1. A position detecting method for a touchscreen panel that includes a conductive film divided into a plurality of conductive regions that are electrically insulated from each other, and detects a track of a movement of an object that comes into contact with the touchscreen panel, the position detecting method comprising:
determining whether a no-touch state in which the object is out of contact with each of the conductive regions is detected or not, after a first touched state in which the object is in contact with a first conductive region of the conductive regions is detected;
measuring a duration time between a detection of the no-touch state and a detection of a second touched state in which the object is in contact with a second conductive region of the conductive regions adjacent to the first conductive region and which is detected subsequently to the detected no-touch state, in response to determining that the no-touch state is detected;
determining whether the second touched state is detected;
determining whether the measured duration time is less than a predetermined time when the second touched state is detected; and
outputting a continuous track of the movement of the object that is continuous between the adjacent first and second conductive regions when the measured duration time is less than the predetermined time, and confirming the no-touch state when the duration time from the detection of the no-touch state is longer than or equal to the predetermined time,
wherein the touchscreen panel outputs a signal indicating a touched state when the object is in contact with one of the conductive regions,
wherein the signal indicating the touched state is continuously output for a certain period which is longer than or equal to the predetermined time after the detection of the no-touch state, and
wherein the predetermined time is determined based on at least an interval between the adjacent first and second conductive regions.
2. The position detecting method as claimed in claim 1, wherein:
the conductive film is divided into at least two units in each of a widthwise direction and a lengthwise direction into the conductive regions.
3. The position detecting method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:
detecting a coordinate position of each of a plurality of contact positions of the conductive film and an additional conductive film facing the conductive film in the touchscreen panel.
4. The position detecting method as claimed in claim 1, wherein:
an interval between the conductive regions is less than or equal to 100 \u03bcm.
5. A touchscreen panel, comprising:
a first electrode substrate having a first conductive film formed on a first substrate, the first conductive film being divided into a plurality of conductive regions that are electrically insulated from each other;
a second electrode substrate having a second conductive film formed on a second substrate, the second conductive film facing toward the first conductive film; and
an electrode provided along four sides of the second conductive film to generate an electric potential distribution therein; and
a driver circuit configured to drive the touchscreen panel,
the driver circuit including a process part configured to:
determine whether a no-touch state in which an object is out of contact with each of the conductive regions is detected or not, after a first touched state in which the object is in contact with a first conductive region of the conductive region is detected;
measure a duration time between a detection of the no-touch state and a detection of a second touched state in which the object is in contact with a second conductive region of the conductive regions adjacent to the first conductive region and which is detected subsequently to the detected no-touch state, in response to determining that the no-touch state is detected;
determine whether the second touched state is detected;
determine whether the measured duration time is less than a predetermined time when the second touched state is detected;
continuously output a signal indicating the first touched state after the detection of the no-touch state for a certain period of time that is longer than or equal to the predetermined time; and
output a continuous track of the movement of the object that is continuous between the adjacent first and second conductive regions when the measured duration time is less than the predetermined time, and confirm the no-touch state when the duration time from the detection of the no-touch state is longer than or equal to the predetermined time,
wherein the predetermined time is determined based on at least an interval between the adjacent first and second conductive regions.
6. The touchscreen panel as darned in claim 5, wherein:
the first conductive film is divided into at least two units in each of a widthwise direction and a lengthwise direction into the conductive regions.
7. The touchscreen panel as claimed in claim 5, wherein:
an interval between the conductive regions is less than or equal to 100 \u03bcm.
8. An electronic apparatus, comprising:
a touchscreen panel including
a first electrode substrate having a first conductive film formed on a first substrate, the first conductive film being divided into a plurality of conductive regions that are electrically insulated from each other;
a second electrode substrate having a second conductive film formed on a second substrate, the second conductive film facing toward the first conductive film; and
an electrode provided along four sides of the second conductive film to generate an electric potential distribution therein; and
a driver circuit configured to drive the touchscreen panel,
the driver circuit including a process part configured to:
determine whether a no-touch state in which an object is out of contact with each of the conductive regions is detected or not, after a first touched state in which the object is in contact with a first conductive region of the conductive regions is detected;
measure a duration time between a detection of the no-touch state and a detection of a second touched state in which the object is in contact with a second conductive region of the conductive regions adjacent to the first conductive region and which is detected subsequently to the detected no-touch state, in response to determining that the no-touch state is detected;
determine whether the second touched state is detected;
determine whether the measured duration time is less than a predetermined time when the second touched state is detected;
continuously output a signal indicating the first touched state after the detection of the no-touch state for a certain period of time that is longer than or equal to the predetermined time; and
output a continuous track of the movement of the object that is continuous between the adjacent first and second conductive regions when the measured duration time is less than the predetermined time, and confirm the no-touch state when the duration time from the detection of the no-touch state is longer than or equal to the predetermined time,
wherein the predetermined time is determined based on at least an interval between the adjacent first and second conductive regions.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method of identifying a sequence of vocal tract resonance (VTR) distributions for a sequence of phonetic units, the method comprising:
identifying a sequence of target distributions for a VTR; and
applying the sequence of target distributions to a finite impulse response filter to produce a sequence of VTR distributions,
utilizing the sequence of VTR distributions in a speech recognition process.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein applying the sequence of target distributions to a finite impulse response filter comprises applying the sequence of target distributions to a finite impulse response filter that generates a value based on past target distributions and future target distributions.
3. The method of claim 2 wherein the finite impulse response is symmetrical with respect to past target distributions relative to future target distributions.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein identifying a sequence of target distributions comprises identifying a separate target distribution for each phonetic unit in the sequence of phonetic units.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein identifying a sequence of target distributions further comprises determining a duration for each target distribution in the sequence of target distributions.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein each distribution of the sequence of target distributions is a Gaussian distribution.
7. The method of claim 1 wherein each distribution of the sequence of VTR distributions is a Gaussian distribution.
8. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing steps comprising:
identifying, using a processor, a sequence of target VTR distributions; and
at a point in the sequence of target VTR distributions, determining, using the processor, a VTR trajectory distribution using multiple target VTR distributions that occur before the point in the sequence of target VTR distributions and using multiple target VTR distributions that occur after the point in the sequence of target VTR distributions,
utilizing the VTR trajectory distribution in a speech recognition process.
9. The computer-readable medium of claim 8 further comprising determining a sequence of VTR trajectory distributions.
10. The computer-readable medium of claim 9 wherein the sequence of target VTR trajectory distributions is based in part obn a rate of speech and the sequence of VTR trajectory distributions exhibits VTR reduction with changes in the rate of speech.
11. The computer-readable medium of claim 10 wherein determining a VTR trajectory distribution comprises applying the sequence of target VTR distributions to a finite impulse response filter.
12. The computer-readable medium of claim 11 wherein the response of the finite impulse response filter is dependent on a phonetic unit associated with a target VTR distribution.
13. The computer-readable medium of claim 11 wherein the finite impulse response filter uses the same number of target VTR distributions that occur before the point as the number of target VTR distributions that occur after the point.
14. The computer-readable medium of claim 10 wherein identifying a sequence of target VTR distributions comprises identifying a sequence of phonetic units and identifying the sequence of target VTR distributions from the sequence of phonetic units.
15. The computer-readable medium of claim 14 wherein identifying a sequence of phonetic units further comprises identifying a duration for each phonetic unit.
16. A method of recognizing a speech signal, the method comprising:
identifying a sequence of phonetic units;
identifying a sequence of target VTR distributions from the sequence of phonetic units;
applying the sequence of target VTR distributions to a finite impulse response filter to form a sequence of VTR trajectory distributions;
utilizing the sequence of VTR trajectory distributions to recognize the speech signal.
17. The method of claim 16 wherein the sequence of phonetic units correspond to a first plausible hypothesis of a plurality of plausible hypotheses for the speech signal, and wherein recognizing the speech signal further comprises carrying out steps of claim 16 iteratively, with each iteration utilizing a different plausible hypothesis from the plurality of plausible hypotheses.
18. The method of claim 17 further comprising comparing scores for the different iterations to determine which plausible hypothesis of the plurality of plausible hypotheses best represents an utterance corresponding to the speech signal.