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Development of an Advanced Printed Circuit Board Technology Using Liquid Crystal Polymers

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Army
Contract: DAAD17-01-C-0075
Agency Tracking Number: A992-0589
Amount: $729,957.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N/A
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: N/A
Award Year: 2001
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
2 Research Place, Suite 202
Rockville, MD 20850
United States
DUNS: 161911532
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Chiman Kwan
 vice president
 (301) 590-3155
 steveh@ctilidar.com
Business Contact
 Marc Toplin
Title: Director of Contracts
Phone: (301) 590-3155
Email: steveh@ctilidar.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Eliminating noise from communication channels is important for both military and commercial applications. Conventional approaches to noise elimination use only one sensor, i.e. the ordinary microphone. Although noise can be eliminated, the distortion ofthe speech signal due to signal processing actually reduces speech recognition rates even compared to the original noisy speech signal.In this Phase II proposal, Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) will develop hardware that fuses information from different forms of speech sensors. In particular, we will fuse information from a new type of microphone called a Glottal ElectromagneticMicropower Sensor (GEMS) microphone developed by LLNL, camera images quantifying lip motion, bone conduction microphones, and ordinary microphones. The work will require refinement of our Phase 1 camera sensor for quantifying lip motion, and refinement ofthe GEMS sensor developed by LLNL, as well as further development of our signal fusion methodology. Our Phase I results have clearly demonstrated the feasibility of our proposed approach, however substantial additional algorithmic and hardware developmentwork is still needed.

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