Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 03/08

20080077385 - Dictionary registration apparatus, dictionary registration method, and computer product: A storing unit stores therein dictionary information in which a first text in a first language is associated with a second text that is a translation of the first text into a second language. An extracting unit extracts, when an input text includes an unregistered text that is not registered... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080077384 - Dynamically translating a software application to a user selected target language that is not natively provided by the software application: The present solution includes a method for dynamically translating application prompts to internationalize software applications for a non-native language that is not specifically supported by the application. In the solution, application prompts can be identified that are associated with a software application. Each application prompt can include text written in... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080077387 - Machine translation apparatus, method, and computer program product: A machine translation apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives an input of a plurality of speeches; a detecting unit that detects a speaker of a speech from among the speeches; a recognition unit that performs speech recognition on the speeches; a translating unit that translates a recognition result to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080077390 - Apparatus, method and computer program product for translating speech, and terminal that outputs translated speech: In a speech translation apparatus, a correspondence storage unit stores therein identifiers of terminals and usage languages used in the terminals associated with each other. A receiving unit receives a source speech from one of the terminals. A translating unit acquires usage languages from the correspondence storage unit, and generates... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080077391 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for machine translation: A first recognizing unit recognizes a first-language speech as a first-language character string, and outputs a first recognition result. A second recognizing unit recognizes the first-language speech as a most probable first-language example from among first-language examples stored in an example storing unit, and outputs a second recognition result. A... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080077392 - Method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for machine translation: A machine translation apparatus includes a translating unit that translates a source language document into a translated document described in a target language, and creates an ambiguous portion that is a word or a sentence having an ambiguity occurred during translation; a storing unit that stores the translated document and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080077395 - Computer-implemented method, computer software and apparatus for use in a translation system: A computer-implemented method for use in natural language translation comprises performing in software processes, the steps of: comparing source material with stored material in a first natural language, said stored material having previously been translated from said first natural language to at least a second natural language, identifying at least... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20080077398 - Apparatus and method for processing information, and program: An information processing apparatus includes an extracting unit that extracts a plurality of words serving as keywords of content from content information that describes the content, a property dictionary storage unit that stores a property dictionary containing the properties of the words, a property searching unit that searches the property... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080077397 - Dictionary creation support system, method and program: A dictionary creation support system of the present invention includes a saved history data base that stores information related to dictionary registration candidate words and a dictionary creation support history; an input portion that fetches text data sequences; a candidate word extraction/update portion that analyzes the input text data sequences,... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080077396 - Typing candidate generating method for enhancing typing efficiency: For relieving typing burdens caused by incorrect spellings, typing errors, unknown spellings, and characters with diacritical marks, and for enhancing a typing efficiency of a typist with some simplified techniques, several candidate generating methods are provided for assisting the typist to pick a candidate word from a list of generated... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080077388 - Electronic multilingual numeric and language learning tool: The teachings described herein generally relate to a system and method for multilingual teaching of numeric or language skills through an electronic translation of a source phrase to a destination language selected from multiple languages. The electronic translation can occur as a spoken translation, can be in real-time, and can... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080077386 - Enhanced linguistic transformation: Techniques for enhanced linguistic transformation are disclosed. For example, a method of linguistic transformation includes the steps of providing at least one input to a plurality of modules, wherein at least one module has a different configuration than at least another module, obtaining at least one output from each of... Agent: William E. Lewis Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080077389 - Apparatus for developing a transfer dictionary used in tranfer-based machine translation system: Generating a transfer dictionary used in a transfer-based translation machine system. A pair of source/target language sentences are received. The source language sentence comprises at least one marked idiom, at least one argument and at least one marked collocation. The target language sentence comprises the target language translation for the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20080077394 - Information terminal device, method of acquiring information corresponding to language identification information from server and program thereof, network system, additional function purchasing progam, and program function adding method: An information terminal device includes an acquisition unit acquiring language identification information concerning a language used on a display screen, a storage unit storing address information of a server, a language identification information synthesizer synthesizing the language identification information into the address information, and a transmitter transmitting the address information... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080077393 - Virtual keyboard adaptation for multilingual input: Techniques for adapting a virtual keyboard for multilingual input are disclosed. By way of example, a method of adapting a virtual keyboard for multilingual input includes the steps of detecting an input language and displaying a virtual keyboard corresponding to the input language upon detection of the input language. The... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080077399 - Low-frequency-band voice reconstructing device, voice signal processor and recording apparatus: There is provided a low-frequency-band voice reconstructing device. A voice signal from which a signal in a low-frequency band is removed is inputted to the device and the device reconstructs the signal in the low frequency band based on the input voice signal. The device comprises a first portion for... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080077400 - Speech-duration detector and computer program product therefor: A speech-duration detector includes a starting-end detecting unit that detects a starting end of a first duration where the characteristic exceeds a threshold value as a starting end of a speech-duration, when the first duration continues for a first time length; a trailing-end-candidate detecting unit that detects a starting end... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080077401 - Transcoding method and system between celp-based speech codes with externally provided status: A method for transcoding a CELP based compressed voice bitstream from source codec to destination codec. The method includes processing a source codec input CELP bitstream to unpack at least one or more CELP parameters from the input CELP bitstream and interpolating one or more of the plurality of unpacked... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080077402 - Tuning reusable software components in a speech application: A method of tuning reusable dialog components within a speech application can include detecting speech recognition events generated from a plurality of recognitions performed for a field of a reusable dialog component. The speech recognition events can be generated over a plurality of interactive voice response sessions. The method also... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20080077403 - Speech recognition method, speech recognition apparatus and computer program: A speech recognition apparatus predicts, based on the occurrence cycle and duration time of impulse noise that occurs periodically, a segment in which impulse noise occurs, and executes speech recognition processing based on the feature components of the remaining frames excluding a feature component of a frame corresponding to the... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080077404 - Speech recognition device, speech recognition method, and computer program product: A speech recognition device includes an extracting unit that analyzes an input signal and extracts a feature to be used for speech recognition from the input signal; a storing unit configured to store therein an acoustic model that is a stochastic model for estimating what type of a phoneme is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080077405 - Grammar generation for password recognition: A password grammar for speech recognition is described. A password is normalized into a list of strings of a plurality of character types such as letters and numerals. For each string of letters, one or more corresponding letter permutations are determined which represent pronounceable combinations of that string. Then, for... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080077406 - Mobile dictation correction user interface: A method of speech recognition is described for use with mobile devices. A portion of an initial speech recognition result is presented on the mobile device including a set of general alternate recognition hypotheses associated with the portion of the speech recognition result. A key input representative of one or... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080077407 - Phonetically enriched labeling in unit selection speech synthesis: A system, method and computer-readable media are disclosed for improving speech synthesis. A text-to-speech (TTS) voice database for use in a TTS system is generated by a method comprising labeling a voice database phonemically and applying a pre-/post-vocalic distinction to the phonemic labels to generate a TTS voice database. When... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080077408 - System and method for hazard mitigation in voice-driven control applications: A speech recognition and control system including a receiver for receiving an audio input, an event detector for analyzing the audio input and identifying at least one event of the audio input, a recognizer for interpreting at least a portion of the audio input, a database including a plurality of... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20080077409 - Method and system for providing speech recognition: An approach for providing speech recognition is disclosed. A name is retrieved from a user based on data provided by the user. The user is prompted for a name of the user. A first audio input is received from the user in response to the prompt. Speech recognition is applied... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080077413 - Audio coding device with two-stage quantization mechanism: An audio coding device that optimizes quantization parameters for fast convergence of iterations. A quantized bit counter calculates a codeword length representing the number of bits of a Huffman codeword corresponding to quantized values. The quantized bit counter also calculates a codebook number bit count representing how many bits are... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080077412 - Method, medium, and system encoding and/or decoding audio signals by using bandwidth extension and stereo coding: A method, medium, and system encoding and/or decoding an audio signal by extracting stereo parameters from an input signal, encoding the stereo parameters, and performing down-mixing on the input signal to a down-mixed signal, splitting the down-mixed signal into a low band signal and a high band signal, determining whether... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080077410 - System and method for providing redundancy management: A system and method for efficiently implementing redundancy management in speech coding applications. According to various embodiments of the present invention, a sending device selects a redundant transmission level that is suitable for a current transmission channel condition while, at the same time, selecting the most suitable bit rate from... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080077411 - Decoder, signal processing system, and decoding method: A storage section is provided for storing a plurality of pieces of first code data. Further, an estimation section is provided for, when first code data used in decoding exists in a current frame to be decoded or the storage section, outputting the first code data, and when not, estimating... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080071519 - Labeling of work of art titles in text for natural language processing: A parser for parsing text includes a tokenizing module which divides the text into an ordered sequence of linguistic tokens. A morphological module associates parts of speech with the linguistic tokens. A detection module identifies candidate titles of creative works, such as works of art. A filtering module filters the... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080071520 - Method and system for improving the word-recognition rate of speech recognition software: A Method and System for Improving the Word-Recognition Rate of Speech Recognition Software are provided herein.... Agent: Axios Law Group. PLLC

