Methods and apparatus for location determination based on dispersed radio frequency tags
    1.
    发明授权
    Methods and apparatus for location determination based on dispersed radio frequency tags 有权
    基于分散射频标签的位置确定方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US06900762B2

    公开(公告)日:2005-05-31

    申请号:US10261112

    申请日:2002-09-30

    CPC分类号: G01S5/0036 G01S5/02 G01S13/75

    摘要: Systems and techniques for location determination. A plurality of tags emitting radio frequency signals are dispersed throughout a region, such as a building, within which a user's location is to be determined. The radio frequency signals emitted by the tags include information that can be used to identify the location in which the tags axe placed, or simply to distinguish the tags from one another. A portable device receives signals from the tags and provides the signal information to a location server that computes the location of the portable device by comparing the signal information received from the portable device to a map of location venus stored signal information, and identifies the location of the portable device as the location for which the stored signal information best matches the signal information received from the portable device.

    摘要翻译: 用于位置确定的系统和技术。 发射射频信号的多个标签分散在诸如建筑物的区域中,在该区域内将确定用户的位置。 由标签发射的射频信号包括可用于识别标签放置位置的信息,或简单地将标签彼此区分开。 便携式设备从标签接收信号,并将信号信息提供给位置服务器,该位置服务器通过将从便携式设备接收的信号信息与定位金星存储的信号信息的映射进行比较来计算便携式设备的位置, 便携式设备作为存储的信号信息与从便携式设备接收的信号信息最佳匹配的位置。

    Methods and apparatus for mitigating the effects of solar noise and the like on a wireless communication system
    3.
    发明授权
    Methods and apparatus for mitigating the effects of solar noise and the like on a wireless communication system 有权
    用于减轻太阳能噪声等对无线通信系统的影响的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US07826795B2

    公开(公告)日:2010-11-02

    申请号:US11612920

    申请日:2006-12-19

    IPC分类号: H04B15/00 H04B17/00

    摘要: Techniques for reducing or eliminating effects of noise on a wireless communication system are provided. In one aspect of the invention, the technique comprises monitoring noise attributable to an interference source that may affect one or more components of the wireless communication system. The interference source being monitored is distant from the wireless communication system to the degree that noise arrives at the wireless communication system within a substantially point source-like angular range. For example, the noise may be attributable to the sun or tropospheric ducting. The technique then comprises initiating one or more operations, as a function of the monitored noise, to reduce or eliminate the effects of the noise attributable to the distant interference source at one or more of the components of the wireless communication system that are determined to be affected by such noise.

    摘要翻译: 提供了用于减少或消除噪声对无线通信系统的影响的技术。 在本发明的一个方面中,该技术包括监测可能影响无线通信系统的一个或多个组件的可能受到干扰源的噪声。 所监视的干扰源远离无线通信系统,到达噪声到达无线通信系统的程度,在基本上类似点的角度范围内。 例如,噪音可能归因于太阳或对流层管道。 该技术包括作为所监视的噪声的函数启动一个或多个操作,以减少或消除归因于远程干扰源的噪声对被确定为无线通信系统的一个或多个组件的影响 受这种噪音影响。

    Methods and apparatus for mitigating the effects of solar noise and the like on a wireless communication system
    4.
    发明授权
    Methods and apparatus for mitigating the effects of solar noise and the like on a wireless communication system 有权
    用于减轻太阳能噪声等对无线通信系统的影响的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US07209760B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-04-24

    申请号:US09850946

    申请日:2001-05-08

    IPC分类号: H04M1/00 H04B17/00

    摘要: Techniques for reducing or eliminating effects of noise on a wireless communication system are provided. In one aspect of the invention, the technique comprises monitoring noise attributable to an interference source that may affect one or more components of the wireless communication system. The interference source being monitored is distant from the wireless communication system to the degree that noise arrives at the wireless communication system within a substantially point source-like angular range. For example, the noise may be attributable to the sun or tropospheric ducting. The technique then comprises initiating one or more operations, as a function of the monitored noise, to reduce or eliminate the effects of the noise attributable to the distant interference source at one or more of the components of the wireless communication system that are determined to be affected by such noise.

