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Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression February patent applications/inventions, industry category 02/09

20090055158 - Speech translation apparatus and method: A speech translation apparatus includes a speech recognition unit configured to recognize input speech of a first language to generate a first text of the first language, an extraction unit configured to compare original prosody information of the input speech with first synthesized prosody information based on the first text... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090055159 - Translation apparatus, translation method and computer readable medium: A translation apparatus includes: an image acquiring unit that acquires an original document image read from an original document including an original sentence in a first language; a translating unit that translates the original sentence into a second language; a line-space specifying unit that specifies a line-space region for each... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090055160 - Apparatus and method for integrated phrase-based and free-form speech-to-speech translation: An apparatus and method that integrates both phrase-based and free-form speech-to-speech translation approaches using probability models. The starting step of the method is to receive vocal communication in a source language. Then store the received vocal communication. Then decipher the content of the vocal communication. Then locate in a multilingual... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090055161 - Technology for supporting modification of messages displayed by program: The present invention aims at improving the efficiency of the work of changing or modifying a message displayed by a program and provides a system comprising: a memory unit which stores a message read and displayed by the execution of a program, associating it with a language in which the... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090055162 - Hmm-based bilingual (mandarin-english) tts techniques: An exemplary method for generating speech based on text in one or more languages includes providing a phone set for two or more languages, training multilingual HMMs where the HMMs include state level sharing across languages, receiving text in one or more of the languages of the multilingual HMMs and... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090055163 - Dynamic mixed-initiative dialog generation in speech recognition: Disclosed are a method (500), apparatus (100) and computer program product for generating a mixed-initiative dialog to obtain information for dialog slots. A composite grammar dependent upon a set of unfilled slots is constructed (501). A prompt, dependent upon the a set of unfilled slots, is presented (309) to a... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090055165 - Dynamic mixed-initiative dialog generation in speech recognition: Disclosed are a method (500), apparatus (100) and computer program product for generating a mixed-initiative dialog to obtain information for dialog slots. A composite grammar dependent upon a set of unfilled slots is constructed (501). A prompt, dependent upon the a set of unfilled slots, is presented (309) to a... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090055164 - Method and system of optimal selection strategy for statistical classifications in dialog systems: An optimal selection or decision strategy is described through an example that includes use in dialog systems. The selection strategy or method includes receiving multiple predictions and multiple probabilities. The received predictions predict the content of a received input and each of the probabilities corresponds to one of the predictions.... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20090055167 - Method for translation service using the cellular phone: Disclosed is a method for providing translation service using a mobile communication terminal. The method includes a button input step of pressing a voice recognition key to use a voice recognition function, a menu screen provision step of selecting a translator menu item, a translation recognition method determination step of... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20090055166 - Method, computer program and apparatus for analysing symbols in a computer system: A computer-implemented method of analysing symbols in a computer system, and a computer program and apparatus therefor are provided. The symbols conform to a specification for the symbols. The specification is codified into a set of computer-readable rules. The symbols are analysed using the computer-readable rules to obtains patterns of... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20090055168 - Word detection: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, in which data from web documents are partitioned into a training corpus and a development corpus are provided. First word probabilities for words are determined for the training corpus, and second word probabilities for the words are determined for the development corpus.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090055169 - Voice encoding device, and voice encoding method: A voice encoding device capable of generating a modulated proper monaural signal enriched in clearness and understandability, when the monaural signal is to be generated from a stereophonic signal. In this device, a weighting unit (11) weights an L-channel signal (XL) and an R-channel signal (XR) individually, and inputs the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090055170 - Sound source separation device, speech recognition device, mobile telephone, sound source separation method, and program: A sound source signal from a target sound source is allowed to be separated from a mixed sound which consists of sound source signals emitted from a plurality of sound sources without being affected by uneven sensitivity of microphone elements. A beamformer section 3 of a source separation device 1... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090055171 - Buzz reduction for low-complexity frame erasure concealment: A system is described that performs periodic waveform extrapolation based frame erasure concealment (FEC) to generate frames of an output speech signal corresponding to erased frames of encoded bit-stream in a manner reduces buzzy and tonal artifacts in the output speech signal. An embodiment of the invention uses a multiple... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Intellevate

