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WO/2011/123234
The application relates to VoIP calls between terminals comprising Bluetooth chipsets. Bluetooth headsets employ audio codes covering the audio spectrum up to 20 kHz whereas speech codecs for VoIP only cover up to 7 kHz. The transcoding ...  
WO/2011/121884
A voice input means (201) inputs speech in a foreign language as voice data. A voice recognition means (202) performs voice recognition upon the input voice data. A result display means (203) displays recognition results of the voice dat...  
WO/2011/121782
Disclosed is a bandwidth extension device provided with a base frequency analysis unit (1), an out-of-band component generation unit (2), a frequency characteristic control unit (3), an out-of-band component adjusting unit (4) and a sign...  
WO/2011/121955
Disclosed is an audio device that obtains an adequately good auditory sensation even when playing back compressed audio signals, in an audio environment with improved acoustic quality. In order to correct a weak signal component near a l...  
WO/2011/117903
The present invention is concerning an alarm clock, in particular a directional-sound-diffusion alarm clock, besides other applications concerning that technology. The purpose of the invention is to implement a device, that overcomes the...  
WO/2011/118977
The present invention relates to a method for processing an audio signal, comprising the following steps: performing a spectrum analysis of the current frame of the audio signal to determine bandwidth information that indicates to which ...  
WO/2011/119993
Systems and methods are provided for using a hidden audio signal. In one exemplary embodiment, the method includes registering, at a central database, one or more of an identifier and a destination resource associated with the identifier...  
WO/2011/118900
The present invention relates to a portable wireless effector. The portable wireless effector, having a tuning function of a guitar, comprises: an input section receiving at least one of a sound signal of an electronic guitar and externa...  
WO/2011/116937
The invention relates to a method for assigning speech features to movement models, in which a speech input (α) is taken up into a speech analysis system (10), the speech input (α) is transformed into a first speech signal (β1) by a s...  
WO/2011/117903
The present invention is concerning an alarm clock, in particular a directional-sound-diffusion alarm clock, besides other applications concerning that technology. The purpose of the invention is to implement a device, that overcomes the...  
WO/2011/119168
A speech dialog system is described that adjusts a voice activity detection threshold during a speech dialog prompt to reflect a context-based probability of user barge in speech occurring. For example, the context-based probability may ...  
WO/2011/118218
Disclosed is a speaker (10) provided with a speaker unit (20), a passive radiator (50x) which is disposed on the front side of the speaker unit (20), and a cabinet (30) which is attached with the speaker unit (20), covers the rear side o...  
WO/2011/119111
In one embodiment, a method for providing an encoded digital signal is described comprising determining, for each data frame of a plurality of data frames of a digital signal, a plurality of pairs of an encoding data volume and an encodi...  
WO/2011/118207
A normalized spectrum storage unit (204) stores in advance a normalized spectrum calculated on the basis of a random number sequence. A voiced sound generation unit (201) generates voiced sound waveforms on the basis of multiple voiced s...  
WO/2011/118017
Disclosed is a sending device capable of making it difficult for people to perceive sound waves for transmitting information in an environment where information is transmitted in the form of sound waves. Specifically disclosed is a sendi...  
WO/2011/118037
A category generating device receives a musical composition, extracts video information that the received musical composition has, and decomposes the extracted video information for each feature. The device generates a category represent...  
WO/2011/117860
A method for audio Comfort Noise Generation (CNG) comprising the steps of recording information of Background Noise (BGN); generating white noise samples; and generating Comfort Noise (CN) by applying coefficients that are extracted from...  
WO/2011/117399
Soundfield signals such as e.g. Ambisonics carry a representation of a desired sound field. The Ambisonics format is based on spherical harmonic decomposition of the soundfield, and Higher Order Ambisonics (HOA) uses spherical harmonics ...  
WO/2011/118977
The present invention relates to a method for processing an audio signal, comprising the following steps: performing a spectrum analysis of the current frame of the audio signal to determine bandwidth information that indicates to which ...  
WO/2011/117368
The invention relates to a combined manual and motorised adjustment drive for adjusting the string tension of a stringed instrument, in particular a guitar, having a tuning peg (5) for winding and unwinding a string running thereon, a dr...  
WO/2011/117367
The invention relates to a tuning peg for a stringed instrument, in particular a guitar, having a winding section (3), on which a string (15) runs, and a fastening means for fixing a free end (16) of the string (15), which is improved in...  
WO/2011/118018
Disclosed is a sending device capable of making it difficult for people to perceive sound waves for transmitting information in an environment where information is transmitted in the form of sound waves. Specifically disclosed is a sendi...  
WO/2011/118595
Disclosed are headphones equipped with: a pair of earphones in which each earphone is provided with a speaker and a plurality of microphones that are disposed on the rear side of the aforementioned speaker in a prescribed pattern and col...  
WO/2011/116410
Described herein are systems and methods for processing audio data. For example, one embodiment provides a device configured to receive an audio signal, and process that audio signal based on a frequency mapping protocol, thereby to prov...  
WO/2011/118649
The disclosed television (1) is provided with: an object identification unit (23) that, while in content replay mode, when an operation signal indicating that an operation has been performed on a number key has been received from a remot...  