20080071518 - Communication system using mixed translating while in multilingual communication: A translation between a source language and a target language. The items are divided, with secondary source language items or named entities being identified. Those entities are translated in a different way. For example, they may be copied into the target language, or translated in a special way that is... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080071521 - Method, used by computers, for developing an ontology from a text in natural language: merging (S400) at least two of the elementary lexical graphs (50) created, as a function of the syntax of the text, so as to create at least one semantic graph (60) of the text. The invention further concerns a computer program product and an electronic data processing system comprising code... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080071522 - Method and device for protected transmission of data words: A method for the protected transmission of data words involves provision of a first data word (X1), transformation of the first data word (X1) into a sequence comprising at least one second data word (X2) by a first transformation rule (T1), transformation of at least one of the second data... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080071524 - Method for speech coding, method for speech decoding and their apparatuses: A high quality speech is reproduced with a small data amount in speech coding and decoding for performing compression coding and decoding of a speech signal to a digital signal. In speech coding method according to a code-excited linear prediction (CELP) speech coding, a noise level of a speech in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080071525 - Method for speech coding, method for speech decoding and their apparatuses: A high quality speech is reproduced with a small data amount in speech coding and decoding for performing compression coding and decoding of a speech signal to a digital signal. In speech coding method according to a code-excited linear prediction (CELP) speech coding, a noise level of a speech in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080071526 - Method for speech coding, method for speech decoding and their apparatuses: A high quality speech is reproduced with a small data amount in speech coding and decoding for performing compression coding and decoding of a speech signal to a digital signal. In speech coding method according to a code-excited linear prediction (CELP) speech coding, a noise level of a speech in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080071527 - Method for speech coding, method for speech decoding and their apparatuses: A high quality speech is reproduced with a small data amount in speech coding and decoding for performing compression coding and decoding of a speech signal to a digital signal. In speech coding method according to a code-excited linear prediction (CELP) speech coding, a noise level of a speech in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080071523 - Sound encoder and sound encoding method: Even when a combination of the stegonography technique and prediction encoding is applied to sound encoding, a sound encoder does not cause deterioration in quality of decoded signals. In the device, an encoding section (102) outputs an encoding code (I) to a bit embedding section (104). A function extension encoding... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080071528 - Method and system for efficient transcoding of audio data: Methods and systems for transcoding input audio data in a first encoding format to generate audio data in a second encoding format, and filterbanks for use in such systems. Some such systems include a combined synthesis and analysis filterbank (configured to generate transformed frequency-band coefficients indicative of at least one... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080071529 - Using non-speech sounds during text-to-speech synthesis: Systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products are described for producing text-to-speech synthesis with non-speech sounds. In general, some of the pauses or silences that would otherwise be generated in synthesized speech are instead synthesized as non-speech sounds such as breaths. Non-speech sounds can be identified from pre-recorded speech that... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080071530 - Audio decoding device and compensation frame generation method: There is disclosed an audio decoding device capable of improving audio quality of a decoded signal by considering the energy change of a past signal in eracure concealment processing. In this device, an energy change calculation unit (143) calculates an average energy of an audio source signal of one-pitch cycle... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080071531 - Efficient voice activity detector to detect fixed power signals: The present invention is directed to a voice activity detector that uses the periodicity of amplitude peaks and valleys to identify signals of substantially fixed power or having periodicity.... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20080071532 - Ultrasonic doppler sensor for speech-based user interface: A method and system detect speech activity. An ultrasonic signal is directed at a face of a speaker over time. A Doppler signal of the ultrasonic signal is acquired after reflection by the face. Energy in the Doppler signal is measured over time. The energy over time is compared to... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080071533 - Automatic generation of statistical language models for interactive voice response applications: A Statistical Language Model (SLM) that can be used in an ASR for Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems in general and Natural Language Speech Applications (NLSAs) in particular can be created by first manually producing a brief description in text for each task that can be performed in an NLSA.... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080071534 - Methods for using an interactive voice recognition system: A method for using an interactive voice recognition system for communication between a user and a service provider includes establishing a connection between the user and the interactive voice recognition system. The availability of a human advisor located at a call center is monitored. If a first user response is... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080071535 - Voice authentication apparatus: In a voice authentication apparatus, a characteristics analyzer analyzes characteristics of a sample noise which is generated around a subject while the subject generates a sample voice for authentication of the subject. A setting part sets a correction value according to the characteristics of the sample noise analyzed by the... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080071536 - Voice recognition device, voice recognition method, and voice recognition program: A voice recognition device, a voice recognition method and a voice recognition program capable of appropriately restricting recognition objects based on voice input from a user to recognize the input voice with accuracy are provided. The voice recognition device includes a first voice recognition processing unit for executing processing of... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080071537 - Sonic/ultrasonic authentication device: A method for verifying and identifying users, and for verifying users' identity, by means of an authentication device capable of transmitting, receiving and recording audio or ultrasonic signals, and capable of converting the signals into digital data, and performing digital signal processing. Voice pattern(s) and user(s) information of one or... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080071538 - Speaker verification method: A speaker verification method consist of the following steps: (1) generating a code book (42) covering a number of speakers having a number of training utterances for each of the speakers; (2) receiving a number of test utterances (44) from a speaker; (3) comparing (46) each of the test utterances... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080071539 - Speech and method for identifying perceptual features: A system and method for phone detection. The system includes a microphone configured to receive a speech signal in an acoustic domain and convert the speech signal from the acoustic domain to an electrical domain, and a filter bank coupled to the microphone and configured to receive the converted speech... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080071540 - Speech recognition method for robot under motor noise thereof: A robot that recognizes speech of a person while performing predetermined motions or gestures, the robot includes: a drive unit executing the motions or gestures; a determination unit determining one of the motions or gestures being executed; a speech recognition unit having at least two recognition algorithms including a multi-condition... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20080071541 - Audio signal interpolation method and device: An audio signal interpolation device comprises a spectral movement calculation unit which determines a spectral movement which is indicative of a difference in each of spectral components between a frequency spectrum of a current frame of an input audio signal and a frequency spectrum of a previous frame of the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080071542 - Methods, systems, and products for indexing content: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for indexing content. An audio stream is converted to a stream of phonemes. The stream of phonemes is filtered according to a list of popular phoneme strings. A weighting is computed for the content based on at least one popular phoneme combination occurring in... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20080071543 - Secure personal health information and event reminder system and portable electronic device: A portable electronic device (100) has an audio speech processor (102) and a microprocessor (101). There is a non-volatile memory (110) and a real time clock (107). The device (100) is encased in a csing (115). The device (100) is connected to a host computer (112) to the microprocessor (101).... Agent: Licata & Tyrrell P.C.

