Control structure for sound synthesis
    1.
    发明授权
    Control structure for sound synthesis 失效
    声音合成控制结构

    公开(公告)号:US5880392A

    公开(公告)日:1999-03-09

    申请号:US756935

    申请日:1996-12-02

    摘要: An improved control structure for music synthesis is provided in which: 1) the sound representation provided to the adaptive function mapper allows for a greatly increased degree of control over the sound produced; and 2) training of the adaptive function mapper is performed using an error measure, or error norm, that greatly facilitates learning while ensuring perceptual identity of the produced sound with the training example. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, sound data is produced by applying to an adaptive function mapper control parameters including: at least one parameter selected from the set of time and timbre space coordinates; and at least one parameter selected from the set of pitch, .DELTA.pitch, articulation and dynamic. Using an adaptive function mapper, mapping is performed from the control parameters to synthesis parameters to be applied to a sound synthesizer. In accordance with another embodiment of the invention, an adaptive function mapper is trained to produce, in accordance with information stored in a mapping store, synthesis parameters to be applied to a sound synthesizer, by steps including: analyzing sounds to produce sound parameters describing the sounds; further analyzing the sound parameters to produce control parameters; applying the control parameters to the adaptive function mapper, the adaptive function mapper in response producing trial synthesis parameters comparable to the sound parameters; deriving from the sound parameters and the trial synthesis parameters an error measure in accordance with a perceptual error norm in which at least some error contributions are weighted in approximate degree to which they are perceived by the human ear during synthesis; and adapting the information stored in the mapping store in accordance with the error measure.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种用于音乐合成的改进的控制结构,其中:1)提供给自适应功能映射器的声音表示允许对所产生的声音的大大增加的控制程度; 和2)使用误差测量或误差范数来执行自适应函数映射器的训练,其大大有助于学习,同时通过训练示例确保产生的声音的感知身份。 根据本发明的一个实施例,通过应用到自适应功能映射器控制参数来产生声音数据,所述自适应功能映射器控制参数包括:从所述时间集合和音色空间坐标中选择的至少一个参数; 以及从音调集,DELTA音调,关节和动态中选择的至少一个参数。 使用自适应函数映射器,从控制参数到要应用于声音合成器的合成参数进行映射。 根据本发明的另一实施例,训练自适应函数映射器,以便根据存储在映射存储器中的信息,通过以下步骤产生要应用于声音合成器的合成参数:包括:分析声音以产生描述 声音 进一步分析声音参数产生控制参数; 将控制参数应用于自适应函数映射器,自适应函数映射器响应于产生与声音参数相当的试验合成参数; 从声音参数和试验合成参数得出根据感知误差范数的误差测量,其中至少一些误差贡献在合成期间被人耳感知到的近似程度加权; 以及根据误差测量来适应存储在映射存储器中的信息。

    Automatic Toilet Plunger Device
    2.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200263402A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-20

    申请号:US16869046

    申请日:2020-05-07

    申请人: Michael Lee

    发明人: Michael Lee

    IPC分类号: E03C1/308

    摘要: An automatic toilet plunger for clearing a blockage in a toilet includes a pipe having a plunger head engaged to a bottom end thereof so that the plunger head is in fluidic communication with the pipe. A pair of arms is hingedly engaged to the pipe. The arms are selectively positionable in an extended configuration and a stowed configuration. In the extended configuration, the arms engage a seat of a toilet. The arms fold downwardly, toward the bottom end of the pipe, into the stowed configuration. A handle, which is engaged to a top end of the pipe and which extends bilaterally therefrom, is hollow and in fluidic communication with the pipe. An actuator is engaged to at least one of the handle and the pipe and positioned therein. The actuator is manipulated to cause the plunger head to clear a blockage in the toilet.

    Automatic toilet plunger
    3.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10655312B1

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-19

    申请号:US16184128

    申请日:2018-11-08

    申请人: Michael Lee

    发明人: Michael Lee

    IPC分类号: E03C1/308

    摘要: An automatic toilet plunger includes a plunger body having a top end, a bottom end, and an inside. The plunger body is hollow and cylindrical. A plunger head is coupled to the bottom end of the plunger body. A plunging mechanism is coupled inside the plunger body of the plunger. The plunging mechanism is in operational communication with the plunger head and is configured to cause the plunger head to clear a toilet. A plurality of controls is coupled to the plunger body and is in operational communication with the plunging mechanism. A power source is coupled to the plunger body and is in operational communication with, and provides power to, the plunging mechanism.

    AUTOMATIC TOILET PLUNGER
    4.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200149257A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-14

    申请号:US16184128

    申请日:2018-11-08

    申请人: Michael Lee

    发明人: Michael Lee

    IPC分类号: E03C1/308

    摘要: An automatic toilet plunger includes a plunger body having a top end, a bottom end, and an inside. The plunger body is hollow and cylindrical. A plunger head is coupled to the bottom end of the plunger body. A plunging mechanism is coupled inside the plunger body of the plunger. The plunging mechanism is in operational communication with the plunger head and is configured to cause the plunger head to clear a toilet. A plurality of controls is coupled to the plunger body and is in operational communication with the plunging mechanism. A power source is coupled to the plunger body and is in operational communication with, and provides power to, the plunging mechanism.

