Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 11/08

20080294422 - Methods, computer program product, and computer system for language-enhanced programming tools: Statements of a computer program expressed using a first source natural language are made meaningful to a programmer familiar with a second target natural language. The first source natural language of the computer program is determined from the programmer, or through analysis, and the second target natural language desired by... Agent: Ibm Endicott (anthony England) Law Office Of Anthony England

20080294423 - Informing troubleshooting sessions with device data: A method for troubleshooting a problem with a device includes acquiring device data for the device, receiving a user's query concerning a device in a natural language, presenting possible refinements to at least a portion of the user's query for defining a problem statement, presenting candidate solutions that are associated... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080294424 - Information display system, information display method, and program: An information display system has an information display unit which displays information in a large screen display device in a predetermined standard language; a user information input unit which inputs user information including information of a language desired by a user; and a language switch display unit which, when the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080294426 - Method and apparatus for anchoring expressions based on an ontological model of semantic information: A method and apparatus for the recording and maintenance of semantic elements in electronically-held information objects provide for grounding semantic objects in an ontology, such that inheritance and other relations between concepts are preserved in persistent storage. The disclosed method and apparatus provide semantic document authors with a means to... Agent: Jones Day

20080294427 - Method and apparatus for performing a semantically informed merge operation: A method and apparatus for performing an informed semantic merge operation comprises selecting a source region in a document and a target region in the same or a different document. A bi-directionally coupled surface region is identified in the source region and a bi-directionally coupled surface region is identified in... Agent: Jones Day

20080294425 - Method and apparatus for performing semantic update and replace operations: A method of changing semantic information comprises changing a first bi-directional coupling between a surface region in a document and a first semantic object to a second bi-directional coupling between the surface region and a second semantic object. More particularly, the method may be comprised of identifying an occurrence of... Agent: Jones Day

20080294428 - Packet loss concealment: A method for using a waveform segment in place of a missing portion of an audio waveform generated in response to a packet stream encoding portions of the audio waveform, the method comprising: phase matching a trailing portion of the waveform segment with a trailing portion of the audio waveform... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP C/o Landon Ip, Inc.

20080294429 - Adaptive tilt compensation for synthesized speech: There is provided a method of using an adaptive tilt compensation by a speech decoder. The method comprises receiving a bit stream including a plurality of parameters representative of a speech signal; identifying an adaptive code vector and a fixed code vector using the plurality of parameters; scaling the adaptive... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080294430 - Noise reduction device, program and method: A noise reduction device is configured by use of: means for calculating a predetermined constant, and a predetermined reference signal Rω(T) in the frequency domain, respectively by use of adaptive coefficients Wω(m), and for thereby obtaining estimated values Nω and Qω(T) respectively of stationary noise components, and non-stationary noise components... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080294431 - Displaying text of speech in synchronization with the speech: Displays a character string representing content of speech in synchronization with reproduction of the speech. An apparatus includes: a unit for obtaining scenario data representing the speech; a unit for dividing textual data resulting from recognition of the speech to generate pieces of recognition pieces of recognition data; a unit... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080294432 - Signal enhancement and speech recognition: Provides speech enhancement techniques which are effective even for extemporaneous noise without a noise interval and unknown extemporaneous noise. An example of a signal enhancement device includes: spectral subtraction means for subtracting a given reference signal from an input signal containing a target signal and a noise signal by spectral... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080294433 - Automatic text-speech mapping tool: A text-speech mapping method. Silence segments for incoming speech data are obtained. Incoming transcript data is preprocessed. The incoming transcript data comprises a written document of the speech data. Possible candidate sentence endpoints based on the silence segments are found. A best match sentence endpoint is selected based on a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080294434 - Live media captioning subscription framework for mobile devices: A subscription-based system provides transcribed audio information to one or more mobile devices. Some techniques feature a system for providing subscription services for currently-generated (e.g., not stored) information (e.g., caption information, transcribed audio) for one or more mobile devices for a live/current audio event. There can be a communication network... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080294435 - System and method for remote speech recognition: A system and method for remote speech recognition includes one or more customer premise equipment, a speech engine, and a communication engine. The customer premise equipment interfaces with a host from which the customer premise equipment is remotely located. The speech engine, remotely located from the host, recognizes a plurality... Agent: Raman N. Dewan Jackson Walker, L.L.P.

