Patents Issued in January 12, 2017
  • Publication number: 20170013309
    Abstract: A system and method for product placement are disclosed in which the system has a consumer application that provides synchronized tagged frames to the user generated by the system. The consumer application may be displayed on a computing device separate from the display on which the content is being viewed. When the user selects a tag in a frame, information about the item or person is displayed. The application may allow a gesture to be used to capture a moment of interest in the content. The tagging of the system may utilize various source of information (including for example, scripts and subtitles) to generate the tag for the frames of the piece of content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Zied JALLOULI
  • Publication number: 20170013310
    Abstract: It is possible for the content distribution side to control the conditions of target viewers for distributions without depending on the functions specific to a receiver. Content which is broadcast, a content profile, and a program are received. In an initial step of the program, prestored viewer profile information is read. All the content profiles and the contents are downloaded temporarily. Next, the profile information is read, and then a process of matching the profile information with the viewer profile information is performed. When it is determined that they do not match, a matching process for the next content profile is performed. If, on the other hand, they match, at the next step, the content is stored. The viewer reproduces the stored content at an appropriate time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Naohisa KITAZATO
  • Publication number: 20170013311
    Abstract: An interactive notification communication between front and rear entertainment systems in a vehicle is provided. A first system receives a request that indicates a second system is attempting to access content. The access attempt may be a purchase, a download, a view, or other actions performed on the content. The request is selectively granted or denied based on various criteria including, the type of content. If the access request is denied, a notice is sent to the second system and the action is canceled. If the access request is granted, a notice is sent to the second system and the action being performed is allowed to proceed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Parhys L. Napier, Jessica K. Champi
  • Publication number: 20170013312
    Abstract: A method of assisting selection of a TV channel in a linear IPTV service where a prompt to switch a TV channel to another TV channel is generated based on measures indicative of instantaneous relevance of TV programs concurrently broadcast in a plurality of linear TV channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Edwin SALOMONS, Rafal BORCZUCH
  • Publication number: 20170013313
    Abstract: Audio fingerprinting and other media matching technologies can be used to identify broadcast media, such as television shows and radio broadcasts. A user device can record image, audio, and/or video information and upload information to a matching service that is able to use matching technology to identify the media and provide supplemental content or information to the user. The user might receive information identifying a product in an advertisement, identifying an actor on screen in a movie at a particular time, or other such information. In some embodiments, the user can receive access to a digital copy of the captured media, such as the ability to download a copy of a program in which a user expressed interest. Since a user might capture media information after the point of interest, a device can buffer a window of recently captured media in order to attempt to identify the intended media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Dominic S. Mallinson
  • Publication number: 20170013314
    Abstract: Audio fingerprinting and other media matching technologies can be used to identify broadcast media, such as television shows and radio broadcasts. A user device can record image, audio, and/or video information and upload information to a matching service that is able to use matching technology to identify the media and provide supplemental content or information to the user. The user might receive information identifying a product in an advertisement, identifying an actor on screen in a movie at a particular time, or other such information. In some embodiments, the user can receive access to a digital copy of the captured media, such as the ability to download a copy of a program in which a user expressed interest. Since a user might capture media information after the point of interest, a device can buffer a window of recently captured media in order to attempt to identify the intended media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Dominic S. Mallinson
  • Publication number: 20170013315
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for presenting supplemental information corresponding to on-demand media content are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Ant Oztaskent, Yaroslav Volovich, Ingrid McAulay Trollope
  • Publication number: 20170013316
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content communicating, rendering, recommending, generating, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The present disclosure provides systems and methods for pushing information between two network connected devices during rendering of content on one of the devices. While a first device is rendering content, additional information corresponding to the rendered content can be communicated to the connected second device and rendered on the second device without interrupting the playback of the content rendered on the first device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Chaojun Zhang
