1008 results about "External noise" patented technology

A system including associated equipment for transmitting radio-frequency power line carrier signals on high voltage ac or dc transmission lines within a multi-conductor bundle, one path for which is provided by one or more conductors located at the center of the bundle, and the other by the remaining conductors connected in electrical parallel and arrayed in a generally circular pattern around the center. Insulated conductor spacers hold the conductors in their symmetrical configuration and insulate the center conductor, allowing it to serve as a radio frequency path similar to that in a conventional coaxial cable. The system provides low attention, low vulnerability to external noise and low radiation of the carrier signal while providing redundant channels—three for ac transmission lines and two for bipolar dc transmission lines.

Speakers deployed in a space and divided into groups associated with different zones produce a mix of sounds that create internal noise pollution and, combined with external noise, an unpleasant environment for occupants. The present invention contemplates sound systems and methods for creating personalized sound zones to address these and related problems.

A noise canceling and communication system is described. An in-ear device is adapted to fit in the ear canal of a device user. A passive noise reduction element reduces external noise entering the ear canal. An external microphone senses an external acoustic signal outside the ear canal to produce a representative external microphone signal. An internal microphone senses an internal acoustic signal proximal to the tympanic membrane to produce a representative internal microphone signal. One or more internal sound generators produce a noise cancellation signal and an acoustic communication signal, both directed towards the tympanic membrane. A probe tube shapes an acoustic response between the internal sound generator and the internal microphone to be relatively constant over a wide audio frequency band. An electronics module is located externally of the ear canal and in communication with the in-ear device for processing the microphone signals using a hybrid feed forward and feedback active noise reduction algorithm to produce the noise cancellation signal. The noise reduction algorithm includes a modeling component based on a transfer function associated with the internal sound generator and at least one of the microphones to automatically adjust the noise cancellation signal for fit and geometry of the ear canal of the user. The communication component also includes a modeling component based on a transfer function associated with the internal sound generator and at least one of the microphones to automatically adjust the communication signal for fit and geometry of the ear canal of the user and to assure that the communication signal does not interfere with the noise reduction algorithm and that the noise cancellation signal does not interfere with passing of the communication signal.

A touch panel, a display panel, and a display unit achieving prevention of erroneous detection caused by external noise, are provided. The touch panel includes: a plurality of detection scan electrodes extending in a first direction; and a plurality of detection electrodes facing the plurality of detection scan electrodes and extending in a second direction which intersects the first direction. A ratio of fringe capacitance to total capacitance between one or more selected detection scan electrodes and a first detection electrode is different from a ratio of fringe capacitance to total capacitance between the one or more selected detection scan electrodes and a second detection electrode. The one or more selected detection scan electrodes are selected, in a desired unit, from the plurality of detection scan electrodes, to be supplied with a selection pulse, and each of the first and the second detection electrodes is selected from the plurality of detection electrodes.

The present invention provides a shielding module integrating antenna and integrated circuit component, which comprises an artificial magnetic conductor board, an antenna, a common ground face, a plurality of first via holes, a shielding slot, a plurality of second via holes, and an IC component. The IC component is embedded in the shielding slot formed between the common ground face and surrounded by the plurality of second via holes of the artificial magnetic conductor board. Accordingly, the antenna is formed and shielded above the shielding slot, the plurality of second via holes, and the IC component separated by the common ground face and the plurality of first via holes of the artificial magnetic conductor board. As a result, the package area of integrated circuit component and cost is reduced while shielded from external noise and electromagnetic interference.

A spheno-temporal bone conduction communication equipment and / or hearing aid includes a system device, a bone skin conduction oscillator and a carrier device for supporting said abovementioned devices. The carrier device has a structural body, and the structural body allows the supported bone skin conduction oscillator in close contact with the spheno-temporal bone. The bone skin conduction oscillator contains a transducer, and the transducer converts an electrical signal into an acoustic oscillating wave and transmits the acoustic oscillating wave into the inner ear via spheno-temporal bone, or receives an acoustic oscillating wave produced by vibration of the skull when speaking and converts it into an electrical signal. The equipment implements bone conduction transmission of the acoustic oscillating wave via spheno-temporal bone, and can be used in bone conduction speaker, bone conduction microphone, bone conduction multimedia device, bone conduction hearing aid device or bone conduction communication device. The equipment can be used with a nasal bone conduction device, can avoid the defect of much external noise when using air conduction mode and overcome shortcomings of the structure easy to slide and inconvenience to add the component when using commonly used bone conduction.