20090055172 - Sound encoding device and sound encoding method: A sound encoding device for efficiently encoding stereophonic sound. In this sound encoding device, a prediction parameter analyzing section (21) determines the delay difference D and the amplitude ratio g of a first-channel sound signal with respect to a second-channel sound signal as channel-to-channel prediction parameters from a first-channel decoded... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090055173 - Sub band vad: The present invention relates to a voice detector being responsive to an input signal being divided into sub-signals representing a frequency sub-band, comprising: means to calculate, for each sub-band, an SNR value snr[n] based on a corresponding sub-signal for each sub-band and a background signal for each sub-band. The voice... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090055175 - Continuous speech transcription performance indication: A method of providing speech transcription performance indication includes receiving, at a user device data representing text transcribed from an audio stream by an ASR system, and data representing a metric associated with the audio stream; displaying, via the user device, said text; and via the user device, providing, in... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20090055174 - Method and apparatus for automatically completing text input using speech recognition: Provided are a method and apparatus for automatically completing a text input using speech recognition. The method includes: receiving a first part of a text from a user through a text input device; recognizing a speech of the user, which corresponds to the text; and completing a remaining part of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090055176 - Method and system of optimal selection strategy for statistical classifications: An optimal selection or decision strategy is described through an example that includes use in dialog systems. The selection strategy or method includes receiving multiple predictions and multiple probabilities. The received predictions predict the content of a received input and each of the probabilities corresponds to one of the predictions.... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20090055177 - Apparatus and method for generating noise adaptive acoustic model for environment migration including noise adaptive discriminative adaptation method: Provided are an apparatus and method for generating a noise adaptive acoustic model including a noise adaptive discriminative adaptation method. The method includes: generating a baseline model parameter from large-capacity speech training data including various noise environments; and receiving the generated baseline model parameter and applying a discriminative adaptation method... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090055179 - Method, medium and apparatus for providing mobile voice web service: Provided are a method and apparatus for providing a mobile voice web service in a mobile terminal. The method includes analyzing a web history of a user from web search logs of the user and generating a voice access list based on the analysis results, and performing voice recognition by... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090055178 - System and method of controlling personalized settings in a vehicle: A system is provided for controlling personalized settings in a vehicle. The system includes a microphone for receiving spoken commands from a person in the vehicle, a location recognizer for identifying location of the speaker, and an identity recognizer for identifying the identity of the speaker. The system also includes... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090055181 - Mobile terminal and method of inputting message thereto: A mobile terminal and a method of inputting a message thereto are provided. The method of inputting a message includes analyzing an input voice signal and determining whether the voice signal corresponds to a message modification instruction, and modifying, if the voice signal corresponds to a message modification instruction, a... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090055180 - System and method for optimizing speech recognition in a vehicle: A system is provided for controlling personalized settings in a vehicle. The system includes a microphone for receiving spoken commands from a person in the vehicle, a location recognizer for identifying location of the speaker, and an identity recognizer for identifying the identity of the speaker. The system also includes... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090055182 - Discriminative training of hidden markov models for continuous speech recognition: Methods are given for improving discriminative training of hidden Markov models for continuous speech recognition. For a mixture component of a hidden Markov model state, a gradient adjustment is calculated of the standard deviation of the mixture component. If the calculated gradient adjustment is greater than a first threshold amount,... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20090055183 - System and method for text tagging and segmentation using a generative/discriminative hybrid hidden markov model: where emy=1−Σ∀xjεVXp(xi|y), e{tilde over (m)}y=1−Σ∀xiεVX{tilde over (p)}(xi|y) are emission probability constraints, try=1−Σ∀yiεVYp(yi|y), t{tilde over (r)}y=1−Σ∀yiεVY{tilde over (p)}(yi|y) are transition probability constraints, and extracting gradients of LL−C×Penalty with respect to the transition and emission probabilities and solving θ*k,{tilde over (θ)}*k that maximize LL−C×Penalty, initializing a new iteration with θ*k,{tilde over (θ)}*k... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090055184 - Creation and use of application-generic class-based statistical language models for automatic speech recognition: A method of creating an application-generic class-based SLM includes, for each of a plurality of speech applications, parsing a corpus of utterance transcriptions to produce a first output set, in which expressions identified in the corpus are replaced with corresponding grammar tags from a grammar that is specific to the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090055185 - Voice chat system, information processing apparatus, speech recognition method, keyword data electrode detection method, and program: A voice chat system includes a plurality of information processing apparatuses that performs a voice chat while performing speech recognition and a search server connected to the plural information processing apparatuses via a communication network. The search server discloses a search keyword list containing the search keywords searched by the... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090055187 - Conversion of text email or sms message to speech spoken by animated avatar for hands-free reception of email and sms messages while driving a vehicle: Subscribers can access and listen to their email while they drive, access to the email messages being hands-free so a person can listen to email while they drive. In further accord with the present invention, a selectable avatar speaks the email message. And, the invention provides unified messaging such that... Agent: Breffni X. Baggot

