Method for recognizing and distributing music
    1.
    发明申请
    Method for recognizing and distributing music 失效
    识别和分发音乐的方法

    公开(公告)号:US20100179810A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-07-15

    申请号:US12659718

    申请日:2010-03-18

    申请人: Lawson A. Wood

    发明人: Lawson A. Wood

    IPC分类号: G10L15/00

    摘要: A customer for music distributed over the interne may select a composition from a menu of written identifiers (such as the song title and singer or group) and then confirm that the composition is indeed the one desired by listening to a corrupted version of the composition. If the customer has forgotten the song title or the singer or other words that provide the identifier, he or she may hum or otherwise vocalize a few bars of the desired composition, or pick the desired composition out on a simulated keyboard. A music-recognition system then locates candidates for the selected composition and displays identifiers for these candidates to the customer.

    摘要翻译: 分发在国际互联网上的音乐的客户可以从书写的标识符(例如歌曲标题和歌手或组)的菜单中选择合成,然后通过收听组合的损坏版本来确认组合确实是所需的组合。 如果客户忘记了歌曲标题,歌手或提供标识符的其他单词,他或她可以哼或者以其他方式发出所需组合的几个小节,或者在模拟键盘上选择所需的作品。 然后,音乐识别系统定位所选组合的候选者,并向客户显示这些候选者的标识符。

    Printed circuit rotary switch with decoder
    2.
    发明授权
    Printed circuit rotary switch with decoder 失效
    带解码器的印刷电路旋转开关

    公开(公告)号:US4970512A

    公开(公告)日:1990-11-13

    申请号:US332337

    申请日:1989-04-03

    申请人: Lawson A. Wood

    发明人: Lawson A. Wood

    摘要: A rotary switch which cooperates with a printed circuit board employs a knob member having a handle portion that protrudes through an opening in a panel of an equipment housing. The printed circuit board is spaced beneath the panel and has printed wiring contacts that are disposed along a circular path beneath the knob member. Switches which include the printed wiring contacts are opened and closed when the knob member is rotated. In one embodiment, four pairs of printed wiring contacts are disposed on the PCB at 90.degree. intervals and a spacer sheet having openings positioned at the contact pairs rests on the PCB. A contactor sheet rests on the spacer sheet and supports contactor elements that are positioned to protrude through the openings and bridge the contactor pairs when the appropriate region of the contactor sheet is depressed. Such depression is accomplished by contactor legs extending from a contactor member affixed to the underside of the knob member. A decoder circuit connected to the contact pairs provides output signals corresponding to the angular position of the knob member. Such a rotary switch is particularly useful for setting the time for appliances such electrical clocks or video cassette recorders.

    摘要翻译: 与印刷电路板协作的旋转开关采用具有通过设备壳体的面板中的开口突出的把手部分的按钮构件。 印刷电路板在面板下面隔开,并且具有沿着旋钮构件下方的圆形路径设置的印刷布线触点。 当旋钮构件旋转时,包括印刷线路触点的开关被打开和关闭。 在一个实施例中,四对印刷布线触点以90度间隔布置在PCB上,并且具有位于触点对处的开口的间隔片搁置在PCB上。 接触器片搁置在间隔片上并且支撑定位成突出穿过开口并且当接触器片的适当区域被按压时桥接接触器对的接触器元件。 这种凹陷通过从固定到旋钮构件的下侧的接触器构件延伸的接触器腿实现。 连接到触点对的解码器电路提供对应于旋钮构件的角位置的输出信号。 这样的旋转开关对于设置电气时钟或录像机的时间特别有用。

    Display apparatus and method
    3.
    发明授权
    Display apparatus and method 失效
    显示装置和方法