    摘要翻译: 提供了用于减少或消除噪声对无线通信系统的影响的技术。 在本发明的一个方面中,该技术包括监测可能影响无线通信系统的一个或多个组件的可能受到干扰源的噪声。 所监视的干扰源远离无线通信系统,到达噪声到达无线通信系统的程度,在基本上类似点的角度范围内。 例如,噪音可能归因于太阳或对流层管道。 该技术包括作为所监视的噪声的函数启动一个或多个操作,以减少或消除归因于远程干扰源的噪声对被确定为无线通信系统的一个或多个组件的影响 受这种噪音影响。

    Produce indentifier using barcode scanner and wavelet image processing and having compensation for dirt accumulated on viewing window
    5.
    发明授权
    Produce indentifier using barcode scanner and wavelet image processing and having compensation for dirt accumulated on viewing window 失效
    使用条形码扫描仪和小波图像处理产生识别器,并对观看窗口上积聚的污垢进行补偿

    公开(公告)号:US06219438B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-04-17

    申请号:US08922796

    申请日:1997-09-02

    IPC分类号: G06K900

    CPC分类号: G06K7/10851

    摘要: A system and method identify objects, such as fruits, vegetables, and images through the recognition of unique surface features represented by signals from a scanner that pass over the objects. The scanner signals are processed by applying a modified wavelet transform to them and comparing the results to previously stored data. The system uses an optical scanner, a processor that transforms the data acquired by the scanner to extract a translation invariant feature vector, and a comparator which compares the transformed signal to a predetermined set of vectors for a corresponding identification based upon the comparison set.

    摘要翻译: 系统和方法通过识别由来自扫描器的信号表示的独特的表面特征来识别诸如水果,蔬菜和图像的对象,该扫描仪通过对象。 通过对它们应用经修改的小波变换并将结果与​​先前存储的数据进行比较来处理扫描器信号。 该系统使用光学扫描器,转换由扫描器获取的数据以提取平移不变特征向量的处理器,以及比较器,其将变换的信号与基于该比较集合的相应标识的预定向量集进行比较。

    Methods and apparatus for text to speech processing using language independent prosody markup
    8.
    发明授权
    Methods and apparatus for text to speech processing using language independent prosody markup 失效
    使用语言无关的韵律标记的文本到语音处理的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US06856958B2

    公开(公告)日:2005-02-15

    申请号:US09845561

    申请日:2001-04-30

    IPC分类号: G10L13/08 G10L21/00

    CPC分类号: G10L13/10 G10L13/04

    摘要: Techniques are described for employing a set of tags to model phenomena which are smooth and subject to constraints. Tags may be used to model, for example, muscular movement producing speech. In one advantageous application, a set of tags defining prosodic characteristics is developed, and selected tags are placed in appropriate locations of a body of text. Each tag defines a constraint on the prosodic characteristics of speech produced by processing the text. Processing of the body of speech and the tags produces a set of equations which are solved to produce a curve defining prosodic characteristics over the scope of a phrase, and a further set of equations which are solved to produce a curve defining prosodic characteristics of individual words within a phrase. The data defined by the curves is used with the text to produce speech having the prosodic characteristics defined by the tags. A set of tags may be produced by reading of a training text by a target speaker to produce a training corpus reflecting the prosodic characteristics of the target speaker, and then analyzing the training corpus to generate tags modeling the prosodic characteristics of the training corpus.

    摘要翻译: 描述了使用一组标签来模拟平滑并受约束的现象的技术。 标签可能用于建模,例如肌肉运动产生语音。 在一个有利的应用中,开发了一组定义韵律特征的标签,并且将选定的标签放置在文本体的适当位置。 每个标签定义了通过处理文本产生的语音的韵律特征的约束。 语音身体和标签的处理产生一组方程,其被解决以产生在短语范围内定义韵律特征的曲线,以及另一组方程式,其被解决以产生定义各个单词的韵律特征的曲线 在短语内。 由曲线定义的数据与文本一起使用以产生具有由标签定义的韵律特征的语音。 可以通过由目标说话者读取训练文本来产生一组标签,以产生反映目标说话者的韵律特征的训练语料库,然后分析训练语料库以产生模拟训练语料库的韵律特征的标签。

    Method and apparatus for performing text-to-speech conversion in a client/server environment
    9.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for performing text-to-speech conversion in a client/server environment 有权
    用于在客户/服务器环境中执行文本到语音转换的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US06625576B2

