Abstract: The present invention provides a circuit board of a communication product and a manufacturing method thereof. The circuit board comprises a main body of a circuit board and an isolation cover. A surface of the main body of the circuit board has a power transistor, an insulating layer, a plurality of first openings disposed at intervals on the insulating layer and around the power transistor, and a plurality of soldering portions exposed from the first openings respectively. The isolation cover comprises a cover body and a plurality of second openings equidistantly opened on a lateral side of the cover body. The isolation cover is disposed on the surface of the main body of the circuit board, and is soldered to the soldering portions through a local spot soldering process.

Abstract: A pixel structure fabricating method is provided. A gate and a gate insulation layer covering the gate are formed on a substrate. A channel layer is formed on the gate insulation layer. A conductive layer is formed on the channel layer and gate insulation layer. A black matrix having a color filer layer accommodating opening is formed on the conductive layer. The black matrix includes a first block and a second block which is thicker than the first block. The conductive layer is patterned with the black matrix as a mask to form a source and a drain on the channel layer. A color filter layer is formed within the color filter layer accommodating opening through inkjet printing. A dielectric layer is formed on the black matrix and color filter layer. The dielectric layer is patterned to expose the drain. A pixel electrode electrically connected to the drain is formed.

Abstract: A pixel structure fabricating method is provided. A gate and a gate insulation layer covering the gate are formed on a substrate. A channel layer is formed on the gate insulation layer. A conductive layer is formed on the channel layer and gate insulation layer. A black matrix having a color filer layer accommodating opening is formed on the conductive layer. The black matrix includes a first block and a second block which is thicker than the first block. The conductive layer is patterned with the black matrix as a mask to form a source and a drain on the channel layer. A color filter layer is formed within the color filter layer accommodating opening through inkjet printing. A dielectric layer is formed on the black matrix and color filter layer. The dielectric layer is patterned to expose the drain. A pixel electrode electrically connected to the drain is formed.

Abstract: A pixel structure fabricating method is provided. A gate is formed on a substrate. A gate insulation layer covering the gate is formed on the substrate. A channel layer, a source, and a drain are simultaneously formed on the gate insulation layer above the gate. The gate, channel layer, source, and drain form a thin film transistor (TFT). A passivation layer is formed on the TFT and the gate insulation layer. A black matrix is formed on the passivation layer. The black matrix has a contact opening above the drain and a color filter containing opening. A color filer layer is formed within the color filter containing opening through inkjet printing. A dielectric layer is formed on the black matrix and the color filter layer. The dielectric layer and the passivation layer are patterned to expose the drain. A pixel electrode electrically connected to the drain is formed.

Abstract: A fabricating method for a pixel structure including following procedures is provided. First, a gate and a gate insulator layer are formed sequentially on a substrate. Next, a semiconductor layer, a conductive layer and a photosensitive black matrix having a color filter containing opening are sequentially formed on the gate insulator layer. The photosensitive black matrix includes a first portion and a second portion. A thickness of the first portion is smaller than that of the second portion. A channel, a source and a drain are formed simultaneously using the photosensitive black matrix as a mask. A passivation is formed on the substrate, and a color filer layer is formed within the color filter containing opening via an inkjet printing process and a dielectric layer is formed thereon. Next, a patterning process is applied to expose the drain. Ultimately, a pixel electrode connected to the drain is formed.

Abstract: The invention improves the encoding and decoding of speech by focusing the encoding on the perceptually important characteristics of speech. The system analyzes selected features of an input speech signal, and first performing a common frame based speech coding of an input speech signal. The system then performs a speech coding based on either a first speech coding mode or a second speech coding mode. The selection of a mode is based on characteristics of the input speech signal. The first speech coding mode uses a first framing structure and the second speech coding mode uses a second framing structure.

