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WO/2012/136380
Time-stretching method for changing the length of an audio signal without changing its perceived content, comprising the steps of: a) dividing an input audio signal into a set of grains, a grain being a group of consecutive audio samples...  
WO/2012/137353
A laminate structure of sound-absorbing material effectively achieves a sound field adjustment function when a sound-absorbing material and another material are integrally laminated, by preventing the reflection of sound contrary to the ...  
WO/2012/130297
The invention relates to a method for providing sound to at least one user (13), comprising: supplying audio signals (52) from an audio signal source (17) to a transmission unit (10) comprising a digital transmitter (28) for applying a d...  
WO/2012/131438
Apparatus comprising: an input amplitude and phase calculator configured to determine at least one amplitude value and phase value dependent on a first audio signal; a synthesis amplitude calculator configured to synthesize a further amp...  
WO/2012/135642
An active buffeting noise control arrangement for a vehicle having one or more window panels of a vehicle cabin. One or more actuators are positioned at or near the one or more window panels and are operable to selectively vibrate the on...  
WO/2012/135642
An active buffeting noise control arrangement for a vehicle having one or more window panels of a vehicle cabin. One or more actuators are positioned at or near the one or more window panels and are operable to selectively vibrate the on...  
WO/2012/131822
Provided is a voice recognition result shaping device (10) comprising recognition result output means (106) which refers to character string data that is the result of voice data being subjected to voice recognition, and removes, from th...  
WO/2012/135346
Structures, systems, and methods verify the authenticity of a precious metal unit. A "ping bar" is designed to have a distinctive sound only if authentic and unadulterated. A "waffle bar" is shaped to discourage adulteration, damage, or ...  
WO/2012/135791
Personalization of user interactions may be provided. Upon receiving a phrase from a user, a plurality of semantic concepts associated with the user may be loaded. If the phrase is determined to comprise at least one of the plurality of ...  
WO/2012/131454
A lip plate for a flute, the lip plate including an air guide positionable adjacent an embouchure hole of the flute when the lip plate is attached to the flute wherein the air guide is adapted for directing a stream of air from a user's ...  
WO/2012/131247
The invention relates to a method for processing an encoded audio signal in a binary stream by MICDA predictive coding, said method comprising the following steps: determining (E101) a signal assessed from the quantification indices of t...  
WO/2012/134210
The present invention relates to a touch screen apparatus for visually impaired people, and to a method for inputting characters to the apparatus. The touch screen apparatus of the present invention comprises: a touch screen; a touch-sen...  
WO/2012/133601
Parameters of a hidden Markov model (HMM) are determined by a server based on an observation sequence stored at a client, wherein the client has a decryption key and an encryption key of an additively homomorphic cryptosystem, and the se...  
WO/2012/134210
The present invention relates to a touch screen apparatus for visually impaired people, and to a method for inputting characters to the apparatus. The touch screen apparatus of the present invention comprises: a touch screen; a touch-sen...  
WO/2012/134874
The invention features an active noise reduction device (300) including an electronic signal processing circuit. The electronic signal processing circuit includes a first input (216) for accepting a first signal (104), a second input (10...  
WO/2012/131011
The present invention relates to devices that display frequency zones of strong vibro-acoustic attenuation or reduced energy transmission. This can be used in particular, although not necessarily solely, in applications that require ligh...  
WO/2012/133360
[Problem] To prevent a music selection/reservation operation from being confused by preventing a music selection/reservation operation, for example, by mischief from outside a karaoke bar and the like from being performed when a personal...  
WO/2012/134993
A system and method are provided for processing sound signals. The processing may include identifying individual harmonic sounds represented in sound signals, determining sound parameters of harmonic sounds, classifying harmonic sounds a...  
WO/2012/132856
An accompaniment data generation device is provided with a storage means (15) for storing phrase waveform data relating to chords each specified by a combination of a chord type and a chord root, and a CPU (9). The CPU (9) executes chord...  
WO/2012/134997
A method for scoring non-native speech includes receiving a speech sample spoken by a non-native speaker and performing automatic speech recognition and metric extraction on the speech sample to generate a transcript of the speech sample...  
WO/2012/135210
Location-based conversational understanding may be provided. Upon receiving a query from a user, an environmental context associated with the query may be generated. The query may be interpreted according to the environmental context. Th...  
WO/2012/133972
Disclosed are a method and a device for generating a vocal organs animation using a stress of a phonetic value, the method and the device which generate a more accurate and a more natural vocal organs animation by applying a pronunciatio...  
WO/2012/131161
In accordance with an example embodiment, there is an apparatus that has a headset (110), a contactless proximity sensor (130) arranged to be supported by the headset (110) in the proximity of a face of a user (140), and a sensor circuit...  
WO/2012/131253
The present invention relates to a method for allocating bits for quantifying spatial information parameters by frequency sub-band for the parametric encoding/decoding of a multichannel audio stream representative of a soundstage consist...  
WO/2012/135791
Personalization of user interactions may be provided. Upon receiving a phrase from a user, a plurality of semantic concepts associated with the user may be loaded. If the phrase is determined to comprise at least one of the plurality of ...  
