Abstract: A method, system and external instrument are provided. The method initiates a communication link between an external instrument (EI) and an implantable medical device (MD), established a first connection interval for conveying data packets between the EI and IMD and monitors a connection criteria that includes at least one of a data throughput requirement. A battery indicator or link condition of the communications link is between the IMD and EI. The method further changes from the first connection interval to a second connection interval based on the connection criteria.

Abstract: Example electronic devices, including but not limited to implantable medical devices, and methods employing dynamic announcing for creation of wireless communication connections are disclosed herein. In an example, an electronic device includes a wireless communication interface to transmit announcement signals for creating a wireless communication connection with the external device. The electronic device also includes a sensor to detect a characteristic of an environment external to the electronic device, and a control circuit including an announcement timing control module to dynamically control timing of the announcement signals based on the detected characteristic.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for training a voiceprint recognition system are provided. The method includes obtaining a voice training data set comprising voice segments of users; determining identity vectors of all the voice segments; identifying identity vectors of voice segments of a same user in the determined identity vectors; placing the recognized identity vectors of the same user in the users into one of user categories; and determining an identity vector in the user category as a first identity vector. The method further includes normalizing the first identity vector by using a normalization matrix, a first value being a sum of similarity degrees between the first identity vector in the corresponding category and other identity vectors in the corresponding category; training the normalization matrix, and outputting a training value of the normalization matrix when the normalization matrix maximizes a sum of first values of all the user categories.

Abstract: A method, system and external instrument are provided. The method initiates a communication link between an external instrument (EI) and an implantable medical device (IMD), established a first connection interval for conveying data packets between the EI and IMD and monitors a connection criteria that includes at least one of a data throughput requirement. A battery indicator or link condition of the communications link is between the IMD and EI. The method further changes from the first connection interval to a second connection interval based on the connection criteria.

Abstract: An identity vector generation method is provided. The method includes obtaining to-be-processed speech data. Corresponding acoustic features are extracted from the to-be-processed speech data. A posterior probability that each of the acoustic features belongs to each Gaussian distribution component in a speaker background model is calculated to obtain a statistic. The statistic is mapped to a statistic space to obtain a reference statistic, the statistic space built according to a statistic corresponding to a speech sample exceeding a threshold speech duration. A corrected statistic is determined according to the calculated statistic and the reference statistic; and an identity vector is generated according to the corrected statistic.

Abstract: Methods and devices for establishing secure communications with an implantable medical device (IMD) are provided. The method and devices receive a credential from an external instrument (EI). The credential is signed utilizing a private key, and the credential includes at least two of a credential time to live (TTL) indicator, an IMD Identifier (ID), and an EI ID. The method and device authenticate the credential using a public key and verify the at least two of the TTL indicator, the IMD ID, and the EI ID. The method and device establish a secure communications session with the EI based on the verification and authentication.

Abstract: A sign-in method and server based on facial recognition are provided. The method includes: receiving a face image of a sign-in user from a sign-in terminal. According to the face image of the sign-in user, whether a target registration user matching the sign-in user exists in a pre-stored registration set is detected. The registration set includes a face image of at least one registration user. Further, the target registration user is confirmed as signed in successfully if the target registration user exists in the registration set.

Abstract: An implantable medical device (IMD) may include a communication module, a therapy control module, a firmware control module, and a service application. The communication module is configured to wirelessly communicate over an RF link with an external device. The therapy control module is configured to deliver therapy to the patient, and may include a reprogrammable therapy logic circuit configured to operate the therapy control module in a reprogrammable mode of operation, and base-therapy state machine (BTSM) logic circuit configured to operate the therapy control module in a base therapy mode of operation. The firmware control module may include CPU and a memory. The service application may be stored in the memory. The firmware control module is configured to launch the service application, and the BTSM logic circuit provides a base level of sensing and pacing therapy while the communications module in parallel maintains the RF link with the external device.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for establishing a bi-directional communication link with an implantable medical device. The systems and methods include an implantable medical device (IMD) and an external instrument configured to establish a wireless bi-directional communication link there between over a wireless protocol. The wireless bi-directional communication link is established based on a scanning interval. The external instrument includes one or more processors electrically coupled to a radio frequency (RF) circuit and a memory device. The one or more processors are configured to define the scanning interval based on an advertising schedule received from the IMD.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided to manage display of cardiac signals. The methods and systems receive a first data steam along a first communications path conveyed with first throughput and receiving a second data stream along a second communications path transmitted with second throughput. The first and second throughputs are asynchronous with respect to one another. The first and second data streams carry cardiac signals sensed by external and implanted electrodes, respectively, for one or more common events. The methods and systems store data from the first and second data streams in first and second memory buffers. The methods and systems synchronize the data stored in the first and second memory buffers with one another by performing at least one of: temporally offsetting activation of the storing operation for the first and second data streams with respect to one another; or managing an amount of the data maintained in at least one of the first memory buffer or the second memory buffer.

