Abstract: Disclosed are a voice control method, device and terminal, and the method includes: after a terminal has been triggered into voice control mode, receiving input voice data and obtaining corresponding speech text according to the voice data; matching the speech text with an interface word list corresponding to a current operating interface, wherein the interface word list includes text information of the current operating interface; in response to determining that the speech text matches an interface word list successfully, obtaining in the current operating interface an operation link which corresponds to the speech text; and performing an operation corresponding to the operation link.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure generally relate to a dialog system allowing for automatically reactivating a speech acquiring mode after the dialog system delivers a response to a user request. The reactivation parameters, such as a delay, depend on a number of predetermined factors and conversation scenarios. The embodiments further provide for a method of operating of the dialog system. An exemplary method comprises the steps of: activating a speech acquiring mode, receiving a first input of a user, deactivating the speech acquiring mode, obtaining a first response associated with the first input, delivering the first response to the user, determining that a conversation mode is activated, and, based on the determination, automatically re-activating the speech acquiring mode within a first predetermined time period after delivery of the first response to the user.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving audio data corresponding to an utterance, determining that the audio data corresponds to a hotword, generating a hotword audio fingerprint of the audio data that is determined to correspond to the hotword, comparing the hotword audio fingerprint to one or more stored audio fingerprints of audio data that was previously determined to correspond to the hotword, detecting whether the hotword audio fingerprint matches a stored audio fingerprint of audio data that was previously determined to correspond to the hotword based on whether the comparison indicates a similarity between the hotword audio fingerprint and one of the one or more stored audio fingerprints that satisfies a predetermined threshold, and in response to detecting that the hotword audio fingerprint matches a stored audio fingerprint, disabling access to a computing device into which the utterance was spoken.

Abstract: A terminal control method and device, a voice control device and a terminal are provided. The method comprises: monitoring a user voice including at least one voice segment when it is detected that a terminal main voice system is off; determining whether a voice segment having an enable attribute is present or not; sending an enable signal for enabling the terminal main voice system and storing a voice segment monitored after the voice segment having the enable attribute, if present; and transmitting the stored voice segment when it is detected that the terminal main voice system is successfully enabled.

Abstract: An audio processor for processing an audio signal includes a target phase measure determiner for determining a target phase measure for the audio signal in a time frame, a phase error calculator for calculating a phase error using a phase of the audio signal in the time frame and the target phase measure, and a phase corrector configured for correcting the phase of the audio signal in the time frame using the phase error.

Abstract: An audio processor for processing an audio signal includes an audio signal phase measure calculator configured for calculating a phase measure of an audio signal for a time frame, a target phase measure determiner for determining a target phase measure for the time frame, and a phase corrector configured for correcting phases of the audio signal for the time frame using the calculated phase measure and the target phase measure to obtain a processed audio signal.

Abstract: A decoder for decoding an audio signal includes a first target spectrum generator for generating a target spectrum for a first time frame of a subband signal of the audio signal using first correction data. A first phase corrector for corrects a phase of the subband signal in the first time frame of the audio signal determined with a phase correction algorithm, the correction being performed by reducing a difference between a measure of the subband signal in the first time frame of the audio signal and the target spectrum. An audio subband signal calculator calculates the audio subband signal for the first time frame using a corrected phase for the time frame and for calculating audio subband signals for a second time frame different from the first time frame using the measure of the subband signal in the second time frame or using a corrected phase calculation in accordance with a further phase correction algorithm different from the phase correction algorithm.

Abstract: A calculator for determining phase correction data for an audio signal includes a variation determiner for determining a variation of a phase of the audio signal in a first and a second variation mode, a variation comparator for comparing a first variation determined using the first variation mode and a second variation determined using the second variation mode, and a correction data calculator for calculating the phase correction data in accordance with the first variation mode or the second variation mode based on a result of the comparing.