20080294438 - Apparatus for the processing of sales: The invention relates to an apparatus for the processing of sales of articles of a product assortment to a customer, in particular to store scales, having a microphone device for listening to a conversation between a customer and a salesperson for the conversion of connected spoken words of the conversation... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080294437 - Language understanding device: A language understanding device includes: a language understanding model storing unit configured to store word transition data including pre-transition states, input words, predefined outputs corresponding to the input words, word weight information, and post-transition states, and concept weighting data including concepts obtained from language understanding results for at least one... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080294440 - Method and system for assessing pronunciation difficulties of non-native speakersl: The present disclosure presents a useful metric for assessing the relative difficulty which non-native speakers face in pronouncing a given utterance and a method and systems for using such a metric in the evaluation and assessment of the utterances of non-native speakers. In an embodiment, the metric may be based... Agent: Mayer Brown LLP

20080294436 - Speech recognition for identifying advertisements and/or web pages: A device may identify terms in a speech signal using speech recognition. The device may further retain one or more of the identified terms by comparing them to a set of words and send the retained terms and information associated with the retained terms to a remote device. The device... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20080294439 - Speech screening: This invention relates to screening of spoken audio data so as to detect threat words or phrases. The method is particularly useful for protecting children or vulnerable adults from unsuitable content and/or suspicious or threatening contact with others via a communication medium. The method is applicable to screening speech transmitted... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080294441 - Speech recognition system with huge vocabulary: The invention deals with speech recognition, such as a system for recognizing words in continuous speech. A speech recognition system is disclosed which is capable of recognizing a huge number of words, and in principle even an unlimited number of words. The speech recognition system comprises a word recognizer for... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080294442 - Apparatus, method and system: A method includes obtaining digital content comprising text content; obtaining at least one speech parameter associated with the digital content; and using the speech parameters as an input, generating a speech output corresponding to at least part of the text content. Corresponding apparatuses, system and computer program products are also... Agent: Perman & Green

20080294443 - Application of emotion-based intonation and prosody to speech in text-to-speech systems: Abstract of the Disclosure A text-to-speech system that includes an arrangement for accepting text input, an arrangement for providing synthetic speech output, and an arrangement for imparting emotion-based features to synthetic speech output. The arrangement for imparting emotion-based features includes an arrangement for accepting instruction for imparting at least one... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20080294445 - Method and apapratus for sinusoidal audio coding: Provided are a method and apparatus for sinusoidal audio coding, which employs a tracking method for further effective coding of sinusoids extracted in the process of a sinusoidal analysis of parametric coding. The sinusoidal audio coding method includes: extracting sinusoids of a current frame by performing a sinusoidal analysis on... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080294444 - Method and apparatus for decoding an audio signal: Method and apparatus for processing audio signals are provided. The method for decoding an audio signal includes extracting a downmix signal and spatial information from a received audio signal and generating a pseudo-surround signal using the downmix signal and the spatial information. The apparatus for decoding an audio signal includes... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080294446 - Layer based scalable multimedia datastream compression: Source signals, such as audio and/or video data, are encoded into multiple, consecutive frequency bands. These bands are referred to as coding layers. Rather than performing complex bit-slice operations, a disclosed technique enables an agile and simplified response to transmission channel throughput variations. Specifically, if it becomes necessary to restrict... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20080288239 - Localization and internationalization of document resources: Automated localization (translation) and internationalization of document resources may be provided for use by various target user groups requiring different text languages and/or document settings. A document resource including pre-built textual components and document settings and properties is first passed through a translation process for translating any pre-built textual content... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080288240 - Network-based translation system and method: A translation system of the type with a connecting structure with intercommunicating net/internet:, whose net includes a plurality of interconnected servers, includes: at least one net-communicator microprocessor user-apparatus for net communication which includes a connection to the net and/or via net/internet, and at least one net-service-server connected to the intercommunicating... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20080288241 - Multi language exchange system: The invention discloses a multi language exchange system which includes a communication device having an input screen on which a message in a first language is to be translated into a second language. The input screen displays a programmable grid or list having at least one sentence or phrase formed... Agent: Moore & Van Allen PLLC

