Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 09/08

20080235003 - Disambiguation of telephone style key presses to yield chinese text using segmentation and selective shifting: To enter Chinese text, a user enters the corresponding phonetic spelling via telephone style keypad. Some or all keys represent multiple phonetic letters. In disambiguating entered key presses to yield a valid phonetic spelling, a computer divides the key presses into segments, while still preserving key press order. Each segment... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080235005 - Device, system and method of handling user requests: Devices, systems and methods of handling user requests. For example, a method includes: receiving an electronic representation of a submitted request; calculating request-related information, submitter-related information, and/or recipient-related information; based on the request-related information and the submitter-related information, determining one or more recipients for the request; distributing the request to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080235004 - Disambiguating text that is to be converted to speech using configurable lexeme based rules: A software language including language constructs for disambiguating text that is to be converted to speech using configurable lexeme based rules. The language can include at least one conditional statement and a significance indicator. The conditional statement can define a sense of usage for a lexeme. The significance indicator can... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080235006 - Method and apparatus for decoding an audio signal: An apparatus for decoding an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes receiving the audio signal and spatial information, identifying a type of modified spatial information, generating the modified spatial information using the spatial information, and decoding the audio signal using the modified spatial information, wherein... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080235007 - System and method for addressing channel mismatch through class specific transforms: A method and system for speaker recognition and identification includes transforming features of a speaker utterance in a first condition state to match a second condition state and provide a transformed utterance. A discriminative criterion is used to generate a transform that maps an utterance to obtain a computed result.... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080235008 - Sound masking system and masking sound generation method: In a masking sound generation apparatus, a CPU analyzes a speech utterance speed of a received sound signal. Then, the CPU copies the received sound signal into a plurality of sound signals and performs the following processing on each of the sound signals. Namely, the CPU divides each of the... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080235009 - Method and apparatus for reducing synchronization delay in packet switched voice terminals using speech decoder modification: A device is disclosed that makes packetized and encoded speech data audible to a listener, as is a method for operating the device. The device includes a unit for generating a synchronization request for reducing an amount of synchronization delay, and further includes a speech decoder that is responsive to... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080235010 - Reproducing apparatus: Disclosed is a reproducing apparatus comprising: a reproduction section to reproduce reproduction data comprising sound data and/or image data; a selection section to calculate evaluation values between a link source set for the reproduction data and each of a plurality of link destinations corresponding to the link source by a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080235011 - Automatic level control of speech signals: Automatic level control of speech portions of an audio signal is provided. An audio signal is received in the form of a sequence of samples and may contain speech portion and non-speech portions. The sequence of samples is divided into a sequence of sub-frames. Multiple sub-frames adjacent to a present... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080235012 - System and method of identifying contact information: A system and method for identifying contact information is provided. A system to identify contact information may include an input to receive a data stream. The data stream may include audio content, video content or both. The system may also include an analysis module to detect contact information within the... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080235013 - Method and apparatus for estimating noise by using harmonics of voice signal: Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for estimating noise included in a sound signal during sound signal processing. The method includes estimating harmonics components in a frame of an input sound signal; using the estimated harmonics components, computing a Voice Presence Probability (VPP) on the frame of the input... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080235014 - Method and system for processing dictated information: A method and a system for processing dictated information into a dynamic form are disclosed. The method comprises presenting an image (3) belonging to an image category to a user, dictating a first section of speech associated with the image category, retrieving an electronic document having a previously defined document... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080235015 - System and method for likelihood computation in multi-stream hmm based speech recognition: A system and method for speech recognition includes determining active Gaussians related to a first feature stream and a second feature stream by labeling at least one of the first and second streams, and determining active Gaussians co-occurring in the first stream and the second stream based upon joint probability.... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080235016 - System and method for detection and analysis of speech: Certain aspects and embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for monitoring and analyzing the language environment and the development of a key child. A key child's language environment and language development can be monitored without placing artificial limitations on the key child's activities or requiring... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20080235017 - Voice interaction device, voice interaction method, and voice interaction program: The present invention provides a voice interaction device capable of performing an interaction meeting any demand from a user at proper time in flexible response to a circumferential condition of the user, a voice interaction method and a voice interaction program thereof. The voice interaction device controls the interaction with... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080235019 - Age determination using speech: A device may include logic configured to receive voice data from a user, identify a result from the voice data, calculate a confidence score associated with the result, and determine a likely age range associated with the user based on the confidence score.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080235018 - Method and system for determing the topic of a conversation and locating and presenting related content: A method and system are disclosed for determining the topic of a conversation and obtaining and presenting related content. The disclosed system provides a “creative inspirator” in an ongoing conversation. The system extracts keywords from the conversation and utilizes the keywords to determine the topic(s) being discussed. The disclosed system... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080235020 - Method and apparatus for training a text independent speaker recognition system using speech data with text labels: There is provided an apparatus for providing a Text Independent (TI) speaker recognition mode in a Text Dependent (TD) Hidden Markov Model (HMM) speaker recognition system and/or a Text Constrained (TC) HMM speaker recognition system. The apparatus includes a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) generator and a Gaussian weight normalizer. The... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080235022 - Automatic speech recognition with dynamic grammar rules: Automatic speech recognition implemented with a speech recognition grammar of a multimodal application in an ASR engine, the multimodal application operating on a multimodal device supporting multiple modes of user interaction including a voice mode, the multimodal application operatively coupled to the ASR engine, including: matching by the ASR engine... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080235021 - Indexing digitized speech with words represented in the digitized speech: Indexing digitized speech with words represented in the digitized speech, with a multimodal digital audio editor operating on a multimodal device supporting modes of user interaction, the modes of user interaction including a voice mode and one or more non-voice modes, the multimodal digital audio editor operatively coupled to an... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080235023 - Systems and methods for responding to natural language speech utterance: Systems and methods for receiving natural language queries and/or commands and execute the queries and/or commands. The systems and methods overcomes the deficiencies of prior art speech query and response systems through the application of a complete speech-based information query, retrieval, presentation and command environment. This environment makes significant use... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080235024 - Method and system for text-to-speech synthesis with personalized voice: A method and system are provided for text-to-speech synthesis with personalized voice. The method includes receiving an incidental audio input (403) of speech in the form of an audio communication from an input speaker (401) and generating a voice dataset (404) for the input speaker (401). The method includes receiving... Agent: Suzanne Erez IBM Corporation

