Red Shift Company, LLC

Matthew D Robinson

Joel K Nyquist

John F Remillard

Erik N Reckase

David C Robinson

A medical apparatus having a plurality of medical vials, each medical vial having a vial flange; and a medical carousel configured to be selectively engaged with the plurality of medical vials, the medical carousel having: a carousel platform having: a plurality of vial holders, wherein each vial holder is configured to be selectively engaged with a corresponding medical vial, each vial holder being configured to selectively confine the vial flange of the corresponding medical vial such that upon rotation of the medical vial about a vial vertical axis, and subsequent lifting of the medical vial, the vial holder is configured to allow a patient to extract the selected medical vial using an extraction tool. The medical apparatus may be configured to selectively rotate the medical carousel to align a corresponding medical vial with an extraction aperture, and actuate an extraction door to uncover the extraction aperture, thus facilitating medication dispensing.

Medical apparatus

Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for processing a signal representing speech. According to one embodiment, processing a signal representing speech can comprise receiving a region of the signal representing speech. The region can comprise a portion of a frame of the signal representing speech classified as a voiced frame. The region can be marked based on one or more pitch estimates for the region. A cord can be identified within the region based on occurrence of one or more events within the region of the signal. For example, the one or more events can comprise one or more glottal pulses. In such cases, cord can begin with onset of a first glottal pulse and extend to a point prior to an onset of a second glottal pulse. The cord may exclude a portion of the region of the signal prior to the onset of the second glottal pulse.

Identifying features in a portion of a signal representing speech

Generally speaking, embodiments of the present invention relate to speech processing such as, for example, speech recognition. Speech processing according to one embodiment of the present invention can be performed based on the occurrence of events within the electrical signals representing speech. Such events need not comprise instantaneous occurrences but rather, an occurrence within the electrical signal spanning some period of time. Furthermore, the electrical signal can be analyzed based on the occurrence and location of these events so that less than all of the signal is analyzed. That is, the spoken sounds can be processed based on regions of the signal around and including the events but excluding other portions of the signal. For example, transition periods before the occurrence of the events may be excluded to eliminate noise or transients introduced at that part of the signal.

Producing time uniform feature vectors

Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for processing a signal representing speech. According to one embodiment, processing a signal representing speech can comprise receiving a first frame of the signal, the first frame comprising a voiced frame. One or more cords can be extracted from the voiced frame based on occurrence of one or more events within the frame. For example, the one or more events can comprise one or more glottal pulses. The one or more cords can collectively comprise less than all of the frame. For example, each of the cords can begin with onset of a glottal pulse and extend to a point prior to an onset of neighboring glottal pulse but may exclude a portion of the frame prior to the onset of the neighboring glottal pulse. A phoneme for the voiced frame can be determined based on at least one of the extracted cords.

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Matthew D Robinson