Disclosed is a UHF partial discharge and its location measuring device for high-voltage power devices. The measuring device includes a partial discharge sensor, an external noise sensor, an analogue-digital converter, a peak detector, a partial discharge signal processor, an arrival time detector, a discharge location processor, and a display unit.

Headphones with acoustically resistant ear cups, an external noise sensor mounted thereto that monitors ambient noise, and internal sensors to monitor noise within each ear cup are disclosed. A processing system monitors the external and interior sound detected by the sensors and compares the level inside the ear cups with the detected level of ambient noise. It activates a transducer such as a vibrator, buzzer, or light as needed to indicate when the level within the ear cups has exceeded the predetermined criteria thereby indicating improper fit of the headphones. Alternative embodiments include wirelessly communicating the collected data to an auxiliary computer for remote data collection, storage and monitoring. The headphones may also provide a sound dosimeter; bandpass filtering; automatic noise reduction with feed forward and / or feed back; wireless voice and data communication; and a voice activated switch, all using elements of the headphone fit detection circuitry.

The present invention discloses a test device and test method for the noise reduction headphone. The test device comprises: an enclosed cavity, a noise source, a test panel, a measuring microphone and a measure comparison module connected with the measuring microphone. The sound emitted from the noise source is sealed within the enclosed cavity. The test panel can cooperate with the noise reduction headphone to form a coupling cavity in the test. The test panel has a sound guiding hole in the common part with the enclosed cavity for transmitting the sound of the noise source into the interior of the coupling cavity. The test panel also has a mounting hole, and the measuring microphone is mounted on the mourning hole towards the direction of the coupling cavity. The measuring microphone records noise signals before and after the noise reduction function of the noise reduction headphone is activated. The measure comparison module receives the signals recorded these two times by the measuring microphone and performs comparison processing to obtain noise reduction amount of the noise reduction headphone. The technical solution of the present invention solves the problem of noise pollution caused by high-power external noise sources to the surrounding environment during the test process of noise reduction amount of the headphone, meanwhile, no special shielding room is required, and the requirement on test environment is relieved.

An industrial hearing protection and communication assembly including a frame having a front frame member that, includes a substantially transparent shatterproof eye panel disposed to shield a wearer's eyes, and at least one protective ear insert structured to be fitted into a wearer's ear in order to substantially muffle exterior noise. A speaker head audibly communicates an audio signal received by a receiver disposed on the frame and is structured to be inserted into a bore defined in the protective ear insert, and thereby, into one of the wearer's ears. The audio signal is audible to the wearer while the exterior noise is muffled by the protective ear insert and the speaker head is shielded from perspiration or other body contaminants of the wearer. Further, the protective insert can be variably positionable in accordance with the location of the wearer's ears.

The invention discloses a face multi-area fusion expression recognition method based on depth learning, which comprises the following steps of detecting a face position with a detection model; obtaining the coordinates of the key points by using the key point model; aligning the eyes according to the key points of the eyes, then aligning the face according to the coordinates of the key points of the whole face, and clipping the face region by affine transformation; cutting the eye and mouth areas of the image to a certain proportion; dividing the convolution neural network into one backbone network and two branch networks; carrying out the feature fusion in the last convolution layer, and finally obtaining the expression classification results by the classifier. The method of the inventionutilizes the priori information, besides the whole face, the eyes and mouth regions are also used as the input of the network, and the network can learn the whole semantic features of facial expressions and the local features of facial expressions through model fusion, so that the method simplifies the difficulty of facial expression recognition, reduces the external noise, and has strong robustness, high accuracy, low complexity of the algorithm and so on.

A light-emitting device and an illumination apparatus are disclosed. A plurality of LED elements are connected in series between positive and negative lines, and first bypass capacitor is connected in parallel to the LED elements respectively. Each series circuit of a predetermined number of LED elements is connected in parallel to second bypass capacitors. As a result, with the negative power line set as a grounding point, the AC impedance at connection points of the series circuit of the LED elements against the ground is reduced. Thus, the erroneous lighting or “flicker” of each LED which otherwise might be caused by an external noise is prevented.

Speakers deployed in a space and divided into groups associated with different zones produce a mix of sounds that create internal noise pollution and, combined with external noise, an unpleasant environment for occupants. The present invention contemplates sound systems and methods for creating personalized sound zones to address these and related problems.

