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Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter
A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.
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| 8185381 | Unified filter bank for performing signal conversions A unified filter bank for performing signal conversions may include an interface that receives signal conversion commands in relation to multiple types of compressed audio bitstreams. The unified filter bank may also include a reconfigurable transform component that... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184816 | Systems and methods for detecting wind noise using multiple audio sources A method for detecting wind noise is described. At least two audio signals are received. The at least two audio signals are filtered to reduce higher frequencies and to reduce lower frequencies to provide at least two filtered audio signals. The cross correlation of... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8175871 | Apparatus and method of noise and echo reduction in multiple microphone audio systems Multiple microphone noise suppression apparatus and methods are described herein. The apparatus and methods implement a variety of noise suppression techniques and apparatus that can be selectively applied to signals received using multiple microphones. The micropho... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8154450 | Optimization for finding direction of arrival in smart antennas A smart antenna system may exploit space diversity by employing an array of antennas whose radiation pattern can be aligned in a direction of arrival (DoA) of a specific signal to be decoded. Smart antennas can be installed on a base station side and/or on a user te... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8121472 | Signal measurements employed to affect photographic parameters Subject matter disclosed herein relates to setting photographic parameters based, at least in part, on signal measurements, such as, for example, without limitation, position of the Sun. Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise the follo... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8089888 | Method and apparatus for testing traffic and auxiliary channels in a wireless data communication system Techniques to test performance of terminals and access points in CDMA data (e.g., cdma2000) systems. A framework of protocols and messages is provided to support systematic performance testing of terminals and to ensure interface compatibility. The framework compris... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8078188 | User selectable audio mixing This disclosure describes audio mixing techniques that allow a user to select between two different audio signals for output in a perceptual foreground of a combined output. As an example, the two different signals may comprise a music audio and a phone call audio. ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8064608 | Audio decoding techniques for mid-side stereo This disclosure describes decoding techniques for audio information encoded according to mid-side (MS) stereo encoding. The techniques involve a number of audio decoding tasks that are performed in a non-conventional order. By rearranging the order of the decoding t... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8050911 | Method and apparatus for transmitting speech activity in distributed voice recognition systems A system, method, apparatus, signal-bearing medium, and means for transmitting speech activity in a distributed voice recognition (VR) system. The distributed voice recognition system includes a local VR engine in a subscriber unit (102) and a server VR engin... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8041057 | Mixing techniques for mixing audio This disclosure describes audio mixing techniques that intelligently combine two or more audio signals into an output signal. The techniques allow audio to be combined, yet create perceptual differentiation between the different audio signals. The result is that a u... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8030568 | Systems and methods for improving the similarity of the output volume between audio players A method for improving the similarity of the volumes in different audio players is described. First player metrics for one or more Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) instruments may be determined. A digital music file that uses the MIDI protocol may be rece... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027242 | Signal coding and decoding based on spectral dynamics In an apparatus and method, time-varying signals are processed and encoded via a frequency domain linear prediction (FDLP) scheme to arrive at an all-pole model. Residual signals resulted from the scheme are estimated. Quantized values of the all-pole model and the ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8019179 | Hand jitter reduction for compensating for linear displacement The registration of images comprising generating a plurality of projections from a base frame and generating a plurality of projections from a movement frame. Comparing a set of projections from the base frame, with a second set of projections from the movement fram... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7970564 | Enhancement techniques for blind source separation (BSS) This disclosure describes signal processing techniques that can improve the performance of blind source separation (BSS) techniques. In particular, the described techniques propose pre-processing steps that can help to de-correlate the different signals from one ano... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970239 | Hand jitter reduction compensating for rotational motion The registration of images comprising segmenting an image in a frame into a set of sectors which forms a circle. Generating a plurality of sets of projections in a base frame, wherein each set of projections is generated from any sector amongst the set of sectors fr... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969902 | Tandem-free vocoder operations between non-compatible communication systems Tandem-free vocoder operations (TFO) between non-compatible communication systems may be enabled through hardware modifications at communication elements within each system. In one aspect, each infrastructure entity in System 1 comprises an intra-system TFO F... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7941313 | System and method for transmitting speech activity information ahead of speech features in a distributed voice recognition system A system and method for transmitting speech activity in a distributed voice recognition system. The distributed voice recognition system includes a local VR engine in a subscriber unit and a server VR engine on a server. The local VR engine comprises a feature extra... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7893343 | Musical instrument digital interface parameter storage This disclosure describes techniques for processing audio files that comply with the musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) format. In particular, this disclosure describes storage of MIDI parameters for efficient access by a processor and a hardware unit. The ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7882238 | Using bluetooth to establish ad-hoc connections between non-bluetooth wireless communication modules Using Bluetooth to provide the network management functions such as device discovery, service discovery, security negotiation, and connection establishment. Upon a Bluetooth connection being established between the Bluetooth-enabled devices an IP channel availabilit... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7881444 | Apparatus, system, and method for providing voicemail service using presence status in packet data messaging system An apparatus, system, and method provide voicemail service using a packet data messaging service such as multimedia message service (MMS). Upon detecting that the presence status of a destination device is “unavailable”, the voicemail message is recorded at an o... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7873224 | Enhanced image/video quality through artifact evaluation In an image/video encoding and decoding system employing an artifact evaluator a method and/or apparatus to process video blocks comprising a decoder operable to synthesize an un-filtered reconstructed video block or frame and an artifact filter operable to receive ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7807915 | Bandwidth control for retrieval of reference waveforms in an audio device In general, the techniques of this disclosure may be used to control utilization of bandwidth allocated to an audio processing module. For example, to process various audio synthesis parameters, the audio processing module may retrieve reference waveform samples for... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7807914 | Waveform fetch unit for processing audio files This disclosure describes techniques that make use of a waveform fetch unit that operates to retrieve waveform samples on behalf of each of a plurality of hardware processing elements that operate simultaneously to service various audio synthesis parameters generate... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7800698 | Weight adjustment in color correction Automatic weight adjustment (AWA) to derive an optimal color correction matrix may address unbalanced color reproduction performance among different illuminations and/or unbalanced color reproduction performance for specific memory colors. AWA may emphasize particul... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7742746 | Automatic volume and dynamic range adjustment for mobile audio devices A mobile audio device (for example, a cellular telephone, personal digital audio player, or MP3 player) performs Audio Dynamic Range Control (ADRC) and Automatic Volume Control (AVC) to increase the volume of sound emitted from a speaker of the mobile audio device s... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7742644 | Processing of images in imaging systems The imaging system converts raw data for an image to formatted data concurrently with compressing the formatted data for the image. The exemplary imaging system includes an image processor for generating blocks of formatted data from raw image data. The exemplary im... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7728904 | Skin color prioritized automatic focus control via sensor-dependent skin color detection The disclosure is directed to techniques for automatic focus control. The automatic focus control techniques prioritize focus of a camera based on skin tone using a skin color detection approach which is intrinsically image sensor-dependent. Sensor-dependent skin co... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7728880 | Automatic white balance method and apparatus Automatic white balance of captured images can be performed based on a gray world assumption. Initially, a flat field gray image is captured for one or more reference illuminations. The statistics of the captured gray image are determined and stored for each referen... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7725022 | Dynamic automatic exposure compensation for image capture devices Techniques are described for dynamic automatic exposure compensation within image capture devices. The techniques include dynamically adjusting a default target brightness for a scene to compensate an exposure value (EV) selected by an automatic exposure process. A ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7724982 | Estimation of lighting conditions based on near-gray pixel detection using cylindrical boundaries This disclosure describes image processing techniques that facilitate the determination of the lighting condition associated with an image. Once the lighting condition is determined, white balance can be performed on the image such as by applying white balance gains... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7724953 | Whiteboard, blackboard, and document image processing Methods and apparatus for processing a captured image of a medium, content on the medium, and a background surrounding the medium are provided. A captured image is processed by 1) improving the visibility of the content by recovering the original appearance of the m... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7724949 | Advanced chroma enhancement To improve the color performance, disclosed herein are advanced methods for improving chroma accuracy, by reducing the color difference between reproduced colors and human perceptual responses, as well as enhancing preferred colors. Chroma enhancement may be perform... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7724947 | Removal of background image from whiteboard, blackboard, or document images Methods and apparatus for removing a background image from a captured image are provided. The background is removed by computing a set of representative values (e.g., median values) based on component values of pixels within a portion of interest of the captured ima... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7724159 | System, method, and/or apparatus for digital signal sorting Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with ordering and/or reordering a set of digital signal sample values are disclosed. ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7723601 | Shared buffer management for processing audio files This disclosure describes techniques that make use of a summing buffer that receives waveform samples from audio processing elements, and sums and stores the waveform sums for a given frame. In one example, a method comprises summing a waveform sample received from ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7718882 | Efficient identification of sets of audio parameters Techniques are described of efficiently identifying sets of audio parameters to be applied during a time frame. For example, a list of indicators may be generated. Each of the indicators in the list may indicate a Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) voice pr... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7715656 | Magnification and pinching of two-dimensional images In one embodiment, an embedded device is provided which comprises a region of interest defining mechanism to define a region of interest (ROI) within an image. A transformation mechanism of the embedded device applies a nonlinear magnification or pinching transforma... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7702169 | Systems, methods, and apparatus for table construction and use in image processing A method of processing an image includes selecting, for each of a plurality of picture element values in at least a portion of the image, one among a plurality of offset values. For each of the plurality of picture element values, an index value is obtained based on... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7687703 | Method and device for generating triangular waves This disclosure describes techniques for generating a set of data points that form a triangular wave having a desired gain and a desired frequency. In one example, the method includes the step of (a) determining an increment value based on the desired frequency and ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7663052 | Musical instrument digital interface hardware instruction set Generating a digital waveform for a Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) voice using a set of machine-code instructions that is specialized for the generation of digital waveforms for MIDI voices. For example, a processor may execute a software program that g... | 02/16/2010 |
