Patents Issued in December 25, 2008
  • Publication number: 20080317235
    Abstract: A telephone and voice mail (voice processing) system is implemented using only a single processing means for controlling operations of both the telephone system and the voice mail system. The single processing means communicates with a hard disk, which stores programs for running the various operations of the system, voice prompts and all voice mail messages. The single processing means is coupled to signal processing circuitry, which emulates analog electronics that would be used for filters, tone decoder, generators, etc. The single processing means and signal processing circuitry are coupled to central office lines and station lines by a digital cross-point matrix, which can connect any voice path to another voice path. The system integrates call processing and voice processing into one system controlled by one set of software and a single processing means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: Estech System, Inc.
    Inventors: Harold E.A. Hansen, II, Eric G. Suder
  • Publication number: 20080317236
    Abstract: A system for (and a method of) selectively establishing communication with one of plural devices associated with a single telephone number is provided. In a preferred embodiment, the system includes a wireless connect unit connected between an enterprise private branch exchange (PBX) network and a public switched telephone network. The wireless connect unit preferably serves as a gateway between the PBX and one or more remote communication devices. The remote devices can be used as standard PBX office telephones for both inbound and outbound telephone calls. Thus, features of the PBX network (e.g., voice mail, direct extension dialing, corporate calling plan, etc.) are available to the remote device even though they are not physically connected to the PBX. When the system receives an incoming call, it can route the call to an office telephone and one or more of the remote devices simultaneously or as desired by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: Stephen P. Forte
  • Publication number: 20080317237
    Abstract: A system may install a trunk between a first switch and an end office, where the trunk is a trunk home for the end office. The system may further identify Numeric Numbering exchanges (NXXs) that home to the end office. Traffic for at least one of the identified NXXs is routed to the end office through a second switch that is different than the first switch. The system also causes traffic for the identified NXXs to be routed to the first switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: Verizon Business Network Services Inc.
    Inventors: Elena LOZANO, Edmund W. Peaslee, III
  • Publication number: 20080317238
    Abstract: VoIP networks and methods are disclosed for distributing media resources in a VoIP network for providing services. VoIP endpoints, media gateways, and/or other network nodes in the VoIP network report available media resources (i.e., available processing capacity) that are able to provide services, such as providing announcements, DTMF digit collection, etc, to a distributed resource server. The distributed resource server then assigns the available media resources among the VoIP endpoints and/or media gateways to perform services for calls in the VoIP network in order to distribute the tasks of performing services among different nodes of the VoIP network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Yigang Cai, Alexander Aihao Yin
  • Publication number: 20080317239
    Abstract: In one embodiment a method for accessing and interacting with an interactive telecommunications service system is disclosed. The method can include activating a programming mode, entering a plurality of keystrokes to create a keyed sequence where the keyed sequence can include a telephone number and a menu response sequence. The menu response sequence can control the menu driven portion of the telecom service system after the device is connected via a telecommunications network. The keyed sequence can include delays between each of the plurality of keystrokes. The delays can be recorded and a session identifier can also be recorded. The keyed sequence can be associated with the delays and the session identifier in response to the activated programming mode. Access to the service and results from a service request can be automated by the disclosed arrangements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Candice B. Gilzean, Gahlya Gregory, Fabian F. Morgan, Angie B. Pelt
  • Publication number: 20080317240
    Abstract: The innovation supports the ability to map alpha characters entered directly into the dialer application of a smartphone. These alpha characters can be entered via a smartphone keyboard (e.g., QWERTY keyboard) and converted to the appropriate digits as mapped to a conventional telephone keypad. The resultant numerical digits can be used to prompt a network call. Additionally, the innovation can be used during an active call to respond to prompts that traditionally require 12-key mappings. This innovation allows a user to both dial a number directly via a smartphone keyboard, and filter contacts by name, in a non-modal manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Li-Kai K. Chang, Genevieve Gambardella, Timothy L. Bui, Jason S. Hamilton, Navneet Mehta, Robert P. St. Pierre, Kelly Ann Grantham Gachet, Anil Dhawan
