38827 results about "Acoustics" patented technology

The invention discloses a multi-sensor information fusion method for monitoring the insulation state of a high-voltage cable, and relates to the technical field of information. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring magnetic flux distribution data at different spatial positions in a grounding box according to a three-axis orthogonal magnetic flux sensor, and analyzing magnetic flux distribution characteristics to obtain a spatial sensitivity distribution map; the method comprises the following steps: acquiring a magnetic field signal generated by a cable fault discharge source, decomposing and calculating a magnetic field gradient tensor by adopting an inversion method based on the magnetic field gradient tensor, positioning a defect position of cable insulation, and acquiring three-dimensional space coordinate information of the defect position; according to a cable insulation state space distribution evaluation result, the arrangement density of the fluxgate sensors is increased in an insulation fault high-incidence area, the arrangement of the tetrahedral configuration sensor array is optimized, and a comprehensive evaluation index system is constructed. Data support is provided for state monitoring and life prediction, and the operation reliability of the cable is improved.

The present application provides a method for pipeline defect detection using the magnetostrictive characteristics of ultrasonic guided waves, which relates to the technical field of pipeline defect detection, including: obtaining the geometric and material parameters of multi-layer heterogeneous pipelines, and establishing a mathematical model of the pipeline; according to the mathematical model, calculating the dispersion curve and modal characteristics of ultrasonic guided waves in the pipeline; selecting a suitable excitation frequency and guided wave mode, and optimizing the detection parameters of ultrasonic guided waves; presetting defects of different types and sizes in the pipeline, and analyzing the influence of defects on guided wave propagation characteristics through numerical simulation; building a multi-layer heterogeneous pipeline ultrasonic guided wave detection experimental system, collecting guided wave signals under different defect conditions, and extracting time-frequency domain characteristic parameters. The present invention can realize the effective detection and evaluation of internal defects of multi-layer heterogeneous pipelines at different temperatures, and provides an important technical means for ensuring the safe operation of pipelines.

Various shock wave catheters and methods of use thereof that do not utilize a guidewire are described herein. The shock wave catheters include at least one shock wave emitter disposed within a distal portion of the shock wave catheter and configured to generate shock waves. The ends of conductive wires extending within an elongate tube can form the shock wave emitter(s). The shock wave emitter(s) can be surrounded by an enclosure fillable with a conductive fluid delivered by the lumen of the elongate tube. The elongate tube can include a coil or slits therein that enable flexibility of the shock wave catheter, which, in combination with the narrow profile of the shock wave catheters described herein, enable their use in navigating and treating small, tortuous vessels.

The invention provides a curtain wall deformation condition safety detection method and device based on laser point clouds, and relates to the technical field of constructional engineering, and the method comprises the steps: 1, carrying out the coordinate system unification processing of a three-dimensional point cloud data set covering the whole surface of a curtain wall, generating a curtain wall surface digital twin model, and carrying out the coordinate system unification processing of a three-dimensional point cloud data set covering the whole surface of the curtain wall in the digital twin model; defining a first detection target point and a second detection target point according to geometrical characteristics and material joint characteristics of the curtain wall sheet; 2, according to the digital twinborn model, surface normal vector distribution characteristics are extracted, actually-measured wind pressure load distribution data and temperature field parameters are fused, a dynamic flexural deformation coupling calculation model is constructed, and global deformation parameters and local deformation parameters are output. According to the invention, the digital twinborn model is constructed through point cloud data processing, deformation and displacement parameters are extracted, the safety coefficient is evaluated, and high-precision, omnibearing and dynamic detection and safety risk early warning of the flatness of the building outer wall are realized.

A holographic augmented reality ultrasound needle guide system and method includes an augmented reality display such as a headset wearable by a user. The augmented reality display is configured to depict a virtual ultrasound image. The augmented reality display is further configured to allow a user to select a desired reference point on the virtual ultrasound image. The system is configured to depict a holographic needle guide based on the selection of the desired reference point. The system is also configured to adjust a trajectory of the holographic needle guide to avoid intersecting undesired anatomical structures. The augmented reality display is further configured to stamp the holographic needle guide into a selectively locked trajectory and position.

The invention provides a high-temperature chemical pipeline defect detection system and method based on magnetostrictive ultrasonic guided waves, and relates to the technical field of high-temperature chemical pipeline defect detection.The method comprises the steps that magnetostrictive excitation signals are applied, the propagation process of the guided waves in a pipeline is calculated through numerical simulation, and the amplitude and phase information of guided wave signals is obtained; performing time-frequency domain analysis on the guided wave signal, extracting group velocities and phase velocities of guided waves in different modes, determining frequency dispersion characteristics of the guided waves, and evaluating the influence of a high-temperature environment on guided wave propagation; processing the received guided wave signal by adopting a modal decomposition and reconstruction algorithm to obtain a corrected guided wave signal; and carrying out feature extraction and parameter estimation on the corrected guided wave signal to obtain the position, size and type information of the pipeline defect. According to the invention, the problem of multilayer heterogeneous pipeline guided wave detection in a high-temperature environment is solved, the accuracy and reliability of defect detection are improved, and an effective method is provided for pipeline health monitoring and safety assessment.

Provided herein is a device for non-audible speech detection. The device comprises at least one transmitting antenna configured to transmit a plurality of radio frequency (RF) signals. The device further comprises at least one receiving antenna configured to collect RF signal data associated with movement of one or more speech articulators of a user, wherein the device is configured to be coupled to a head of the user, wherein the RF signal data is processed to determine a non-audible speech of the user, and wherein the non-audible speech of the user comprises continuous speech by the user.

An intraluminal ultrasound imaging system includes a processor circuit configured for communication with an intraluminal ultrasound imaging catheter, and is configured to receive an intraluminal ultrasound image obtained by the imaging catheter while the intraluminal ultrasound imaging catheter is positioned within a body lumen of a patient. The processor circuit is further configured to output, to a display in communication with the processor circuit, at least two image type options, receive a user selection of an image type option, select a preset value for at least one image processing parameter based on the image type option, and display the intraluminal ultrasound image according to the image processing parameter.

An exemplary catheter for use in a body lumen comprises: a catheter body; and a plurality of shock wave emitters disposed at a distal end of the catheter body, each shock wave emitter configured to generate a shock wave that propagates distally of the catheter body, wherein the plurality of shock wave emitters are arrayed about a longitudinal axis of the catheter body such that shock waves emitted from the plurality of shock wave emitters can constructively interfere distally of the catheter body, and wherein each shock wave emitter comprises electrodes separated by a spark gap and at least one electrical connector that connects at least one of the electrodes to an electrode of another shock wave emitter of the plurality of shock wave emitters.

Disclosed is an intraluminal ultrasound imaging system, comprising a processor circuit in communication with an intraluminal ultrasound imaging catheter, and configured to receive an intraluminal ultrasound image from the imaging catheter within a body lumen of a patient, the body lumen comprising a plurality of segments. The processor is configured to identify a segment of the plurality of segments where the imaging catheter was located when the image was obtained, and output to a display a stylized figure of the body lumen including the plurality of segments, and an indicator identifying the segment in the stylized figure where the imaging catheter was located when the image was obtained.

A neural text-to-speech system may be configured to emphasize words. Applying emphasis where appropriate enables the TTS system to better reproduce prosodic characteristics of human speech. Emphasis may make the resulting synthesized speech more understandable and engaging than synthesized speech lacking emphasis. Emphasis may be manually annotated to, and / or predicted from, a source text (e.g., a book). In some implementations, the system may use a generative model such as a variational autoencoder to generate word acoustic embeddings indicating how emphasis is to be reflected in the synthesized speech. A phoneme encoder of the TTS system may process phonemes to generate phoneme embeddings. A decoder may process the word acoustic embeddings and the phoneme embeddings to generate spectrogram data representing the synthesized speech.

Systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for generating a common record based on differing source inputs. Generating a common record based on differing source inputs may include receiving via at least one sensor first non-audible signals indicative of verbalization of an individual; interpreting first words of the individual at least in part using the first non-audible signals received from the at least one sensor; receiving second signals generated by a source other than the individual; performing speech recognition on the second signals to interpret second words from the source; and using the first words and the second words to generate a record.

The invention provides a traveling wave cable measurement sensing method and system based on a time-frequency domain combined reflection principle, and relates to the technical field of measurement, and the method comprises the steps: arranging a high-frequency signal transmitting device and a signal receiving device at one end of a traveling wave cable; establishing a time domain reflection function and a frequency domain reflection function of the traveling wave cable; constructing a time-frequency domain joint reflection model; collecting a reflected signal of the traveling wave cable through the signal receiving device to obtain time domain data and frequency domain data of the reflected signal; carrying out conjoint analysis on the time domain data and the frequency domain data by utilizing a time-frequency domain joint reflection model, and extracting characteristic parameters of a reflected signal; calculating impedance change and signal propagation characteristics along the traveling wave cable based on the characteristic parameters in combination with a time-frequency domain joint reflection model; through analysis of impedance change and signal propagation characteristics, intrusion detection, leakage positioning and fault diagnosis along the traveling wave cable are realized.

The invention provides a crane balance beam crack defect detection method and system, and relates to the technical field of defect detection.The crane balance beam crack defect detection method comprises the steps that a plurality of ultrasonic guided wave sensor arrays are arranged on the surface of a crane balance beam to be detected, ultrasonic guided wave signals in the balance beam are collected, and ultrasonic guided wave time-frequency domain feature vectors of the balance beam are constructed; constructing a three-dimensional finite element simulation model of the crane balance beam to obtain multiple groups of balance beam crack defect expansion strain field data, and constructing a crack defect deformation ultrasonic-strain field fusion feature vector; training a crack defect deformation detection intelligent discrimination model by using the crack defect deformation ultrasonic-strain field fusion feature vector, obtaining a time-frequency domain feature vector and a strain distribution feature vector of the crane balance beam to be detected, and inputting the time-frequency domain feature vector and the strain distribution feature vector into the trained crack defect deformation detection intelligent discrimination model for intelligent discrimination screening. And outputting a crack defect detection result of the balance beam to be detected, wherein the crack defect detection result comprises the type, size, form and specific position of the crack defect.

The invention discloses a benign and malignant nodule grading evaluation system based on large model fusion ultrasonic imaging and thyroid gene markers, which can organically fuse non-invasive examination and serological detection, can simulate and diagnose multi-grade risk probability information provided by a gold standard, realizes similar risk grading estimation in a non-invasive mode, and has a wide application prospect. The thyroid nodule risk assessment method can provide visual explanation conforming to clinical logic based on comprehensive information of iconography and molecular biology, can significantly improve the accuracy of thyroid nodule risk assessment, can also effectively improve clinical decision-making efficiency and patient credibility, and has important clinical application prospects. The system comprises a data acquisition module, an ultrasonic image feature extraction module, a gene marker feature extraction module, a multi-modal fusion and hierarchical reasoning module and a generation module.

The invention discloses an intelligent dysphagia classification system and method based on multiple modes of ultrasonic images and electromyographic signals, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining an original ultrasonic image sequence and an original electromyographic signal sequence, and carrying out the time sequence alignment and adaptive noise suppression processing; performing multi-dimensional signal quality scoring and adaptive enhancement processing on the de-noised data; extracting time domain, frequency domain and time-frequency domain features from the enhanced data, and combining the time domain, frequency domain and time-frequency domain features; feature weights are calculated based on feature correlation and quality scores, and multi-layer fusion is carried out; carrying out feature classification by using a hierarchical classifier and evaluating reliability; and comprehensively evaluating the classification performance and optimizing system parameters. Through multi-modal data fusion and a self-adaptive processing mechanism, the accuracy and reliability of dysphagia diagnosis are improved, and the method has good clinical application value.

A system for material detection and identification includes an interface configured to access a material database associating each of a plurality of materials with a resonance frequency and one or more transmission parameters; an RF transmitter configured to, for each material of at least a subset of the plurality of materials in the material database transmit into an environment an RF signal the resonance frequency for the material using the one or more transmission parameters; an RF receiver configured to receive a response signal from the environment; and a processor configured to analyze the response signal for resonance characteristics that indicate a presence of the material and identify the material to a user if the presence of the material is indicated by the resonance characteristics.

Systems and methods are provided for machine learning models configured as zero-shot personalized text-to-speech models which comprise a feature extractor, a speaker encoder, and a text-to-speech module. The feature extractor is configured to extract acoustic features and prosodic features from new target reference speech associated with the new target speaker. The speaker encoder is configured to generate a speaker embedding corresponding to the new target speaker based on the acoustic features extracted from the new target reference speech. The text-to-speech module is configured to generate the personalized voice corresponding for the new target speaker based on the speaker embedding and the prosodic features extracted from the new target reference speech without applying the text-to-speech module on new labeled training data associated with the new target speaker.

A histotripsy therapy system configured for the treatment of tissue is provided, which may include any number of features. Provided herein are systems and methods that provide efficacious non-invasive and minimally invasive therapeutic, diagnostic and research procedures. Additional embodiments herein provide coupling systems for histotripsy including various reservoirs or ultrasound medium containers (UMC) and coupling constraints configured to interface with a reservoir or UMC during a histotripsy procedure.

The invention provides a shield tunnel longitudinal seam joint recessive damage diagnosis method based on multi-mode ultrasonic guided waves, and the method comprises the steps: applying orthogonal polarization in a specific region of a longitudinal seam joint, and forming a space-time coupled guided wave interference pattern in the whole region of the longitudinal seam joint; the acquired guided wave interference map is utilized to separate baseline interference characteristics and abnormal disturbance components caused by hidden damage through multi-physics field reverse decoupling, and the abnormal disturbance components are represented as energy abnormal attenuation and phase distortion in a specific polarization direction; constructing a three-dimensional damage sensitive vector field in the longitudinal seam joint; and carrying out dynamic manifold topology analysis by utilizing the generated three-dimensional damage sensitive vector field, identifying topological characteristics in the three-dimensional damage sensitive vector field, and tracking a migration path and an intensity evolution trajectory of the topological characteristics along with the change of the detection condition. According to the method, full-dimension diagnosis and evolution prediction of the hidden damage of the longitudinal joint connector of the shield tunnel are realized.

The invention relates to a calibration method of an ultrasonic flaw detector calibrating device, which comprises the following steps of: acquiring and transmitting ultrasonic waves of which the frequency is matched with the theoretical frequency of a material to be detected, acquiring and dynamically correcting the actual propagation path of the ultrasonic waves in real time, generating a calibration parameter of a frequency-delay compensation coefficient, and compensating the transmitted ultrasonic waves based on the calibration parameter. After the compensated ultrasonic waves enter a to-be-detected material, time-base line signals are collected and input into the trained deviation calculation model to calculate time axis scale deviation, time-base line linearity is adjusted based on the time axis scale deviation, stepped ultrasonic attenuation signals are generated, echo signal amplitude values of the flaw detector are collected, and the amplitude values of the echo signals of the flaw detector are calculated. And comparing the echo signal amplitude value with a preset amplitude threshold value to obtain a dynamic difference value of the two, and adjusting the attenuation amount in real time based on the dynamic difference value. The problems of insufficient calibration efficiency and consistency, poor dynamic parameter adaptability, limited sensitivity calibration precision and complex working condition simulation capability in the prior art are solved.

A task-oriented dialog system determines an endpoint in a user utterance by receiving incremental portions of a user utterance that is provided in real time during a task-oriented communication session between a user and a virtual agent (VA). The task-oriented dialog system recognizes words in the incremental portions using an automated speech recognition (ASR) model and generates semantic information for the incremental portions of the utterance by applying a natural language processing (NLP) model to the recognized words. An acoustic-prosodic signature of the incremental portions of the utterance is generated using an acoustic-prosodic model. The task-oriented dialog system can generate a feature vector that represents the incrementally recognized words, the semantic information, the acoustic-prosodic signature, and corresponding confidence scores of the model outputs. A model is applied to the feature vector to identify a likely endpoint in the user utterance.

Provided herein is a tunnel electromagnetic joint scanning detection method and a system thereof. It introduces a new tunnel electromagnetic detection system called TEJS, realizes three-dimensional joint inversion of multi-component, time domain and frequency domain signals, and forms tunnel joint scanning imaging. This method adopts the mode of surface transmission, underground reception, multi-source transmission and multi-component reception. Based on an observation system, a large number of stochastic models are constructed and numerically simulated, and a large number of training data sets are constructed by using the simulated data to complete the training of UNet model. This model can realize real-time and fast imaging of the position of the low-resistance anomalous body in three-dimensional space. An algorithm forms a dual checking mechanism through surface imaging and underground imaging, which constrains the three-dimensional spatial position of anomalous body together to prevent misjudgment.

Provided herein are computerized methods, media, and systems for real-time interpretation, comprising transcribing to extracted speech from a speaker into text; interpreting the transcribed text for a user using a context-aware machine translation system to produce an interpreted output, wherein the interpretation considers the speaker's intent and the user's context to translate the extracted speech from a source language into at least one target language of the interpreted output, and exporting the interpreted output.

The invention relates to the technical field of nondestructive testing, and discloses an ultrasonic nondestructive testing method and system for a welding seam of a steel structure. The method comprises the following steps: adopting a self-adaptive coupling ultrasonic probe to carry out signal acquisition on the surface of a welding seam of a steel structure to obtain original ultrasonic signal data; performing multispectral adaptive wavelet transform processing on the original ultrasonic signal data to obtain an enhanced ultrasonic signal; performing blind source separation on the enhanced ultrasonic signal to obtain a separated weld defect signal; performing triangular constraint average interpolation and adaptive extended Kalman filtering fusion processing on the separated weld defect signals to obtain filtered weld defect feature data; and performing regularization Gaussian field weld contour reconstruction and defect positioning processing based on the filtered weld defect feature data to obtain a weld contour model and defect position data. According to the invention, the stability and reliability of weld defect detection are improved, and high-precision detection of weld internal defects is realized.

An apparatus in one embodiment comprises at least one wearable device, with the at least one wearable device comprising at least one of a transmitter and a receiver of a wireless transmitter-receiver pair. The transmitter of the wireless transmitter-receiver pair transmits an acoustic signal, and the receiver of the wireless transmitter-receiver pair receives the acoustic signal. The received acoustic signal is processed utilizing a machine learning system to detect at least one characteristic of a user of the at least one wearable device. In some embodiments, a given wearable device comprises at least first and second wireless transmitter-receiver pairs, with the transmitter of each of the first and second wireless transmitter-receiver pairs transmitting an acoustic signal having a different carrier frequency. In such embodiments, a multi-channel echo profile may be generated using the multiple acoustic signals and classified by the machine learning system to detect the at least one characteristic.

Assemblies and method to extract a material from a source of the material may include a vacuum generation and sound attenuation assembly to enhance extraction the material from the source of the material. The vacuum generation and sound attenuation assembly may include a vacuum source including a plurality of vacuum generators. Each of the plurality of vacuum generators may be positioned to cause a vacuum flow between the source of the material and the vacuum generation and sound attenuation assembly. The vacuum generation and sound attenuation assembly may further include a sound attenuation chamber connected to the vacuum source. The sound attenuation chamber may include an attenuation housing at least partially defining a chamber interior volume being positioned to receive at least a portion of the vacuum flow from the vacuum source and attenuate sound generated by the vacuum source.

Disclosed herein is an ultrasound system for accessing a vasculature of a patient. The ultrasound system is configured to depict an enhanced ultrasound image of a subcutaneous portion of the patient including an icon surrounding a target vessel depicted on the display. The icon indicates to a clinician the target vessel is within range of a percentage vessel occupancy or vessel purchase length depending on a size of cannula or angle of insertion. The icon can also indicate blood flow strength, vessel type, or vessel deformation. The enhanced image can further include cannula trajectory guidelines and visual alerts for the clinician if the cannula tip can potentially backwall the vessel. Additional icons can indicate obstructions disposed on the cannula trajectory.

The invention provides an electromagnetic photoacoustic synchronous integrated brain function imaging method and device, and relates to the field of multi-mode brain function imaging research. According to the invention, electroencephalogram, magnetoencephalogram, functional near infrared spectrum and functional ultrasonic imaging technologies are fused, important advantage complementation is formed in signal specificity and temporal-spatial resolution, and neural activity can be described from the angle of human cranial nerve electrophysiology and neural metabolism can be observed from hemodynamic information at the same time. And electrophysiology and hemodynamic activities of the brain can be synchronously recorded.

A system, apparatus and method directed to placing a medical instrument in a patient body, where the system includes the medical instrument having a first optical fiber, a console and an interconnect having a second optical fiber to receive incident light from the console and propagate the incident light to the medical instrument. The interconnect includes a predetermined bend along its length, such that logic of the console may determine a positioning and an orientation of the medical instrument relative to the predetermined bend. Additionally, the logic may generate a display of the medical instrument based on the reflected light signals and the determination of the positioning and the orientation of the medical instrument relative to the predetermined bend, where the display may be rendered as an overlay on an ultrasound image.