20080235025 - Prosody modification device, prosody modification method, and recording medium storing prosody modification program: A prosody modification device includes: a real voice prosody input part that receives real voice prosody information extracted from an utterance of a human; a regular prosody generating part that generates regular prosody information having a regular phoneme boundary that determines a boundary between phonemes and a regular phoneme length... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080235026 - Voice activated distance measuring device: A voice activated device for annunciating a message indicative of a distance of the device spaced from another location is disclosed. The device comprises a voice sensor for receiving a voice command requesting annunciation of a message indicative of the distance of the device spaced from the other location, converting... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080235028 - Creating a voice response grammar from a presentation grammer: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for creating a voice response grammar in a voice response server including identifying presentation documents for a presentation, each presentation document having a presentation grammar. Typical embodiments include storing each presentation grammar in a voice response grammar on a voice response server. In typical... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080235027 - Supporting multi-lingual user interaction with a multimodal application: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for supporting multi-lingual user interaction with a multimodal application, the application including a plurality of VoiceXML dialogs, each dialog characterized by a particular language, supporting multi-lingual user interaction implemented with a plurality of speech engines, each speech engine having a grammar and characterized by... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080235030 - Automatic method for measuring a baby's, particularly a newborn's, cry, and related apparatus: The present invention concerns an automatic method for measuring a baby's cry, comprising the following step: A. having N samples ρ(i), for i=O, 1, . . . , (N−1), of an acoustic signal p(t) representing the cry, sampled at a sampling frequencŷ for a period of duration P; the method... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C.

20080235031 - Interface apparatus, interface processing method, and interface processing program: An interface apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention includes: an operation detecting section configured to detect a device operation; a status detecting section configured to detect a status change or status continuance of a device or in the vicinity of the device; an operation history accumulating section configured... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080235032 - Method and apparatus for data capture using a voice activated workstation: A method and apparatus for capturing data in a workstation, wherein a large number of data associated with a sample which is viewed, by a user, through an optical device, such as a microscope, is to be entered in a computer related file. The optical device can be moved to... Agent: Ibm Corporation, (olp) C/o Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20080235029 - Speech-enabled predictive text selection for a multimodal application: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for speech-enabled predictive text selection for a multimodal application, the multimodal application operating on a multimodal device supporting multiple modes of interaction including a voice mode and one or more non-voice modes, the multimodal application operatively coupled to an automatic speech recognition (‘ASR’) engine... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080235035 - method for decoding an audio signal: The invention relates to a method for decoding an audio signal, to allow an audio signal to be compressed and transferred more efficiently. The inventive method comprises steps of receiving an audio signal with spatial information signal, obtaining location information using the number of time slot and parameter of audio... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080235034 - Method and apparatus for encoding audio signal and method and apparatus for decoding audio signal: Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding an audio signal to efficiently encode a harmonic envelope and a method and apparatus for decoding an audio signal to decode the harmonic envelope. The method of encoding an audio signal includes performing harmonic analysis with respect to an input signal to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080235033 - Method and apparatus for encoding audio signal, and method and apparatus for decoding audio signal: Methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding of an audio signal using a mixture of a time-frequency method and a parametric method according to the audio band are provided. An encoding method of an audio signal includes: dividing input audio signals into a plurality of audio bands; selecting a coding... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080235036 - Method for decoding an audio signal: The invention relates to a method for decoding an audio signal, to allow an audio signal to be compressed and transferred more efficiently. The inventive method comprises steps of receiving an audio signal with spatial information signal, obtaining location information using the number of time slot and parameter of audio... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080228463 - Word boundary probability estimating, probabilistic language model building, kana-kanji converting, and unknown word model building: Calculates a word n-gram probability with high accuracy in a situation where a first corpus), which is a relatively small corpus containing manually segmented word information, and a second corpus, which is a relatively large corpus, are given as a training corpus that is storage containing vast quantities of sample... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080228464 - Visualization method for machine translation: A method, computer program product and system are provided. The method includes the steps of: providing output text and a confidence value and displaying the output text. The output text includes text in a second language produced from machine translation performed on input text in a first language. The confidence... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080228465 - Translation apparatus and method: A translation apparatus translates article information in a first language including an article body and a related headline as a summary of the article body. A decision unit discriminately identifies the article body and the headline in the article information. A translation unit respectively translates the article body and the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080228468 - English-language translation of exact interpretations of keyword queries: The present invention relates to a methodology to translate exact interpretations of keyword queries into meaningful and grammatically correct plain-language queries in order to convey the meaning of these interpretations to the initiator of the search. The method includes the steps of generating at least one grammatically valid plain-language sentence... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20080228466 - Language neutral text verification: A resource string associated with output text is identified. A regular expression pattern is generated from the resource string. The regular expression pattern is matched to the output text. A verification result based on the matching of the regular expression pattern to the output text is provided.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080228467 - Natural language parsing method to provide conceptual flow: A method for parsing the flow of natural human language to convert a flow of machine recognizable language into a conceptual flow includes, first, recognizing the lexical structure and then, a basic semantic grouping is determined for the language flow in the lexical structure. The basic semantic grouping is then... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20080228469 - Rollup functions for efficient storage, presentation, and analysis of data: Methods of organizing a series of sibling data entities in a digital computer are provided for preserving sibling ranking information associated with the sibling data entities and for attaching the sibling ranking information to a joint parent of the sibling data entities to facilitate on-demand generation of ranked parent candidates.... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080228470 - Signal separating device, signal separating method, and computer program: A signal separating device that is inputted with signals formed by mixing plural signals and separates the signals into individual signals includes a signal converting unit that converts input signals into signals in the time-frequency domain and generates observation spectrograms and a signal separating unit that generates separated results from... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080228471 - Intelligent solo-mute switching: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for approximating an MDCT coefficient of a block of windowed sinusoid having a defined frequency, the block being multiplied by a window sequence and having a block length and a block index. A finite trigonometric series is employed to approximate the window sequence. A window... Agent: Matthew S. Ashman