20080071544 - Integrating voice-enabled local search and contact lists: A computer-implemented method includes receiving a voice search request from a client device, identifying an entity responsive to the voice search request and contact information for the entity, and automatically adding the contact information to a contact list of a user associated with the client device.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080071545 - Centralized biometric authentication: A communications system obtains verification of an expected identity of a party from a remote centralized biometric system over a communications network. A forwarder forwards, over the communications network to the remote centralized biometric system when the party attempts to obtain a service using the communications system, a biometric sample... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080071546 - Selective vehicle component control: The invention provides a system and method for selective vehicle component control. Receiving a speech recognition engine activation signal activates a speech recognition engine in an in-vehicle telematics unit. A voice command is then received at the speech recognition engine of the in-vehicle telematics unit. A vehicle component control command... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20080071547 - Speech communications system for a vehicle and method of operating a speech communications system for a vehicle: A speech communications system for a vehicle includes a microphone system provided in the vehicle interior in order to detect audio information. An interaction manager provides grammar information to a speech recognizer. The speech recognizer provides speech recognition results to the interaction manager. An acoustic echo canceller eliminates portions of... Agent: Manfred Beck, P.A.

20080071550 - Method and apparatus to encode and decode audio signal by using bandwidth extension technique: Provided are a method and apparatus to encode and decode an audio signal. According to the present invention, by splitting an input signal into a low band signal and a high band signal, converting each of the low band signal and the high band signal from the time domain to... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080071549 - Audio signal decoding device and audio signal encoding device: In the conventional art inventions for coding multi-channel audio signals, three of the major processes involved are: generation of a reverberation signal using an all-pass filter; segmentation of a signal in the time and frequency domains for the purpose of level adjustment; and mixing of a coded binaural signal with... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080071548 - Multi-channel signal encoding method, decoding method, device thereof, program, and recording medium thereof: In difference coding, each of a first to M-th channel signals is divided into frames and independent energy of every channel signal and difference energy of difference signals between all channel signals are calculated for each frame. In ascending order of energy, if a signal corresponding to an energy value... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080071551 - Sound encoder and sound decoder: A sound encoder multiplexes a plurality of codes into a sound code in an order determined by a multiplexing order determination unit (12), and a sound decoder demultiplexes the sound code into a plurality of codes one by one in an order determined by a demultiplexing order determination unit (14).... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080071552 - Sound encoder and sound decoder: A sound encoder multiplexes a plurality of codes into a sound code in an order determined by a multiplexing order determination unit (12), and a sound decoder demultiplexes the sound code into a plurality of codes one by one in an order determined by a demultiplexing order determination unit (14).... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080065369 - Method for identifying language of text in a handheld electronic device and a handheld electronic device incorporating the same: Incoming e-mails, instant messages, SMS, and MMS, are analyzed by a handheld electronic device to identify the language of text.... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080065370 - Support apparatus for object-oriented analysis and design: A support apparatus for object-oriented analysis and design comprising: a sentence input section that receives as input a plurality of sentences of the requirement and the design paper of a system as scenario; a sentence pickup section that picks up the input plurality of sentences one by one sequentially from... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080065368 - Spoken translation system using meta information strings: Spoken translation system which detects both speech from the information and also detects meta information streams from the information. A first aspect produces an enriched training corpus of information for use in the machine translation. A second aspect uses two different extraction techniques, and combines them by lattice rescoring.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080065371 - Conversation system and conversation software: According to the interactive system 100 of the present invention, an ith-order query Q1 for asking a user's meaning is generated based on an ith-order output linguistic unit yki related to an ith-order input linguistic unit xi (i=1, 2, --) included in the recognized speech. Thereby, it is determined whether... Agent: Rankin, Hill, Porter & Clark LLP

20080065372 - Audio data transmitting /receiving apparatus and audio data transmitting/receiving method: An audio data transmitting/receiving apparatus for realizing a high-quality frame compensation in audio communications. In an audio data transmitting apparatus (10), a delay part (104) subjects multi-channel audio data to a delay process that delays the L-ch encoded data relative to the R-ch encoded data by a predetermined delay amount.... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080065373 - Sound encoding device and sound encoding method: A sound encoding device enabling the amount of delay to be kept small and the distortion between frames to be mitigated. In the sound encoding device, a window multiplication part (211) of a long analysis section (21) multiplies a long analysis frame signal of analysis length M1 by an analysis... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080065374 - Apparatus and method for low complexity combinatorial coding of signals: The invention utilizes low complexity estimates of complex functions to perform combinatorial coding of signal vectors. The invention disregards the accuracy of such functions as long as certain sufficient properties are maintained. The invention in turn may reduce computational complexity of certain coding and decoding operations by two orders of... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080065375 - Method for speech coding, method for speech decoding and their apparatuses: A high quality speech is reproduced with a small data amount in speech coding and decoding for performing compression coding and decoding of a speech signal to a digital signal. In speech coding method according to a code-excited linear prediction (CELP) speech coding, a noise level of a speech in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080065376 - Audio encoder: As adaptive convergence A, a global gain for operation of a quantization step size is obtained, a frequency spectrum is quantized on the basis of the obtained global gain, and a generated code amount of the quantized data is obtained by the quantization. If the generated code amount does not... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080065377 - Signal compressing apparatus: An input signal is quantized into a quantization-resultant signal. The quantization-resultant signal is compressed into a compression-resultant signal. The compression-resultant signal is formatted into a formatting-resultant signal corresponding to a predetermined format for a digital recording disc. The formatting-resultant signal includes segments corresponding to user data areas prescribed in the... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080065378 - System and method for automatic caller transcription (act): The present disclosure relates to a method for converting human voice audio in a voicemail message from a first party to a recipient into text. The method includes selecting a training file based on information identifying the first party, and converting the voicemail message into a text message using the... Agent: Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Mccloy

20080065379 - Printer with speech transcription of a recorded voice message: A printer has voice recognition capabilities to transcribe a recorded voice message into printed text. The printer has a communication interface that is connected to a communication line for receiving a voice message. The printer also has an extended memory that stores the voice message, and a speech bank that... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/marvell

