23rd week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 36 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120140902 | System and Method for Managing a Network - A system and method that may include placing a first telephone call from a data network to a target phone number using a trusted carrier; recording the first telephone call in a reference audio data file; placing a second telephone call from the data network to the target phone number using a suspect carrier; recording the second telephone call in a test audio data file; and comparing the test audio data file to the reference audio data file. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140903 | DETECTING FALSE ANSWER SUPERVISION - A method and corresponding apparatus are provided to detect false answer supervision by determining false answer supervision as either as a function of a number of completed calls of short duration or as a function of a distribution of differences between timestamps of alert signals and timestamps of connect signals used to complete calls, detecting false answer supervision based on the indicator of false answer supervision determined by either functions separately or in combination, and affecting a decision in response to the detecting. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140904 | VISUAL INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE - Information is provided by an interactive voice response system. The interactive voice response system receives an initial communication initiated by a remote requesting party and addressed to a numbered communications address. Based upon receipt at the interactive voice response system of the initial communication, visual data to provide to the remote requesting party as part of an integrated interactive script is determined. The visual data is provided to the remote requesting party during the initial communication as part of the integrated interactive script. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140905 | PERSONALIZED INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE SYSTEM - An interactive voice response process that permits an intelligent interactive voice system to communicate with a caller includes receiving a call and connecting the caller with the system. The process also includes identifying the caller, determining if the caller is a first time caller or a repeat caller, and interactively communicating with the caller in accordance with an interactive script. For each first time caller, the process establishes a personal profile of the caller from information gathered from the caller. The process then develops a predictive personalized interactive communication dialog for future calls from the caller based on information gathered from the caller during the interactive communication and stored in the caller's personal profile. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140906 | System And Method For Monitoring An Automated Voice Response System - A system and method for monitoring an automated voice response (AVR) system is provided. An audio communication from a caller is processed by executing an AVR script with a plurality of instructions. A visual representation of the audio communication is presented to an agent substantially simultaneously with the audio communication based on the AVR script. The visual representation includes at least one field to be populated with information obtained from the caller and the information populated in the field can be updated by the agent. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140907 | Communication Method and System - A system is disclosed that may include a directory server on a network, the server having a network interface that includes a plurality of actuatable software buttons, each button identifying a listed party; a database of private information for listed parties; a button server on the network containing executable software agents constructed to create a communication interface for a communication connection; wherein the buttons are constructed to transfer to the user's computing device information describing the type of connection and private address information for the listed party identified by the actuated button, the button server then downloading, to the computing device of the user actuating the button, a software agent constructed to create a communication interface to the private address of the listed party identified by the actuated button. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140908 | Multimodal Telephone Calls - A method for establishing a multimodal telephone call is provided. On a first computing device, a telephone call is received from a second computing device. On the first computing device, a response is sent to the second computing device that a telephony session is established between the first computing device and the second computing device. On the first computing device, a request message is sent to register the first computing device for a data session at an online registry service. On the first computing device, a response message is received indicating that the first computing device is registered at the online registry service. The response message includes a key that uniquely identifies the data session. On the first computing device, the key is used to establish the data session with the second computing device. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140909 | DIAL UP TELEPHONE CONFERENCING SYSTEM CONTROLLED BY AN ONLINE COMPUTER NETWORK - In a telephone conferencing system, a digital communication network such as the Internet is used to establish and control the telephone connections between multiple conferees with the telephone network being the means of exchanging verbal information. Each conferee may have a computer connected to the digital network, and each has an independent telephone instrument connected to the public switched telephone network. An in-charge conferee utilizes his computer containing appropriate software to initiate the conference and to control the participation of the conferees. The in-charge conferee sends digital control signals to a switch interface controlling a telephone switch as a gateway to the telephone network using SS7 control signals. These SS7 control signals include the commands by which the conferee telephones are rung up, brought on line, or dropped from the conference. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140910 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING A TELEPHONE CALL - A system for handling a telephone call within a telephone network, comprising a multi-tenanted CTI server within a telecommunications network adapted to receive telephone calls on behalf of a plurality of outlets, wherein the CTI server is adapted for queuing an incoming call in the network when no agent is available and is further adapted to forward an incoming call to an agent when the agent becomes available. The CTI server is configured to use an indicia received with the received call to identify the caller and to retrieve a profile of the caller by matching the indicia to a previously-stored indicia in a call history database collocated with the CTI server, the profile comprising at least a plurality of previous orders processed by an outlet on behalf of the caller, the profile being used to provide priority call handling for certain callers. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140911 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO SECURELY COLLECT DATA OVER A TELEPHONE - A computer-implemented method to securely collect data over a telephone is described. Telephone communications between a customer and a customer service representative are monitored. At least one tone from a telephone keypad of the customer is detected. The at least one tone represents sensitive data for the customer. An audio output channel directed to the customer service representative is prevented from outputting a detectable tone from the telephone keypad of the customer. An indicator is provided to the customer service representative when detection of the at least one tone occurs. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140912 | PROCESS FOR DOWNLOADING DATA PRECEDED BY ANNOUNCEMENT SIGNALS - Update data is dispatched by a communication center to terminals with the aid of a broadcasting network. Next, the terminals report their update to the center through a bidirectional network. The center renews a current campaign or stops the campaign as a function of the number of terminals updated. When only a minimum number of terminals need to be updated, the campaign is stopped and the last terminals that were not updated through the campaign transmitted through broadcast network will be updated via the bidirectional link. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140913 | TELEPHONE RELAYING APPARATUS, TELEPHONE RELAYING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A real number and a published number are allocated to a call origination telephone terminal | 2012-06-07 |