20080228472 - Audio data packet format and decoding method thereof and method for correcting mobile communication terminal codec setup error and mobile communication terminal performance same: Disclosed is an audio data packet format for transmitting an IYIPEG-4 HE-AAC frame via a voice channel of a mobile communication network, a method for decoding the audio data packet format, a method for correcting a codec setup error by identifying a codec used to encode sound source data inserted... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080228473 - Method and apparatus for adjusting hearing intelligibility in mobile phones: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for speech intelligibility enhancement. First, the noise estimator determines the amount of ambient noise when the listener is placed in a high ambient noise environment. Second, the perceptual feature associated with speech intelligibility is enhanced with minimal processing artifacts. Third, the... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080228474 - Methods and apparatus for post-processing of speech signals: Methods and apparatus for post-processing of speech signals are disclosed herein.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080228475 - Method for generating encoded audio signal and method for processing audio signal: A method for generating an encoded audio signal, and a method for processing the same during the multi-channel audio coding are disclosed. The present invention provides the method for generating an encoded audio signal comprising: including basic configuration information requisite for a multi-channel audio coding process; and including extension configuration... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080228476 - Entropy coding by adapting coding between level and run length/level modes: An audio encoder performs adaptive entropy encoding of audio data. For example, an audio encoder switches between variable dimension vector Huffman coding of direct levels of quantized audio data and run-level coding of run lengths and levels of quantized audio data. The encoder can use, for example, context-based arithmetic coding... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20080228477 - Method and device for processing a voice signal for robust speech recognition: A speech signal is processed for subsequent speech recognition. The speech signal is tainted by noise and represents at least one speech command. The following steps are executed: a) recording of the noise-tainted speech signal; b) use of noise reduction on the speech signal to generate a noise-reduced speech signal;... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080228478 - Targeted speech: A system detects a speech segment that may include unvoiced, fully voiced, or mixed voice content. The system includes a digital converter that converts a time-varying input signal into a digital-domain signal. A window function passes signals within a programmed aural frequency range while substantially blocking signals above and below... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080228479 - Data transcription and management system and method: What is disclosed is a data gathering, storage and management system, which includes a database in which data files are stored. The database includes a series of selected keywords each associated with one or more content files, the content files comprising advertisements, information, on-screen control buttons for performing a series... Agent: Dergosits & Noah LLP

20080228480 - Speech recognition method, speech recognition system, and server thereof: A speech recognition method comprises model selection step which selects a recognition model based on characteristic information of input speech and speech recognition step which translates input speech into text data based on the selected recognition model.... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080228481 - Content selelction systems and methods using speech recognition: Embodiments of the present invention improve content selection systems and methods using speech recognition. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a speech recognition method comprising storing content on an electronic device, wherein the content is associated with a plurality of content attribute values, adding the content attribute values to... Agent: Chad R. Walsh Fountainhead Law Group

20080228482 - Speech recognition system and method for speech recognition: A recognition result extraction unit and an agreement determination unit are provided. The recognition result extraction unit extracts, from a recognition result storage unit, N best solutions A and B obtained by an utterance B. The utterance B follows an utterance A corresponding to the N best solutions A and... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080228483 - Method, device and system for implementing speech recognition function: The present disclosure discloses a method, a device and a system for implementing a speech recognition function, in which a media resource control device controls a media resource processing device to recognize a speech input by a user via H.248 protocol. The method includes receiving, by the media resource processing... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080228484 - Techniques for aiding speech-to-speech translation: Techniques for assisting in translation are provided. A speech recognition hypothesis is obtained, corresponding to a source language utterance. Information retrieval is performed on a supplemental database, based on a situational context, to obtain at least one word string that is related to the source language utterance. The speech recognition... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080228485 - Aural similarity measuring system for text: The aural similarity measuring system and method provides a measure of the aural similarity between a target text (10) and one or more reference texts (11). Both the target text (10) and the reference texts (11) are converted into a string of phonemes (15) and then one or other of... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080228486 - Method and system having hypothesis type variable thresholds: A method (and system) for spoken dialog confirmation classifies a plurality of spoken dialog hypotheses, and assigns a threshold to each class of spoken dialog hypotheses.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080228487 - Speech synthesis apparatus and method: A language processing unit identifies a word by performing language analysis on a text supplied from a text holding unit. A synthesis selection unit selects speech synthesis processing performed by a rule-based synthesis unit or speech synthesis processing performed by a pre-recorded-speech-based synthesis unit for a word of interest extracted... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080228488 - Computer-implemented voice application indexing web site: A computer-implemented voice application indexing method and system for supplying voice applications that provide telephony services to users. The method and system include receiving voice application data over the network regarding the voice applications. The voice application data contains location data to indicate where the voice applications are located on... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080228490 - Method and apparatus for linking representation and realization data: A method and apparatus for creating links between a representation, (e.g. text data,) and a realization, (e.g. corresponding audio data,) is provided. According to the invention the realization is structured by combining a time-stamped version of the representation generated from the realization with structural information from the representation. Thereby so... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080228489 - System and method for analyzing automatic speech recognition performance data: In a disclosed method for interpreting automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance data, a data processing system may receive user input that selects a log file to be processed. The log file may contain log records produced by an ASR system as a result of verbal interaction between an individual and... Agent: Raman N. Dewan Jackson Walker, L.L.P.

