Abstract: An adjustable implant electrode system comprises an adjustable implant electrode assembly and an adjustment device for adjusting the adjustable implant electrode assembly to a desired position. The adjustable implant electrode assembly comprises an implant, a plurality of electrodes, and a plurality of magnetic components. The electrodes are disposed in the implant for providing stimulating currents according to a control signal. The magnetic components are combined with the electrodes in one-to-one correspondence. The adjustment device comprises a control unit, an excitation unit, and one or more magnetic units. The control unit is used to select one or more magnetic components to be moved from the magnetic components, and the excitation unit is used to excite the selected one or more magnetic components for the same to generate a magnetic pole, and the magnetic unit is adapted to generate a magnetic field to drive the magnetic pole and accordingly move the implant.

Abstract: An electrical stimulation system and method using multi-group electrode array are disclosed. The electrical stimulation system comprises an implant body having an electrode carrying surface, an electrode array provided on the electrode carrying surface, and an electrode controller. The electrode array comprises a plurality of electrode groups, each of which includes a plurality of electrodes, and each of the electrodes has an independent power supply control. The electrode controller receives a control signal to drive a set of at least two corresponding electrodes, which is selected from the electrodes of the same electrode group and two adjacent electrode groups. Powers supplies to the set of corresponding electrodes may be regulated by the independent power supply controls thereof, so as to generate a virtual channel between the set of corresponding electrodes through interaction of powers supplied to the set of corresponding electrodes.

Abstract: An adjustable implant electrode system comprises an adjustable implant electrode assembly and an adjustment device for adjusting the adjustable implant electrode assembly to a desired position. The adjustable implant electrode assembly comprises an implant, a plurality of electrodes, and a plurality of magnetic components. The electrodes are disposed in the implant for providing stimulating currents according to a control signal. The magnetic components are combined with the electrodes in one-to-one correspondence. The adjustment device comprises a control unit, an excitation unit, and one or more magnetic units. The control unit is used to select one or more magnetic components to be moved from the magnetic components, and the excitation unit is used to excite the selected one or more magnetic components for the same to generate a magnetic pole, and the magnetic unit is adapted to generate a magnetic filed to drive the magnetic pole and accordingly move the implant.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling an electrical stimulation system to increase the resolution of the stimulation region with multiple independent power source electrodes is proposed. In the apparatus, the electrode set contains at least three electrodes of which two adjacent electrodes are of the same power polarity to control the location of the composite stimulation signal and the others are of an inverse power polarity to balance the total power polarity and narrow the stimulation region. The method for the apparatus comprises steps of: receiving a target stimulation location and level, generating at least one parameter to adjust power settings of the electrodes, thereby obtaining a composite stimulation signal corresponding to a virtual channel of which a location and level match the target stimulation location and level.

Abstract: A multimedia data system comprising a synchronization unit. The synchronization unit receives a demodulated bitstream, checks whether a FAW pattern corresponding to a candidate of the bitstream exists, checks whether an additional information corresponding to the candidate of the bitstream is valid when the FAW pattern exists, determines a hit weighting corresponding to the candidate according to the checking result, determines whether the hit weighting meets a criterion and outputs a synchronization signal when the hit weighting meets the criterion.

Abstract: The present invention provides a memory control method and related device. The method includes storing a bit stream into a memory, reading from the memory a header corresponding to the bit stream, and within a part of a region storing the bit stream, rearranging data stored in the memory according to the header. The rearranging step moves or copies the data in the memory to a part in the region storing the bit stream that has already been read.

Abstract: An audio processing method utilized to generate an audio stream. An audio frame includes N frequency subbands. An Ith frequency subband among the N frequency subbands includes M audio samples and has an Ith psychoacoustic masking value. First, an Ith offset of the Ith frequency subband is calculated. Then, the Ith psychoacoustic masking value and the Ith offset are inputted into a projection formula to generate an Ith projection value. According to the Ith projection value and a limit range, an Ith scale factor is determined. Subsequently, the M audio samples in the Ith frequency subband are adjusted according to the Ith scale factor.