  • Publication number: 20170013317
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that can communicate with plural content viewing apparatuses includes a group registering unit that registers users of the content viewing apparatuses in groups, a sharing-level setting unit that sets sharing level information representing an information sharing level among users belonging to an identical group, a viewing-information receiving unit that receives viewing information of the users, a user-viewing-content managing unit that manages a user viewing content database, a discriminating unit that discriminates, when a viewing information request of another user is received, the other users belonging to a group identical with a group to which the user of the content viewing apparatus at the request source belongs, an information extracting unit that extracts viewing information of the discriminated other users from the user viewing content database, and a viewing-information transmitting unit that transmits the viewing information to the content viewing apparatus at t
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Yusuke Sakai, Kazuto Mugura, Tomohiro Tsunoda, Tomohiro Ishii, Yuki Shoji
  • Publication number: 20170013318
    Abstract: Access to programs using network connected digital video recording devices is disclosed. A DVR causes display of a content guide including a unit identification area. When the unit identification area is updated, the content guide also updates to reflect programs available on the currently selected DVR. The content guide of a remotely connected DVR can thus be displayed, from which programs are selected for playback. Playback can be resumed from a point at which a viewer terminated viewing, either at the local or remote location, or from the beginning of the program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2002
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: M. Kent Williams, Bruce A. Garcia
  • Publication number: 20170013319
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a devices and methods related to satellite information broadcasting. An embodiment may relate to a device that includes a plurality of respective tuning channels. The device includes a controller configured to transmit a registration query and receive a registration request from a client device. The registration request may include a client identifier and a tuner quantity. The tuner quantity may indicate the number of tuners associated with the client device. The controller may assign at least one tuning channel to the client device based on the tuner quantity. Furthermore, the controller may transmit a registration confirmation message to the client device. The registration confirmation message may include the respective tuning channel identifier of the at least one assigned tuning channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin Mui, Kushan Shah, Bradley T. Ito
  • Publication number: 20170013320
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed a directional Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) filter. The MoCA filter can include a first port and a second port. Additionally, the MoCA filter can include a bidirectional path and a unidirectional path in parallel between the first port and the second port. Further, the unidirectional path can include an active isolator or a passive isolator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Yan Li, Erdogan Alkan
  • Publication number: 20170013321
    Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus for Internet Protocol television streaming are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a remote access point configured to receive television programming via a data feed from a television service provider. The remote access point is specifically assigned to an application operating on a client device. The apparatus also includes a connection controller configured to determine television programming received in the remote access point is to be transmitted to the specific application operating on the client device and transmit the encrypted television programming to the application via a secure communication channel. The apparatus also includes a management controller configured to provision a virtual local area network between the remote access point and the connection controller and provision the secure communication channel from the connection controller to the application operating on the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Matthew Steven Murphy
  • Publication number: 20170013322
    Abstract: A method includes receiving and processing an electronic signal that represents television content to provide a first media signal that is playable to present a forward-playback of the television content. The method also includes, responsive to a first instruction, providing a second media signal that is playable to present a reverse-playback of the television content, and recording a portion of the television content that corresponds to the reverse-playback. Further, the method includes, responsive to a second instruction, stopping the recording of the television content. In addition, the method includes, responsive to a third instruction, saving one or more recorded portions of the television content. The method also includes, responsive to receiving a fourth instruction, communicating the saved recording of the television content to a separate computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: THE DIRECTV GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan A. Thompson, Michael E. Depies, Stanley Y. Wang
