Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 01/07

20070021956 - Method and apparatus for generating ideographic representations of letter based names: A method of generating an ideographic representation of a name given in a letter based system begins with a determination of the language of original. After determining the language of origin for the name, the name is segmented into a segmentation sequence in response to the determined language of origin.... Agent: Jones Day

20070021957 - System and method for providing internet based phone conferences using multiple codecs: A method of communicating digitized speech from a transmitting forum participant comprises the step of receiving a data structure that includes said digitized speech. The data structure is analyzed to determine whether the digitized speech is redundantly represented in a plurality of forms in the data structure. A portion of... Agent: Innovation Management Sciences

20070021958 - Robust separation of speech signals in a noisy environment: A method for improving the quality of a speech signal extracted from a noisy acoustic environment is provided. In one approach, a signal separation process is associated with a voice activity detector. The voice activity detector is a two-channel detector, which enables a particularly robust and accurate detection of voice... Agent: William J. Kolegraff

20070021959 - Method and device for removing known acoustic signal: The present invention relates to a device for removing a known acoustic signal that enables removal of the known acoustic signal when mixed acoustic signals including a plurality of acoustic signals are entered and a known acoustic signal similar to one of the mixed acoustic signals is specified. This device... Agent: Rankin, Hill, Porter & Clark LLP

20070021960 - System and method for communicating with a network: Systems and methods of performing searches on a network or computer are provided. The method includes, for example, reading an audio input that comprises speech and converting the speech to at least one text string. The method may also include identifying at least one word associated with initiating a search... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20070021961 - Audio reproduction method and apparatus supporting audio thumbnail function: An audio reproduction method and apparatus are provided. The method includes sound-localizing audio thumbnails that respectively represent a predetermined number of audio files into a predetermined number of directions, simultaneously outputting the sound-localized audio thumbnails, and outputting at least one of the audio files based on a selection of a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070021962 - Dialog control for dialog systems: A method and a system for developing a dialog control (DS) for a dialog system is described, which on the one hand has the task of controlling the dialog with the user and on the other hand monitors the speech user interface (SP) and the application (AP) of the dialog... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070016397 - Collocation translation using monolingual corpora: An approach for extracting collocation translations is presented. The approach includes constructing a collocation translation model using monolingual source and target language corpora. An expectation maximization algorithm is used to estimate the collocation translation model. The collocation translation model can be used later to extract a collocation translation dictionary. The... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070016398 - Parsing method: A method of parsing natural language comprising the steps of: a) receiving a tokenised and part-of-speech tagged utterance comprising n tokens b) for the first token; i) calculating a partial parse consisting of one dependency relation by assigning a role and a head for the first token; ii) calculating the... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070016399 - Method and apparatus for detecting data anomalies in statistical natural language applications: Techniques for detecting data anomalies in a natural language understanding (NLU) system are provided. A number of categorized sentences, categorized into a number of categories, are obtained. Sentences within a given one of the categories are clustered into a number of sub clusters, and the sub clusters are analyzed to... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070016401 - Speech-to-speech translation system with user-modifiable paraphrasing grammars: The present invention discloses a speech-to-speech translation device which allows one or more users to input a spoken utterance in one language, translates the utterance into one or more second languages, and outputs the translation in speech form. Additionally, the device allows for translation both directions, recognizing inputs in the... Agent: Emil Chang Law Offices Of Emil Chang

20070016400 - Weighted system of expressing language information using a compact notation: A special notation that extends the notion of IDL by weighted operators. The Weighted IDL or WIDL can be intersected with a language model, for example an n-gram language model or a syntax-based language model. The intersection is carried out by converting the IDL to a graph, and unfolding the... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070016402 - Audio coding: Coding an audio signal of a sequence of audio values into a coded signal includes determining a first listening threshold for a first block of audio values of the sequence of audio values and a second listening threshold for a second block of audio values of the sequence of audio... Agent: Gardner Groff Santos & Greenwald, P.C.

20070016403 - Audio coding: The central idea of the present invention is that the prior procedure, namely interpolation relative to the filter coefficients and the amplification value, for obtaining interpolated values for the intermediate audio values starting from the nodes has to be dismissed. Coding containing less audible artifacts can be obtained by not... Agent: Gardner Groff Santos & Greenwald, P.C.

