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20140017048 | Apparatus for the automated removal of workpieces arranged in a container - An apparatus for the automated removal of workpieces arranged in a container comprising a first object recognition device for detecting the workpieces and a first gripper for picking and removing the workpieces from the container; and a control for evaluating the data of the first object recognition device, for track planning and for controlling the first gripper; wherein an intermediate station on which the first gripper places the workpiece after the removal from the container; and a positioning apparatus which positions the workpieces more accurately starting from the intermediate station and/or singularizes them. | 01-16-2014 |
20140025197 | Apparatus for the automated Handling of workpieces - An apparatus for the automated handling of workpieces comprising an object recognition device for detecting the workpiece and a gripper arranged at a gripping arm for picking the workpieces and a control for evaluating the data of the object recognition device, for track planning and for controlling the gripping arm and the gripper and comprising a compensation unit which allows an evasion movement of the gripper, wherein the compensation unit only allows an evasion movement of the gripper on the exceeding of a predefined first load of the gripping arm and remains rigid below the first load, wherein the first load is larger than a load exerted on the gripping arm solely by the gripper and/or the picked workpiece. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025198 | Apparatus for the automated detection and removal of workpieces - An apparatus for the automated detection and removal of workpieces comprising an object recognition device for detecting the workpieces and a gripper for picking the workpieces; and a gripper for picking the workpieces; and a control for evaluating the data of the object recognition device, for track planning and for controlling the gripper, wherein the object recognition device is arranged at a travel arrangement by which it can be traveled from a position of rest into at least one measuring position and back. | 01-23-2014 |
20140052297 | Apparatus for Automated Removal of Workpieces Arranged in a Container - A device for automated removal of workpieces arranged in a container has a detector device, for the purpose of detecting the workpiece, and a picker, which can be moved via a robot arm having at least six axes, for picking and removing the workpieces from the container. The device also has controller for evaluating the data of the detector device, for path planning, and for controlling the robot arm and the picker. The robot arm has a picker arm element, with at least two further axes of movement, for moving the picker. | 02-20-2014 |
20140154036 | Apparatus for the automated handling of workpieces - An apparatus for the automated handling of workpieces comprising at least one gripper for picking the workpiece; a control for controlling the at least one gripper and an intermediate station for placing the workpiece, with the apparatus being configured such that the workpiece is placed in a defined position and/or defined orientation on the intermediate station and is picked up again with a changed orientation and/or with greater accuracy. | 06-05-2014 |
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20110188704 | Content Identification and Quality Monitoring - Content identification and quality monitoring are provided. The method involves obtaining a first fingerprint derived from a first media content, processing the first media content to generate a second media content, obtaining a second fingerprint derived from the second media content, and comparing the first fingerprint and the second fingerprint to determine one or more of: a similarity between the first fingerprint and the second fingerprint that indicates that the second media content is generated from the first media content or a difference between the first fingerprint and the second fingerprint to identify a quality degradation between the first media content and the second media content. | 08-04-2011 |
20120328115 | SYSTEM FOR COMBINING LOUDNESS MEASUREMENTS IN A SINGLE PLAYBACK MODE - The present document relates to processing of multimedia data, notably the encoding, the transmission, the decoding and the rendering of multimedia data, e.g. audio files or bitstreams. In particular, the present document relates to the implementation of loudness control in multimedia players. A method for providing loudness related data to a media player is described. The method comprises the steps of providing a first loudness related value associated with an audio signal; wherein the first loudness related value has been determined according to a first procedure; of converting the first loudness related value into a second loudness related value using a reversible relation; wherein the second loudness related value is associated with a second procedure for determining loudness related values; of storing the second loudness related value in metadata associated with the audio signal; and of providing the metadata to the media player. | 12-27-2012 |
20130246077 | ADAPTIVE PROCESSING WITH MULTIPLE MEDIA PROCESSING NODES - Techniques for adaptive processing of media data based on separate data specifying a state of the media data are provided. A device in a media processing chain may determine whether a type of media processing has already been performed on an input version of media data. If so, the device may adapt its processing of the media data to disable performing the type of media processing. If not, the device performs the type of media processing. The device may create a state of the media data specifying the type of media processing. The device may communicate the state of the media data and an output version of the media data to a recipient device in the media processing chain, for the purpose of supporting the recipient device's adaptive processing of the media data. | 09-19-2013 |
20140336800 | Adaptive Audio Processing Based on Forensic Detection of Media Processing History - A media signal is accessed, which has been generated with one or more first processing operations. The media signal includes one or more sets of artifacts, which respectively result from the one or more processing operations. One or more features are extracted from the accessed media signal. The extracted features each respectively correspond to the one or more artifact sets. Based on the extracted features, a conditional probability score and/or a heuristically based score is computed, which relates to the one or more first processing operations. | 11-13-2014 |
20150043754 | System and Method for Non-Destructively Normalizing Loudness of Audio Signals within Portable Devices - Many portable playback devices cannot decode and playback encoded audio content having wide bandwidth and wide dynamic range with consistent loudness and intelligibility unless the encoded audio content has been prepared specially for these devices. This problem can be overcome by including with the encoded content some metadata that specifies a suitable dynamic range compression profile by either absolute values or differential values relative to another known compression profile. A playback device may also adaptively apply gain and limiting to the playback audio Implementations in encoders, in transcoders and in decoders are disclosed. | 02-12-2015 |
20150078585 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LEVELING LOUDNESS VARIATION IN AN AUDIO SIGNAL - Systems and methods for leveling loudness variation in an audio signal are described. Embodiments use both a perceptual leveling algorithm and a standards-based loudness measure together to minimize audio process artifacts and ensure that the measured loudness of the processed audio is close to a required measure, according to a particular standard measurement of loudness. These systems and methods can be used either offline or in real-time. | 03-19-2015 |
20150104021 | SYSTEM FOR MAINTAINING REVERSIBLE DYNAMIC RANGE CONTROL INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH PARAMETRIC AUDIO CODERS - On the basis of a bitstream (P), an n-channel audio signal (X) is reconstructed by deriving an m-channel core signal (Y) and multichannel coding parameters (α) from the bitstream, where 1≦m04-16-2015 | |
20150131800 | Efficient Encoding and Decoding of Multi-Channel Audio Signal with Multiple Substreams - The present document relates to audio encoding/decoding. In particular, the present document relates to a method and system for improving the quality of encoded multi-channel audio signals. An audio encoder configured to encode a multi-channel audio signal according to a total available data-rate is described. The multi-channel audio signal is representable as a basic group ( | 05-14-2015 |
20150154966 | Haptic Signal Synthesis and Transport in a Bit Stream - Techniques for synthesizing a parameterized haptic track from a multichannel audio signal and embedding the haptic track in a multichannel audio codec bit stream. The haptic track synthesis can occur while encoding the multichannel audio signal as the multichannel audio codec bit stream. The haptic track can be synthesized in a way that allows select parameters of the haptic track to be extracted from the audio signal. The parameters can be adjusted by a user during the encoding process. For example, the parameter adjustments can be made using a authoring/monitoring tool. The parameter adjustments can be recorded as metadata that, along with the haptic track, is included in the codec bit stream. In some aspects the present technology, the adjustable parameters include center frequency, gain, decay rate, and other parameters that allow for modulation of the haptic track during decoding of the codec bit stream. By synthesizing a parameterized haptic track, A/V content creators can be provided greater control in authoring haptic content to accompany the A/V content they create. | 06-04-2015 |
20150325243 | AUDIO ENCODER AND DECODER WITH PROGRAM LOUDNESS AND BOUNDARY METADATA - Apparatus and methods for generating an encoded audio bitstream, including by including program loudness metadata and audio data in the bitstream, and optionally also program boundary metadata in at least one segment (e.g., frame) of the bitstream. Other aspects are apparatus and methods for decoding such a bitstream, e.g., including by performing adaptive loudness processing of the audio data of an audio program indicated by the bitstream, or authentication and/or validation of metadata and/or audio data of such an audio program. Another aspect is an audio processing unit (e.g., an encoder, decoder, or post-processor) configured (e.g., programmed) to perform any embodiment of the method or which includes a buffer memory which stores at least one frame of an audio bitstream generated in accordance with any embodiment of the method. | 11-12-2015 |
20150348558 | Audio Bitstreams with Supplementary Data and Encoding and Decoding of Such Bitstreams - Methods for generating or decoding an encoded audio bitstream including audio data and supplementary data (e.g., metadata and/or unrelated audio data), where at least some of the supplementary data is included as LSBs of audio segments, and/or at least some of the supplementary data is included in guard bands. Typical embodiments provide a scalable and video synchronous format compatible with real-time and file-based infrastructure components that support the SMPTE 337 format for carrying data in AES3 serial bitstreams, and/or provide a framework for extending distribution codecs to scale beyond an 8-channel limit to support multiples of 8 channels synchronously across multiple AES3 interfaces. Another aspect is an audio processing unit configured to perform any embodiment of the method or including a buffer memory storing at least one segment of an audio bitstream generated in accordance with any embodiment of the method. | 12-03-2015 |
