lobes; a first or upper ring gear having internal first teeth positioned around the first lobes of the first gear portion; a second or lower ring gear separate from the upper ring gear and having internal second teeth positioned around the second lobes, said upper and lower ring gears being larger than the rotor to accommodate the circular motion of the rotor within said ring gears such that at least one of the first lobes meshes with at least one of the internal first teeth, and at least one of the second lobes meshes with and drives at least one of the internal second teeth of the lower ring gear as the rotor moves through its circular motion to rotate the lower ring gear about its central axis; and a string post driven by the lower ring gear to wind a string of the instrument as a result of rotation of the input shaft in one direction and unwind the string as a result of rotation of the input shaft in an opposite direction. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020344 | KEYPAD STRUCUTRE FOR WOODWIND INSTRUMENT TONE HOLES - The present disclosure relates to a keypad structure for woodwind instrument tone holes, and more particularly, to a keypad structure for woodwind tones which improves the adhesion of a keypad connected to a tone hole tube in which the tone hole is formed in the woodwind instrument, prevents the sound from being exposed to the outside through the tone hole tube and the pad, and can generate excellent resonance so that the resonance of a desired sound can be constantly generated through the closed keypad. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020345 | Drum Key With End Hole - A drum key includes a shank portion and defines a top hole for receiving an elongate rod, such as a drumstick. A distal end of the shank includes a socket engageable with a tension rod in a drum. A drumstick is insertable through the hole of the drum key to form a torquing wrench in situ. When formed, the drumstick forms a cross member that is used to apply a torquing force about the axis defined by the shank. Once used, the drumstick can be removed, yielding a low profile drum key that is portable. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020346 | Special Euphonium Extension Rest Device - A Euphonium Extension Rest for a portable device to support a musical instrument such as a baritone horn, a euphonium, a small tuba, or a similar instrument with a portable stand so that a musician can handle the instrument for lengthy sessions; the device includes an extendable wrap with a left-hand and right-hand curved side rail and a bottom half of a hemisphere, a protection cushion contiguous to the curved side rails, a way to secure the protection cushion to each of the left-hand and right-hand curved side rails, and a securing manner to releasably encircle the musical instrument to hold the extendable wrap. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020347 | EFFECT ADDING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - An effect adding apparatus includes: at least one first operation element on which a first user operation is performed; a plurality of second operation elements on which a second user operation is performed after the first user operation; and at least one processor, in which the at least one processor determines two or more effects including at least a first effect and a second effect, from a plurality of effects in which each of the effects is associated with a plurality of parameters, based on the first user operation on the at least one first operation element, and determines a parameter associated with each of the plurality of second operation elements, based on data indicating significance of each of a plurality of first parameters associated with the first effect determined and data indicating significance of each of a plurality of second parameters associated with the second effect determined. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020348 | VIDEO CONTROL DEVICE AND VIDEO CONTROL METHOD - This video control device includes: a detection unit that detects a beat timing of audio; and a control unit that updates a display mode of a video on the basis of the beat timing and change information indicating a change in a display mode of a video displayed on a display device. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020349 | ACOUSTIC FILLER INCLUDING ACOUSTICALLY ACTIVE BEADS AND EXPANDABLE FILLER - Aspects are disclosed of a filler for occupying a volume. The filler includes an expandable filler positioned in the volume so that it occupies a percentage of the volume. The expandable filler can permanently expand from a first dimension to a second dimension upon the application of an expansion trigger. The filler also includes an acoustic filler made up of a plurality of acoustically active beads positioned with the expandable filler in the volume so that the acoustic filler can adsorb gas flowing into the volume. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020350 | ACOUSTIC CYMBAL SHIELD FOR MUSICAL PERFORMANCE - An acoustic shield system is described that is suitable for musical performances. In one example, a side wall is configured to surround a portion of an edge of a cymbal opposite a percussionist to reflect sound back toward the cymbal and toward the percussionist. The side wall has a top edge above the cymbal and a bottom edge below the cymbal. A substantially flat top plate is attached to the top edge of the side wall and extends from the side wall over and across the center of the cymbal. A substantially flat bottom plate is attached to the bottom edge of the side wall and extends from the side wall under and across the center of the cymbal. The bottom plate is parallel to the top plate. The bottom plate and the top plate are spaced to accommodate regular movement of the cymbal when struck. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020351 | WEARABLE ACTIVE NOISE REDUCTION (ANR) DEVICE HAVING LOW FREQUENCY FEEDBACK LOOP MODULATION - Various aspects include a wearable audio device having active noise reduction (ANR), where the ANR device includes: a feedback microphone; an electroacoustic transducer; and a feedback compensator configured to output a noise reduction signal to the electroacoustic transducer in response to a feedback signal from the feedback microphone, wherein the feedback compensator includes a tunable filter that modulates a loop gain in response to an adverse low frequency event being detected in the noise reduction signal outputted from the tunable filter, wherein the tunable filter is configured to maintain a substantially similar loop gain shape near a low frequency cross-over as the low frequency cross-over changes during loop gain modulation. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020352 | Baby Monitor System with Noise Filtering and Method Thereof - A baby monitor system with white noise filtering comprises a camera unit and a monitor unit, wherein the camera unit is predefined soothing sounds and play at least one of the predefined soothing sounds for baby; the camera unit records the mixture sound of baby, ambient noises and white noises and transforms the mixture sound to sound features, wherein the white noises at least include the soothing sounds and stationary noise; the recorded sound features are compared to local audio features of the predefined soothing sounds; if there are matching features between the recorded sound features and the local audio features, removing the matching features from the recorded sound features; the stationary noise features are extracted and removed from the recorded sound features; the camera unit outputs the recorded mixture sound without the white noise to the monitor unit. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020353 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NOISE REDUCTION USING SUB-BAND NOISE REDUCTION TECHNIQUE - A noise reduction system is provided. The noise reduction system may include a sub-band noise sensor, a plurality of sub-band noise reduction modules, and an output module. The sub-band noise sensor may be configured to detect a noise and generate a plurality of sub-band noise signals in response to the detected noise. Each of the plurality of sub-band noise signals may have a distinctive sub-band of the frequency band of the noise. Each of the sub-band noise reduction modules may be configured to receive one of the sub-band noise signals from the sub-band noise sensor and generate a sub-band noise correction signal for reducing the received sub-band noise signal. The output module may be configured to receive the sub-band noise correction signals and output a noise correction signal for reducing the noise based on the sub-band noise correction signals. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020354 | VOICE OUTPUT DEVICE AND VOICE OUTPUT METHOD - A voice output device includes a voice output controller configured to determine, when a message reception unit receives a message, whether a start condition to be satisfied when a person intended to receive the message normally listens to voice in the predetermined space is satisfied, and cause a voice output unit to start voice output of the message when the start condition is satisfied and suspend voice output of the message when the start condition is not satisfied. The voice output is not immediately performed in response to a reception of a message but is performed only when the person intended to receive the message normally listens to the message, and the voice output of the message is suspended in other cases. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020355 | NEURAL TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS WITH MULTI-LEVEL TEXT INFORMATION - A method and apparatus for generating speech through neural text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. A text input may be obtained ( | 2022-01-20 |
20220020356 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF SYNTHESIZING SPEECH, METHOD AND APPARATUS OF TRAINING SPEECH SYNTHESIS MODEL, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus of synthesizing a speech, a method and apparatus of training a speech synthesis model, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method of synthesizing a speech includes acquiring a style information of a speech to be synthesized, a tone information of the speech to be synthesized, and a content information of a text to be processed; generating an acoustic feature information of the text to be processed, by using a pre-trained speech synthesis model, based on the style information, the tone information, and the content information of the text to be processed; and synthesizing the speech for the text to be processed, based on the acoustic feature information of the text to be processed. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020357 | ON-DEVICE LEARNING IN A HYBRID SPEECH PROCESSING SYSTEM - A speech interface device is configured to receive response data from a remote speech processing system for responding to user speech. This response data may be enhanced with information such as remote NLU data. The response data from the remote speech processing system may be compared to local NLU data to improve a speech processing model on the device. Thus, the device may perform supervised on-device learning based on the remote NLU data. The device may determine differences between the updated speech processing model and an original speech processing model received from the remote system and may send data indicating these differences to the remote system. The remote system may aggregate data received from a plurality of devices and may generate an improved speech processing model. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020358 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PROCESSING USER UTTERANCE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREFOR - According to various embodiments, provided is a control operation comprising: receiving a first utterance from a device; determining a specific category corresponding to the received first utterance from among a plurality of categories; determining a first domain for processing of the first utterance from among a plurality of domains related to the determined specific category; acquiring information enabling an operation corresponding to the first utterance to be performed based on the determined first domain; receiving a second utterance from the device; identifying whether processing of the second utterance is possible in the determined first domain; based on identifying that the processing of the second user utterance based on the first domain is not possible, checking a second domain among the plurality of domains, and identifying whether processing of the second utterance based on the second domain is possible; and based on identifying that the processing of the second utterance based on the second domain is possible, acquiring information enabling an operation corresponding to the second utterance to be performed based on the second domain. An operation of determining a domain corresponding to a user utterance of the electronic device may be performed using an artificial intelligence model. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020359 | METHOD OF ADJUSTING VOLUME OF AUDIO OUTPUT BY A MOBILE ROBOT DEVICE - Implementations of the disclosed subject matter provide a method of transmitting, from a mobile robot device, sound and/or at least one image captured by a sensor to a remote user device. The mobile robot device may receive at least one first control operation for the mobile robot device to move within an area via a communications network from a remote user device. An audio signal may be transmitted based on sound received at a microphone of the mobile robot device in the area. The audio signal received from the remote user device may be output at a speaker of the mobile robot device. A volume of the audio signal output by the speaker may be adjusted based on a size of the area and on an average or a median of an amplitude of frequencies in the area based on the sound received by the microphone. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020360 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIALOGUE MANAGEMENT - The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for user machine dialogue. An instruction is received by an agent device for rendering a communication directed to a user involved in a dialogue in a dialogue scene and is used to render the communication. A first representation of a mindset of the agent is updated accordingly after the rendering. Input data are received in one or more media types capturing a response from the user and information surrounding the dialogue scene and a second representation of a mindset of the user is updated based on the response from the user and the information surrounding of the dialogue scene. A next communication to the user is then determined based on the first representation of the mindset of the agent and the second representation of the mindset of the user. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020361 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FAST FILTERING OF AUDIO KEYWORD SEARCH - An audio keyword searcher arranged to identify a voice segment of a received audio signal; identify, by an automatic speech recognition engine, one or more phonemes included in the voice segment; output, from the automatic speech recognition engine, the one or more phonemes to a keyword filter to detect whether the voice segment includes any of the one or more first keywords of the first keyword list and, if detected, output the one or more phonemes included in the voice segment to a decoder but, if not detected, not output the one or more phonemes included in the voice segment to the decoder. If the one or more phonemes are output to the decoder: generate a word lattice associated with the voice segment; search the word lattice for one or more second keywords, and determine whether the voice segment includes the one or more second keywords. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020362 | SPEECH SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A speech signal processing method and apparatus is disclosed. The speech signal processing method includes receiving an input token that is based on a speech signal, calculating first probability values respectively corresponding to candidate output tokens based on the input token, adjusting at least one of the first probability values based on a priority of each of the first probability values, and processing the speech signal based on an adjusted probability value obtained by the adjusting. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020363 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURABLE CONTROL OF VOICE COMMAND SYSTEMS - A method of providing configurable control of voice command systems is disclosed herein. The method comprising a parent device receiving a voice command and comparing the voice command to a set of preferences for a user. The set of preferences may relate to one or more interactions between the user and a playback device. The method further comprises the parent device translating the voice command to a user interface (UI) command sequence for the playback device based on the comparison. The playback device may then send the UI command sequence to the playback device as the configurable voice command. The playback device executes the UI command sequence to transition from the current output state to the desired output state intended by the user. A system for providing configurable voice control and computer program product are also disclosed. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020364 | Virtual Assistant Host Platform Configured for Interactive Voice Response Simulation - Aspects of the disclosure relate to using machine learning to simulate an interactive voice response system. A computing platform may receive user interaction information corresponding to interactions between a user and enterprise computing devices. Based on the user interaction information, the computing platform may identify predicted intents for the user, and may generate hotkey information based on the predicted intents. The computing platform may send the hotkey information and commands directing the mobile device to output the hotkey information. The computing platform may receive hotkey input information from the mobile device. Based on the hotkey input information, the computing platform may generate a hotkey response message. The computing platform may send, to the mobile device, the hotkey response message and commands directing the mobile device to convert the hotkey response message to an audio output and to output the audio output. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020365 | AUTOMATED ASSISTANT WITH AUDIO PRESENTATION INTERACTION - User interaction may be supported with an audio presentation by an automated assistant, and in particular with the spoken content of such an audio presentation that is presented at particular points within the audio presentation. Analysis of an audio presentation may be performed to identify one or more entities addressed by, mentioned by, or otherwise associated with the audio presentation, and utterance classification may be performed to determine whether an utterance received during playback of the audio presentation is directed to the audio presentation, and in some instances, to a particular entity and/or point of playback in the audio presentation, thereby enabling a suitable response to be generated to the utterance. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020366 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to make a division of a content of a talk input by a user into talk content elements for each of topics of the talk content elements, and change a display mode of digest information representing the content and to be displayed on a display screen of a third party. The display mode is changed on a basis of a relationship between the topics. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020367 | Selecting a response in a multi-turn interaction between a user and a conversational bot - A method to select a response in a multi-turn conversation between a user and a conversational bot. The conversation is composed of a set of events, wherein an event is a linear sequence of observations that are user speech or physical actions. Queries are processed against a set of conversations that are organized as a set of inter-related data tables, with events and observations stored in distinct tables. As the multi-turn conversation proceeds, a data model comprising an observation history, together with a hierarchy of events determined to represent the conversation up to at least one turn, is persisted. When a new input (speech or physical action) is received, it is classified using a statistical model to generate a result. The result is then mapped to an observation in the data model. Using the mapped observation, a look-up is performed into the data tables to retrieve a possible response. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020368 | OUTPUT APPARATUS, OUTPUT METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An output apparatus according to the present application includes an estimation unit, a decision unit, and an output unit. The estimation unit estimates an emotion of a user from detection information detected by a predetermined detection device. The decision unit decides information to be changed on the basis of the estimated emotion of the user. The output unit outputs information for changing the information to be changed. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020369 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A device and a method that determine an utterance type of a user utterance and generate a system response according to a determination result are achieved. A user utterance type determination unit that determines an utterance type of a user utterance, and a system response generation unit that generates a system response according to a type determination result determined by the user utterance type determination unit are included. The user utterance type determination unit determines whether the user utterance is of type A that requests all reutterances of a system utterance immediately before the user utterance, or type B that requests a reutterance of a part of the system utterance immediately before the user utterance. The system response generation unit generates a system response to reutter all system utterances immediately before the user utterance in a case where the user utterance is of type A, and generates a system response to reutter a part of system utterances immediately before the user utterance in a case where the user utterance is of type B. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020370 | WIRELESS AUDIO TESTING - A method includes outputting, by a computing device, to a remote computing device, test audio data; determining, by the computing device, whether audio data detected by an audio input device includes the test audio data; and responsive to determining that the test audio data was not detected by the audio input device, temporarily refraining, by the computing device, from outputting advisory audio data indicating the audio input device is ready to receive a spoken audio command. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020371 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Realized is a device and a method capable of executing application notification processing to a user at an optimum timing. User observation information is inputted, a context indicating a user situation is analyzed on the basis of input information, and notification processing of an application associated with a context is executed on the basis of an analysis result. The data processing unit determines the presence or absence of a causal relationship between multiple contexts, registers multiple contexts determined to have a causal relationship into a causal relationship information database, and executes notification processing of an application associated with a database registration context in a case where a context that is coincident with or similar to a cause context registered in the database is observed. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020372 | MEOTHOD OF AND A DEVICE FOR USING A WIRELESS RECEIVER AS A HELP-SEEKING-SIGNAL CONVERTER FOR RENDERING HELP USING SMART SPEAKERS - A Wireless Interface Device and System (WIDS) is used as a bridge device for transmitting, translating, transporting and/or transforming a first emergency aid seeking signal to a second emergency aid seeking signal recognizable by a smart voice commendable device (e.g., AMAZON® ECHO®). The first emergency aid seeking signal can be generated from a Personal Emergency Response Systems (PERS), a fall sensor (e.g., a senior fall sensor), home security monitoring device, or any other emergency aid requesting devices. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020373 | METHODS FOR PROCESSING DATA OF LIVE STREAMING APPLICATION, and ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for processing data of a live streaming application applied to a server is provided. The server receives speech control data from a first client. The server obtains and send multimedia data corresponding to a level parameter of a virtual object and corresponding to speech control data to the first client. A method for processing data of a live streaming application applied to a first client is provided. The first client obtains multimedia data corresponding to a level parameter of a virtual object and corresponding to speech control data. The first client further plays the multimedia data on a page of a live streaming room. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020374 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND PROGRAM FOR CUSTOMIZING AND ACTIVATING A PERSONAL VIRTUAL ASSISTANT SYSTEM FOR MOTOR VEHICLES - A method for customizing and activating a personal virtual assistant (PVA) in a motor vehicle. The method includes: activating a PVA management system, determining a customized mode of use of the personal virtual assistant, and activating the customized mode of use of the personal virtual assistant. A device for carrying out the method is also included. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020375 | DETECTION OF MISSION CHANGE IN CONVERSATION - Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for detecting a mission changes in a conversation. A user utterance from a user device is received. The user utterance is part of a conversation with an intelligent assistant. The conversation includes preceding user utterances in pursuit of a first mission. It is determined that the user utterance indicates a mission change from the first mission to a second mission based on an application of a machine-learned model to the user utterance and the preceding user utterances. The machine-learned model has been trained repeatedly with past utterances of other users over a time period, the determining based on a certainty of the indication satisfying a certainty threshold. Responsive to the determining that the user utterance indicates the mission change from the first mission to a second mission, a reply to the user utterance is generated to further the second mission rather than the first mission. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020376 | System And Method For Multi-Modal Podcast Summarization - In one aspect, a method includes receiving podcast content, generating a transcript of at least a portion of the podcast content, and parsing the podcast content to (i) identify audio segments within the podcast content, (ii) determine classifications for the audio segments, (iii) identify audio segment offsets, and (iv) identify sentence offsets. The method also includes based on the audio segments, the classifications, the audio segment offsets, and the sentence offsets, dividing the generated transcript into text sentences and, from among the text sentences of the divided transcript, selecting a group of text sentences for use in generating an audio summary of the podcast content. The method also includes based on timestamps at which the group of text sentences begin in the podcast content, combining portions of audio in the podcast content that correspond to the group of text sentences to generate an audio file representing the audio summary. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020377 | DYNAMIC REDFISH QUERY URI BINDING FROM CONTEXT ORIENTED INTERACTION - A system for data processing, comprising a first processor operating under algorithmic control and configured to receive audio data during a first session and to convert the audio data into encoded electrical data. A second processor operating under algorithmic control and configured to identify speech data in the encoded electrical data and to convert the speech data to text data. The second processor further configured to process the text data to identify one or more commands and one or more missing parameters of the commands. The second processor further configured to map context data to one or more commands and the one or more missing parameters and to select replacement parameter data corresponding to the missing parameter data from the mapped context data. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020378 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIRTUAL ASSISTANT ROUTING - Systems, methods and software are disclosed for processing requests from users of an infotainment system. The method includes receiving a request from a user of the infotainment system. The method includes determining a domain for the received request based on information contained in the received request. The domain specifies one or more categories for the request. The method includes routing the received request to a virtual assistant assigned to handle requests for the determined domain. The virtual assistant is one of a plurality of virtual assistants respectively assigned to handle requests for a plurality of respectively assigned domains. The method includes transmitting a response to the request to the user. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020379 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING A WAKE WORD - A user device (e.g., voice assistant device, voice enabled device, smart device, computing device, etc.) may receive/detect audio content (e.g., speech, etc.) that includes a wake word and/or words similar to a wake word. The user device may require a wake word, a portion of the wake word, or words similar to the wake word to be detected prior to interacting with a user. The user device may, based on characteristics of the audio content, determine if the audio content originates from an authorized user. The user device may decrease and/or increase scrutiny applied to wake word detection based on whether audio content originates from an authorized user. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020380 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An electronic device and a control method thereof are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a voice input unit, a display, a memory storing at least one instruction, and a processor configured to execute the at least one instruction. The processor is configured to: based on a voice of a user being input through the voice input unit, recognize the user who has uttered the voice by comparing the voice with a plurality of pre-registered voices; and control the display to display an indicator corresponding to the recognized user. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020381 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technology relates to an information processing device and method and a program that make it possible to reduce the total number of objects while the influence on the sound quality is suppressed. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020382 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING OF MULTI-CHANNEL AMBISONICS AUDIO DATA - Conventional audio compression technologies perform a standardized signal transformation, independent of the type of the content. Multi-channel signals are decomposed into their signal components, subsequently quantized and encoded. This is disadvantageous due to lack of knowledge on the characteristics of scene composition, especially for e.g. multi-channel audio or Higher-Order Ambisonics (HOA) content. A method for decoding an encoded bitstream of multi-channel audio data and associated metadata is provided, including transforming the first Ambisonics format of the multi-channel audio data to a second Ambisonics format representation of the multi-channel audio data, wherein the transforming maps the first Ambisonics format of the multi-channel audio data into the second Ambisonics format representation of the multi-channel audio data. A method for encoding multi-channel audio data that includes audio data in an Ambisonics format, wherein the encoding includes transforming the audio data in an Ambisonics format into encoded multi-channel audio data is also provided. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020383 | METHOD FOR ADDING WATERMARK INFORMATION, METHOD FOR EXTRACTING WATERMARK INFORMATION, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Provided is a method for adding watermark information. The method includes: acquiring M first audio signal frames in a first audio signal; acquiring N watermark information items in watermark information; determining M*N adding parameters; acquiring M second audio signal frames added with the watermark information based on the M*N adding parameters; and determining a second audio signal based on the M second signal frames added with the watermark information. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020384 | Identification of Fake Audio Content - A computer system that classifies audio content is described. During operation, the computer system may receive audio content. Then, the computer system may determine a representation of the audio content (such as a signal-processing representation) by performing a transformation on the audio content. In some embodiments, the transformation may include a neural network and/or the representation may include word embedding or sense embedding of words in the audio content. Moreover, the computer system may analyze the representation using a predetermined neural network. Next, the computer system may classify, based at least in part on an output of the predetermined neural network, the audio content as being fake or real, where the fake audio content is, at least in part, computer-generated. Furthermore, the computer system may selectively perform a remedial action based at least in part on the classification. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020385 | METHOD OF ENCODING AND DECODING AUDIO SIGNAL AND ENCODER AND DECODER PERFORMING THE METHOD - An audio signal encoding method performed by an encoder includes identifying a time-domain audio signal in a unit of blocks, quantizing a linear prediction coefficient extracted from a combined block in which a current original block of the audio signal and a previous original block chronologically adjacent to the current original block using frequency-domain linear predictive coding (LPC), generating a temporal envelope by dequantizing the quantized linear prediction coefficient, extracting a residual signal from the combined block based on the temporal envelope, quantizing the residual signal by one of time-domain quantization and frequency-domain quantization, and transforming the quantized residual signal and the quantized linear prediction coefficient into a bitstream. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020386 | INTELLIGENT NOISE CANCELLATION SYSTEM FOR VIDEO CONFERENCE CALLS IN TELEPRESENCE ROOMS - An intelligent noise cancellation process for audio or video conference calls. Different levels of deep learning model classifiers are leveraged to determine, in real-time, the presence of noise data and voice data in audio input signals being received at numerous audio input devices. In response, appropriate action is taken to prevent the noise data from being included in the subsequent audio communication. Specifically, a lightweight neural network-based model classifier is initially used to identify noise data and/or the presence of predetermined trigger words or phrases in audio input signals. In the event that the lightweight model is unable to identify the presence of the triggering words/phrases, a heavyweight neural network-based model classifier is called upon, whereby the audio signals are attempted to be converted to a human-understandable language format (i.e., a text format) as a means of positively identifying voice data in audio input signals. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020387 | INTERRUPT FOR NOISE-CANCELLING AUDIO DEVICES - Implementations of the subject technology provide systems and methods for determining whether to interrupt a user of an audio device that is operating in a noise-cancelling mode of operation. For example, the user may desire to be interrupted by one or more pre-designated contacts that are identified at an associated electronic device as interrupt-authorized contacts, or by a person who speaks a designated keyword to the user. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020388 | AUDIO MODIFYING CONFERENCING SYSTEM - A computer-implemented method for modifying audio-based communications produced during a conference call is disclosed. The computer-implemented method can include monitoring a plurality of utterances transmitted via an audio feed of a device connected to the conference call. The computer-implemented method can identify a first unwanted audio component transmitted via the audio feed. The computer-implemented method can actively modify the audio feed by removing the first unwanted audio component from the audio feed. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020389 | AUDIO DATA PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided are an audio data processing method and apparatus, a device and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring audio data to be processed and a variable-speed rate of at least one audio frame in the audio data; sequentially using the at least one audio frame as a current audio frame to be processed, and converting the current audio frame to a frequency domain; determining a target phase signal of the current audio frame according to a variable-speed rate of the current audio frame and a variable-speed rate of a previous audio frame; and performing, according to the target phase signal, time domain conversion on the current audio frame converted to the frequency domain to obtain a processed current audio frame. | 2022-01-20 |
20220020390 | INTERACTIVE GROUP SESSION COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS - Assistive technologies are herein provided to assist leaders in engaging one or more group participants using a combination of private data specific to a participant and public data specific to a participant. The system includes: a group bot that has public group data and private group data, a first bot for a first participant that has private data and public data associated with the first participant, and a leader bot for a leader. The leader bot is data interactive with the group bot and the first bot, and can cause the first bot to appropriately serve private data on a permissioned private device of the first participant and to serve public data on a permissioned group output device. | 2022-01-20 |