    公开(公告)日:2003-09-23

    申请号:US09772300

    申请日:2001-01-29

    IPC分类号: G10L1300

    CPC分类号: G10L13/047 G10L13/08

    摘要: A method and apparatus for performing text-to-speech conversion in a client/server environment partitions an otherwise conventional text-to-speech conversion algorithm into two portions: a first “text analysis” portion, which generates from an original input text an intermediate representation thereof and a second “speech synthesis” portion, which synthesizes speech waveforms from the intermediate representation generated by the first portion (i.e., the text analysis portion) The text analysis portion of the algorithm is executed exclusively on a server while the speech synthesis portion is executed exclusively on a client which may be associated therewith. The client may comprise a hand-held device such as, for example, a cell phone, and the intermediate representation of the input text advantageously comprises at least a sequence of phonemes representative of the input text. Certain audio segment information which is to be used by the speech synthesis portion of the text-to-speech process may be advantageously transmitted by the server to the client, and a cache of such audio segments may then be advantageously maintained at the client (e.g., in the cell phone) for use by the speech synthesis process in order to obtain improved quality of the synthesized speech.

    摘要翻译: 用于在客户机/服务器环境中执行文本到语音转换的方法和装置将另外常规的文本到语音转换算法分成两部分:第一“文本分析”部分,其从原始输入文本生成中间 其表示和第二“语音合成”部分,其从由第一部分(即,文本分析部分)生成的中间表示合成语音波形。该算法的文本分析部分专门在服务器上执行,而语音合成部分 仅在可以与其相关联的客户端上执行。 客户端可以包括例如手机的手持设备,并且输入文本的中间表示有利地包括代表输入文本的至少一系列音素。 要由文本到语音过程的语音合成部分使用的某些音频段信息可以有利地被服务器发送到客户机,并且然后可以有利地在客户端维护这样的音频段的高速缓存(例如, ,在手机中),以便通过语音合成过程使用以获得改进的合成语音质量。

    Methods and apparatus for increasing metal density in an integrated
circuit while also reducing parasitic capacitance
    10.
    发明授权
    Methods and apparatus for increasing metal density in an integrated circuit while also reducing parasitic capacitance 失效
    增加集成电路中金属密度的方法和装置,同时也降低寄生电容

    公开(公告)号:US6097195A

    公开(公告)日:2000-08-01

    申请号:US88852

    申请日:1998-06-02

    IPC分类号: H01L23/522 G01R31/26

    CPC分类号: H01L23/5225 H01L2924/0002

    摘要: A shield region of metallization is formed in a first metallization layer of an integrated circuit so as to increase the metal density of the first metallization layer to at least a minimum density required for proper fabrication. The shield region is coupled via an amplifier or other suitable coupling mechanism to at least a portion of another metallization layer overlying or underlying the first metallization layer in the integrated circuit, such that the shield region acts to reduce parasitic capacitance associated with a circuit node in the other metallization layer. In an illustrative fingerprint sensor cell implementation, the shield region is in the form of a shield plate underlying a sensor plate in the sensor cell and serves to increase the metal density of a lower-level metallization layer in the cell. The sensor plate is coupled to the shield plate via a unity-gain amplifier, so as to reduce the parasitic capacitance seen by the sensor plate, thereby improving the ability of the sensor cell to detect fingerprint characteristics. The invention can provide similar advantages in numerous other integrated circuit applications.

    摘要翻译: 在集成电路的第一金属化层中形成金属化的屏蔽区域,以便将第一金属化层的金属密度增加到适当制造所需的至少最小密度。 屏蔽区域经由放大器或其它合适的耦合机构耦合到叠加在集成电路中的第一金属化层上或下方的另一金属化层的至少一部分,使得屏蔽区域用于减小与电路节点相关的寄生电容 另一个金属化层。 在说明性指纹传感器单元实现中,屏蔽区域处于传感器单元内的传感器板下方的屏蔽板的形式,并用于增加电池中较低级金属化层的金属密度。 传感器板通过单位增益放大器耦合到屏蔽板,以便减小传感器板所看到的寄生电容,从而提高传感器单元检测指纹特性的能力。 本发明可以在许多其他集成电路应用中提供类似的优点。