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20120201386 | Automatic Generation of Metadata for Audio Dominance Effects - Metadata comprising a set of gain values for creating a dominance effect is automatically generated. Automatically generating the metadata includes receiving multiple audio streams and a dominance criterion for at least one of the audio streams. A set of gains is computed for one or more audio streams based on the dominance criterion for the at least one audio stream and metadata is generated with the set of gains. | 08-09-2012 |
20140358554 | AUDIO ENCODING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A UNIFIED BITSTREAM DECODABLE BY DECODERS IMPLEMENTING DIFFERENT DECODING PROTOCOLS - In a class of embodiments, an audio encoding system (typically, a perceptual encoding system that is configured to generate a single (“unified”) bitstream that is compatible with (i.e., decodable by) a first decoder configured to decode audio data encoded in accordance with a first encoding protocol (e.g., the multichannel Dolby Digital Plus, or DD+, protocol) and a second decoder configured to decode audio data encoded in accordance with a second encoding protocol (e.g., the stereo AAC, HE AAC v1, or HE AAC v2 protocol). The unified bitstream can include both encoded data (e.g., bursts of data) decodable by the first decoder (and ignored by the second decoder) and encoded data (e.g., other bursts of data) decodable by the second decoder (and ignored by the first decoder). In effect, the second encoding format is hidden within the unified bitstream when the bitstream is decoded by the first decoder, and the first encoding format is hidden within the unified bitstream when the bitstream is decoded by the second decoder. The format of the unified bitstream generated in accordance with the invention may eliminate the need for transcoding elements throughout an entire media chain and/or ecosystem. Other aspects of the invention are an encoding method performed by any embodiment of the inventive encoder, a decoding method performed by any embodiment of the inventive decoder, and a computer readable medium (e.g., disc) which stores code for implementing any embodiment of the inventive method. | 12-04-2014 |
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20110100262 | Mixture, in Particular Construction Material Mixture Containing Furnace Slag - The present invention relates to building material mixtures which contain slag sand and zinc salts which have from 0 to 8 carbon atoms in their structure. The invention furthermore relates to the use of zinc salts for preventing discolorations during the hardening of the building material mixtures. | 05-05-2011 |
20110139037 | Powdery Building Compound - A delayed action powdery building compound is provided, consisting of a reactive support material and a liquid polymer component applied to the support material. The inventive compound can contain the support material in the form of hydraulic (latent) binder, inorganic additives and/or organic components, and the polymer component for example in the form of polyvinyl alcohols, polyvinyl acetates and MPS-based polymers. The component makes it possible to obtain the delayed liberation of the support material in an aqueous building chemical mixture as a result of a time-depending separation of the polymer component from said support material. The powdery building compound also makes it possible to carry out a time-controlled hardening of hydratable building material mixtures and to obtain a time-controlled internal drying of aqueous dispersion-based materials. | 06-16-2011 |
20110265693 | Use Of Polyols And Cyclohexane Polycarboxylic Acid Derivatives For The Removal Of Dust From Chemical Construction Products - The use of a mixture of at least one polyol and at least one cyclohexanepolycarboxylic acid derivative for reducing or minimizing the dust emission when handling pulverulent construction chemistry products, processes for the preparation of the pulverulent construction chemistry products and hydraulically setting materials containing the mixture according to the invention are proposed. | 11-03-2011 |
20120240825 | Low-Shrinkage Binder System - The invention relates to mixtures containing alkali-activatable aluminosilicate binders, characterized in that the mixture contains organosiloxane compounds, to the use of organosiloxane compounds for reducing shrinkage in alkali-activatable aluminosilicate binders and to the use for hydrophobization of alkali-activatable aluminosilicate binders. The invention furthermore relates to joint mortars, levelling compounds or coatings which contain the mixtures according to the invention. | 09-27-2012 |
20120247369 | Inorganic Binder System for the Production of Chemically Resistant Construction Chemistry Products - A novel binder system comprising at least one latent hydraulic binder, at least one amorphous silica, optionally at least one reactive filler and at least one alkali metal silicate is proposed. | 10-04-2012 |
20130319294 | Use Of Compounds Containing Aluminium Oxide And Silicon Oxide For Producing A Hydrophilic Building Product - The use of a binder system comprising compounds containing aluminium oxide and silicon oxide for producing a hydrophilic building product, characterized in that the sum of the oxides calculated as Al | 12-05-2013 |