20070016404 - Method and apparatus to extract important spectral component from audio signal and low bit-rate audio signal coding and/or decoding method and apparatus using the same: An method and apparatus to extract an audio signal having an important spectral component (ISC) and a low bit-rate audio signal coding/decoding method using the method and apparatus to extract the ISC. The method of extracting the ISC includes calculating perceptual importance including an SMR (signal-to-mark ratio) value of transformed... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070016405 - Coding with improved time resolution for selected segments via adaptive block transformation of a group of samples from a subband decomposition: A transform coder is described that performs a time-split transform in addition to a discrete cosine type transform. A time-split transform is selectively performed based on characteristics of media data. Transient detection identifies a changing signal characteristic, such as a transient in media data. After encoding an input signal from... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070016407 - Audio signal processing device, signal recovering device, audio signal processing method and signal recovering method: The pitch extracting part generates a pitch waveform signal in a manner making the time interval of the pitch of the input audio sound data to be the same. After the number of samples in each region is made to be the same by the re-sampling part, the pitch waveform... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070016406 - Reordering coefficients for waveform coding or decoding: Techniques and tools for reordering of spectral coefficients in encoding and decoding are described herein. For certain types and patterns of content, coefficient reordering reduces redundancy that is due to periodic patterns in the spectral coefficients, making subsequent entropy encoding more efficient. For example, an audio encoder receives spectral coefficients... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070016408 - Automatically mixing audio signals in a predetermined manner: A recorded voice message having a first length and a background sound having a second length longer than the first length are received. The first length of the recorded voice message is determined. The level of a portion of the background sound is lowered, the lowered portion having a length... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070016409 - Predictive coding scheme: If an adaptive prediction algorithm controllable by a speed coefficient is started from to operate with a first adaption speed and a first adaption precision and an accompanying first prediction precision in the case that the speed coefficient has a first value and to operate with a second, compared to... Agent: Gardner Groff Santos & Greenwald, P.C.

20070016410 - Method and apparatus to search fixed codebook: A method and apparatus to search a codebook including pulses that model a predetermined component of a speech signal. The method includes the operations of selecting a predetermined number of paths corresponding to a predetermined number of pulse locations that are most consistent with the predetermined component, from among paths... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070016411 - Method and apparatus to encode/decode low bit-rate audio signal: A method and apparatus to encode/decode a low bit-rate audio signal. The method of encoding a low bit-rate audio signal, includes quantizing and losslessly-encoding a specific frequency component of an audio signal in a frequency domain, generating codebooks using the audio signal in the frequency domain, detecting an envelope of... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070016413 - Coding/decoding apparatus for orthogonal frequency division multiple access communication system and method for designing the same: Provided is a coding/decoding apparatus for an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) communication system that takes multiple users into consideration and uses block coding/decoding scheme. In the apparatus, a mapper determines paths through which information of users will be provided, according to states of sub-channels allocated to the users.... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070016412 - Frequency segmentation to obtain bands for efficient coding of digital media: Frequency segmentation is important to the quality of encoding spectral data. Segmentation involves breaking the spectral data into units called sub-bands or vectors. Homogeneous segmentation may be suboptimal. Various features are described for providing spectral data intensity dependent segmentation. Finer segmentation is provided for regions of greater spectral variance and... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070016416 - Energy dependent quantization for efficient coding of spatial audio parameters: Parameters being a measure for a characteristic of a channel or of a pair of channels, wherein the parameter is a measure for a characteristic of the channel or of the pair of channels with respect to another channel of a multi-channel signal can be quantized more efficiently using a... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070016417 - Method and apparatus to quantize/dequantize frequency amplitude data and method and apparatus to audio encode/decode using the method and apparatus to quantize/dequantize frequency amplitude data: A method and apparatus to quantize/dequantize frequency amplitude data and a method and apparatus to audio encode/decode using the method and apparatus to quantize/dequantize the frequency amplitude data. The method includes calculating and quantizing power of frequency amplitudes for each of a plurality of bands constituting an audio frame, normalizing... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070016414 - Modification of codewords in dictionary used for efficient coding of digital media spectral data: Coding of spectral data by representing certain portions of the spectral data as a scaled version of a code-vector, where the code-vector is chosen from either a fixed predetermined codebook or a codebook taken from a baseband. Various optional features are described for modifying the code-vectors in the codebook according... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070016415 - Prediction of spectral coefficients in waveform coding and decoding: Techniques and tools for prediction of spectral coefficients in encoding and decoding are described herein. For certain types and patterns of content, coefficient prediction exploits correlation between adjacent spectral coefficients, making subsequent entropy encoding more efficient. For example, an audio encoder predictively codes quantized spectral coefficients in the quantized domain... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070016418 - Selectively using multiple entropy models in adaptive coding and decoding: Techniques and tools for selectively using multiple entropy models in adaptive coding and decoding are described herein. For example, for multiple symbols, an audio encoder selects an entropy model from a first model set that includes multiple entropy models. Each of the multiple entropy models includes a model switch point... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070016419 - Selective security masking within recorded speech utilizing speech recognition techniques: Apparatuses and methods are described to secure information contained within voice recordings. A voice recording is loaded into a data processing system, wherein the voice recording results from an utterance of a human during an interaction between the human and an interface of a business entity. The voice recording is... Agent: Peloquin, PLLC