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20080228493 - Determining voice commands with cooperative voice recognition: A method of recognizing voice commands cooperatively includes generating a voice command from a user specifying a target machine and a desired action to be performed by the target machine, and a plurality of machines receiving the voice command, the plurality of machines comprising the target machine and at least... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080228492 - Device control device, speech recognition device, agent device, data structure, and device control: A language analyzer performs speech recognition on a speech input by a speech input unit, specifies a possible word which is represented by the speech, and the score thereof, and supplies word data representing them to an agent processing unit. The agent processing unit stores process item data which defines... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080228495 - Enabling dynamic voicexml in an x+ v page of a multimodal application: Enabling dynamic VoiceXML in an X+V page of a multimodal application implemented with the multimodal application operating in a multimodal browser on a multimodal device supporting multiple modes of interaction including a voice mode and one or more non-voice modes, the multimodal application operatively coupled to a VoiceXML interpreter, including... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080228496 - Speech-centric multimodal user interface design in mobile technology: A multi-modal human computer interface (HCI) receives a plurality of available information inputs concurrently, or serially, and employs a subset of the inputs to determine or infer user intent with respect to a communication or information goal. Received inputs are respectively parsed, and the parsed inputs are analyzed and optionally... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080228494 - Speech-enabled web content searching using a multimodal browser: Speech-enabled web content searching using a multimodal browser implemented with one or more grammars in an automatic speech recognition (‘ASR’) engine, with the multimodal browser operating on a multimodal device supporting multiple modes of interaction including a voice mode and one or more non-voice modes, the multimodal browser operatively coupled... Agent: Brent Lee Yager

20080228498 - Enhanced coordinated signal generation apparatus: A portable information system that, when activated, presents certain data to a user, wherein the information is prepositioned within the portable system or provided to it. The information may be resident within fixed memory, added by means of a smart card, or wirelessly transmitted to the information system. The information... Agent: Gregory Smith & Associates

20080228497 - Method for communication and communication device: The invention describes a method for communication by means of a communication device (DS), in which synthesized speech (ss) is output from the communication device (DS), and in which light signals (ls) are output simultaneously with the synthesized speech (ss) in accordance with the semantic content of the synthesized speech... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080228501 - Method and apparatus for decoding an audio signal: An apparatus for decoding an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes receiving the audio signal and spatial information, identifying a type of modified spatial information, generating the modified spatial information using the spatial information, and decoding the audio signal using the modified spatial information, wherein... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080228500 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding audio signal containing noise at low bit rate: A method and apparatus for encoding/decoding audio signals at a low bit rate are provided. The encoding apparatus selectively encodes one or more reference samples having the highest amplitudes among frequency samples of an audio signal, determines amplitudes of the remaining samples other than the reference sample according to a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080228502 - Method and apparatus for signal processing and encoding and decoding method, and apparatus therefor: An apparatus for processing a signal and method thereof are disclosed. Data coding and entropy coding are performed with interconnection, and grouping is used to enhance coding efficiency. The present invention includes the steps of obtaining a group reference value corresponding to a plurality of data included in one group... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080228499 - Method for generating encoded audio signal and method for processing audio signal: A method for generating an encoded audio signal, and a method for processing the same during the multi-channel C audio coding are disclosed. The present invention provides the method for generating an encoded audio signal comprising: including fixed channel configuration information acting as configuration information of a predetermined output channel;... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080221862 - Mobile language interpreter with localization: A mobile device, system, and method are directed towards enabling a mobile user to request and obtain audio, graphical, and/or textual language translations between one or more different languages virtually in real-time. In one embodiment, a system is configured to enable a mobile user to select a first language from... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20080221863 - Search-based word segmentation method and device for language without word boundary tag: The present invention discloses a search-based segmentation method and device for a language without a word boundary tag. The inventive method includes the steps of: a. providing at least one search engine with a segment of a text including at least one segment; b. searching for the segment through the... Agent: Anne Vachon Doughtery

20080221864 - Process for procedural generation of translations and synonyms from core dictionaries: A process that generates translations and synonyms in a database with multiple dictionaries is disclosed. When translations are required among a plurality of languages, two or more “core” languages are chosen, for which there will be dictionaries with all other languages. A given word or other semantic unit is first... Agent: John Alexander Galbreath

