Patents Assigned to Solutions
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Patent number: 10535335Abstract: According to one embodiment, a voice synthesizing device includes a first operation receiving unit, a score transforming unit, and a voice synthesizing unit. The first operation receiving unit configured to receive a first operation specifying voice quality of a desired voice based on one or more upper level expressions indicating the voice quality. The score transforming unit configured to transform, based on a score transformation model that transforms a score of the upper level expression into a score of a lower level expression which is less abstract than the upper level expression, the score of the upper level expression corresponding to the first operation into a score of one or more lower level expressions. The voice synthesizing unit configured to generate a synthetic sound corresponding to a certain text based on the score of the lower level expression.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2016Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Digital Solutions CorporationInventors: Kouichirou Mori, Yamato Ohtani
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Patent number: 10533790Abstract: A single serve beverage dispenser having a beverage dispensing assembly for an appliance is provided. The beverage dispensing assembly may include a brewing body, a lid, an actuating lever, and a lift frame. The brewing body may define a brew chamber and define an outlet. The lid may be pivotally attached to the brewing body to rotate between a first position and a second position. The lid may include a cam and defining an inlet to receive a flow of water in the first position. The actuating lever may extend between a first end and a second end. The first end may be slidably engaged with the cam to move between the first position and the second position. The lift frame may be pivotally attached to the lever at the second end to selectively motivate the brew pod away from the brew chamber in the second position.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Dhinesh Babu Sakthivel, Aditya Kampalli
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Publication number: 20200010826Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to methods for purifying, activating, and expanding T cells, and subsets thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2017Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicant: Biomagnetic Solutions LLCInventors: Paul A. LIBERTI, Dustin W. RITTER, Todor R. KHRISTOV
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Publication number: 20200008650Abstract: A medical image processing device includes a motion amount calculating unit configured to compare a first image obtained by capturing a subject image taken by an endoscope with a second image obtained by capturing the subject image at a chronologically different timing from the first image and calculate a motion amount for the second image every two or more areas in the first image; and an area specifying unit configured to specify a mask area other than the subject image included in the first image from an inside of a mask candidate area in which the motion amount is equal to or less than a specific first threshold value in the first image.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.Inventors: Taihei MICHIHATA, Yuichi YAMADA
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Publication number: 20200012648Abstract: A system and process for generalizing an evolutionary process applied to a particular domain involving different problems includes a researcher module for generating a configuration specification applicable to a particular problem. An evolution module parses the configuration specification into a representative tree structure, assembles policies for each node in the tree structure, and generates candidate genomes using the policies for each node in the tree structure. The policies may be applied to new data or data from prior runs to generate candidate genomes. The evolution module translates internal representations of the generated candidate genomes into known representations of the candidate genome for evaluation in accordance with the particular domain parameters by a candidate evaluation module.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicant: Cognizant Technology Solutions U.S. CorporationInventor: Daniel E. Fink
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Publication number: 20200010296Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main body, a feeder, and a relay device. The main body forms an image on a sheet. The feeder feeds the sheet toward the main body. The relay device connects the main body to the feeder. The main body is placed on a placement surface. The feeder is arranged opposite to the main body with the relay device therebetween in a direction along the placement surface. The relay device includes a conveyance unit and a casing which houses the conveyance unit. The conveyance unit conveys the sheet fed from the feeder to the main body and rotates relative to the casing with an axis as a pivot thereof. The axis extends in a cross direction intersecting with the placement surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Takatoshi NISHIMURA
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Publication number: 20200013251Abstract: A system may facilitate distributed ledger technology (DLT) record based (for example, blockchain-based) voting. A voter may distribute vote-value to answers using committed tokens that bind the voter to a particular vote-value without divulging the particular vote value while in a cryptographic form. The voter may distribute committed tokens to multiple answers. In some cases, the distribution of the committed tokens to multiple answers may frustrate attempts to determine the one or more targets to which the voter delivers a non-null vote-value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicants: Accenture Global Solutions Limited, DSX Holdings LimitedInventors: Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ivanov, Aleksei Vladimirovich Kazennov, Georgii Valerievich Mavchun, Mikhail Rymanov, Peter de Rooij, John Velissarios