    公开(公告)号:US07782280B2

    公开(公告)日:2010-08-24

    申请号:US11415422

    申请日:2006-05-02

    申请人: Lawson A. Wood

    发明人: Lawson A. Wood

    IPC分类号: G09G3/34

    摘要: A display apparatus includes a spatial light modulator, such as a digital micromirror device or an LCD panel, and a lighting unit that illuminates the spatial light modulator. The lighting unit may include red, green, and blue lamps which emit light that impinges on a DMD from at least two different directions. The lamps may be flash tubes which are fired at different binary levels in accordance with the rank of the bits that are being displayed on the DMD. The lamps may be fluorescent lamps which are driven steadily at predetermined levels while the rows of micromirrors are turned on in sequence and subsequently turned off in sequence. Resetting to dislodge micromirrors that have become stuck can be accomplished by emitting current pulses through the micromirrors while exposing them to a magnetic field. The illumination unit may include a lamp unit and a color wheel. The light from the lamp unit can be integrated, and the data displayed on the spatial light modulator can be changed when the integrated light reaches a predetermined value. The color wheel may be rotated faster than the frame repetition rate of video information that is being displayed. The intensity of the light may be controlled in accordance with the bit rank or significance of the bits that are being displayed by the spatial light modulator. Several techniques for achieving different intensity levels are disclosed.

    摘要翻译: 显示装置包括诸如数字微镜装置或LCD面板的空间光调制器和照亮空间光调制器的照明单元。 照明单元可以包括发射从至少两个不同方向撞击在DMD上的光的红色,绿色和蓝色灯。 灯可以是根据正在DMD上显示的位的等级而以不同二进制电平触发的闪光管。 灯可以是荧光灯,其以预定水平稳定地驱动,同时依次打开微镜列并随后依次关闭。 复位移除已被卡住的微镜可以通过在将其暴露于磁场的同时发射电流脉冲通过微镜来实现。 照明单元可以包括灯单元和色轮。 来自灯单元的光可以被集成,并且当集成光达到预定值时,可以改变显示在空间光调制器上的数据。 色轮可以比正在显示的视频信息的帧重复率更快地旋转。 可以根据由空间光调制器显示的位的位等级或重要性来控制光的强度。 公开了用于实现不同强度水平的几种技术。

    Calculation unit
    4.
    发明授权
    Calculation unit 失效
    计算单位

    公开(公告)号:US6012078A

    公开(公告)日:2000-01-04

    申请号:US880511

    申请日:1997-06-23

    申请人: Lawson A. Wood

    发明人: Lawson A. Wood

    IPC分类号: G06F7/52

    CPC分类号: G06F7/5235

    摘要: A multiplier uses squaring units to find the product of two binary numbers A and B by exploiting the algebraic expansion of (A-B).sup.2 or (A+B).sup.2. The squaring units may be look-up memories. However, to multiply extremely large numbers, each squaring unit may itself have look-up memories and additional components. A divider may be formed by using the multiplier to multiply trial quotients by a divisor and by comparing the product with a dividend. The trial quotient is formed by shifting a one through a sequence of bit positions and latching the one at bit positions such that the trial quotient times the divisor does not exceed the dividend.

    摘要翻译: 乘数使用平方单位通过利用(A-B)2或(A + B)2的代数展开来找到两个二进制数A和B的乘积。 平方单位可以是查找记忆。 然而,为了乘以非常大的数量,每个平方单元本身可以具有查找存储器和附加组件。 可以通过使用乘数将试用商乘以除数并将产品与股息进行比较来形成分割器。 试商通过将一个通过位位序列移位并将其锁定在位位置形成,使得试用商乘以除数不超过股息。

    Liquid crystal display unit which is back-lit with colored lights
    5.
    发明授权
    Liquid crystal display unit which is back-lit with colored lights 失效
    液晶显示单元用彩色灯点亮

    公开(公告)号:US5128782A

    公开(公告)日:1992-07-07

    申请号:US521399

    申请日:1990-05-10

    申请人: Lawson A. Wood

    发明人: Lawson A. Wood

    摘要: A liquid crystal display unit includes a liquid crystal display panel having a matrix or pixels which act as light valves. The red component of an image is displayed on the panel, and a red light is flashed on the back of the panel. Then the green component of the image is displayed and a green light is flashed, and the blue component is displayed and a blue light is flashed. A plurality of light sources, each having a red light emitter, a green light emitter, and a blue light emitter, may be employed at a close distance to an active-matrix LCD panel if compensation is provided for the differences in light intensity at different positions on the back of the panel. A passive-matrix LCD panel may be used if a flash of light is emitted each time a row electrode of the panel is strobed. Preferably a plurality of light sources is used, and after one row electrode is strobed and its associated light source is fired, the next row electrode to be strobed is located adjacent a different light source. As a result, a row of pixels is exposed to an intense burst of light at the optimum moment and a relatively mild burst of light as the row of pixels is turning OFF.