20080221868 - Digital universal language: A numeric, hierarchical knowledge classification system, (e.g., Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC)) of concepts, is used for universal annotation. For example, “game” (DDC=799) relates to hunting and “game” (DDC=794.105), to chess. The universal annotation may be combined with human-aided machine translation, so individuals can tag their documents in the source language,... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080221865 - Language generating system: A Language Generating System (“LGS”) for generating and outputting natural language data for informing a user of a predetermined event in a plurality of different languages, is provided. The LGS may include a database including grammar data sets corresponding to each of a plurality of languages, the grammar data including... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20080221866 - Machine learning for transliteration: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for performing transliteration between text in different scripts. In one aspect, a method includes generating a transliteration model based on statistical information derived from parallel text having first text in an input script and corresponding second text in an output script; and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080221867 - System and method for internationalization: A system and method for internationalizing user interfaces associated with Web pages and other software and especially interactive web pages. Translation files are stored in a server and transmitted to clients as needed. Preferably strings are arranged in a tree so that the client can request specific subtrees. The user... Agent: Simon Kahn - Pyi Tech, Ltd. C/o Landonip, Inc

20080221869 - Converting dependency grammars to efficiently parsable context-free grammars: Dependency grammars are transformed to context-free grammars. The context-free grammars can be used in a parser to parse input sentences and identify relationships among words in the sentence.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080221871 - Human/machine interface: A method to allow a user to cause a machine to make an utterance, together with apparatus for obtaining input from a user. The method comprises the steps of: analysing the context within which the utterance is to be made; creating a list of utterances appropriate to the context; on... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080221874 - Method and apparatus for fast semi-automatic semantic annotation: A method, apparatus and computer instructions is provided for fast semi-automatic semantic annotation. Given a limited annotated corpus, the present invention assigns a tag and a label to each word of the next limited annotated corpus using a parser engine, a similarity engine, and a SVM engine. A rover then... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080221872 - Methods and apparatus for natural spoken language speech recognition: A word prediction method and apparatus improves precision and accuracy. For the prediction of a sixth word “?”, a partial analysis tree having a modification relationship with the sixth word is predicted. “sara-ni sho-senkyoku no” has two partial analysis trees, “sara-ni” and “sho-senkyoku no”. It is predicted that “sara-ni” does... Agent: Ference & Associates Llc

20080221873 - Methods and apparatus for natural spoken language speech recognition: A word prediction apparatus and method that improves the precision accuracy, and a speech recognition method and an apparatus therefor are provided. For the prediction of a sixth word “?”, a partial analysis tree having a modification relationship with the sixth word is predicted. “sara-ni sho-senkyoku no” has two partial... Agent: Ference & Associates Llc

20080221870 - System and method for revising natural language parse trees: An improved system and method for revising natural language parse trees is provided. A revision dependency parser may learn a set of transformation rules that may be applied to dependency parse trees generated by a base parser for revising the dependency parse trees. A corpus of natural language sentences and... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20080221875 - Bit rate reduction in audio encoders by exploiting inharmonicity effects and auditory temporal masking: The present invention relates to a method for encoding an audio signal. In a first embodiment a model relating to temporal masking of sound provided to a human ear is provided. A temporal masking index is determined in dependence upon a received audio signal and the model using a forward... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20080221876 - Method for processing audio data into a condensed version: Recorded audio data is compressed to obtain a condensed version, by first selecting a number of subsequent non-overlapping segments of the audio data, then reducing each segment by temporal compression and combining the reduced segments into a shortened version which can be output. The temporal compression may be made with... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080221877 - User interactive apparatus and method, and computer program product: A response storage unit stores a response, a watching degree relative to a display unit, and an output form of the response to a speaker and the display unit. An extracting unit extracts a request from a speech recognition result. A response determining unit determines a response based on the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080221878 - Fast semantic extraction using a neural network architecture: A system and method for semantic extraction using a neural network architecture includes indexing each word in an input sentence into a dictionary and using these indices to map each word to a d-dimensional vector (the features of which are learned). Together with this, position information for a word of... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20080221883 - Hands free contact database information entry at a communication device: A method, system, and program provides for hands free contact database information entry at a communication device. A recording system at a communication device detects a user initiation to record. Responsive to detecting the user initiation to record, the recording system records the ongoing conversation supported between the communication device... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20080221879 - Mobile environment speech processing facility: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a mobile environment speech processing facility. The present invention may provide for the entering of text into a software application resident on a mobile communication facility, where recorded speech may be presented by the user using the mobile communications... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080221880 - Mobile music environment speech processing facility: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a mobile environment speech processing facility. The present invention may provide for the entering of text into a music software application resident on a mobile communication facility, where speech may be recorded using the mobile communications facility's resident capture... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080221881 - Recognition of speech in editable audio streams: A speech processing system divides a spoken audio stream into partial audio streams, referred to as “snippets.” The system may divide a portion of the audio stream into two snippets at a position at which the speaker performed an editing operation, such as pausing and then resuming recording, or rewinding... Agent: Robert Plotkin, Pc

20080221882 - System for excluding unwanted data from a voice recording: An apparatus and method for the preparation of a censored recording of an audio source according to a procedure whereby no tangible, durable version of the original audio data is created in the course of preparing the censored record. Further, a method is provided for identifying target speech elements in... Agent: Miltons LLP