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Publication number: 20200012455Abstract: Life of a non-volatile memory is extended without increasing processing time due to turning power ON/OFF. An EEPROM stores counter information and setting information, a first RAM and a second RAM store counter information and setting information, a memory management unit manages a storage area in the first RAM for the counter information and setting information so as to be updatable and manages a storage area in the second RAM for the counter information and setting information so as not to be updatable, and a system control unit, when a change in contents of the counter information and the setting information occurs, rewrites the counter information and the setting information in the first RAM in accordance to the changed contents, and when the power is turned OFF, reads and compares the counter information and the setting information in the first RAM with the counter information and the setting information in the second RAM, and writes only different data to the EEPROM.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2018Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Yukio IWASAKI
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Publication number: 20200011637Abstract: An overmolded/through-molded holster, having one or more wall portions defining a holster body, wherein the holster body extends from a substantially open top portion to a bottom portion, and wherein the one or more wall portions define an at least partial holster cavity of the holster body; at least one overmold aperture formed through a portion of one or more of the one or more wall portions; and an overmolding material extending atop at least a portion of an exterior surface of the holster body, wherein at least a portion of the overmolding material extends through the at least one overmold aperture, such that at least a portion of the overmolding material extends through at least a portion of the at least one overmold aperture and into at least a portion of the at least partial holster cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2018Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicant: Sentry Solutions Products Group LLCInventor: Eric M. Yeates
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Publication number: 20200012738Abstract: A knowledge data management system (KDMS) implements data refinement orchestration, resolution, and refinement to provide a reusable and generic solution to ingest and link data via relationships and properties when constructing a knowledge graph. The KDMS thus operates to break down existing data storage silos by normalizing and integrating data with a uniform semantic schema, which results in more accurate and faster knowledge graph construction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2018Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicant: Accenture Global Solutions LimitedInventors: Teresa Sheausan Tung, Colin Anil Puri, Zhijie Wang, Matthew Bernard Kujawinski
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Publication number: 20200013409Abstract: A speaker retrieval device includes a first converting unit, a receiving unit, and a searching unit. The first converting unit converts, using an inverse transform model of a first conversion model for converting score vectors representing the features of voice quality into acoustic models, pre-registered acoustic models into score vectors; and registers the score vectors in a corresponding manner to a speaker identifier in score management information. The receiving unit receives input of a score vector. The searching unit searches the score management information for the speaker identifiers whose score vectors are similar to the received score vector.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Digital Solutions CorporationInventors: Kouichirou Mori, Masaru Suzuki, Yamato Ohtani, Masahiro Morita
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Publication number: 20200009889Abstract: In a method for detecting an ejection abnormality of a nozzle according to the present disclosure, a plurality of nozzles of a liquid ejection head are caused to execute an operation of ejecting liquids so that a nozzle check pattern including check areas each drawn solely by each of the plurality of nozzles and a solid pattern including a solid printed area are formed on part of a sheet. A first density value indicating a density value of a ground color of the sheet and a second density value indicating a density value of the solid pattern are acquired. A threshold value for detecting an ejection abnormality of each of the plurality of nozzles is derived from the first density value and the second density value. It is determined, using the threshold value, whether or not each of the check areas of the nozzle check pattern is drawn.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Yuichiro KUROKAWA
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Publication number: 20200010792Abstract: A storage assembly for storing a plurality of specimens includes a frame, a plurality of modular storage units for perfusion and/or incubation of one or more specimens removably coupled to the frame, a sample transfer apparatus configured to retrieve a specimen holder from a chosen modular storage unit of the plurality of modular storage units, and a control unit communicatively coupled to the sample transfer apparatus. The control unit is configured to cause the sample transfer apparatus to retrieve a specimen from a modular storage unit of the plurality of modular storage units and deliver the specimen to a delivery position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicant: Advanced Solutions Life Sciences, LLCInventors: Michael W. Golway, Scott Douglas Cambron