Abstract: The present invention proposes a new method for improving the performance of a real-valued filterbank based spectral envelope adjuster. By adaptively locking the gain values for adjacent channels dependent on the sign of the channels, as defined in the application, reduced aliasing is achieved. Furthermore, the grouping of the channels during gain-calculation, gives an improved energy estimate of the real valued subband signals in the filterbank.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a coding/decoding method, apparatus, and system. According to the coding method, de-emphasis processing is performed on a full band signal by using a de-emphasis parameter determined according to a characteristic factor of an input audio signal, and then the full band signal is coded and sent to a decoder, so that the decoder performs corresponding de-emphasis decoding processing on the full band signal according to the characteristic factor of the input audio signal and restores the input audio signal. This resolves a prior-art problem that an audio signal restored by a decoder is apt to have signal distortion, and implements adaptive de-emphasis processing on the full band signal according to the characteristic factor of the audio signal to enhance coding performance, so that the input audio signal restored by the decoder has relatively high fidelity and is closer to an original signal.

Abstract: Systems and methods for virtualizing audio decoding hardware of a guest audio decoder are disclosed. A method may include storing received encoded audio in main memory of a host computing device. An operation to access a register or memory of the audio decoding hardware of the guest audio decoder may be intercepted. The register or memory has an associated address in the main memory of the host computing device. The intercepted operation can include a register WRITE operation, and can be translated into an operation associated with accessing dedicated decoder memory of a host audio decoder of the host computing device.

Abstract: Systems and techniques for rendering audio data are generally disclosed. An example device for rendering a higher order ambition (HOA) audio signal includes a memory configured to store the HOA audio signal, and one or more processors coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to perform a loudness compensation process as part of generating an effect matrix. The one or more processors are further configured to render the HOA audio signal based on the effect matrix.

Abstract: In general, techniques are described for coding higher-order ambisonic coefficients during multiple transitions. A device comprising a processor and a memory coupled to the processor may be configured to perform the techniques. The processor may be configured to obtain a multi-transition indication of whether an ambient HOA coefficient is in transition during a same frame of the bitstream as a foreground audio signal is in transition. The processor may also be configured to obtain a vector that describes a spatial characteristic of a corresponding foreground audio signal based on the multi-transition indication, both the vector and the corresponding HOA audio signal decomposed from the HOA audio data. The memory may be configured to store the vector.

Abstract: Encoding and decoding systems are described for the provision of high quality digital representations of audio signals with particular attention to the correct perceptual rendering of fast transients at modest sample rates. This is achieved by optimising downsampling and upsampling filters to minimise the length of the impulse response while adequately attenuating alias products that have been found perceptually harmful.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described to increase a signal-to-noise ratio difference between a main channel and reference channel. The increased signal-to-noise ratio difference is accomplished with an adaptive threshold for a desired voice activity detector (DVAD) and shaping filters. The DVAD includes averaging an output signal of a reference microphone channel to provide an estimated average background noise level. A threshold value is selected from a plurality of threshold values based on the estimated average background noise level. The threshold value is used to detect desired voice activity on a main microphone channel.

Abstract: A voice converting apparatus and a voice converting method are provided. The method of converting a voice using a voice converting apparatus including receiving a voice from a counterpart, analyzing the voice and determining whether the voice abnormal, converting the voice into a normal voice by adjusting a harmonic signal of the voice in response to determining that the voice is abnormal, and transmitting the normal voice.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving audio data corresponding to an utterance, determining that the audio data corresponds to a hotword, generating a hotword audio fingerprint of the audio data that is determined to correspond to the hotword, comparing the hotword audio fingerprint to one or more stored audio fingerprints of audio data that was previously determined to correspond to the hotword, detecting whether the hotword audio fingerprint matches a stored audio fingerprint of audio data that was previously determined to correspond to the hotword based on whether the comparison indicates a similarity between the hotword audio fingerprint and one of the one or more stored audio fingerprints that satisfies a predetermined threshold, and in response to detecting that the hotword audio fingerprint matches a stored audio fingerprint, disabling access to a computing device into which the utterance was spoken.