20090055186 - Method to voice id tag content to ease reading for visually impaired: A method for providing information to generate distinguishing voices for text content attributable to different authors includes receiving a plurality of text sections each attributable to one of a plurality of authors; identifying which author authored each text section; assigning a unique voice tag id to each author; associating a... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Boca Raton

20090055188 - Pitch pattern generation method and apparatus thereof: The prosody control unit pattern generation module generates pitch patterns in respective prosody control units based on language attribute information, the phoneme duration and emphasis degree information, the modification method decision module decides a modification method by smoothing processing with respect to the pitch pattern in a connection portion between... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090055189 - Automatic replacement of objectionable audio content from audio signals: A method, apparatus and system are provided for the automatic replacement of potentially objectionable audio content from an audio signal in real time. In one embodiment of the present invention, the selective filtering of objectionable audio content from an audio signal is accomplished by first marking objectionable audio content in... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20090055190 - Emotive engine and method for generating a simulated emotion for an information system: Information about a device may be emotively conveyed to a user of the device. Input indicative of an operating state of the device may be received. The input may be transformed into data representing a simulated emotional state. Data representing an avatar that expresses the simulated emotional state may be... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20090055191 - Establishing call-based audio sockets within a componentized voice server: A method of interfacing a telephone application server and a speech engine can include the step of establishing one or more audio sockets in a media converting component of the telephone application server. The audio socket can remain available for approximately a duration of a call. A work unit that... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090055192 - Devices for use by deaf and/or blind people: A device for use by a deafblind person is disclosed. The device comprises a first key for manually inputting a series of words in the form of a code, a second key for manually inputting an action to be performed by the device, a third key for manually inputting a... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20090055193 - Method, apparatus and computer code for selectively providing access to a service in accordance with spoken content received from a user: Apparatus, methods and computer-readable medium for authenticating a user and selectively providing access to a computer service are described herein. In some embodiments, a) a user input is solicited; b) a voice response to the input soliciting; is received on or from a client device, c) if a determination is... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20090055198 - Apparatus and method of processing an audio signal: In one embodiment, the method includes storing a plurality of entropy parameter tables, selecting one of the stored tables for entropy decoding based on a received audio signal, and entropy decoding at least one prediction coefficient value in the received audio signal based on the selected table.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090055194 - Encoding and decoding of multi-channel audio signals: An encoding device (1) for converting a first number (M) of input audio channels into a second, smaller number (N) of output audio channels comprises at least one conversion unit (12) for converting a first signal (Lf; Rf; Co) and a second signal (Lr; Rr; Le) into a third signal... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090055195 - Internet radio player: The present invention provides an apparatus for listening to music on the internet. The apparatus includes a memory unit configured to store a plurality of internet protocol addresses of internet radio stations, a communication unit configured to communicate with one of the internet radio stations using a corresponding IP address... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20090055197 - Method and apparatus for encoding continuation sinusoid signal information of audio signal and method and apparatus for decoding same: Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding an audio signal and a method and apparatus for decoding an audio signal. The method includes performing sinusoidal analysis on an audio signal in order to extract a sinusoidal signal of a current frame, determining continuation sinusoidal signal information indicating a number... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090055196 - Method of encoding and decoding an audio signal: An apparatus for encoding and decoding an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed, by which compatibility with a player of a general mono or stereo audio signal can be provided in coding an audio signal and by which spatial information for a multi-channel audio signal can be stored or... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090048820 - Language translation based on a location of a wireless device: A method, information processing system, and wireless communication device that translate text within an image captured by a wireless device. At least one image (114) is received image from a wireless device (104). A location where the image (114) was captured by the wireless device (104) is determined. A set... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090048821 - Mobile language interpreter with text to speech: Embodiments are directed towards a language learning environment accessible from within virtually any website that enables a user to practice a language using tools such as translators, and text to speech capabilities. In one embodiment, the user may access a webpage in one language, and employ the language widget to... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090048822 - Systems and methods for fast and memory efficient machine translation using statistical integrated phase lattice: A phrase-based translation system and method includes a statistically integrated phrase lattice (SIPL) (H) which represents an entire translational model. An input (I) is translated by determining a best path through an entire lattice (S) by performing an efficient composition operation between the input and the SIPL. The efficient composition... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20090048823 - System and methods for opinion mining: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system having a controller to identify from commentaries of an object or service one or more context-dependent opinions associated with one or more features of the object or the service, and synthesize a semantic orientation for... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090048824 - Acoustic signal processing method and apparatus: An audible signal process method includes preparing, in at least one dictionary, a plurality of weighting factors each learned to optimize evaluation function established by a weighted learning audible signal and a target speech signal corresponding to the learning audible signal and used for weighting, estimating a noise component included... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20090048825 - System and method for providing internet based phone conferences using multiple codecs: A method of communicating digitized speech from a transmitting forum participant comprises the step of receiving a data structure that includes said digitized speech. The data structure is analyzed to determine whether the digitized speech is redundantly represented in a plurality of forms in the data structure. A portion of... Agent: Innovation Management Sciences