20080065380 - On-line speaker recognition method and apparatus thereof: A speaker recognition method and apparatus are provided. In the speaker recognition method, basic data and voice data of a speaker are received using contents that constantly request the speaker to constantly response using the speaker's voice. Then, a voice of the speaker is extracted from voice data, and a... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080065381 - Speech enhancement apparatus, speech recording apparatus, speech enhancement program, speech recording program, speech enhancing method, and speech recording method: To automatically detect and automatically correct in a reproduced speech, defective portions related to plosives such as existence or absence of plosive portions, phoneme lengths of aspirated portions that continue after the plosive portions or defective portions related to amplitude variations of fricatives. Speech wherein consonants and unvoiced vowels are... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080065382 - Speech-driven selection of an audio file: A system and method for detecting a refrain in an audio file having vocal components. The method and system includes generating a phonetic transcription of a portion of the audio file, analyzing the phonetic transcription and identifying a vocal segment in the generated phonetic transcription that is repeated frequently. The... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20080065383 - Method and system for training a text-to-speech synthesis system using a domain-specific speech database: A system, method and computer readable medium that trains a text-to-speech synthesis system for use in speech synthesis is disclosed. The method may include recording audio files of one or more live voices speaking language used in a specific domain, the audio files being recorded using various prosodies, storing the... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080065384 - Method of producing voice data method of playing back voice data, method of playing back speeded-up voice data, storage medium, method of assisting memorization, method of assisting learning a language, and computer program: A computer-assisted method of assisting a user of a computer to memorize includes steps of displaying an image indicating a content to be memorized, on a left-hand side of a computer screen for a particular period; displaying text data indicating language information related to the image displayed in this displaying... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080065385 - Method for speech coding, method for speech decoding and their apparatuses: A high quality speech is reproduced with a small data amount in speech coding and decoding for performing compression coding and decoding of a speech signal to a digital signal. In speech coding method according to a code-excited linear prediction (CELP) speech coding, a noise level of a speech in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080065390 - Dynamically generating a vocal help prompt in a multimodal application: Dynamically generating a vocal help prompt in a multimodal application that include detecting a help-triggering event for an input element of a VoiceXML dialog, where the detecting is implemented with a multimodal application operating on a multimodal device supporting multiple modes of interaction including a voice mode and one or... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080065389 - Establishing a multimodal advertising personality for a sponsor of a multimodal application: Establishing a multimodal advertising personality for a sponsor of a multimodal application, including associating one or more vocal demeanors with a sponsor of a multimodal application and presenting a speech portion of the multimodal application for the sponsor using at least one of the vocal demeanors associated with the sponsor.... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080065388 - Establishing a multimodal personality for a multimodal application: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are described for establishing a multimodal personality for a multimodal application that include selecting, by the multimodal application, matching vocal and visual demeanors and incorporating, by the multimodal application, the matching vocal and visual demeanors as a multimodal personality into the multimodal application.... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080065387 - Establishing a multimodal personality for a multimodal application in dependence upon attributes of user interaction: Establishing a multimodal personality for a multimodal application, including evaluating, by the multimodal application, attributes of a user's interaction with the multimodal application; selecting, by the multimodal application, a vocal demeanor in dependence upon the values of the attributes of the user's interaction with the multimodal application; and incorporating, by... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080065386 - Establishing a preferred mode of interaction between a user and a multimodal application: Establishing a preferred mode of interaction between a user and a multimodal application, including evaluating, by a multimodal application operating on a multimodal device supporting multiple modes of interaction including a voice mode and one or more non-voice modes, user modal preference, and dynamically configuring multimodal content of the multimodal... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080065391 - Input operation support apparatus and control method therefor: An input operation support apparatus which improves user friendliness and comfort by properly controlling a voice guide output along with an operation input from the user is provided. In the input operation support apparatus having a speech output unit which outputs a voice message corresponding to an input operation to... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080065392 - System and method for remotely enforcing operational protocols: A system and method for remotely enforcing operational protocols is provided. In a remote environment, such as that found with a police environment, voice recognition technology is used to determine the situation and invoke actions according to an appropriate protocol. Actions may be set to be mandatory or discretionary. A... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080065393 - Playback of compressed media files without quantization gaps: Playback by a decoder of a lossy compressed digital media file without quantization gaps, wherein the digital media file is formed of a number of audio samples grouped into a corresponding number of audio frames. As a method, the invention is carried out by identifying an encoder used to compress... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20080065394 - Playback of compressed media files without quantization gaps: A high quality speech is reproduced with a small data amount in speech coding and decoding for performing compression coding and decoding of a speech signal to a digital signal. In speech coding method according to a code-excited linear prediction (CELP) speech coding, a noise level of a speech in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080059145 - Method and system for teaching a foreign language: A method and system for teaching a foreign language to a user who has knowledge of a base language is disclosed. The method and system may include assessing the user's proficiency in the target foreign language. The method and system may also include presenting a text to the user that... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080059146 - Translation apparatus, translation method and translation program: A translation apparatus is provided that includes a bilingual example sentence dictionary that stores plural example sentences in a first language and plural example sentences in a second language being translation of the plural example sentences, an input unit that inputs an input sentence in the first language, a first... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080059147 - Methods and apparatus for context adaptation of speech-to-speech translation systems: A technique for context adaptation of a speech-to-speech translation system is provided. A plurality of sets of paralinguistic attribute values is obtained from a plurality of input signals. Each set of the plurality of sets of paralinguistic attribute values is extracted from a corresponding input signal of the plurality of... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080059151 - Identifying language of origin for words using estimates of normalized appearance frequency: The language of origin of a word or named entity is predicted using estimates of frequency of occurrence of the word or named entity in different languages. In one embodiment, the normalized frequency of occurrence of the word or named entity in a variety of different languages is estimated and... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080059150 - Information retrieval using a hybrid spoken and graphic user interface: A method of information retrieval using a hybrid interface is provided. The method includes providing a graphical user interface having a plurality of views with a list of potential targets within each of the views, determining a selected view from a user selection of one of the views, translating a... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080059149 - Mapping of semantic tags to phases for grammar generation: The present invention relates to a method, a system and a computer program product for mapping of semantic tags to phrases within a training corpus of weakly annotated sentences, thereby generating a grammar which can be applied to unknown sentences for the purpose of language understanding. The method is based... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080059148 - Integrated multilingual browser: The disclosed system translates into different languages HTML documents available through the World Wide Web. HTML documents are translated by machine translation software bundled in a browser. Alternatively, documents are retrieved as needed, translated, and stored on a Web server so user requests are serviced with a document that has... Agent: Standley Law Group LLP