Abstract: A voice data processing method and apparatus are provided. The method includes obtaining an I-Vector vector of each of voice samples, and determining a target seed sample in the voice samples. A first cosine distance is calculated between an I-Vector vector of the target seed sample and an I-Vector vector of a target remaining voice sample, where the target remaining voice sample is a voice sample other than the target seed sample in the voice samples. A target voice sample is filtered from the voice samples or the target remaining voice sample according to the first cosine distance, to obtain a target voice sample whose first cosine distance is greater than a first threshold.

Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for constructing a speech decoding network in digital speech recognition. The method comprises acquiring training data obtained by digital speech recording, the training data comprising a plurality of speech segments, and each speech segment comprising a plurality of digital speeches; performing acoustic feature extraction on the training data to obtain a feature sequence corresponding to each speech segment; performing progressive training starting from a mono-phoneme acoustic model to obtain an acoustic model; acquiring a language model, and constructing a speech decoding network by the language model and the acoustic model obtained by training.

Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to the field of image processing technologies and discloses a face key point positioning method and a terminal. The method includes: obtaining a face image; recognizing a face frame in the face image; determining positions of n key points of a target face in the face frame according to the face frame and a first positioning algorithm; performing screening to select, from candidate faces, a similar face whose positions of corresponding key points match the positions of the n key points of the target face; and determining positions of m key points of the similar face selected through screening according to a second positioning algorithm, m being a positive integer. In this way, the problem that positions of key points obtained by a terminal have relatively great deviations in the related technologies is resolved, thereby achieving an effect of improving accuracy of positioned positions of the key points.

Abstract: A melody information processing method is described. A piece of Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) data corresponding to a song is received, a song identifier of the song is obtained, first melody information is generated according to the MIDI data, and the first melody information is stored in association with the song identifier in a melody database. Moreover, a user unaccompanied-singing audio data set that is uploaded from a user terminal is received, second melody information corresponding to the song identifier is extracted according to the user unaccompanied-singing audio data set, and the second melody information is stored in association with the song identifier in the melody database.

Abstract: Processing circuitry of an information processing apparatus obtains a set of identity vectors that are calculated according to voice samples from speakers. The identity vectors are classified into speaker classes respectively corresponding to the speakers. The processing circuitry selects, from the identity vectors, first subsets of interclass neighboring identity vectors respectively corresponding to the identity vectors and second subsets of intraclass neighboring identity vectors respectively corresponding to the identity vectors. The processing circuitry determines an interclass difference based on the first subsets of interclass neighboring identity vectors and the corresponding identity vectors; and determines an intraclass difference based on the second subsets of intraclass neighboring identify vectors and the corresponding identity vectors.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an image recognition method and apparatus, and belongs to the field of computer technologies. The method includes: extracting a local binary pattern (LBP) feature vector of a target image; calculating a high-dimensional feature vector of the target image according to the LBP feature vector; obtaining a training matrix, the training matrix being a matrix obtained by training images in an image library by using a joint Bayesian algorithm; and recognizing the target image according to the high-dimensional feature vector of the target image and the training matrix. The image recognition method and apparatus according to the present disclosure may combine LBP algorithm with a joint Bayesian algorithm to perform recognition, thereby improving the accuracy of image recognition.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for establishing a bi-directional communication link with an implantable medical device. The systems and methods include an implantable medical device (IMD) and an external instrument configured to establish a wireless bi-directional communication link there between over a wireless protocol. The wireless bi-directional communication link is established based on a scanning interval. The external instrument includes one or more processors electrically coupled to a radio frequency (RF) circuit and a memory device. The one or more processors are configured to define the scanning interval based on an advertising schedule received from the IMD.

Abstract: A method, system and external instrument are provided. The method initiates a communication link between an external instrument (EI) and an implantable medical device (IMD), established a first connection interval for conveying data packets between the EI and IMD and monitors a connection criteria that includes at least one of a data throughput requirement. A battery indicator or link condition of the communications link is between the IMD and EI. The method further changes from the first connection interval to a second connection interval based on the connection criteria.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for establishing a bi-directional communication link with an implantable medical device. The systems and methods include an implantable medical device (IMD) and an external instrument configured to establish a wireless bi-directional communication link there between over a wireless protocol. The wireless bi-directional communication link is established based on a scanning interval. The external instrument includes one or more processors electrically coupled to a radio frequency (RF) circuit and a memory device. The one or more processors are configured to define the scanning interval based on an advertising schedule received from the IMD.

Abstract: A method and device for managing establishment of a communications link between an external instrument (EI) and an implantable medical device (IMD) are provided. The method stores, in a memory in at least one of the IMD or the EI, a base scanning schedule that defines a pattern for scanning windows over a scanning state. The method enters the scanning state during which a receiver scans for advertisement notices during the scanning windows. At least a portion of the scanning windows are grouped in a first segment of the scanning state. The method stores, in the memory, a scan reset pattern for restarting the scanning state. Further, the method automatically restarts the scanning state based on the scan reset pattern to form a pseudo-scanning schedule that differs from the base scanning schedule and establishes a communication session between the IMD and the EI.