Abstract: There is provided a method of detecting and reporting poor voice quality for use by a gateway device. The method comprises facilitating a connection between a telephone and a remote telephone via a network, and detecting a poor voice quality indictor during the connection. The method further comprises capturing, for a pre-determined period of time, telephone voice data being exchanged between the gateway and the telephone, network voice data being exchanged between the gateway and the network, and gateway parameters. The method also comprises packetizing the telephone voice data, the network voice data and the gateway parameters into a plurality packets having a network address of a network storage, and transmitting the plurality packets destined for the network storage via the network. In one aspect, the poor voice quality indictor may be generated by a user of the telephone in response to a poor voice quality of the connection.

Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a selector supports the selection of a first encoding scheme or the second encoding scheme based upon the detection or absence of the triggering characteristic in the interval of the input speech signal. The first encoding scheme has a pitch pre-processing procedure for processing the input speech signal to form a revised speech signal biased toward an ideal voiced and stationary characteristic. The pre-processing procedure allows the encoder to fully capture the benefits of a bandwidth-efficient, long-term predictive procedure for a greater amount of speech components of an input speech signal than would otherwise be possible. In accordance with another aspect of the invention, the second encoding scheme entails a long-term prediction mode for encoding the pitch on a sub-frame by sub-frame basis.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a modulized antenna structure, which comprises: a first antenna module for receiving a first transmission signal in which at least one side of the first antenna module has a first opening; a second antenna module for receiving a second transmission signal in which at least one side of the second antenna module has a second opening; and a fixed component, while being assembled, with the fixed component, the first antenna module is partially overlapped with the second antenna modules and the first opening is fully overlapped with the second opening, thus the fixed component can pass through the first and second openings and be fixed on the screen of an electronic device.

Abstract: There is provided system and method for receiving speech signals via a plurality of speech lines and communicating the speech signals over a phone line. For example, the communication system comprises a modem, a multiplexor in data communication with the modem, and a plurality of speech codecs in data communication with the multiplexor. According to this aspect, each of the plurality of speech codecs receives a portion of the speech signals via one of the plurality of speech lines and encodes that portion of the speech signals to generate encoded speech signals, and wherein the encoded speech signals from each of the plurality of speech codecs are multiplexed by the multiplexor to generate multiplexed encoded speech signals, and wherein the modem transmits the multiplexed encoded speech signals over the phone line.

Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a selector supports the selection of a first encoding scheme or the second encoding scheme based upon the detection or absence of the triggering characteristic in the interval of the input speech signal. The first encoding scheme has a pitch pre-processing procedure for processing the input speech signal to form a revised speech signal biased toward an ideal voiced and stationary characteristic. The pre-processing procedure allows the encoder to fully capture the benefits of a bandwidth-efficient, long-term predictive procedure for a greater amount of speech components of an input speech signal than would otherwise be possible. In accordance with another aspect of the invention, the second encoding scheme entails a long-term prediction mode for encoding the pitch on a sub-frame by sub-frame basis.

Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a selector supports the selection of a first encoding scheme or the second encoding scheme based upon the detection or absence of the triggering characteristic in the interval of the input speech signal. The first encoding scheme has a pitch pre-processing procedure for processing the input speech signal to form a revised speech signal biased toward an ideal voiced and stationary characteristic. The pre-processing procedure allows the encoder to fully capture the benefits of a bandwidth-efficient, long-term predictive procedure for a greater amount of speech components of an input speech signal than would otherwise be possible. In accordance with another aspect of the invention, the second encoding scheme entails a long-term prediction mode for encoding the pitch on a sub-frame by sub-frame basis.

Abstract: There is provided a method of detecting and reporting poor voice quality for use by a gateway device. The method comprises facilitating a connection between a telephone and a remote telephone via a network, and detecting a poor voice quality indictor during the connection. The method further comprises capturing, for a pre-determined period of time, telephone voice data being exchanged between the gateway and the telephone, network voice data being exchanged between the gateway and the network, and gateway parameters. The method also comprises packetizing the telephone voice data, the network voice data and the gateway parameters into a plurality packets having a network address of a network storage, and transmitting the plurality packets destined for the network storage via the network. In one aspect, the poor voice quality indictor may be generated by a user of the telephone in response to a poor voice quality of the connection.