20090048826 - Encoding method and apparatus for efficiently encoding sinusoidal signal whose magnitude is less than masking value according to psychoacoustic model and decoding method and apparatus for decoding encoded sinusoidal signal: Provided are an encoding method and apparatus for efficiently encoding a sinusoidal signal whose magnitude is less than a masking value according to a psychoacoustic model, a decoding method and apparatus for decoding an encoded sinusoidal signal, and a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090048827 - Method and system for audio frame estimation: The disclosed systems and methods relate to estimating an audio frame. Aspects of the present invention may improve audio quality at the client side when a section of voice data is corrupted or delayed during transmission. The present invention may be suitable for decoding in, for example, circuit switched and... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090048828 - Gap interpolation in acoustic signals using coherent demodulation: Information is estimated to fill-in even relatively long gaps (e.g., up to 250 ms) that occur in a signal due to physical errors in media or transmission, where the omitted information causes signal distortion. The signal is first divided into a plurality of subbands, since the gaps in each subband... Agent: Law Offices Of Ronald M Anderson

20090048834 - Audio signal de-identification: Techniques are disclosed for automatically de-identifying spoken audio signals. In particular, techniques are disclosed for automatically removing personally identifying information from spoken audio signals and replacing such information with non-personally identifying information. De-identification of a spoken audio signal may be performed by automatically generating a report based on the spoken... Agent: Robert Plotkin, PC

20090048833 - Automated extraction of semantic content and generation of a structured document from speech: Techniques are disclosed for automatically generating structured documents based on speech, including identification of relevant concepts and their interpretation. In one embodiment, a structured document generator uses an integrated process to generate a structured textual document (such as a structured textual medical report) based on a spoken audio stream. The... Agent: Robert Plotkin, PC

20090048830 - Conceptual analysis driven data-mining and dictation system and method: A new approach to speech recognition that reacts to concepts conveyed through speech, which shifts the balance of power in speech recognition from straight sound recognition and statistical models to a more powerful and complete approach determining and addressing conveyed concepts. A probabilistically unbiased multi-phoneme recognition process is employed, followed... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20090048829 - Differential dynamic content delivery with text display in dependence upon sound level: Differential dynamic content delivery including providing a session document for a presentation, where the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; selecting from the session structured document a classified structural element in dependence upon user classifications of a user participant in the presentation; presenting the selected... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20090048831 - Scripting support for data identifiers, voice recognition and speech in a telnet session: Methods of adding data identifiers and speech/voice recognition functionality are disclosed. A telnet client runs one or more scripts that add data identifiers to data fields in a telnet session. The input data is inserted in the corresponding fields based on data identifiers. Scripts run only on the telnet client... Agent: Jones Day

20090048832 - Speech-to-text system, speech-to-text method, and speech-to-text program: t

20090048835 - Feature extracting apparatus, computer program product, and feature extraction method: A feature extracting apparatus includes a spectrum calculator that calculates a logarithmic frequency spectrum including frequency components obtained from an input speech signal at regular intervals on a logarithmic frequency scale of a frame; a function calculator that calculates a cross-correlation function between a logarithmic frequency spectrum of a time... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090048836 - Data-driven global boundary optimization: Portions from segment boundary regions of a plurality of speech segments are extracted. Each segment boundary region is based on a corresponding initial unit boundary. Feature vectors that represent the portions in a vector space are created. For each of a plurality of potential unit boundaries within each segment boundary... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090048837 - Phonetic tone mark system and method thereof: A system and method that utilizes common symbols for marking the tones of alphabet letters of different languages. The marking system and method employs the symbols from the standard English typing keyboard to denote tones. There are seven phonetic tone marks. Each mark represents a unique tone. The system can... Agent: Kuojui Su

20090048838 - System and method for client voice building: Provided is a system and method for building and managing a customized voice of an end-user, comprising the steps of designing a set of prompts for collection from the user, wherein the prompts are selected from both an analysis tool and by the user's own choosing to capture voice characteristics... Agent: Mckay & Associates, PC.

