154 results about "Effects unit" patented technology

The present invention is directed to an excavator that is operable in manual and automatic modes and uses state machines to effect unit operations, rotationally offset swing actuators to rotate boom and cutter head, a fail safe hydraulic system to maintain gripper pressure in the event of a malfunction of the hydraulic system, differing position and pressure control functions in the hydraulic actuators, a kinematic module to effect pitch and roll adjustments, a cutting face profile generator to generate a profile of the excavation face, and an optimization module to realize a high degree of optimization of excavator operation.

Digital audio content is delivered to a non-volatile memory device, operatively connected to a car radio mounted in a motor vehicle, and played back using a playback effecter mounted in the motor vehicle. Exemplary playback effecters include but are not limited to buttons contained within the car radio, rear seat audio controls, voice command recognizers, and playback effecters physically mounted to a steering wheel of the motor vehicle. A car radio capable of generating speech from digital text content is disclosed. According to some embodiments, digital text content is delivered to the non-volatile memory device, and played back using the car radio capable of generating speech from digital text content.

A multi-format digital video production system enables a user to process an input video program to produce an output version of the program in a final format which may have a different frame rate, pixel dimensions, aspect ratio, or any combination thereof. An internal production format of 24 fps is preferably chosen to provide the greatest compatibility with existing and planned formats associated with HDTV standard 4:3 or widescreen 16:9 high-definition television, and film. Images are re-sized horizontally and vertically by pixel interpolation, thereby producing larger or smaller image dimensions so as to fill the particular needs of individual applications. Frame rates are adapted by inter-frame interpolation or by traditional schemes, including “3:2 pull-down” for 24-to-30 fps conversions. Simple speed-up (for 24-to-25 conversions) or slow-down (for 25-to-24 conversions) for playback, or by manipulating the frame rate itself using a program storage facility with asynchronous reading and writing capabilities. The step of converting the signal to a HDTV format is preferably performed using a higher sampling clock frequency and a resizing to HDTV format frame dimensions in pixels. An integrated system having digital television standard conversion capabilities is disclosed, wherein audio/video input signals are received in high-speed serialized form, transferred to a high-speed data bus, and fed to one or more standards converters operating according to the invention, thereby providing a variety of serial or parallel digital signal outputs. The system may further include a wide-/local-area network interface, mass storage, digital effects unit and workstations for multiple users.

A foot-operated audio effects device (10) receives, stores and operates at least one software audio effect plug-in (86). At least two of the audio effect plug-in (86) may be designed to operate under different operating systems. The device (10) may receive multiple audio input streams (38, 40). Users can control at least one parameter of the audio effect plug-ins (86). The device (10) may include a mass storage device (72) which stores audio which has been generated within the device (10). In use, the device (10) may be connected to a computer (110) and software audio effect plug-ins (86) transferred to and stored in the device (10). The computer (110) may be used to configure parameters of the audio effect plug-in (86). Those parameters may be stored within the computer (110).

The invention discloses a method for performing virtual makeup by using a computer program and a makeup simulation program. The makeup method comprises the following steps of: 1, uploading or selecting a preset digital picture to be made up in a computer; 2, after finishing selection of the digital picture to be made up, positioning an area to be made up, starting a module which is arranged in the computer and used for automatically recognizing areas to be made up on the face, selecting the area to be made up, and storing the area to be made up; and 3, uploading or selecting a makeup picture with a makeup model from the computer, and performing virtual makeup on the digital picture to be made up through the makeup simulation program in the computer. The simulation program comprises a module for automatically recognizing areas to be made up on the face, a makeup product management unit module, a preset makeup scheme unit module and a makeup effect unit module.

The invention discloses a wireless karaoke microphone headset which comprises a left microphone, a right microphone, an ADC (analog-to-digital converter), a reverberation effect unit, a sound mixing unit, a DAC (Digital To Analog Converter), a left loudspeaker, a right loudspeaker and a wireless connection unit which are positioned at auricular positions when a user wears the headset. Voice signals picked up by the left and right microphones enter the reverberation effect unit after being subjected to analog-to-digital conversion by the ADC; after carrying out reverberation effect processing on the digital voice signals, the reverberation effect unit sends the digital voice signals to the sound mixing unit; the wireless connection unit receives a music accompaniment signal sent by a mobile terminal and sends the music accompaniment signal to the sound mixing unit; the sound mixing unit mixes the voice signals with the music accompaniment signal and sends a mixed signal to the DAC; after digital-to-analog conversion, sound is output to the user by the left and right loudspeakers; and the headset can send the sound mixed signal, the voice signals or a holographic sound field signal to the mobile terminal in a Bluetooth manner. By the wireless karaoke microphone headset disclosed by the invention, karaoke experience of the user and sharing capacity of high-quality sound an be effectively promoted.

The invention provides a wireless karaoke microphone which comprises a microphone body, an analog-digital conversion (ADC) unit, a reverb effect unit, a sound mixing unit, a digital-analog conversion (DAC) unit, a monitoring playback unit and a wireless connection unit, and is characterized in that a voice signal collected by the microphone body enters the reverb effect unit after being subjected to analog-digital conversion of the ADC, the digitalized voice signal is sent to the sound mixing unit after being subjected to reverb effect processing by the reverb effect unit, the wireless connection unit receives a music accompaniment signal sent by a mobile terminal and sends the signal to the sound mixing unit, the sound mixing unit mixes the voice signal with the music accompaniment signal and sends a sound mixed signal to the DAC, sound is output to a user by the monitoring playback unit after the sound mixed signal is subjected to digital-analog conversion, and the microphone can send the sound mixed signal or the voice signal to the mobile terminal in a Bluetooth manner. According to the wireless karaoke microphone, the karaoke experience of the user and sharing capacity of high-quality sound can be effectively improved.

The invention provides a magneto-resistive effect device of the CPP (current perpendicular to plane) structure, comprising a magneto-resistive effect unit, and an upper shield layer and a lower shield layer located with that magneto-resistive effect unit sandwiched between them, with a sense current applied in a stacking direction, wherein the magneto-resistive effect unit comprises a nonmagnetic metal intermediate layer, and a first ferromagnetic layer and a second ferromagnetic layer stacked and formed with that nonmagnetic metal intermediate layer sandwiched between them, wherein the first ferromagnetic layer and said second ferromagnetic layer are exchange coupled via the nonmagnetic metal intermediate layer such that where there is no bias magnetic field applied as yet, their magnetizations are anti-parallel with each other, and at least one of the upper shield layer and the lower shield layer has an inclined magnetization structure with its magnetization inclining with respect to a track width direction, so that by the magnetization of that inclined magnetization structure, a bias magnetic field can be applied to the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer. It is thus possible to obtain a magneto-resistive effect device of improved reliability that enables a structure capable of having a narrowed read gap (the gap between the upper shield and the lower shield) to be adopted to meet the recently demanded ultra-high recording density, allows a stable bias magnetic field to be applied in simple structure, and obtain a stable magneto-resistive effect change.

An electronic device with one or more processors and memory stores one or more respective sound effect units in association with each of a plurality of scene elements used in a game. The electronic device obtains a scene element template for a respective scene in the game, the scene element template including one or more constituent scene elements of the respective scene. The electronic device also selects one or more corresponding sound effect units for each of the one or more constituent scene elements in the scene element template for the respective scene. The electronic device further generates a composite sound effect for the respective scene using the selected sound effect units.

Methods and apparatus are provided for a Universal functionality Module (UFM). The apparatus comprises a programmable logic device (PLD) configured to be reprogrammed in real time and a means for universally interfacing the PLD with any effectuator device. The UFM loads a startup personality bit stream from a boot memory, which allows it to read a pin configuration associated with a effectuator device. The UFM receives a function personality associated with the pin configuration, writes the function personality to programmable logic device, and initiates the function personality.

The present invention discloses a surgical equipment, having a proximal portion and a distal portion at least reversibly or temporarily interconnected along a main longitudinal axis (shaft P:D); said proximal portion is insertable into a body cavity, and having at least one manoeuvrable effecter; said effecter is adapted to be either manoeuvred linearly along said axis (linear effecter) or to be manoeuvred rotationally around said axis (rotational effecter); said distal portion comprising a handset located outside the body; said handset is adapted to manoeuvre said effecter with either a linear motion along said axis (linear handset) or a rotational motion around said axis (rotational handset); said effecter comprising a proximal effecting means and a distal converter; said converter translates either linear motion to rotational motion or rotational motion to linear motion; so as said rotational effecter is adaptable to a linear handset, and vice versa, a linear effecter is adaptable to a rotational handset.

An action toy includes a toy body including four mounting units, four function switches removably mounted to the four mounting units, detection means disposed in the toy body, where the detection means detects that each of the function switches is mounted to one of the mounting units, a dramatic effect unit disposed in the toy body, where the dramatic effect unit creates a dramatic effect using light or sound, and a control unit disposed in the toy body. When the detection means detects that one of the function switch is attached to the toy body, the control unit causes the dramatic effect unit to create a first dramatic effect. When a push button unit is operated, the control unit causes the dramatic effect unit to create a second dramatic effect.

A sound effect circuit and processing method are disclosed. An input audio signal is input to a digital sound effect unit, an output signal is generated and output with a sound effect in accordance with an effect amount of a certain value from the input audio signal using the digital sound effect unit, the input audio signal is also input to a silence state detection unit, a silence detect signal is generated and output when detecting that the current state of the input audio signal is a silence state using the silence state detection unit, the output signal is input to a sound effect amount control unit, and an output audio signal is output using the sound effect amount control unit, wherein the sound effect amount control unit changes the effect amount to be smaller than the certain value when the silence detect signal is generated.

The invention provides a magneto-resistive effect device of a CPP (current perpendicular to plane) structure, comprising a magneto-resistive effect unit, and a first shield layer and a second shield layer located and formed such that the magneto-resistive effect unit is sandwiched between them, with a sense current applied in a stacking direction, characterized in that: said magneto-resistive effect unit comprises a non-magnetic intermediate layer, and a first ferromagnetic layer and a second ferromagnetic layer stacked and formed such that said nonmagnetic intermediate layer is interposed between them, wherein: said first shield layer, and said second shield layer is controlled by magnetization direction control means in terms of magnetization direction, and said first ferromagnetic layer, and said second ferromagnetic layer receives action such that there is an antiparallel magnetization state created, in which mutual magnetizations are in opposite directions, under influences of magnetic actions of said first shield layer and said second shield layer. It is thus possible to achieve an antiparallel magnetization state for two ferromagnetic layers with simple structure yet without being restricted by the material and specific structure of an intermediate film interposed between the two ferromagnetic layers.

The invention provides multifunctional sound box equipment. The multifunctional sound box equipment comprises a wireless sound box unit, a lighting effect unit, a microphone unit, and a power supply unit; the wireless sound box unit comprises a box body, a horn and/or a loudspeaker; the microphone unit comprises a microphone, an audio conversion module, an operational amplifier audio processing module, an audio output module, and a second communication module electrically connected in order; the lighting effect unit comprises a first audio sampling module, a first A/D conversion module, a second processing module and a lighting effect module electrically connected in order. A microphone unit is connected through the wireless technology so as to form portable loud-speaking equipment; the lighting effect unit is arranged in the sound box to drive multiple groups of LED lamps to combine different visual effects according to the audio; a spray unit is arranged in the sound box to realize ahumidifier function capable of regulating and controlling the range more convenient and more extensively while enhancing the effect experience of the sound box.

Apparatus for waking up a device having a power supply. The apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a receive signal and an extractor configured to extract power from the receive signal. The apparatus further includes a deriver configured to derive wake up information from the receive signal, which is powered by the extracted power. Furthermore, the apparatus includes an effecter configured to effect a connection of the device to the power supply if the deriver derives the wake up information.

The invention discloses a sound effect device and a manufacturing method therefor, and the device comprises at least one installation housing; and at least one sound effect unit. The sound effect unit comprises at least one main vibration loudspeaker, at least one auxiliary vibration loudspeaker, and at least one passive vibrator, wherein the main vibration loudspeaker and the auxiliary vibration loudspeaker are arranged in opposite directions, and the main vibration loudspeaker, the auxiliary vibration loudspeaker and the passive vibrator share one vibration cavity. When the main vibration loudspeaker and the auxiliary vibration loudspeaker respond to the input of an audio signal and vibrates to generate a sound effect, the passive vibrator is driven to vibrate to generate an auxiliary sound effect. The device is convenient to carry and store, and is good in sound quality and effect.

A guitar effector module includes: a component circuit board in which an analog guitar effector circuit is formed; a module case in which a knob for adjusting a sound by a circuit is mounted, and the component circuit board is installed therein; and a circuit connection unit, in which a circuit input unit, a circuit output unit, and a circuit power supply unit with respect to the circuit are formed, which is electrically connected with the component circuit board, and is installed on an external side of the module case.

The invention provides a wireless digital microphone system comprising a wireless microphone and a wireless receiver, wherein the wireless microphone is composed of a sound receiving module, a sound processing module and a sound transmission module which are connected in sequence; the wireless receiver comprises a sound receiving module, a sound demodulation module, a filtering module and an output module which are connected in sequence; the wireless receiver also comprises an audio processing module and a microcomputer processing module, the audio processing module is a DSP (Digital Signal Processor) audio processor, the microcomputer processing module is a single chip microcomputer unit, and the DSP audio processor and the single chip microcomputer are applied to the sound processing of the wireless digital microphone system to change the sound style. A frequency shifter is applied to the wireless digital microphone system to realize feedback inhibition on screeching. The functional combination of the wireless digital microphone system and an effector is realized, and the functions of network singing, intelligent recording and broadcasting, video exchange, intelligent center control and the like are realized by downloading and installing software from an internet platform. In addition, the system is simple in structure, convenient to operate, low in required cost and good in tone quality.