    摘要翻译: 液晶显示单元包括具有作为光阀的矩阵或像素的液晶显示面板。 图像的红色分量显示在面板上,红色的灯光闪烁在面板的背面。 然后显示图像的绿色分量,并闪烁绿灯,并显示蓝色分量,并闪烁蓝色光。 如果针对不同的光强度的差异提供补偿,则可以在与有源矩阵LCD面板的距离近的距离处采用多个具有红光发射器,绿光发射器和蓝光发射器的光源 面板背面的位置。 如果每次板上的行电极被选通时都会发出闪光,则可以使用无源矩阵LCD面板。 优选地,使用多个光源,并且在选择一个行电极并且其相关联的光源被点火之后,要被选通的下一个行电极位于不同的光源附近。 结果,像素行被关闭时,一行像素在最佳时刻被暴露于强烈的光突发和相对温和的突发的光。

    Joystick with additional degree of control
    6.
    发明授权
    Joystick with additional degree of control 失效
    操纵杆具有额外的控制能力

    公开(公告)号:US4763100A

    公开(公告)日:1988-08-09

    申请号:US84937

    申请日:1987-08-13

    申请人: Lawson A. Wood

    发明人: Lawson A. Wood

    IPC分类号: G05G9/047 H01C10/16

    摘要: A joystick includes a pivotably mounted X yoke connected to an X potentiometer and a pivotably mounted Y yoke connected to a Y potentiometer. To permit at least one additional degree of control, a platform member is pivotably mounted one of the yokes to support an additional control element such as a further potentiometer. The pivoting motion of the platform member with respect to the yoke element on which it is mounted is conveyed to the remaining yoke element. Both a platform member and the remaining yoke element pivot about respective axes that are perpendicular to the pivot axis of the yoke element on which the platform member is mounted.

    摘要翻译: 操纵杆包括连接到X电位计的可枢转安装的X型轭铁,以及连接到Y电位计的可枢转安装的Y轭。 为了允许至少一个额外的控制程度,平台构件可枢转地安装其中一个轭架以支撑附加的控制元件,例如另外的电位计。 平台构件相对于其上安装的轭元件的枢转运动被传送到剩余的轭元件。 平台构件和剩余的轭元件围绕垂直于安装有平台构件的轭元件的枢转轴线的各个轴线枢转。

    Method for recognizing and distributing music
    7.
    发明授权
    Method for recognizing and distributing music 失效
    识别和分发音乐的方法

    公开(公告)号:US08296390B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-10-23

    申请号:US12659718

    申请日:2010-03-18

    申请人: Lawson A. Wood

    发明人: Lawson A. Wood

    摘要: A customer for music distributed over the interne may select a composition from a menu of written identifiers (such as the song title and singer or group) and then confirm that the composition is indeed the one desired by listening to a corrupted version of the composition. If the customer has forgotten the song title or the singer or other words that provide the identifier, he or she may hum or otherwise vocalize a few bars of the desired composition, or pick the desired composition out on a simulated keyboard. A music-recognition system then locates candidates for the selected composition and displays identifiers for these candidates to the customer.