20090048839 - Speech recognition apparatus and method thereof: A speech recognition apparatus includes a first grammar storage unit configured to store one or more grammar segments, a second grammar storage unit configured to store one or more grammar segments, a first decoder configured to carry out a decoding process by referring to the grammar segment stored in the... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090048840 - Device for converting instant message into audio or visual response: The conversion device is connected, by a wired or wireless means, to an input/output port of a computing device installed with an instant messaging software. As instant messages are exchanged, the conversion device is activated by the instant messaging software to produce audio and/or visual responses in accordance with specific... Agent: Leong C Lei

20090048842 - Generalized object recognition for portable reading machine: Techniques for operating a reading machine are disclosed. The techniques include forming an N-dimensional features vector based on features of an image, the features corresponding to characteristics of at least one object depicted in the image, representing the features vector as a point in n-dimensional space, where n corresponds to... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090048841 - Synthesis by generation and concatenation of multi-form segments: A speech synthesis system and method is described. A speech segment database references speech segments having various different speech representational structures. A speech segment selector selects from the speech segment database a sequence of speech segment candidates corresponding to a target text. A speech segment sequencer generates from the speech... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20090048843 - System-effected text annotation for expressive prosody in speech synthesis and recognition: The inventive system can automatically annotate the relationship of text and acoustic units for the purposes of: (a) predicting how the text is to be pronounced as expressively synthesized speech, and (b) improving the proportion of expressively uttered speech as correctly identified text representing the speaker's message. The system can... Agent: Ip Patent Docketing K&l Gates LLP

20090048844 - Speech synthesis method and apparatus: A phoneme sequence corresponding to a target speech is divided into a plurality of segments. A plurality of speech units for each segment is selected from a speech unit memory that stores speech units having at least one frame. The plurality of speech units has a prosodic feature accordant or... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090048845 - Apparatus, system, and method for voice chat transcription: An apparatus, system, and method to transcribe a voice chat session initiated from a text chat session. The system includes a chat server, a voice server, and a transcription engine. The chat server is configured to facilitate a text chat session between multiple instant messaging clients. The voice server is... Agent: HolmanIPLaw/ibm Rsw

20090048851 - Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signal: In one embodiment, the method includes receiving an audio data frame having at least one channel. The channel is subdivided into a plurality of blocks, and at least two of the blocks are capable of different lengths. The embodiment further includes obtaining information from the audio signal indicating the subdivision... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090048850 - Apparatus and method of processing an audio signal: In one embodiment, the method includes receiving an audio signal including a prediction residual of a block of digital audio data and coded coefficient values. Table index information is obtained from the digital audio data. The table index information identifies a table from a plurality of tables to select. A... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090048849 - Audio encoding method and apparatus, and audio decoding method and apparatus, for processing death sinusoid and general continuation sinusoid: An audio encoding method and apparatus, and an audio decoding method and apparatus, for processing a death sinusoid and a general continuation sinusoid. Using the unique characteristic of a death sinusoid, in that the death sinusoid has a tendency such that an amplitude component of the death sinusoid is less... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090048847 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding multi-channel audio signal: Methods of encoding and decoding a multi-channel audio signal and apparatuses for encoding and decoding a multi-channel audio signal are provided. The method of decoding a multi-channel audio signal includes an unpacking unit which extracts a quantized CLD between a pair of channels of a plurality of channels from a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090048848 - Method and system for media processing extensions (mpx) for audio and video setting preferences: Device independent Media Properties Extension (MPX) data, corresponding to media data, may be decoded by a media rendering device and may be utilized to determine and/or execute processing steps and/or processing parameters for processing the media data. During the processing and/or rendering, processing steps and/or parameters may be dynamically determined... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090048846 - Method for expanding audio signal bandwidth: A method expands a bandwidth of an audio signal by determining a magnitude time-frequency representation |G(ω,t) for example audio signals g(t). A set of frequency marginal probabilities PG(ω|z) 221 are estimated from |G(ω,t)|, and a magnitude time-frequency representation |X(ω,t)| is determined from an input signal audio signal x(t). Probabilities P(z),... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090048852 - Encoding and/or decoding digital content: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with encoding and/or decoding audio data are disclosed.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090043562 - Method and apparatus for receiving and displaying a short message in a user preferred language: A method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for displaying messages in a user-selected language is disclosed. A device receives a message in a sender-selected language. The device translates the message into a user-selected language to form a translated message and renders the translated message on a display.... Agent: Ibm Corp. (rcr) C/o Rolnik & Associates, P.C.

20090043563 - Progressive display rendering of processed text: A method and a system are provided for processing displayed text and progressively displaying results of processing the displayed text. In some embodiments, displayed text may be submitted as processing requests to process portions of the displayed text. The processing may include translation of the portions of the displayed text... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090043564 - Method and apparatus for constructing translation knowledge: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for constructing translation knowledge to be used in a translator. According to the invention, a source-language sentence and a target-language sentence are converted by receiving the source-language sentence and the target-language sentence corresponding to the source-language sentence and attaching a prototype,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090043565 - 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

20090043566 - Speech processing apparatus and method: A speech processing apparatus includes a plurality of microphones which receive speech produced by a first sound source to obtain first speech signals for a plurality of channels having one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of microphones, a calculation unit configured to calculate a first characteristic amount indicative of an inter-channel... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt , Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20090043567 - Variable frame offset coding: The present invention relates to an improvement in frame based codecs and in particular to a en encoding/decoding method, an coder/decoder (codec) and a radio communication device. The signal provided at the output of the improved frame based codec comprises frames of regular duration though the start of a frame... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090043568 - Accent information extracting apparatus and method thereof: An accent type is determined by outputting mora synchronized signals, extracting a pitch pattern which is a variation pattern of a voice height (fundamental frequency) from a speech signal entered by a user, generating mora synchronized pattern from the pitch pattern and the mora synchronized signal, storing typical patterns for... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090043569 - Pitch prediction for use by a speech decoder to conceal packet loss: There is provided a pitch lag predictor for use by a speech decoder to generate a predicted pitch lag parameter. The pitch lag predictor comprises a summation calculator configured to generate a first summation based on a plurality of previous pitch lag parameters, and a second summation based on a... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20090043570 - Method for processing speech signal data: Method for processing speech signal data. A speech signal is divided into frames. Each frame is characterized by a frame number T representing a unique interval of time. Each speech signal is characterized by a power spectrum with respect to frame T and frequency band ω. A speech segment and... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090043571 - Methods and systems for sample rate conversion: Methods and systems for sample rate conversion convert a sampled signal to a higher data rate signal. Conversion pulses are received, having a conversion rate that is higher than the sample rate of the sampled signal. Sample points are then reconstructed from the sampled signal, in real time, on either... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090043573 - Method and apparatus for recognizing a speaker in lawful interception systems: A method and apparatus for identifying a speaker within a captured audio signal from a collection of known speakers. The method and apparatus receive or generate voice representations for each known speakers and tag the representations according to meta data related to the known speaker or to the voice. The... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, LLP

20090043572 - Pulse allocating method in voice coding: A pulse allocating method capable of coding stereophonic voice signals efficiently. In the fixed code note retrievals (ST21 to ST25) of this pulse allocating method, for individual subframes, the stereophonic voice signals are compared (ST21) to judge similarity between channels, and are judged (ST22) on their characteristics. On the basis... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090043574 - Speech coding system and method using bi-directional mirror-image predicted pulses: There is provided a method of decoding speech data generated from a speech signal. The method comprises receiving the speech data having at least one main pulse in a subframe of the speech data; generating a first predicted pulse, based on the at least one main pulse, on one side... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20090043575 - Quantized feature index trajectory: Indexing methods are described that may be used by databases, search engines, query and retrieval systems, context sensitive data mining, context mapping, language identification, image recognition, and robotic systems. Raw baseline features from an input signal are aggregated, abstracted and indexed for later retrieval or manipulation. The feature index is... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090043576 - System and method for tuning and testing in a speech recognition system: Systems and methods for improving the performance of a speech recognition system. In some embodiments a tuner module and/or a tester module are configured to cooperate with a speech recognition system. The tester and tuner modules can be configured to cooperate with each other. In one embodiment, the tuner module... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090043577 - Signal presence detection using bi-directional communication data: A system and method for using bi-directional conversation data to improve signal presence detection are disclosed. The detector module is adapted to communicate with a signal enhancement module. The detector module collects data from a transmit direction of the connection and a receive direction of a data connection. The collected... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090043578 - Enhancing the response of biometric access systems: Disclosed are arrangements that provide security for items to which access is restricted by providing a single layer of security requiring a biometric signature (101) for access. A memory-space reduction approach reduces the search time to identify a matching biometric signature, this based on an auxiliary input (112) that is... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090043579 - Target specific data filter to speed processing: A method is presented which reduces data flow and thereby increases processing capacity while preserving a high level of accuracy in a distributed speech processing environment for speaker detection. The method and system of the present invention includes filtering out data based on a target speaker specific subset of labels... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090043580 - System and method for controlling the operation of a device by voice commands: The present invention includes a speech recognition system comprising a light element, a power control switch, the power control switch varying the power delivered to the light element, a controller, a microphone, a speech recognizer coupled to the microphone for recognizing speech input signals and transmitting recognition results to the... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group, PC