20080288242 - System and method of presentation of multilingual metadata: A system for representing multiple locales in metadata models is provided. The system comprises a locale repository for storing locale information used to display multilingual metadata, and a display module for displaying the metadata model. The locale repository has locale references for representing locales, and multiple values of locale sensitive... Agent: Gowling, Lafleur & Henderson LLP

20080288243 - Information processing apparatus, informaton processing method, program, and recording medium: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus for analyzing text data, including: acquisition means for acquiring the text data; morpheme information registration means for registering morpheme information for use in analyzing the text data morphologically; morphological analysis means for analyzing the text data acquired by the acquisition means; compound word... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080288244 - Method and system for automatically detecting morphemes in a task classification system using lattices: In an embodiment, a lattice of phone strings in an input communication of a user may be recognized, wherein the lattice may represent a distribution over the phone strings. Morphemes in the input communication of the user may be detected using the recognized lattice. Task-type classification decisions may be made... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080288245 - Tandem-free intersystem voice communication: Techniques are presented herein to provide tandem-free operation between two wireless terminals through two otherwise incompatible wireless networks. Specifically, embodiments provide tandem-free operation between a wireless terminal communicating through a continuous transmission (CTX) wireless channel to a wireless terminal communicating through a discontinuous transmission (DTX) wireless channel. In a first... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080288246 - Selection of preferential pitch value for speech processing: There is provided a method of using a processing circuitry for selecting a preferential pitch lag value from a plurality of pitch lag values, including a first pitch lag value and a second pitch lag value, for coding an input speech signal. The method comprises determining a first timing relationship... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080288247 - Speech activity detection: A method for detecting the presence or absence of an audio signal in a communications system in which an audio signal is encoded by a delta modulation encoding algorithm, and in which a step size parameter is adapted according to characteristics of the encoded signal, the method comprising determining based... Agent: Novak Druce Deluca + Quigg LLP

20080288248 - Voice model for speech processing based on ordered average ranks of spectral features: Methods and arrangements for generating a voice model in speech processing. Upon accepting at least two input vectors with spectral features, vectors of ranks are created via ranking values of the spectral features of each input vector, ordered vectors are created via arranging the values of each input vector according... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20080288249 - Method and system for dynamic creation of contexts: A method and a system for a speech recognition system (1), comprising an electronic document, which is a speech based document comprising one or more sections of text recognized or transcribed from sections of speech, wherein said sections of speech are dictated by an author and processed by a speech... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080288250 - Real-time transcription system: A transcription system and method that includes a transcription terminal for recording electronically generated text as units of transcribed text, and a conversion unit for translating the units of ascribed text into a generally accurate transcript of the electronically generated text and converting said transcript into a signal to be... Agent: Roetzel & Andress

20080288251 - Tracking time using portable recorders and speech recognition: In general, the present invention converts speech, preferably recorded on a portable recorder, to text, analyzes the text, and determines voice commands and times when the voice commands occurred. Task names are associated with voice commands and time segments. These time segments and tasks may be packaged as time increments... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080288252 - Speech recognition of speech recorded by a mobile communication 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..

20080288253 - Automatic speech recognition method and apparatus, using non-linear envelope detection of signal power spectra: An automatic speech recognition method includes converting an acoustic signal into a digital signal; determine a power spectrum of at least one portion of the digital signal; and non-linearly determining envelope values of the power spectrum at a plurality of respective frequencies, based on a combination of the power spectrum... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080288254 - Voice recognition apparatus and navigation apparatus: A voice recognition apparatus recognizes speaker's voice collected by a microphone, determines whether a telephone number is grouped into categories based on an inclusion of vocabulary in the telephone number that divides the telephone number into groups such as an area code, a city code and a subscriber number, and... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080288255 - System and method for quantifying, representing, and identifying similarities in data streams: A method of quantifying similarities between sequential data streams typically includes providing a pair of sequential data streams, designing a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) of at least a portion of each stream; and computing a quantitative measure of similarity between the streams using the HMMs. For a plurality of sequential... Agent: Wiley Rein LLP