  • Publication number: 20080317241
    Abstract: An apparatus for canceling a signal is disclosed. The apparatus may include an identification code (ID code) generator configured to generate an ID code. The apparatus may also include an ID code injector configured to inject the ID code into at least one of the signal and a processed signal to produce a convolved signal. The processed signal is resulted from a processing of the signal. The apparatus may further include an ID code detector configured to detect at least one of the convolved signal, a transformed signal, and a transformation of the convolved signal. The transformed signal is resulted from the transformation of the convolved signal. The apparatus may further include an arithmetic function configured to remove at least one of the convolved signal and the transformed signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Derek Wang, Vikas Sharma
  • Publication number: 20080317242
    Abstract: An apparatus, program product and method protect data in a database table from unauthorized access through the combination of scrambling the data in the rows and columns of a database table and encrypting the data in different rows and/or columns using different encryption keys. A complementary descrambling and decryption process may then be used by an authorized party to recover the data stored in the scrambled and encrypted table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John David Bohush, Christine Rose Rand, Michael Allen Rothschild, Michael Alan Venz
  • Publication number: 20080317243
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for a low complexity method of securing content that is coded by a rateless code whereby it is noted that it is sufficient to encrypt only a subset of the ratelessly coded packets. In one embodiment, the method comprises performing rateless coding on a first set of blocks of data to produce ratelessly encoded blocks of data and performing encryption on a subset of the ratelessly encoded blocks of data based on a degree value for each of the ratelessly encoded blocks of data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: Sean A. Ramprashad
  • Publication number: 20080317244
    Abstract: An execution unit adapted to perform at least a portion of the Data Encryption Standard. The execution unit includes a Left Half input; a Key input; and a Table input. The execution unit also includes a first group of transistors configured to receive the Table input, perform a table look-up, and output data. The execution unit further includes a first exclusive-or operator having two inputs and an output. The first exclusive-or operator is configured to receive the Left Half input and the Key input. The execution unit also includes a second exclusive-or operator having two inputs and an output. The second exclusive-or operator is configured to receive the data output by the first group of transistors and to receive the output of the first exclusive-or operator. The execution unit also includes a third exclusive-or operator having two inputs and an output. The third exclusive-or operator is configured to receive the Left Half input and the data output by the first group of transistors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Leonard D. Rarick, Christopher H. Olson
  • Publication number: 20080317245
    Abstract: A hash unit for obtaining a hash value from hashing a set of parameters and a protocol parameter. The hash unit has a plurality of memory units for receiving the set of parameters and outputting a plurality of multiplication results, a first plurality of addition logics for receiving the plurality of multiplication results for outputting an addition result, and a second plurality of addition logics to generate the hash value wherein the hash value being equal to the addition result modulo a modulus constant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Franny Wei, Di Qiu
  • Publication number: 20080317246
    Abstract: A device (2300) for processing a data stream (1800), wherein the device (2300) comprises a splitting unit (2305) for splitting adjacent frames (1902) of a partially decrypted data stream (1900), the partially decrypted data stream (1900) comprising decrypted frame boundary portions (1901) between adjacent frames (1902), at the frame boundary portions (1901), a replication unit (2306) for replicating split frames (1902) a number of times in accordance with a predetermined replication rate and a connecting unit (2307) for connecting the replicated split frames (1902).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Roland Peter Jan Mathijs Manders, Albert Maria Arnold Rijckaert, Eric Wilhelmus Josephus Moors
  • Publication number: 20080317247
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for processing authentication using Extensible Authentication Protocol-Authentication and Key Agreement (EAP-AKA) in a non-Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM) terminal without a USIM card. According to the present invention, although the USIM card used for user authentication function is absent, the secret value that used to be stored in the USIM card for user authentication is directly stored in the non-USIM terminal. Therefore, both a user password and a secret value are applied for EAP-AKA authentication of the terminal and the user and user authentication problems caused by lack of the USIM card can be overcome.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: POSTDATA CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jin-Hwa Jeong, Sung-Ho Yoo