20090043581 - Methods and apparatus relating to searching of spoken audio data: This invention relates to a method of searching spoken audio data for one or more search terms comprising performing a phonetic search of the audio data to identify likely matches to a search term and producing textual data corresponding to a portion of the spoken audio data including a likely... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090043582 - Method and system for creation of voice training profiles with multiple methods with uniform server mechanism using heterogeneous devices: A system and method for creating user voice profiles enables a user to create a single user voice profile that is compatible with one or more voice servers. Such a system includes a training server that receives audio information from a client associated with a user and stores the audio... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090043583 - Dynamic modification of voice selection based on user specific factors: The present invention discloses a solution for customizing synthetic voice characteristics in a user specific fashion. The solution can establish a communication between a user and a voice response system. A data store can be searched for a speech profile associated with the user. When a speech profile is found,... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20090043584 - System and method for phonetic representation: A method for generating an Approximate Phonetic Representation (APR) of a given word, the word having a sequence of characters, the method comprising: Receiving the word; Generating the APR by applying at least one metaphone3 translation rule to encode one or more of the characters of the given word into... Agent: Lawrence Philips

20090043585 - System and method for performing speech synthesis with a cache of phoneme sequences: Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer readable media for performing speech synthesis. The method embodiment comprises applying a first part of a speech synthesizer to a text corpus to obtain a plurality of phoneme sequences, the first part of the speech synthesizer only identifying possible phoneme sequences, for each of... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090043586 - Detecting a physiological state based on speech: A computer-implemented method identifies a spoken audio signal representing speech of a person and estimates a physiological state of the person based on the spoken audio signal. For example, the method may identify articulatory patterns (such as landmarks) in the speech and estimate the person's physiological state based on those... Agent: Robert Plotkin, PC

20090043587 - System and method for improving recognition accuracy in speech recognition applications: A speech recognition system and method are provided to correctly distinguish among multiple interpretations of an utterance. This system is particularly useful when the set of possible interpretations is large, changes dynamically, and/or contains items that are not phonetically distinctive. The speech recognition system extends the capabilities of mobile wireless... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20090043588 - Sound-source separation system: A system capable of reducing the influence of sound reverberation or reflection to improve sound-source separation accuracy. An original signal X(ω,f) is separated from an observed signal Y(ω,f) according to a first model and a second model to extract an unknown signal E(ω,f). According to the first model, the original... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20090043591 - Audio encoding and decoding: An audio encoder comprises a multi-channel receiver (401) which receives an M-channel audio signal where M>2. A down-mix processor (403) down-mixes the M-channel audio signal to a first stereo signal and associated parametric data and a spatial processor (407) modifies the first stereo signal to generate a second stereo signal... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090043590 - Noise detection for audio encoding by mean and variance energy ratio: The techniques described are utilized for detection of noise and noise-like segments in audio coding. The techniques can include performing a prediction gain calculation, an energy compaction calculation, and a mean and variation energy calculation. Signal adaptive noise decisions can be made both in time and frequency dimensions. The techniques... Agent: Nokia, Inc.