    摘要翻译: 分发在国际互联网上的音乐的客户可以从书写的标识符(例如歌曲标题和歌手或组)的菜单中选择合成,然后通过收听组合的损坏版本来确认组合确实是所需的组合。 如果客户忘记了歌曲标题,歌手或提供标识符的其他单词,他或她可以哼或者以其他方式发出所需组合的几个小节,或者在模拟键盘上选择所需的作品。 然后,音乐识别系统定位所选组合的候选者,并向客户显示这些候选者的标识符。

    Display apparatus and method with reduced energy consumption
    8.
    发明授权
    Display apparatus and method with reduced energy consumption 有权
    具有降低能耗的显示装置和方法

    公开(公告)号:US08049707B2

    公开(公告)日:2011-11-01

    申请号:US11237707

    申请日:2005-09-29

    申请人: Lawson A. Wood

    发明人: Lawson A. Wood

    IPC分类号: G09G3/36

    摘要: A display apparatus includes a spatial light modulator and an illumination unit for supplying light to the spatial light modulator. The power consumed by the illumination unit is reduced by adjusting both the intensity of light emitted by the illumination unit and video words that are supplied to the spatial light modulator in accordance with what is to be displayed.

    摘要翻译: 显示装置包括空间光调制器和用于向空间光调制器提供光的照明单元。 通过根据要显示的内容调节由照明单元发射的光的强度和提供给空间光调制器的视频字,来减少照明单元消耗的功率。

    Method for recognizing and distributing music
    9.
    发明授权
    Method for recognizing and distributing music 失效
    识别和分发音乐的方法

    公开(公告)号:US07743092B2

    公开(公告)日:2010-06-22

    申请号:US10649932

    申请日:2003-08-28

    申请人: Lawson A. Wood

    发明人: Lawson A. Wood

    摘要: A customer for music distributed over the internet may select a composition from a menu of written identifiers (such as the song title and singer or group) and then confirm that the composition is indeed the one desired by listening to a corrupted version of the composition. If the customer has forgotten the song title or the singer or other words that provide the identifier, he or she may hum or otherwise vocalize a few bars of the desired composition, or pick the desired composition out on a simulated keyboard. A music-recognition system then locates candidates for the selected composition and displays identifiers for these candidates to the customer.

    摘要翻译: 通过互联网分发的音乐的客户可以从书写标识符(例如歌曲标题和歌手或组)的菜单中选择合成,然后通过收听组合的损坏版本来确认组合确实是所需的组合。 如果客户忘记了歌曲标题,歌手或提供标识符的其他单词,他或她可以哼或者以其他方式发出所需组合的几个小节,或者在模拟键盘上选择所需的作品。 然后,音乐识别系统定位所选组合的候选者,并向客户显示这些候选者的标识符。

    Display apparatus with digital micromirror device
    10.
    发明授权
    Display apparatus with digital micromirror device 失效
    具有数字微镜装置的显示装置

    公开(公告)号:US06348907B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-02-19

    申请号:US08381156

    申请日:1995-01-31

    申请人: Lawson A. Wood

    发明人: Lawson A. Wood

    IPC分类号: G09G334

    摘要: A display apparatus includes a digital micromirror device and red, green and blue lamps which illuminate it. The light from the lamps impinges on the DMD from at least two different directions. The lamps may be flash tubes which are fired at different binary levels in accordance with the rank of the bits that are being displayed on the DMD. The lamps may be fluorescent lamps which are driven steadily at predetermined levels while the rows of micromirrors are turned on in sequence and subsequently turned off in sequence. Resetting to dislodge micromirrors that have become stuck can be accomplished by emitting current pulses through the micromirrors while exposing them to a magnetic field, or by coating the actuation electrodes of the DMD with piezoelectric material which moves mechanically when pulses are applied to the micromirrors.

    摘要翻译: 显示装置包括数字微镜装置和照亮其的红色,绿色和蓝色灯。 来自灯的光从至少两个不同的方向照射在DMD上。 灯可以是根据正在DMD上显示的位的等级而以不同二进制电平触发的闪光管。 灯可以是荧光灯,其以预定水平稳定地驱动,同时依次打开微镜列并随后依次关闭。 复位移动已经变得卡住的微镜可以通过在将它们暴露于磁场的同时发射电流脉冲通过微镜,或者通过用脉冲施加到微镜上机械移动的压电材料涂覆DMD的致动电极来实现。