Methods and apparatus for low cost voice activity detector

    公开(公告)号:US10748557B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-18

    申请号:US16460651

    申请日:2019-07-02

    Abstract: In described examples, a method for detecting voice activity includes: receiving a first input signal containing noise; sampling the first input signal to form noise samples; determining a first value corresponding to the noise samples; subsequently receiving a second input signal; sampling the second input signal to form second signal samples; determining a second value corresponding to the second signal samples; forming a ratio of the second value to the first value; comparing the ratio to a predetermined threshold value; and responsive to the comparing, indicating whether voice activity is detected in the second input signal.

    Regenerative braking controller for electric motors

    公开(公告)号:US10696163B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-30

    申请号:US16366263

    申请日:2019-03-27

    Abstract: A method of regenerative braking includes providing an electric motor including at least one stator and a rotor, a speed of the rotor, a motor controller that regulates a current level in the stator winding, a power inverter which controls an energy flow to the stator terminal, and an energy storage system (ESS) which exchanges energy with the motor. A battery management circuit is between the power inverter and the ESS, and a processor has an associated memory storing a regenerative braking (RB) algorithm. The RB algorithm during braking causes the motor controller to execute determining an RB torque value from the rotor speed that maximizes regenerative braking current, and the power inverter is used to redirect the RB current to maximize a power transfer from the motor to the ESS.

    Winding fault detection using inverter harmonics

    公开(公告)号:US10591548B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-17

    申请号:US16154451

    申请日:2018-10-08

    Abstract: A controller for driving a motor includes a multiphase driver, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), impedance estimation circuitry, and fault detection circuitry. The multiphase driver is configured to generate drive signals for energizing each motor phase winding. The ADC is configured to digitize voltage and current from each motor phase winding. The impedance estimation circuitry is configured to determine a phasor value for the digitized voltages and for the digitized currents at a predetermined harmonic frequency, and to determine a sequence impedance value based on the phasor values. The fault detection circuitry is configured to identify a fault in the windings of the motor based on the sequence impedance value.

    HEART RATE ESTIMATION APPARATUS WITH STATE SEQUENCE OPTIMIZATION

    公开(公告)号:US20190298198A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-03

    申请号:US16442845

    申请日:2019-06-17

    Abstract: Disclosed examples include heart rate monitor systems and methods to estimate a patient heart rate or rate of another pulsed signal, in which rate hypotheses or states, are identified for a current time window according to digital sample values of the pulsed signal for a current sample time window, and a rate change value is computed for potential rate transitions between states of the current and previous time windows. Transition pair branch metric values are computed as a function of the rate change value and a frequency domain amplitude of the corresponding rate hypothesis for the current time window, and the pulsed signal rate estimate is determined according to a maximum path metric computed according to the branch metric value and a corresponding path metric value for the previous time window.

    Methods and apparatus for low cost voice activity detector

    公开(公告)号:US10339962B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-02

    申请号:US15485165

    申请日:2017-04-11

    Abstract: In described examples, a method for detecting voice activity includes: receiving a first input signal containing noise; sampling the first input signal to form noise samples; determining a first value corresponding to the noise samples; subsequently receiving a second input signal; sampling the second input signal to form second signal samples; determining a second value corresponding to the second signal samples; forming a ratio of the second value to the first value; comparing the ratio to a predetermined threshold value; and responsive to the comparing, indicating whether voice activity is detected in the second input signal.

    Input vector set for position detection of PM motors

    公开(公告)号:US10263555B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-16

    申请号:US15916945

    申请日:2018-03-09

    Abstract: A method of determining angular position (0) of a rotor of an N-phase permanent magnet motor (PMM). A processor having an associated stored angular position determination (APD) algorithm is programmed to implement the algorithm to cause an associated motor controller to execute steps including forcing one vector at a time a phase vector set of current or voltage vectors to stator terminals of windings for the N-phases a positive and negative magnitude vector, wherein the vector magnitude is sufficiently small to not move the rotor, and a time duration for the forcing current or voltage vectors is essentially constant. The resulting stator current or voltage levels are measured for each current or voltage vector. An N-dimension current vector or voltage vector is generated from superposition of the resulting stator current levels or resulting stator voltage levels. The N-dimension current vector or voltage vector is used to determine angular position.

    METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SURFACE WETTING CONTROL

    公开(公告)号:US20180304318A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-25

    申请号:US15492433

    申请日:2017-04-20

    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for surface wetting control are disclosed. In certain described examples, an apparatus can expel fluid from a droplet on a surface using a transducer mechanically coupled to the surface. A first area of the surface can have a first wettability for the fluid, and a second area of the surface can have a second wettability for the fluid. The first wettability of the first area of the surface can be greater than the second wettability of the second area of the surface. The first area and the second area can be arranged in a patterned arrangement.

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