20090043589 - Recording and selecting an audio region: A program product, a graphical user interface, a computer system including such a graphical user interface and method for recording and selecting an audio region are described. Such a method comprises storing multiple takes of the same audio region and storing a data structure representing a take container to store... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090037175 - Confidence measure generation for speech related searching: A voice search system has a speech recognizer, a search component, and a dialog manager. A confidence measure generator receives speech recognition features from the speech recognizer, search features from the search component, and dialog features from the dialog manager, and calculates an overall confidence measure for voice search results... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20090037174 - Understanding spoken location information based on intersections: In one embodiment, the present system recognizes a user's speech input using an automatically generated probabilistic context free grammar for street names that maps all pronunciation variations of a street name to a single canonical representation during recognition. A tokenizer expands the representation using position-dependent phonetic tokens and an intersection... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20090037176 - Control and configuration of a speech recognizer by wordspotting: A wordspotting system is applied to a speech source in a preliminary processing phase. The putative hits corresponding to queries (e.g., keywords, key phrases, or more complex queries that may include Boolean expressions and proximity operators) are used to control a speech recognizer. The control can include one or more... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20090037177 - Method and device for providing 3d audio work: A method for providing a 3D audio work includes providing a one-ear HRTF filter and a related function synthesizer storing a related function therein, and inputting sound signals into the one-ear HRTF filter. The sound signals are converted into one-ear output sound signals which are received by one ear and... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090037178 - Answer an incoming voice call without requiring a user to speak: A system comprises a wireless transceiver and logic coupled to the wireless transceiver. The logic is adapted to answer a phone call from a calling party with an automated voice message and then, in the same phone call, to enable a user to have a two-way conversation with the calling... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090037179 - Method and apparatus for automatically converting voice: The invention proposes a method and apparatus for significantly improving the quality of voice morphing and guaranteeing the similarity of converted voice. The invention sets several standard speakers in a TTS database, and selects the voices of different standard speakers for speech synthesis according to different roles, wherein the voice... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20090037189 - Apparatus and method for encoding/decoding signal: An encoding method and apparatus and a decoding method and apparatus are provided. The decoding method includes extracting a three-dimensional (3D) down-mix signal and spatial information from an input bitstream, removing 3D effects from the 3D down-mix signal by performing a 3D rendering operation on the 3D down-mix signal, and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090037181 - Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signal: In one embodiment, the method includes reading random access information from the audio signal. The random access information indicates whether or not random access operation is allowed in the audio signal. If the random access operation is allowed, the audio signal has a plurality of random access units. A random... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090037183 - Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signal: In one embodiment, the method includes receiving audio frame data having at least first and second channel data. The first and second channel data includes a plurality of blocks, where the blocks are classified by a block type. Block information indicating the block type is obtained. The block information corresponds... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090037184 - Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signal: In one embodiment, the method includes receiving audio frame data having at least first and second channel data. The first and second channel data includes a plurality of blocks, where the blocks are classified by a block type. The first and second channel data is provided jointly if the first... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090037185 - Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signal: In one embodiment, the method includes receiving audio frame data having at least first and second channel data. The first and second channel data include a plurality of blocks, where the blocks are classified by a block type. The first and second channel data is provided jointly if the first... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090037186 - Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signal: In one embodiment, the method includes receiving the audio signal having configuration information and multi-channels, and reading a first indicator from the configuration information. The first indicator indicates whether or not channel mapping information is included in the configuration information. The channel mapping information is read from the configuration information... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090037187 - Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signals: In one embodiment, the method includes receiving an audio signal having configuration information and at least one channel, and reading an indicator from the configuration information. The indicator indicates whether or not channel mapping information is included in the configuration information. The channel mapping information is read from the configuration... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090037188 - Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signals: In one embodiment, the method includes receiving an audio signal having configuration information and multi-channels, and reading an indicator from the configuration information. The indicator indicates whether or not channel mapping information is included in the configuration information. The method further includes reading the channel mapping information from the configuration... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090037182 - Apparatus and method of processing an audio signal: In one embodiment, the method includes receiving an audio signal including a prediction residual of a block of digital audio data and coded-coefficient values; and obtaining table index information from the digital audio data. The table index information indicates whether entropy coding of coded-coefficient values is performed, and the table... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090037180 - Transcoding method and apparatus: Provided is a method and apparatus for encoding a bitstream, which was encoded by a predetermined method, in another method. By adaptively encoding a bitstream encoded by a predetermined method by selecting a domain in which the encoding is performed for each predetermined band, the bitstream can be efficiently encoded... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090037190 - Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signal: In one embodiment, the method includes receiving audio frame data having at least first and second channel data. The first and second channel data include a plurality of blocks, where the blocks are classified by a block type. The first and second channel data are provided jointly if the first... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090037191 - Apparatus and method of encoding and decoding audio signal: In one embodiment, the method includes receiving audio frame data having at least first and second channel data. The first and second channel data includes a plurality of blocks, where the blocks are classified by a block type. The embodiment further includes obtaining frame length information indicating a length of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090037192 - Apparatus and method of processing an audio signal: In one embodiment, the method includes receiving the audio signal including at least one block of audio data and configuration information, and reading coding type information and partitioning information from the configuration information. The coding type information indicates an entropy coding scheme used in encoding the audio signal, and the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C