  • Publication number: 20170013323
    Abstract: An automated system and method for media content post-production, including customer order-based customization, customer approval, transcoding and distribution of the media content to broadcasting sites that disseminate audio, audiovisual or print media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Matthew Whitney
  • Publication number: 20170013324
    Abstract: The disclosed system and method receives, from a media device, a query fingerprint that includes an ordered sequence of frames of content being consumed, and matches the query fingerprint with frame fingerprints by determining a distance between respective frame fingerprints and corresponding ones of the ordered sequence of frames. The matching may be performed by populating a binary tree structure with respective distances, chronologically across leaf nodes of the binary tree structure, and then noting a value of the root node. If below a maximum threshold, then there is a match. The system and method may detect a channel change at the media device by traversing a right or a left sub-tree of the binary tree structure, and locating a low value (or a zero) at the first or second nodes of the sub-tree. This channel change may be useful in targeting media to content being streamed to the media device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Juikun Chen
  • Publication number: 20170013325
    Abstract: A method that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, transmitting media content to a group of set top boxes for presentation with an overlay superimposed onto the media content, where the overlay can include a timeline corresponding to the presentation of the media content and receiving a first comment from a first set top box of the group of set top boxes, where the first comment is presentable with the overlay and the media content by the group of set top boxes. Additional steps can include receiving a tag generated at a first set top box during presentation of the media content, presenting the tag while the media content is presented, correlating the tag to a portion of the media content timeline and analyzing metadata associated with the portion of the timeline that is tagged to determine a first marketing parameter. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: LINDA ANN ROBERTS, E-LEE CHANG, JA-YOUNG SUNG, NATASHA BARRETT SCHULTZ, ROBERT KING
  • Publication number: 20170013326
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and media for managing a data stream are provided. Data representing an input of an individual is received, with the individual being in an environment. Information of the environment is correlated with the data representing the input of the individual to determine a demographic descriptor. The demographic descriptor is correlated with a content of the data stream to determine whether a predetermined condition is satisfied. The content of the data stream is modified when the predetermined condition is satisfied to generate a modified data stream. The modified data stream is transmitted to a device disposed in the environment when the content of the data stream is modified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Harry E. BLANCHARD, Hisao CHANG, Bernard S. RENGER, Michael JOHNSTON
  • Publication number: 20170013327
    Abstract: High definition panoramic videos may be facilitated by, e.g., assigning video controllers to respective panoramic videos or portions thereof; activating a first video controller assigned to a first one of the panoramic videos; and producing a first view-point perspective from the first panoramic video utilizing the activated controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Hyung Ki CHOI, Yoonji NAM, Wang-sung CHUN
  • Publication number: 20170013328
    Abstract: A multimedia on demand marketplace system that is comprised of a transaction-processing enabled multimedia server that is configured to connect to an internet-based network for a seller to publish multimedia content and to transmit multimedia content programs on the demand of a buyer to be purchased on a webpage, connected via said internet-based network. The invention includes a means to process and encode said published multimedia content with a copyright overlay watermark and store said published multimedia content to render it searchable a plurality of customer premises units that are connected to said internet-based network via a network interface and configured to receive said multimedia content programs via said internet-based network. The invention includes a remote control unit that is in communication with each customer premises unit to provide user input to the unit and a multimedia content system that is connected to each customer premises unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Darryl Smith
  • Publication number: 20170013329
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for synchronizing media. A method of synchronizing media includes: receiving first media data and second media data; acquiring a first time of at least a partial interval of the first media data and a second time of at least a partial interval of the second media data; controlling at least the second time based on at least a part of the first time and the second time; and combining the first media data and the second media data based on the first time and the controlled second time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Chang-Gun UM
  • Publication number: 20170013330
    Abstract: A sensor management device according to an embodiment of the present invention is a sensor management device includes: a reception unit configured to receive sensor information indicating a measurement result obtained by a sensor; and a display control unit configured to perform control of displaying a screen on which the measurement result indicated by the sensor information received by the reception unit is associated with the sensor, wherein the display control unit performs control of changing a display content of the screen in such a manner as to allow recognition of the sensor the sensor information of which has become unable to be received by the reception unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirotsugu YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170013331
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus to allow a user to use a device network by a natural and simple operation by automatically selecting a device for providing a response to a request, the information processing apparatus including: a request acquiring part configured to acquire a request to a system; a response determining part configured to determine a response to the request; a device selecting part configured to select, on the basis of at least an attribute of the response, a device that provides the response among devices included in the system; and a device controller configured to perform control that causes the selected device to provide the response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2014
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro WATANABE, Motoki TSUNOKAWA
  • Publication number: 20170013332
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide an optical packet buffer control device, without making device construction large in scale, that is capable of dynamically responding to traffic and suppressing power consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Takahiro HIRAYAMA, Hideaki FURUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20170013333
    Abstract: A mobile terminal according to the present disclosure includes a housing member with a first sound hole, a film speaker and a speaker holder with a second sound hole. The film speaker includes a piezoelectric element and a resin film configured to vibrate with the piezoelectric element. The film speaker is located in the speaker holder. The second sound hole corresponds to the first sound hole and is located between the first sound hole and the film speaker. An inner edge which defines the second sound hole extends above the film speaker. A surface of the inner edge facing the film speaker is inclined such that at least a part of the inner edge decreases in thickness toward a leading end of the inner edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Hayato MIZUNO, Kotaro NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20170013334
    Abstract: A mobile terminal according to the present disclosure includes a battery, a frame, a film speaker, a speaker holder, and a hold-down. The film speaker is surrounded by the frame and located at the back side of the battery. To the speaker holder, the frame is affixed on the side of a first surface of the film speaker. The hold-down is configured to press at least a part of the frame on the side of a second surface of the film speaker between the film speaker and the battery from the second surface of the film speaker toward the speaker holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Mizuho HIDAKA, Norikazu MORIOKA
  • Publication number: 20170013335
    Abstract: A deployable speaker includes a driver and an acoustic enclosure made up of a multiplicity of panels. The driver is secured to one of the panels. The acoustic enclosure is deployable from a closed state to a deployed state. All of the panels which make up the enclosure are unitary and formed from a single sheet of composite material. The composite material has an interior layer that includes a first type of material which is skinned in a second type of material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: Bose Corporation
    Inventor: Andrew W. Clark
  • Publication number: 20170013336
    Abstract: An assembly for use in a designated listening area includes a body having a frame rail supporting or framing the body laterally adjacent to the designated listening area, and defining a cavity, and a subwoofer assembly having subwoofer speakers each defining a smaller second air volume. The subwoofer assembly is mounted to the frame rail such that the second air volumes are contiguous with and open into the first air volume. A sealing mechanism enclosed the first air volume within the cavity. A method includes providing a subwoofer assembly having subwoofer speakers defining respective second air volumes, mounting the subwoofer assembly to a frame rail laterally adjacent to the designated listening area such that the respective second air volumes are contiguous with and open into the first air volume, and sealing the first air volume with a sealing mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Gregory A. Stys, Richard A. Close
  • Publication number: 20170013337
    Abstract: A plant speaker comprising a frame and a wireless speaker. The frame can resemble the petals of a flower, such that the plant speaker can visually blend in with a garden environment. The wireless speaker can be paired with a source device to play back music or other sounds from the source device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Bill Costello
