Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes rows of pixels and a gate driver circuit; where a pixel among the plurality of rows of pixels includes a pixel circuit and the pixel circuit includes a light emission control terminal and a first scan drive terminal; the gate driver circuit includes stages of light emission drive devices, where each of the plurality of stages of light emission drive devices is disposed in correspondence to at least one row of pixel circuits and configured to provide a light emission control signal to the light emission control terminal of the pixel circuit; and the gate driver circuit further includes at least one stage of first scan drive device, where an input terminal of the first scan drive device is connected to an output terminal of the light emission drive device.

Abstract: An emission driver includes a plurality of stages. A stage of the plurality of stages receives a start signal, a first clock signal, a second clock signal, a protection signal, a first gate power voltage and a second gate power voltage and outputs an emission signal. The stage of the plurality of stages includes a pull-up switching element connected between a first gate power voltage terminal which receives the first gate power voltage and an emission signal output terminal which outputs the emission signal, a pull-down switching element connected between a second gate power voltage terminal which receives the second gate power voltage and the emission signal output terminal and a protection switching element which applies the first gate power voltage to a control electrode of the pull-down switching element in response to the protection signal.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a display device and a driving method thereof, and the display device includes a demultiplexer connected to a first data line and transferring a data signal from the first data line to a plurality of second data lines during a data writing period of one frame, a compensator calculating an on-pixel ratio (OPR) using input data in the one frame and generating compensation data corresponding to a calculated OPR, and a data driver supplying the data signal to the first data line using the input data during the data writing period, and supplying a compensation data signal to the first data line using the compensation data in a blank period of the one frame, and the demultiplexer supplies the compensation data signal from the first data line to a second data line during the blank period.

Abstract: A terminal device mainly includes: a display module (21), a middle frame (22) for fixing the display module (21), a light-guiding column (23) embedded on the middle frame (22), and an ambient light sensor (24) located at bottom of the light-guiding column (23), wherein a light-entry surface of the light-guiding column (23) guides ambient light to the ambient light sensor (24).

Abstract: A display device may include a display panel, a backlight unit including a plurality of blocks for providing light to the display panel, each of the plurality of blocks comprising a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs), and a controller configured to obtain backlight control information and to activate a duty ratio control function for controlling a duty ratio and current flowing in a block during a cycle of one frame, when a low current condition is satisfied based on the obtained backlight control information.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided, which includes a memory storing an input image, a backlight unit, a driver configured to output a driving current to the backlight unit, and a processor configured to identify a time interval at which current is applied among a plurality of time intervals based on a value of a plurality of first bits among a plurality of bits representing a gray level value of the input image, and control the driver to change a magnitude of a current of a time interval among the plurality of time intervals based on at least one second bit which is the rest of the plurality of bits excluding the plurality of first bits, and a number of the plurality of time intervals is determined based on the number of the plurality of first bits.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a display device and a source driver. Each of a plurality of pixels included in the display device is supplied with a first data potential and a second data potential included in a range of a first potential or higher to a second potential or lower. The first data potential makes the pixel display an image with a first gray level. The pixel performs calculation with the first data potential and the second data potential to generate a third data potential. The third data potential makes the pixel display an image with a second gray level. A reference potential of the first data potential is an intermediate potential between the first potential and the second potential, and the gray level width that can be displayed by the second data potential is larger than the gray level width that can be displayed by the first data potential.

Abstract: A display device includes: first and second substrates with a liquid crystal therebetween; pixel electrodes and a common electrode provided to the first or second substrate; a light source including first to third light sources; and an image processor generating a signal to be provided to each pixel based on an input image signal. A frame period includes a first subframe period in which the first light source is on, a second subframe period in which the second light source is on, a third subframe period in which the third light source is on, and a fourth subframe period in which one or more of the first to third light sources are on. The image processor divides a gradation value into two values smaller than the gradation value, allocates one of the two values to the fourth subframe period, and allocates the other value to the other first subframe period.

Abstract: A pixel drive circuit and a display panel are provided. According to the pixel drive circuit, a first data line and a first sharing line form a first sub pixel area, a second data line and a second sharing line form a second sub pixel area, and a third data line and a third sharing line form a third sub pixel area. The first sub pixel area, the second sub pixel area and the third sub pixel area share one scan line. The first sharing line of the first sub pixel area is connected in series with the third sharing line of the third sub pixel area.

Abstract: Gate Driver on Array (GOA) circuit and display device solving problem of electrical stress easily biasing threshold voltage of thin film transistor (TFT), are provided. The GOA circuit including m cascaded GOA units, wherein an nth GOA unit includes a pull-up control unit, a pull-up unit, a compensation control unit, and a pull-down unit.

Abstract: A display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, two electrodes in the liquid crystal display panel, a switching element having a source and a drain one of which is coupled to one of the two electrodes, a scan line coupled to a gate of the switching element, a signal line coupled to the other of the drain and the source, an inversion driver, and a scan circuit configured to provide, to the scan line, any of a first potential, a second potential, and a third potential lower than the second potential. The scan circuit switches a potential of the scan line from the second potential to the third potential at a timing at which the potential of the other of the two electrodes is made lower than that of the one of the two electrodes in a period in which the source and the drain are electrically disconnected.

Abstract: A circuit device includes: a selection signal output circuit configured to output a selection signal based on first to fourth driving sequences in demultiplex driving, and a data line driving circuit configured to output first to fourth data signals to a data signal supply line in order of the first to fourth driving sequences. In the first driving sequence, the selection signal output circuit activates an i-th selection signal, and the data line driving circuit outputs an i-th data signal to an i-th data line. At this stage of operation, after the first to fourth driving sequences, a rewriting operation in which the selection signal output circuit activates the i-th selection signal, and the data line driving circuit outputs the i-th data signal to the i-th data line is performed.

Abstract: A display apparatus transmits a picture acquisition request for getting picture information to an external image apparatus connected through a predetermined interface to the display apparatus from the external image apparatus at predetermined intervals and gets a plurality of pieces of picture information from the external image apparatus to be displayed. The plurality of pictures may be switched at predetermined intervals, for example, to be displayed, so that the plurality of pictures may be displayed in a so-called slide show manner. A plurality of pictures for thumbnail may be produced from the plurality of pieces of picture information and be arranged together to be displayed in one picture screen of a display device.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a tuning method and apparatus for a color gamut mapping device, in which a tuning time is shortened by automatically setting and changing parameters of a register when tuning the color gamut mapping device. A tuning method of a color gamut mapping device according to an aspect includes an initial setting operation of setting, by a test device, initial parameters in a register of a color gamut mapping device, a measuring operation of measuring, by a measuring device, chromaticity for each of a plurality of color images which are supplied from the test device and displayed on a panel of a display device through the color gamut mapping device, an automatic tuning operation of changing, by the test device, saturation parameters and hue parameters of a plurality of hue axes of the color gamut mapping device by using a result measured from the measuring device.

Abstract: One or more media contents are received. A viewer's light adaptive states are predicted as a function of time as if the viewer is watching display mapped images derived from the one or more media contents. The viewer's light adaptive states are used to detect an excessive change in luminance in a specific media content portion of the one or more media contents. The excessive change in luminance in the specific media content portion of the one or more media contents is caused to be reduced while the viewer is watching one or more corresponding display mapped images derived from the specific media content portion of the one or more media contents.

Abstract: An embodiment method of command of an electronic device comprises controlling a screen to alternate periodically between a first phase in which the screen emits light and a second phase in which no light is emitted by the screen, and precharging a charge pump of an ambient light sensor during the first phases, the ambient light sensor comprising at least a single photon avalanche diode powered by the charge pump.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to adjusting an illumination of a user depicted in one or more images when using a video conferencing application. In one example, one or more images depicting the user may be received from an image sensor. Further, an illumination of the user depicted in the one or more images may be determined to be unsatisfactory. For example, the user's face may be too bright or too dim. Accordingly, content displayed at a display device may identified and then modified. The modified content may then be rendered to a display device thereby changing the illumination of the user depicted in subsequent images. In examples, the modified content may include a graphical element, such as a ring of a specific color at least partially surrounding content rendered to and displayed at the display device.

Abstract: A handheld imaging device has a data receiver that is configured to receive reference encoded image data. The data includes reference code values, which are encoded by an external coding system. The reference code values represent reference gray levels, which are being selected using a reference grayscale display function that is based on perceptual non-linearity of human vision adapted at different light levels to spatial frequencies. The imaging device also has a data converter that is configured to access a code mapping between the reference code values and device-specific code values of the imaging device. The device-specific code values are configured to produce gray levels that are specific to the imaging device. Based on the code mapping, the data converter is configured to transcode the reference encoded image data into device-specific image data, which is encoded with the device-specific code values.

Abstract: This application discloses a method for adjusting image luminance performed at an electronic device. The method includes: determining a target pixel with original luminance lower than a luminance threshold in an original image, the luminance threshold being determined according to luminance of pixels in the original image; obtaining a luminance distribution intensity of pixels adjacent to the target pixel; determining a difference between the luminance threshold and the luminance distribution intensity of the adjacent pixels; and adjusting the target pixel to corresponding target luminance according to the difference and the original luminance of the target pixel. According to this application, a changing characteristic of relative luminance between the target pixel and the adjacent pixel is reserved. The luminance adjustment is more consistent with the luminance propagation of the original image, thereby achieving a technical effect of improving an adjustment effect of luminance adjustment on an image.

Abstract: Technologies for power efficient display synchronization are disclosed. A compute device may be connected to two display devices. The compute device may send image data to be displayed on each of the display devices in a burst mode, sending the image data in less time than the time between frames. The compute device may then enter a low-power state prior to sending the next image to the display devices. Before sending the next image to the display devices, the compute device may send a synchronization signal, which the display devices may use to synchronize the timing of displaying images between the two display devices.

Abstract: Content presented on a display screen is updated responsive to a user input. Content is retrieved and segmented into bands that are rendered onto the display screen incrementally to provide a visual effect similar to an animation. A band is rendered at a starting location and after a refresh interval passes a subsequent band is rendered at a second starting location. The bands may be rendered until the content is shown on the display screen.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses a method for displaying a point of information of a map, a device, and a storage medium. The detailed implementation includes: obtaining a display position of a target point of information (POI) to be displayed; on a target electronic map displayed at a preset scale, determining a position relationship between the display position of the target POI and an influence region of each POI located in the target electronic map; and displaying information of the target POI at the display position of the target electronic map in response to the display position of the target POI being located outside the influence region of each POI in the target electronic map. With the technical solution of the disclosure, when the POI is displayed, the display efficiency and the intelligence degree are improved, the POI overlapping with its surrounding POIs is improved, and the overall display effect is ensured.

Abstract: A projection control device that controls a projection portion which projects an image to a projection surface includes a ray position detection portion that detects an irradiation position of a ray irradiated on the projection surface, and a specific image superimposition control portion that superimposes a predetermined specific image on a region corresponding to the irradiation position in the image. In a state where the specific image is superimposed on a first region corresponding to a first position detected by the ray position detection portion in the image, the specific image superimposition control portion, in a case where the irradiation position moves out of a predetermined range including the first position, moves the specific image to a region corresponding to the irradiation position that has moved, and in a case where the irradiation position moves within the range, continues superimposition of the specific image on the first region.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting a user operating a cross reality headset, receiving a first location of the cross reality headset, providing image content and audio content to the cross reality headset, and receiving a second location of the cross reality headset. Further embodiments can include determining the cross reality headset is stationary based on the first location and the second location resulting in a determination, and providing instructions to the cross reality headset to adjust positioning the image content on a display of the cross reality headset and to provide the audio content according to the determination resulting in an adjustment of the positioning of the image content. The cross reality headset presents the image content according to the adjustment on the display. The cross reality headset provides the audio content. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention is an apparatus used to connect a typical guitar strap in non-traditional positions on the body of a guitar or bass guitar, which affixes to the instrument to provide stability and balance. The core components of the apparatus are a resilient hollow plastic outer shell with an external protrusion extending from the apex, a protective non-slip thermoplastic rubber inner layer, and metal hardware, suitable for use with virtually all guitar straps presently in use, attached to the external protrusion. The invention can be used to attach a strap to a guitar or bass guitar securely, without damaging the finish or affecting the tonal integrity of the instrument. Furthermore, it should be noted that the apparatus is generally a parabolic shape, intended to securely fit over the upper or lower horn of a guitar or bass guitar.