Abstract: A method for speech processing includes determining an unvoicing parameter for a first frame of a speech signal and determining a smoothed unvoicing parameter for the first frame by weighting the unvoicing parameter of the first frame and a smoothed unvoicing parameter of a second frame. The unvoicing parameter reflects a speech characteristic of the first frame. The smoothed unvoicing parameter of the second frame is weighted less heavily when the smoothed unvoicing parameter of the second frame is greater than the unvoicing parameter of the first frame. The method further includes computing a difference, by a processor, between the unvoicing parameter of the first frame and the smoothed unvoicing parameter of the first frame, and determining a classification of the first frame according to the computed difference. The classification includes unvoiced speech or voiced speech. The first frame is processed in accordance with the classification of the first frame.

Abstract: A voice starting end detection apparatus includes a first detector that detects a starting end of a voice segment from input signals that are input in a time series, a first transmitting unit that transmits, when the starting end is detected, input signals subsequent to the starting end, and a first receiving unit that receives a terminal end detection signal indicating that a terminal end of the voice segment has been detected. The voice terminal end detection apparatus includes a second receiving unit that receives input signals subsequent to the starting end, a second detector that detects the terminal end from the received input signals, a second transmitting unit that transmits, when the terminal end is detected, the terminal end detection signal. The first transmitting unit stops transmitting the input signals when the first receiving unit receives the terminal end detection signal.

Abstract: A holographic storage layer includes a reflective structure and photosensitive units. The reflective structure is a grid-shaped structure and includes cavities. The photosensitive units are disposed in the cavities, in which each of the photosensitive units is surrounded by the reflective structure. First openings and second openings are defined by the reflective structure, and the photosensitive units are exposed by the first openings and the second openings respectively.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a device for measuring pitch and roll torques. The device comprises a sensor plate having a horizontal cross member, a vertical cross member and a surrounding member connecting ends of the horizontal and vertical cross members, wherein the horizontal cross member and the vertical cross member intersect each other at a centre region of the sensor plate; a VCM coil attached to the sensor plate and configured to generate a pitch and a roll torque when an electrical current is applied to the VCM coil; a first strain gauge attached to a surface of the horizontal cross member and configured to detect a horizontal strain caused by the pitch and roll torques; and a second strain gauge attached to a surface of the vertical cross member and configured to detect a vertical strain caused by the pitch and roll torques.

Abstract: In one example, a head is provided that may include a slider body, a transducer body, a transducer connected to the transducer body, and an interleaver assembly interconnecting the slider body and the transducer body. The interleaver assembly may include an interleaver body to which the transducer body is attached, the interleaver body having a plurality of geometric features that enable temporary deformation of the interleaver body in response to exertion of a force on the interleaver body, and the interleaver body may further include piezoelectric elements positioned in the interleaver body, the piezoelectric elements operable such that, when selectively actuated, the piezoelectric elements exert a force on the interleaver body so as to effect selective movement of the transducer with respect to a surface of a medium.

Abstract: A video replay system which allows for the playback of video files from a buffer in random access memory and from disk to minimize the delay between capturing and replaying a desired video portion. In one embodiment, a portion of RAM is allocated to provide a buffer for holding video files in memory before the files are written to a hard drive or other non-volatile storage. An index of key frames is also stored in the buffer. The computer system executes software that is responsive to an operator's commands to read the video files and index and playback desired video portions in a variety of modes and speeds, including slow motion, reverse, fast-forward, and slow or fast reverse.

Abstract: Videos may be automatically generated using a set of video clip. Individual moments of interest may be identified within individual video clips of a set of video clips. A moment of interest may correspond to a point in time within a video clip. The point in time may be associated with one or more values of one or more attributes of the video clip. Individual moments of interest may be associated with individual portions of a video. The video may be generated using the set of video clips based on the associations.

Abstract: In one aspect, an example method includes (i) receiving, by a first computing system, content captured by a second computing system via a camera of the second computing system; (ii) receiving, by the first computing system, metadata of the received content, wherein the metadata was generated by the second computing system proximate a time when the second computing system captured the content; (iii) executing, by the first computing system, a digital-video effect (DVE), wherein executing the DVE causes the first computing system to generate video content that includes the received content and content derived from the received metadata; and (iv) transmitting, by the first computing system, to a third computing system, the generated video content for presentation of the generated video content on the third computing system.

Abstract: Techniques for summarizing media are described. A viewer-interaction analyzer receives a media file containing media, the media file including a plurality of segments. A segment of the media file is scored based on interactions of a set of raters. Viewer metrics on the segment of the media file are measured based on interactions with the segment of the media file by a set of viewers. A set of feature vectors are formed based on the measured viewer interactions, where feature vectors in the set of feature vectors are based on interactions of the set of viewers. A model is trained based on the set of feature vectors and the score assigned to the segment of the media file. The model is applied to segments of the media file to generate an interest rating for segments of the media file. An edited media file is generated based on segments of the media file having interest ratings that meet a criterion.

Abstract: A method includes grouping media items associated with a user into segments based on a timestamp associated with each media item and a total number of media items. The method also includes selecting target media from the media items for each of the segments based on media attributes associated with the media item. The method also includes generating a video that includes the target media for each of the segments by generating a first animation that illustrates a first transition from a first item from the target media to a second item from the target media with movement of the first item from an onscreen location to an offscreen location, wherein the first item is adjacent to the second item in the first animation and determining whether the target media includes one or more additional items. The method also includes adding a song to the video.

Abstract: A spherical content capture system captures spherical video and audio content. In one embodiment, captured metadata or video/audio processing is used to identify content relevant to a particular user based on time and location information. The platform can then generate an output video from one or more shared spherical content files relevant to the user. The output video may include a non-spherical reduced field of view such as those commonly associated with conventional camera systems. Particularly, relevant sub-frames having a reduced field of view may be extracted from each frame of spherical video to generate an output video that tracks a particular individual or object of interest. For each sub-frame, a corresponding portion of an audio track is generated that includes a directional audio signal having a directionality based on the selected sub-frame.

Abstract: A system and method to enable fine-grained, contextual annotations of streaming videos by one or more users, prioritizing the use of screen space on mobile devices by allowing users to draw or place threaded comments while utilizing a touch-based interface, reducing distractions caused by a* cluttered interface. By enabling the user to control annotations beginning at a particular timestamp within the streaming video, the present invention optimizes screen real estate on mobile devices efficiently. Contextual commenting is enabled using a combination of perspectives, which highlight the parts of the video being annotated, while dimming out the rest of the screen elements and flexible extension of a user's comments across one or many frames of the streaming video. Using a simple touch-based interface the present invention is intuitive and further enables the user to select the vicinity around which he or she wishes to increase sensitivity or have finer control.

Abstract: A system for storing data includes a rack, one or more data storage drive assemblies coupled to the rack, and a data control module coupled to the rack. The data storage drive assemblies include one or more drive mechanical modules configured to store data and one or more drive control modules coupled to the drive mechanical modules. The drive control modules control mechanical operations in the drive mechanical modules. The drive mechanical modules and the associated drive control modules are separable from one another without removing the other module from the at least one data storage drive assembly.

Abstract: Certain exemplary aspects of the present disclosure are directed towards a manufacturing apparatus including a first chamber having a first cavity, and a first actuator. The first actuator aligns the opening of the first chamber to an opening in a second chamber having a second cavity, sealing the first cavity to the second cavity. The manufacturing apparatus further includes gas flow componentry that in conjunction with the first actuator and first chamber evacuate the second cavity by drawing a vacuum in the first cavity. After the second cavity is evacuated, the gas flow componentry fills the second cavity filled with a gas by introducing the gas to the first cavity. A second actuator seals the gas in the second cavity by applying a seal that covers the opening in the second chamber while the first and second cavity remains sealed to one another via the first actuator.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes semiconductor chips stacked each other. Each of the semiconductor chips converts second reception data received by second reception terminals arranged in point symmetry on the first face by a conversion method to convert first reception data received by first reception terminals arranged in point symmetry on the first face into a reference data; and generates an identification information of the each semiconductor chip based upon the converted second reception data; and outputs the bit sequence obtained by converting the generated identification information by means of the inverse conversion method of the conversion method.

Abstract: A semiconductor chip module includes a chip unit including first and second semiconductor chips formed over a single body to be adjacent in a first direction with a scribe line region interposed therebetween, and having a first surface over which bonding pads of the first and second semiconductor chips are positioned; redistribution lines formed over the first surface, having one set of ends which are respectively electrically coupled to the bonding pads, and extending in a direction oblique to the first direction toward the scribe line region; and redistribution pads disposed over the first surface, and electrically coupled with another set of ends of the redistribution lines.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes, a semiconductor chip having a first surface over which bonding pads are positioned, a second surface which faces away from the first surface, and a plurality of signal lines formed over the first surface, extending in a first direction; a plurality of redistribution lines formed over the first surface, having one set of ends electrically coupled to the bonding pads of the semiconductor chip, and extending in a direction oblique to the first direction; and a plurality of redistribution pads disposed over the first surface, and electrically coupled with an other set of ends of the redistribution lines which face away from the one set of ends.

Abstract: Provided is a reception circuit provided in a chip, the reception circuit including a controller that generates a reception control signal which is activated for a preset time on a basis of a first control signal individually provided to a plurality of chips, a buffer that receives a second control signal commonly provided to the plurality of chips, and a delay circuit that receives the second control signal from the buffer in response to the reception control signal and provides the second control signal to other elements in the chip.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided that compensates for misalignment on a synchronous data bus. The apparatus includes a replica radial distribution element, a bit lag control element, and a synchronous lag receiver. The replica radial distribution element is configured to receive a first signal, and is configured to generate a second signal, where the replica radial distribution element comprises replicated propagation path lengths, loads, and buffering of a radial distribution network for a strobe. The bit lag control element is configured to measure a propagation time beginning with assertion of the first signal and ending with assertion of the second signal, and is configured to generate a value on a lag bus that indicates the propagation time. The bit lag control element has delay lock control and a gray encoder.

Abstract: A dual rail memory operable at a first voltage and a second voltage is disclosed. The dual rail memory includes: a memory array operates at the first voltage; a word line driver circuit configured to drive a word line of the memory array to the first voltage; a data path configured to transmit an input data signal or an output data signal, wherein the data path includes a first level shifter for transferring the input data signal from the second voltage to the first voltage; and a control circuit configured to provide control signals to the memory array, the word line driver circuit and the data path, wherein the control circuit includes a second level shifter for transferring an input control signal from the second voltage to the first voltage; wherein the data path and the control circuit are configured to operate at both the first and second voltages.

Abstract: An operating method of a memory device includes entering into a command bus training mode, generating a plurality of internal clock signals by dividing a received clock signal, generating a plurality of internal chip selection signals by latching a received chip selection signal according to the plurality of internal clock signals, generating a second command/address signal by encoding a received first command/address signal based on the plurality of internal chip selection signals, and outputting the second command/address signal.

Abstract: A data sensing circuit may include a pair of first signal lines, and a pair of second signal lines precharged with a first power supply voltage. The data sensing circuit may also include a line level control block configured for applying a second power supply voltage to any one signal line of the pair of second signal lines in response to a read command.

Abstract: A memory device may include the following elements: a first memory cell; a first word line for transmitting a first control signal to control an electrical connection in the first memory cell; a first bit line connected to the first memory cell; a first transistor, wherein a first terminal of the first transistor is connected to the first bit line; a second memory cell; a second word line for transmitting a second control signal to control an electrical connection in the second memory cell; a second bit line connected to the second memory cell; a second transistor, wherein a first terminal of the second transistor is connected to the second bit line; and a sense amplifier having a first input terminal connected to a second terminal of the first transistor and having a second input terminal connected to a second terminal of the second transistor.

Abstract: A clock control device is disclosed, which relates to a technology for changing a rising or falling edge trigger. The clock control device includes: a flip-flop configured to latch data in response to a delay clock signal; and a clock controller configured to output the delay clock signal by delaying a clock signal, and control the data to be triggered at a falling edge of the clock signal when the clock signal is input at a time earlier than the data.

Abstract: A memory device and system supporting command bus training are provided. An operating method of the memory device includes entering into a command bus training mode, receiving a clock signal, a chip selection signal and a first command/address signal, generating an internal clock signal by dividing the clock signal, generating a second command/address signal by latching the first command/address signal at a rising edge or a falling edge of the internal clock signal when a chip selection signal is activated, and outputting the second command/address signal.

Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a data processing circuit, an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit which is connected between a voltage rail and a ground rail and protects the data processing circuit from an ESD event on the voltage rail, and a switch circuit for controlling a connection between the voltage rail and the data processing circuit in response to a control signal.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a memory cell array, which further includes an array of first magnetic memory cells and an array of second magnetic memory cells. Each of the first magnetic memory cells includes a first magnetic tunnel junction structure having a reversible resistance state, and each of the second magnetic memory cells includes a second magnetic tunnel junction structure having a one-time programmable (OTP) resistance state.

Abstract: A multibit MRAM cell including a magnetic tunnel junction including a sense layer having a freely orientable sense magnetization; a tunnel barrier layer; and a synthetic antiferromagnet storage layer having a first and second storage layer. The sense magnetization induces a dipolar field having a magnitude above a spin-flop field of the storage layer. The MRAM cell also includes aligning means for aligning the sense magnetization in a plurality of distinct orientations such as to encode a plurality of distinct logic states in the MRAM cell. The present disclosure also concerns a method for operating the multibit MRAM cell.

Abstract: Method and Apparatuses for of decoding commands for a semiconductor device are described. An example method includes receiving a portion of a command at first and second clock cycles; validating the portion of the command received at the first and second clock cycles at a third clock cycle when a chip select signal indicates a first state and continuing to receive the remaining portion of the command at the third clock cycle and a fourth clock cycle so that the command can be completely received by the semiconductor device by the fourth clock cycle; and invalidating the portion of the command received at the first and second clock cycles at the third clock cycle when the chip select signal indicates a second state different from the first state, so that a new command can be input to the semiconductor device at the third clock cycle.

Abstract: A device includes a first data terminal, a second data terminal, a first switching buffer coupled between a data node and the first data terminal and a second switching buffer coupled between the data node and the second data terminal. The first switching buffer and the second switching buffer are arranged such that a distance between the first switching buffer and the second data terminal is shorter than a distance between the second switching buffer and the second data terminal and that a distance between the first switching buffer and the first data terminal is shorter than a distance between the second switching buffer and the first data terminal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a clean data strobe signal generating circuit in a read interface device. The clean data strobe signal generating circuit includes receivers configured to output first and second single ended data strobe signals. In the circuit, a gate signal generating unit is configured to generate a data strobe gate signal synchronized with the first single ended data strobe signal using the first and second single ended data strobe signals and a memory gate signal of which the pulse width varies in accordance with a burst length after termination of a read latency. The gating unit is configured to generate a clean data strobe signal using the first single ended data strobe signal and the data strobe gate signal.

Abstract: A memory device may include: an active controller configured to output a row active signal in response to a refresh control signal and a row enable signal when an active signal is activated; a refresh controller configured to generate and store a flag bit for controlling a refresh operation in response to a refresh signal, a precharge signal, and a precharge stop signal, and output the row enable signal corresponding to the stored flag bit to the active controller; and a cell array circuit configured to perform a refresh operation in memory cell array areas in response to the row active signal.

Abstract: A memory device includes a memory bank including a plurality of memory blocks, a row selection circuit and a refresh controller. The row selection circuit is configured to perform an access operation and a refresh operation with respect to the memory bank. The refresh controller is configured to control the row selection circuit such that the memory device is operated selectively in an access mode or a self-refresh mode in response to a self-refresh command received from a memory controller, the refresh operation is performed in the access mode in response to an active command received from the memory controller and the refresh operation is performed in the self-refresh mode in response to at least one clock signal.