20070016420 - Dictionary lookup for mobile devices using spelling recognition: A method for querying an electronic dictionary using letters of an alphabet enunciated by a user includes accepting a speech input from the user. The speech input includes a sequence of spelled letters enunciated by the user that spell a query word. The speech input is analyzed to determine one... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070016422 - Annotating phonemes and accents for text-to-speech system: A system that outputs phonemes and accents of texts. The system has a storage section storing a first corpus in which spellings, phonemes, and accents of a text input beforehand are recorded separately for individual segmentations of the words that are contained in the text. A text for which phonemes... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (yor)

20070016421 - Correcting a pronunciation of a synthetically generated speech object: This invention relates to a method, a device and a software application product for correcting a pronunciation of a speech object. The speech object is synthetically generated from a text object in dependence on a segmented representation of the text object. It is determined if an initial pronunciation of the... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070016423 - Information processing apparatus and user interface control method: In an information processing apparatus which can set one of a plurality of setting values for a setting item, a guidance holding unit holds guidance information for voice output for each of the plurality of setting values. A document information acquisition unit acquires document information as limiting information which limits... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070016424 - Voice synthesizing method using independent sampling frequencies and apparatus therefor: A method and a system of producing a synthesized voice is provided. A voice sound waveform is provided at a voice sampling frequency based on pronunciation informations. A voice-less sound waveform is produced at a voice-less sampling frequency based on the pronunciation informations. The voice sampling frequency is converted into... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070016425 - Device for providing perception of the physical environment: A sensory substitution device for enabling a user to perceive 3D structure, and optionally colour, of the environment. Image and range data derived from the sensor assembly is mapped into a low resolution 2D array such that each element of the 2D array contains the distance of the sampled region... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20070016426 - Audio-visual control system: A visual control system controls a controlled component. In one embodiment, the visual control system controls the controlled component based on a visual location of a user. In another embodiment, input from a visual perception device is used to provide focus control for an audio input device. In additional embodiments,... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070016427 - Coding and decoding scale factor information: Techniques and tools for representing, coding, and decoding scale factor information are described herein. For example, during encoding of scale factors, an encoder uses one or more of flexible scale factor resolution selection, spatial prediction of scale factors, flexible prediction of scale factors, smoothing of noisy scale factor amplitudes, reordering... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070010989 - Decoding procedure for statistical machine translation: A source sentence is decoded in an iterative manner. At each step a set of partially constructed target sentences are collated, each of which has a score or an associated probability, computed from a language model score and a translation model score. At each iteration, a family of exponentially many... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Mcginn & Gibb, PLLC

20070010990 - Method for sentence structure analysis based on mobile configuration concept and method for natural language search using of it: A method of syntax analysis based on a mobile configuration concept, and a natural language search method using the syntax analysis method, are provided. The syntax analysis method includes morpheme analysis and syntax analysis after establishing a morpheme dictionary program for analyzing morphemes of an input sentence, and a subcategorization... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070010991 - Translation leveraging: An application archive is searched for an existing translation for a text string in an application to be localized. The text string is associated with context information that identifies a location of the text string in the application. If an existing translation is found that matches the text string, and... Agent: Csa LLP