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Publication number: 20200014872Abstract: An imaging system according to the present disclosure includes: an imaging device that is mounted in a vehicle, and captures and generates an image of a peripheral region of the vehicle; and a processing device that is mounted in the vehicle, and executes processing related to a function of controlling the vehicle on the basis of the image. The imaging device includes: a first control line, a first voltage generator that applies a first voltage to the first control line, a first signal line, a plurality of pixels that applies a pixel voltage to the first signal line, a first dummy pixel that applies a voltage corresponding to the first voltage of the first control line to the first signal line in a first period, a converter including a first converter that performs AD conversion on the basis of a voltage of the first signal line in the first period to generate a first digital code, and a diagnosis section that performs diagnosis processing on the basis of the first digital code.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2018Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Naoki Kawazu, Atsushi Suzuki, Junichiro Azami, Motohashi Yuichi
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Publication number: 20200008589Abstract: Adjustable size security apparatuses are disclosed herein. In certain embodiments, such an adjustable size security apparatus includes a plurality of brace elements, a main body, and a neck. Each of the brace elements is configured to be secured to a separate portion of any one of a plurality of different sized rectangular shaped portable electronic devices. The main body is configured to selectively lock the brace elements in place so that the brace elements cannot be removed from the rectangular shaped portable electronic device to which the brace elements are secured. The neck is configured to secure the main body to a display table and thereby secure, to the display table, the rectangular shaped portable electronic device to which the brace elements are secured.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicant: OnQ Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Paul Chapuis, Steven D. Penny
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Patent number: 10526008Abstract: Technical solutions are described for applying machine current limiting in permanent magnet synchronous motors. An example system includes a PMSM and a motor control system. The motor control system is configured to receive a torque command and determine whether the torque command can be satisfied based on a given voltage and a given maximum motor current limit. The motor control system is further configured to, responsive to determining that the torque command can be satisfied, determine a minimum current that satisfies the torque command. The motor control system is further configured to send the minimum current as a minimum current command to the PMSM.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2018Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Steering Solutions IP Holding CorporationInventors: Haibo Li, Prerit Pramod
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Patent number: 10524687Abstract: Rapid quantitative evaluations of heart function are carried out with strain measurements from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images using a circuit at least partially onboard or in communication with an MRI Scanner and in communication with the at least one display, the circuit including at least one processor that: obtains a plurality of series of MRI images of long and short axis planes of a heart of a patient, with each series of the MRI images is taken over a different single beat of the heart of the patient during an image session that is five minutes or less of active scan time and with the patient in a bore of the MRI Scanner; measures strain of myocardial heart tissue of the heart of the patient based on the plurality of series of MRI images of the heart of the patient; and generates longitudinal and circumferential heart models with a plurality of adjacent compartments, wherein the compartments are color-coded based on the measured strain.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2017Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Myocardial Solutions, Inc.Inventor: Nael F. Osman
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Patent number: 10527325Abstract: A refrigerator appliance includes a cold side heat exchanger positioned within a cabinet such that a fresh food chamber and a freezer chamber are chillable with air from the cold side heat exchanger. A regenerator housing is connected to the cold side heat exchanger such that working fluid is flowable from the regenerator housing to the cold side heat exchanger. The working fluid is flowable through a caloric material within the regenerator housing. The refrigerator appliance also includes features for drawing the working fluid from the regenerator housing at a plurality of locations along the length of the caloric material.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2017Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Michael Goodman Schroeder, Michael Alexander Benedict
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Patent number: 10530643Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method for automatic management network provisioning includes: broadcasting a provisioning request to one or more devices; receiving at least one provisioning reply from the device(s); and broadcasting a provisioning configuration packet to device(s) from which a provisioning reply was received. In another embodiment, a method for peer-based automatic management network provisioning includes broadcasting network configuration information corresponding to a particular device to one or more other devices of a network environment; determining, after the broadcast, whether such network configuration information was modified; and requesting, from one or more of the other devices, the network configuration information corresponding to the particular device. The request is made in response to determining the particular device network configuration information was modified after broadcasting the network configuration information to the one or more other devices.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2016Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Fred Allison Bower, III, Caihong Zhang
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Patent number: D872133Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2018Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Brandt Equipment Solutions Ltd.Inventors: Michael Pletz, Daniel Klassen