An active headset providing for reduction of external noise over a given frequency range by means of a microphone which generates an external noise representative signal processed and fed to a loudspeaker to produce an external noise cancellation signal spectrum, wherein a bridge amplifier circuit is interposed between the microphone and the loudspeaker and the gain of the bridge amplifier for peak amplitude of the noise cancellation signal is user adjustable without substantially reducing the breadth of the given frequency range over which noise reduction is effective.

An active pixel sensor for digital imaging comprises a detector, a readout circuit, and a resistive load. The detector is integrated with the readout circuit and the readout circuit has a plurality of amorphous silicon based thin-film transistors (TFTs). The readout circuit is embedded under the detector to provide a high fill factor. A signal charge is accumulated on a pixel capacitance during an integration mode and is transferred to an external electronics for data acquisition via the readout circuit during a readout mode. An output current from the readout circuit is converted to a voltage through the resistive load. The resistive load may be a thin-film transistor operated in a saturation regime and having a width larger than a length in size. The active pixel sensor amplifies an on-pixel sensor input signal to improve a noise immunity of sensitive sensor input signals to external noise sources and its linearity together with a fast pixel readout time.

An electrostatic capacitance detection circuit includes a charge amplifier that has an operational amplifier in which a capacitor is provided on a feedback path, and into which a signal including detection of electric charge of an inter-electrode capacitor of a sensor electrode and electric charge due to an external noise, and a selection switch that can switch a direction of a capacitor that is connected to input and output terminals of the charge amplifier through a feedback path that switches the direction of the capacitor depending on a direction of electric charge flowing in from a detection-side electrode of the sensor electrode, due to a drive signal applied to the sensor electrode.

A principal component analysis or an independent component analysis is conducted on the living body signals, e.g., local cerebral blood amount change signals obtained by the living body optical measurement to extract and display multiple component signals thereof. Signals other than the component signals containing noise are selected from these component signals automatically or manually, and the local cerebral blood amount change signals are reconstructed by using selected signals. The reconstructed signals is displayed and further subjected to the component analysis or the reconstruction as appropriate, and used for the profiling of information necessary for the diagnosis. Consequently, high-precision target signals can be obtained by completely removing external noise included in the living body signals, particularly the noise which cannot be adequately removed by the moving average and the filtering processings.

In a case where reception power in a radio access point is high by external noise, the normalcy of the radio access point is tested. In order to judge the normalcy of the radio characteristic of the radio access point, a test is performed through the calling connection between a testing access terminal in the radio access point and a predetermined device. An RSSI is measured before and after the transmission of a test signal. When the RSSI exceeds a threshold value, the path loss of a reverse link connected from the radio access point to the testing access terminal is increased by an attenuator. Then, reception power in the testing access terminal decreases. Thus, initial transmission power in accordance with the reception power from the testing access terminal is raised and the calling connection of the testing access terminal can be performed even under the external noise.

A liquid crystal display device of the invention has: a display panel with an active matrix substrate 2 and a second substrate of transparent material deposed opposite that substrate; an illuminating unit that illuminates the display panel; and a photosensing unit that is provided on the active matrix substrate and has an ambient light photosensor that senses external light. The ambient light photosensor is constituted of a thin film transistor. At least the source electrode SL and drain electrode DL of the thin film transistor are covered by a shielding transparent electrode 6, with transparent insulator 3 and 5 interposed. The transparent electrode 6 is electrically connected to the drain electrode DL, and moreover is connected to a power source supplying constant voltage. Thanks to such structure, a display device is provided in which the ambient light photosensor is built into a panel substrate so as not to be affected by external noise and the peripheral circuits.

A noise-canceling headphone that cancels external noise with a feedforward system includes a driver unit disposed in a housing, a microphone unit that is outwardly disposed in the housing and collects the external noise, and canceling signal generator that generates a noise-canceling signal having a phase opposite to the noise entering through the headphone. The noise-canceling headphone includes an error detecting microphone unit that detects error noise uncanceled by the feedforward system, and error noise-canceling signal generator that generates an error correction signal to cancel the error noise with a feedback system.

A noise canceling and communication system includes an in-ear device adapted to fit in the ear canal of a device user. A passive noise reduction element reduces external noise entering the ear canal. An external microphone senses an external acoustic signal outside the ear canal. An internal microphone senses an internal acoustic signal proximal to the tympanic membrane. One or more internal sound generators produce a noise cancellation signal and an acoustic communication signal, both directed towards the tympanic membrane. A probe tube shapes an acoustic response between the internal sound generator and the internal microphone to be relatively constant over a wide audio frequency band. An electronics module is located externally of the ear canal and in communication with the in-ear device for processing the microphone signals using a hybrid feed forward and feedback active noise reduction algorithm to produce the noise cancellation signal.