20080059153 - Natural language speech lattice containing semantic variants: An intelligent query system for processing voiced-based queries is disclosed, which uses a combination of both statistical and semantic based processing to identify the question posed by the user by understanding the meaning of the user's utterance. Based on identifying the meaning of the utterance, the system selects a single... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20080059152 - System and method for handling jargon in communication systems: The present invention is directed to a system and method for handling jargon in communication systems. The present invention can allow users and communication systems to manage jargon, providing end users with the ability to translate incoming messages containing unknown words, expressions, symbols, shortcuts, and the like. For example, the... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080059154 - Encoding an audio signal: For taking account of different requirements on encoded audio data having different bit rates, at least two different amounts of pre-processing are applied to an audio signal to obtain at least two different target signals. A first one of the target signals is then encoded to obtain primary coded data.... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080059155 - Spectral bandwidth extend audio signal system: A system is provided for extending the spectral bandwidth of a bandwidth limited audio signal by applying a nonlinear function to the bandwidth limited speech signal to generate the low frequency audio signal components that were attenuated in the bandwidth limited audio signal.... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20080059156 - Method and apparatus for processing speech data: A method for processing speech data includes obtaining a pitch and at least one formant frequency for each of a plurality of first speech data; constructing a first feature space with the obtained fundamental frequencies and formant frequencies as features; and classifying the plurality pieces of first speech data using... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080059157 - Method and apparatus for processing speech signal data: Method and computing apparatus for processing speech signal data. A speech signal is divided into frames. Each frame is characterized by a frame number T representing a unique interval of time. Each speech signal is characterized by a power spectrum with respect to frame T and frequency band ω. A... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080059158 - Information processing terminal: An information processing terminal 1 including: a voice signal output portion 102 for inputting a voice; an emotion estimation portion 201 for generating parameters of emotions from the inputted voice; and a notification portion 30, 40, 50 for giving notice of various kinds of information, wherein the information processing terminal... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080059159 - System and method for adaptive multi-rate (amr) vocoder rate adaptation: The present invention includes a time-division-multiple-access (TDMA) communication system having a base station and at least one mobile station, each transmitting and receiving an analog radio-frequency signal carrying digitally coded speech. The speech is encoded using a vocoder which samples a voice signal at variable encoding rates. During periods when... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080059160 - Techniques for accommodating primary content (pure voice) audio and secondary content remaining audio capability in the digital audio production process: The invention enables the inclusion of voice and remaining audio information at different parts of the audio production process. In particular, the invention embodies special techniques for VRA-capable digital mastering, accommodation of PCPV/PCA and/or SCRA signals in audio CODECs, VRA-capable encoders and decoders, and VRA in DVD and other digital... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080059161 - Adaptive comfort noise generation: This document describes tools capable of enabling and/or adaptively generating comfort noise. The tools may do so by receiving some background noise, analyzing that noise, and generating comfort noise based on the received background noise. In some embodiments, for example, the tools build and continuously adapt a history based on... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080059162 - Signal processing method and apparatus: In a signal processing method and apparatus, a predetermined correcting signal having a same frame length as a second frame signal in which predetermined processing is performed to a frequency spectrum of a first frame signal of a frame length to which a predetermined window function is performed and is... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080059163 - Method and apparatus for noise suppression, smoothing a speech spectrum, extracting speech features, speech recognition and training a speech model: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for noise suppression, smoothing a speech spectrum, extracting speech features, speech recognition and training a speech model. Said method of noise suppression is performed by minimum mean-square error estimation, wherein the confluent hyper-geometric function is approximated by a piece-wise linear function, which... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080059164 - Noise suppression device: A noise suppression device comprises subband SN ratio calculation means which receives a noise likeness signal, an input signal spectrum and a subband-based estimated noise spectrum, calculates the subband-based input signal average spectrum, calculates a subband-based mixture ratio of the subband-based estimated noise spectrum to the subband-based input signal average... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080059165 - Noise suppression device: A noise suppression device comprises subband SN ratio calculation means which receives a noise likeness signal, an input signal spectrum and a subband-based estimated noise spectrum, calculates the subband-based input signal average spectrum, calculates a subband-based mixture ratio of the subband-based estimated noise spectrum to the subband-based input signal average... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080059166 - Scalable encoding apparatus, scalable decoding apparatus, scalable encoding method, scalable decoding method, communication terminal apparatus, and base station apparatus: A scalable encoding apparatus, a scalable decoding apparatus and the like are disclosed which can achieve a band scalable LSP encoding that exhibits both a high quantization efficiency and a high performance. In these apparatuses, a narrow band-to-wide band converting part (200) receives and converts a quantized narrow band LSP... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080059167 - Speech recognition system: A speech recognition system prompts a user to provide a first utterance, which is recorded. Speech recognition is performed on the first user utterance to yield a recognition result. The user is prompted to provide a second user utterance, which is recorded, processed and compared to the first utterance to... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080059168 - Speech recognition using discriminant features: Methods and arrangements for representing the speech waveform in terms of a set of abstract, linguistic distinctions in order to derive a set of discriminative features for use in a speech recognizer. By combining the distinctive feature representation with an original waveform representation, it is possible to achieve a reduction... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20080059169 - Auto segmentation based partitioning and clustering approach to robust endpointing: Possible segmentations for an audio signal are scored based on distortions for feature vectors of the audio signal and the total number of segments in the segmentation. The scores are used to select a segmentation and the selected segmentation is used to identify a starting point and an ending point... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080059170 - System and method for searching based on audio search criteria: A method of processing a sound signal in preparation for conducting an audio-based search on a portion of the sound signal where the portion of the sound signal has an initial starting point and an initial ending point includes identifying speech features that have a relationship to the portion of... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080059173 - Method and system for providing an automated web transcription service: A system, method and computer readable medium that provides an automated web transcription service is disclosed. The method may include receiving input speech from a user using a communications network, recognizing the received input speech, understanding the recognized speech, transcribing the understood speech to text, storing the transcribed text in... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080059172 - Method, software and device for uniquely identifying a desired contact in a contacts database based on a single utterance: A single utterance having a name portion and a qualifier portion is received. The name portion represents a spoken name of a desired contact of a contacts database, and the qualifier portion represents a spoken word or words for disambiguating the name of the desired contact from any homophone names... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20080059171 - Systems and arrangements for titling audio recordings: Generally methods for titling segments of recorded audio data are disclosed herein. An input from a voice activation module, a push button input or another user interface can provide a stimulus for a system or device to record title information. The title information can be received as an utterance, converted... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080059174 - Speech detection and enhancement using audio/video fusion: A system and method facilitating speech detection and/or enhancement utilizing audio/video fusion is provided. The present invention fuses audio and video in a probabilistic generative model that implements cross-model, self-supervised learning, enabling rapid adaptation to audio visual data. The system can learn to detect and enhance speech in noise given... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080059175 - Voice recognition method and voice recognition apparatus: Systems and methods store groups of recognition candidates respectively associated with visual target objects located around a speaker. The systems and methods detect a direction of a sight line of the speaker or a movement by the speaker. The systems and methods determine one of the visual target objects on... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080059176 - Voice-based multimodal speaker authentication using adaptive training and applications thereof: A voice based multimodal speaker authentication method and telecommunications application thereof employing a speaker adaptive method for training phenome specific Gaussian mixture models. Applied to telecommunications services, the method may advantageously be implemented in contemporary wireless terminals.... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, LLC (necl)