WO/2011/117483
The invention relates to a method for synthesizing a synthesized audio signal, wherein at least one audio contact signal is produced for each excitation contact of a sequence of contacts set on a vibrating member (2). A partial persisten...  
WO/2011/113910
An intake sound generator for an internal combustion engine of a vehicle, the internal combustion engine having an intake manifold for distributing a combustion mixture to a plurality of cylinders of the engine, and an engine throttle co...  
WO/2011/114192
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 configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to ...  
WO/2011/115768
Techniques described herein generally relate to real time inference based systems. Example embodiments may set forth devices, methods, and computer programs related to search engine inference based virtual assistance. One example method ...  
WO/2011/115837
A system includes a noise detector configured to identify undesirable noise components in an acoustic signal and a noise energy profiler configured to analyze the identified undesirable noise components and generate a noise energy profil...  
WO/2011/113657
A headset system which may be utilized for various forms of communication and multimedia. The headset system may comprise a number of earpieces each of which may be configured to change its operation state between a speaker function and ...  
WO/2011/114932
Disclosed is an audio-processing apparatus, an audio-processing method and program that suppress a delay or an increased computing amount when decoding when an audio signal, if a multi-channel audio signal is down-mixed and encoded. An i...  
WO/2011/115837
A system includes a noise detector configured to identify undesirable noise components in an acoustic signal and a noise energy profiler configured to analyze the identified undesirable noise components and generate a noise energy profil...  
WO/2011/113425
The present invention relates to a holding aid for musical instruments with resonance boxes that can be played with both hands, for example at waist level, and that are held substantially at right angles to the axis of the body. The obje...  
WO/2011/115130
The disclosed television (10) is provided with: a CEC processing unit (101) that acquires format information indicating audio signal formats that an AV amplifier (20) can process from the amplifier (20); and a microcomputer unit (110) th...  
WO/2011/115808
Techniques for generating a set of one or more alternate titles associated with stored digital media content and updating a speech recognition system to enable the speech recognition system to recognize the set of alternate titles. The s...  
WO/2011/116309
A smart phone senses audio, imagery, and/or other stimulus from a user's environment, and acts autonomously to fulfill inferred or anticipated user desires. In one aspect, the detailed technology concerns phone-based cognition of a scene...  
WO/2011/114933
Disclosed are an encoding device and an encoding method, a decoding device and a decoding method, and a program that reduce sound quality deterioration caused by encoding audio signals. An envelope enhancing unit (51) enhances an envelop...  
WO/2011/115210
Disclosed is a server that stores audio and music separately without increasing communication time. The server uploads to a center only a singer's singing voice along with Karaoke performance synchronization data as audio data (singing f...  
WO/2011/110239
The aim is to propose a more efficient method for reducing reverberation in binaural hearing systems. This has been done by developing a method for obtaining a reduced-reverberation, binaural output signal (Šl (λ, μ), Šr (λ, μ) for...  
WO/2011/111890
Disclosed is a transparent elastic sound absorber and insulator configured to reduce and block noise. The sound absorber and insulator of the present invention comprises: a sound-absorbing plate made of a transparent acrylic synthetic re...  
WO/2011/111321
Disclosed is a text-to-speech device provided with a sound control unit (114) which selects and outputs a text-to-speech item from a plurality of items multiplexed on broadcast signals and contained in program information, and starts or ...  
WO/2011/111453
A normalized-value calculator (12) calculates a normalized value which is a representative value of a specific number of samples that have been input. A normalized-value quantizer (13) obtains a quantized normalized value, which is produ...  
WO/2011/110594
An audio signal decoder (150 for providing a decoded audio signal representation (154) on the basis of an encoded audio signal representation (152) comprising an encoded spectrum representation (ac_spectral_data[]) and an encoded time wa...  
WO/2011/111825
Disclosed is a karaoke system capable of allowing the enjoyment of karaoke with favorite singers at any time via a network. A vocal by a singer is pre-uploaded to a server together with karaoke performance synchronization information as ...  
WO/2011/112382
A method and system for filtering a multi-channel audio signal having a speech channel and at least one non-speech channel, to improve intelligibility of speech determined by the signal. In typical embodiments, the method includes steps ...  
WO/2011/111091
A band separator (5) divides into bands a plurality of power spectra converted by a time-frequency converter (2) and collects the power spectra in sub-bands. A band-representative component generator (6) sets, from among the plurality of...  
WO/2011/110031
A method and device for encoding a high frequency signal, and a method and device for decoding a high frequency signal are provided, which relate to encoding and decoding technology. The method for encoding a high frequency signal includ...  
WO/2011/110500
An apparatus for processing an input audio signal (2300) relies on a cascade of filterbanks, the cascade comprising a synthesis filterbank (2304) for synthesizing an audio intermediate signal (2306) from the input audio signal (2300), th...  
WO/2011/110591
An audio signal decoder configured to provide a decoded audio signal representation on the basis of an encoded audio signal representation comprising a sampling frequency information, an encoded time warp information and an encoded spect...  

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