Abstract: A system and method for efficiently performing a white balance operation preferably includes an electronic camera device that captures image data using a imaging device. A color manager may then convert the captured image data into perceptual color space data. The color manager may next create a histogram of chromaticity vectors corresponding to pixels from the perceptual color space data. The color manager may then derive a neutral core vector corresponding to a neutral core peak from the histogram. The color manager may advantageously utilize the neutral core vector to identify a scene illuminant corresponding to color channel amplifier gains, and may then adjust the captured image data with the color channel amplifier gains to thereby complete the white balance operation.

Abstract: A system and method for effectively performing an image data processing procedure may include an image manager configured to access raw image data and responsively process the raw image data to produce final image data. The image manager may preferably perform a series of destination pixel calculations with raw image data pixels from the raw image data to generate final image pixels for the final image data. While performing the foregoing image data processing procedure, the image manager may utilize various enhancements techniques, including a dual-spiral processing pattern, a distance weighting factor, a reset relaxation technique, an iteration limit, a ratio-array technique, and an image blending technique.

Abstract: A system and method for capturing adjacent images includes an imaging device with a panorama manager that performs various procedures to manipulate one or more image parameters that correspond to adjacent frames of captured image data. An image-stitching software program may then produce a cohesive combined panorama image from the adjacent frames of image data by utilizing the manipulated image parameters.

Abstract: The present invention comprises a system and method for speech recognition utilizing a merged dictionary, and may include a recognizer that is configured to compare input speech data to a series of dictionary entries from the merged dictionary to detect a recognized phrase or command. The merged dictionary may be implemented by utilizing a merging technique that maps two or more related phrases or commands with similar meanings to a single one of the dictionary entries. The recognizer may thus achieve more accurate speech recognition accuracy by merging phrases or commands which might otherwise be erroneously mistaken for each other.

Abstract: A system and method for accurately calculating a mathematical power function in an electronic device may include an application program that is configured to calculate a direct estimate of power function value for the mathematical power function during a direct linear interpolations procedure. The application program may also calculate an indirect estimate of power function value for a complement power function during an indirect linear interpolation procedure. The application program may then perform a final function-estimate calculation procedure to accurately produce a final estimated power function value from the foregoing direct estimate of power function value and indirect estimate of power function value.

Abstract: A system and method for speech recognition using an enhanced phone set comprises speech data, an enhanced phone set, and a transcription generated by a transcription process. The transcription process selects appropriate phones from the enhanced phone set to represent acoustic-phonetic content of the speech data. The enhanced phone set includes base-phones and composite-phones. A phone dataset includes the speech data and the transcription. The present invention also comprises a transformer that applies transformation rules to the phone dataset to produce a transformed phone dataset. The transformed phone dataset may be utilized in training a speech recognizer, such as a Hidden Markov Model. Various types of transformation rules may be applied to the phone dataset of the present invention to find an optimum transformed phone dataset for training a particular speech recognizer.

Abstract: A system and method for creating still images by utilizing a video camera comprises a cradle device that transports the video camera across a target object during a scanning procedure that captures and stores video data. During the scanning procedure, a motion detector captures and provides scan motion data to a scanning manager from the video camera. The scanning manager may then responsively utilize the scan motion data to accurately extract still frames corresponding to the target object from the captured video data at pre-determined time intervals. A stitching software program may then access and combine the still frames generated by the scanning manager to thereby create composite still images.

Abstract: A system and method for effectively performing an audio/video synchronization procedure in a receiver device may preferably include a demultiplexer configured to recover elementary bitstreams from a multiplexed bitstream. The demultiplexer may also preferably extract decode timestamps and output timestamps corresponding to the elementary bitstreams. One or more decoders may then decode the elementary bitstreams to produce decoded frames in accordance with the foregoing decode timestamps. One or more output modules may then process the decoded frames to produce processed frames in accordance with the output timestamps. In accordance with the present invention, an output controller may preferably perform an output timing resynchronization procedure following a program change event to align output timings of the processed frames in accordance with new output timestamps from the selected program.

Abstract: The present invention comprises a system and method for speech verification using a robust confidence measure, and includes a speech verifier which compares a confidence measure for a recognized word to a predetermined threshold value in order to determine whether the recognized word is valid, where a recognized word corresponds to a word model that produces a highest recognition score. In accordance with the present invention, the foregoing confidence measure may be calculated using the recognition score for the recognized word, a background score of a worst recognition candidate, and a pseudo filler score that may be based upon selected average recognition scores from an N-best list of recognition candidates.

Abstract: A system and method for effectively managing operating power for an electronic device may include a battery pack coupled to the electronic device for supplying operating power to the electronic device. A battery controller may be configured as a single integrated-circuit device to alternately manage the battery pack either in a single-cell implementation or in a dual-cell implementation. The battery controller may include a charge pump device to provide an internal controller power supply for operating the battery controller in the single-cell implementation.