20080059178 - Interface apparatus, interface processing method, and interface processing program: An interface apparatus of an embodiment of the present invention is configured to perform a device operation in response to a voice instruction from a user. The interface apparatus detects a state change or state continuation of a device or the vicinity of the device; queries a user by voice... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080059179 - Method for centrally storing data: A method is disclosed for centrally storing data in a remote server (4). On the remote server (4), a voice memo (42) that has been recorded by a user (1) and converted into a text with the aid of a voice recognition system (13, 43) is stored as a text.... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080059181 - Audio-visual codebook dependent cepstral normalization: An arrangement for yielding enhanced audio features towards the provision of enhanced audio-visual features for speech recognition. Input is provided in the form of noisy audio-visual features and noisy audio features related to the noisy audio-visual features.... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20080059177 - Enhancement of simultaneous multi-user real-time speech recognition system: This invention involves additional details and uses for the invention described in U.S. Pat. No. 7,047,192 Simultaneous Multi-User Real-Time Speech Recognition System file by Poirier. The patent granted to Poirier teaches a platform based on audio events on which can be built larger applications to solve problems of capturing and... Agent: Blodgett Blodgett

20080059182 - Intelligent system of speech recognizing physicians' data: An intelligent system of orders and placements of words, terms and phrases in the vocabularies of grammar files of a speech recognition program to approximate or match physicians' logics, thoughts and to compensate for the variations in and diversities of health and health-care data and information on patients to effect... Agent: Aunthep Benja-athon, M.d.