20070010994 - Inferencing using disambiguated natural language rules: A method and structure for automatically producing bridging inferences that join two related input sentences, by applying a lexicon and ontology data structure to a first input sentence to produce first input tagged sentences, applying the lexicon and ontology data structure to a second input sentence to produce second input... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20070010993 - Method and system for the automatic recognition of deceptive language: A system for identifying deception within a text includes a processor for receiving and processing a text file. The processor includes a deception indicator tag analyzer for inserting into the text file at least one deception indicator tag that identifies a potentially deceptive word or phrase within the text file,... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070010992 - Processing collocation mistakes in documents: A sentence is accessed and at least one query is generated based on the sentence. At least one query can be compared to text within a collection of documents, for example using a web search engine. Collocation errors in the sentence can be detected and/or corrected based on the comparison... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070010995 - Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signal: In one embodiment, at least first and second channels in a frame of the audio signal are independently subdivided into blocks if the first and second channels are not correlated with each other. At least two of the blocks have different block lengths. Furthermore, the first and second channels are... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070010996 - Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signal: In one embodiment, at least first and second channels in a frame of the audio signal are independently subdivided into blocks if the first and second channels are not correlated with each other. The first and second channels are corresponding subdivided into blocks such that the lengths of the blocks... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070010997 - Sound processing apparatus and method: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for processing signals such as sound signals. The sound processing apparatus includes a sound signal input unit for receiving sound signals, a harmonic noise separator for separating a harmonic region and a noise region from the received sound signals, a noise restraint index determination... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070010998 - Dynamic generative process modeling, tracking and analyzing: A method tracks and analyzes dynamically a generative process that generates multivariate time series data. In one application, the method is used to detect boundaries in broadcast programs, for example, a sports broadcast and a news broadcast. In another application, significant events are detected in a signal obtained by a... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. Patent Department

20070010999 - Systems and methods for audio signal analysis and modification: Systems and methods for modification of an audio input signal are provided. In exemplary embodiments, an adaptive multiple-model optimizer is configured to generate at least one source model parameter for facilitating modification of an analyzed signal. The adaptive multiple-model optimizer comprises a segment grouping engine and a source grouping engine.... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070011000 - Apparatus and method of processing an audio signal: In one embodiment of the method, a block of digital audio data is stored in a buffer, and a set of parcor values are calculated for the block of digital audio data, Then, the parcor values are entropy encoded for transmission. The entropy coding includes selecting a table including offset... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070011001 - Apparatus for predicting the spectral information of voice signals and a method therefor: Disclosed is a method for predicting the spectral information of voice signals, including inputting the voice signals, performing morphological operations with the waveform image of the voice signals, extracting harmonic peaks as a result of the morphological operations, and predicting the spectral envelope information of the voice signals by interpolating... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070011004 - Apparatus and method of processing an audio signal: In one embodiment, channel mapping information is added to configuration information for the audio signal. The channel mapping information indicates to which speaker in a reproduction device to map each channel in the audio signal. For example, the channel mapping information may include a plurality of bits where each bit... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070011003 - Microphone apparatus for interactive learning system: A microphone apparatus includes a code generator that produces a code output and communicates with a user computer over a channel via which the microphone apparatus provides an electrical signal to the user computer. The microphone apparatus is used by the user such that the user provides authentication information comprising... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070011002 - Signal encoding apparatus and method, signal decoding apparatus and method, programs and recording mediums: The encoding apparatus generates information for generating a high quality high frequency sub-band signal when expanding the frequency band at the decoding apparatus. A signal encoding apparatus divides an input time series signal into a plurality of sub-bands and encodes a low frequency sub-band signal to generate encoded data of... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070011005 - Comprehension instruction system and method: A reading comprehension system and method that uses language micro-variables is disclosed. The system provide training using these language micro-variables in order to provide reading comprehension training. This training also is highly impactful for the instruction and improvement of reading fluency and vocabulary.... Agent: Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP

20070011006 - Speech quality assessment method and system: In one embodiment, distortion in a received speech signal is estimated using at least one model trained based on subjective quality assessment data. A speech quality assessment for the received speech signal is then determined based on the estimated distortion.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070011007 - System, method and computer program product for adding voice activation and voice control to a media player: A media player system, method and computer program product are provided. In use, an utterance is received. A command for a media player is then generated based on the utterance. Such command is utilized for providing wireless control of the media player.... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20070011008 - Methods and apparatus for audio data monitoring and evaluation using speech recognition: The present invention relates to audio data monitoring using speech recognition technology. In particular, the present invention uses business rules combined with unrestricted, natural speech recognition to monitor conversations in a customer interaction environment, literally transforming the spoken word to a retrievable data form. Implemented using the VorTecs Integration Platform... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski Market Square

20070011009 - Supporting a concatenative text-to-speech synthesis: The invention relates to a support of a concatenative TTS synthesis. In order to generate a speech database as a basis for the TTS synthesis, first, a speech processing including a segmental parametric speech encoding of speech data based on a parametric modeling of speech is performed, which results in... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070011010 - Distributed voice recognition system and method: A distributed voice recognition system (500) and method employs principles of bottom-up (i.e., raw input) and top-down (i.e., prediction based on past experience) processing to perform client-side and server-side processing by (i) at the client-side, replacing application data by a phonotactic table (504); (ii) at the server-side, tracking separate confidence... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070011011 - Interactive book: An electronic interactive book allowing a child to learn the pronunciation of various words. The book will be provided with a permanent or impermanent display onto which a plurality of words, phrases or sentences would be provided. The electronic book includes a microphone as well as a speech recognition unit... Agent: Hoffman, Wasson & Gitler, P.C. Suite 522