Abstract: A system and method for effectively implementing a dither matrix for an electronic printer device may preferably create an improved dither matrix with optimal threshold values for use in a corresponding dither tile. During a matrix populating procedure for assigning tile threshold values for the dither matrix, the dither tile may preferably be embedded within a larger frame area of additional adjacent frame cells. A design entity may then preferably compute various cost functions when the additional boundary cells of the frame area are in place. The embedded dither matrix of the dither tile is thus preferably populated within the foregoing frame area so that various boundary effects may be taken into account when an overall cost function of both the dither tile plus the frame area is calculated.

Abstract: A system and method for interactively utilizing a user interface to manage device resources comprises at least one resource characterization that includes resource requirements for executing a requested process. An allocation manager may then compare the resource requirements for the requested process to the currently-available device resources. The allocation manager may then authorize or deny the requested process depending upon whether the currently-available resources are sufficient to adequately service the resource requirements of the requested process. An interface manager may provide relevant information from sources such as the resource characterization and the allocation manager to a user interface to thereby allow a system user to interactively manage device resources.

Abstract: A system for performing caching procedures in an electronic network may include a user device that communicates with a server device in the electronic network for transmitting message information to a selected buddy device in the electronic network. A messaging application of the user device may temporarily store the message information into a cache device as a cached message until a successful transmission of the cached message to the buddy device becomes possible through the server device and over the electronic network.

Abstract: A system for implementing a gaming network includes a game console configured to generate game program signals corresponding to a gaming event, and a base unit coupled to the game console for processing the game program signals to produce a game program bitstream. The base unit may then wirelessly transmit the game program bitstream to various remote units which responsively process the game program bitstream to retrieve the foregoing game program signals. The remote units then each perform a pixel identification procedure to individually identify different assigned windows from the game program signals. The remote units also each perform a window zooming procedure to generate remote display video signals corresponding to the assigned windows. The remote units then each advantageously display one of the remote display video signals in a substantially full-screen manner upon respective remote displays coupled to the remote units.

Abstract: A method to control a network device in a network comprising several devices includes a first controller that operates to prevent another controller from performing an unwanted overtaking of a network device that is currently controlled by the first controller. In one embodiment, the first controller has the ability to reserve a controllable network device to thereby become its primary controller, so that the first controller may maintain control over the controllable network device against control demands of other controllers present in the network.

Abstract: A system and method for rendering high dynamic range images includes a rendering manager that divides an original luminance image into a plurality of original subband images. The rendering manager converts the original subband images into original contrast images which are converted into original perceived contrast images. The rendering manager performs a compression procedure upon the original perceived contrast images to produce compressed perceived contrast images. The rendering manager converts the compressed perceived contrast images into compressed contrast images which are converted into compressed subband images. The rendering manager performs a subband combination procedure for combining the compressed subband images together with a lowest-frequency subband image to generate a rendered luminance image. The rendering manager may combines the rendered luminance image with corresponding chrominance information to generate a rendered composite image.

Abstract: A system and method for capturing adjacent images includes an imaging device with a panorama manager that performs various procedures to manipulate one or more image parameters that correspond to adjacent frames of captured image data. An image-stitching software program may then produce a cohesive combined panorama image from the adjacent frames of image data by utilizing the manipulated image parameters.

Abstract: A method for providing optimal performance in an electronic device comprises at least one resource characterization that includes resource requirements for executing a requested process. An allocation manager may then compare the resource requirements for the requested process to the currently-available device resources. The allocation manager may then authorize or deny the requested process depending upon whether the currently-available resources are sufficient to adequately service the resource requirements of the requested process.

Abstract: The present invention comprises a methodology for implementing a vocabulary set for use in a speech recognition system, and may preferably include a recognizer for analyzing utterances from the vocabulary set to generate N-best lists of recognition candidates. The N-best lists may then be utilized to create an acoustical matrix configured to relate said utterances to top recognition candidates from said N-best lists, as well as a lexical matrix configured to relate the utterances to the top recognition candidates from the N-best lists only when second-highest recognition candidates from the N-best lists are correct recognition results. An utterance ranking may then preferably be created according to composite individual error/accuracy values for each of the utterances. The composite individual error/accuracy values may preferably be derived from both the acoustical matrix and the lexical matrix.

Abstract: A hermetically coated device includes an integrated semiconductor circuit die, a first layer comprising an inorganic material, the first layer enveloping the integrated semiconductor circuit die, a second layer, the second layer enveloping the integrated semiconductor circuit die. Formation of such device includes steps of providing an integrated semiconductor circuit die, applying a first layer comprising an inorganic material, the first layer enveloping the integrated semiconductor circuit die, and applying a second layer, the second layer enveloping the integrated semiconductor circuit die.