20120140914 | RINGBACK ADVERTISING - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, in which an indication of a telephone call being placed from a calling number is received, and a determination is made of an audio advertisement to play based on the calling number. The audio advertisement is played based on the determination. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140915 | Multi-Networking Communication System and Method - The architecture of the present invention includes a multi-media multi-network communication server connected to a variety of access and delivery platforms via a variety of communication networks. The access platforms are used by senders, recipients or agents to access their digital mailboxes on a multi-network communication server and to send and receive calls and messages. The messages can be in electronic format such as text, audio, graphic images, video, and audio-video. The multi-network communication may send a notification message to the recipient, indicating that a message has been received. Messages can be accessed remotely or wirelessly and can be viewed, heard, or both, depending on the capability of the delivery platform being used by the recipient user. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140916 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR QUEUE ROUTING - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus for queue routing. The method includes: obtaining history behavior information of a user accessing a call center system; analyzing the history behavior information, and performing queue routing on a call of the user based on an analysis result of the history behavior information. The embodiments of the present invention further disclose an apparatus for queue routing, including: an information obtaining module and a call processing module. By using the technical solutions according to the embodiments of the present invention, a dynamic queue routing mechanism is provided according to the history behavior information of the user, and thus, a more refined service manner is provided for the user and user experience is improved. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140917 | ACTIVE NOISE CANCELLATION DECISIONS USING A DEGRADED REFERENCE - Active noise cancellation (ANC) circuitry is coupled to the input of an earpiece speaker in a portable audio device, to control the ambient acoustic noise outside of the device and that may be heard by a user of the device. A microphone is to pickup sound emitted from the earpiece speaker, as well as the ambient acoustic noise. Control circuitry deactivates the ANC in response to determining that an estimate of how much sound emitted from the earpiece speaker has been corrupted by noise indicates insufficient corruption by noise. In another embodiment, the ANC decision is in response to determining that an estimate of the ambient acoustic noise level is greater than an estimate of the anti-noise produced by the ANC. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140918 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ECHO REDUCTION IN AUDIO AND VIDEO TELECOMMUNICATIONS OVER A NETWORK - A method and a system use an intermediate server to process the communication between two parties, so as to eliminate echoes between them. The server performs echo cancellation in a network-based voice communication system handling a large number of conversations. In one implementation, the server allocates two echo cancellation modules to each conversation, with each echo cancellation module including (a) a communication interface for communicating with a client program associated with the echo cancellation module; (b) a first buffer for storing audio data received from the client program for transmission to another echo cancellation module; (c) a second buffer for storing audio data received from the other echo cancellation module for transmitting to the associated client program; and (d) a set of filters using the audio data in both the first buffer and the second buffer to cancel echoes in the audio data in the second buffer. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140919 | DIGITAL CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, DIGITAL WATERMARK EMBEDDING DEVICE, DIGITAL WATERMARK DETECTION DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND DIGITAL CONTENT MANAGEMENT METHOD - A digital content management system ( | 2012-06-07 |
20120140920 | RNA-BASED CRYPTOGRAPHIC SYSTEM AND METHOD - The RNS-based cryptographic system and method uses a symmetric residue number system (RNS) for encryption and decryption of messages, i.e., the sender and receiver agree upon a set of relatively prime numbers, referred to as the basis, whose product is an integer, and both the RNS and the integer are kept secret. To break the cipher, an attacker must factor the secret integer, which is unknown to the attacker, given only the upper bound of the unknown integer, a problem referred to as blind factorization of the unknown integer, which is a computationally hard problem. The method may be combined with a discrete logarithm problem, and the ciphertext may be padded with random values to hide the upper bound of the unknown integer. When the ciphertext requires multiple blocks, subsets of the basis and/or the random number padding may be used to prevent collision attacks. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140921 | RSA-ANALOGOUS XZ-ELLIPTIC CURVE CRYPTOGRAPHY SYSTEM AND METHOD - The RSA-analogous XZ-elliptic curve cryptography system and method provides a computerized system and method that allows for the encryption of messages through elliptic polynomial cryptography and, particularly, in a manner which is analogous to RSA cryptography but which does not require multiple private keys, as in the RSA scheme. The RSA-analogous XZ-elliptic curve cryptography method is based on the integer factorization problem. It is well known that the integer factorization problem is a computationally “difficult” or “hard” problem. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140922 | Method for Generating Private Keys in Wireless Networks - The first and second nodes in a wireless network estimate first and second channel response. The first node quantizes the first channel response to produce a first bit sequence, and a feed-forward message, which is transmit as a feed-forward message to the second node. The second node quantizes the second channel response using the feed-forward message to produce and an estimate of the first bit sequence, a second bit sequence and a feed-back message, which is transmitted to the first node. Then, the first and second nodes delete bits in the respective bit sequences using the feed-back and feed-forward message to generate first and second private keys with low bit mismatch rate. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140923 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENRYPTION KEY VERSIONING AND KEY ROTATION IN A MULTI-TENANT ENVIRONMENT - Various techniques and procedures related to encryption key versioning and rotation in a multi-tenant environment are presented here. One approach employs a computer-implemented method of managing encrypted data and their associated encryption keys. In accordance with this approach, a key splitting process securely stores a master key used to encrypt tenant-level encryption keys, a key versioning process is used to securely track updated encryption keys, and a key rotation process is used to rotate encrypted data to an updated version of a tenant-level encryption key. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140924 | VIDEO INPUT DEVICE AND VIDEO DISPLAY SYSTEM - An input processing circuit decodes a digital video signal selected by an input signal selector. Decryption circuits each decrypt the encryption of a video signal output from the input processing circuit, and generate an authentication key of the encryption. A video signal selector selects and outputs one of the video signals output from the decryption circuits, to a monitor. The decryption circuits each include a pseudo-signal generation circuit which extracts information from the video signal, and based on the extracted information, generates a pseudo-video signal. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140925 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING VOICE COMMUNICATIONS RELATED TO A MULTIMEDIA SESSION - A method and apparatus for transmitting a subset voice stream associated with a subset talk group. A voice communication device receives a session identifier from an associated data communication device engaged. The voice communication device transforms the session identifier into a session key identifier, obtains an encryption algorithm implementing a subset talk group filtering feature and a voice encryption key identifier, and combines the session key identifier with the voice encryption key identifier to generate a signaling key identifier. The voice communication device associates the signaling key identifier and an encryption algorithm identifier with the subset voice stream during transmission of the subset voice stream to a receiving voice communication device. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140926 | METHOD FOR KEY UPDATE BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF COMMUNICATION IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS HAVING HIERARCHY STRUCTURE - The present invention relates to a key update method based on the amount of communication in wireless sensor networks having a hierarchy structure. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140927 | CROSS-COMPONENT MESSAGE ENCRYPTION - Often, for reasons of wireless bandwidth conservation, incomplete messages are provided to wireless messaging devices. Employing cryptography, for secrecy or authentication purposes, when including a received message that has been incompletely received can lead to lack of context on the receiver's end. By automatically obtaining the entirety of the message to be included, an outgoing message that includes the received message can be processed in a manner that securely and accurately represents the intended outgoing message. Alternatively, a server can assemble a composite message from a new message and an original message and, in cooperation with a wireless messaging device, encrypt and sign the composite message. Conveniently, security considerations are maintained even in view of bandwidth optimization measures. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140928 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXTENDING A KEY-MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL - A method and apparatus for modifying the Multimedia Internet KEYing (MIKEY) protocol to support an extended key-management message (KMM), wherein the apparatus programs a computer to perform the method, which includes: determining that a KMM is directed to a target device; determining that the KMM is an extended KMM related to a key-management operation that is not supported by the standard MIKEY protocol; signaling the extended KMM in at least one field of a MIKEY message; and sending the MIKEY message to the target device. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140929 | INTEGRATED CIRCUITS SECURE FROM INVASION AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An integrated circuit device that is secure from invasion and related methods are disclosed herein. Other embodiments are also disclosed herein. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140930 | Method for Driving Loudspeakers - A circuit for operating loudspeakers includes a first, second, third and fourth loudspeaker circuit, having one input each for injecting a signal and one output each for connecting a loudspeaker input. The loudspeaker circuits are designed to amplify the injected signal and to provide the amplified signal at the outputs thereof. The loudspeaker circuits can, for example, be used for a 2.1 sound system. The three channels for a 2.1 sound system can be implemented by an amplifier circuit with four loudspeaker circuits, one loudspeaker circuit each being required for the two stereo channels left and right. A subwoofer channel can be driven differentially by two loudspeaker circuits. The stereo channels are, by contrast, only still connected to one loudspeaker circuit each, and so the stereo channels require at least one further common ground cable. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140931 | METHODS TO MIX A MULTI-CHANNEL INTO A 3-CHANNEL SURROUND - This invention is related to audio field, providing a method to downmix multi-channel sounds into a 3-channel surround sound. This invention concerns reprocessing of encoded traditional multi-channel signals and downmixing it into a 3.1-channel signal by using the principles of signal distribution and virtualization. Its hardware can be established by adding only one rear channel speaker on the basis of the 2.1 system. When comparing with the current multi-channel systems, the present invention simplifies the connections, cuts the cost, and provides ease of installation and use, and is especially suitable for achieving surround sound effect in family flat-panel TV, 3D TV or car surround speaker, and PC multimedia surround systems. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140932 | PROTECTION CIRCUIT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME - A protection circuit includes a processing unit and a sensor. The processing unit drive a speaker to output sound. The sensor is used for detecting the temperature of the speaker, and generating an over-temperature signal when the detected temperature is higher than a predetermined temperature. The processing unit disables the speaker according to the over-temperature signal. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140933 | AIRCRAFT AUDIO PANEL - An aircraft audio panel includes a plurality of audio inputs each configured for receiving audio communications from an audio source; a plurality of audio outputs each configured for outputting the audio communications to audio equipment in the aircraft; selecting circuitry for selecting the audio communications between the audio inputs and the audio outputs; a single selector for permitting selection of one of the audio inputs or audio outputs for adjustment; and a single audio controller for permitting adjustment of an audio characteristic of the selected audio input or audio output. The audio panel may also include an audio characteristic indicator for indicating an audio characteristic of the selected audio input or audio output. The selecting circuitry may also implement a routing mode in which a user may first initiate the routing mode, then select one of the audio inputs for routing, and then select any one of the audio outputs for receiving audio communications from the selected audio input. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140934 | AIRCRAFT AUDIO PANEL ROUTING - An aircraft audio panel includes a plurality of audio inputs each configured for receiving audio communications from an audio source; a plurality of audio outputs each configured for outputting the audio communications to audio equipment in the aircraft; selecting circuitry for selecting the audio communications between the audio inputs and the audio outputs; a single selector for permitting selection of one of the audio inputs or audio outputs for adjustment; and a single audio controller for permitting adjustment of an audio characteristic of the selected audio input or audio output. The audio panel may also include an audio characteristic indicator for indicating an audio characteristic of the selected audio input or audio output. The selecting circuitry may also implement a routing mode in which a user may first initiate the routing mode, then select one of the audio inputs for routing, and then select any one of the audio outputs for receiving audio communications from the selected audio input. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140935 | Audio Fingerprint Differences for End-to-End Quality of Experience Measurement - Implementations and techniques for audio fingerprint differences for end-to-end quality of experience measurement are generally disclosed. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140936 | Systems and Methods for Monitoring Cinema Loudspeakers and Compensating for Quality Problems - Systems and processes for compensating for changes in a theatre sound system positioned in a theatre are described. A subsequent response of a loudspeaker to a test signal is captured and compared to a previously obtained signature response of the loudspeaker to the test signal. An audio signal can be processed based on the comparison to compensate for changes to loudspeaker performance, or otherwise. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140937 | Automated real speech hearing instrument adjustment system - A method for adjusting a hearing instrument to reduce feedback by placing a hearing instrument having an adjustable frequency response in a wearer's ear, providing a probe microphone for measuring the sound pressure level inside the ear and a reference microphone for measuring the sound pressure level outside the ear, exposing the ear to a stimulus and a dynamic event, determining the gain as a function of frequency from the difference in sound pressure level measured by the probe microphone and the reference microphone, identifying a feedback peak where the frequency is in the center of a range of frequencies and corresponds to the maximum gain in that range of frequencies and adjusting the hearing instrument to reduce the gain at a frequency corresponding to the frequency of the feedback peak. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140938 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AUDIO SIGNAL HAVING SOUND ENHANCEMENT EFFECT - An audio apparatus includes a decay pattern generator configured to generate a decay pattern to be applied in an early reflection region, and generate an audio signal to which a decay pattern is applied by convoluting the generated decay pattern with PCM raw data of a sound source, a reverberation generator configured to generate reverberation from the audio signal to which the decay pattern is applied, and an adder configured to generate an output signal having a sound enhancement effect by adding the PCM raw data to an output of the reverberation generator. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140939 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CANCELLING ACOUSTIC ECHO - An acoustic echo cancellation device for generating a pseudo echo signal by filtering an input remote speaker signal based on a plurality of adaptive filters and controlling the adaptive filters to filter the same based on a filter coefficient. The acoustic echo cancellation device generates an error signal by subtracting the pseudo echo signal from a nearby speaker signal, determines a convergence state of the filter coefficient based on the error signal, and sets at least one filter coefficient with a previously used value to stop the operation for calculating new values for the corresponding filter coefficients when the filter coefficient is determined to be converged. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140940 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CANCELLING ACOUSTIC ECHO - An acoustic control device for generating a pseudo echo signal by filtering an input remote speaker signal by using a plurality of adaptive filters and controlling the adaptive filters to perform filtering based on filter coefficients generates an error signal by subtracting a pseudo echo signal from an input nearby speaker signal, determines a convergence state of the filter coefficient based on the error signal, and controls the width of data input to the adaptive filter when the filter coefficient is determined to be converged | 2012-06-07 |
20120140941 | HEADSET AND HEADPHONE - There is provided a headset having at least one microphone for detecting ambient noises, at least one electroacoustic reproduction transducer and a control unit for controlling the headset. The headset also has a digital active noise reduction unit for performing digital active noise reduction based on the ambient noises recorded by the microphone. The headset further has a data interface for receiving data and/or parameters for the headset and for outputting data and/or parameters stored in the headset. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140942 | Reduced delay digital active noise cancellation - A digital active noise cancellation circuit device ( | 2012-06-07 |
20120140943 | OVERSIGHT CONTROL OF AN ADAPTIVE NOISE CANCELER IN A PERSONAL AUDIO DEVICE - A personal audio device, such as a wireless telephone, includes an adaptive noise canceling (ANC) circuit that adaptively generates an anti-noise signal from a reference microphone signal and injects the anti-noise signal into the speaker or other transducer output to cause cancellation of ambient audio sounds. An error microphone is also provided proximate the speaker to measure the ambient sounds and transducer output near the transducer, thus providing an indication of the effectiveness of the noise canceling. A processing circuit uses the reference and/or error microphone, optionally along with a microphone provided for capturing near-end speech, to determine whether the ANC circuit is incorrectly adapting or may incorrectly adapt to the instant acoustic environment and/or whether the anti-noise signal may be incorrect and/or disruptive and then take action in the processing circuit to prevent or remedy such conditions. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140944 | Audio signal processing unit and audio transmission system, in particular a microphone system - The invention concerns an audio signal processing unit including a receiving unit adapted to receive at least a first audio signal and a pilot tone signal, a first audio signal amplifier adapted to obtain at least a second audio signal from an audio signal source by way of an audio signal input, and a pilot tone signal unit adapted to obtain the received pilot tone signal. The pilot tone signal unit is adapted to output a control signal in a first state if the pilot tone signal is received, and to output the control signal in a second state if the pilot tone signal is not received. The first audio signal amplifier is adapted to process the at least second audio signal in dependence on the state of the control signal. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140945 | Audio Apparatus - Apparatus for providing different audio signals in a plurality of zones of a single enclosed space, comprising loudspeakers associated with, and positioned in, each zone to radiate an audio output, means capable of supplying a different audio signal to the loudspeakers in each zone, signal processing means comprising means for dividing the audio frequency spectrum of each audio signal into higher and lower parts, means for directing the higher frequencies radiated in their respective zones, and means for varying the phase, and delay of the lower frequencies to tend to cancel sound radiation outside their respective zones. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140946 | Wind Noise Mitigation - A method of compensating for noise in a receiver having a first receiver unit and a second receiver unit, the method includes receiving a first transmission at the first receiver unit, the first transmission having a first signal component and a first noise component; receiving a second transmission at the second receive unit, the second transmission having a second signal component and a second noise component; determining whether the first noise component and the second noise component are incoherent and; only if it is determined that the first and second noise components are incoherent, processing the first and second transmissions in a first processing path, wherein the first processing path is configured to compensate for incoherent noise. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140947 | Apparatus and method to localize multiple sound sources - An apparatus and method to localize multiple sound sources is provided. Virtual microphone signals are generated based on actual microphone signals from a microphone array including a plurality of microphones, which are arranged at intervals that may minimize space aliasing at a given sampling frequency, and sound source directions are tracked using the actual microphone signals and the virtual microphone signals. Thus, without increasing the aperture length of the microphone array, it is possible to achieve almost the same resolution as when a microphone array having a relatively long length is used. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140948 | DIRECTIONAL MICROPHONE DEVICE AND DIRECTIVITY CONTROL METHOD - A directional microphone apparatus and directivity control method that corrects a level difference and a phase difference generated in a low band in a plurality of non-directional microphone units, improve the directivity, and reduce the size are provided. Level difference calculation section ( | 2012-06-07 |
20120140949 | CONFERENCE SYSTEM FOR INDEPENDENTLY ADJUSTING AUDIO PARAMETERS - A conference system for independently adjusting audio parameters is provided, including a microphone module, a storage module, a digital signal processing module and an amplifier. When any microphone of the microphone module generates an audio signal transmitted to the digital signal processing module, the priority controller determines the priority order of the audio signals entering the digital signal processing module, the digital signal processing module will read the corresponding adjustment parameters stored in the storage module, and the volume controller, equalizer, feedback suppressor perform adjustment on the audio signal. Finally, the mixer mixes the audio signals and outputs to the amplifier. The amplifier amplifies the mixed audio signal and outputs to speakers. In this manner, a single digital signal processing module can adjust different audio signals from different microphones based on different adjustment parameters, without affecting the audio signal from other microphones. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140950 | DIFFERENTIAL MICROPHONE CIRCUIT - An apparatus for a portable electronic device for receiving a jack of a headset, the jack including a set of lines, the set of lines including at least one audio line, a ground signal and a microphone signal line, the apparatus comprising a set of switches for receiving the ground signal line and the microphone signal line and a sensing circuit for reducing induced noise from the headset, wherein the sensing circuit is located between the set of switches and the microphone signal line and ground signal line. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140951 | System and Method for Processing an Audio Signal - Systems and methods for audio signal processing are provided. In exemplary embodiments, a filter cascade of complex-valued filters are used to decompose an input audio signal into a plurality of frequency components or sub-band signals. These sub-band signals may be processed for phase alignment, amplitude compensation, and time delay prior to summation of real portions of the sub-band signals to generate a reconstructed audio signal. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140952 | AUDIO REPRODUCING APPARATUS - An audio signal processing apparatus and method for extracting components from an input signal, generating additional components, combining components, and level-controlling components. An audio signal processing apparatus may include a harmonic overtone adder and an equalizer. A harmonic overtone adder may include a high-pass filter, a low-pass filter, an harmonic overtone generator, and a combining unit. An equalizer may include a level detector and a gain controller. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140953 | MULTI-AMPLIFIER AUDIO MODULE FOR A MULTICHANNEL SPEAKER, AND MULTI-AMPLIFIER AUDIO MODULE HOUSING ASSEMBLY FOR SAME - The present invention relates to a multi-amplifier audio module for a multichannel speaker. The multi-amplifier audio module comprises a plurality of amplifier units connected to a power source and connected to each other to amplify an input audio signal. A plurality of speakers for outputting the amplified audio signal, an equalizer for adjusting the amplified audio signal for each frequency band, and a volume controller for controlling the volume of the amplified audio signal, are connected to each of the amplifier units. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140954 | ADJUSTING ACOUSTIC SPEAKER OUTPUT BASED ON AN ESTIMATED DEGREE OF SEAL OF AN EAR ABOUT A SPEAKER PORT - A degree of seal of an ear about a speaker port may be estimated by detecting touch contact between the ear and at least one touch sensor in fixed relation to the speaker port. The degree of seal is estimated based on the detected touch contact. Based upon the estimated degree of seal, the acoustic output of the speaker may be adjusted. The adjustment may compensate for perceived changes to the quality of the acoustic output resulting from the degree of seal. The at least one touch sensor may be a plurality of touch sensors spaced around the speaker port. Each sensor may have a truncated wedge shape, with a narrow end closest to the speaker port. Upon receipt of user input indicative of a high degree of ear seal, a sample of the sensor(s) may be taken and stored for using during future estimation of the degree of seal. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140955 | TOUCH INPUT BASED ADJUSTMENT OF AUDIO DEVICE SETTINGS - A computing device comprising a touch input device and a processor. The touch input device is configured to detect multiple touch point contacts. The processor is coupled to the touch device and configured to execute software instructions that process the multiple touch point contacts and, based on the multiple touch point contacts, adjust at least one audio setting of a plurality of audio output devices. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140956 | DIFFERENTIAL MICROPHONE CIRCUIT - There is provided an electret microphone comprising a junction gate-field-effect transistor (JFET) and a bias resistor connected to the JFET and supplying current to the JFET, whereby an electrical output is determined by measuring a differential voltage across the bias resistor. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140957 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING AN ACCESSSORY - A system for controlling an electronic device, including an accessory coupled to the device having a control interface for receiving at least one input and a tone generator, the accessory configured to, in response to an input, generate a corresponding control tone using the tone generator, and send the control tone and a calibration sequence to the device. The device is operable to receive the calibration sequence and control tone. The device includes a zero-crossing detector operable to determine at least one of the start or ending of each of the calibration sequence and the control tone and having a circuit operable to determine the periods of the calibration sequence and the control tone based on the zero-crossing detector output. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140958 | DRIVING CIRCUIT FOR A SOUND OUTPUTTING APPARATUS - A driving circuit for a sound outputting apparatus includes a H-bridge and a charge pump established by six switches for driving two types of loudspeakers, respectively. The six switches include two common switches to be configured in the H-bridge and the charge pump, thereby reducing the costs and circuit area of the driving circuit. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140959 | SOUND SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SOUND REPRODUCTION - A sound reproduction system comprises a left and right speakers located in close proximity, and a sound processor which provides audio signals to the pair of speakers. The sound processor preferably derives a cancellation signal from the difference between the left and right channels. The resulting difference signal is scaled, delayed (if necessary), and spectrally modified before being added to the left channel and, in opposite polarity, to the right channel. The spectral modification to the difference channel preferably takes the form of a low-frequency boost over a specified frequency range, in order to restore the correct timbral balance after the differencing process. Additional phase-compensating all-pass networks may be inserted in the difference channel to correct for any extra phase shift contributed by the spectral modifying circuit. The technique may be used in a surround sound system. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140960 | INTEGRATED SPEAKER AND HOME THEATER SOUND SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - An integrated speaker and a home theater sound system having the same are provided. The integrated speaker includes: a first speaker that is configured to stand on a floor; and a second speaker mounted to an upper end of the first speaker, wherein the second speaker is a height speaker. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140961 | Headset with Noise Plates - A headset comprises two earphones joined together by a band which can be worn over the head of a wearer. Each earphone includes a noise plate, which functions to attenuate or eliminate noise from the environment such as a tournament gaming environment. The noise plate includes an aperture through which a boom assembly that houses a microphone may engage to transmit utterances of the wearer to audio processing circuitry. A grille can be exposed when the noise plate is removed, which allows sounds produced in the ambient environment to enter the earphone. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140962 | DEACTIVATABLE HEARING DEVICE, CORRESPONDING HEARING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A HEARING SYSTEM - The hearing system ( | 2012-06-07 |
20120140963 | STORAGE SYSTEM FOR A HEARING AID - A storage system for storing a hearing aid comprises means for providing power ( | 2012-06-07 |
20120140964 | Method and hearing aid for enhancing the accuracy of sounds heard by a hearing-impaired listener - A method for enhancing the accuracy of sounds heard by a hearing-impaired listener is disclosed. The method for enhancing the accuracy of sounds heard by a hearing-impaired listener includes receiving an input sound, determining if it is necessary to modify the frequency of the input sound, and modifying the input sound into a modified input sound if necessary. The determination relies on the frequency and energy of the input sound. The ratio of the energy of lower frequencies of the modified input sound will be increased. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140965 | ADAPTIVE FEEDBACK CANCELLATION BASED ON INSERTED AND/OR INTRINSIC CHARACTERISTICS AND MATCHED RETRIEVAL - The invention relates to an audio processing system for processing an input sound to an output sound. The invention further relates to a method of estimating a feedback transfer function in an audio processing system. The object of the present invention is to provide an alternative scheme for minimizing feedback in audio processing systems. The problem is solved in that the audio processing system comprises an input transducer for converting an input sound to an electric input signal and defining an input side, an output transducer for converting a processed electric output signal to an output sound and defining an output side, a forward path being defined between the input transducer and the output transducer, and comprising a signal processing unit adapted for processing an SPU-input signal originating from the electric input signal and to provide a processed SPU-output signal, and an electric feedback loop from the output side to the input side comprising a feedback path estimation unit for estimating an acoustic feedback transfer function from the output transducer to the input transducer, and a enhancement unit for estimating noise-like signal components in the electric signal of the forward path and providing a noise signal estimate output, wherein the feedback path estimation unit is adapted to use the noise signal estimate output in the estimation of the acoustic feedback transfer function. This has the advantage of providing an adaptive feedback cancellation system which is robust in situations with a high degree of correlation between the output signal and the input signal of an audio processing system, e.g. a listening device. The invention may e.g. be used in public address systems, entertainment systems, hearing aids, head sets, mobile phones, wearable/portable communication devices, etc. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140966 | MOTOR ASSEMBLY - A transducer assembly with a U-shaped element at least a part of which forms a part of a magnet housing is disclosed. One or more magnets are attached to the magnet housing which is adapted to conduct magnetic flux from one or more magnets. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140967 | HEARING DEVICE WITH A VENT EXTENSION AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SUCH A HEARING DEVICE - The hearing device comprises an ear-piece ( | 2012-06-07 |
20120140968 | HEARING AID - A hearing aid, wherein a front sound opening and a front microphone are acoustically connected via a front sound guide path, and the front sound guide path includes a first space formed between the front microphone and the electrical connection part inside the main body case, and a second space formed between the electrical connection part and the inner wall face of the main body case. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140969 | PIEZOELECTRIC SPEAKER AND PIEZOELECTRIC SPEAKER ARRAY - A piezoelectric speaker is a piezoelectric speaker which radiates acoustic waves by vibrating according to an applied voltage, including (i) a substrate which includes a first region having first bending stiffness against bending of a plane perpendicular to a vibration direction and a second region having second bending stiffness against bending of the perpendicular plane, the second bending stiffness being different from the first bending stiffness, (ii) a first piezoelectric element which is mounted on the first region and to which a voltage of a first frequency band is applied, and (iii) a second piezoelectric element which is mounted on the second region and to which a voltage of a second frequency band different from the first frequency band is applied. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140970 | DOCKING STATION HAVING STRUCTURE FOR SOUND AMPLIFICATION AND SOUND QUALITY ENHANCEMENT - A docking station for sound amplification and sound quality enhancement is provided. The docking station includes a support structure for holding a mobile terminal having an internal speaker to sustain the posture of the mobile terminal, and a body for supporting the support structure, and for physically contacting the speaker to increase the volume of sound output from the speaker. The body includes a collecting hole for contacting the speaker to collect sound waves, and a guide hole that extends from the collecting hole through the body to the outside along an extension direction, is divided into two branches within the body to guide the collected sound waves along different paths, and has a horn shape whose cross section increases along the extension direction. Hence, the docking station can increase the volume of audible sound and sound quality without separate supply of power. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140971 | Inverse Horn Loudspeakers - In a low frequency transducer system a multi-compression chamber, an inverse horn structure is employed in combination with a resonance-distortion filter chamber. The filter chamber effectively expands the effective enclosure volume at low frequencies and connected to one of the compression chambers filter parasitic resonances and distortion and allowing the system to more efficiently reproduce low frequencies while being able to use smaller diameter transducers and maintaining good system sensitivity. Compression chambers are organized for constant or continuous compression on a section-by-section basis throughout the inverse horn system. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140972 | Dynamic Microphone - A dynamic microphone includes a vibration pickup that detects vibration of a dynamic microphone unit, and outputs a signal for cancelling vibration noise; and a microphone case that supports the microphone unit and the vibration pickup, wherein the vibration pickup includes a laminated ceramic piezoelectric element that detects vibration of a microphone unit case and outputs a signal corresponding to the detected vibration, the laminated ceramic piezoelectric element has a capacitance that defines a resonance circuit in conjunction with an inductance of an inductor, the resonance circuit producing a response signal to acceleration corresponding to that of the vibration noise, and the resonance circuit is connected such that the response signal is output in an opposite direction to the vibration noise signal. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140973 | COLLAPSIBLE HEADPHONE - A headphone that is, in one embodiment, collapsible into a fully collapsed, self-protecting form factor, and includes a headband that mechanically interconnects the two earpieces and fits around the head when worn. The headband can optionally include one or more telescoping linkages to allow it to collapse in length. The headband is attached to each of the two earpieces by two hinges in one embodiment: one hinge connects the headband to an intermediate part, which exists between an earpiece and the headband, another hinge connects the intermediate part to its corresponding earpiece. The wrapping of the headband around the two earpieces can leave no part extending outside from the structure which resembles a hockey puck in one embodiment. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140974 | PERSONAL AUDIO SET WITH ADJUSTABLE FORCE MECHANISMS - A personal audio device including a flexible headband is disclosed. The flexible headband includes a left and right headband portion. The headband has a longitudinal centerline which occupies a substantially single plane. The personal audio device also includes a left earphone, which is secured to a first end of the left headband portion, and a right earphone, which is secured to a first end of the right headband portion. A connector portion connects a second end of the left headband portion with a second end of the right headband portion. The connector portion is linearly adjustable, which enables a distance between the left headband portion and right headband portion to be variable. A change in the distance causes an inversely proportional change in bent compression force applied by a left earphone and applied by the right earphone. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140975 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING PERFORMANCE OF A MULTI-TRANSDUCER EARPIECE AND A MULTI-TRANSDUCER EARPIECE - There is provided a method for optimizing performance of a multi-transducer earpiece, where the multi-transducer earpiece includes a perpendicular flange that partitions the cross sectional area of the acoustic delivery channel in a manner where mixing of signals from both the high frequency transducer and the mid/low frequency transducer is carried out in the ear canal of a user during reproduction of audio signals. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140976 | Earphone System Comprising An Earphone And A Portable Holding Device - An earphone system ( | 2012-06-07 |
20120140977 | SPEAKER UNIT - A speaker unit includes a frame that secures a diaphragm of a speaker at an outer circumference of the diaphragm, a magnetic circuit, a first leg that extends from a portion of an inner wall of the frame in a vicinity of a front of the speaker to the magnetic circuit, and that secures the magnetic circuit to the frame, and a second leg that extends from a portion of the inner wall of the frame in a vicinity of a rear of the speaker to the magnetic circuit, and that secures the magnetic circuit to the frame. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140978 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image processing apparatus includes an image receiver which receives an image content; an image processor which processes the image content received by the image receiver to be displayed on a display unit; a watermark detector which detects whether the image content processed by the image processor includes a watermark image; and a controller which controls the image processor to selectively limit display of the image content corresponding to whether the watermark image is detected in the image content by the watermark detector. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140979 | WORD RECOGNITION APPARATUS, WORD RECOGNITION METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING WORD RECOGNITION PROGRAM, AND DELIVERY ITEM SORTING APPARATUS - To improve the recognition accuracy even when a plurality of words including a matched portion are selected as candidates for recognition. A word recognition apparatus according to the present invention includes input means for inputting a word image representing a plurality of characters; word candidate selection means for recognizing the word image input by the input means and selecting a first word candidate and a second word candidate based on a plurality of words registered in a word dictionary; and verification means for comparing the first word candidate and the second word candidate character by character and verifying a likelihood of the first word candidate based on an evaluation value obtained when the word image is recognized by characters determined as unmatched. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140980 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, SORTER, AND PROGRAM - An image processing device of the present invention is an image processing device that reads an address of a piece of mail, comprising: a storage section that correlatively stores image data of the piece of mail containing an address region in which the address of said piece of mail is present and region data that represent a position of said address region of the piece of mail; an obtaining section that obtains image data of said piece of mail; a search section that searches said storage section for image data that match the image data obtained by said obtaining section with respect to regions other than said address region; an extraction section that extracts a region represented by region data correlated with image data retrieved by said search section as an address region of said piece of mail from the image data obtained by said obtaining section; and a read section that reads an address from the address region extracted by said extraction section. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140981 | System and Method for Combining Visible and Hyperspectral Imaging with Pattern Recognition Techniques for Improved Detection of Threats - Systems and method for detecting unknown samples wherein pattern recognition algorithms are applied to a visible image of a first target area comprising a first unknown sample to thereby generate a first set of target data. If comparison of the first set of target data to reference data results in a match, the first unknown is identified and a hyperspectral image of a second target area comprising a second unknown sample is obtained to generate a second set of test data. If comparison of the second set of test data to reference data results in a match, the second unknown sample is identified as a known material. Identification of an unknown through hyperspectral imaging can also trigger the visible camera to obtain an image. In addition, the visible and hyperspectral cameras can be run continuously to simultaneously obtain visible and hyperspectral images. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140982 | IMAGE SEARCH APPARATUS AND IMAGE SEARCH METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image search apparatus includes, an image input module which is input with an image, an event detection module which detects events from the input image input by the image input module, and determines levels, depending on types of the detected events, an event controlling module which retains the events detected by the event detection module, for each of the levels, and an output module which outputs the events retained by the event controlling module, for each of the levels. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140983 | METHOD FOR DETECTION OF SPECIMEN REGION, APPARATUS FOR DETECTION OF SPECIMEN REGION, AND PROGRAM FOR DETECTION OF SPECIMEN REGION - A method for detecting the specimen region includes the first step for the first region detecting unit to detect the first region which is a region with contrast in the first image of an object for observation which is photographed under illumination with visible light, the second step for the second region detecting unit to detect the second region which is a region with contrast in the second image of the object for observation which is photographed under illumination with ultraviolet light, and the third step for the specimen region defining unit to define, based on the first and second regions mentioned above, the specimen region where there exists the specimen in the object for observation. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140984 | DRIVING SUPPORT SYSTEM, DRIVING SUPPORT PROGRAM, AND DRIVING SUPPORT METHOD - Provided is a driving support system that includes an image recognition unit that performs image recognition processing to recognize if a recognition object associated with any of the support processes is included in image data captured by an on-vehicle camera and a recognition area information storage unit that stores information regarding a set recognition area in the image data that is set depending on a recognition accuracy of the recognition object set for execution of the support process. A candidate process extraction unit is also included for extracting at least one execution candidate support process from the plurality of support processes and a support process execution management unit that allows execution of the extracted execution candidate support process on a condition that a position in the image data of the recognition object recognized by the image recognition processing is included in the set recognition area. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140985 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A parameter for each of a plurality of images captured in time series is computed based on information obtained from the image, and a normal reference image (an image captured before an image targeted for processing is stored). A degree of similarity between the image targeted for processing and the normal reference image is computed, and a parameter to be used in image processing applied to the image targeted for processing is computed by performing weighted addition such that a parameter computed from the normal reference image has a higher weight than a parameter computed from the image targeted for processing the higher the degree of similarity. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140986 | PROVIDING IMAGE DATA - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of providing image data for constructing an image of a region of a target object, comprising providing incident radiation from a radiation source at a target object, detecting, by at least one detector, a portion of radiation scattered by the target object with the incident radiation or an aperture at first and second positions, and providing image data via an iterative process responsive to the detected radiation, wherein in said iterative process image data is provided corresponding to a portion of radiation scattered by the target object and not detected by the detector. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140987 | Methods and Systems for Discovering Styles Via Color and Pattern Co-Occurrence - Methods and systems for discovering styles via color and pattern co-occurrence are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises collecting a set of fashion images, selecting at least one subset within the set of fashion images, the subset comprising at least one image containing a fashion item, and computing a set of segments by segmenting the at least one image into at least one dress segment. Color and pattern representations of the set of segments are computed by using a color analysis method and a pattern analysis method respectively. A graph is created wherein each graph node corresponds to one of a color representation or a pattern representation computed for the set of segments. Weights of edges between nodes of the graph indicate a degree of how the corresponding colors or patterns complement each other in a fashion sense. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140988 | OBSTACLE DETECTION DEVICE AND METHOD AND OBSTACLE DETECTION SYSTEM - An obstacle region candidate point relating unit assumes that a pixel in an image corresponds to a point on a road surface, and associates pixels between images at two times on the basis of the amount of movement of a vehicle in question, a road plane, and a flow of the image estimated. When a pixel corresponds to a shadow of the vehicle in question or the moving object therearound appearing on the road surface, the ratio of intensities of the pixel values of the spectral images between two images should be approximately the same as the ratio of the spectral characteristics of the sunshine in the sun and the shade. Therefore, when the ratio of intensities is approximately the same as the ratio of the spectral characteristics, the obstacle determining unit does not determine that the pixel in question is a point corresponding to the obstacle. Only when the ratio of intensities is not approximately the same as the ratio of the spectral characteristics, the obstacle determining unit determines that the pixel in question is a point corresponding to the obstacle. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140989 | ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MEASURING OBJECT - An endoscope apparatus including: an image pickup portion that picks up an image of an object; and a measurement portion that measures the object based on the image of the object obtained by the image pickup portion, in which the measurement portion includes: a specification portion that specifies three base points on the image; a composing point calculation portion that calculates composing points forming an object region of the object, based on an image region that is based on a plurality of points, the points set on a line determined by the three base points that are specified by the specification portion; and a size calculation portion that calculates a size of the object based on the composing points. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140990 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED TRUE OBJECT-BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS AND RETRIEVAL - An automated and extensible system for analysis and retrieval of images based on region-of-interest (ROI) analysis of one or more true objects depicted by an image is provided. The system uses an database that is a relational or analytical database containing searchable vectors that represent the images stored in a repository. Entries in the database are created by an image locator and ROI classifier working together to locate images within the repository and extract relevant information to be stored in the ROI database. The ROI classifier analyzes objects in an image to arrive at actual features of the true object. Graphical searches are performed by the collaborative workings of an image retrieval module, an image search requestor and an ROI query module. The image search requestor is an abstraction layer that translates user or agent search requests into the language understood by the ROI query. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140991 | FLUORESCENCE OBSERVATION APPARATUS - A fluorescence observation apparatus includes an image storage unit for storing a plurality of pairs of bright-field images and fluorescence images of a small laboratory animal in such a manner that relative positions thereof are aligned; a display unit for displaying the plurality of fluorescence images stored in the image storage unit so as to be arrayed in at least one direction; an outline extracting unit for extracting an outline shape of the small laboratory animal in each bright-field image; and an image-position adjusting unit for adjusting a display position of each associated fluorescence image so that the outline shapes of the small laboratory animal extracted by the outline extracting unit are aligned with each other in a direction orthogonal to the arrayed direction. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140992 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-COOPERATIVE IRIS RECOGNITION - A method processes segmented iris images obtained by a non-cooperative image acquisition system to generate descriptors for features in the segmented iris image that are tolerant of segmentation error. The method includes receiving a segmented iris image, and selecting feature points in the segmented iris image to describe an iris locally. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140993 | SECURE BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION FROM AN INSECURE DEVICE - Biometric authentication is enhanced by prompting an individual to perform an action challenge. For example, when an individual provides a facial picture for facial recognition to access secure data the individual may be prompted to provide a second picture of the individual performing an action. In one case, the individual is prompted to provide a second picture with an eye closed or an open mouth. The action challenge improves security by preventing attackers from spoofing an individual's biometric information. The enhanced biometric authentication may be used on mobile devices, such as mobile phones and laptop computers, to provide access to secure data, such as bank account information. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140994 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus comprises a face detection unit configured to periodically perform face detection processing of detecting a face area of a person from an image; an authentication unit configured to periodically perform personal authentication processing for the detected face area; and a calculation unit configured to calculate a determination criterion to select a face area as a target of the personal authentication processing from the detected face areas, wherein the authentication unit performs the personal authentication processing at a cycle longer than that of the face detection processing, and when the face detection unit detects the face areas from a plurality of images, selects a face area complying with the determination criterion calculated by the calculation unit from the face areas of the plurality of images as the target of the personal authentication processing. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140995 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication terminal may include a processing unit that includes information identifying another communication terminal as path information in data when the data is directly transmitted from its own communication terminal to the other communication terminal, and a transmitting unit that directly transmits the data in which the path information is included by the processing unit to the other communication terminal. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140996 | STRIPED PATTERN IMAGE EXAMINATION SUPPORT DEVICE, STRIPED PATTERN IMAGE EXAMINATION SUPPORT METHOD AND PROGRAM - Provided are a striped pattern image examination support device, method, and program. The device includes: image transformation element for transforming at least one of two striped pattern images so as to cause coordinates of charting points, which are points that correspond across the two striped pattern images, to match in a plurality of pairs of the charting points which are included in the two striped pattern images; intersecting point extraction element for calculating coordinates of intersecting points of stripes in the striped pattern images and line segments each of which connects two of the charting points in the striped pattern images; charting diagram display element for displaying the two striped pattern images after transformation by the image transformation element, and displaying figures representing charting points at positions corresponding to coordinates after the transformations of each of the charting points on the two striped pattern images. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140997 | Tools for automatic colonic centerline extraction - A method for extracting a colonic centerline includes segmenting a colon from a digital image of a patient's abdomen, selecting one extreme point of the colon as a source point, calculating a first distance transform of every point in the colon that is a distance of a point to the source point, and calculating a second distance transform of every point in the colon, that is a shortest distance of a point to a wall point of the colon. A centerline path is generated through the colon using the first and second distance transforms, starting from a point with a greatest distance to the source point as determined by the first distance transform, and adding points to the centerline path by selecting points with a greatest distance to the source point that are farthest from the wall of the colon using the second distance transform. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140998 | Deformable Motion Correction for Stent Visibility Enhancement - A method for enhancing stent visibility includes acquiring a set of image frames including multiple test frames. A set of measurement points uniformly distributed within an image of a stent is defined in the test frames. A local image context is defined around each measurement point. A non-rigid deformation field relating the local image contexts of the test frames to local image contexts of a reference image is calculated. The non-rigid deformation field is optimized by maximizing a similarity function between the local image contexts of the test frames and the local image contexts of the reference image. The optimized non-rigid deformation field is used to deform images of a stent in the multiple test frames and combine the non-rigidly deformed images of the stent from the test frames. An image frame with the combined image of the stents superimposed thereon is displayed. | 2012-06-07 |
20120140999 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is an image processing method, including: comparing a first low-magnification image as a low-magnification image of a first observation object, and a second low-magnification image of a second observation object similar to the first observation object with each other by an image comparing portion, thereby obtaining a difference between a position of the first observation object in the first low-magnification image, and a position of the second observation object in the second low-magnification image; and displaying a first high-magnification image as a high-magnification image of the first observation object, and a second high-magnification image as a high-magnification image of the second observation object in conjunction with each other in accordance with the difference on a display device by an image displaying portion. | 2012-06-07 |
20120141000 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMAGE ANALYSIS - A method of image analysis, includes: obtaining a sequence ( | 2012-06-07 |
20120141001 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRIANGULAR INTERPOLATION IN IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION FOR PET - A method of interpolating positron emission tomography (PET) data for reconstructing a PET image, including acquiring PET event data, which was obtained by scanning an object using a PET scanner; generating a two-dimensional line-of-response (LOR) sinogram from the acquired PET event data; determining a plurality of triangles connecting sampling points within the LOR sinogram, wherein adjacent sampling points are connected horizontally row-by-row within the LOR sinogram to determine the plurality of triangles; and determining a uniformly sampled sinogram from the LOR sinogram using the determined plurality of triangles. | 2012-06-07 |