Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Kioxia Corporation

Hirokazu Takeuchi

Hiroshi Yonekubo

Hajime Yamazaki

Kimio Miseki

Hiroyuki Yamaguchi

Tadashi Amada

Masataka Osada

Takahiro Miomo

A memory system includes a memory and a memory controller. The memory includes first and second parallel operation elements, each including a plurality of first and second storage regions, respectively, and first and second buffers, respectively. The memory controller performs operations on the memory based on first and second group information. The first group information defines first groups, each first group including one first storage region and one second storage region, and each second group including at least two first groups. The memory controller, in response to a host command targeting a first storage region, (i) acquires first data from the first buffer, and thereafter (ii) causes the memory to read out second data to the first buffer. The first storage region storing the first data and the second storage region storing the second data belong to different first groups and to the same second group.

Memory system configured with a synthesized logical block into which a plurality of data units forming an error correction frame are written

According to one embodiment, a method performed by an electronic device includes: receiving an audio signal comprising voice and background sound via a microphone; receiving a user's operation to set a loudness of the voice or the background sound; setting a balance between a first gain of the voice and a second gain of the background sound according to the user's operation; separating the input audio signal into a first signal of the voice and a second signal of the background sound; amplifying the first signal according to the first gain; amplifying the second signal according to the second gain; and outputting the first signal and the second signal at least partially overlapping each other via a speaker.

Method and electronic device

According to one embodiment, an audio controlling apparatus includes a first receiver configured to receive audio signal, a second receiver configured to receive environmental sound, a temporary gain calculator configured to calculate temporary gain based on environmental sound received by second receiver, a sound type determination module configured to determine sound type of main component of audio signal received by first receiver, and a gain controller configured to stabilize temporary gain that is calculated by temporary gain calculator and set gain, when it is determined that sound type of main component of audio signal received by first receiver is music.

Audio controlling apparatus, audio correction apparatus, and audio correction method

According to one embodiment, audio controlling apparatus includes first receiver configured to receive audio signal, second receiver configured to receive environmental sound, masking gain calculator configured to calculate masking gain for each frequency band, based on audio signal and environmental sound, and gain controller configured to smooth masking gain of frequency band that is less than preset threshold frequency in first interval, smooth masking gain of frequency band that is equal to or higher than threshold frequency in second interval that is longer than first interval, and thereby set gain.

A sound quality correcting apparatus includes: an input module; a feature quantity calculator; a score calculator; a modulation spectrum power calculator; a score corrector; and a signal corrector. The input module receives an input audio signal. The feature quantity calculator calculates feature quantities of the input audio signal for each of a plurality of first intervals having a certain time length. The score calculator calculates a score value for each the first interval based on the feature quantities. The modulation spectrum power calculator calculates a power value, at a certain modulation frequency, of a modulation spectrum of the input audio signal. The score corrector corrects score values in the plurality of first intervals that belong to a second interval if a power value calculated in the second interval is larger than or equal to a certain value. The signal corrector corrects the audio signal based on the score values.

Sound quality correcting apparatus and sound quality correcting method

According to one embodiment, there is provided a sound quality control apparatus, including: a characteristic parameter extractor; a speech score calculator; a music score calculator; a power value acquisition module; a first storage configured to store speech scores and music scores; a second storage configured to store power values; a power-based score corrector configured to correct a current music score or a current speech score based on a first comparison result between a current power value and past power values, a second comparison result between the current music score and past music scores and a third comparison result between the current speech score and past speech scores; and a sound quality controller configured to perform a sound quality control by using at least one of the speech score and the music score corrected by the power-based score corrector.

Sound quality control apparatus and sound quality control method

According to one embodiment, a sound quality control device includes: a time domain analysis module configured to perform a time-domain analysis on an audio-input signal; a frequency domain analysis module configured to perform a frequency-domain analysis on a frequency-domain signal; a first calculation module configured to calculate first speech/music scores based on the analysis results; a compensation filtering processing module configured to generate a filtered signal; a second calculation module configured to calculate second speech/music scores based on the filtered signal; a score correction module configured to generate one of corrected speech/music scores based on a difference between the first speech/music score and the second speech/music score; and a sound quality control module configured to control a sound quality of the audio-input signal based on the one of the corrected speech/music scores.

Sound quality control device and sound quality control method

Activity is determined for each frequency band in a frame, and when it is determined that an activity-OFF state has not continued for a predetermined number of times for preceding frames, normal coding processing is performed for the frequency band. When it is determined that the activity-OFF state has continued for the predetermined number of times or more, DTX coding is performed for the frequency band. After this processing has been performed for all of the bands of one frame, a total power of the one entire frame and the power of the band or bands to which the DTX coding is applied are calculated. Subsequently, a new target bit value is calculated based on a ratio of the total power of the one entire frame and the power of the band or bands to which the DTX coding is applied.

Apparatus for coding a wideband audio signal and a method for coding a wideband audio signal

According to one embodiment, a sound quality correction apparatus calculates various feature parameters for identifying the speech signal and the music signal from an input audio signal and, based on the various feature parameters thus calculated, also calculates a speech/music identification score indicating to which of the speech signal and the music signal the input audio signal is close to. Then, based on this speech/music identification score, the correction strength of each of plural sound quality correctors is controlled to execute different types of the sound quality correction processes on the input audio signal.

Apparatus, method, and program for sound quality correction based on identification of a speech signal and a music signal from an input audio signal

According to one embodiment, various feature parameters are calculated for distinguishing between a speech and music and between music and background sound for an input audio signal. With the feature parameters, score determination is made as to whether the input audio signal is close to a speech signal or a music signal. If the input audio signal is determined to be close to music, the preceding score determination result is corrected considering the influence of background sound. Based on the corrected score value, a sound quality correction process for a speech or music is applied to the input audio signal.

Sound quality correction apparatus, sound quality correction method and program for sound quality correction

According to one embodiment, various characteristic parameters for determining whether an input audio signal is a voice signal or a music signal are calculated and the calculated characteristic parameters are compared with a threshold value for voice determination and a threshold value for music determination. A voice characteristic score is provided to a characteristic parameter indicating voice and a music characteristic score is provided to a characteristic parameter indicating music. Then, based on a difference between a sum total of voice characteristic scores and a sum total of music characteristic scores, it is determined whether the input audio signal is a voice signal or a music signal.

Voice/music determining apparatus, voice/music determination method, and voice/music determination program

According to one embodiment, sound quality control processing for speech or music is performed by calculating various kinds of characteristic parameters to determine a speech signal and a music signal from an input audio signal and determining the input audio signal closer to the speech signal or music signal based on a score difference between a sum of scores provided to characteristic parameters indicating the speech signal and that of scores provided to characteristic parameters indicating the music signal.

Sound quality control apparatus, sound quality control method, and sound quality control program

A voice/music determining apparatus is configured to calculate first feature parameters for discriminating between a voice signal and a musical signal; and calculate second feature parameters for discriminating between a musical signal and a background-sound-superimposed voice signal. A first score is calculated to indicate likelihood that the input audio signal is a voice signal or a musical signal as a sum of weight-multiplied first feature parameters. A second score is calculated to indicate likelihood that the input audio signal is a musical signal or a background-sound-superimposed voice signal as a sum of weight-multiplied second feature parameters. It is determined whether the input audio signal is a voice signal or a musical signal on the basis of the first score. Further, it is determined whether the musical signal is the input audio signal is a background-sound-superimposed voice signal on the basis of the second score.

Voice/music determining apparatus and method

In packet data flow control wherein point-to-multipoint communication or point-to-point communication is performed in a network comprising one or a plurality of packet exchanges that respectively accommodate a plurality of communication terminals, reduction of the transmission bandwidth or lowering of transmission rate caused by local congestion is absorbed by providing buffers for absorbing difference between the transmission bandwidths of the upstream link and downstream links of these packet exchanges at each packet exchange. At the packet exchanges the transmission rate of the downstream links from the packet exchange is controlled in accordance with a first load data that is notified thereto from the downstream links and, if the difference of transmission bandwidth of the upstream link and downstream links cannot be absorbed by the buffer, a second load data is generated based on the first load data and the free capacity of the buffer and the upstream link of the packet exchange is notified of the second load data.

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Hirokazu Takeuchi