20080221884 - Mobile environment speech processing facility: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a mobile environment speech processing facility. The present invention may provide for the entering of text into a software application resident on a mobile communication facility, where recorded speech may be presented by the user using the mobile communications... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080221886 - Method and system for the entry of flight data for an aircraft, transmitted between a crew on board the aircraft and ground staff: A system of assistance in the entry of flight data for an aircraft transmitted between a crew on board the aircraft and a ground staff including, a radiofrequency communications link to transmit flight data between the crew and the ground staff. At least one means of sending and one means... Agent: Perman & Green

20080221885 - Speech control apparatus and method: A speech control apparatus and a method thereof are provided. The speech control apparatus logs the user in an application software according to a speech signal of a user. The speech control apparatus is connected to a password bank comprising a plurality of accounts and passwords. The speech control apparatus... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080221888 - 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

20080221887 - Systems and methods for dynamic re-configurable speech recognition: Speech recognition models are dynamically re-configurable based on user information, background information such as background noise and transducer information such as transducer response characteristics to provide users with alternate input modes to keyboard text entry. The techniques of dynamic re-configurable speech recognition provide for deployment of speech recognition on small... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080221889 - Mobile content search environment speech processing facility: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a mobile environment speech processing facility. The present invention may provide for the entering of text into a content search software application resident on a mobile communication facility, where speech may be recorded using the mobile communications facility's resident... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080221890 - Unsupervised lexicon acquisition from speech and text: Techniques for acquiring, from an input text and an input speech, a set of a character string and a pronunciation thereof which should be recognized as a word. A system according to the present invention: selects, from an input text, plural candidate character strings which are candidates to be recognized... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (yor)

20080221891 - Interactive speech recognition system: An interactive speech recognition system includes a database containing a plurality of reference terms, a list memory that receives the reference terms of category “n,” a processing circuit that populates the list memory with the reference terms corresponding to the category “n,” and a recognition circuit that processes the reference... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080221893 - System and method for dynamic learning: New language constantly emerges from complex, collaborative human-human interactions like meetings—such as when a presenter handwrites a new term on a whiteboard while saying it redundantly. The system and method described includes devices for receiving various types of human communication activities (e.g., speech, writing and gestures) presented in a multimodally... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, Pllc

20080221892 - Systems and methods for an autonomous avatar driver: The autonomous avatar driver is useful in association with language sources. A sourcer may receive dialog from the language source. It may also, in some embodiments, receive external data from data sources. A segmentor may convert characters, represent particles and split dialog. A parser may then apply a link grammar,... Agent: Kang Lim