20080059180 - Multi-channel codebook dependent compensation: Methods and apparatus, in the context of speech recognition, for compensating in the cepstral domain for the effect of an interfering signal by using a reference signal.... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20080059184 - Calculating cost measures between hmm acoustic models: Measurement of Kullback-Leibler Divergence (KLD) between hidden Markov models (HMM) of acoustic units utilizes an unscented transform to approximate KLD between Gaussian mixtures. Dynamic programming equalizes the number of states between HMMs having a different number of states, while the total KLD of the HMMs is obtained by summing individual... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080059183 - Parsimonious modeling by non-uniform kernel allocation: A multi-state pattern recognition model with non-uniform kernel allocation is formed by setting a number of states for a multi-state pattern recognition model and assigning different numbers of kernels to different states. The kernels are then trained using training data to form the multi-state pattern recognition model.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080059185 - Speech recognition system for mobile terminal: A speech recognition system for a mobile terminal includes an acoustic variation channel unit and a pronunciation channel unit. The acoustic variation channel unit transforms a speech signal into feature parameters and Viterbi-decodes the speech signal to produce a varied phoneme sequence by using the feature parameters and predetermined models.... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080059186 - Intelligent speech recognition of incomplete phrases: Intelligent speech recognition is used to provide users with the ability to utter more user friendly commands. Satisfaction is increased when a user can vocalize a subset of a formal command name and still have the intended command identified and processed. Moreover, greater accuracy in identifying a command application from... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080059187 - Retrieval of documents using language models: Methods of retrieving documents using a language model are disclosed. A method may include preparing a language model of a plurality of documents, receiving a query, processing the query using the language model, and using the processed query to retrieve documents responding to the query via the search engine. The... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20080059188 - Natural language interface control system: A search is performed in a network for an attention word based on a first context including a first set of models, grammars, and lexica. Upon finding the attention word, a switch is performed to a second context to search for an open-ended user request. The second context includes a... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080059189 - Method and system for a speech synthesis and advertising service: Methods and systems for providing a network-accessible text-to-speech synthesis service are provided. The service accepts content as input. After extracting textual content from the input content, the service transforms the content into a format suitable for high-quality speech synthesis. Additionally, the service produces audible advertisements, which are combined with the... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080059190 - Speech unit selection using hmm acoustic models: A concatenating speech synthesizer concatenates selected speech units to obtain the desired synthesized speech. When desired speech units of phonetic and/or prosodic context are not available, the synthesizer selects replacement speech units based on measures representative of the difference between the HMM acoustic models of the desired speech unit and... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080059191 - Method, system and apparatus for improved voice recognition: An improved voice recognition system in which a Voice Keyword Table is generated and downloaded from a set-up device to a voice recognition device. The VKT includes visual form data, spoken form data, phonetic format data, and an entry corresponding to a keyword, and TTS-generated voice prompts and voice models... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080059193 - Voice recognition system and method thereof: A voice recognition system and method thereof. The communication system comprises a setup controller, a voice recognition controller, and an application controller. The setup controller receives a voice keyword table including a voice recognizable keyword and a corresponding application instruction. The voice recognition controller, coupled to the setup controller, receives... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080059194 - Method and system for aligning natural and synthetic video to speech synthesis: According to MPEG-4's TTS architecture, facial animation can be driven by two streams simultaneously—text, and Facial Animation Parameters. In this architecture, text input is sent to a Text-To-Speech converter at a decoder that drives the mouth shapes of the face. Facial Animation Parameters are sent from an encoder to the... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080059192 - Method and system for performing telecommunication of data: In a method for performing telecommunication of data through a telecommunication network, at least one telecommunication data set is transferred and the at least one telecommunication data set is examined in regard to whether speech-representing data are contained. The at least one telecommunication data set is preferably examined with regard... Agent: Gudrun E. Huckett Draudt

20080059195 - Automatic pruning of grammars in a multi-application speech recognition interface: Management of multiple voice-controlled applications is provided employing registration and prioritization of applications and associated commands. In a multi-application environment, each application requests registration by a speech recognition interface. Upon registering the application(s), the interface assigns priorities to the active applications. Each application also submits a list of associated commands... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080059196 - Pen-type voice computer and method thereof: A pen-type voice computer generating a voice index table and the method thereof. The method comprises recording voice data by a microphone, generating a handwriting index of the voice data by inputting drawing data using a handwriting input device, and associating the handwriting index with the corresponding voice data to... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080059197 - System and method for providing real-time communication of high quality audio: A system and method for providing real-time communication of high-quality audio is provided. The system contains a series of audio devices and a series of client devices, where each client device is in communication with an audio device, and each client device is capable of converting analog signals received from... Agent: Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, PA C/o Peter Nieves

20080059198 - Apparatus and method for detecting and reporting online predators: A method, apparatus and computer-code is disclosed for detecting predators (i.e. sexual or financial predators) and for reporting and/or blocking access to the detected predators. Electronic media content (i.e. voice content and optionally also video content) or at least one multi-party conversation is monitored and analyzed. At least one predator-handling... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080059199 - In-vehicle apparatus: The present invention provides a technique, by speech input, to specify a location, even when a name or the like of the location is not accurately known, while driving. An in-vehicle apparatus mounted in a vehicle has a speech recognition function, and stores information shown on a signboard and a... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080059200 - Multi-lingual telephonic service: Methods and apparatuses for translating speech from one language to another language during telephonic communications. Speech is converted from a first language to a second language as a user speaks with another user. If the translation operation is symmetric, speech is converted from the second language to the first language... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 005222

20080059201 - Method and related device for improving the processing of mp3 decoding and encoding: A method for improving the processing of MP3 decoding includes decoding Huffman encoded data into audio samples according to side information, determining a first group of audio samples having a predefined audio characteristic outside a range running from a first predetermined value to a second predetermined value inclusive, determining a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080059202 - Variable-resolution processing of frame-based data: Provided are systems, methods and techniques for processing frame-based data. A frame of data, an indication that a transient occurs within the frame, and a location of the transient within the frame are obtained. Based on the indication of the transient, a block size is set for the frame, thereby... Agent: Joseph Swan, A Professional Corporation

20080059203 - Audio encoding device, decoding device, method, and program: A variable frequency segmentation encoding unit (110) has: difference degree calculation units (101, 102, and 103) for calculating a difference degree between the first and second input signals, depending on a segmentation method A, B, or C for segmenting a frequency band into sub-bands; a selection unit (104) for selecting... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080059204 - Signal compressing apparatus: An input signal is quantized into a quantization-resultant signal. The quantization-resultant signal is compressed into a compression-resultant signal. The compression-resultant signal is formatted into a formatting-resultant signal corresponding to a predetermined format for a digital recording disc. The formatting-resultant signal includes segments corresponding to user data areas prescribed in the... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP