Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100093252 | GLOVE PUPPET MANIPULATING SYSTEM - A glove puppet manipulating system comprises a control module for generating control signals base on movements of human hand and a robot electrically connecting the control module installed inside a glove puppet. The robot has a body manipulating apparatus disposed on a foundation to manipulate the body of the glove puppet to rotate, a pair of hand manipulating apparatuses disposed on the body manipulating apparatus to manipulate the hands of the glove puppet to swivel, and a head manipulating apparatus interposed between the hand manipulating apparatuses on the body manipulating apparatus to manipulate the head of the glove puppet to nod. | 04-15-2010 |
20100157048 | POSITIONING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A positioning system and a method thereof are provided. In the positioning method, a first and a second pose information of a moving device are obtained by a first positioning device and a second positioning device respectively, wherein the first pose information corresponds to the second pose information. In addition, a plurality of first candidacy pose information is generated in an error range of the first pose information. Furthermore, a plurality of second candidacy pose information is generated according to the first pose information respectively. One of the second candidacy pose information having a smallest error derived from the second pose information is selected for updating the pose information of the first positioning device and parameter information of the second positioning device. Thereby, pose information of the moving device is updated and parameter information of the second orientation devices is calibrated simultaneously. | 06-24-2010 |
20110090317 | STEREOVISION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALCUALTING DISTANCE BETWEEN OBJECT AND DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENT - A stereovision system is disclosed, which comprises: at least one diffractive optical element and an optical imaging device. Each of the diffractive optical element is used for allowing a first beam containing information relating to an object to pass through and thus transforming the same into a second beam containing information relating to the object. The optical imaging device is used for receiving the second beam so as to concentrate the energy thereof for forming an M | 04-21-2011 |
20110235865 | ADJUSTABLE RANGE FINDER AND THE METHOD THEREOF - An adjustable range finder and the method thereof are disclosed, in which the method comprising: projecting a first beam containing information of an object on a refractive optical element, being comprised a liquid-crystal layer, electrically connected to a voltage device, and a transmission blazed grating, so as to generate a second beam; enabling the voltage device to provide a first voltage to the liquid-crystal layer for forming an energy-concentrated M | 09-29-2011 |
20120002453 | CONTROLLER APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING A MULTIPHASE MULTILEVEL VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER AND A METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides an apparatus for controlling a multiphase multilevel voltage source inverter. The apparatus includes a signal-generating unit and a converter. The signal-generating unit responds to an input signal to produce a switching strategy control signal and a duration timing control signal corresponding to the switching strategy control signal. The converting unit responds to the switching strategy control signal and the duration timing control signal to produce a switching signal. The voltage source inverter responds to the switching signal to generate a multiphase-and-multilevel AC voltage output. | 01-05-2012 |
20120093333 | SPATIALLY PRE-PROCESSED TARGET-TO-JAMMER RATIO WEIGHTED FILTER AND METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides a spatially pre-processed target-to-jammer ratio weighted filter and a method thereof, which uses two microphones to receive audio signals. The audio signals are divided into a plurality of sinusoidal waves by a fast Fourier transform (FFT) module, and a beamformer uses the sinusoidal waves to generate beamformed signals. A reference generator generates at least one reference signal. The beamformed signals and reference signals are used to work out power spectral densities (PSD), and a target-to-jammer ratio (TJR) is worked out with the power spectral densities. TJR is used to determine whether a sound source exists. According to the determination result, a noise estimator is switched to eliminate noise from the beamformed signals and generate output signals. An inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) module recombines the output signals and then outputs the recombined signals. | 04-19-2012 |
20120310646 | SPEECH RECOGNITION DEVICE AND SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD - A speech recognition device and a speech recognition method thereof are disclosed. In the speech recognition method, a key phrase containing at least one key word is received. The speech recognition method comprises steps: receiving a sound source signal of a key word and generating a plurality of audio signals; transforming the audio signals into a plurality of frequency signals; receiving the frequency signals to obtain a space-frequency spectrum and an angular estimation value thereof; receiving the space-frequency spectrum to define and output at least one spatial eigenparameter and, and using the angular estimation value and the frequency signals to perform spotting and evaluation and outputting a Bhattacharyya distance; and receiving the spatial eigenparameter and the Bhattacharyya distance and using corresponding thresholds to determine correctness of the key phrase. Thereby this invention robustly achieves high speech recognition rate under very low SNR conditions. | 12-06-2012 |