Abstract: A chord and/or note assist assembly includes a chord and/or note forming aid having a plurality of multi-position string engaging assemblies that engage strings of a guitar in a controlled manner so as to define chords associated with playing a guitar and an extension device having a plurality of multi-position string engaging assemblies that engage strings of a guitar in a controlled manner so as to define chords associated with playing a guitar. An electronic microprocessor circuit board is electrically linked to a solid-state memory to control the plurality of multi-position string engaging assemblies of both the chord and/or note forming aid and the extension device.

Abstract: A woodwind musical instrument finger rest and a system including the same are disclosed herein. The woodwind musical instrument finger rest includes an outer body portion, the outer body portion defining an inner recess, the outer body portion being formed from a first material; and an inner sleeve portion disposed in the inner recess of the outer body portion, the inner sleeve portion being formed from a second material that is different from the first material, the inner sleeve portion being configured to be disposed against an outer surface portion of a tubular wall of a woodwind musical instrument. The woodwind musical instrument finger rest is configured to facilitate a holding of the woodwind musical instrument by a user, and the woodwind musical instrument finger rest is configured to dissipate forces transferred between the woodwind musical instrument and a hand of the user.

Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a wind instrument apparatus, comprising: an attachment element configured to attach the apparatus to a wind instrument, a spring structure attached to or comprised by the attachment element, and a support bar. The support bar is partially insertable into the elastic structure and the apparatus comprises a fastening mechanism configured to selectively fasten the support bar in relation to the elastic structure, so that the flexibility of the attachment element is adjustable in relation to the support bar.

Abstract: Provided is a guitar case that can include a body for placement of a guitar; a translucent or transparent window where a portion of the guitar is visible from outside of the case; and a speaker; wherein the guitar placed inside of the case is configured to play over the speaker with a wired or wireless connection. The guitar case can further include a panel or a screen. The screen can be a touch-screen. The panel can be configured to move to allow access to electronics inside of the case. The panel can pivot out. The guitar case can further include a door, the door having the window. The guitar case can further include a camera or a microphone. The case can be configured so that a guitar is placed at an angle of less than vertical.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for providing personalized songs in automated chatting. A message may be received in a chat flow. Personalized lyrics of a user may be generated based at least on a personal language model of the user in response to the message. A personalized song may be generated based on the personalized lyrics. The personalized song may be provided in the chat flow.

Abstract: A noise barrier system and method for quickly and modularly installing or erecting a temporary sound interruption wall. The system can include one or more panels each, a leveling bracket adjustably mountable to a support member, a clamping bracket for mounting a panel to a support member, a double clamping bracket for clamping a pair of panels together and mounting them to a support member, and a panel clamp for clamping a pair of panels together. The leveling bracket can include a support wall to support portions of adjacent panels, and an arm for removably securing to a flange of the support member. The panel clamp, the clamping bracket and the double clamping bracket can each include open channel configuration configured to receive a single portion of a panel or portions of pair panels, and a slidably adjustable clip for securing the portion of the panels therein.

Abstract: Methods for calibrating active noise-cancelling headphones, including placing the active noise-cancelling headphones on a measuring device; exciting the active noise-cancelling filter; measuring one or more relevant transmission pathways selected from x(n), m(n), and p(n) for feedforward and/or h(n) for feedback; defining at least one goal function for feedforward or feedback; calculating a complementary function for the defined goal function for at least one branch of the active noise-cancelling filter; calculating an impulse response of the complementary function from the measurements of the relevant transmission pathways; approximating operating parameters for the active noise-cancelling filter using the Prony method; and implementing the approximated operating parameters in the active noise-cancelling filter on the signal processor in order to create an approximated complementary active noise-cancelling filter, thereby calibrating the active noise-cancelling headphones.

Abstract: An active road noise control system method for a vehicle includes picking up noise at a multiplicity of positions in or on the vehicle and generating a multiplicity of noise sense signals representative of road noise originating from a road noise source in or at the vehicle, and processing, according to a beamforming scheme, the multiplicity of noise sense signals to generate a reference signal and to provide a sensitivity characteristic for picking up the noise that comprises one main lobe directed to the road noise source. The system and method further includes iteratively and adaptively processing the reference signal to provide a noise reducing signal, and generating at one or more positions in an interior of the vehicle, from the noise reducing signal, noise reducing sound at a listening position in the interior of the vehicle.