20080221894 - Synthesizing speech from text: Speech is synthesized for a given text by determining a sequence of phonetic components based on the text, determining a sequence of target phonetic elements associated phonetic components, determining a sequence of target event types associated with the phonetic components and determining a sequence of speech units from a plurality... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080221895 - Method and apparatus for processing audio for playback: A method and apparatus for processing audio for playback to provide a smooth transition between a beginning region of an audio track and an end region of a previous audio track is disclosed. A quantity representative of a chromagram is calculated for each of the audio tracks and the mixing... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080221896 - Grammar confusability metric for speech recognition: Architecture for testing an application grammar for the presence of confusable terms. A grammar confusability metric (GCM) is generated for describing a likelihood that a reference term will be confused by the speech recognizer with another term phrase currently allowed by active grammar rules. The GCM is used to flag... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080221902 - Mobile browser environment speech processing facility: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a mobile environment speech processing facility. The present invention may provide for the entering of text into a browser software application resident on a mobile communication facility, where speech may be recorded using the mobile communications facility's resident capture... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080221897 - Mobile environment speech processing facility: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a mobile environment speech processing facility. The present invention may provide for the entering of text into a software application resident on a mobile communication facility, where recorded speech may be presented by the user using the mobile communications... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080221901 - Mobile general search environment speech processing facility: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a mobile environment speech processing facility. The present invention may provide for the entering of text into a search software application resident on a mobile communication facility, where speech may be recorded using the mobile communications facility's resident capture... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080221900 - Mobile local search environment speech processing facility: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a mobile environment speech processing facility. The present invention may provide for the entering of text into a local search software application resident on a mobile communication facility, where speech may be recorded using the mobile communications facility's resident... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080221899 - Mobile messaging environment speech processing facility: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a mobile environment speech processing facility. The present invention may provide for the entering of text into a messaging software application resident on a mobile communication facility, where speech may be recorded using the mobile communications facility's resident capture... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080221898 - Mobile navigation environment speech processing facility: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a mobile environment speech processing facility. The present invention may provide for the entering of text into a navigation software application resident on a mobile communication facility, where speech may be recorded using the mobile communications facility's resident capture... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080221903 - Hierarchical methods and apparatus for extracting user intent from spoken utterances: Improved techniques are disclosed for permitting a user to employ more human-based grammar (i.e., free form or conversational input) while addressing a target system via a voice system. For example, a technique for determining intent associated with a spoken utterance of a user comprises the following steps/operations. Decoded speech uttered... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080221904 - Coarticulation method for audio-visual text-to-speech synthesis: A method for generating animated sequences of talking heads in text-to-speech applications wherein a processor samples a plurality of frames comprising image samples. The processor reads first data comprising one or more parameters associated with noise-producing orifice images of sequences of at least three concatenated phonemes which correspond to an... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080221905 - Encoding an information signal: The transient problem may be sufficiently addressed, and for this purpose, a further delay on the side of the decoding may be reduced if a new SBR frame class is used wherein the frame boundaries are not shifted, i.e. the grid boundaries are still synchronized with the frame boundaries, but... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080221907 - Method and apparatus for decoding an audio signal: An apparatus for decoding an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes receiving the audio signal and spatial information, identifying a type of modified spatial information, generating the modified spatial information using the spatial information, and decoding the audio signal using the modified spatial information, wherein... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080221908 - Multi-channel audio encoding and decoding: An audio encoder and decoder use architectures and techniques that improve the efficiency of multi-channel audio coding and decoding. The described strategies include various techniques and tools, which can be used in combination or independently. For example, an audio encoder performs a pre-processing multi-channel transform on multi-channel audio data, varying... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20080221906 - Speech coding system and method: A system for enhancing a signal regenerated from an encoded audio signal. The system comprises a decoder arranged to receive the encoded audio signal and produce a decoded audio signal, a feature extraction means arranged to receive at least one of the decoded and encoded audio signal and extract at... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20080215309 - Extraction-empowered machine translation: The invention relates to systems and methods for automatically translating documents from a first language to a second language. To carry out the translation of a document, elements of information are extracted from the document and are translated using one or more specialized translation processes. The remainder of the document... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080215308 - Integrated pinyin and stroke input: Integrated pinyin and stroke input may be provided. First, a first input may be received. Next, in response to the first input, an input mode may be determined. The input mode may comprise a pinyin input mode, a stroke order input mode, or a stroke number input mode. Once the... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080215307 - Shared language model: A shared language model may be provided. First, a first input may be received. Then, in response to the first input, an input mode may be determined comprising one of the following: a pinyin input mode, a stroke order input mode, and a stroke number input mode. Then, data may... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080215311 - Discriminative training of language models for text and speech classification: Methods are disclosed for estimating language models such that the conditional likelihood of a class given a word string, which is very well correlated with classification accuracy, is maximized. The methods comprise tuning statistical language model parameters jointly for all classes such that a classifier discriminates between the correct class... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080215312 - Handheld electronic device with text disambiguation: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a user intended a particular output, but... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080215310 - Method and system for mapping a natural language text into animation: A method for analyzing a natural language sentence describing an action, to create an action structure to be used in creating an animation of the action, the method comprising: processing the natural language sentence to create a grammatical tree comprising an action word and its associated values; providing constructs for... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080215314 - Method for adapting a k-means text clustering to emerging data: A method and structure for clustering documents in datasets which include clustering first documents and a first dataset to produce first document classes, creating centroid seeds based on the first document classes, and clustering second documents in a second dataset using the centroid seeds, wherein the first dataset and the... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080215313 - Speech and textual analysis device and corresponding method: A speech and textual analysis device and method for forming a search and/or classification catalog. The device is based on a linguistic database and includes a taxonomy table containing variable taxon nodes. The speech and textual analysis device includes a weighting module, a weighting parameter being additionally assigned to each... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080215315 - Methods and appratus for characterizing media: Methods and apparatus for characterizing media are described. In one example, a method of characterizing media includes capturing a block of audio; converting at least a portion of the block of audio into a frequency domain representation including a plurality of complex-valued frequency components; defining a band of complex-valued frequency... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080215316 - Method and system for trimming audio files: A system for automatically trimming an audio files based upon textual content associated with the audio file is provided. The source of the textual content may be an electronic document or written language text. The textual content may include predefined hints, a text mark, or end-of-phrase punctuation mark. The system... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080215317 - Lossless multi-channel audio codec using adaptive segmentation with random access point (rap) and multiple prediction parameter set (mpps) capability: A lossless audio codec encodes/decodes a lossless variable bit rate (VBR) bitstream with random access point (RAP) capability to initiate lossless decoding at a specified segment within a frame and/or multiple prediction parameter set (MPPS) capability partitioned to mitigate transient effects. This is accomplished with an adaptive segmentation technique that... Agent: Dts, Inc.

20080215320 - Apparatus and method to reduce recognition errors through context relations among dialogue turns: Disclosed is directed an apparatus and method to reduce recognition errors through context relations among multiple dialogue turns. The apparatus includes a rule set storage unit having a rule set containing one or more rules, an evolutionary rule generation module connected to the rule storage unit, and a rule trigger... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080215318 - Event recognition: Recognition of events can be performed by accessing an audio signal having static and dynamic features. A value for the audio signal can be calculated by utilizing different weights for the static and dynamic features such that a frame of the audio signal can be associated with a particular event.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080215319 - Query by humming for ringtone search and download: Described is a technology by which a user hums, sings or otherwise plays a user-provided rendition of a ringtone (or ringback tone) through a mobile telephone to a ringtone search service (e.g., a WAP, interactive voice response or SMS-based search platform). The service matches features of the user's rendition against... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080215321 - Pitch model for noise estimation: Pitch is tracked for individual samples, which are taken much more frequently than an analysis frame. Speech is identified based on the tracked pitch and the speech components of the signal are removed with a time-varying filter, leaving only an estimate of a time-varying speech signal. This estimate is then... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080215322 - Method and system for generating training data for an automatic speech recogniser: The invention describes a method and a system for generating training data (DT) for an automatic speech recogniser (2) for operating at a particular first sampling frequency (fH), comprising steps of deriving spectral characteristics (SL) from audio data (DL) sampled at a second frequency (fL) lower than the first sampling... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080215324 - Indexing apparatus, indexing method, and computer program product: Acoustic models to provide features to a speech signal are created based on speech features included in regions where similarities of acoustic models created based on speech features in a certain time length are equal to or greater than a predetermined value. Feature vectors acquired by using the acoustic models... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080215323 - Method and system for grouping voice messages: A method for grouping voice messages includes extracting a voice signature from a voice message and tagging the voice message with an identification associated with the voice signature. The method also includes grouping the voice message based on the identification.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080215327 - Method for processing speech data for a distributed recognition system: Speech signal information is formatted, processed and transported in accordance with a format adapted for TCP/IP protocols used on the Internet and other communications networks. NULL characters are used for indicating the end of a voice segment. The method is useful for distributed speech recognition systems such as a client-server... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20080215326 - Speaker adaptation of vocabulary for speech recognition: A phonetic vocabulary for a speech recognition system is adapted to a particular speaker's pronunciation. A speaker can be attributed specific pronunciation styles, which can be identified from specific pronunciation examples. Consequently, a phonetic vocabulary can be reduced in size, which can improve recognition accuracy and recognition speed.... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080215325 - Technique for accurately detecting system failure: An apparatus, method and program for dividing a conversational dialog into utterance. The apparatus includes a computer processor; a word database for storing spellings and pronunciations of words; a grammar database for storing syntactic rules on words; a pause detecting section which detects a pause location in a channel making... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (yor)