  • Publication number: 20170013338
    Abstract: A wrist and finger communication device (10) includes a strap (12), a communication module (14) connected with the strap (12) and a watch head (26). The communication module (14) includes a voice module (18) having a microphone (20), and a speaker (22) or a bone conduction actuator (24). The bone conduction actuator (24) may be provided on the communication module (14) or on a ring-shaped member (30) to be worn on the user's finger. The speaker (22) may be provided on the communication module (14) and extendible to a palm region of the user's hand cupped over the user's ear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Kevin Johan Wong, Marcus Leung-shea
  • Publication number: 20170013339
    Abstract: A microphone sensor provides, a receiving space disposed on a cover and a control module and positioned with a sound sensing module in the receiving space. The microphone sensor includes a cover having a receiving groove formed at a lower portion and an air inlet that a sound signal flow in through within a control module coupled to the lower portion of the cover. Furthermore, a sound sensing module is coupled to the control module and positioned at the receiving groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Hyunsoo Kim, Ilseon Yoo
  • Publication number: 20170013340
    Abstract: A speaker is provided in the present disclosure. The speaker includes a membrane, a voice coil connected to the membrane, and a solder pad formed on the membrane. The membrane includes a conductive silicone portion and a non-conductive silicone portion. The voice coil includes a coil portion for driving the membrane to vibrate, and a line lead portion led out from an end of the coil portion. The line led portion is connected to the solder pad, and the solder pad is formed on the conductive silicone portion of the membrane. The conductive silicone portion is connected to an input terminal of the speaker to receive an electric signal for driving the voice coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Yang Zhang
  • Publication number: 20170013341
    Abstract: A speaker is provided in the present disclosure. The speaker includes a membrane, a solder pad formed on the membrane, a voice coil connected to the membrane, and a connecting wire connected to the solder pad. The connecting wire is configured for receiving an electric signal for driving the voice coil. The voice coil includes a coil portion for driving the membrane to vibrate, and a line lead portion led out from an end of the coil portion; the line led portion is connected to the solder pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Yang Zhang
  • Publication number: 20170013342
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for determining when to wirelessly communicatively couple together a pair of untethered wireless audio output devices and for determining when to erase a connection history stored on one or both of the wireless audio output devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Robert D. WATSON, David John SHAW, Ganesha Adkasthala GANAPATHI BATTA, Chandrahas Aralaguppe CHANDRAMOHAN, Gregory Robert BURNS, Benjamin Huth BYER
  • Publication number: 20170013343
    Abstract: A winding device for a flexible cable. The device includes a housing and a cable winding spool rotatably mounted within the housing. An opening formed through the housing to allow a cable to be wound on the spool and a spring applies torque to the spool in a cable-winding sense. The spool has a cylindrical winding surface and a flange projects radially from the winding surface part-way between the axial ends thereof. A cable hook is formed in the flange, whereby a loop may be formed part-way between the ends of the cable and that loop may be passed through the opening to engage with the hook of the flange so that rotation of the spool under the action of the spring will wind the cable onto the spool, to both sides of the flange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Arthur Leslie TOMLINSON
  • Publication number: 20170013344
    Abstract: An earphone keeper having a jack clip to attach to an audio jack, several earphone clips to attach to respective speaker housings of a pair of earphones, and securement features that releasably couple the earphone clips to the jack clip, is disclosed. More particularly, an embodiment includes a magnet in the jack clip to magnetically attract soft magnetic inserts in the earphone clips such that the speaker housings are releasably retained at the audio jack and cable portions of the earphones resist tangling. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Jimmy Jen
  • Publication number: 20170013345
    Abstract: A headphone detector including a headphone and a processor. The headphone has a microphone and a speaker, and the microphone is configured to generate an audio signal based on an output of the speaker. The processor is configured to receive the audio signal, determine a characteristic of the audio signal, and assess whether the headphone is on ear or off ear based on a comparison of the characteristic to a threshold. In another aspect, an off-ear detection (OED) system includes a headphone and an OED processor. The headphone has a speaker, a feedforward microphone, and a feedback microphone. The OED processor is configured to determine whether the headphone is off ear or on ear, based at least in part on a headphone audio signal, a feedforward microphone signal, and a feedback microphone signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: AVNERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Amit Kumar, Eric Sorensen, Shankar Rathoud
  • Publication number: 20170013346
    Abstract: An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present disclosure may include a communication module configured to communicate wirelessly with an external device; an ear jack configured to include at least one ear jack terminal; an audio processing unit configured to process an audio signal; and a control unit configured to: detect a coupling with the external device through the ear jack, determine whether the electronic device is in a power transmission mode, control the audio processing unit to generate an ear jack signal when the electronic device is in a power transmission mode, output the ear jack signal by amplifying the ear jack signal so that power is supplied to the coupled external device, and to output the audio signal to the ear jack terminal when the electronic device is not in a power transmission mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Changsu LEE, Sungsoo MOON, Kemsuk SEO, Bongjae RHEE, Sangmoon LEE, Jihun HEO
  • Publication number: 20170013347
    Abstract: A deformable controller for an electronic device, such as a portable electronic device, is disclosed. A user can interact with the controller to cause it to “deform” and thereby provide user input to control the electronic device. The controller can be malleable and symmetrical, and user interaction with the controller can be provided with substantially arbitrary orientation. In one embodiment, the controller is an in-line controller with a cable that couples to the electronic device. In one particular implementation, the portable electronic device can be a portable media player and the controller can remotely control media playback functions for the portable media player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Kyle Yeates
  • Publication number: 20170013348
    Abstract: An arrayable loudspeaker (11) has at least one high frequency driver (39) mounted to a horn (37) and at least one pair of low frequency drivers (41) configured behind and in a closely spaced relationship to the horn to form low frequency side chambers (71) between the drivers and the horn from which acoustic energy produced by the low frequency drivers can propagate. Low frequency exit channels (77) above and below the horn are coupled to the low frequency side chambers (71). The configuration of the horn and low frequency drivers and the low frequency side chambers and low frequency exit channels is such that acoustical outputs of all drivers radiate coaxially from the loudspeaker with substantially constant wide beamwidth in the non-arraying plane. Signal processing can be added to enhance beamwidth control critical frequency ranges above crossover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Jon M. Arneson, Katrin Rawks, Pablo Espinosa
  • Publication number: 20170013349
    Abstract: An audio system for use in an automotive vehicle is provided. The audio system is configured to detect the removal of the removable speaker and adjust the audio signal to the fixed speakers so as to maintain the quality of sound within the vehicle. The audio system includes a signal processor configured to detect the presence of the removable speaker. The audio system distributes the frequency transmitted to the removable speaker to the speakers within the automotive vehicle so as to maintain the same sound quality when the removable speaker is removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Erik Anthony Wippler
  • Publication number: 20170013350
    Abstract: An assemblage of substantially round particles with a mean diameter between 0.1 and 4 mm, more preferable between 0.3 to 2 mm and most preferable between 0.8 to 1.2 mm, wherein the density of the assemblage determined by ISO 697 is between 250 kg/m3 and 400 kg/m3 is disclosed. The substantially round particles comprise at least one microporous material and optionally at least one binder, wherein the assemblage comprises a pore volume, wherein the pore volume comprises pores resulting from void space between different ones of the substantially round particles and pores within the substantially round particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Juergen Sauer, Johannes Kobler, Reimar Heinrich Leike
  • Publication number: 20170013351
    Abstract: A speaker module for a mobile device is provided. The speaker module changes a shape of an opening surface of a duct to which a protection member for preventing a foreign substance from entering is attached. The speaker module includes a speaker for outputting a sound signal, a body in which the speaker is mounted, a duct connected to the body for forming a radiation path of a sound signal output from the speaker, and a protection member attached to an opening surface of the duct for preventing a foreign substance from entering the speaker module, wherein the opening surface has an area larger than that of a cross-sectional opening surface formed vertically with respect to a length direction of the duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Byounghee LEE, Kiwon KIM
  • Publication number: 20170013352
