Patents by Inventor Deming Zhang

Deming Zhang has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20160205263
    Abstract: An echo cancellation method and apparatus, where the method includes collecting, by a collection microphone, a sound signal, collecting, by a conversation microphone, a near-end speech signal, canceling an echo component in the near-end speech signal according to the sound signal, to generate an echo-canceled speech signal, and outputting the echo-canceled speech signal such that the echo cancellation effect may be improved and conversation quality may be enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Yuanyuan Liu, Deming Zhang
  • Publication number: 20160189728
    Abstract: A voice signal processing method and apparatus, which are used to process a voice signal collected by a microphone of a terminal in order to meet requirements of the terminal in different application modes for the voice signal generated after the processing. The method includes collecting at least two voice signals, determining a current application mode of a terminal, determining, according to the current application mode from the voice signals, voice signals corresponding to the current application mode, and performing, in a preset voice signal processing manner that matches the current application mode, beamforming processing on the corresponding voice signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Rilin Chen, Deming Zhang
  • Publication number: 20160173978
    Abstract: An audio signal processing method and apparatus and a differential beamforming method and apparatus to resolve a problem that an existing audio signal processing system cannot process audio signals in multiple application scenarios at the same time. The method includes determining a super-directional differential beamforming weighting coefficient, acquiring an audio input signal and determining a current application scenario and an audio output signal, acquiring, a weighting coefficient corresponding to the current application scenario, performing super-directional differential beamforming processing on the audio input signal using the acquired weighting coefficient in order to obtain a super-directional differential beamforming signal in the current application scenario, and performing processing on the formed signal to obtain a final audio signal required by the current application scenario.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Haiting Li, Deming Zhang
  • Patent number: 9368108
    Abstract: A speech recognition method and device are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring a text file specified by a user, and extracting a command word from the text file, to obtain a command word list; comparing the command word list with a command word library, to confirm whether the command word list includes a new command word; if the command word list includes the new command word, generating a corresponding new pronunciation dictionary; merging the new language model into a language model library; and receiving speech, and performing speech recognition on the speech according to an acoustic model, a phonation dictionary, and the language model library. Command words acquired online are closely related to online content; therefore, the number of the command words is limited and far less than the number of frequently used words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Change Liu, Deming Zhang
  • Publication number: 20160066117
    Abstract: A sound signal processing method and apparatus are provided that relate to the audio signal processing field. The method in the present invention includes acquiring, by a mobile terminal, sound signals from a three-dimensional sound field, where at least three microphones are disposed on the mobile terminal and one microphone is configured to receive a sound signal in at least one direction; acquiring, according to the acquired sound signals, a direction of a sound source relative to the mobile terminal; and obtaining spatial audio signals according to the direction of the sound source relative to the mobile terminal and the acquired sound signals, where the spatial audio signals are used for simulating the three-dimensional sound field. The present invention is applicable to a process of collecting and processing signals in a three-dimensional sound field surrounding a terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Jingdong Chen, Haiting Li, Deming Zhang
  • Patent number: 9247334
    Abstract: The invention relates to a portable electronic device, comprising: a housing comprising at least one hole; and at least two directional microphones mounted in the housing and placed coincidentally for stereo sound pickup, each one of the microphones defining a main sound axis and each one of the two directional microphones defining a direct sound direction and a opposite sound direction which describe opposite directions of the main sound axis, wherein the at least one hole is a common hole shared between the at least two directional microphones such that the main sound axis of the at least two directional microphones are pointing through the common hole in different directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Deming Zhang, David Virette, Yue Lang
  • Publication number: 20160011851