20130142395 | DISTANCE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD - A distance measurement apparatus and a distance measurement method are provided. The apparatus includes a line-shaped laser transmitter, an image sensing device and a processing unit. The line-shaped laser transmitter transmits a line-shaped laser, and the image sensing device senses the line-shaped laser to output a line-shaped laser image. The processing unit receives the line-shaped laser image, and segments the line-shaped laser image into several sub-line-shaped laser images. The processing unit further calculates a vertical position for a laser line in each sub-line-shaped laser image, and outputs each distance information according to the corresponding sub-line-shaped laser image and a transformation relation. | 06-06-2013 |
20130158773 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GUIDING AUTOMATED GUIDED VEHICLE - A system for guiding an automated guided vehicle (AGV) is provided. The system includes a guidance path, an AGV, an image capturing apparatus and an operation unit. The guidance path guides the AGV. The AGV moves on the guidance path and is guided by the guidance path. The AGV moves in a vision guidance region after departing from the guidance path. The image capturing apparatus captures a vision guidance region associated image. The vision guidance region associated image at least includes an image of the vision guidance region. The operation unit determines whether the AGV departs from the guidance path, and calculates position information of the AGV in the vision guidance region. When the AGV departs from the guidance path, the operation unit guides the AGV according to the vision guidance region associated image. | 06-20-2013 |
20130243330 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONSTRUCTING IMAGE BLUR PYRAMID, AND AN IMAGE FEATURE EXTRACTING CIRCUIT - A method and an apparatus for constructing an image blur pyramid, and an image feature extracting circuit are disclosed. The image blur pyramid construction apparatus comprises a first image blur circuit, a second image blur circuit and an image sub-sampler. The first image blur circuit and the second image blur circuit simultaneously generate a first interval and a second interval in the same octave according to an input image, a first filter and a second filter. The dimension of the second filter is greater than that of the first filter. The image sub-sampler couples with the second image blur circuit and down samples the second interval to generate a sub-sample image. | 09-19-2013 |
20140125721 | Switching driving method used for a driving system - The present invention discloses a switching driving method used for a driving system. The driving system transforms any type of waveforms to switching signal array by switching strategy modulation, and transmits to switching circuit. Any type of driving waveforms can be generated through high-speed switching the switching circuit. The waveforms can be generated by operating the switching circuit with the switching strategy. The losses of the switch can be reduced, and the modulation ability of driving signal having several waveforms and multi-channels can be improved. | 05-08-2014 |
20140153309 | FREQUENCY CONVERTER AND SWITCHING METHOD THEREOF - A frequency converter includes a comparator, an error computation unit and a calibration unit. The comparator receives a reference voltage signal and a triangle wave signal, and outputs a switching signal. The switching signal is fed back to the error computation unit to calculate an error signal by computing the reference signal and the switching signal. The calibration unit calibrates the triangle wave signal or the reference voltage signal according to the error signal. | 06-05-2014 |
20140161366 | IMAGE AND MESSAGE ENCODING SYSTEM, ENCODING METHOD, DECODING SYSTEM AND DECODING METHOD - An image and message encoding system, encoding method, decoding system and decoding method are provided. The encoding method includes the following steps. An original image having a first resolution is provided. A message data is provided. The original image and the message data are combined to be an integrated image having a second resolution. The second resolution is greater than the first resolution. | 06-12-2014 |
20140168005 | PULSE RADAR RANGING APPARATUS AND RANGING ALGORITHM THEREOF - A pulse radar ranging apparatus and a ranging algorithm thereof are provided. The pulse radar ranging apparatus includes a radio frequency pulse generator, a radio frequency filter, a radio frequency switch and a transceiver aerial. The radio frequency pulse generator generates a pulse signal. The radio frequency filter receives the pulse signal and generates a high-pass filter signal, wherein the high-pass filter signal includes a radio frequency pulse reference signal. The radio frequency switch controls an output of the radio frequency pulse reference signal. The transceiver aerial transmits the radio frequency pulse reference signal. The radio frequency pulse reference signal contacts an object and generates a return signal, and the transceiver aerial receives the return signal. The ranging algorithm processes and analyzes the signals obtained by the pulse radar ranging apparatus, and calculates a distance between pulse radar ranging apparatus and the object by using polynomial interpolation. | 06-19-2014 |