  • Publication number: 20080317248
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides an information exchange device. The information exchange device includes a storage device which stores information items for disclosure, an encryption device which encrypts each of the information items for disclosure using a plurality of prepared secret keys which correspond to each of the information items for disclosure, a transmitting device which transmits the encrypted information items and the plurality of prepared secret keys, and a decryption device which receives an encrypted information item which is arbitrarily selected from the plurality of encrypted information items, receives a secret key related to the selected encrypted information item from among the plurality of prepared secret keys, and decrypts the selected encrypted information item using the secret key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Norihiko Naono, Tomohisa Ota
  • Publication number: 20080317249
    Abstract: A system for encrypting and decrypting data is provided. The system includes a client for receiving a data packet, setting a value of a crypto bit, and transmitting the data packet over a system bus. A crypto module receives the data packet from the system bus and performs a cryptology function on the data packet based on a first value of the crypto bit. A memory controller receives the data packet from the system bus and performs non-cryptology functions on the data packet based on a second value of the crypto bit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Matthew D. Bates, Lance G. Hehenberger
  • Publication number: 20080317250
    Abstract: To prevent a preview of contents by a person who does not have a right to view or listen, by distributing encoded contents data which are difficult for a third person to decode. A new participation terminal apparatus, as well as transmitting a participation request to a parent terminal apparatus of a connection destination candidate, transmits a participation disclosure key for encoding a contents decoding key. The parent terminal of the connection destination candidate which receives the participation disclosure key from the new participation terminal apparatus generates an encoded decoding key, which is a contents decoding key encoded using the participation disclosure key received, and transmits it to the new participation terminal apparatus. The new participation terminal apparatus decodes the encoded decoding key received, using a participation secret key stored in a participation key storage section, acquiring a contents decoding key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki Matsuo, Hirotsugu Unotoro, Yasushi Yanagihara
  • Publication number: 20080317251
    Abstract: A system for encrypting data comprising a computer configured to encrypt a plurality of data entries using at least one encryption algorithm and a system memory, wherein the computer is configured to use different keys with the encryption algorithm(s) for each data entry and the system is configured to store in the system memory or transmit for storage in an external memory the encrypted data corresponding to each entry along with an identifier corresponding to at least part of the key used to encrypt that entry, such that when decrypting a data entry in the system or external memory the associated identifier can be used to locate at least part of the correct key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: Patrick Foody
  • Publication number: 20080317252
    Abstract: The invention relates to a public address system, a control unit of the public address system and a monitoring device of a public address system. A bi-directional communication with modulated data between a control device and a monitoring device and/or an end of line monitoring device is monitoring the presence and status of the loudspeaker line and loudspeakers constantly. The communication is frequency multiplexed upon the existing audio wire from the audio amplifier to the loudspeakers. In combination with the bi-directional data communication the power supply for the monitoring devices and/or the end of line monitoring devices is extracted from audio frequencies, in fact preferably a 20 kHz pilot tone generated by the audio amplifier. Filtering prevents interference between audio signals and/or communication signals and/or the power supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2004
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Bertus Tjalsma, Alex Jonkman
  • Publication number: 20080317253
    Abstract: An audio processing system comprising processing devices and a processing module. The processing devices generate output signals, and the processing module calculates the output signals from the processing devices and generates an output result signal. Each processing device comprises a control module, a timing generation module, a memory module, and a conversion module. The control module receives an input control signal and generates a first control signal and a second control signal. The timing generation module is coupled to the control module and generates a timing signal according to the second control signal. The memory module is coupled to the control module and the timing generation module. The memory module receives and stores an audio signal and generates a memory signal according to the first control signal and the timing signal. The conversion module is coupled to the memory module and converts the memory signal to the output signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: Wei-Cheng Lin
  • Publication number: 20080317254
    Abstract: A noise control device according to the present invention comprises: four or more noise detectors each for detecting a plurality of noises arriving thereat, and outputting the noises as a noise signal; a control speaker for radiating, to a control point, a control sound based on each noise signal; and a filter section for signal-processing noise signals from the noise detectors by using filter coefficients which respectively correspond to the four or more noise detectors and which are set such that the control sound from the control speaker reduces the plurality of noises arriving at the control point, and for adding up all the signal-processed noise signals, and for outputting a resultant signal to the control speaker. The control point and the control speaker are provided within a polyhedral-shaped space whose apexes are placement positions of the noise detectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: Hiroyuki KANO
  • Publication number: 20080317255
    Abstract: An audio transducer component comprises at least two independent voice coils, each voice coil associated with a diaphragm and an acoustic cavity. The audio transducer component further comprises magnetic means for driving the at least two independent voice coils with independent signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Cozens, Nicholas Zacharov
  • Publication number: 20080317256
    Abstract: A method for reproducing a secondary path in an active noise reduction system comprising a transmission path (S, 9?, 10, 11), an adaptively adjustable filter (13), and an addition unit (14), the adaptively adjustable filter (13) being adjusted according to an output signal of the addition unit (14). A delay time (T) of a signal along the transmission path (8, 9, 10, 11) is eliminated in the transmission function of the adaptively adjustable filter (13) in order to generate the reproduction of the secondary path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: Harry Bachmann
  • Publication number: 20080317257
    Abstract: A sound processing system for a vehicle includes a sound processor that is configured to mix at least one real audio input signal to form at least one virtual output signal. At least one audio signal that is available to drive at least one loudspeaker may be formed using the combination of the virtual output signal and the real audio input signal. The virtual output signal may be post processed to form a predetermined frequency range of the audio signal prior to being combined with the real audio input signal. The audio signal may be created by mixing the real audio input signal with the post processed virtual output signal. Alternatively, the audio signal may be formed by mixing the real audio input signal to form a real audio output signal, and then summing the real audio output signal with the post processed virtual output signal. Mixing may be performed with a crossbar mixer included in the sound processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Kenneth Carl Furge, Bradley F. Eid, Roger E. Shively
  • Publication number: 20080317258
    Abstract: An adapter for connecting a portable media player to a car stereo that includes an integrated cradle for holding the media player securely and conveniently, and a means for direct connection to a front-mounted auxiliary input receptacle of an automobile stereo system without the need for external cabling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: SignaLogix Inc.
    Inventor: Joshua Lindsay
  • Publication number: 20080317259
    Abstract: A small array microphone system includes an array microphone having a plurality of microphones and operative to provide a plurality of received signals, each microphone providing one received signal. A first voice activity detector (VAD) provides a first voice detection signal generated using the plurality of received signals to indicate the presence or absence of in-beam desired speech. A second VAD provides a second voice detection signal generated using the plurality of received signals to indicate the presence or absence of out-of-beam noise when in-beam desired speech is absent. A reference signal generator provides a reference signal based on the first voice detection signal, the plurality of received signals, and a beamformed signal, wherein the reference signal has the desired speech suppressed. A beamformer provides the beamformed signal based on the second voice detection signal, the reference signal, and the plurality of received signals, wherein the beamformed signal has noise suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: FORTEMEDIA, INC.
    Inventors: Ming Zhang, Xiaoyan Lu
  • Publication number: 20080317260
    Abstract: A method of distinguishing sound sources includes the step of transforming data, collected by at least two transducers which each react to a characteristic of an acoustic wave, into signals for each transducer location. The transducers are separated by a distance of less than about 70 mm or greater than about 90 mm. The signals are separated into a plurality of frequency bands for each transducer location. For each band a comparison is made of the relationship of the magnitudes of the signals for the transducer locations with a threshold value. A relative gain change is caused between those frequency bands whose magnitude relationship falls on one side of the threshold value and those frequency bands whose magnitude relationship falls on the other side of the threshold value. As such, sound sources are discriminated from each other based, on their distance from the transducers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: William R. Short
  • Publication number: 20080317261
    Abstract: In a wind noise reduction device that reduces wind noise contained in an input sound signal to generate a corrected sound signal, when a predetermined band including the band of the wind noise is a first band and a predetermined band higher in frequency than the first band is a second band, the wind noise reduction device includes: a first corrector that has a signal generator generating, based on a sound signal (i) contained in the input sound signal and lying in a band higher in frequency than the first band, a sound signal (ii) lying in the first band and different from a sound signal (iii) contained in the input sound signal and lying in the first band, and that generates a first corrected sound signal based on the sound signal (ii) generated by the signal generator; a second corrector that reduces the signal level of a sound signal (iv) contained in the input sound signal and lying in the second band to thereby generate a second corrected sound signal as a sound signal (v) having the wind noise reduced a
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro YOSHIDA, Tomoki OKU
  • Publication number: 20080317262
    Abstract: A microphone is described including a microphone housing having a microphone capsule disposed therein. The microphone is connected via a microphone cable to an audio system, and has an integrated amplifier that raises the signal output level. The integration of a preamplifier into the microphone advantageously reduces the microphone's susceptibility to interference. In contrast to conventional preamplifiers, the preamplifier does not, or not exclusively, operate as an impedance converter, but instead amplifies the output voltage. As a consequence, the signal-to-noise ratio is advantageously increased even in the presence of interference. The preamplifier can be provided with energy via a battery or accumulator mounted in the microphone, or advantageously from the audio system via additional conductors in the microphone cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: Jens Schlichting
  • Publication number: 20080317263
    Abstract: A system that allows the teammates of an individual (such as a quarterback on a football team) to hear signals being called by that individual during the course of a sports competition, despite noise generated by an audience. The system includes a microphone positioned within the helmet of the signal caller connected to an audio amplification device, either positioned in the helmet or in some other part of the clothing or equipment worn by the signal caller. The amplified signal is then directed to one or more loudspeakers, again positioned either on the helmet of the signal caller or on the clothing or equipment worn by the signal caller. The loudspeakers are directed to the signal caller's teammates, positioned typically along a line of scrimmage. The system may be time-limited in operation in that the signal caller must specifically activate the system which thereafter remains activated only for a pre-set period of time before automatically shutting off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: Hector C. Villarreal, JR.
  • Publication number: 20080317264
    Abstract: A device suitable for use in various applications, including, for example, sound production applications and video game applications. In one non-limiting embodiment, the device comprises a sound capturing unit for generating a first signal indicative of vocal sound produced by a user and an image capturing unit for generating a second signal indicative of images of a mouth region of the user. The device also comprises a processing unit communicatively coupled to the sound capturing unit and the image capturing unit for processing the first signal and the second signal. In an example in which the device is used for sound production, the processing unit is operative for processing the first signal and the second signal to cause a sound production unit to emit sound audibly perceivable as being a modified version of the vocal sound produced by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: Jordan Wynnychuk
  • Publication number: 20080317265
    Abstract: An anti-eavesdropping device is described. The device comprises a receiving compartment for receiving an electronic device, a noise generator, and an EMI filter. The receiving compartment is sealable to minimize signal emissions from the interior to the exterior and from the exterior to the interior, and the noise generator is coupled with the receiving compartment and the EMI filter. The EMI filter is operatively coupled with the noise generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Jose M. BOUZA, II, Salvador AGUIRRE, JR., Daniel Ashley MCDONNELL, Timothy Wayne EATON, Stephen Robert WOODRUFF, Frank Augustine MASON
  • Publication number: 20080317266
    Abstract: The invention is a contact structure of a film-type audio-speaker of a structure appropriate for transmitting audio signal current to the entire audio-speaker surface without attenuating the strength of the signals while achieving enhanced durability. There is provided a contact structure for use in a film-type audio-speaker including a piezoelectric film unit having a piezoelectric film which is obtained by surface-treating a film and coating an electrically conductive polymer layer on the surface of the film, and one or more terminal portions which are electrically connected to a piezoelectric film unit, the contact structure of the film-type audio-speaker comprising: a metal electrically conductive layer coated around the circumference of the piezoelectric film unit, and having a relatively excellent electrical conductivity in comparison with the electrically conductive polymer layer, wherein the terminal portions are in close contact with the metal electrically conductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: DREAM SONIC TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Ju Seon Youn, Chang Ju Ra
  • Publication number: 20080317267
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image/audio playback technology in a mobile communication terminal. According to the present invention, a single image is divided into two halves, i.e., left-half and right-half images, which are displayed on two mobile communication terminals, respectively. In addition, two mobile communication terminals can play left-side and right-side audio data, respectively, which compose stereo audio data, according to the relative locations of the two mobile communication terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: PANTECH&CURITEL COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Sun-Dong Lee
  • Publication number: 20080317268
    Abstract: A hearing aid (200) comprises at least one microphone (210), a signal processing means (220) and an output transducer (230). The signal processing means is adapted to receive an input signal from the microphone. The signal processing means is adapted to apply a hearing aid gain to the input signal to produce an output signal to be output by the output transducer, and the signal processing means comprises means for adjusting the hearing aid gain by a direct transmission gain calculated for the hearing aid. The invention further provides a method and a system for reducing noise, as well as a computer program product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: Widex A/S
    Inventors: Morten Agerbaek NORDAHN, Carsten PALUDAN-MULLER
  • Publication number: 20080317269
    Abstract: The invention concerns a communication device with casing parts enclosing a microphone and a receiver and suspension points therefore in the casing. A sound canal from the receiver to the ear of a user is provided, and the casing parts are shaped from an injection moulded fibre-reinforced polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2004
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Claus Tipsmark, Klaus L. Svendsen, Jens Lundby
  • Publication number: 20080317270
    Abstract: The manufacture of housing parts of a hearing apparatus and in particular a hearing device is to be simplified. To this end, provision is made to also efficiently use a so-called tumbling process for the surface treatment of housing. On account of this, a closure element is proposed for closing openings of housing parts for a hearing apparatus of this type during a tumbling process. The closure element has a disk-like center part, a first column section, which protrudes from the one side of the disk-like center part and has a first swelling on its free end, and a second column section, which protrudes from the other side of the disk-like center part and has a second swelling on its free end. A closure element of this type allows openings of housing parts, which are attached to the column sections, to be closed and protected for a tumbling process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Peter Nikles, Erika Radick, Benjamin Schmidt, Christian Schmitt, Erwin Singer, Cornelia Wiedenbrug
  • Publication number: 20080317271
    Abstract: The production of sealing units, and especially of face plates for hearing devices and other hearing apparatuses, is to be further automated. A sealing unit for sealing a shell of a hearing apparatus that can be worn in the auditory canal is accordingly proposed, with a face plate having a battery opening for holding a battery, with battery contacts, to which at least one signal processing module is connected, being arranged in or on the battery opening. A mount is removably affixed in or on the battery opening in order to hold the at least one signal processing module in or perpendicularly above/below the battery opening. The mount thus serves not only to retain the signal processing components during transport, but also to affix them into the face plate for example during milling of positioning holes for microphones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Peter Nikles, Erika Radick, Benjamin Schmidt, Christian Schmitt, Erwin Singer, Cornelia Wiedenbrug
  • Publication number: 20080317272
    Abstract: A hearing device, in particular a hearing system, is designed more acoustically stable with regard to feedback as well as more mechanically stable with regard to external influences by a sound emission tube for direct connection to an output nozzle of an earpiece of a hearing device. The sound emission tube has an outer sheath made from a first plastic and an inner wall made from a second plastic that is more elastic than the first plastic. The outer sheath and the inner wall are produced by 2-component injection molding. The inner wall damps vibrations from the earpiece outward or shocks from the outside to the earpiece. Conversely, the outer sheath provides for the mechanical stability and the sufficiently rigid mounting of the earpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Wai Kit David Ho, Wee Haw Koo, Wee Loong Ng
  • Publication number: 20080317273
    Abstract: A loudspeaker has a loudspeaker driver and a first tube having a base end coupled to the driver and extending towards the rear end of the loudspeaker. A second tube of larger cross sectional dimensions extends over the first tube and loudspeaker driver and has a rear end wall spaced from the open rear end of the second tube and a front end coupled to the driver. A third, open ended tube of smaller cross-sectional dimensions than the first tube extends through a rear end wall of the second tube and into the first tube, with the front end of the third tube spaced from the base of the first tube. A folded, three segment transmission line is formed between the first and second tubes, between the second and third tubes, and through the third tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: Peter M. Bouvier
  • Publication number: 20080317274
    Abstract: Disclosed is a necklace type radio headset capable of overcoming problems of conventional headsets, in which cables connected between earphones of a headset easily get tangled with each other or with other objects in a storing place of the headset while the headset is not used. The headset according to the present invention includes casings connected via a cable and enclosing one or more Bluetooth modules and respective speakers therein, and the casings are detachably coupled to each other by a coupling means, so that a user can wear the headset around his or her neck like a necklace because the cable always maintains a ring shape. As the coupling means, one of the casings has a depression for receiving a speaker housing to be inserted into a user's ear, and the speaker housing is input in the depression while it is not used. Further, since either or both of the casings have respective permanent magnets, the casings are coupled by attractive magnetic force exerted between the permanent magnets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: UBIXON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyoung Ho Kim
  • Publication number: 20080317275
    Abstract: Speaker damper (12) used in a speaker including frame (5), magnetic circuit (1) coupled to frame (5), voice coil unit (2) inserted into magnetic gap (8) provided in magnetic circuit (1), and diaphragm (3) coupled to frame (5) and voice coil unit (2) at its outer and inner peripheral ends, respectively. Speaker damper (12) is coupled to voice coil unit (2) and frame (5) at its inner and outer peripheral ends, respectively, and has first supporting portion (10) having a first elastic modulus at its inner peripheral end and second supporting portion (11) having a second elastic modulus different from the first elastic modulus at the outer peripheral side of first supporting portion (10). This configuration can reduce the distortion of a speaker, even if the amplitude amount of voice coil unit (2) becomes large, and a large load is not applied to vibrating voice coil unit (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Osamu Funahashi
  • Publication number: 20080317276
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a miniature electro-acoustic transducer including a magnetic circuit, a diaphragm and a voice coil operatively connected to the diaphragm. The magnetic circuit includes first and second air gap portions adapted to receive first and second voice coil segments, respectively. The magnetic flux acting on the first voice coil segment is provided by inner magnetic means and first outer magnetic means in combination and the magnetic flux acting on the second voice coil segment is essentially provided by the inner magnetic means only.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: SONION HORSENS A/S
    Inventors: Kurt Sorensen, Andreas Sorensen, Morten Kjeldsen Andersen
  • Publication number: 20080317277
    Abstract: Spatial bandwidth imaging of the interior spaces and elements of a structure by transmission of low frequency, continuous-wave, narrow band signal or signals through the structure, measurement of the electric and magnetic components of the received signal received by narrow band Doppler or focused synthetic aperture methods over a range of signal paths extending from the transmitter and through the structure, and imaging of the effects of the interior space on the electric and magnetic components of the received signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: HERRICK TECHNOLOGY LABS INC.
    Inventor: David L. HERRICK
  • Publication number: 20080317278
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for computing a fingerprint of a video sequence. The method comprises the steps of—Computation of a visual digest for each frame of the video, —Computation of the distance between the visual digest of each frame of the video in order to detect shots, —Detection, for each detected shot of the video, of a frame, called stable frame, having the smallest content variation of the shot, —Calculation of a local fingerprint for said stable frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Frederic Lefebvre, Claire-Helene Demarty, Lionel Oisel, Ayoub Massoudi
  • Publication number: 20080317279
    Abstract: In various embodiments, the present disclosure provides an automated seed sampling and sorting system. The system includes an imaging station for collecting image data of a set of seeds and a seed orientation station for independently positioning each seed in the set in a desired orientation based on the collected image data. The system further includes a seed sample and sort station for extracting a sample from each seed in the set, sorting each sample to a sample tray and sorting each sampled seed to a seed tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Kevin L. Deppermann, Lee Yannakakis, Andrew M. Singleton, Angela R. Koestel, David W. Finley, Brian J. Forinash, Allen N. Ondes, Sam R. Eathington, Heather M. Forbes, Bruce J. Schnicker, Jason K. Bull
  • Publication number: 20080317280
    Abstract: Provided is an interactive system for use with coded data printed on an item with infrared ink to define a hyperlabel. The interacting system includes at least one hyperlabel reading device configured to scan said hyperlabel from the item and to transmit information about such hyperlabel, as well as a receiver configured to receive the transmitted information and to relay the information. The system also includes an application server configured to receive the relayed information and to generate a logical link between the hyperlabel and a specific data element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Kia Silverbrook, Paul Lapstun
  • Publication number: 20080317281
    Abstract: A method for tracking at least one medical marker is provided, wherein actual properties of the at least one marker are compared with nominal properties of the at least one marker. A basis for subsequent use of information obtained from the at least one marker is formed based on the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: Gunter Goldbach
  • Publication number: 20080317282
    Abstract: A system or the like capable of detecting lane marks more accurately by preventing false lane marks from being erroneously detected as true lane marks. A vehicle-use image processing system (100) allows a “road surface cluster” to be extracted from the “histogram” of luminance of each pixel in a “reference area” in a road surface image. Among “primary lane mark candidates,” those that overlap the “reference area” are detected as “secondary lane mark candidates.” Among the “secondary lane mark candidates,” those that have “luminance parameter” values falling within the luminance range of the “road surface cluster” are not detected as true lane marks. Thereby, lane marks are prevented from being erroneously detected (erroneous detection). This allows only lane marks to be detected more accurately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: Kiyozumi Unoura
  • Publication number: 20080317283
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a signal processing method for multi aperture sun sensor comprising the following steps: reading the information of sunspots in a row from a centroid coordinate memory, judging the absence of sunspots in that row, identifying the row and column index of the sunspots in the complete row, selecting the corresponding calibration parameter based on the row and column index, calculating attitude with the attitude calculation module the corresponding to identified sunspots, averaging the accumulated attitude of all sunspots and outputting the final attitude. At the same time, a signal processing device for multi aperture sun sensor is also presented. It is comprised of a sunspot absence judgment and an identification module and an attitude calculation module. The disclosure implements the integration of sun sensors without additional image processor or attitude processor, reduces field programmable gate array resource and improves the reliability of sun sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Guangjun Zhang, Jie Jiang, Qiaoyun Fan
  • Publication number: 20080317284
    Abstract: A face tracking device for tracking an orientation of a person's face with using a cylindrical head model, the face tracking device comprises: an image means for continuously shooting the person's face and for obtaining a first image data based on a shot of the person's face; an extraction means for extracting a second image data from the first image data, the second image data corresponding to a facial area of the person's face; a determination means for determining whether the second image is usable as an initial value required for the cylindrical head model; and a face orientation detection means for detecting the orientation of the person's face with using the cylindrical head model and with using the initial value determined to be usable by the determination means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junya Inada