    Abstract: A sound signal processing method includes: receiving direction indication information input by a user and used for indicating a target direction (S110); and adjusting, according to the direction indication information, a beam direction of a sound signal processing array to the target direction (S120). A sound signal processing device includes: a receiving module (810), configured to receive direction indication information input by a user and used for indicating a target direction; and an adjustment module (820), configured to adjust, according to the direction indication information, a beam direction of a sound signal processing array to the target direction. According to the sound signal processing method and device, a beam direction of a sound signal processing array is adjusted according to direction indication information a target direction, so that a sound signal can still be accurately processed in a noisy environment, thereby achieving an enhancement effect for the processed sound signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Deming ZHANG, Yuanyuan Liu, Zhiming Long
  • Patent number: 9047877
    Abstract: A DTX decision method includes: obtaining sub-band signal(s) according to an input signal; obtaining a variation of characteristic information of each of the sub-band signals; and performing DTX decision according to the variation of the characteristic information of each of the sub-band signals. With the invention, a complete and appreciate DTX decision result is obtained by making full use of the noise characteristic in the speech encoding/decoding bandwidth and using band-splitting and layered processing. As a result, the SID encoding/CNG decoding may closely follow the characteristic variation of the actual noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinliang Dai, Eyal Shlomot, Deming Zhang
  • Publication number: 20150134332
    Abstract: A speech recognition method and device are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring a text file specified by a user, and extracting a command word from the text file, to obtain a command word list; comparing the command word list with a command word library, to confirm whether the command word list includes a new command word; if the command word list includes the new command word, generating a corresponding new pronunciation dictionary; merging the new language model into a language model library; and receiving speech, and performing speech recognition on the speech according to an acoustic model, a phonation dictionary, and the language model library. Command words acquired online are closely related to online content; therefore, the number of the command words is limited and far less than the number of frequently used words.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Change Liu, Deming Zhang
  • Publication number: 20150078606
    Abstract: The invention relates to a portable electronic device, comprising: a housing comprising at least one hole; and at least two directional microphones mounted in the housing and placed coincidentally for stereo sound pickup, each one of the microphones defining a main sound axis and each one of the two directional microphones defining a direct sound direction and a opposite sound direction which describe opposite directions of the main sound axis, wherein the at least one hole is a common hole shared between the at least two directional microphones such that the main sound axis of the at least two directional microphones are pointing through the common hole in different directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Deming Zhang, David Virette, Yue Lang
  • Publication number: 20150078555
    Abstract: The invention relates to a portable electronic device, comprising: at least two directional microphones for stereo sound pickup, each one of the two directional microphones defining a direct sound direction and an opposite sound direction towards which the directional microphones are directed; and a housing comprising for each of the directional microphones a first hole and a second hole, the first hole being located at a different side of the portable electronic device than the second hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Deming Zhang, David Virette, Yue Lang
  • Publication number: 20150030162
    Abstract: A method for operating a binaural hearing system including first and second hearing devices, each including an input transducer, a signal processing unit, an output transducer and a link unit for exchanging information between the devices. Operating the first hearing device according to a first processing scheme, operating the second hearing device according to a second processing scheme, monitoring an acoustic situation by the hearing devices, generating a request for coordinating the two hearing devices if one hearing device detects an acoustic situation asking for coordinating the two processing schemes of the hearing devices, the hearing device detecting such an acoustic situation being an ipsi-lateral hearing device the other being a contra-lateral hearing device, activating a link between the devices for transmitting the request to the contra-lateral hearing device, and changing the processing scheme in at least one of the devices in accordance with the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: PHONAK AG
    Inventors: Henry Luo, Ara Talaslian, Shawn Lee, Deming Zhang
  • Patent number: 8862257
    Abstract: A method and a device for clipping control are provided in the present invention. The method includes: updating a clipping factor according to a maximum absolute value FrameLev in a current frame signal; obtaining a clipping restoration filter according to the clipping factor; filtering the current frame signal according to the clipping restoration filter to obtain a filtered clipping restoration signal. With the method and device for clipping control provided in the present invention, whether a clipping phenomenon occurs may be automatically detected, and clipping restoration is performed, so that subjective quality of an output signal is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Deming Zhang
