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20130014379 | Method of Forming a Secondary for Linear Drive Motor Comprising Sheet of Highly Permeable Magnetic Material Having Synchronized Motor Teeth, Encoder Teeth, and Commutation Tracks Integrally Formed ThereinAANM Trammell; Glenn S.AACI Fort SmithAAST ARAACO USAAGP Trammell; Glenn S. Fort Smith AR USAANM Qiao; RuiAACI Fort SmithAAST ARAACO USAAGP Qiao; Rui Fort Smith AR US - A method for forming a secondary for a motor, for instance a linear drive motor, includes providing a sheet of highly magnetic permeable material with a plurality of slots extending through the sheet spaced along a length of the sheet. The slots define a plurality of teeth in the sheet and enable the sheet to be conformable to a mounting surface when forming the secondary of the motor. The top surface of the sheet has a plurality of pockets formed adjacent the plurality of slots. The pockets extend parallel to the width and are spaced along the length of the sheet. The pockets form a sensor operatively connected to a control of the motor. The sensor may be an encoder, and/or operatively connected to a control for controlling commutation of the motor, and/or setting positional limits, absolute positional information, and/or providing information about the sheet. | 01-17-2013 |
20130015724 | Secondary for Linear Drive Motor Comprising Sheet of Highly Permeable Magnetic Material Having Synchronized Motor Teeth, Encoder Teeth, and Commutation Tracks Integrally Formed ThereinAANM Trammell; Glenn S.AACI Fort SmithAAST ARAACO USAAGP Trammell; Glenn S. Fort Smith AR USAANM Qiao; RuiAACI Fort SmithAAST ARAACO USAAGP Qiao; Rui Fort Smith AR US - A secondary for a motor, for instance a linear drive motor, has a sheet of highly magnetic permeable material with a plurality of slots extending through the sheet spaced along a length of the sheet. The slots define a plurality of teeth in the sheet and enable the sheet to be conformable to a mounting surface when forming the secondary of the motor. The top surface of the sheet has a plurality of pockets formed adjacent the plurality of slots. The pockets extend parallel to the width and are spaced along the length of the sheet. The pockets form a sensor operatively connected to a control of the motor. The sensor may be an encoder, and/or the sensor may be operatively connected to a control for controlling commutation of the motor, and/or setting positional limits and/or “home(s)” for the motor, providing absolute positional information and/or providing information about the sheet, for instance, the identity of one platen among many. | 01-17-2013 |
20130015725 | Linear Drive Motor With Improved Bearing System - A primary for a linear drive motor has first and second stacks, each with inner and outer teeth and a bearing mount. A magnet is disposed between the first and second stacks, and a coil wrapped is between the first and second stacks. A bearing is operatively mounted to at least one of the bearing mounts of the first and second stacks. The outer teeth of the first and second stacks may have a projection comprising the bearing mount. The bearing mount may be embedded within the stacks. The stacks may be assembled in a housing and the housing may have a first bearing outboard of the first stack, a second bearing outboard of the second stack, and a third bearing in staggered relationship with the first and second bearings across the housing in an arrangement bilaterally symmetric about an axis transverse to the direction of travel. | 01-17-2013 |
20130015726 | Primary for Linear Drive Motor with Solid Steel Stacks - A primary for a linear drive motor has a stage with stacks made from solid steel. Each stack has inner and outer teeth made that form a generally u-shaped cross-section for the stack. A magnet is disposed between the first and second stacks and a a coil wrapped between the first and second stacks. The stacks may be placed in a housing or may be formed as a housingless stage. The stacks and/or housing may be modified to selectively skew motor alignment to reduce motor cogging. The stacks may be contoured to follow various secondary forms. The stack inner and outer teeth lengths may be adjusted to help balance or optimize the magnetic circuit, to increase tooth surface area for increasing force, to allow more motor windings in the coil of the stack assembly, and to help locate the magnet and coil near the tooth surface. | 01-17-2013 |