20070011012 - Method, system, and apparatus for facilitating captioning of multi-media content: A method, system and apparatus for facilitating transcription and captioning of multi-media content are presented. The method, system, and apparatus include automatic multi-media analysis operations that produce information which is presented to an operator as suggestions for spoken words, spoken word timing, caption segmentation, caption playback timing, caption mark-up such... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070011013 - Apparatus and method of processing an audio signal: In one embodiment, at least one audio data frame having at least one channel is generated. Each channel is divided into a plurality of blocks. A sub-block partitioning scheme is selected, and a number of sub-blocks into which the block is to be partitioned is selected. The selected number of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070005336 - Handheld electronic device with reduced keyboard and associated method of providing improved disambiguation: An improved handheld electronic device having a reduced keyboard provides facilitated language entry by making available to a user certain words that a user may reasonably be expected to enter. In some situations, certain words can be stored, for example, in a temporary dictionary for use in particular situations. For... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20070005337 - Systems and methods for using automated translation and other statistical methods to convert a classifier in one language to another language: Systems and methods for using automated translation and other statistical methods to convert a classifier in one language to another language are provided. In one embodiment of the invention, a method preferably includes marking target language examples of passages of text in order to obtain an initial classifier in the... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070005338 - Real-time media dictionary: A method for viewing a multi-media stream is provided. The method including: adding a dictionary database in the multi-media stream; and permitting a viewer of the multi-media stream to access the dictionary database during viewing of the multi-media stream. Also provided is a method for viewing a multi-media stream where... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070005339 - Lingual translation of syndicated content feeds: A method, system and apparatus for processing multi-lingual syndicated content feeds is provided. In an embodiment of the invention, the system can include a syndicated content aggregator configured for coupling to multiple syndicated content subscribers and syndicated content feed sources. The system also can include a translation server coupled to... Agent: Steven M. Greenberg, Esquire Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20070005342 - Computer source code generator: A programming editor and creator allows users with minimal knowledge of a computer language syntax to generate computer source code using a structured rather than freeform process. A predefined command sentence is provided representing at least a portion of a programming command, and includes words, which may be defined as... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070005343 - Concept matching: A method for developing a system for retrieving text related to a selected concept within a text corpus includes identifying a set of semantic classes which express the concept and identifying a set of keywords for each of the semantic classes to be used in text searching in a text... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070005344 - Concept matching system: A system for retrieving documents related to a concept from a text corpus includes a set of stored semantic classes which are combinable to express the concept each class including a set of keywords, each set of keywords including at least one keyword. Syntactic rules are applied to identified text... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070005340 - Incremental training for probabilistic categorizer: A probabilistic document categorizer has an associated vocabulary of words and an associated plurality of probabilistic categorizer parameters derived from a collection of documents. A new document is received. The probabilistic categorizer parameters are updated to reflect addition of the new document to the collection of documents based on vocabulary... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070005341 - Leveraging unlabeled data with a probabilistic graphical model: A general probabilistic formulation referred to as ‘Conditional Harmonic Mixing’ is provided, in which links between classification nodes are directed, a conditional probability matrix is associated with each link, and where the numbers of classes can vary from node to node. A posterior class probability at each node is updated... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070005345 - Generating chinese language couplets: An approach of constructing Chinese language couplets, in particular, a second scroll sentence given a first scroll sentence is presented. The approach includes constructing a language model, a word translation-like model, and word association information such as mutual information values that can be used later in generating second scroll sentences... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070005347 - Method and apparatus for data frame construction: A method of data coding is disclosed. The method comprises (204) generating a plurality of transmission frames (100) for a set of source information, wherein each transmission frame construction represents the entire set of source information. Each transmission frame construction comprises N speech frames, wherein each speech frame is coded... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070005346 - Mobile terminal device: A mobile terminal apparatus that considers intervals between key input operations when characters are input, and, when there is an interval grater than a certain period of time between operations, or when a shift is made to different character input, reads aloud the voice corresponding to the stored input character... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070005348 - Device, method and computer program for analyzing an audio signal: An device for analyzing an audio signal to obtain an analysis representation of the audio signal includes means for calculating a neural activity pattern over time resulting at nerve fibers of an ear model based on the audio signal and means for processing the neural activity pattern to obtain as... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070005349 - Multi-precision technique for digital audio encoder: AC-3 is a high quality audio compression format widely used in feature films and, more recently, on Digital Versatile Disks (DVD). For consumer applications the algorithm is usually coded into the firmware of a DSP Processor, which due to cost considerations may be capable of only fixed point arithmetic. It... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070005350 - Sound signal processing method and apparatus: A sound signal processing method includes calculating a difference between every few ones of input multiple channel sound signals to obtain a plurality of characteristic quantities each indicating the difference, selecting a weighting factor from a weighting factor dictionary containing a plurality of weighting factors of a plurality of channels... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070005351 - Method and system for bandwidth expansion for voice communications: The invention concerns a method (400) and system (100) for bandwidth extension of voice for improving the quality of voice in a communication system. The method can include the steps of receiving (412) an unknown voice signal (105), identifying (414) the voice bandwidth (625) of the received unknown voice signal... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070005352 - Receiver, transmitter and variable bandwidth transmission method: Solutions for receiving and transmitting variable transmission bandwidth signal are provided. A receiver comprises square-root raised cosine filter bank, each filter of the filter bank configured to filter a subband, and an adder configured to add up the output signals of one or more filters of the filter bank to... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070005353 - Encoding device and decoding device: An encoding device (200) includes an MDCT unit (202) that transforms an input signal in a time domain into a frequency spectrum including a lower frequency spectrum, a BWE encoding unit (204) that generates extension data which specifies a higher frequency spectrum at a higher frequency than the lower frequency... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070005354 - Diagnosing recognition problems from untranscribed data: Analytical processes are applied to contextual information in log data of dialog turns (user-system exchange) in a speech enabled application to diagnose speech recognition problems. Diagnosis can include inferring the semantics of a given user response. From semantic inferences an estimate of semantic recognition accuracy can also be obtained.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070005355 - Covariance estimation for pattern recognition: A reliable full covariance matrix estimation algorithm for pattern unit's state output distribution in pattern recognition system is discussed. An intermediate hierarchical tree structure is built to relate models for product units. Full covariance matrices of pattern unit's state output distribution are estimated based on all the related nodes in... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070005356 - Generic visual categorization method and system: Generic visual categorization methods complement a general vocabulary with adapted vocabularies that are class specific. Images to be categorized are characterized within different categories through a histogram indicating whether the image is better described by the general vocabulary or the class-specific adapted vocabulary.... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070005357 - Telephone pathology assessment: A system for remote assessment of a user is disclosed. The system comprises application software resident on a server and arranged to interact across a network with a user operating a client device to obtain one or more sample signals of the user's speech. A datastore is arranged to store... Agent: Nath & Associates