  • Publication number: 20140130843
    Abstract: An apparatus for obtaining energy from a polychromatic energy source that emits radiation in a first and a second wavelength band comprises a reflector or an energy receiver having an aperture therein; and a holographic lens that diffracts and focuses the radiation within the first wavelength band from the energy source through said aperture towards a first energy receiver, and transmits the radiation within the second wavelength band from the energy source to the reflector or energy receiver. If a reflector is used, the reflector reflects the radiation transmitted by the holographic lens towards a second energy receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of The University of Arizona
    Inventors: Raymond K. Kostuk, Shelby D. Vorndran, Deming Zhang, Juan Manuel Russo, Michael Gordon
  • Publication number: 20130304784
    Abstract: A data processing method is disclosed, including: twiddling input data, so as to obtain twiddled data; pre-rotating the twiddled data by using a symmetric rotate factor, where the rotate factor is a·W4L2p+1, p=0, . . . , L/2?1, and ? is a constant; performing a Fast Fourier (Fast Fourier Transform, FFT) transform of L/2 point on the pre-rotated data, where L is the length of the input data; post-rotating the data that has undergone the FFT transform by using a symmetric rotate factor, where the rotate factor is b·W4L2q+1, q=0, . . . , L/2?1, and b is a constant; and obtaining output data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventors: Deming Zhang, Haiting Li, Taleb Anisse, Jianfeng Xu
  • Patent number: 8554818
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a signal processing method and a data processing method and apparatus. A time-domain to frequency-domain signal processing method includes: pre-processing time-domain data; pre-rotating the pre-processed data by using a rotation factor a·WNn+0.5; performing a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of N/4 points on the pre-rotated data; and post-rotating the data transformed by the DFT by using a rotation factor b·WNk+0.5 to obtain frequency-domain data. A frequency-domain to time-domain signal processing method includes: twiddling frequency-domain data; pre-rotating the twiddled data by using a rotation factor c·WNk+0.5; performing a DFT of N/4 points on the pre-rotated data; and post-rotating the data transformed by the DFT by using a rotation factor d·WNn+0.5; and post-processing the post-rotated data to obtain time-domain data. The present invention increases the efficiency of signal processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Deming Zhang, Haiting Li
  • Patent number: 8489395
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for generating a lattice vector quantizer codebook are disclosed. The method includes: storing an eigenvector set that includes amplitude vectors and/or length vectors, where the amplitude vectors and/or length vectors are different from each other and correspond to a root leader of a lattice vector quantizer; storing storage addresses of the amplitude vectors and length vectors, where the amplitude vectors and length vectors correspond to the root leader and are in the eigenvector set; and generating a lattice vector quantizer codebook according to the eigenvector set and the storage addresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haiting Li, Deming Zhang
  • Publication number: 20120288109
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for noise generation, including: determining an initial value of a reconstructed parameter; determining a random value range based on the initial value of the reconstructed parameter; taking a value in the random value range randomly as a reconstructed noise parameter; and generating noise by using the reconstructed noise parameter. The disclosure also provides an apparatus for noise generation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Deming ZHANG, Jinliang DAI
  • Patent number: 8296132
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for noise generation, including: determining an initial value of a reconstructed parameter; determining a random value range based on the initial value of the reconstructed parameter; taking a value in the random value range randomly as a reconstructed noise parameter; and generating noise by using the reconstructed noise parameter. The disclosure also provides an apparatus for noise generation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Deming Zhang, Jinliang Dai
  • Publication number: 20120095580
    Abstract: A method and a device for clipping control are provided in the present invention. The method includes: updating a clipping factor according to a maximum absolute value FrameLev in a current frame signal; obtaining a clipping restoration filter according to the clipping factor; filtering the current frame signal according to the clipping restoration filter to obtain a filtered clipping restoration signal. With the method and device for clipping control provided in the present invention, whether a clipping phenomenon occurs may be automatically detected, and clipping restoration is performed, so that subjective quality of an output signal is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Inventor: Deming ZHANG