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20140219441 | VOICE ECHO CANCELLATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A Voice Echo Cancellation system and process are disclosed. According to one embodiment, the present invention comprises an input audio source that is converted to a digital signal via a PCM convertor where the amplitude of the input audio source is sampled at regular intervals and translated into digital PCM audio. The resulting PCM audio is analyzed for its dynamic and harmonic content. Corrective sound waves are then generated that reduce the repetition of the original audio (echos). The corrective sound waves are applied to the repeating audio echoes to create corrected sound waves. The corrected audio is then outputted from the system. The analyzing step of the Voice Echo Cancellation process of the present invention comprises performing an evaluation of the PCM audio for dynamic and harmonic content; identifying repetitive harmonic content (echos) of the PCM audio; determining a scale based on the ratio of the amplitude of the first repeat harmonic to the amplitude of the input PCM audio; generating sound waves with descending amplitude levels according to the determined scale; and phase shifting the newly generated sound waves to generate corrective sound waves. The phase shift of the inventive Voice Echo Cancellation process is 90 to 180 degrees. | 08-07-2014 |
20140358556 | AUDIO DECOMPRESS PROGRAM - A method of decompressing audio comprises normalizing the over compressed audio at a percentage of 48. Next the audio is converted from 16 to 32 bit to allow the filter a better resolution source to process. The next step is processing the converted ausion with a Chebyshev filter, preferably with a range of 4 Hz to 22050 Hz (bandpass mode) at the order of 18 (@36 dB estimated. After the filter, the audio is converted back to 16 bit with the dither setting shown in the block. Now, the end result is a newly repaired piece of audio with the dynamic and harmonic content restored. | 12-04-2014 |
20140362996 | STEREO SOUNDFIELD EXPANDER - An audio enhancement technique comprises a stereo audio source. The stereo audio source is split in two identical sound signals, with one of the split signals sent to a compare block and the other to an audio block. Output from the stereo audio source is fed to a stereo bus A block to create a processed audio. A bypass block for turning the processed audio on or off is provided. The output from the bypass block is fed to the compare block. The processed audio is outputted for use by user. | 12-11-2014 |
20140363009 | ACTIVE NOISE CANCELLATION METHOD FOR MOTORCYCLES - A Noise Cancellation Process for a motorcycle comprising an input audio source. Input audio source is combined in a mixer. Noise analyzer analyzes output from the mixer for amplitude and harmonic content. A replicate wave that is identical to the input audio source is created. The phase of the replicate wave is changed by − | 12-11-2014 |
20140369502 | DIGITAL AUDIO SOFTWARE STEREO PLUGIN - A process and system for enhancing and customizing audio recording and editing comprises receiving an input audio sound; setting a preset for the input audio sound to create a presetted audio sound; tone adjusting the presetted audio sound to create a tone adjusted presetted audio; expanding the tone adjusted presetted audio in a horizontal plane to create an presetted tone adjusted expanded audio; and outputting the presetted tone adjusted expanded audio. There are three options for selecting the preset. These are: ten or more presets for different genres of music; auto-preset that is selected by genre in metadata of playback material; and a single generic preset that covers all music. Presetting comprises parallel processing the input audio through: a module that is a low pass filter with dynamic offset; an envelope controlled bandpass filter; a high pass filter; adding an amount of dynamic synthesized sub bass to the audio; and combining the four treated audio signals in a summing mixer with the original audio. The adjustment step comprises a first section for adjusting a low frequency tone; a second section for adjusting a mid frequency tone; a third section for adjusting a high frequency tone; and mixing the audio outputs processed by the first, second and third sections to produce an output audio sound. | 12-18-2014 |
20140369515 | ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE REDUCTION - A Noise Control Process for targeted environments is disclosed. According to one embodiment, an input audio source corresponding to sound received from a group of microphones placed at certain locations in the targeted environment, is converted to a digital signal via an analog to digital (A/D) convertor. The ND converted audio is analyzed for content to identify ambient noise. The frequency, amplitude and phase of the identified ambient noise is subsequently determined. A Noise correction sound wave is generated with negative phase of that corresponding to the identified ambient noise. The noise correction sound wave is added to the identified noise to create a noise corrected sound. | 12-18-2014 |
20140369523 | PROCESS FOR IMPROVING AUDIO (API) - A computer implemented method for improving audio, comprising processing audio with a combination of wave adjustment tool WAT and a collection of preset settings for adjusting specific harmonic content to specific genres of music. The preset is selected from the group comprising different genres (styles or types) of music; auto-preset; and generic preset. The auto preset value is determined by the metadata which is commonly included in an audio file. In the event there is no match between the preset genre names and the one in the metadata, then the selected preset will be “Generic.” This particular genre preset is designed for optimal sound across many genres, making it generic. The wave adjustment tool (WAT) allows for low, mid, and hi tone controls. The process is carried out by installing software in an existing audio path immediately after initial input and prior to output. A host device provides for a buffer to allow for processing of audio. A program placed in libraries that work together is used improve audio quality. | 12-18-2014 |
20140369524 | WAVE ADJUSTMENT TOOL (WAT) - A Wave Adjustment Tool process and system for customizing sound is provided. An input audio sound is received. A tone adjusting circuit that comprises three sections, including a first section for adjusting a low frequency tone; a second section for adjusting a mid frequency tone; and a third section for adjusting a high frequency tone. Audio processed by the first, second and third sections are mixed to produce an output audio sound. According to an exemplary embodiment the low frequency tone has a frequency of 100 Hz and a bandwidth of 0.5.; the mid frequency tone has a frequency of 2500 Hz and an adjustable bandwidth; and the high frequency tone has a frequency of 10 KHz and an adjustable bandwidth. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372110 | VOIC CALL ENHANCEMENT - A Voice Call Enhancement Method for wireless telephonic communication devices includes providing an input voice audio source, enhancing the voice audio input in multiple harmonic and dynamic ranges and outputting the voice enhanced audio. The Voice Call Enhancement method is suitable for use of wireless telephony devices, such as cellular phones. The enhancement includes resynthesizing audio to an increased harmonic and dynamic range than original values. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372111 | VOICE RECOGNITION ENHANCEMENT - A Voice Recognition Enhancement Method for wireless telephonic communication devices includes providing an input voice audio source, enhancing the voice audio input in one or more of harmonic and dynamic ranges and outputting the voice enhanced audio. The Voice Recognition Enhancement method is suitable for use of wireless telephony devices, such as cellular phones. The enhancement includes resynthesizing audio to an increased harmonic and dynamic range than original values. | 12-18-2014 |
20140376725 | SOUND ENHANCEMENT FOR POWERED SPEAKERS - A process and system for enhancing and customizing sound includes receiving an input audio sound and enhancing the voice audio input in two or more harmonic and dynamic ranges by re-synthesizing the audio into a full range PCM wave. A tone adjusting circuit is provided which includes a first section for adjusting a low frequency tone, a second section for adjusting a mid frequency tone, a third section for adjusting a high frequency tone and mixing the audio outputs processed by the first, second and third sections to produce an output audio sound. The enhancement includes the parallel processing the input audio via a low pass filter with dynamic offset, an envelope controlled bandpass filter, a high pass filter, adding an amount of dynamic synthesized sub bass to the audio and combining the four treated audio signals in a summing mixer with the original audio. The low frequency tone has a frequency of 100 Hz and a bandwidth of 0.5. The mid frequency tone has a frequency of 2500 Hz and an adjustable bandwidth and the high frequency tone has a frequency of 10 KHz and an adjustable bandwidth. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376726 | STEREO HEADPHONE AUDIO PROCESS - A process and system for enhancing and customizing sound includes receiving an input audio sound and enhancing the voice audio input in two or more harmonic and dynamic ranges by re-synthesizing the audio into a full range PCM wave. A tone adjusting circuit is provided which includes a first section for adjusting a low frequency tone, a second section for adjusting a mid frequency tone, a third section for adjusting a high frequency tone and mixing the audio outputs processed by the first, second and third sections to produce an output audio sound. The enhancement includes the parallel processing the input audio via a low pass filter with dynamic offset, an envelope controlled bandpass filter, a high pass filter, adding an amount of dynamic synthesized sub bass to the audio and combining the four treated audio signals in a summing mixer with the original audio. The low frequency tone has a frequency of 100 Hz and a bandwidth of 0.5. The mid frequency tone has a frequency of 2500 Hz and an adjustable bandwidth and the high frequency tone has a frequency of 10 KHz and an adjustable bandwidth. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376732 | DEVICE ECHO CANCELLATION - A Device Echo Cancellation system and process are disclosed. According to one embodiment, the present invention comprises an input audio source that is converted to a digital signal via a PCM convertor where the amplitude of the input audio source is sampled at regular intervals and translated into digital PCM audio. The resulting PCM audio is analyzed for its dynamic and harmonic content. Corrective sound waves are then generated that reduce the repetition of the original audio (echoes). The corrective sound waves are applied to the repeating audio echoes to create corrected sound waves. The corrected audio is then outputted from the system. The analyzing step of the Device Echo Cancellation process of the present invention comprises performing an evaluation of the PCM audio for dynamic and harmonic content; identifying repetitive harmonic content (echoes) of the PCM audio; determining a scale based on the ratio of the amplitude of the first repeat harmonic to the amplitude of the input PCM audio; generating sound waves with descending amplitude levels according to the determined scale; and phase shifting the newly generated sound waves to generate corrective sound waves. The phase shift of the inventive Device Echo Cancellation process is 90 to 180 degrees. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379333 | WAVEFORM RESYNTHESIS - A wave resynthesis method and system comprises receiving input wave form, processing received data to create an enhanced wave form, identifying the enhanced wave form, transmitting the identified wave form to a receiving unit, identifying the received wave form, resynthesizing the received wave form and outputting the resynthesized wave form. Identifying the enhanced wave form includes sampling the waveform and measuring the angle of the samples at two or more points in the waveform. The enhancing of voice audio input includes the parallel processing the input audio by a module that is a low pass filter with dynamic offset, an envelope controlled band-pass filter, a high pass filter and adding an amount of dynamic synthesized sub bass to the audio. The four processed audio signals are combined in a summing mixer with the original audio. The receiving unit has a complete set of encrypted tables for accurate resynthesizing/reproduction. | 12-25-2014 |
20150010166 | SOUND ENHANCEMENT FOR HOME THEATERS - A method and process and system for enhancing and customizing movie theatre sound includes receiving an input audio sound and enhancing the received sound. The enhanced audio sound is subsequently tone adjusted to create a tone adjusted enhanced sound, which is then outputted. The enhancement includes the parallel processing the input audio via a low pass filter with dynamic offset, an envelope controlled bandpass filter, a high pass filter, adding an amount of dynamic synthesized sub bass to the audio and combining the four treated audio signals in a summing mixer with the original audio. The tone adjustment includes a first section for adjusting a low frequency tone, a second section for adjusting a mid frequency tone, a third section for adjusting a high frequency tone and mixing the audio outputs processed by the first, second and third sections to produce a tone adjusted enhanced audio sound. | 01-08-2015 |
20150016623 | ACTIVE NOISE CANCELLATION METHOD FOR ENCLOSED CABINS - A Noise Cancellation Process for enclosed cabins is disclosed. According to one embodiment, an input audio source corresponding to sound received from multiple microphones situated equidistantly in both directions in a two dimensional plane, is converted to a digital signal via an analog to digital (A/D) convertor. The A/D converted audio is analyzed for content to identify ambient noise. The frequency, amplitude and phase of the identified ambient noise is subsequently determined. A Noise correction sound wave is generated with negative phase of that corresponding to the identified ambient noise. The noise correction sound wave is added to the identified noise to create a noise corrected sound. | 01-15-2015 |
20150025889 | BIOMETRIC AUDIO SECURITY - A biometric audio security system comprises providing an input voice audio source. The input audio is enhanced in two or more harmonic and dynamic ranges by re-synthesizing the audio into a full range PCM wave. A hardware key with a set of audio frequency spikes (identifiers) with varying amplitude and frequency values is provided. The enhanced voice audio input and the key using additive resynthesis are summed. The voice and the spike set is compared against the users identification signature to verify user's identity. The set of audio spikes are user specific. The spikes are stored on the protected key device as a template, which would plug into the system. The template is determined by the owner/manufacturer of the system. The spikes are created and identified using the additive synthesis technique with a predetermined number of partials (harmonics). The identifiers include both positive and negative values. The amplitude and frequency values are spaced in very fine intervals. The enhancing of voice audio input includes the parallel processing the input audio as follows: A module that is a low pass filter with dynamic offset; | 01-22-2015 |
20150036826 | STEREO EXPANDER METHOD - An audio enhancement technique comprising an audio source, processing the audio source by the following modules, a low pass filter with dynamic offset, an envelope controlled bandpass filter, a high pass filter; and adding an amount of dynamic synthesized sub bass to the audio. The processed audio signals are combined in a summing mixer with the audio source to create an audio out signal. Audio out is sent to a block that splits, processes and combines the stereo stream into several different versions that are fed into the Stereo Bus A. The Stereo Bus is fed to a Compare Block that adjusts the amplitude of the original and processed audio by averaging. | 02-05-2015 |
20150036828 | INTERNET AUDIO SOFTWARE METHOD - An audio enhancement technique comprises an audio source. Presets for the input audio sound are provided. The presetted ausio sound is tone adjusted to create a tone adjusted presetted audio. The tone adjusted presetted audio is expanded to create an expanded audio and the expanded audio is outputted for use by user. The presetted audio is subjected to a treatment by one or more modules to improve sound quality. The treatment comprises processing the audio source by the following modules: a low pass filter with dynamic offset; an envelope controlled bandpass filter; a high pass filter; and adding an amount of dynamic synthesized sub bass to the audio. The processed audio signals are combined in a summing mixer with the audio source to create an audio out signal. In one embodiment, the expanding comprises sending audio out to a block that splits, processes and combines the stereo stream into several different versions that are fed into the Stereo Bus A; feeding Stereo Bus A output to a Compare Block that adjusts the amplitude of the original and processed audio by averaging; and feeding the output from the compare block as an stereo output. In one embodiment, the tone adjustment comprises: a first section for adjusting a low frequency tone; a second section for adjusting a mid frequency tone; a third section for adjusting a high frequency tone and mixing the audio outputs processed by the first, second and third sections to produce an output audio sound. | 02-05-2015 |
20150226842 | SONAR TECHNIQUE - An improved sonar mechanism comprises an audio source from a sonar system. The audio source is processed in parallel by the following modules: a low pass filter with dynamic offset; an envelope controlled bandpass filter; a high pass filter; and adding an amount of dynamic synthesized sub bass to the source audio. The processed audio is then combined in a summing mixer with the audio source. | 08-13-2015 |
20150236664 | SOUND ENHANCEMENT FOR TELEVISION SPEAKERS - A process and system for enhancing and customizing sound includes receiving an input audio sound and enhancing the voice audio input in two or more harmonic and dynamic ranges by re-synthesizing the audio into a full range PCM wave. A tone adjusting circuit is provided which includes a first section for adjusting a low frequency tone, a second section for adjusting a mid frequency tone, a third section for adjusting a high frequency tone and mixing the audio outputs processed by the first, second and third sections to produce an output audio sound. The enhancement includes the parallel processing the input audio via a low pass filter with dynamic offset, an envelope controlled bandpass filter, a high pass filter, adding an amount of dynamic synthesized sub bass to the audio and combining the four treated audio signals in a summing mixer with the original audio. The low frequency tone has a frequency of 100 Hz and a bandwidth of 0.5. The mid frequency tone has a frequency of 2500 Hz and an adjustable bandwidth and the high frequency tone has a frequency of 10 KHz and an adjustable bandwidth. | 08-20-2015 |