The invention discloses a localizable ultrahigh-frequency cable partial discharge detection method and device. The invention is characterized in that a data synchronous acquisition module comprises two high-speed acquisition channels and one low-speed acquisition channel, two ultrahigh-frequency sensors and one power-frequency signal sensor are externally connected for synchronous acquisition of ultrahigh-frequency partial discharge signals, environment signals and power-frequency voltage signals below 1GHz, and the ultrahigh-frequency sensors are directly arranged on a cable; an analyzing and processing module compressively analyzes the acquired synchronous data by the five combined method, effectively identifies cable partial discharge signals and external noise interference and further realizes partial discharge positioning; a power denoising module is used to prevent introduction of noise interference by a portable power source during outdoor use; and a user control terminal has the functions of data acquisition display, result analysis, historical data review and real-time report printing. The invention makes it possible to detect and position partial discharge of power cables, improves the reliability of partial discharge detection and realizes accurate judgment on partial discharge.

A suspension for a hard disk drive has a vibration sensor which is impervious to influence by external noise, to obtain more stable positioning precision of the head on the suspension. The suspension has a load beam, a vibration sensor sandwiched by a first electrode and a second electrode, and a conductive wiring pattern on the load beam for electrically connecting the first electrode and the second electrode to an external detection circuit. The first electrode is sandwiched by the second electrode via the vibration sensor and a shield layer via an insulating layer. The second electrode and the shield layer are at a same potential.

A first band analyzer divides an acoustic signal received from a sound playback system through an input unit into frequency bands, and generates a first band level. An acoustic signal estimator estimates the band level of the original acoustic signal at the input unit, and generates a second band level for each band. A processor extracts an external noise component which is contained in the acoustic signal using the first band level and the second band level. The external noise can be accurately estimated with less computation than in the related art.

The invention provides an electronic stethoscope. The electronic stethoscope comprises a stethoscope head for being contacted with the body surface during auscultation so that acoustic signals sent by organs and radiated by the body surface generate resonance and the resonance acoustic signals are converted into electric signals, a host machine for amplifying and filtering the electric signals converted by the stethoscope head and converting the electric signals processed into acoustic signals, and a loudspeaker for playing the acoustic signals converted by the host machine. The electronic stethoscope provided by the invention can monitor and record sounds at various frequencies sent by various organs such as heart sounds, bowelsounds, lung sounds, and fetal heart sounds, is suitable for diagnosing various diseases, and is simple in structure and using method, and can effectively isolate external noises so as to improve the diagnosing accuracy.

It is an object of the invention to provide a headset for performing simultaneous two-way communication or alternate two-way communication, which has excellent sound insulating properties such that external noise is not possibly mixed even when used under high noise conditions. A pair of bowl-shaped housings 1 each having an annular pad 2 attached to the rim of an opening portion are connected together through a headband 3, an acoustic speaker 5 supported by a buffer material 4 is arranged in at least one of the housings1, and a bone conduction microphone 6 supported by the buffer material 4 such that the distal end is brought into abutment against the ear or the portion around the ear when a user wears the headset is arranged in at least one of the housings 1.

A liquid crystal display device of the invention has: a display panel with an active matrix substrate 2 and a second substrate of transparent material deposed opposite that substrate; an illuminating unit that illuminates the display panel; and a photosensing unit that is provided on the active matrix substrate and has an ambient light photosensor that senses external light. The ambient light photosensor is constituted of a thin film transistor. At least the source electrode SL and drain electrode DL of the thin film transistor are covered by a shielding transparent electrode 6, with transparent insulator 3 and 5 interposed. The transparent electrode 6 is electrically connected to the drain electrode DL, and moreover is connected to a power source supplying constant voltage. Thanks to such structure, a display device is provided in which the ambient light photosensor is built into a panel substrate so as not to be affected by external noise and the peripheral circuits.

An apparatus and method of reducing noise in a portable audio reproducing apparatus using earphones. The apparatus includes an earphone unit having a speaker unit and a microphone to output an audio signal and to generate anti-noise with respect to external noise, and a circuit unit to compensate a frequency characteristic of the anti-noise generated by the microphone of the earphone unit, to add the anti-noise to an input audio signal, and to remove background noise using the anti-noise by outputting the audio signal having the anti-noise to the speaker unit.