Abstract: A refrigerator includes a noise reduction device and a machine room that accommodates a condenser and a compressor. The noise reduction device includes a sensing unit configured to measure noise generated from the machine room of the refrigerator and a generating unit configured to output a sound signal having a frequency canceling or reducing the noise. The machine room is defined by a case that has a communication portion configured to communicate a fluid between an inside of the case and an outside of the case to thereby exchange heat between the fluid and the condenser and between the fluid and the compressor.

Abstract: The invention provides apparatus and methods for interference based wave synthesis. The invention comprises (i) receiving information defining output wave characteristics, said output wave characteristics comprising at least an output wave frequency B, and an output signal amplitude M, (ii) determining a constant value A and (iii) driving a first input wave generator to generate a first input wave and (iv) driving a second input wave generator to generate a second input wave, such that the interfered wave synthesized by interference of the first input wave and the second input wave has output wave characteristics defined by the received information.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus which acquires input data to be input into a TTS module for outputting a voice through the TTS module, acquires a voice signal corresponding to the input data through the TTS module, detects an error in the acquired voice signal based on the input data, corrects the input data based on the detection result, and acquires a corrected voice signal corresponding to the corrected input data through the TTS module.

Abstract: Presented herein are novel approaches to synthesize video of the speech from text. In a training phase, embodiments build a phoneme-pose dictionary and train a generative neural network model using a generative adversarial network (GAN) to generate video from interpolated phoneme poses. In deployment, the trained generative neural network in conjunction with the phoneme-pose dictionary convert an input text into a video of a person speaking the words of the input text. Compared to audio-driven video generation approaches, the embodiments herein have a number of advantages: 1) they only need a fraction of the training data used by an audio-driven approach; 2) they are more flexible and not subject to vulnerability due to speaker variation; and 3) they significantly reduce the preprocessing, training, and inference times.

Abstract: A text search query including one or more words may be received. An ASR index created for an audio recording may be searched over using the query to produce ASR search results including words, each word associated with a confidence score. For each of the words in the ASR search results associated with a confidence score below a threshold (and in some cases having one or more preceding words in the ASR index and one or more subsequent words in the ASR index), a phonetic representation of the audio recording may be searched for the word having the confidence score below the threshold, where it occurs in the audio recording, possibly after the one or more preceding words and in the audio recording before the one or more subsequent words, to produce phonetic search results. Search results may be returned include ASR and phonetic results.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for outputting information are provided. The method includes acquiring voice information received within a preset time period before a device is awakened, where the device is provided with a wake-up model for outputting preset response information when a preset wake-up word is received; performing speech recognition on the voice information to obtain a recognition result; extracting feature information of the voice information in response to determining that the recognition result does not include a preset wake-up word; generating a counterexample training sample according to the feature information; and training the wake-up model using a counter-example training sample, and outputting the trained wake-up model.

Abstract: An illustrative embodiment includes a method for training an end-to-end (E2E) spoken language understanding (SLU) system. The method includes receiving a training corpus comprising a set of text classified using one or more sets of semantic labels but unpaired with speech and using the set of unpaired text to train the E2E SLU system to classify speech using at least one of the one or more sets of semantic labels. The method may include training a text-to-intent model using the set of unpaired text; and training a speech-to-intent model using the text-to-intent model. Alternatively or additionally, the method may include using a text-to-speech (TTS) system to generate synthetic speech from the unpaired text; and training the E2E SLU system using the synthetic speech.

Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for alerting a manager device to an occurrence of an event an agent device during a conversation between the agent device and an external party. N an embodiment, a processor receives transcript data during a conversation between the agent device and the external party. The processor normalizing the transcript data, and inputs the normalized transcript data into a machine learning model, the machine learning model trained to identify an inflection point in the conversation. The processor receives, as output from the machine learning model, a measure of notability of the normalized transcript data. The processor determines whether the measure of notability corresponds to an inflection point, and, responsive to determining that the measure of notability corresponds to an inflection point, alerts the manager device.

Abstract: Provided is technology for assessing whether uttered speech detected from input speech is speech suited to a prescribed purpose. A method comprises detecting, from input speech including speech uttered by a speaker and noise, the uttered speech corresponding to the speech uttered by the speaker, extracting an acoustic feature of the uttered speech, generating, from the uttered speech, a speech recognition result set with a recognition score, generating, from the speech recognition result set with the recognition score, a speech recognition result word vector expression set and a speech recognition result part-of-speech vector expression set, generating a target utterance estimation model, providing, using the target utterance estimation model, a probability of the uttered speech being suited to the prescribed purpose, and outputting the uttered speech and the speech recognition result set with the recognition score, the the uttered speech suitable to the prescribed purpose.

Abstract: The control system includes a calculation unit configured to control a voice interaction system including voice recognition models, in which the calculation unit instructs, when a conversation with a target person is started, the voice interaction system to first perform voice recognition and response generation by one voice recognition model tentatively selected from among the voice recognition models, determines a voice recognition model estimated to be optimal among the voice recognition models held in the voice interaction system based on results of the voice recognition of a speech made by the target person in a voice recognition server, and instructs, when the voice recognition model estimated to be optimal is different from the one voice recognition model tentatively selected, the voice interaction system to switch the voice recognition model to the one estimated to be optimal and to perform voice recognition and response generation.

Abstract: A disclosed method includes receiving at least an indication of audio data generated based on sound captured by a microphone of a monitoring device. A set of audio event labels are generated by processing the received audio data with a model that includes audio recognition patterns. Each audio event label is generated by matching an audio pattern in the received audio data with an audio pattern of the audio recognition patterns. The method further includes identifying a hazard event type occurring within a time window of the time period by processing the set of audio event labels with a hazard detection model. In response to detecting the hazard event type, a hazard alert is generated and at least an indication of the hazard alert is communicated to an electronic device other than the monitoring device, which is authorized to receive communications from the monitoring device.

Abstract: A method for recognising at least one of a non-verbal sound event and a scene in an audio signal comprising a sequence of frames of audio data, the method comprising: for each frame of the sequence: processing the frame of audio data to extract multiple acoustic features for the frame of audio data; and classifying the acoustic features to classify the frame by determining, for each of a set of sound classes, a score that the frame represents the sound class; processing the sound class scores for multiple frames of the sequence of frames to generate, for each frame, a sound class decision for each frame; and processing the sound class decisions for the sequence of frames to recognise the at least one of a non-verbal sound event and a scene.

Abstract: According to a first aspect of the present invention, a computer implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product for creating an ontological conversational agent, the method including creating an ontological specification of a domain of discourse of the ontological conversational agent, and creating a description of one or more goals of the ontological conversational agent. In an embodiment, the ontological description includes classes of entities, their associated attributes and relationships between the classes of entities. In an embodiment, the ontological description includes language-related descriptions. In an embodiment, the method, computer system and computer program product further includes creating a description of services of the ontological conversational agent.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes generating an empirically derived acoustic confusability measure by processing example utterances and iterating from an initial estimate of the acoustic confusability measure to improve the measure. The method can further include using the acoustic confusability measure to selectively limit phrases to make recognizable by a speech recognition application.

Abstract: Systems and processes for intelligent device identification are provided. In one example process, audio input may be sampled with a microphone at each of two or more of the plurality of electronic devices. A first electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices for determining a task associated with sampled audio input may be identified. The process may determine the task based on the sampled audio input with the first electronic device and identify identifying a second electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices for performing the task. The task be performed with the second electronic device. The second electronic device is not the first electronic device in some examples.

Abstract: A voice interaction method is provided. The method is applied to a wearable set and includes: collecting voice information through at least two microphones; processing the voice information and determining that the voice information comprises an effective voice instruction; wherein the effective voice instruction is issued by a user for a mobile terminal; and transmitting the effective voice instruction to the mobile terminal. In an embodiment, the processing of the voice information is assigned to an external device, which reduces the power consumption of a mobile terminal; and voice information is collected by at least two microphones to improve an efficiency and quality of a voice collection.

Abstract: A communication system is provided that generates human emotion metadata during language translation of verbal content. The communication system includes a media control unit that is coupled to a communication device and a translation server that receive verbal content from the communication device in a first language. An adapter layer having a plurality of filters determines emotion associated with the verbal content, wherein the adapter layer associates emotion metadata with the verbal content based on the determined emotion. The plurality of filters may include user-specific filters and non-user-specific filters. An emotion lexicon is provided that links an emotion value to the corresponding verbal content. The communication system may include a display that graphically displays emotions alongside the corresponding verbal content.