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WO/2011/153278
Methods of audio coding are described in which an excitation signal for a first frequency band of the audio signal is used to calculate an excitation signal for a second frequency band of the audio signal that is separated from the first...  
WO/2011/151956
Disclosed is a voice quality conversion device provided with: a vocal track and sound source separating unit (101) which separates an inputted audio into vocal track information and sound source information; an oral aperture calculating ...  
WO/2011/148230
An apparatus for extending the bandwidth of an audio signal, the apparatus being configured to: generate an excitation signal from an audio signal, wherein in the audio signal comprises a plurality of frequency components; extract a feat...  
WO/2011/147604
The invention relates to an ultrasonic transducer (114) for use in a fluid medium. The ultrasonic transducer (114) comprises at least one housing (122) and at least one transducer core (134) that is at least partially received in the hou...  
WO/2011/149837
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for enhancing speech recognition accuracy. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an audio signal that corresponds to an utterance rec...  
WO/2011/148860
In order to achieve noise reduction that responds to a signal characteristic that fluctuates sharply, disclosed is a signal processing method for suppressing noise in a deteriorated signal as follows. In the signal processing method, fir...  
WO/2011/149969
Systems and methods and a device are described that assist in speech communication using a network of proximity filters to suppress the ambient noise contaminating the signal of interest. A unique placement of sensors and a set of techni...  
WO/2011/149647
Voice print identification may be provided. A plurality of speakers may be recorded and associated with identity indicators. Voice prints for each speaker may be created. If the voice print for at least one speaker corresponds to a known...  
WO/2011/148594
A processing device determination means selects in accordance with the voice input situation at least one device from a local-voice acquisition terminal and a voice recognition device to perform calculations for feature quantities used i...  
WO/2011/146961
A visual interface or guide device of variable thickness for a fretted, stringed musical instrument. The device comprises 1-5 interconnected fret bands which can be temporarily attached between the neck and the strings of the instrument....  
WO/2011/147934
A training apparatus (100) according to the invention comprises - adjustable resistance means (110); - means (120) for continuously determining an actual configuration (130) of the training apparatus during exercise; - means (140) for ge...  
WO/2011/148271
A hands-free unit comprises a noise tolerant audio sensor to generate a first audio signal based on detection of audible sounds and an external audio sensor to generate a second audio signal based on detection of the audible sounds. A tu...  
WO/2011/147902
The invention relates to a loudspeaker apparatus which comprises at least one sound generation means, wherein an at least partially sound-conducting channel is arranged in a sound radiation direction of the sound generation means and is ...  
WO/2011/147015
There is provided a method and a system for presenting audio signals as vibrotactile stimuli to the body in accordance with a Model Human Cochlea (MHC). Audio signals are obtained for presentation. The audio signals are separated into mu...  
WO/2011/148181
Ultrasound acquisition Information about a structure (701) within a body is acquired by providing data defining a non-straight line (42b), at least a part of which corresponds to the structure (701); transmitting an ultrasound transmit s...  
WO/2011/148861
In order to suppress both noise having an unknown characteristic and noise having a known characteristic, disclosed is an information processing device provided with a noise suppression means which suppresses noise included in an inputte...  
WO/2011/147950
A unified speech and audio decoder is described, which comprises a frame buffer configured to buffer a sub-part of a datastream composed of consecutive frames in units of the frames so that the subpart continuously comprises at least one...  
WO/2011/148274
A 3D ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system produces 3D display images at a 3D frame rate of display which is equal to the acquisition rate of a 3D image dataset. The volumetric region being imaged is sparsely sub-sampled by separated scan...  
WO/2011/149465
A method for speech recognition is described that uses an initial recognizer to perform an initial speech recognition pass on an input speech utterance to determine an initial recognition result corresponding to the input speech utteranc...  
WO/2011/144322
The invention relates to a method and a plant for depolymerising materials containing hydrocarbons, such as residues, synthetic polymers containing hydrocarbon, or also used oil, wherein in a fission reactor the material is converted int...  
WO/2011/146903
A noise cancelling headset for voice communications contains a microphone at each of the user's ears and a voice microphone. The headset shares the use of the ear microphones for improving signal-to-noise ratio on both the transmit path ...  
WO/2011/144322
The invention relates to a method and a plant for depolymerising materials containing hydrocarbons, such as residues, synthetic polymers containing hydrocarbon, or also used oil, wherein in a fission reactor the material is converted int...  
WO/2011/144617
An audio signal processor (100) comprising an analysis means (104), a manipulation factor unit (106), and a time-stretching and compression device (108). The analysis means (104) is implemented to determine a first measure of information...  
WO/2011/145431
[Problem] To provide a gaming device capable of recognizing characters by differentiating collected sounds by type thereof. [Solution] A gaming device for playing games is provided with: a display means for displaying a gaming screen; a ...  
WO/2011/145272
A perplexity calculation device (500) is provided with a weight coefficient calculation unit (501) for calculating, on the basis of a statistical language model for representing the probability that a word occurs for each of a plurality ...  