20080215328 - Method and system for automatically detecting morphemes in a task classification system using lattices: The invention concerns a method and system for detecting morphemes in a user's communication. The method may include recognizing a lattice of phone strings from the user's input communication, the lattice representing a distribution over the phone strings, and detecting morphemes in the user's input communication using the lattice. The... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080215329 - Methods and apparatus for generating dialog state conditioned language models: Techniques are provided for generating improved language modeling. Such improved modeling is achieved by conditioning a language model on a state of a dialog for which the language model is employed. For example, the techniques of the invention may improve modeling of language for use in a speech recognizer of... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080215330 - Audio signal modification: A method of modifying an audio signal comprises the steps of analyzing the input audio signal (x) so as to produce a set of filter parameters (p) and a residual signal (r), modifying the set of filter parameters (p) so as to produce a modified set of filter parameters (p′),... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080215331 - Enabling speech within a multimodal program using markup: A method for speech enabling an application can include the step of specifying a speech input within a speech-enabled markup. The speech-enabled markup can also specify an application operation that is to be executed responsive to the detection of the speech input. After the speech input has been defined within... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080215332 - Methods and apparatus for adapting speech coders to improve cochlear implant performance: Cochlear implant performance is improved by extracting pitch information and encoding such pitch information into the processor of a cochlear implant. One embodiment of the invention is to explicitly extract the pitch and deliver it to the cochlear implant by co-varying the stimulate site and rate. Another embodiment of the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080215333 - Embedding data in audio and detecting embedded data in audio: A method of embedding data into an audio signal provides a data sequence for embedding in the audio signal and computes masking thresholds for the audio signal from a frequency domain transform of the audio signal. The masking thresholds correspond to subbands of the audio signal, which are obtained from... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080215334 - Method, system, and apparatus for monitoring security events using speech recognition: A method of monitoring for security events using a speech recognition system can include receiving a sound signal within the speech recognition system and determining at least one attribute of the sound signal. The attribute of the sound signal can be compared with one or more acoustic models associated with... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080215335 - Computer, display control device, pointer position control method, and program: To provide a pointer position control method and the like for manipulating a pointer more easily. The user moves the pointer P two-dimensionally and perform click and other operations by using only “voice”—by varying the volume and pitch of produced voice without uttering any specific command. The user moves the... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080215336 - Method and system for enabling a device function of a vehicle: The current invention provides a method and system for enabling a device function of a vehicle. A speech input stream is received at a telematics unit. A speech input context is determined for the received speech input stream. The received speech input stream is processed based on the determination and... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20080215337 - 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

20080215338 - Dialog supporting apparatus: A dialog supporting apparatus which can support an on-going dialog so that the dialog is smoothly completed. The dialog supporting apparatus includes an utterance receiving unit which receives an utterance of a dialog participant and outputs utterance information, an utterance processing unit which translates the utterance identified by the utterance... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080215339 - system and method of coding sound signals using sound enhancment: A system and method of processing sound signals are disclosed. In one embodiment, a speech coder applies a first sound signal enhancement process to a first part of a sound signal and applies a second sound signal enhancement process to a second part of the sound signal. The sound signal... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080215343 - Audio decoding apparatus and audio decoding system: A work memory for storing a compressed audio stream to be decoded, a plurality of decoding process sections, and a plurality of output process sections are provided. A control section switches the start and stop of a decoding process between each decoding process section in predetermined switching cycles so that... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080215340 - Compressing method for digital audio files: A compressing method for digital audio files mainly utilizes a harmonic structure quad tree (HSQT) to re-arrange the frequency coefficient in each frame, and applies concurrent encoding in hierarchical trees (CEIHT) algorithm to increase and simplify the processing speed; the coefficient of the CEIHT is symbolized according to an arithmetic... Agent: Wen-yu Su Wen-yu Su

20080215344 - Method and apparatus for expanding bandwidth of voice signal: A method and apparatus for expanding a bandwidth of an input narrowband voice signal is provided. The narrowband voice signal is analyzed separately for each frame, and a Degree of Voicing (DV) and a Degree of Stationary (DS) are calculated depending on the analysis. A Degree of Difficulty of Bandwidth... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080215341 - 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

20080215342 - System and method for enhancing perceptual quality of low bit rate compressed audio data: A system and method for converting an audio data is described. The method includes separating the audio data into a first set of data and a second set of data. The method further includes converting the first set of data into a track of the audio data. The method also... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP