219 results about "Inverse filter" patented technology

A system and method for producing a binaural and localized audio signal to a user is provided. A signal processing method is provided for delivering spatialized sound in various ways using highly optimized inverse filters to deliver narrow localized beams of sound from the included speaker array. The inventive method can be used to provide private listening areas in a public space and provide spatialization of source material for a single user to create a virtual surround sound effect. In a binaural mode, a speaker array provides two targeted beams aimed towards the primary user's ears—one discrete beam for the left ear and one discrete beam for the right ear. In a privacy mode, a privacy zone could be created in which a primary audio beam would deliver a signal of interest to the user while secondary beams would be aimed at different angles to provide a masking noise.

A transmission line equalizer, communication system, and method are provided for adaptively compensating for changes in transmission path length and transmission path medium. Within the equalizer is a filter that exhibits a high pass characteristic and, more specifically, has an inverse frequency response to that of the transmission path. The inverse filter can include a pair of amplifier stages coupled in parallel, with a mixer chosen to adaptively select portions of one stage over than of the other. The dual stage inverse filter can, therefore, adapt to greater transmission path lengths and/or attenuation. A feedback architecture is used to set the inverse filter response by measuring the amplitude of a communication signal output from the inverse filter during periods of low frequency. A peak detector will capture a peak-to-peak voltage value during those periods, and adjust the output of the slicer to match a launch amplitude of the communication signal. The peak detector within the feedback architecture helps ensure the predicted amplitude matches the launch amplitude to minimize over-compensation or under-compensation even though a different integrator might register no difference in integrated voltage or energy at the output of the inverse filter compared to the output of the slicer.

The present invention is a method and apparatus for compressing and decompressing data. In particular, the present invention provides for (de-)compressing naturalistic color-image and moving-image data, including high-precision and high-definition formats, with zero information loss, one-sample latency and in faster than real time on common computing platforms, resulting in doubled transmission, storage, and playback speed and doubled transmission bandwidth and storage capacity, and hence in doubled throughput for non-CPU-bound image-editing tasks in comparison with uncompressed formats. The present invention uses a nearly symmetrical compression-decompression scheme that provides temporal, spatial, and spectral compression, using a reversible condensing/decondensing filter, context reducer, and encoder/decoder. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, the compression filter is implemented as a cascade of quasilinear feedforward filters, with temporal, multidimensional spatial, and spectral stages, where appropriate, in that order, whose support consists of adjacent causal samples of the respective image. The decompressor cascades quasilinear feedback inverse filters in the reverse order. The filters can be implemented with mere integer addition, subtraction, and either one-dimensional table lookup or constant multiplication and binary shifting, depending on the computing environment Tables permit the data precision to be constrained throughout to that of the image samples. The encoder uses a table of prefix codes roughly inversely proportional in length to their probability, while the decoder uses chunked decode tables for accelerated lookup. In the fastest and simplest mode, the code tables are context-independent. For greater power, at the cost of a reduction in speed, the code tables are based on the temporal, multidimensional spatial, and spectral adjacent causal residue samples, where contexts with similar probability distributions are incoherently collapsed by a context reducer using one-dimensional lookup tables followed by implicitly multidimensional lookup tables, to minimize the overall table size. The invention's minimal resource requirements makes it ideal for implementation in either hardware or software.

Disclosed are an encoding device and a decoding device, which include a CNN-based in-loop filter. The encoding device according to one embodiment comprises: a filtering unit for generating filtering information by filtering a residual image corresponding to a difference between an original image and a prediction image; an inverse filtering unit for generating inverse filtering information by inversely filtering the filtering information; a prediction unit for generating the prediction image on the basis of the original image and reconstruction information; a CNN-based in-loop filter for receiving the inverse filtering information and the prediction image so as to output the reconstruction information; and an encoding unit for performing encoding on the basis of the filtering information and information of the prediction image.

A personal authentication method is provided for authenticating a user by cross-relation between an enrolled image and a verification image of biometric information of the user. Upon registration of the biometric information, the method generates a filter for scrambling the image and an inverse filter thereof, and applies the filter to the enrolled image generated from the biometric information to generate a registration template which is then stored to a memory. Upon authentication of the user, the method applies the inverse filter to the verification image generated from the biometric information collected from the user, and then verifies the identity of the user based on cross-relation between the verification image after application of the inverse filter and the registration template.

An approach for efficiently reducing background noise from speech signal in real-time applications is presented. A noisy input speech signal is processed through an inverse filter when the spectrum tilt of the input signal is not that of a pure background noise model the noisy input signal is also filtered in order to reduce the spectrum valley areas of the noisy input signal when the background noise is present.

The invention provides a method for rapidly measuring a plurality of parameters of an electro-acoustic product and also provides a test system realizing the method. The method comprises the following steps: adopting a continuous logarithmic swept-frequency signal to stimulate an electro-acoustic component and collecting an acoustic response signal transmitted by the electro-acoustic component to be tested and a current response signal flowing through the electro-acoustic component to be tested; obtaining a frequency response curve and a phase curve after the acoustic response signal is filtered by an inverse filter, and calculating and obtaining a harmonic distortion curve after time domain processing is carried out on the frequency response curve; calculating and obtaining an impedance curve after inverse filter and time domain processing are carried out on the current response signal; and further analyzing a result curve and obtaining results, such as sensitivity, polarity, rated impedance, linear parameters and the like. The test system comprises a test instrument, an amplifier, a current measurement module and a microphone.

The invention belongs to the technical field of speech processing and image processing and discloses a depression auxiliary detection method based on acoustic characteristics and sparse mathematics and a classifier. The method is characterized by carrying out depression diagnosis based on speech and facial emotion common identification; realizing estimation of a glottis signal through an inverse filter; carrying out global analysis on the speech signals to extract characteristic parameters, and analyzing timing and distribution features of the characteristic parameters to find out rhyme rulesof speeches in different emotions as basis of emotion recognition; using MFCC as a speech signal to be processed for analysis of the characteristic parameters, collecting data in records through a plurality of groups of training data, and establishing a neural network model for diagnosis; through an OMP-based sparse express algorithm, obtaining sparse linear combination of a test sample; and carrying out judgment and classification on facial emotions, and carrying out linear combination on the obtained result and the speech recognition result to obtain final probability for expressing each data. The depression recognition rate is improved greatly, and the cost is low.

An image processor includes a filter process circuit for executing a filtering of image data picked up by an image pickup unit with a plurality of spatial filters, a brightness calculation circuit for calculating a brightness in a local area of the image data, a weighting circuit for weighting an output of the filter process circuit in accordance with an output of the filter process circuit and/or an output of the brightness calculation circuit, and an inverse filter process circuit for executing an inverse filter process with respect to an output of the weighting circuit to generate process image data.

This invention relates to a method, a computer program, a computer program product, and a device for reducing motion blur of images of a video signal shown on a hold-type display (101), comprising estimating (1102) motion vectors of moving components in said images of said video signal; band-pass filtering (1100, 1101) said video signal with respect to a spatial frequency domain, wherein said band-pass filtering at least partially depends on said estimated motion vectors, and wherein with increasing length of said estimated motion vectors, the passband of said band-pass filtering adaptively shifts from high spatial frequencies to medium spatial frequencies; and combining (1104) said video signal and said band-pass filtered video signal to produce an input video signal for said hold-type display.

A device and a method to be used by laryngeally impaired people to improve the naturalness of their speech. An artificial sound creating mechanism which forms a simulated glottal pulse in the vocal tract is utilized. An artificial glottal pulse is compared with the natural spectrum and an inverse filter is generated to provide an output signal which would better reproduce natural sound. A digital signal processor introduces a variation of pitch based on an algorithm developed for this purpose; i.e. creating prosody. The algorithm uses primarily the relative amplitude of the speech signal and the rise and fall rates of the amplitude as a basis for setting the frequency of the speech. The invention also clarifies speech of laryngectomees by sensing the presence of consonants in the speech and appropriately amplifying them with respect to the vowel sounds.

The invention relates to the technologies of prospecting, development and exploration in an oil field, in particular to a method for realizing the minimum phase of a vibroseis seismic data zero-phase wavelet, which can provide a high-resolution seismic pattern. The realizing steps are as follows: seismic data is processed and transformed into vibroseis zero-phase wavelet seismic data, a vibroseis zero-phase wavelet and an autocorrelation function are calculated, an inverse filter factor is solved, phase-only factor, calibration factor and phase transformation factor are calculated, the phase transformation factor is used for transforming the zero-phase wavelet into a minimum-phase wavelet, and a phase-corrected seismic data section plane is drawn by corrected seismic data. The method can effectively transform the vibroseis zero-phase wavelet seismic data into the minimum-phase seismic data by a common seismic data processing system, thereby providing necessary input seismic data for seismic data processings such as deconvolution, and the like.

A method for determining an inverse filter for altering the frequency response of a loudspeaker so that with the inverse filter applied in the loudspeaker's signal path the inverse-filtered loudspeaker output has a target frequency response, and optionally also applying the inverse filter in the signal path, and a system configured (e.g., a general or special purpose processor programmed and configured) to determine an inverse filter. In some embodiments, the inverse filter corrects the magnitude of the loudspeaker's output. In other embodiments, the inverse filter corrects both the magnitude and phase of the loudspeaker's output. In some embodiments, the inverse filter is determined in the frequency domain by applying eigenfilter theory or minimizing a mean square error expression by solving a linear equation system.

The invention relates to a filter feedback reusable millimeter wave subcarrier light controlled microwave beam forming network, which belongs to the technical field of millimeter wave subcarrier optical controlled microwave beam forming, and is characterized in that a wavelength selecting reusable module transforms wide-spectrum light output by wide-spectrum light source to a comb-like spectrum; the comb-like spectrum is modulated by microwave signals which need to be transmitted, and the comb-like spectrum most energy of which is concentrated in the peak wavelength is formed after dispersive delay and amplification; then an adjustable filter in the wavelength selecting reusable module is utilized for inverse filtering to obtain each required signal; amplification efficiency of an erbium-doped optical fibre amplifier is greatly enhanced, and then the power level of useful spectra of the entire link is enhanced; and compared with that traditional wide-spectrum light passes through the light controlled microwave beam forming network, the invention enhances energy utilization.

The invention discloses a nonlinear system, in particular a device and a method for identifying inverse characteristic of a nonlinear power amplifier, a predistorter of the power amplifier and power amplification equipment using the device for identifying the inverse characteristic of the nonlinear system and the predistorter. The method for identifying the inverse characteristic of the nonlinear system according to an original input signal x(n) and a corresponding feedback output signal y<G>(n) of the nonlinear system comprises the following steps: according to an inverse filter signal x<F> (n) and the feedback output signal y<G>(n), calculating an inquiry form function Q[.]; according to the feedback output signal y<G>(n) and the inquiry form function Q[.], generating a middle predistortion signal z(n); according to the middle predistortion signal z(n) and the original input signal x(n), constructing a filter function F[.]; carrying out inverse filtering on the original input signal x(n) by using parameters of the filter function F[.] to generate an inverse filter signal x<F>(n); repeating each step through iteration till meeting the set condition, wherein the inquiry form function Q[.] and the filter function F[.] represent the inverse characteristic of the nonlinear system.

The invention discloses an acoustic covering layer echo reduction measuring method on the basis of a multichannel space-time inverse filtering technology. The method comprises the following steps: (1) generating a single channel space-time inverse filtering emission signal; (2) generating a multichannel space-time inverse filtering emission signal; (3) collecting a sample echo signal and an incident signal; (4) calculating the echo reduction measured value. By synchronously emitting the inversion signals of a circuit channel and underwater acoustic channel and multichannel inversion signals, the focusing of measuring signals in the space and time-domain pulse compression can be achieved, and the goals of reverberation inhibition, direct path wave separation, and multiple times of echoes of a multilayer sample can be realized.

A method of correcting the frequency response of an RF receiver having a frequency translation device and a fixed IF frequency section uses calibration data representing frequency responses over a wide frequency range for multiple center frequencies. The calibration data are based upon a multi-dimensional model for the frequency translation device that includes at least center frequency and offset frequency. The calibration data are stored in the RF receiver during factory calibration. A run-time normalization of the RF receiver produces a normalization frequency response at a reference frequency, and a relative frequency response at a desired center frequency is derived from the calibration data. The normalized and relative frequency responses are combined to produce an overall frequency response that is used by the RF receiver to configure an inverse filter to correct channel linear distortion produced by the frequency response of the frequency translation device at the desired center frequency.

The invention discloses a sidewalk pavement structure for water permeation, water storage and water discharging. The sidewalk pavement structure comprises a sidewalk, a roadway and a rainwater port communicated with a municipal water discharging system and further comprises a transverse water permeation pipe, the sidewalk comprises a water-permeable surface layer, a water-permeable leveling layer, a water-permeable base layer and an inverse filtering cushion which are arranged sequentially from top to bottom, a groove paved with a filling material is formed in the bottom of the inner side of the inverse filtering cushion, and waterproof geotechnical cloth is arranged at the bottom of the inverse filtering cushion, on the left and right sides of the groove and at the bottom of the groove; first kerbs are arranged on two sides of the sidewalk, and the transverse water permeation pipe communicates the groove with the rainwater port. The sidewalk pavement structure has good water permeating, storing and discharging functions, can effectively prevent water accumulation on the surface of the sidewalk and can relieve pressure of the municipal water discharging system under extreme raining conditions to certain extent; rainwater is avoided permeating into roadbeds, so that long-time stability of the roadbeds is guaranteed; water permeability and air permeability of the sidewalk pavement structure can be improved, and urban 'heat island effect' is relieved to certain content.