Abstract: There is provided a method of decoding speech data generated from a speech signal. The method comprises receiving the speech data having at least one main pulse in a subframe of the speech data; generating a first predicted pulse, based on the at least one main pulse, on one side of the main pulse in the subframe of the speech data, wherein the first predicted pulse has a lower gain than the main pulse; generating a second predicted pulse, as a mirror image of the first predicted pulse on a reverse time scale, on the other side of the main pulse in the subframe of the speech data; reconstructing the speech signal using the at least one main pulse, the first predicted pulse and the second predicted pulse.

Abstract: A method comprises analyzing each frame of a plurality of frames of the speech signal to determine one or more speech parameters for the speech signal; deciding, for each frame of the plurality of frames of the speech signal, based on the one or more speech parameters of the speech signal, to select one of a plurality of encoding modes including a first encoding mode and a second encoding mode for encoding each frame of the plurality of frames of the speech signal; encoding each frame of the plurality of frames of the speech signal according to the selected one of the plurality of encoding modes for each frame of the plurality of frames in the deciding; the first encoding mode supports a first encoding rate and the second encoding mode supports a second encoding rate, wherein the first encoding rate is the same encoding rate as the encoding rate.

Abstract: There is provided a method of encoding an input speech signal. The method comprises identifying a fixed codebook vector from a fixed codebook; identifying an adaptive codebook vector from a adaptive codebook; calculating an adaptive codebook gain; reducing the adaptive codebook gain by an amount; optimally selecting a fixed codebook gain based on the adaptive codebook gain while both the fixed codebook vector and the adaptive codebook vector remain fixed; and converting the input speech signal into an encoded speech using the fixed codebook gain, the adaptive codebook gain, the fixed codebook vector and the adaptive codebook vector. The amount of reducing the adaptive codebook gain may be varied.

Abstract: There is provided a method of using an adaptive tilt compensation by a speech decoder. The method comprises receiving a bit stream including a plurality of parameters representative of a speech signal; identifying an adaptive code vector and a fixed code vector using the plurality of parameters; scaling the adaptive code vector and the fixed code vector to generate a scaled adaptive code vector and a scaled fixed code vector; summing the scaled adaptive code vector and the scaled fixed code vector to generate a synthesized output; calculating a first reflection coefficient based on the plurality of parameters representative of the speech signal; multiplying the first reflection coefficient by a factor to generate a tilt factor; and applying the tilt factor to the synthesized output based on an encoding bit rate.

Abstract: There is provided a method of using a processing circuitry for selecting a preferential pitch lag value from a plurality of pitch lag values, including a first pitch lag value and a second pitch lag value, for coding an input speech signal. The method comprises determining a first timing relationship between a previous pitch lag value and at least one of the plurality of pitch lag values; determining a second timing relationship between the first pitch lag value and the second pitch lag value; favoring one of the first pitch lag value and the second pitch lag value based on the first timing relationship and the second timing relationship to select one of the first pitch lag value and the second pitch lag value as the preferential pitch lag value; and converting the input speech signal into an encoded speech using the preferential pitch lag value.

Abstract: An electronic device including a first housing, a second housing, a signal cable, an insulating layer and an antenna is provided. The second housing is connected to the first housing and has a housing shielding layer on its inner surface. The signal cable extends from inside the first housing into the second housing and has a cable shielding layer on its outer surface. The insulating layer is disposed between the housing shielding layer and the cable shielding layer so as to electrically insulate the housing shielding layer from the cable shielding layer. The antenna is disposed inside the second housing. The insulating layer prevents the housing shielding layer from contacting the cable shielding layer so that the influence of the system noise on the sensitivity of the antenna can be reduced.

Abstract: There is provided a method of selecting a pitch lag value for a portion of a speech signal, the method comprising: computing a weighted correlation function of the portion of the speech signal for a range of delay times, wherein the weighting of the correlation function depends on both the delay time and a characteristic of one or more previous portions of the speech signal; and selecting the pitch lag value based on a delay time from the range of delay times that maximizes the weighted correlation function.