WO/2012/135210
Location-based conversational understanding may be provided. Upon receiving a query from a user, an environmental context associated with the query may be generated. The query may be interpreted according to the environmental context. Th...  
WO/2012/133195
This technique relates to an encoding apparatus and method and a program whereby the audio quality can be improved and the audio encoding can be more efficiently performed. A first high-frequency encoding circuit performs a high-frequenc...  
WO/2012/131011
The present invention relates to devices that display frequency zones of strong vibro-acoustic attenuation or reduced energy transmission. This can be used in particular, although not necessarily solely, in applications that require ligh...  
WO/2012/135293
Systems, controllers and methods for contextual-based searching are provided. A system includes one or more devices configured to collect at least one audio stream and a contextual search system. The contextual search system includes a d...  
WO/2012/132065
[Problem] To provide a network AV receiver device capable of preventing the suspension of the playback of music when the music can no longer be inputted from a media server that is inputting the music, the network AV receiver device play...  
WO/2012/134541
In syllable or vowel or phone boundary detection during speech, an auditory spectrum may be determined for an input window of sound and one or more multi-scale features may be extracted from the auditory spectrum. Each multi-scale featur...  
WO/2012/134298
Pick-up device (1) for converting the vibrations of at least one string (2) from for example a musical instrument into an electrical signal, comprising a vibration detector which uses the respective string itself, or at any rate at least...  
WO/2012/134877
Systems and methods are provided for scoring speech. A speech sample is received, where the speech sample is associated with a script. The speech sample is aligned with the script. An event recognition metric of the speech sample is extr...  
WO/2012/132901
An accompaniment data generation device is provided with a storage unit (15) for storing phrase waveform data including a plurality of chord constituent notes, and a CPU (9). The CPU (9) executes processing for separating the phrase wave...  
WO/2012/133058
Provided is an electronic device equipped with an acquiring device and a controlling device and capable of appropriately controlling an audio device, the acquiring device acquiring imaging results from at least one imaging device capable...  
WO/2012/131212
The invention relates to a method for generating ultrasonic waves focused on a focusing zone (5) in order to carry out biological lesions, comprising the activation of a plurality of ultrasonic transducer elements (3). According to the i...  
WO/2012/134851
The computational resources that are needed to apply a transform-based filterbank to a limited-bandwidth audio signals are reduced by performing an integrated process of combining real-valued input data into complex-valued data and apply...  
WO/2012/131832
This text-to-speech device comprises: a remote control input unit for receiving remote control operation; a communication unit for transmitting, to a remote apparatus in which content is stored, a request that corresponds to a remote con...  
WO/2012/134396
Various embodiments provide a method for indexing a document for document retrieval. The document may include: generating a document vector indicating if each of a plurality of terms are present in the document; calculating a document se...  
WO/2012/128765
An ultrasonic transducer device is disclosed. The device includes a body and an ultrasonic transducer mounted onto the body. The ultrasonic transducer comprises a shoulder and an O-ring placed on the shoulder. The O-ring substantially co...  
WO/2012/128678
Method and arrangement in an audio handling entity, for damping of dominant frequencies in a time segment of an audio signal. A time segment of an audio signal is obtained, and an estimate of the spectral density or "spectrum" of the tim...  
WO/2012/126141
A sound absorption and insulation composite structure (10) consists of at least one nonwoven fiber layer (20) and at least one polyethylene film (30) closely attached to the fiber layer (20), wherein the nonwoven fiber layer (20) is a fi...  
WO/2012/126592
The invention relates to a method for producing acoustic resonators formed by two back-to-back plates having thicknesses l1 andl2, in which the plates are perforated with holes of cross-section S1 and S2 that are distributed in a single ...  
WO/2012/126870
The invention relates to a system for predicting the audibility of a frequency emergence of a signal including at least one reference frequency component, including a means (MEA) for analyzing said signal, which is capable of identifying...  
WO/2012/126060
A guitar having a structural rim is provided. A guitar comprising a rim is provided, having a head portion, a tail portion, an upper side and a lower side, a soundboard and a rear plate attached to the rim, an internal cavity formed by t...  
WO/2012/129193
A versatile communications (comms) apparatus to provide a means to measure the audio (earphone) output of an electronic device (e.g. a music player in a smartphone), and/or to provide a means for wireless communications between a first e...  
WO/2012/127360
An array of cMUT cells are formed on individually isolated massive plates on a substrate. The mass of each plate provides an inertial force in opposition to the force and motion of transmission by the cell which reduces the resultant tra...  
WO/2012/126897
The invention relates to a thermoplastically deformable composite material made of a core layer with a glass-fibre-textile ply connected on both sides to a fibre-non-woven ply which comprises polypropylene fibres and glass fibres. There ...  
WO/2012/126893
Frame elements which shall be made available for skipping may are transmitted more efficiently by arranging that a default payload length information is transmitted separately within a configuration block, with the length information wit...  
WO/2012/128679
Method and arrangement in an audio handling entity, for damping of dominant frequencies in a time segment of an audio signal. A time segment of an audio signal is obtained, and an estimate of the spectral density or "spectrum" of the tim...  

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