Abstract:
Operation of a computer system is enhanced by means of a threedimensional tactile control unit interactively coupled by a software package to the computer. By means of a sticklike mechanism, which is mechanically controlled by a servomotor system and energized by computer-generated signals proportional to a stored definition of a three-dimensional object, the hand of an operator is restrained to move over the surface of the object. Hence, surfaces of a three-dimensional object, otherwise virtually impossible to display, may be ''''felt'''' by the operator.
Abstract:
The periodicity or aperiodicity of a signal is determined, in a signal analyzer, from the so-called ''''cepstrum'''' of the signal; that is, from the Fourier transform of the logarithm of the power spectrum of the signal. The short-time cepstrum is obtained by passing the signal through a first spectrum analyzer followed by a logarithmic amplifier and a second spectrum analyzer. The cepstrum signal is characterized by a peak at a time proportional to the fundamental period during periodic portions of the signal, and by the absence of a peak during aperiodic portions of the signal.
Abstract:
The pitch of a complex speech wave is determined by spectrum analyzing the infinitely peak-clipped log spectrum of a centerclipped and infinitely peak-clipped interval of an analogue speech wave.