WO/2011/144842
The invention relates to a multi-layer acoustic treatment panel (100) comprising a first core having an alveolar structure (102) sandwiched between a perforated skin (104) and an intermediate skin (106), and a second core having an alveo...  
WO/2011/145331
Provided is a vehicle fender liner which can be easily formed into a three-dimensional shape, and is configured in such a way as to demonstrate high sound absorbing properties and excellent anti-icing properties. For this purpose, the fe...  
WO/2011/144499
The invention relates to a sound- emitting device with controllable directivity comprising a plurality of sound sources (7) distributed over the surface of a body 5, each of said sound sources (7) being driven by a separate power amplifi...  
WO/2011/145188
The disclosed acoustic-feel adjustment device can appropriately adjust how sound reflects above a sound source, providing an acoustic feel close to that of a high-ceilinged space without large-scale engineering work such as the provision...  
WO/2011/144863
The invention relates to a method for hierarchical encoding of an audio-digital signal, comprising: - a core encoding step (400, 500) producing N scalar indices (I B (n) n=0,..., N -1) for quantifying a set of N samples (x(n) n=0,..., N-...  
WO/2011/144765
The invention relates to a guitar that includes an electronic module that enables the instrument user to perform different tasks, such as practicing and studying with the help of different pre-established rhythmic and harmonic bases, it ...  
WO/2011/146366
Methods and systems for performing audio synchronization with corresponding textual transcription and determining confidence values of the timing-synchronization are provided. Audio and a corresponding text (e.g., transcript) may be sync...  
WO/2011/146002
Method and arrangement for processing of a speech quality estimate, which involve adaption of a speech quality estimate based on information related to the bandwidth of a reference signal used when determining said speech quality estimat...  
WO/2011/145958
A synthetic guitar includes a body, a neck extending from the body, and at least one touch sensor at the neck for indicating finger position of a user. The body has a receptacle for removably securing a tablet computer to the body. The t...  
WO/2011/145249
A video is classified using an audio signal. An audio signal is acquired and for each of a plurality of segments of a prescribed interval included in the acquired audio signal, a segment feature which is a feature related to the frequenc...  
WO/2011/146576
A wireless communication device (101, 300, 700) comprises a wireless communication interface (701), a processing system (702), and a user interface (303, 703). The wireless communication interface (701) is configured to wirelessly receiv...  
WO/2011/144130
A method and a device for frequency band expanding are provided. The method, implementation of which is taken as an example, includes: acquiring the characteristic vector of a low frequency band signal; classifying the low frequency band...  
WO/2011/142077
Disclosed is an apparatus for tolling a chime body which makes it possible to enjoy the sound of a wind chime close to that produced by a natural tremor, in an environment in which there is no natural wind. The apparatus for tolling a ch...  
WO/2011/142709
Method and decoder for processing of audio signals. The method and decoder relate to deriving a processed vector d by applying a post-filter directly on a vector d comprising quantized MDCT domain coefficients of a time segment of an aud...  
WO/2011/143107
In some embodiments, a method including steps of analyzing speech in a first language to generate first data indicative of a sequence of snippets of the speech, and generating speech data indicative of speech in a second language (scramb...  
WO/2011/141300
The invention relates to an electronic string instrument wherein the total number of strings (6) equals a whole-number multiple of 2 and wherein the longitudinal axes of the strings are arranged substantially along an arc segment, viewed...  
WO/2011/141255
The invention relates to an ultrasound sensor (1) having a diaphragm (2; 2'; 2"; 2"'; 2''''''), which has at least two partial regions (2-1, 2-2; 2-1', 2-2'; 2-1'''''', 2-2'''''', 2- 3'''''', 2-4'''''') for transmitting and/or receiving ...  
WO/2011/143523
An interface device and method of use, comprising audio and image inputs; a processor for determining topics of interest, and receiving information of interest to the user from a remote resource; an audiovisual output for presenting an a...  
WO/2011/143092
A system and method of exploiting an offshore oil and gas reservoir, comprising installing a drilling structure in a body of water; drilling a plurality of wells from the drilling structure; and providing a plurality of buoyant, flexible...  
WO/2011/141292
Watermark symbol detection requires a detection metric for deciding at decoder side which candidate symbol is embedded inside the audio or video signal content. The invention provides an improved detection metric processing that achieves...  
WO/2011/142847
An acoustic weapon comprises a sonic pulse generator configured to generate discrete sonic pulses at a repetition rate. A sensor is configured to measure a range-to-target. A controller is configured to control the sonic pulse generator ...  
WO/2011/142709
Method and decoder for processing of audio signals. The method and decoder relate to deriving a processed vector d by applying a post-filter directly on a vector d comprising quantized MDCT domain coefficients of a time segment of an aud...  
WO/2011/141772
An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code is configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least...  
WO/2011/137762
Provided are a rotating device noise control method and a controller. The control method includes: gain an acoustic signal of noise produced by the rotating device and the signal is a feedback from a reference sensor; gain a revolving sp...  
WO/2011/138758
Apparatus for ultrasound image acquisition integrated into the casing of an ultrasound probe for ultrasound imaging apparatuses which probe comprises an array of electroacoustic transducers for transmitting and receiving ultrasound pulse...  

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