    Rotor assembly and reversible turbine blade retainer therefor
    8.
    发明授权
    Rotor assembly and reversible turbine blade retainer therefor 有权
    转子组件和可逆涡轮叶片保持器

    公开(公告)号:US08727735B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-05-20

    申请号:US13173575

    申请日:2011-06-30

    IPC分类号: F01D5/32

    摘要: A blade retainer for a gas turbine engine includes a plate-like member with an arcuate outer face, an opposed inner face, and two spaced-apart end faces. The member has an outer portion disposed adjacent the outer face, and an inner portion disposed adjacent the inner face, and a wedge-shaped recess with a concave radiused valley is formed in the inner portion adjacent each end face. The retainer is left-right symmetrical.

    摘要翻译: 用于燃气涡轮发动机的叶片保持器包括具有弓形外表面,相对的内表面和两个间隔开的端面的板状构件。 所述构件具有邻近所述外表面设置的外部部分和邻近所述内表面设置的内部部分,并且在与所述每个端面相邻的所述内部部分中形成具有凹形弧形谷部的楔形凹部。 保持架是左右对称的。

    DETERMINATION OF A MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING PULSE SEQUENCE PROTOCOL CLASSIFICATION
    9.
    发明申请
    DETERMINATION OF A MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING PULSE SEQUENCE PROTOCOL CLASSIFICATION 有权
    磁共振成像脉冲序列协议分类的确定

    公开(公告)号:US20130338930A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-12-19

    申请号:US14002206

    申请日:2012-02-21

    IPC分类号: G01R33/54 G06F19/00

    摘要: A medical imaging device (300) comprising a magnetic resonance imaging system (302). The medical image device further comprises a memory (334) containing machine executable instructions (370, 372, 374, 376, 378, 380, 382, 384, 386) for execution by a processor (328). Execution of the instructions causes the processor to receive (100, 204) a pulse sequence protocol (340). Execution of the instructions further causes the processor to determine (102, 206) a pulse sequence type classification (342) descriptive of the pulse sequence protocol. Execution of the instructions further cause the processor to determine (104, 208) a magnetic resonance contrast classification (344), wherein the choice of the magnetic resonance contrast classification depends upon the pulse sequence type classification. Execution of the instructions further causes the processor to determine (106, 210) a pulse sequence protocol classification (346). The pulse sequence protocol classification is determined by the pulse sequence type classification and the magnetic resonance contrast classification.

    摘要翻译: 一种包括磁共振成像系统(302)的医学成像装置(300)。 医学图像设备还包括用于由处理器(328)执行的机器可执行指令(370,372,374,376,378,380,382,384,386)的存储器(334)。 执行指令使得处理器接收(100,204)脉冲序列协议(340)。 执行指令还使处理器确定(102,206)描述脉冲序列协议的脉冲序列类型分类(342)。 执行指令还使得处理器确定(104,208)磁共振对比度分类(344),其中磁共振对比度分类的选择取决于脉冲序列类型分类。 执行指令还使处理器确定(106,210)脉冲序列协议分类(346)。 脉冲序列协议分类由脉冲序列类型分类和磁共振对比分类决定。

    Method and system for microfluidic device and imaging thereof
    10.
    发明授权
    Method and system for microfluidic device and imaging thereof 有权
    微流体装置及其成像方法及系统

    公开(公告)号:US08367016B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-02-05

    申请号:US13360591

    申请日:2012-01-27

    IPC分类号: G01N33/00

    摘要: A method for producing an image of an object within a chamber of a microfluidic device includes providing the microfluidic device having x, y, and z dimensions and a chamber depth center point located along the z dimension. The chamber depth center point is located a known z dimension distance from a fiducial marking embedded within the microfluidic device. The method also includes placing the microfluidic device within an imaging system that includes an optical device capable of detecting the fiducial marking. The optical device defines an optical path axially aligned with the z dimension and has a focal plane perpendicular to the optical path. When the focal plane is moved along the optical path, the fiducial marking is maximally detected when the focal plane is at the z depth in comparison to when the focal plane is not substantially in-plane with the z depth.

    摘要翻译: 用于在微流体装置的腔室内产生物体的图像的方法包括提供具有x,y和z尺寸的微流体装置以及沿着z维度定位的腔室中心点。 腔室深度中心点位于与嵌入在微流体装置内的基准标记的已知z维距离。 该方法还包括将微流体装置放置在包括能够检测基准标记的光学装置的成像系统内。 光学装置限定与z尺寸轴向对准的光路,并且具有垂直于光路的焦平面。 当焦平面沿着光路移动时,当焦平面与z深度基本上不在平面内时,当焦平面处于z深度时,基准标记被最大程度地检测。