35th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 70 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130226494 | Digital Filter for Digital Weigher, Digital Weigher Including Digital Filter for Digital Weigher and Wave Filtering Process Method - A digital filter for a digital weigher reduces a calculation time in an adapted filter while maintaining weighing accuracy, a digital weigher includes the filter for the weigher, and a wave filtering process method uses the digital filter for the digital weigher. A fixation section of a FIR filter removes an oscillating component in a predetermined frequency range, from a digital weighing signal. A determination device determines whether an amplitude of an oscillating component contained in a digital weighing signal derived by performing a wave filtering process falls within a predetermined damping range. A control device changes a frequency range of an oscillating component to be removed by an adaptive section of the filter based on a result of the determination. The adaptive section of the filter performs the wave filtering process with respect to the oscillating component in the frequency range changed by the control device. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226495 | Method and Apparatus for Adaptive Display Calibration - A calibration system may be provided for calibrating displays in electronic devices during manufacturing. The calibration system may include calibration computing equipment and a test chamber having a light sensor. The calibration computing equipment may be configured to operate the light sensor and the display to gather display performance data. The calibration computing equipment may extract display performance statistics from the display performance data and adaptively select and perform display calibration sequences using the display performance statistics. The calibration computing equipment may be configured to determine whether or not to perform display calibration and whether or not to gather additional display performance data based on display performance statistics extracted during a preceding display calibration sequence. The calibration computing equipment may be configured to iteratively and adaptively perform display calibration sequences until a display is successfully calibrated. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226496 | PRECISE CALIBRATION OF ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS - A system for precise calibration of electronic components is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, an apparatus for calibrating a tunable component on an integrated circuit chip includes an on-chip reference component configured to generate a first on-chip reference level, an on-chip connector configured to couple to an external test unit component to generate a second on-chip reference level, and an on-chip memory configured to store at least one error adjustment parameter determined from a difference between the first on-chip reference level and the second on-chip reference level, and wherein the at least one error adjustment parameter is configured to calibrate the tunable component to a desired value. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226497 | DETERMINATION OF STEPPER MOTOR POSITION VIA DIGITAL DATA ACQUISITION - A method for evaluating a gauge controller is disclosed. The method includes counting a number of high pulses for a plurality of signal types until either each of the control signals present low signals. After the number of high signals are counted, an angular offset of a gauged needle is calculated. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226498 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC FAULT DETECTION - Techniques and mechanisms are provided to monitor signals including critical signals at the endpoints, or leaves, of one or more signal trees in an integrated circuit device. Sensors or layers of sensors may be configured in fault detection circuitry to monitor signals and compare them to static or dynamically varying values. The fault detection circuits may include OR-gate daisy chains that output a fault detection signal to control circuitry if any signal at a particular leaf deviates from an expected signal. Fault detection circuits may also be configured to identify instances where two or more or N or more signals deviate from an expected signal. Mechanisms may also be provided to assure the reliability of fault detection circuitry itself. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226499 | CIRCUIT TEST SYSTEM AND METHOD USING A WIDEBAND MULTI-TONE TEST SIGNAL - Disclosed are a testing system and method incorporating a test signal generator for generating a test signal with multiple tones uniformly distributed across a wideband having a specific bandwidth. This test signal is generated based on user-specified test signal parameter(s) (e.g., using an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) spread spectrum technique) and processed (e.g., converted from digital to analog or shifted to a different wideband having the same bandwidth), as necessary, so that it is suitable for application to a specific device under test and so that the tones account for the full range of frequencies with the wideband operation of that device under test. After it is applied to the device under test, the resulting output signal is captured, processed (e.g., converted back to digital or shifted back to the initial wideband), as necessary, and analyzed in order to determine the frequency responses associated with each of the tones. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226500 | DETERMINATION OF VALIDITY OF BI-LEVEL DIGITAL SIGNAL VIA DIGITAL DATA ACQUISITION - A system for testing the output of a digital gauge controller is disclosed. The system is configured to receive a multi-component digital signal and test if a plurality of thresholds are reached for individual components of the digital signal. If a first expected level is met, the system then determines if a second component of the multi-component signal meets a second expected level. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226501 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING ABNORMAL TEMPERATURE OF A SERVER ROOM USING HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL - The invention relates to a system and method for predicting abnormal temperature of a server room using Hidden Markov model. This invention involves capturing the real temperature value at a given point of time through sensors and determining that the temperature patterns follow the Normal Distribution. Then the Hidden Markov model is designed that works on the Normal Distributed data to help in predicting the future temperature with some probability. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226502 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING CHANGES IN THE EFFICIENCY OF AN HVAC SYSTEM - The invention comprises systems and methods for evaluating changes in the operational efficiency of an HVAC system over time. The climate control system obtains temperature measurements from at least a first location conditioned by the climate system, and status of said HVAC system. One or more processors receives measurements of outside temperatures from at least one source other than said HVAC system and compares said temperature measurements from said first location with expected temperature measurements. The expected temperature measurements are based at least in part upon past temperature measurements. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226503 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING THE HEAT LOSS COEFFICIENT OF A PREMISES - A method determining heat loss coefficient K of a premises, includes: in unoccupied premises, performing a campaign of measurements of at least one temperature inside the premises T | 2013-08-29 |
20130226504 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FILTERING PRESSURE DATA FROM A PRESSURE-SENSITIVE DEVICE - A method and apparatus for filtering pressure data from a pressure-sensitive device is disclosed. A computer implemented method for filtering pressure data from a pressure-sensitive device comprises receiving, from a pressure sensitive device, a raw pressure value for a stroke, filtering the raw pressure value for the stroke to determine a filtered pressure value, and computing a width of a stroke based on the filtered pressure value. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226505 | Dual Accelerometer Plus Magnetometer Body Rotation Rate Sensor-Gyrometer - A computer-system implemented method for determining gyroscopic rotation data, implemented on a computer system programmed to perform the method includes determining in one or more accelerometers of the computer system, accelerometer data in response to a physical manipulation of the computer system, determining in a magnetometer of the computer system, magnetometer data in response to the physical manipulation of the computer system, and determining in the processor of the computer system, a gyroscopic rotation of the computer system in response to the accelerometer data and to the magnetometer data. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226506 | Physical Quantity Detection Device, And Network System - An object is to provide a physical quantity detection device capable of reducing a communication load for transmitting a sensor detection result, and also, of reducing a processing load of a receiving device receiving the sensor detection result. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226507 | DIGITAL DISPLACEMENT MEASURING INSTRUMENT - A digital displacement measuring instrument includes: a body; a spindle; an encoder; a display; a speed information detector that detects a moving speed of the spindle; a judging unit that judges whether or not the spindle is stopped based on the moving speed detected by the speed information detector and, when the judging unit judges that the spindle is stopped, judges whether or not the moving speed of the spindle just before the spindle is stopped exceeds a predetermined threshold; and a notifying unit that notifies a judgment result provided by the judging unit. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226508 | VELOCITY DETERMINATION APPARATUS - The invention relates to a velocity determination apparatus ( | 2013-08-29 |
20130226509 | Depth Sensing Using Active Coherent Signals - Reflectors in a scene are reconstructed using reflected signals. First, signals are transmitted to the scene, and the reflected signals are received by receivers are arranged in an array. The reflected signals are then processed to reconstruct the reflectors in the scene, wherein the processing enforces a model that a reflectivity of the scene in front and behind any reflector is equal to zero. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226510 | ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION TYPE POSITION DETECTOR - A control unit of a linear scale includes: excitation current supplying means for causing excitation currents each having two different angular frequencies to flow through slider coils; sampling means for sampling induced voltage V induced in a scale coil, at a timing of t=(2j+1)π/(2ω) (j: an integer); position detecting means for calculating Va(j) which is a sum of samples of the induced voltage at multiple sampling points, calculating an excitation position α at which the Va(j) is equal to 0, and setting the α as a detected position X; and abnormality detecting means for calculating Vb(j) which is a sum of absolute values of the induced voltage at multiple sampling points, comparing the Vb(j) with a threshold value, and determining that the electromagnetic induction type position detector is in an abnormal state when the Vb(j) is equal to or lower than the threshold value. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226511 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR LOCATING AND TRACKING OBJECTS - A system for locating and tracking an object is provided. The system includes a measuring device configured to determine a property of a paving-related material, a locating device configured to determine a location of the measuring device, a tracking system configured to store tracking information associated with the measuring device and one or more properties determined by the measuring device, and a communications system configured to transfer, to a remote device, the location of the measuring device and the tracking information associated with the measuring device. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226512 | MAGNETO-INDUCTIVE POSITIONING USING A ROTATING MAGNETIC FIELD - A method and system for locating the position of a source that emits a rotating magnetic field. Three or more receivers are deployed or positioned in known position relative to each other, which may be along a common axis in some cases. Phase differences between the magnetic fields measured by the receivers are detected. The phase shifts are used to determine the location of the source. With three receivers, a range and bearing angle relative to a middle receiver may be determined. With five or more receivers, a range and two bearing angles may be determined, thereby providing a three-dimensional position. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226513 | NORMAL-LINE DETECTION METHOD, NORMAL-LINE DETECTION DEVICE, AND MACHINE TOOL HAVING NORMAL-LINE DETECTION FUNCTION - A method for finding the normal vector of a measurement surface of a measurement target measures distances to the measurement target using at least one distance detector and calculates the normal vector. The normal vector is found by calculating the exterior product of a first vector which connects a first measurement point and a second measurement point and a second vector which connects a third measurement point and a fourth measurement point and is shifted in parallel such that an end thereof is set at any one of the first and second measurement points. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226514 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) POSITION AND DIRECTION PRECISELY - A system, apparatus, and method for precisely estimating a three-dimensional (3D) position and a direction. The 3D position and direction estimation apparatus may estimate a distance between at least one receiver and at least one transmitter and a direction of a remote device, based on intensity information of a signal measured at the at least one receiver, may sequentially select the minimum number of intensity information for estimating the 3D position and the direction of the remote device, in a descending order of robustness against noise, based on the estimated distance and direction of the remote device, and may precisely estimate the 3D position and the direction of the remote device based on the selected intensity information. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226515 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATION OF BUILDING WALL AREA AND PRODUCING A WALL ESTIMATION REPORT - A wall area estimation system generates an estimated wall area measurement report of a building. Included in the wall area measurement estimate report are multiple line drawings of a building having a roof. Two of the multiple line drawings are perspective views from an angle of view above the building. A first of the perspective views is substantially centered on a first substantially vertical exterior corner of the house that is approximately opposite of a second substantially vertical exterior corner of the house on which a second of the perspective views is substantially centered. The first and second of the perspective views include a line drawing of the roof that is transparent or translucent to show interior surfaces of the walls of the building in the first and second of the perspective views. The walls of the interior surfaces shown are shaded darker than the walls of the exterior. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226516 | MAGNETIC FIELD INTENSITY CONVERSION DEVICE AND METHOD - Disclosed is a magnetic field intensity conversion method in a magnetic field intensity conversion device configured to convert and output magnetic field intensity for each distance from a magnetic field source, and the method includes: receiving a reference distance and a target distance from the magnetic field source through an input unit; primarily comparing the reference distance with a critical value calculated in accordance with the wavelength of an electromagnetic wave, in a control unit; secondarily comparing the target distance with the critical distance, in the control unit; and calculating conversion magnetic field intensity by converting reference magnetic field intensity prescribed for the reference distance into magnetic field intensity at the target distance, on the basis of the comparing results in the primary comparing and the secondary comparing, in the control unit. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226517 | Method of Testing Moisture Retention of Tobacco - The present invention provides a method of testing moisture retention of tobacco in which dynamic rules on moisture desorption of the cut tobacco in a dry environment are investigated by using a dynamic vapor sorption system and has found that a dry basis moisture content at an earlier stage of moisture desorption of the cut tobacco has a preferred linear correlation with a square root of time. A linear fitting for t | 2013-08-29 |
20130226518 | BLADE TIP TIMING UNCERTAINTY - A method of determining blade tip timing measurement uncertainty comprising measuring time of arrival of each of a set of blades at each of a reference set of stationary probes. A reference blade tip parameter is derived from the measurements and the position of each of the probes. A reference condition number is calculated from the position of each of the probes and each targeted engine order, and then a mean calculated. Combinations of fewer probes are determined. For each combination, a condition number is calculated and then a mean condition number is calculated. The combination means are ordered relative to the reference mean and a predetermined number of combinations are selected. A blade tip parameter is derived for the selected combinations. Finally uncertainty of the blade tip parameter for each selected combination is calculated as a percentage of the reference blade tip parameter. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226519 | OUTLIER DETECTION TOOL - A test results screening tool allows capture of test item and test results data and provides a reviewer with a robust set of tools for entering screening criteria and display of test results by both test subject and test center. The tool includes parametrically sets flags for unwanted testing behaviors including test item harvesting, test subjects with pre-knowledge of the test subject matter, and proxy test takers for some a portion of a test. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226520 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATED PERFORMANCE TEST EXECUTION - A mechanism for automated performance test execution is disclosed. A method includes generating, by a computing device at periodic intervals, actual values of a performance test of a tested system. The method also includes computing a current value based on the generated actual values and computing a difference between the current value and another current value associated with a prior time. The another current value associated with the prior time is computed based on the generated actual values of the performance test at the prior time. When the computed difference is greater than a pre-determined threshold, the method further includes detecting a beginning of a warm-up period of the tested system. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226521 | PARTICLE SIZE BREAKUP DEVICE AND ITS PERFORMANCE ESTIMATION METHOD AND SCALE UP METHOD - Herein is disclosed a comprehensive mixer performance estimation method that can be applied to the mixers of the rotor-stator type having various configurations and circulation systems. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226522 | RUBBER PRODUCT ELASTIC RESPONSE PERFORMANCE PREDICTION METHOD, DESIGN METHOD, AND ELASTIC RESPONSE PERFORMANCE PREDICTION APPARATUS - An elastic response performance prediction method that employs a finite element analysis method to predict an elastic response performance expressing deformation behavior of a rubber product. The elastic response performance of the rubber product is predicted by employing a constitutive equation that expresses temperature and strain dependence of strain energy in the rubber product, and that incorporates a number of links between cross-linked points in a statistical molecule chain, which is expressed using a parameter representing extension crystallization. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226523 | Methods, System, and Computer-Readable Media for Facility Integrity Testing - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide for facility integrity testing. According to embodiments, a method for populating a watch list with circuits of a communications network to be monitored for repeat failures is provided. According to the method, a trouble ticket associated with one of the circuits and a trouble code and analysis code (TC/AC) combination associated with the trouble ticket is retrieved. Whether the trouble ticket meets a watch list criterion is determined. In response to determining that the trouble ticket meets the watch list criterion, the trouble ticket and the TC/AC combination are added to the watch list. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226524 | ADAPTIVE MINIUMUM VARIANCE CONTROL SYSTEM WITH EMBEDDED DIAGNOSTIC FEATURE - Systems and methods perform a first monitoring of a printing engine to produce first data; match a disturbance model that empirically describes types of color variation in a print process to the first data; generate a minimum variance control system based on the identified parameters of the disturbance model. The systems/methods infer a benchmark performance level the minimum variance control system achieves using the disturbance model; adjust operating parameters of a controller of the printing engine to match parameters of the minimum variance control system; perform a second monitoring of the printing engine to produce second data; determine a difference value between the benchmark performance level and the second data. If the difference value is above a first value and below a second value, the process is repeated. If the difference value is above the first value and the second value, an indication that the printing engine needs servicing is provided. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226525 | Determining Sustainability Of A Data Center - Determining a sustainability impact for available data center architectures. A data center is accessed by a computer. Two or more functional parameters of the data center are then evaluated by the computer. Then, the computer combines the two or more evaluated functional parameters into a quantified judgment to determine a sustainability impact of available architectures of the data center. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226526 | Automated Performance Data Management and Collection - Performance data for a healthy system is captured and used to create benchmarks that represent behavior of the computing environment in a healthy state. Current behavior (e.g, run-time characteristics) of the computing environment are monitored in an on-going manner, and are compared to the benchmarks. When a benchmark is violated, performance data capture is dynamically and automatically enabled. Or, if performance data is already being captured, then performance data capture may be enabled for a larger subset of possible data. Optionally, performance data capture may be automatically disabled upon detecting that the current behavior of the computing environment has returned to a healthy state where benchmarks are no longer violated. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226527 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS BASED ON ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENTS - A system and method for determining physiological parameters based on electrical impedance measurements is provided. One method includes obtaining electrical measurement signals acquired from a plurality of transducers coupled to a surface of an object and spatially pre-conditioning the obtained electrical measurement signals. The method also includes performing multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) analog to information conversion (AIC) of the spatially pre-conditioned electrical measurement signals to correlate the spatially pre-conditioned electrical measurement signals to separate the electrical measurement signals. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226528 | PERCEPTUALLY GUIDED CAPTURE AND STYLIZATION OF 3D HUMAN FIGURES - One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for generating a three-dimensional (3D) model of an individual. The technique involves receiving pose data that includes image data associated with the individual being in a pose, selecting from a database a morphable 3D generic human model based on a gender of the individual, adjusting a pose of the morphable 3D generic model based on the image data, identifying, based on the image data, one or more 3D appearance parameter objects included in the database, and adjusting via one or more processors one or more properties of the morphable 3D generic model based on the image data as well as the one or more 3D appearance parameter objects to produce the 3D model of the individual. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226529 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DESIGNING AN ASSEMBLY OF OBJECTS IN A SYSTEM OF COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN - A computer-implemented method and apparatus of designing an assembly of objects in a system of computer-aided design. The method/apparatus provides a three-dimensional geometrical modeled object comprising at least one three-dimensional geometrical element; provides a logical modeled object comprising at least one logical component; and associates sets of at least one three-dimensional geometrical element with respective sets of at least one logical component. The method/apparatus display in a three-dimensional scene, a representation of a set of at least one logical component partially superimposed on the corresponding associated set of at least one three-dimensional geometrical element. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226530 | MESH GENERATION SYSTEM - Generation of a mesh model that can be analyzed with sufficient analysis accuracy for result evaluation and within a minimum possible calculation time even if a user does not grasp a tradeoff relation between analysis accuracy and analysis time due to mesh size is made possible. A mesh generation system designates an evaluation point (site) on an analysis target shape, analyzes plural analysis model data created with plural types of mesh size, stores a relation among mesh size, analysis result and calculation time in a mesh know-how DB, search for a mesh size which meets a required accuracy and calculation time limit, sets the mesh size that is found by the search to an analysis model. And displays the relation among mesh size, analysis result and calculation time. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226531 | DESIGNING WIRING HARNESSES - A method of designing a wiring harness using a wiring harness design tool can include allowing a first user to access and edit a first wiring harness design component in a wiring harness design workspace, allowing a second user to access and edit a second wiring harness design component in the wiring harness design workspace at least during a portion of the time that the first user is allowed to access and edit the first wiring harness design component, and displaying the first and second wiring harness design components to the first and second users during at least a portion of the time that access is allowed to the first and second users. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226532 | COMPUTER VISION CAD MODEL - The CV-CAD (computer vision-computer-aided design) model is an enhanced CAD (computer-aided design) model that integrates local and global computer vision data in order to represent an object not only geometrically but also in terms of computer vision. The CV-CAD model provides a scalable solution for intelligent and automatic object recognition, tracking and augmentation based on generic models of objects. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226533 | METHOD FOR CREATING A DESIGN FOR A REPLACEABLE FAIRING - A fairing can be attached to a prosthetic limb or over a brace to alter the appearance of the prosthetic limb or brace. The outer surface of the prosthetic limb can be a mirror image of an intact limb and the outer surface of the brace can have an outer surface that corresponds to an injured limb. Because the fairing fits closely around the prosthetic limb or brace, the interior surface of the fairing has a surface that corresponds to a mirror image of an intact limb or an outer surface of an injured limb. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226534 | DESIGNING A VIRTUAL PREPARATION AND A VIRTUAL GINGIVAL - This invention generally relates to a system and a method of designing a dental component for a region on a patient's set of teeth. More particularly, the invention relates to obtaining a digital 3D representation of at least the region of the patient's set of teeth, where the digital 3D representation is based on a 3D scan. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226535 | CONCURRENT SIMULATION SYSTEM USING GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNITS (GPU) AND METHOD THEREOF - A concurrent circuit simulation system simulate analog and mixed mode circuit using by exploiting parallel execution in one or more graphic processing units. In one implementation, the concurrent circuit simulation system includes a general purpose central processing unit (CPU), a main memory, simulation software and one or more graphic processing units (GPUs). Each GPU may contain hundreds of processor cores and several GPUs can be used together to provide thousands of processor cores. Software running on the CPU partitions the computation tasks into tens of thousands of smaller units and invoke the process threads in the GPU to carry out the computation tasks. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226536 | DYNAMICALLY DETERMINING NUMBER OF SIMULATIONS REQUIRED FOR CHARACTERIZING INTRA-CIRCUIT INCONGRUENT VARIATIONS - A method is disclosed comprising using a circuit recognition engine running on a computerized device to detect a number and type devices in an integrated circuit. The method characterizes device variation by selecting a set of dominant active devices and performing simulation using the set of dominant active devices. Three different options may be used to optimize the number of simulations for any arc/slew/load combination. Aggressive reduction uses a minimal number of simulations at the cost of some accuracy loss, conservative reduction reduces the number of simulations with negligible accuracy loss, and dynamic reduction dynamically determines the minimum number of simulations needed for a given accuracy requirement. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226537 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ONE LAYER SOLAR RADIATION MODEL FOR CALCULATION OF INSOLATION - A method of providing a one layer solar radiation model for calculation of insolation includes: calculating direct solar radiation at a selected position, based on extraterrestrial radiation, eccentricity of the earth from the sun, and transmittance of gases in the atmosphere; calculating final diffuse solar radiation at the selected position, by using diffuse solar radiation due to air molecules, diffuse solar radiation due to aerosol, and multi-diffuse solar radiation with the atmosphere and the surface of the earth; accumulating the calculated direct solar radiation and final diffuse solar radiation for a predetermined wavelength region; calculating the direct solar radiation reaching the surface of the earth and the final diffuse solar radiation reaching the surface of the earth by applying the amount of cloud; and calculating global solar radiation at the selected positions. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226538 | Detecting State Estimation Network Model Data Errors - Methods for detecting network model data errors are disclosed. In some examples, methods for detecting network model data errors may include splitting a network model into a first plurality of portions, executing an algorithm on each of the portions, identifying a portion for which the algorithm is determined to be non-converged, splitting the identified portion into a second plurality of portions, repeating the executing, identifying and splitting the identified portion until a resulting identified portion is smaller than a predefined threshold, and examining the resulting identified portion to identify plausible data errors therein. In some examples, examining the resulting identified portion to identify plausible data errors therein may include executing a modified algorithm, which may include an augmented measurement set, on the identified portion. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226539 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF CUSTOMER MOVEMENT AND INTEGRATION WITH OTHER DATA - Movement patterns for customers in a retail environment are quantified using a set of movement traces. The quantifications are correlated with other retail metrics to determine which patterns are conducive to positive results for the retailer. In an implementation, first and second distributions are generated using the movement traces. One of the first or second distributions is compared to another of the first or second distributions. A value is calculated indicating a degree of difference between the distributions. In another implementation, a set of node sequences representing paths of customers in the retail environment are obtained. The node sequences are associated with consumer behavior patterns. A target customer is tracked and a target node sequence representing a current path of the target customer is generated. The target node sequence is compared with the set of node sequences to make a prediction about the target customer. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226540 | MULTI-LEVEL SOLUTION OF LARGE-SCALE LINEAR SYSTEMS IN SIMULATION OF POROUS MEDIA IN GIANT RESERVOIRS - In solving linear systems of billions of equations resulting from reservoir simulator pressure equations for giant reservoirs organized into fine-grid models, a multi-level methodology acquires a fast and coarser grid solution to be used as a more accurate initial estimate for the fine grid problem. Solver iterations performed on the coarser grid in reduced processing time generate a better initial estimate, resulting in fewer of the more expensive iterations at the fine-grid level. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226541 | METHOD FOR SIMULATING RUN - This method simulates a run which is a distance between a landing point and a final arriving point using an initial condition of a hit ball and an actually measured falling condition. Preferably, the initial condition includes initial side spin. Preferably, the falling condition is a falling velocity. Preferably, a calculation formula of the run is a quadratic function having the initial condition and the falling condition as variables. Preferably, when the run is defined as Dr (yard); a target direction component of the falling velocity is defined as Vx (m/s); a vertical direction component of the falling velocity is defined as Vy (m/s); and the initial side spin is defined as S (rpm), the run is calculated according to the following formula (1): | 2013-08-29 |
20130226542 | Method and System for Fast Patient-Specific Cardiac Electrophysiology Simulations for Therapy Planning and Guidance - A method and system for patient-specific cardiac electrophysiology is disclosed. Particularly, a patient-specific anatomical model of a heart is generated from medical image data of a patient, a level-set representation of the patient-specific anatomical model is generated of the heart on a Cartesian grid; and a transmembrane action potential at each node of the level-set representation of the of the patient-specific anatomical model of the heart is computed on a Cartesian grid. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226543 | Systems, Methods, and Computer Program Products for Estimating Crowd Sizes Using Information Collected From Mobile Devices in a Wireless Communications Network - Systems, methods, and computer program products are for estimating crowd size at a location. An exemplary method includes determining, at a crowd size analyzer, a number of wireless service users at the location, and estimating, at the crowd size analyzer, a total number of people at the location based upon the number of wireless service users determined to be at the location. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226544 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING RARE-EVENT FAILURE RATES - A method and system to estimate failure rates in designs. N Monte Carlo samples are drawn from the random distribution that describes process variation in the design. A subset of these samples is selected, and that subset of N | 2013-08-29 |
20130226545 | Feature Detection In Seismic Volumes - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for analyzing a domain are provided. The method includes defining a mask plane that includes a first dimension of a first number of voxels and a second dimension of a second number of voxels, and selecting a plurality of first angles for orientating the mask plane in the domain with respect to a first axis. The method also includes for each one of the plurality of first angles selected populating, using one or more processors, sum cubes associated with each one of a first plurality of subject voxels. The method also includes selecting a plurality of second angles, and for each one of the plurality of second angles selected, calculating a planar sum for each one of a second plurality of subject voxels selected. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226546 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING AND SIMPLIFYING THE ENFORCEMENT OF BUILDING ENERGY EFFICIENCY REGULATIONS - A system for enforcing energy regulations is described. The system helps building departments maximize energy savings from the energy regulation enforcement process. The system is configured to optimize enforcement given a fixed level of enforcement resources within a building department. Optimization is achieved through the use of building science and sampling systems to structure building-by-building specialized inspection lists, which are delivered to building inspectors. Information collected during the inspection process is used to determine amounts of money that can be saved via complying or not complying with specific provisions of the energy regulations. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226547 | CONFIGURING A DISPATCHING RULE FOR EXECUTION IN A SIMULATION - A computer system identifies a dispatching rule that corresponds to a dispatching decision to be made in a simulation of a production environment. The dispatching rule is associated with a set of data processes. The computer system identifies a subset of the data processes that is to be executed in the simulation and executes the subset of data processes to simulate the dispatching rule to make the dispatching decision. The computing system generates a simulation decision that describes the dispatching decision made from executing the subset of data processes. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226548 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYSIS TO BUILD PREDICTIVE MODELS FROM MICROSCOPIC CANCER IMAGES - Aspects of the present disclosure are directed towards methods, apparatus, and systems that predict a survival outcome for a patient using a prognostic model and cancer tissue image data from the patient. Cancer data is received, and superpixels are constructed that are representative of the data. Nuclear and cytoplasmic features are constructed for the superpixels based upon the image data and nuclei within the superpixels, and the superpixels are classified as epithelium or stroma based thereon. Relational feature data is computed for both the epithelium superpixels and the stroma superpixels, and a prognostic model is constructed based on the relational feature data. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226549 | STRUCTURE-BASED FRAGMENT HOPPING FOR LEAD OPTIMIZATION AND IMPROVEMENT IN SYNTHETIC ACCESSIBILITY - The invention develops a computer-aided drug design method and system to optimize a lead through structure-based drug design with synthetic accessibility. In this invention, two systems of the structure-based lead optimization are developed and implemented: 1) LeadOp (“short for lead optimization”)—an algorithm that performs lead optimization through structure-based fragment hopping method; and 2) LeadOp+R (short for “lead optimization with synthetic accessibility based on chemical reaction route”)—an algorithm that performs lead optimization with synthetic accessibility. LeadOp algorithm provides users to optimize a lead compound with various combinations of fragments with stronger binding based on group efficiency, generating lead with stronger potency. Furthermore, LeadOp+R provides an advantage in the selection of the new fragment to be assembled, which was identified based on the group efficiency calculated in the active site and reaction rule. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226550 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MODELING COMPOUND FORMULATIONS - Systems and methods for modeling a compound formulation are provided. In one implementation, a method consistent with the disclosure comprises receiving compound parameters including an excipient parameter identifying an excipient combination to be used in developing the compound formulation and a water concentration parameter identifying a water concentration to be used in diluting the excipient combination; storing, in a database, formulation data associated with a plurality of excipient combinations and solubility data associated with a plurality of pharmaceutical ingredients dissolved in the respective excipient combinations; transforming the formulation data and the solubility data into a formulation model space, where points in the formulation model space reflect compositions of the identified excipient combination; and generating a compound formulation model based on the formulation model space, where the compound formulation model graphically identifies one or more compositions of the identified excipient combination that satisfy the compound parameters. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226551 | PREDICTING SYSTEM PERFORMANCE AND CAPACITY USING SOFTWARE MODULE PERFORMANCE STATISTICS - An approach is presented for predicting performance and capacity of an information technology (IT) system. Sets of component-level and middleware-based performance statistics are retrieved. The sets of component-level performance statistics measure individual performances of reusable software modules in test runs of the software modules. The middleware-based performance statistics represent a contribution of customized middleware to the performance of the IT system in a test run of the customized middleware. Based on the sets of component-level and middleware-based performance statistics and before the IT system is built, a prediction of computing resource requirements and characteristics of the performance of the IT system is generated. Generating the prediction results in a recommendation of computing resources required to build the IT system without over-specifying the computing resources. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226552 | CREATION AND USE OF VIRTUAL DEVICE DRIVERS ON A SERIAL BUS - A node on a serial bus, preferably a device such as a personal computer (PC), can emulate other devices using virtual device drivers. A PC connected to a 1394 bus exposes its CROM on the bus which presents an image to other nodes on the 1394 bus and describes the functional units supported by the node. The CROM can be changed dynamically by adding unit directories to the CROM detailing peripherals connected to the PC. The PC can then be enumerated as the connected device by other PCs on the bus. The PC can emulate or morph itself into any desired device or even multiple devices at the same time. The invention also allows a PC to create devices that don't yet exist on the bus. The invention allows a user to create virtual device objects with device properties to have just in case a user plugs the particular device in to the PC. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226553 | TRANSLATING TEXT USING A BRIDGE LANGUAGE - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for translating text using a bridge language. One of the methods includes receiving original text in a source language and data identifying a target language; obtaining bridge language translations for the original text into a bridge language, wherein the bridge language translations comprise one or more dictionary translations; for each bridge language translation, obtaining one or more candidate translations for the bridge language translation into the target language, wherein the candidate translations comprise one or more dictionary translations; determining that a candidate translation is a dictionary translation obtained for a particular bridge language translation and that the particular bridge language translation is a dictionary translation obtained for the original text; determining that the candidate translation is obtained for two or more distinct bridge language translations; and selecting the candidate translation as a preferred translation of the original text. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226554 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERNATIONALIZATION AND LOCALIZATION - Webpage content is sent to a user's web browser in a neutral format. On the user's web browser the webpage content is translated by a transformation application into the appropriate language and locale. A Language template file that contains the internationalization and localization data and processing components is loaded onto a browser and is used by the transformation application to render the final data to the user. The transformation application can render a new language and locale by loading an appropriate language template file. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226555 | Multilingual Build Integration for Compiled Applications - Multilingual build integration for compiled applications is described in which support for application localization of compiled programming languages is provided as an integrated component of a development environment. Localizations integrate with application builds in the development environment so that updates are synchronized with project resources for multiple languages. This involves producing translation target files (e.g., localization files) for one or more selected languages by parsing and interpreting source files for the project to identify resources for translation. Localization files in the project that have been updated may be exposed in various ways for translation via the system, a translation service, or other translation source. Translated localization files are used to create dynamic resource files for the particular programming language that are compiled as part of the build process into language specific resource files. Compiled language specific resource files for multiple languages may then be packaged together for distribution. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226556 | MACHINE TRANSLATION DEVICE AND MACHINE TRANSLATION METHOD IN WHICH A SYNTAX CONVERSION MODEL AND A WORD TRANSLATION MODEL ARE COMBINED - The present invention relates to statistical machine translation, and provides a machine translation device and a machine translation method that acquire a creation probability for a target language from a single corpus while extracting respective conversion probabilities by extracting syntax conversion knowledge and word translation knowledge from a parallel corpus, model a weighted translation model by allowing each of the conversion knowledge and each of the probabilities to learn using a translation model learning device, and generate a target sentence through decoding processes of a syntax converter and a word translator by applying the translation model to a source sentence input in real time, thereby resolving disadvantages of the existing phrase-based SMT and syntax-based SMT and combining advantages thereof. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226557 | Virtual Participant-based Real-Time Translation and Transcription System for Audio and Video Teleconferences - The present disclosure describes a teleconferencing system that may use a virtual participant processor to translate language content of the teleconference into each participant's spoken language without additional user inputs. The virtual participant processor may connect to the teleconference as do the other participants. The virtual participant processor may intercept all text or audio data that was previously exchanged between the participants may now be intercepted by the virtual participant processor. Upon obtaining a partial or complete language recognition result or making a language preference determination, the virtual participant processor may call a translation engine appropriate for each of the participants. The virtual participant processor may send the resulting translation to a teleconference management processor. The teleconference management processor may deliver the respective translated text or audio data to the appropriate participant. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226558 | Language Informed Source Separation - Methods and systems for non-negative hidden Markov modeling of signals are described. For example, techniques disclosed herein may be applied to signals emitted by one or more sources. The modeling may be constrained according to high level information. In some embodiments, methods and systems may enable the separation of a signal's various components. As such, the systems and methods disclosed herein may find a wide variety of applications. In audio-related fields, for example, these techniques may be useful in music recording and processing, source separation/extraction, noise reduction, teaching, automatic transcription, electronic games, audio search and retrieval, and many other applications. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226559 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INTERNETDOCUMENTS BASED ON SUBJECT OF INTEREST TO USER - The present invention provides an apparatus for providing Internet documents based on a subject of interest to a user, including an subject reception unit configured to receive information on a subject from a user terminal; a relevant document collection unit configured to collect relevant documents related to the information on the subject of interest using search engines; a similar sentence classification unit configured to extract a core sentence from the relevant documents, calculate similarity of sentences peripheral to the core sentence, and classify sentences similar to the core sentence into similar sentence sets based on the calculated similarity; and a similar sentence providing unit configured to provide the core sentence and the similar sentence sets to the user terminal. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226560 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISCOVERING STORY TRENDS IN REAL TIME FROM USER GENERATED CONTENT - A method for identifying story trends includes identifying a set of words in a fixed size data stream based on a subword cache, and electronically determining at least one story trend associated with the set of words and electronically generating a story hash associated with the set of words. The method also includes storing the story hash in a story trend cache and updating the story trend cache according to the story hash, and retrieving one or more popular story topics according to the story trend cache. Machine readable media including program code that causes execution of a method for generating search results also are described. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226561 | INTELLIGENT EMOTION-INFERRING APPARATUS, AND INFERRING METHOD THEREFOR - The present disclosure provides an intelligent emotion-inferring apparatus and inferring method therefor. The intelligent emotion-inferring apparatus includes: an emotional-word-storing unit, which classifies emotional words into items including at least one among similarity, positivity or negativity, and emotional intensity, using classes of emotion comprising a basic emotion group which classifies human emotions and a detailed emotion group which classifies the basic emotion group, and stores the words in an emotional-word dictionary; a sentence-converting unit which ascertains the words and phrases of sentence logged by a user and converts the words and phrases into a basic format; a match-checking unit which checks the converted words and phrases for words and phrases matching those in the emotional-word dictionary; and an emotion-inferring unit, which applies a probabilistic model on the basis of co-occurrence of the converted words and phrases, and infers emotions on the basis of the probabilistic model. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226562 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING FUNCTIONS HAVING SYMBOLS - A system and method for searching through functions and expressions with symbols. Moreover, the system can be used to recognize and further analyze the notations of this nature and use this in order to translate, transform into audio, or solve the mathematical problems. According to at least some embodiments, the functions comprise mathematic equations which are defined by symbols and mathematic notation. The system and method enable a user to enter a mathematical equation in a WYSIWYG environment to a search engine, and to find similar or identical equations, first and foremost according to theoretical similarity, and secondly, according to visual similarity. The engine does this be understanding the meaning behind the visual symbols of the equation using a Dynamic Hidden Markov Model (hereon DHMM). The system enables the user to insert the equation with no prior knowledge of LaTeX, or any computing language, and with no need to follow a predefined generic protocol in order to insert the query. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226563 | RELATED-WORD REGISTRATION DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, RELATED-WORD REGISTRATION METHOD, PROGRAM FOR RELATED-WORD REGISTRATION DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A related-word candidate group ( | 2013-08-29 |
20130226564 | Method and System for Providing an Audio Representation of a Name - A system and method for providing an audio representation of a name includes providing a list of a plurality of users of a network and respective presence information regarding each of the plurality of users; receiving a request from an endpoint to receive an audio representation of a name of a particular user of the plurality of users, and providing the audio representation to the endpoint. Moreover, the audio representation of the name at least generally approximates a pronunciation of the name as pronounced by the particular user. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226565 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ENCODING AND DECODING SIGNALS - A method of encoding an audio signal, where signals including two or more channel signals are downmixed to a mono signal, the mono signal is divided into a low-frequency signal and a high-frequency signal, the low-frequency signal is encoded through algebraic code excited linear prediction (ACELP) or transform coded excitation (TCX), and the high-frequency signal is encoded using the low-frequency signal. A method of decoding of an audio signal, a low-frequency signal encoded through ACELP or TCX is decoded, a high-frequency signal is decoded using the low-frequency signal, the low-frequency signal and the high-frequency signal are combined to generate a mono signal, and the mono signal is upmixed by decoding spatial parameters regarding signals including two or more channel signals. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226566 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING HIGH FREQUENCY SIGNAL - Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding a high frequency signal by using a low frequency signal. The high frequency signal can be encoded by extracting a coefficient by linear predicting a high frequency signal, and encoding the coefficient, generating a signal by using the extracted coefficient and a low frequency signal, and encoding the high frequency signal by calculating a ratio between the high frequency signal and an energy value of the generated signal. Also, the high frequency signal can be decoded by decoding a coefficient, which is extracted by linear predicting a high frequency signal, and a low frequency signal, and generating a signal by using the decoded coefficient and the decoded low frequency signal, and adjusting the generated signal by decoding a ratio between the generated signal and an energy value of the high frequency signal. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226567 | System for Conealing Missing Audio Waveforms - In one embodiment, a method can include: (i) establishing an internet protocol (IP) connection; (ii) forming a buffered version of a plurality of voice frame slices from received audio packets; and (iii) when an erasure is detected, performing a packet loss concealment (PLC) to provide a synthesized speech signal for the erasure, where the PLC can include: (a) identifying first and second pitches from the buffered version of the plurality of voice frame slices; and (b) forming the synthesized speech signal by using the first and second pitches, and more if needed, followed by an overlay-add (OLA). | 2013-08-29 |
20130226568 | AUDIO SIGNALS BY ESTIMATIONS AND USE OF HUMAN VOICE ATTRIBUTES - Disclosed embodiments include means and methods of enhancing the quality of an audio signal by estimations and manipulations of voice attributes. Disclosed embodiments include means and methods of estimating a pitch period of an input audio signal, converting the audio signal into the frequency domain using a FFT, decreasing the pitch estimation value based on a fundamental frequency of the signal based on a first predefined condition and increasing the fundamental frequency of the audio signal based upon a second predefined condition. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226569 | METHODS EMPLOYING PHASE STATE ANALYSIS FOR USE IN SPEECH SYNTHESIS AND RECOGNITION - A computer-implemented method for automatically analyzing, predicting, and/or modifying acoustic units of prosodic human speech utterances for use in speech synthesis or speech recognition. Possible steps include: initiating analysis of acoustic wave data representing the human speech utterances, via the phase state of the acoustic wave data; using one or more phase state defined acoustic wave metrics as common elements for analyzing, and optionally modifying, pitch, amplitude, duration, and other measurable acoustic parameters of the acoustic wave data, at predetermined time intervals; analyzing acoustic wave data representing a selected acoustic unit to determine the phase state of the acoustic unit; and analyzing the acoustic wave data representing the selected acoustic unit to determine at least one acoustic parameter of the acoustic unit with reference to the determined phase state of the selected acoustic unit. Also included are systems for implementing the described and related methods. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226570 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AN AUDIO SIGNAL AND FOR PROVIDING A HIGHER TEMPORAL GRANULARITY FOR A COMBINED UNIFIED SPEECH AND AUDIO CODEC (USAC) - An apparatus for processing an audio signal is provided. The apparatus has a signal processor and a configurator. The configurator is adapted to configure the signal processor based on configuration information such that a configurable upsampling factor is equal to a first upsampling value when a first ratio of the second configurable number of samples to a first configurable number of samples has a first ratio value. Moreover, the configurator is adapted to configure the signal processor such that the configurable upsampling factor is equal to a different second upsampling value, when a different second ratio of the second configurable number of samples to the first configurable number of samples has a different second ratio value. The first or the second ratio value is not an integer value. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226571 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING PACKET LOSS OR FRAME ERASURE CONCEALMENT - A method for performing packet loss or Frame Erasure Concealment (FEC) for a speech coder receives encoded frames of compressed speech information transmitted from an encoder. The method determines whether an encoded frame has been lost, corrupted in transmission, or erased, synthesizes properly received frames, and decides on an overlap-add window to use in combining a portion of the synthesized speech signal with a subsequent speech signal resulting from a received and decoded packet, where the size of the overlap-add window is based on the unavailability of packets. If it is determined that an encoded frame has been lost, corrupted in transmission, or erased, the method performed an overlap-add operation on the portion of the synthesized speech signal and the subsequent speech signal, using the decided-on overlap-add window. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226572 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NOISE ESTIMATION WITH MUSIC DETECTION - In a system and method for noise estimation with music detection described herein provides for generating a music classification for music content in an audio signal. The music detector may classify the audio signal as music or non-music. The non-music signal may be considered to be signal and noise. An adaption rate may be adjusted responsive to the generated music classification. A noise estimate is calculated applying the adjusted adaption rate. The system and method may mitigate the noise modeling algorithms being misled by the music components. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226573 | NOISE REMOVING SYSTEM IN VOICE COMMUNICATION, APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is the system and method to remove noises in voice signals in a voice communication. The at least one embodiment of the present disclosure performs a spectral subtraction (SS) for voice signals based on a gain function by a spectral subtraction apparatus, performs clustering of voice signals consecutive on a frequency axis of a spectrogram for the voice signals in which the spectral subtraction has been already performed to designate one or more clusters, and extracts musical noises by determining continuity of each of the designated clusters on the frequency axis and a time axis of the spectrogram to extract to musical noises. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226574 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TUNING AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS - A tuning system for tuning a speech recognition system includes a transmitter for sending a user response to a speech recognition system. The user response is based at least in part on a test stimulus that may be generated by the control system. A receiver receives a recognized response from the speech recognition system; this recognized response is based at least in part on the associated user response. An adjustment module adjusts at least one parameter of the speech recognition system based at least in part on at least one of the test stimulus, the associated user response, and the recognized response. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226575 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERACTIVELY ACCESSING HOSTED SERVICES USING VOICE COMMUNICATIONS - Systems and methods for an interactive voice response system are described herein. In one embodiment, the system may include a voice recognition module, a session manager, and a voice generator module. An utterance received at the voice recognition module may be converted into one or more structures using a lexicon tied to an ontology. Concepts in the utterance may then be identified. If sufficient information has been provided to identify a relevant service, corresponding text responses associated with that service may then be converted into voice messages by the voice generator. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226576 | Conference Call Service with Speech Processing for Heavily Accented Speakers - Speech recognition processing captures phonemes of words in a spoken speech string and retrieves text of words corresponding to particular combinations of phonemes from a phoneme dictionary. A text-to-speech synthesizer then can produce and substitute a synthesized pronunciation of that word in the speech string. If the speech recognition processing fails to recognize a particular combination of phonemes of a word, as spoken, as may occur when a word is spoken with an accent or when the speaker has a speech impediment, the speaker is prompted to clarify the word by entry, as text, from a keyboard or the like for storage in the phoneme dictionary such that a synthesized pronunciation of the word can be played out when the initially unrecognized spoken word is again encountered in a speech string to improve intelligibility, particularly for conference calls. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226577 | MESSAGE PREVIEW CONTROL - Embodiments of the invention relate generally to computing devices and systems, as well as software, computer programs, applications, and user interfaces, and more particularly, to systems, devices and methods to facilitate message preview control. For example, the method may include generating representations for messages to present on an interface, and detecting selection of the representation for the message. Further, the method can include presenting preview information for the message, which can be an electronic facsimile. The representations for the messages can include a representation for an electronic facsimile, as well as a voice message and an email. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226578 | ASYNCHRONOUS VIDEO INTERVIEW SYSTEM - Aspects of an asynchronous video interview system and related techniques include a server that receives a plurality of pre-recorded video prompts, generates an interview script, transmits a video prompt from the interview script to be displayed at a client computing device, and receives a streamed video response from the client computing device. The server can perform algorithmic analysis on content of the video response. In another aspect, a server obtains response preference data indicating a timing parameter for a response. In another aspect, a video prompt and an information supplement (e.g., a news item) that relates to the content of the video prompt are transmitted. In another aspect, a server automatically selects a video prompt (e.g., a follow-up question) to be displayed at the client computing device (e.g., based on a response or information about an interviewee). | 2013-08-29 |
20130226579 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERACTIVELY ACCESSING HOSTED SERVICES USING VOICE COMMUNICATIONS - Systems and methods for an interactive voice response system are described herein. In one embodiment, the system may include a voice recognition module, a session manager, and a voice generator module. An utterance received at the voice recognition module may be converted into one or more structures using a lexicon tied to an ontology. Concepts in the utterance may then be identified. If sufficient information has been provided to identify a relevant service, corresponding text responses associated with that service may then be converted into voice messages by the voice generator. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226580 | SPOKEN CONTROL FOR USER CONSTRUCTION OF COMPLEX BEHAVIORS - A device interface system is presented. Contemplated device interfaces allow for construction of complex device behaviors by aggregating device functions. The behaviors are triggered based on conditions derived from environmental data about the device. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226581 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD - A communication method includes: capturing analog sound signals output by the audio output unit, and analyze the captured analog sound signals to obtain a corresponding digital audio information. Comparing the obtained digital audio information with a digital feature information stored in a storage unit to determine whether the obtained digital audio information includes the stored digital feature information. Playing a reply information stored in the storage unit if the obtained digital audio information includes the stored digital feature information. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226582 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF LIVENESS DETECTION UTILIZING VOICE BIOMETRICS - Device, system, and method of liveness detection using voice biometrics. For example, a method comprises: generating a first matching score based on a comparison between: (a) a voice-print from a first text-dependent audio sample received at an enrollment stage, and (b) a second text-dependent audio sample received at an authentication stage; generating a second matching score based on a text-independent audio sample; and generating a liveness score by taking into account at least the first matching score and the second matching score. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226583 | AUTOMATIC SPOKEN LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION BASED ON PHONEME SEQUENCE PATTERNS - A language identification system that includes a universal phoneme decoder (UPD) is described. The UPD contains a universal phoneme set representing both 1) all phonemes occurring in the set of two or more spoken languages, and 2) captures phoneme correspondences across languages, such that a set of unique phoneme patterns and probabilities are calculated in order to identify a most likely phoneme occurring each time in the audio files in the set of two or more potential languages in which the UPD was trained on. Each statistical language model (SLM) uses the set of unique phoneme patterns created for each language in the set to distinguish between spoken human languages in the set of languages. The run-time language identifier module identifies a particular human language being spoken by utilizing the linguistic probabilities supplied by the SLMs that are based on the set of unique phoneme patterns created for each language. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226584 | SPEECH SYNTHESIS APPARATUS AND METHOD - A speech synthesizing apparatus includes a selector configured to select a plurality of speech units for synthesizing a speech of an input phoneme sequence by referring to speech unit information stored in an information memory. Speech unit waveforms corresponding to the speech units are acquired from a plurality of speech unit waveforms stored in a waveform memory, and the speech is synthesized by concatenating the speech unit waveforms acquired. When acquiring the speech unit waveforms, at least two speech unit waveforms from a continuous region of the waveform memory are copied onto a buffer by one access, wherein a data quantity of the at least two speech unit waveforms is less than or equal to a size of the buffer. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226585 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Measuring Health - Methods, systems, and products measure health data related to a user. A spoken phrase is received and time-stamped. The user is identified from the spoken phrase. A window of time is determined from a semantic content of the spoken phrase. A sensor measurement is received and time-stamped. A difference in time between the time-stamped spoken phrase and the time-stamped sensor measurement is determined and compared to the window of time. When the difference in time is within the window of time, then the sensor measurement is associated with the user. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226586 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING USER USING VOICE RECOGNITION - A user authentication device to authenticate a user by voice recognition includes: an operating unit for performing authentication by comparing a audio signal input for voice recognition with voice information of an authorized user; a noise output unit to combine a noise signal with the input audio signal; and a noise cancellation unit to combine a negative noise signal corresponding to the noise signal with the audio signal with the noise signal, and to provide the mixed signal to the operating unit. Accordingly, by using the noise signal as an encryption signal, the security of user authentication using voice recognition may be improved. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226587 | Lip-password Based Speaker Verification System - A lip-based speaker verification system for identifying a speaker using a modality of lip motions; wherein an identification key of the speaker comprising one or more passwords; wherein the one or more passwords are embedded into lip motions of the speaker; wherein the speaker is verified by underlying dynamic characteristics of the lip motions; and wherein the speaker is required to match the one or more passwords embedded in the lip motions with registered information in a database. That is, in the case where the target speaker saying the wrong password or even in the case where an impostor knowing and saying the correct password, the nonconformities will be detected and the authentications/accesses will be denied. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226588 | Simulated Conversation by Pre-Recorded Audio Navigator - A method is provided for a simulated conversation by a pre-recorded audio navigator, with particular application to informational and entertainment settings. A monitor may utilize a navigation interface to select pre-recorded responses in the voice of a character represented by a performer. The pre-recorded responses may then be queued and sent to a speaker proximate to the performer. By careful organization of an audio database including audio buckets and script-based navigation with shifts for tailoring to specific guest user profiles and environmental contexts, a convincing and dynamic simulated conversation may be carried out while providing the monitor with a user-friendly navigation interface. Thus, highly specialized training is not necessary and flexible scaling to large-scale deployments is readily supported. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226589 | CONTROL USING TEMPORALLY AND/OR SPECTRALLY COMPACT AUDIO COMMANDS - A sound-activated control system includes an audio receiver and a command discriminator. The receiver is configured to receive an audio waveform and to produce a digital audio waveform therefrom. The command discriminator is configured to detect a temporally and/or spectrally compact nonphonetic audio command within the digital audio waveform and to control a voice-activated system an action in response to the nonphonetic command. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226590 | VOICE INPUT APPARATUS AND METHOD - Provided is a voice input method and apparatus that may select and drive an execution screen of an application executing a screen that is requested to be executed instead of executing a default screen if executing the application. If executing an application, a user may further conveniently and quickly execute the user's selected function and display an execution screen by decreasing a plurality of touch input operations. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226591 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING LOCK/UNLOCK STATE OF TERMINAL THROUGH VOICE RECOGNITION - A method for controlling a terminal through a voice input is provided. The method includes receiving a voice input when the terminal is in a state in which the terminal is locked and performing an operation corresponding to the voice input if the voice input corresponds to a preset command. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226592 | METHOD FOR BROWSING WITHIN A CONTENT DISPLAYABLE BY BROWSING COMMANDS, BROWSING DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED PROGRAM - A method for browsing in a visual content such as a document or a list. The content is available on a terminal having a browsing command. Part of the content is displayed on a display of the terminal. The browsing commands enable the contents displayed on the screen to be made to scroll in the direction specified by the command introduced. The displayed part is duplicated into two identical images when one end of the content situated in the direction of movement specified by the browsing command is displayed on the means for displaying. A first image remains still and a second image moves in the direction of movement specified by the browsing command so long as the command is active. In this way, the user sees that the command has indeed been taken into account and notes visually that the end of the visual content has been reached. | 2013-08-29 |
20130226593 | AUDIO PROCESSING APPARATUS - An apparatus comprising: an audio source determiner configured to determine at least one audio source; a visualizer configured to generate a visual representation associated with the at least one audio source; and a controller configured to process an audio signal associated with the at least one audio source dependent on interaction with the visual representation. | 2013-08-29 |