20070005360 - Expanding the dynamic vocabulary of a speech recognition system by further voice enrollments: Problems frequently occur in particular in the addition of voice enrollments (speech patterns, with which the user himself can supplement the vocabulary of the speech recognition system) to broad word lists (dynamic vocabulary). For this reason, when the speech recognition system is in an expansion mode, the speech pattern expressed... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070005358 - Method for determining a list of hypotheses from a vocabulary of a voice recognition system: A word to be recognized being spelt out by a user for determining a list of hypotheses from a vocabulary of a voice recognition system. Measures of distance for a similarity between the recognized sequence of letters and entries of the vocabulary of the voice recognition system are determined. One... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070005359 - Method for transmitting transactional commands and data between computer networks: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting transactional commands and data between computer networks, and in particular a method for securely transmitting transactional commands and data between two computer networks by encoding the transaction based upon the ontology and semantics of the transaction commands. The invention establishes the... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20070005361 - Process and device for interaction with a speech recognition system for selection of elements from lists: Due to the large vocabulary to be recognized, it is presently not possible in many commercially available speech recognition systems to identify, with the desired good recognition results, commands in parallel to the list elements (mostly recorded as dynamic vocabulary). It is now proposed that the speech pattern supplied to... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070005362 - Speech recognition method and speech recognition apparatus: A speech recognition method in which, upon speech recognition with use of a model composed of subwords such as triphones depending on a plurality of context, inhibiting hypotheses from extending according to the plurality of contexts so that a processing rate of the speech recognition is increased. In computing a... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070005363 - Location aware multi-modal multi-lingual device: Location-based technologies (e.g., global position system (GPS)) can be employed to facilitate providing multi-modal, multi-lingual location-based services. Identification of location can provide significant context as to identifying user state and intentions. Thus, location identification can facilitate providing/augmenting data and services (e.g., location-aware based suggestions, truncating contact lists based upon location,... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070005364 - Pure phonetic orthographic system: This invention is utility in nature. It assigns one and only one sound to each Arabic character. It has the purpose of making words easy to spell and read. There are no exceptions in the “Pure Phonetic Orthographic System”. Once a child or adult learns the sound of each character... Agent: Hesley H. Debow

20070005365 - Communicating status data: A system for communicating status data associated with a first user to a second user, for use with a first data processing system associated with a plurality of status events of the first user and comprising a first communication component for communicating status event data associated with the plurality of... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070005366 - Multimodal information services: A system for multimodal information services includes a multimodal information service mechanism for providing the multimodal information services. An information user connects to a first network through at least one communication device, the first network connecting to the multimodal information service mechanism, the information user requesting and receiving the multimodal... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070005367 - Radio frequency certificates of authenticity: Radio frequency certificates of authenticity (RFCOAs) are presented. In one implementation, a scattering agent is attached to an object to provide a reproducible radio frequency (RF) fingerprint that can be used to authenticate a tag or a seal for the object. In one implementation, the RF fingerprint is measured and... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070005369 - Dialog analysis: Analytical processes are applied to log data and use dialog move information such as dialog turn (user-system exchange) information to reveal and/or diagnose the most likely problems in the application.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070005372 - Process and device for confirming and/or correction of a speech input supplied to a speech recognition system: In the case of vary large vocabulary, such as for example a list with all cities in Germany, there is the problem, that the addition of other words, which are activated parallel to this list during recognition, leads to a higher danger of a mix-up. If the recognition result cannot... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070005371 - Speech recognition method and speech recognition apparatus: In an interactive process using speech recognition together with a graphical user interface comprising a plurality of settable graphical user interface items, the recognition rate is improved by reducing recognition target vocabulary. A settable graphical user interface item not displayed on the display screen is detected, and the received speech... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070005368 - System and method of operating a speech recognition system in a vehicle: A speech recognition system (10) in a vehicle includes a microphone (16), a processing circuit (12) and a wireless transceiver (14). The microphone (16) is configured to receive a spoken command from a vehicle occupant. The processing circuit (12) is configured to determine if the speech recognition system (10) has... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070005370 - Voice-activated control system: A voice activated control system that uses a microphone to accept verbal commands from the user to control a plurality of electronic and electric devices such as a TV, DVD player, stereo receiver, projector, security system, sprinkler system, computer and the like using their inherent control methods. This is a... Agent: Edward Scott Elshout