    Abstract: This invention provides a kind of acoustic structure that uses passive diaphragm unit, it includes speaker unit, passive diaphragm unit, radiant tube; said passive diaphragm unit is located at the back of the cone of said speaker unit; the speaker unit has radiant tube on the sides; the said radiant tube end which is exposed in the air is located at the periphery of the cone of said speaker unit. It has the same orientation as the speaker unit; the said passive diaphragm unit vibrates when it is driven by the said speaker unit, the sound waves produced by the vibration of the said passive diaphragm unit are emitted by the radiant tube and radiant opening, and share the similar vocal point of the said speaker unit. With this, the sound effect of the full range sound is almost identical to the sound point sources, it also reduces the phase difference between the sound effects produced by the cone of speaker unit and the passive diaphragm unit, further enhanced the sound positioning feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: TGI Technology Private Limited
    Inventor: Li Shihuang
  • Publication number: 20170013353
    Abstract: A vehicle audio system includes a vehicle panel having an inner surface and an outer surface defining an exterior surface of the vehicle. A transducer is mounted to the vehicle panel being configured to be connected to and operated by an amplifier. The transducer has a base mounted to the vehicle panel and causes the vehicle panel to vibrate and create an audio output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Matthew Adam Smearcheck, Andrew T. Goeppner, David Bryant
  • Publication number: 20170013354
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a plurality of microphones, a memory configured to store a first specified time set to form a beam in a first direction using the plurality of microphones, and a processor connected to the plurality of microphones and configured to receive a sound using the plurality of microphones, determine a direction corresponding to the received sound, and if the direction is equivalent to a second direction, associate a second specified time to the received sound as if a beam is formed in the second direction using the plurality of microphones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Jae-Mo YANG, Beak-Kwon Son, Nam-II Lee, Jong-Mo Kum, Gang-Youl Kim, Ho-Chul Hwang
  • Publication number: 20170013355
    Abstract: A microphone includes a case including a plurality of sound holes; a first sound device installed at positions corresponding to at least two sound holes in the case; a second sound device spaced apart from the first sound device in the case and installed at a position corresponding to at least one sound hole; and a semiconductor chip electrically connected to the first sound device and the second sound device, where the at least two sound holes formed in the positions corresponding to the first sound device are each formed in upper and lower surfaces of the case on the basis of the first sound device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Hyunsoo Kim, Ilseon Yoo
  • Publication number: 20170013356
    Abstract: A voice signal processing device connected to a smart device is provided. The voice signal processing device is connected to a smart phone, a tablet computer or the like and includes a voice signal input and output function mounted thereon. The voice signal processing device returns a sound generated by the smart device or a sound generated from the exterior into the smart device as a high-quality sound and is configured to extract a voice signal from a wire coupled to the smart device and the ear receiver and configured to input the extracted voice signal into the input terminal of the microphone of the smart device. A voice signal output from the smart device is configured to be extracted and conveniently input into the smart device and loss and distortion is minimized in the process of extracting and returning the voice signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Hyungsu Seo
  • Publication number: 20170013357
    Abstract: There is provided a sound collection apparatus, including a directionality formation unit configured to form a directionality in a direction of a target area for input signals from a plurality of microphone arrays, a target area sound extraction unit configured to correct a delay between a target area and each of the microphone arrays, and a power of a target area sound component for an output from the directionality formation unit, suppress a non-target area sound by using each output after correction, and extract a target area sound, an area sound enhancement filter formation unit, and an area sound emphasis unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro KATAGIRI
  • Publication number: 20170013358
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a class D amplifier chip with duty ratio limiting functions and the device thereof, a class D amplifier chip includes triangle wave modules, PWM modulation modules, duty ratio detection modules and logic control modules, the input differential audio signals and triangle wave signals generated by the triangle wave module are converted into low voltage pulsed PWM signals through the PWM modulation module, then gets driving processed and generates high voltage pulses; the duty ratio detection module real-time detects the duty ratio of PWM signals, when the logic control module decides the duty ratio of the PWM signals is larger than the preset maximum value, the PWM module is controlled to stop working, equals to close the audio output of the class D amplifier device; which limits the amplitude of the output audio signals, avoids burning the speaker due to an overlarge amplitude.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: SHENZHEN SKYWORTH-RGB ELECTRONIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shijun Zuo, Zhichang Yang, Bingjie WU