Abstract: The invention provides a multiple audio output system comprising a second input buffer storing a second data stream output from a demodulation unit or a demultiplexing unit, a second processing unit receiving and processing the second data stream to output a third data stream, a data buffer receiving a third data stream from the second processing unit, a multiplexer having input terminals receiving a first audio signal and the third data stream, and an output terminal outputting an output data stream, and a first processing unit receiving and processing the output data stream to output a first output signal to drive a first output device. The second processing unit further comprises a second decoder receiving and decoding the second data stream, and a second post processing unit receiving and processing the decoded second data stream to output a second output signal to drive a second output device.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for searching the synchronization signal of a next frame in encoded digital signal without the need of referring to a frame length indication signal. The encoded digital signal contains a plurality of frames, wherein each frame may have varying length and contain a synchronization signal. The method includes determining a search region, and locating the synchronization signal in the search region.

Abstract: A system for performing signal synchronization of data streams having frames associated with source time reference. A system clock generates a local time reference. A decoder processes the data stream. A system controller determines a difference between the source time reference and the local time reference, compares the difference against a first threshold, selects a target frame from the data stream according to content thereof, and directs the decoder to process the target frame or a frame adjacent thereto.

Abstract: A system for performing signal synchronization of data streams having frames associated with source time reference. A system clock generates a local time reference. A decoder processes the data stream. A system controller determines a difference between the source time reference and the local time reference, compares the difference against a first threshold, selects a target frame from the data stream according to content thereof, and directs the decoder to process the target frame or a frame adjacent thereto.

Abstract: A novel fixed-point representation method for representing digital data experiencing an arithmetic transformation. The novel fixed-point representation method includes setting a predetermined number of least significant bits of the digital data as a dynamic shift value, where the dynamic shift value represents a shift-bit number during the arithmetic transformation, and relating a plurality of bits except those occupied by the dynamic shift value in the digital data are set to specific partial bits of the digital data without experiencing the arithmetic transformation, where the specific partial bits include at least a most significant bit containing absolute value information of the digital data.

Abstract: The present invention provides a memory control method and related device. The method includes storing a bit stream into a memory, reading from the memory a header corresponding to the bit stream, and within a part of a region storing the bit stream, rearranging data stored in the memory according to the header. The rearranging step moves or copies the data in the memory to a part in the region storing the bit stream that has already been read.

Abstract: An audio encoding/decoding method is capable of encoding an audio source signal and decoding a plurality of subband samples to generate a digital audio source signal. During the encoding process, the method generates a 0th summation according to P windowed audio samples in accordance with 2P time domain intervals, generates a summation of a 1st to an (M?1)th summations according to 2P windowed audio samples in accordance with the 2P time domain intervals, and calculates M subband samples according to the M summations. During the decoding process, the method reads M subband samples from a plurality of subband samples corresponding to a first index of a varied value to generate a digital audio source signal with an inverse modified discrete cosine transform and a synthetic operation.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for searching the synchronization signal of a next frame in encoded digital signal without the need of referring to a frame length indication signal. The encoded digital signal contains a plurality of frames, wherein each frame may have varying length and contain a synchronization signal. The method includes determining a search region, and locating the synchronization signal in the search region.

Abstract: A coding apparatus includes a polyphase filter bank, a transient detector, and a coding processing unit. First, the coding apparatus performs a subband coding process according to an input signal to produce a plurality of subband samples, each subband sample having a plurality of frequency subbands. Following this, the coding apparatus performs a selection process to select a plurality of subband samples as reference sample data, and decides a block length of a window according to the energy sum of the frequency subband of the reference sample data in a predetermined frequency. Finally, the coding apparatus performs a transform process, according to the block length of the window decided in the selection process by a predetermined algorithm to transform the subband sample to an output signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of determining quantization parameters which is N scalefactors (SF (I), I=1˜N) needed for quantizing N frequence subbands of an audio frame. The Ith scalefactor of the N scalefactors corresponds to the Ith frequence subband of the N frequence subbands. Each of the scalefactors has a psychoacoustic masking value (PM (I), I=1˜N), wherein N and I are natural numbers. The method comprises (a) calculating a Ith offset (O(I), I=1˜N)of the Ith frequence subband, (b) inputting the Ith psychoacoustic masking value (PM (I), I=1˜N) and the Ith offset into the first projection formula to generate an Ith first projection value (FPV (I), I=1˜N), and (c) repeating the above steps until the N scalefactors are determined.