Abstract: The invention relates to a capacitive measuring device for a hand-held device, particularly an electric hand-held device for the detection of an approach to the hand-held device, wherein the capacitive measuring device has a switching device, wherein the ground of the capacitive measuring device is galvanically connectable with an electrically conductive structure of the hand-held device by means of a switching device, and wherein the capacitive measuring device has a ground electrode structure with at least one ground electrode that can be arranged on the hand-held device, wherein the ground of the capacitive hand-held device is galvanically connectable with the at least one ground electrode by means of the switching device. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for the detection of an approach of a hand to a hand-held device, particularly an electric hand-held device, with a capacitive measuring device according to the invention.

Abstract: An electrode arrangement for an electric field sensor device with a transmitting electrode and at least one receiving electrode may have a nonconductive substrate having a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer. A first electrode is arranged within the first conductive layer, wherein the first electrode is a receiving electrode of the electric field sensor device, and a second electrode is arranged within the second conductive layer, wherein the second electrode is a transmitting electrode of the electric field sensor device wherein the second electrode covers a larger area than the first electrode and wherein the second electrode is textured to reduce the capacitance between the first and second electrode.

Abstract: A gesture detection system according to embodiments includes an input device including a touch sensitive surface and a contact-free detection system; and a controller configured to determine characteristic parameters for the position in three-dimensional space of a user input object and select an operational mode of the input device based on the position of the user input object.

Abstract: A method for gesture recognition including detecting one or more gesture-related signals using the associated plurality of detection sensors; and evaluating a gesture detected from the one or more gesture-related signals using an automatic recognition technique to determine if the gesture corresponds to one of a predetermined set of gestures.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic device for determining a first positional information and a second positional information regarding a user input object, such as at least one user hand or at least one stylus, the electronic device comprising: a touch-sensitive surface; contact-free detection means; and controller means that are operatively connected to the touch-sensitive surface and to the contact-free detection means; wherein the first positional information depends on where the user input object contacts the touch-sensitive surface, and wherein the second positional information depends on the spatial configuration of the user input object with regard to the touch-sensitive surface, characterized in that the controller means are adapted for simultaneously and/or alternately determining the first positional information via the touch-sensitive surface and the second positional information via the contact free detection means.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the contactless detection and recognition of gestures in a three-dimensional movement space (3D gestures), wherein in an electrical near-field which defines the three-dimensional movement space, deformations of the electrical near-field are detected which can be performed by movements of at least one object, e.g. one or two fingers in the three-dimensional movement space, at least one movement path is generated from the detected deformations of the electrical near field, which corresponds to the movement of the at least one object in the three-dimensional movement space, and wherein during the generation of the movement path in the movement path a gesture start is determined, wherein beginning with the gesture start the gesture is extracted from the movement path. The invention also relates to a system for the contactless detection and recognition of gestures in a three-dimensional movement space.

Abstract: Hand gestures are translated by first detecting the hand gestures with an electronic sensor and converting the detected gestures into respective electrical transfer signals in a frequency band corresponding to that of speech. These transfer signals are inputted in the audible-sound frequency band into a speech-recognition system where they are analyzed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for touch/proximity detection, especially a capacitive switch device, which is designed to set switching states by approaching the switch device or by touching the switch device, in order to perform, for example, switching actions on an instrument. The invention also relates to a switch device, especially a switch device on a capacitive basis, for a cooktop, for operating the cooktop.

Abstract: A speaker-dependent speech recognition method is provided involving the use of a speech recognition system, during which voice utterances of the user are trained, and commands are assigned to the trained voice utterances. The present disclosure seeks to carry out a training of new commands in a time-saving manner. To this end, in the event of a non-recognition of a voice utterance, the speech recognition system provides the user with the opportunity to immediately assign the voice utterance to a new command.

Abstract: The invention relates to a mobile communication device and an input device provided for operating said communication device by means of which input operations necessary for using the communication device may be carried out. The aim of the invention is to provide solutions by means of which it is possible, in particular for relatively compact mobile electronic devices, in particular communication devices and digital cameras to carry out said input operations in a manner which is particularly easy to coordinate for the user.

Abstract: Hand gestures are translated by first detecting the hand gestures with an electronic sensor and converting the detected gestures into respective electrical transfer signals in a frequency band corresponding to that of speech. These transfer signals are inputted in the audible-sound frequency band into a speech-recognition system where they are analyzed.

Abstract: The aim of the invention is to control the bass reproduction of audio signals in electroacoustic transducers based on the psychoacoustic principle denoted by the term “virtual pitch” or “residual hearing (hearing of missing fundamental)”, in such a way that the perception of the virtual bass reproduction of the audio signals is improved in relation to prior art. To this end, the reproduction of the low pitched frequencies or basses released in the electroacoustic transducer is controlled by the amplification of the harmonic waves already contained in the audio signals, in the form of a simulation, in such a way that the listener experiences or perceives an improved bass reproduction.

Abstract: System and method for the registration of a mobile part (MT, OA, HA) in a base station (BS) in a telecommunication system designed for wireless communication between a mobile part (MT, OA, HA) and a base station (BS. The base station and the mobile part are initially placed in an access standby state. Subsequently, a verification procedure determines a message exchange (MA) between the mobile part and the base station if the base station supports a voice-controlled registration and if the mobile part is theoretically connected to the base station. If the theoretical connection is determined, a user channel connection suitable for the transmission of voice data is established between the mobile part and the base station. The mobile part is then either registered in the base station, or the registration attempt is rejected.

Abstract: A mobile communications terminal is provided which is designed to transmit speech signals and to receive and reproduce speech signals, and which has a speech-reproduction device, wherein improved speech quality is achieved in that the speech-reproduction device has a sound transducer, which is disposed inside a housing of the mobile communications terminal, and at least one sound transmission opening provided in the housing, which forwards the sound generated by the sound transducer to the outside of the mobile communications terminal.

Abstract: A speaker-dependent voice recognition method is provided involving the use of a voice recognition system, during which voice utterances of the user are trained, and commands are assigned to the trained voice utterances. The present disclosure seeks to carry out a training of new commands in a time-saving manner. To this end, in the event of a non-recognition of a voice utterance, the voice recognition system provides the user with the opportunity to immediately assign the voice utterance to a new command.

Abstract: System and method for the registration of a mobile part (MT, OA, HA) in a base station (BS) in a telecommunication system designed for wireless communication between a mobile part (MT, OA, HA) and a base station (BS. The base station and the mobile part are initially placed in an access standby state. Subsequently, a verification procedure determines a message exchange (MA) between the mobile part and the base station if the base station supports a voice-controlled registration and if the mobile part is theoretically connected to the base station. If the theoretical connection is determined, a user channel connection suitable for the transmission of voice data is established between the mobile part and the base station. The mobile part is then either registered in the base station, or the registration attempt is rejected.

Abstract: A mobile communications terminal is provided having a first loudspeaker for emitting sound signals in a normal mode of the communications terminal, a second loudspeaker for emitting sound signals in a hands-free mode of the communications terminal, an antenna and a signal processing device for processing signals which have been received by the antenna and for supplying processed signals to the first loudspeaker and to the second loudspeaker depending on whether the communications terminal is in the normal mode or in the hands-free mode, wherein better high-frequency reproduction in a hands-free mode is achieved in that, in the hands-free mode, the signal processing device is designed to supply processed signals at a frequency of more than 1 kHz to the first loudspeaker and the first loudspeaker is designed to reproduce sound signals at a frequency of more than 1 kHz.

Abstract: The user language of a device can be set to a user language by speaking the designation of the user language to be set.

Abstract: In order to record and to process audio signals with a good useful-signal to noise-signal ratio in acoustic noise conditions and with a good ratio between the direct sound and the reflected sound in an environment which in particular has no reverberation electrical signals produced by conversion of audio signals recorded by a predetermined microphone arrangement are processed in such a manner that, if the sound pressure levels at the microphones in the microphone arrangement are the same, electrical signals which are produced by these microphones but are of different intensity—different sensitivities of the microphones—are automatically matched, without any manual matching procedures needed to be carried out individually and separately. A microphone arrangement is based on combining the characteristics of an array of microphones with those of a method for matching the sensitivity of microphones.

Abstract: A combination is provided which consists of a loudspeaker and a display in which at least a portion of a sound-emitting surface of the loudspeaker forms the display that is touch-sensitive, and at least one recognition part is provided for recognizing the touching of the display.