20080288257 - Application of emotion-based intonation and prosody to speech in text-to-speech systems: A text-to-speech system that includes an arrangement for accepting text input, an arrangement for providing synthetic speech output, and an arrangement for imparting emotion-based features to synthetic speech output. The arrangement for imparting emotion-based features includes an arrangement for accepting instruction for imparting at least one emotion-based paradigm to synthetic... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20080288256 - Reducing recording time when constructing a concatenative tts voice using a reduced script and pre-recorded speech assets: The present invention discloses a system and a method for creating a reduced script, which is read by a voice talent to create a concatenative text-to-speech (TTS) voice. The method can automatically process pre-recorded audio to derive speech assets for a concatenative TTS voice. The pre-recording audio can include sets... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080288258 - Method and apparatus for speech analysis and synthesis: The present invention provides a speech analysis method comprising steps of obtaining a speech signal and a corresponding DEGG/EGG signal; regarding the speech signal as the output of a vocal tract filter in a source-filter model taking the DEGG/EGG signal as the input; and estimating the features of the vocal... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080288260 - Input/output apparatus based on voice recognition, and method thereof: Provided is an input/output apparatus based on voice recognition, and a method thereof. An object of the apparatus is to improve a user interface by making pointing input and command execution such as application program control possible according to a voice command of a user possible based on a voice... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080288259 - Speech recognition macro runtime: The disclosed speech recognition system enables users to define personalized, context-aware voice commands without extensive software development. Command sets may be defined in a user-friendly language and stored in an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) file. Each command object within the command set may include one or more user configurable actions,... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080288262 - Decoding apparatus and decoding method: A decoding apparatus that decodes a first encoded data that is encoded into a first time range from a low-frequency component of an audio signal, and a second encoded data that is used when creating a high-frequency component of the audio signal from the low-frequency component and encoded into a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080288263 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding: An encoding method and apparatus and a decoding method and apparatus are provided. The encoding method includes encoding data, generating a data bit array comprising the encoded data and encoding information, and generating an align bit array comprising one or more Is. According to the encoding method and apparatus and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080288261 - Method for dynamically adjusting audio decoding process: A method for dynamically arranging DSP tasks. The method comprises receiving an audio bit stream, checking a remaining execution time as the DSP transforms the audio information into spectral information, simplifying the step of transforming the audio information when the DSP detects that the remaining execution time is shorter then... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080281578 - Document translation system: A document translation system is described. In various embodiments, the document translation system improves translations of text or speech (“documents”) that are performed by computing devices (“machine translations”). Upon translating a document into a target language, the system can provide a user interface containing both the original document and a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080281577 - Language identification equipment, translation equipment, translation server, language identification method, and translation processing method: In some preferred embodiments, a language identification apparatus, comprises a storing means 32 configured to store undefined character code lists of a plurality of languages to which no character is allotted in a character code table of each language, a collating means 34 configured to collate a character code of... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080281579 - Method and system for facilitating the learning of a language: A method for facilitating the learning of a language, involves concurrently displaying a video and subtitles corresponding to the video, where the displayed subtitles include selectable sentences, obtaining a selection from a user, including a selected sentence of the selectable sentences, subsequently displaying the selected sentence for selection of a... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080281580 - Dynamic parser: The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods for dynamic parsing. A dynamic parser can perform syntactic analysis or parsing of input data consisting of a set of tokens based upon a provided grammar including conditional tokens. While the parser grammar can be fixed, the dynamic parser can utilize an... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080281581 - Method of identifying documents with similar properties utilizing principal component analysis: The present invention generally provides methods and systems for characterizing texts, for example, for identifying textual documents by language, topic, author, or other attributes. In some embodiments, a method of the invention can include creating an n-gram frequency spectrum for a document under analysis, preferably selecting a subset of the... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20080281583 - Context-dependent prediction and learning with a universal re-entrant predictive text input software component: A system and method for supporting predictive text entry in software applications by sharing a common, predictive, software text-entry widget within a consumer device across multiple software applications and input contexts. The method comprises: a software application invoking an instance of a text-entry widget in a particular input context, the... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080281582 - Input system for mobile search and method therefor: An input system for mobile search and a method therefor are provided. The input system includes an input module receiving a code input for a specific term and a voice input corresponding thereto, a database including a glossary and an acoustic model, wherein the glossary includes a plurality of terms... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080281584 - Fast acoustic cancellation: A speech enhancement system improves the perceptual quality of an aural signal. A receiver detects and receives an unvoiced signal, a fully voiced signal, or a mixed voice remote signal. A coherence processor identifies the similarities or differences between a local signal and the remote signal. A cancellation processor or... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080281585 - Voice, location finder, modulation format selectable wi-fi, cellular mobile systems: Voice and location finder Analog to digital (A/D) converted signal is processed and provided to Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Global Mobile System (GSM), spread spectrum and Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) baseband processor, filter, modulation format selectable... Agent: Kamilo Feher

20080281586 - Real-time detection and preservation of speech onset in a signal: A “speech onset detector” provides a variable length frame buffer in combination with either variable transmission rate or temporal speech compression for buffered signal frames. The variable length buffer buffers frames that are not clearly identified as either speech or non-speech frames during an initial analysis. Buffering of signal frames... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080281587 - Audio encoding apparatus, audio decoding apparatus, communication apparatus and audio encoding method: An audio encoding apparatus and the like are disclosed which can improve the sound quality of encoded audio signals even in a case of scalable CELP encoding the audio signals in sections that vary with time. In this apparatus, an enhancement layer extended adaptive codebook generating part (102) generates an... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080281588 - Speech processing method and apparatus, storage medium, and speech system: A speech processing apparatus includes a spectrum envelope extracting unit which extracts the spectrum envelope of an input speech signal, a spectrum envelope deforming unit which applies deformation to the spectrum envelope to generate a deformed spectrum envelope, a spectrum fine structure extracting unit which extracts the spectrum fine structure... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080281589 - Noise suppression device and noise suppression method: There is disclosed a noise suppression device capable of improving the noise suppression accuracy while reducing the audio distortion. In this device, a suppression unit suppresses a noise component from the audio power spectrum by using the detection result of the audio-existing band and the noise band in the audio... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080281590 - Method of deriving a set of features for an audio input signal: The invention describes a method of deriving a set of features (S) of an audio input signal (M), which method comprises identifying a number of first-order features (f1, f2, . . . , ff) of the audio input signal (M), generating a number of correlation values (ρ1, ρ2, . .... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080281591 - Method of pattern recognition using noise reduction uncertainty: A method and apparatus are provided for using the uncertainty of a noise-removal process during pattern recognition. In particular, noise is removed from a representation of a portion of a noisy signal to produce a representation of a cleaned signal. In the meantime, an uncertainty associated with the noise removal... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080281592 - Method and apparatus for annotating video content with metadata generated using speech recognition technology: A method and apparatus is provided for annotating video content with metadata generated using speech recognition technology. The method begins by rendering video content on a display device. A segment of speech is received from a user such that the speech segment annotates a portion of the video content currently... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080281593 - Apparatus for reducing spurious insertions in speech recognition: Techniques for improving an automatic baseform generation system. More particularly, the invention provides techniques for reducing insertion of spurious speech events in a word or phone sequence generated by an automatic baseform generation system. Such automatic baseform generation techniques may be accomplished by enhancing the scores of long-lasting speech events... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

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20080281595 - Voice recognition apparatus and method: According to an embodiment, voice recognition apparatus includes units of: acoustic processing, voice interval detecting, dictionary, collating, search target selecting, storing and determining, and voice recognition method includes processes of: selecting a search range on basis of abeam search, setting and storing a standard frame, storing an output probability of... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080281596 - Continuous adaptation in detection systems via self-tuning from target population subsets: The method for treating distortion propagated though a detection system includes receiving a signal from a remote device, and compensating the signal for untreated distortions. The compensation includes selecting at least one relevant model set from a plurality of model sets, producing scores distributed according to a pre-described distribution for... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080281597 - Information processing system and storage medium storing information processing program: A plurality of input devices each includes a speaker, operation data transmitting means, voice data receiving means, and voice controlling means. An information processing apparatus includes voice storing means, object displaying means, operation data acquiring means, pointing position determining means, object specifying means, voice reading means, and voice data transmitting... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20080281598 - Method and system for prompt construction for selection from a list of acoustically confusable items in spoken dialog systems: A method (and system) of determining confusable list items and resolving this confusion in a spoken dialog system includes receiving user input, processing the user input and determining if a list of items needs to be played back to the user, retrieving the list to be played back to the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080281599 - Processing audio data: A method of processing audio data including obtaining (202) audio data; analysing (206) the audio data to determine at least one characteristic of the audio data; generating (206) data describing the at least one characteristic of the analysed audio data, and/or modifying (412) an audio recording process based on the... Agent: King & Schickli, PLLC

20080281600 - Digital process and arrangement for authenticating a user of a database: Digital process for authentication of a user of a database for access to protected data or a service reserved for a defined circle of users or for the use of data currently entered by the user, wherein a voice sample currently enunciated during an access attempt by the user is... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080281601 - User speech interfaces for interactive media guidance applications: A user speech interface for interactive media guidance applications, such as television program guides, guides for audio services, guides for video-on-demand (VOD) services, guides for personal video recorders (PVRs), or other suitable guidance applications is provided. Voice commands may be received from a user and guidance activities may be performed... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080281602 - Coding reverberant sound signals: The invention relates to an audio encoder and decoder and methods for audio encoding and decoding. In the encoder an audio signal is split into an anechoic signal part and information regarding a reverberant field associated with the audio signal, preferably by a representation using only few parameters such as... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080281604 - Method and apparatus to encode and decode an audio signal: A method and apparatus to encode and decode an audio signal. In the encoding method and apparatus, one or more important frequency components may be detected from an audio signal, the frequency components may be encoded, and then an envelope of the audio signal may be encoded. In the decoding... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080281603 - 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

20080275691 - Cross-lingual information retrieval: Multi-lingual search and retrieval of digital content. Embodiments are generally directed to methods and systems for creating an English language database that associates non-English terms with English terms in multiple categories of metadata. Language experts use an interface to create equivalencies between non-English terms and English terms, Boolean expressions, synonyms,... Agent: Corbis Corporation C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080275693 - Method, system and computer program product for national language support using a multi-language property file: A method, system, and computer program product for national language support. National language support for an application is provided by recording translations of a text string in corresponding different languages in a single property file so as to allow display of the translations in the property file. One of the... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080275692 - System and computer program product for national language support using a multi-language property file: A system and computer program product for national language support. National language support for an application is provided by recording translations of a text string in corresponding different languages in a single property file so as to allow display of the translations in the property file. One of the translations... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080275694 - Method and system for automatically extracting relations between concepts included in text: A method and system for automatically extracting relations between concepts included in electronic text is described. Aspects the exemplary embodiment include a semantic network comprising a plurality of lemmas that are grouped into synsets representing concepts, each of the synsets having a corresponding sense, and a plurality of links connected... Agent: Strategic Patent Group, P.C.

20080275695 - Method and system for pitch contour quantization in audio coding: A method and device for improving coding efficiency in audio coding. From the pitch values of a pitch contour of an audio signal, a plurality of simplified pitch contour segments are generated to approximate the pitch contour, based on one or more pre-selected criteria. The contour segments can be linear... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080275696 - Method of audio encoding: There is described a method of encoding an input signal (20) to generate a corresponding encoded output signal (30), and also encoders (10) arranged to implement the method. The method comprises steps of: (a) distributing the input signal to sub-encoders (300, 310, 320) of the encoder (10); (b) processing the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080275697 - Audio processing: An audio processing apparatus for processing two sampled audio signals to detect a temporal position of one of the audio signals with respect to the other. The apparatus detects audio power characteristics of each signal in respect of successive continuous temporal portions of each of the two signals, the portions... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080275698 - Excitation vector generator, speech coder and speech decoder: A speech encoder includes an adaptive codebook that generates an adaptive codevector representing a pitch component, a random codebook that generates a random codevector representing a random component, and a synthesis filter that generates a synthetic speech signal by being excited by the adaptive codevector and the random codevector. The... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080275699 - Systems and methods of performing speech recognition using global positioning (gps) information: 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 receiving location parameters from a global positioning system, retrieving location data using the location parameters, and configuring one or more recognition sets of a... Agent: Chad R. Walsh Fountainhead Law Group

20080275700 - Method of and system for modifying messages: The invention describes a method of and a system for modifying an input message (IM) containing audio content, which method comprises the steps of converting the audio content (A) of the input message (IM) into elements of a text representation (TR), segmenting the audio content (A) of the input message... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080275702 - System and method for providing digital dictation capabilities over a wireless device: A system and method for providing digital dictation capabilities over a wireless device. The system and method enables digital dictations to be recorded on a wireless device, such as a BlackBerry smartphone, and then uploaded wirelessly to a remote location, such a server, for transcription. Features of the wireless device,... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080275701 - System and method for retrieving data based on topics of conversation: A method includes performing computerized monitoring with a computer of at least one side of a telephone conversation, which includes spoken words, between a first person and a second person, automatically identifying at least one topic of the conversation, automatically performing a search for information related to the at least... Agent: Mg-ip Law, PLLC

20080275703 - Method and apparatus for identity verification: The present disclosure relates to identity verification devices and methods. A system is provided that utilizes a system of tonal and rhythmic visualization methods to accurately identify the true owner of a credit or other personal card based on their voice.... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20080275704 - Method for a system of performing a dialogue communication with a user: The present invention relates to a method for a system (101) of performing a dialogue communication with a user (105). The user's speech signal (107), which comprises a request of an action to be performed by the system (101), is recorded and analyzed. The result of the analyzing is compared... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080275705 - Battery tester with wireless voice status messages: Methods and systems are disclosed for providing wireless data transfer and voice messages in a voltage measurement device. In some embodiments, the methods and systems dynamically construct voice messages that substantially correspond to text messages displayed on a display of the measurement device. The voice messages may be assembled from... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20080275706 - Greeting card that is colored or decorated and has a recording and playback device built into the card: A greeting card that is designed to be colored or decorated by a user with various types of decorating and coloring media and implements, that has a thin, compact built-in record/playback device and components that play a personalized audio message recorded by the sender. The sender colors or decorates the... Agent: Joseph W. Paulini

20080275708 - Network-based voice activated auto-attendant service with b2b connectors: A network-based voice activated auto-attendant service is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a data processor is provided that can construct an enterprise voice directory by executing instructions to encrypt eXtended Markup Language (XML)-based files using an encryption key issued by a voice activated auto-attendant service provider network to form encrypted... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080275707 - Voice based network management method and agent: A method of providing voice based device management, comprising defining a set of one or more status queries for a device, defining for each of the status queries a respective set of status responses for the device corresponding to the instantaneous status of the device, mapping the status queries to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080275709 - Audio encoding and decoding: A method of encoding a digital audio signal, wherein for each time segment the signal is spectrally flattened to obtain a spectrally flattened signal (r) and possibly spectral flattening parameters (LPP). The spectrally flattened signal is modelled by an excitation signal comprising a first partial excitation signal (px) conforming to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080275711 - Method and apparatus for decoding an audio signal: Method and apparatus for processing audio signals are provided. The method for decoding an audio signal includes receiving filter information, applying spatial information to the filter information to generate surround converting information, and outputting the surround converting information. The apparatus for decoding an audio signal includes a filter information receiving... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080275712 - 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 pilot reference value corresponding to a plurality of gains and a pilot difference... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080275710 - Scale searching for watermark detection: The present invention relates to a method, device (12) and computer program product for enabling detection of additional data embedded in a media signal that may have been subjected to scaling. The invention also relates to an additional data detecting device (10) comprising such a device for enabling detection. An... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards