Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 03/09

20090083023 - Means and method for adapted language translation: This invention relates to a means and a method for translating source text into a target text where the context information is taken into consideration. A source text unit is defined around a translation unit which is to be translated. This source text unit is mapped onto a bilingual sublanguage... Agent: National Research Council Of Canada 1200 Montreal Road

20090083024 - Apparatus, method, computer program product, and system for machine translation: A receiving unit receives a translation request including an input sentence and bilingual term information. An original-sentence obtaining unit calculates a similarity between the input sentence and original sentences, and obtains an original sentence having the similarity higher than a threshold value from an original-sentence storage unit. A bilingual-term-information obtaining... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090083025 - System and method for providing language localization for server-based applications: Using a server in a distributed computer network to provide an application to a client in the client's preferred language through the use of software modules that translate the application. A client accesses an application on a server and provides a preferred language for the application. Software modules on the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20090083028 - Automatic correction of user input based on dictionary: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, in which input keystroke data can be interpreted by a current mapping and a determination can be made whether the current mapping is valid based upon the characters identified by the mapping and the keystroke data. Invalid mappings can be corrected based... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090083027 - Automatic text skimming using lexical chains: Automatic text skimming using lexical chains may be provided. First, at least one lexical chain may be created from an electronic document. Next, a list of positions within the electronic document may be created. The positions may include where at least one concept represented by one of the at least... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090083026 - Summarizing document with marked points: A summary of a text document may be presented in the form of a list of points. A summary of text can be created by choosing words or groups of words from the original text, by modifying words in the original text, etc. Collections of the chosen words can be... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090083029 - Retrieving apparatus, retrieving method, and computer program product: A word coinciding with a key word input by speech and a word related to the word are set as retrieval candidate words based on a word dictionary in which words representing formal names and aliases of the formal names are registered in association with a family attribute indicating a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090083030 - Method and apparatus for transmitting wideband speech signals: A method and an apparatus for transmitting a speech signal are provided. A speech signal transmitter includes a quadrature mirror filter, a base sub-band encoder, an enhancement sub-band encoder, and a network connector. The quadrature mirror filter receives a speech signal, divides the speech signal into an enhancement band speech... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090083031 - Clipped-waveform repair in acoustic signals using generalized linear prediction: A method and system for optimally repairing a clipped audio signal. Clipping occurs when a waveform exceeds a dynamic range of a recording device. Portions of an audio signal exceeding the dynamic range or saturation level of the recording device are clipped, causing distortion when the clipped recorded signal is... Agent: Law Offices Of Ronald M Anderson

20090083032 - Methods and systems for dynamically updating web service profile information by parsing transcribed message strings: Systems, methods, and software for parsing and/or filtering message strings of text messages and/or instant messages in order to identify keywords, phrases, or fragments as a function of which user preferences of user profiles are dynamically updated are disclosed. Such systems, methods, and software are utilized in the context of... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20090083033 - Phonetic searching: An improved method and apparatus is disclosed which uses probabilistic techniques to map an input search string with a prestored audio file, and recognize certain portions of a search string phonetically. An improved interface is disclosed which permits users to input search strings, linguistics, phonetics, or a combination of both,... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20090083034 - Vehicle control: The present invention relates to voice-activated vehicle control, and to the control of UAVs (unmanned air vehicles) using speech in particular. A method of controlling a vehicle is provided that includes receiving one or more instructions issued as speech and analyzing the speech using speech recognition software to provide a... Agent: Evan Law Group LLC And The Boeing Company

20090083037 - Interactive debugging and tuning of methods for ctts voice building: A method, a system, and an apparatus for identifying and correcting sources of problems in synthesized speech which is generated using a concatenative text-to-speech (CTTS) technique. The method can include the step of displaying a waveform corresponding to synthesized speech generated from concatenated phonetic units. The synthesized speech can be... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090083035 - Text pre-processing for text-to-speech generation: A system and method are provided for improved speech synthesis, wherein text data is pre-processed according to updated grammar rules or a selected group of grammar rules. In one embodiment, the TTS system comprises a first memory adapted to store a text information database, a second memory adapted to store... Agent: O'melveny & Myers LLP Ip&t Calendar Department La-1118

20090083036 - Unnatural prosody detection in speech synthesis: Described is a technology by which synthesized speech generated from text is evaluated against a prosody model (trained offline) to determine whether the speech will sound unnatural. If so, the speech is regenerated with modified data. The evaluation and regeneration may be iterative until deemed natural sounding. For example, text... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090083038 - Mobile radio terminal, speech conversion method and program for the same: The mobile radio terminal includes a speech input unit which inputs a speech signal obtained from speech of a speaking person, an estimating unit which estimates a speech style of the speaking person from the speech signal, and a converting unit which converts the speech signal into a converted speech... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090083039 - Robot apparatus with vocal interactive function and method therefor: The present invention provides a robot apparatus with a vocal interactive function. The robot apparatus receives a vocal input, and recognizes the vocal input. The robot apparatus stores a plurality of output data, a last output time of each of the output data, and a weighted value of each of... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090083041 - Audio encoding device and audio encoding method: There is provided an audio encoding device capable of effectively encoding a stereo audio even when a correlation between channels of the stereo audio is small. In the device, a monaural signal generation unit (110) generates a monaural signal by using a first channel signal and a second channel signal... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090083044 - Device and method for encoding by principal component analysis a multichannel audio signal: A system and a method for coding by principal component analysis (PCA) of a multi-channel audio signal comprising the following steps: decomposing at least two channels (L, R) of said audio signal into a plurality of frequency sub-bands (1(b1), . . . , 1(bN), r(b1), . . . , r(bN)),... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090083045 - Device and method for graduated encoding of a multichannel audio signal based on a principal component analysis: A system and a method for the scalable coding of a multi-channel audio signal comprising a principal component analysis (PCA) transformation of at least two channels (L, R) of the audio signal into a principal component (CP) and at least one residual sub-component (r) by rotation defined by a transformation... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090083046 - Efficient coding of digital media spectral data using wide-sense perceptual similarity: Traditional audio encoders may conserve coding bit-rate by encoding fewer than all spectral coefficients, which can produce a blurry low-pass sound in the reconstruction. An audio encoder using wide-sense perceptual similarity improves the quality by encoding a perceptually similar version of the omitted spectral coefficients, represented as a scaled version... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20090083040 - Encoding and decoding a set of signals: An encoding device (1) and method convert a set of signals (l, r) into a dominant signal (m) containing most signal energy, a residual signal (s) containing a remainder of the signal energy, and signal parameters (IID, ICC) associated with the conversion. The dominant signal (m) and selected parts of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090083042 - Encoding method and encoding apparatus: At S1, an initial value of a common scale factor is calculated. Thereafter, at S11, the initial value is corrected. A value of which the difference between the initial value and the final value of the preceding frame is added to the initial value of the current frame is a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090083043 - Method of coding a source audio signal, corresponding coding device, decoding method and device, signal, computer program products: A method is provided for coding a source audio signal. The method includes the following steps: coding a quantization profile of coefficients representative of at least one transform of the source audio signal, according to at least to distinct coding techniques, delivering at least two sets of data representative of... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090083047 - Zero-gap playback using predictive mixing: Circuits and methods for providing zero-gap playback of consecutive data streams in portable electronic devices, such as media players, are described. In some embodiments, a circuit includes a decoder circuit configured to receive encoded audio data and to output decoded audio data including data streams associated with a data file... Agent: Pvf -- Apple Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090076792 - Text editing apparatus and method: A computer apparatus for managing information representing text translated from a first language to a second language, the apparatus comprising: an information store for storing a first set of information representing text translated from a first language to a second language; a user input or interface for receiving user instructions... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090076793 - System and method for providing a managed language translation service: An approach is disclosed for providing a managed language translation service. A request, from a source station, is received, at a switch, to establish a voice call with a destination station. A determination is made whether the request includes an indicator specifying invocation of a translation service managed by a... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090076794 - Adding prototype information into probabilistic models: Mechanisms are disclosed for incorporating prototype information into probabilistic models for automated information processing, mining, and knowledge discovery. Examples of these models include Hidden Markov Models (HMMs), Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) models, and the like. The prototype information injects prior knowledge to such models, thereby rendering them more accurate, effective,... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20090076798 - Apparatus and method for post-processing dialogue error in speech dialogue system using multilevel verification: Provided are an apparatus and method for post-processing a dialogue error in a speech dialogue system using multilevel verification, in which both of a user's current utterance and a whole dialogue flow are taken into account through the multilevel verification including speech recognition results analysis, linguistic analysis, discourse analysis and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090076799 - Coreference resolution in an ambiguity-sensitive natural language processing system: Technologies are described herein for coreference resolution in an ambiguity-sensitive natural language processing system. Techniques for integrating reference resolution functionality into a natural language processing system can processes documents to be indexed within an information search and retrieval system. Ambiguity awareness features, as well as ambiguity resolution functionality, can operate... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090076796 - Natural language processing method: Methods for converting a natural language sentence into a set of primitive sentences. The method include identifying verbal blocks in the sentence, splitting the sentence into a set of logical clauses, disambiguating ambiguous verbal blocks within each logical clause, and constructing a primitive sentence for each verbal block by duplicating... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090076797 - System and method for accessing images with a novel user interface and natural language processing: Systems and methods for accessing images with natural language processing are provided. The methods for accessing images include linking an image with image-summarizing text by applying a hierarchical clustering algorithm to cluster one or more abstract sentences and one or more images, and linking an image with image-summarizing text if... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090076795 - System and method of generating responses to text-based messages: In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, an automated method of and system for generating a response to a text-based natural language message is disclosed. The method includes identifying a sentence in the text-based natural language message. Also, identifying an input clause in the sentence. Further, comparing the... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090076800 - Dual cross-media relevance model for image annotation: A dual cross-media relevance model (DCMRM) is used for automatic image annotation. In contrast to the traditional relevance models which calculate the joint probability of words and images over a training image database, the DCMRM model estimates the joint probability by calculating the expectation over words in a predefined lexicon.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090076801 - Method and apparatus for introducing information into a data stream and method and apparatus for encoding an audio signal: An inventive method for introducing information into a data stream including data about spectral values representing a short-term spectrum of an audio signal first performs a processing of the data stream to obtain the spectral values of the short-term spectrum of the audio signal. Apart from that, the information to... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090076802 - Wideband codec negotiation: The invention proposes several methods for codec handling. In specific, methods involving providing a supported codec list of a Call Control Server are described. A node receives information, whether a terminal supports a wideband codec, wherein the information is received in call set up signaling from the terminal of the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090076803 - Wired and mobile wi-fi networks, cellular, gps and other position finding systems: A voice signal is processed and connected by wire to a mobile wireless unit for further processing into time division multiple access (TDMA) and into spread spectrum signals. The wireless unit is processing a data signal into orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) signal. The wireless unit receives and processes a... Agent: Kamilo Feher

20090076804 - Assistive listening system with memory buffer for instant replay and speech to text conversion: A portable assistive listening system for enhancing sound for hearing impaired individuals includes a fully functional hearing aid and a separate handheld digital signal processing (DSP) device. The focus of the present invention is directed to the handheld DSP device. The DSP device includes a programmable digital signal processor, a... Agent: Barlow, Josephs & Holmes, Ltd.

20090076806 - Emphasis of short-duration transient speech features: A sound processor including a microphone (1), a pre-amplifier (2), a bank of N parallel filters (3), means for detecting short-duration transitions in the envelope signal of each filter channel, and means for applying gain to the outputs of these filter channels in which the gain is related to a... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090076805 - Method and device for performing frame erasure concealment to higher-band signal: The present invention discloses a method for performing a frame erasure concealment to a higher-band signal, including: calculating a periodic intensity of a higher-band signal with respect to a lower-band signal; judging whether the periodic intensity of the higher-band signal is higher than or equal to a preconfigured threshold; if... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090076808 - Method and device for performing frame erasure concealment on higher-band signal: A method for performing a frame erasure concealment for a higher-band signal involves calculating a periodic intensity of the higher-band signal with respect to pitch period information of a lower-band signal; comparing the periodic intensity to a preconfigured threshold and, if the periodic intensity is greater or equal to the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090076807 - Method and device for performing frame erasure concealment to higher-band signal: The present invention discloses a method for performing a frame erasure concealment to a higher-band signal, including: calculating a periodic intensity of a higher-band signal with respect to a lower-band signal; judging whether the periodic intensity of the higher-band signal is higher than or equal to a preconfigured threshold; if... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090076809 - Audio encoding device and audio encoding method: There is provided an audio encoding device capable of effectively encoding stereo audio in audio encoding having monaural-stereo scalable configuration. In this device, a correlation degree comparison unit (304) calculates correlation in a first channel (correlation degree between the past signal and the current signal in the first channel) from... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090076810 - Sound processing apparatus, apparatus and method for cotrolling gain, and computer program: A sound processing apparatus is provided for estimating the power of background noise using a directional sound receiving technology using a plurality of sound receiving units, computing a gain control value on the basis of the estimated power of background noise and a predetermined power target value, and outputting the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090076811 - Decision analysis system: A decision analysis system (10) for analyzing voice data is disclosed. The system comprises a voice collection device 12 arranged to capture voice data from a human speaker, and a processing system (14). The processing system (14) is arranged to parse the captured voice data so as to produce a... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20090076812 - Media usage monitoring and measurement system and method: Media monitoring and measurement systems and methods are disclosed. Some embodiments of the present invention provide a media measurement system and method that utilizes audience data to enhance content identifications. Some embodiments analyze media player log data to enhance content identification. Other embodiments of the present invention analyze sample sequence... Agent: Mauriel Kapouytian & Treffert LLP

20090076814 - Apparatus and method for determining speech signal: Provided are a method and apparatus for discriminating a speech signal. The apparatus for discriminating a speech signal includes: an input signal quality improver for reducing additional noise from an acoustic signal received from outside; a first start/end-point detector for receiving the acoustic signal from the input signal quality improver... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090076813 - Method for speech recognition using uncertainty information for sub-bands in noise environment and apparatus thereof: According to a method and apparatus for speech recognition in noise environment of the present invention using uncertainty information for sub-band, uncertainty information of each sub-band is extracted from estimated clean speech using noise modeling, and helps to extract speech features that are robust to noise using the extracted uncertainty... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090076815 - Speech recognition apparatus, speech recognition apparatus and program thereof: Provided is a method for canceling background noise of a sound source other than a target direction sound source in order to realize highly accurate speech recognition, and a system using the same. In terms of directional characteristics of a microphone array, due to a capability of approximating a power... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090076816 - Assistive listening system with display and selective visual indicators for sound sources: A portable assistive listening system for enhancing sound for hearing impaired individuals includes a functional hearing aid and a separate handheld digital signal processing (DSP) device. The invention focuses on a handheld DSP device that provides a visual cue to the user representing the source of an intermittent incoming sound.... Agent: Barlow, Josephs & Holmes, Ltd.

20090076817 - Method and apparatus for recognizing speech: Provided are an apparatus and method for recognizing speech, in which reliability with respect to phoneme-recognized phoneme sequences is calculated and performance of speech recognition is enhanced using the calculated results. The method of recognizing speech includes the steps of: determining a boundary between phonemes included in character sequences that... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090076818 - Method and system of building a grammar rule with baseforms generated dynamically from user utterances: A method (200) of building a grammar with baseforms generated dynamically from user utterances can include the steps of recording (205) a user utterance, generating (210) a baseform using the user utterance, creating or adding to (215) a grammar rule using the baseform, and binding (230) the grammar rule in... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090076820 - Method and apparatus for tagtoe reminders: A network-based text-to-speech (TTS) TagToe alert system is configured to take a user's textual and/or multimedia input to a TagToe user interface to schedule delivery of text-to-speech-converted TagToe information to one or more telephone call recipients. The text-to-speech converted TagToe information optionally includes e-commerce specific, location-specific, and/or product-specific information which... Agent: Invent Capture, LLC

20090076821 - Method and apparatus to control operation of a playback device: Media metadata is accessible for a plurality of media items (See FIG. 12). The media metadata includes a number of strings to identify information regarding the media items (See FIG. 12). Phonetic metadata is associated the number of strings of the media metadata (See FIG. 12). Each portion of the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090076819 - Text to speech synthesis: An input linguistic description is converted into a speech waveform by deriving at least one target unit sequence corresponding to the linguistic description, selecting from a waveform unit database for the target unit sequences a plurality of alternative unit sequences approximating the target unit sequences, concatenating the alternative unit sequences... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090076822 - Audio signal transforming: A sequence is received of time domain digital audio samples representing sound (e.g., a sound generated by a human voice or a musical instrument). The time domain digital audio samples are processed to derive a corresponding sequence of audio pulses in the time domain. Each of the audio pulses is... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090076823 - Interactive voice response interface, system, methods and program for correctional facility commissary: An interactive voice response interface for a correctional facility commissary that detects violations of facility restrictions to orders for commissary goods at more than one point in time, and allows comprehensive review and editing of pending orders for commissary items.... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090076824 - Remote control server protocol system: A remote control server protocol system transports data to a client system. The client system communicates with the server application using a platform-independent communications protocol. The client system sends commands and audio data to the server application. The server application may respond by transmitting audio and other messages to the... Agent: Harman - Brinks Hofer Chicago Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090076825 - Method of enhancing sound for hearing impaired individuals: A portable assistive listening system for enhancing sound for hearing impaired individuals includes a fully functional hearing aid and a separate handheld digital signal processing (DSP) device. The focus of the present invention is directed to the handheld DSP device and a unique method of processing incoming audio signals. The... Agent: Barlow, Josephs & Holmes, Ltd.

20090076826 - Blind watermarking of audio signals by using phase modifications: Watermarking of audio signals intends to manipulate the audio signal in a way that the changes in the audio content cannot be recognised by the human auditory system. In order to reduce the audibility of the watermark and to improve the robustness of the watermarking the invention uses phase modification... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090076827 - Control of plurality of target systems: A system for controlling or operating a plurality of target systems via spoken commands is provided. The system includes a first plurality of target systems, a second plurality of controllers for controlling or operating target systems via spoken commands, a speech recognition system that stores interface information that is specific... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090076829 - Device for perceptual weighting in audio encoding/decoding: A hierarchical audio coder for use in a frequency band divided into adjacent first and second sub-bands, said coder comprising: a core coder (305) for coding an original signal in the first sub-band of said frequency band; a stage (306) for calculating a residual signal (e) from said original signal... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090076830 - Methods and arrangements for audio coding and decoding: A method for audio coding and decoding comprises primary encoding of a present audio signal sample into an encoded representation (T(n)), and non-causal encoding of a first previous audio signal sample into an encoded enhancement representation (ET(n−N+)). The method further comprises providing of the encoded representations to an end user.... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090076828 - System and method of data encoding: A data encoding device is provided, comprising: a data frame encoder configured to receive an incoming frame of data and to generate an encoded frame of data using a frame encoding scheme; a data frame decoder configured to receive the encoded frame of data and to generate a decoded frame... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090070096 - Apparel or fabric with the functionality of human languages translation: A type of invented article, which may refer to apparel or fabric products, can translate languages during a conversation without common language. The invention resolves the most common conversational translation needs and eliminates a burden of bringing a dictionary, or e-dictionary, or hiring an interpreter. The apparel is attached or... Agent: Jianfei Ye Suite 8-2-201

20090070095 - Mining bilingual dictionaries from monolingual web pages: Systems and methods for identifying translation pairs from web pages are provided. One disclosed method includes receiving monolingual web page data of a source language, and processing the web page data by detecting the occurrence of a predefined pattern in the web page data, and extracting a plurality of translation... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090070097 - User input classification: Systems and methods of classifying user input are disclosed. The user input can be, for example, in the form of Roman characters. An ambiguous word (e.g., a word that is a non-pinyin word written in Roman characters and a valid pinyin word) can be identified in the user input. Contextual... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090070094 - User-configurable translations for electronic documents: Generally speaking, systems, methods and media for selectively modifying an electronic document by restoring user-selected portions of translated electronic document text to their original language are disclosed. Embodiments of a method for selectively modifying an electronic document may include receiving a request from a user to view a user selection... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20090070098 - Dynamic virtual input device configuration: In one aspect, a virtual input device can be configured by detecting a language identifier associated with a selected data entry field, determining a key mapping corresponding to the detected language identifier, configuring a virtual input device in accordance with the key mapping, wherein the virtual input device includes one... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090070099 - Method for translating documents from one language into another using a database of translations, a terminology dictionary, a translation dictionary, and a machine translation system: In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for translating a document in an input language into an output language comprising: a) for each document fragment for which a translation is readily available, translating said document fragment based on said readily available translation; and b) for each remaining untranslated fragment... Agent: Hahn And Moodley, LLP

20090070101 - Device for automatically creating information analysis report, program for automatically creating information analysis report, and method for automatically creating information analysis report: A device (100) for automatically creating an information analysis report includes a processing device (1), an input device (2), a recording device (3), and an output device (4). When creating an information analysis report: a document to be surveyed and a document to be compared are specified and inputted; an... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20090070103 - Management and processing of information: Disclosed is a method to perform natural language (NL) processing. The method includes accessing a data source having one or more data portions, and applying multi-stage NL processing on the one or more data portions, using a dynamically generated set of concepts relating to one or more subject matters and... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20090070100 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for spoken language grammar evaluation: A method, system, and computer program product for spoken language grammar evaluation are provided. The method includes playing a recorded question to a candidate, recording a spoken answer from the candidate, and converting the spoken answer into text. The method further includes comparing the text to a grammar database, calculating... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20090070102 - Speech recognition method, speech recognition system and server thereof: A speech recognition method includes a model selection step which selects a recognition model and translation dictionary information based on characteristic information of input speech and a speech recognition step which translates input speech into text data based on the selected recognition model and translation step which translates the text... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090070104 - Acoustic communication system: A number of encoders for encoding a data signal within an audio signal are provided. In some of the encoders, the audio signal is separated into a tonal part, and a residual part, and the data signal is shaped based on the residual part. In other encoders, the data signal... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090070106 - Method and system for reducing effects of noise producing artifacts in a speech signal: There is provided a method of reducing effect of noise producing artifacts in silence areas of a speech signal for use by a speech decoding system. The method comprises obtaining a plurality of incoming samples of a speech subframe; summing an absolute value of an energy level for each of... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20090070105 - Voice communication apparatus: A voice communication apparatus includes a communication portion that receives a plurality of frames including at least a first frame having first voice data and a second frame having second voice data subsequent to the first frame, the first voice data and the second voice data being encoded by a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090070107 - Scalable encoding device and scalable encoding method: Provided is a scalable encoding device capable of improving quality of a decoded signal without increasing an encoding amount and compensating data with a sufficient quality upon data loss. In the scalable encoding device, an extension layer bit distribution calculation unit (103) calculates a bit distribution of a quality improving... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090070108 - Method and system for identifying speech sound and non-speech sound in an environment: In a method and system for identifying speech sound and non-speech sound in an environment, a speech signal and other non-speech signals are identified from a mixed sound source having a plurality of channels. The method includes the following steps: (a) using a blind source separation (BSS) unit to separate... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090070109 - Speech-to-text transcription for personal communication devices: A speech-to-text transcription system for a personal communication device (PCD) is housed in a communications server that is communicatively coupled to one or more PCDs. A user of the PCD, dictates an e-mail, for example, into the PCD. The PCD converts the user's voice into a speech signal that is... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20090070110 - Combining results of image retrieval processes: A MMR system for newspaper publishing comprises a plurality of mobile devices, an MMR gateway, an MMR matching unit and an MMR publisher. The MMR matching unit receives an image query from the MMR gateway and sends it to one or more of the recognition units to identify a result... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20090070111 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for spoken language grammar evaluation: A method, system, and computer program product for spoken language grammar evaluation are provided. The method includes playing a recorded question to a candidate, recording a spoken answer from the candidate, and converting the spoken answer into text. The method further includes comparing the text to a grammar database, calculating... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20090070112 - Automatic reading tutoring: A method of providing automatic reading tutoring is disclosed. The method includes retrieving a textual indication of a story from a data store and creating a language model including constructing a target context free grammar indicative of a first portion of the story. A first acoustic input is received and... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20090070113 - System for handling frequently asked questions in a natural language dialog service: A voice-enabled help desk service is disclosed. The service comprises an automatic speech recognition module for recognizing speech from a user, a spoken language understanding module for understanding the output from the automatic speech recognition module, a dialog management module for generating a response to speech from the user, a... Agent: At & T Legal Department

20090070114 - Audible metadata: This disclosure describes systems and methods for audibly presenting metadata. Audibly presentable metadata is referred to as audible metadata. Audible metadata may be associated with one or more media objects. In one embodiment, audible metadata is pre-recorded requiring little or no processing before it can be rendered. In another embodiment,... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090070116 - Fundamental frequency pattern generation apparatus and fundamental frequency pattern generation method: A fundamental frequency pattern generation apparatus includes a first storage including representative vectors each corresponding to a prosodic control unit and having a section for changing the number of phonemes, a second storage unit including a rule to select a vector corresponding to an input context, a selection unit configured... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20090070115 - Speech synthesis system, speech synthesis program product, and speech synthesis method: It is an objective of the present invention to provide waveform concatenation speech synthesis with high sound quality utilizing its advantages in the case where there is a large quantity of speech segments while providing waveform concatenation speech synthesis with accurate accents in other cases. Prosody with both high accuracy... Agent: Ibm Corporation (swp)

20090070117 - Interpolation method: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method for interpolating a partial loss of an audio signal including a sound signal component and a background noise component in transmission thereof, the method comprising the steps of: calculating frequency characteristic of the background noise in the audio signal; extracting the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090070118 - Audio coding and decoding: An audio encoding device (100) comprises first encoding means (101, 111) for encoding transient signal components and/or sinusoidal signal components of an audio signal (x(n)) and producing a residual signal (z(n)), and second encoding means for encoding the residual signal. The second encoding means comprise filter means (122) for selecting... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090070120 - Audio regeneration method: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method for regenerating an audio signal including a low frequency component and a high frequency component by decoding a coded data including a first coded data and a second coded data, the method comprising the steps of: generating the low frequency component;... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090070119 - Power efficient batch-frame audio decoding apparatus, system and method: Power savings in a mobile device is accomplished by generating audio samples by decoding a bitstream with a decoding system within the mobile device. The generated audio samples are transferred into at least one memory bank in a set of memory banks in a power saver block within the mobile... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090063127 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for creating data for learning word translation: An input unit receives an input sentence in a source language. A translation generating unit generates a translation in a target language with respect to a word included in the input sentence and likelihood of the translation in the target language. A correspondence-information creating unit creates correspondence information, in which... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090063128 - Device and method for interactive machine translation: Provided are a device and method for interactive machine translation. The device includes a machine translation engine having a morphological/syntactic analyzer for analyzing morphemes and sentences of an original text and generating original text analysis information, and a translation generator for generating a translation and translation generation information on the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090063125 - Method for globalizing support operations: Techniques are provided for globalizing handling of service management items. The techniques include obtaining a service management item in a language convenient to a first of two or more actors, translating the service management item into a language-neutral format to obtain a language-neutral service management item, applying one or more... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090063126 - Validation of the consistency of automatic terminology translation: A method of determining the consistency of training data for a machine translation system is disclosed. The method includes receiving a signal indicative of a source language corpus and a target language corpus. A textual string is extracted from the source language corpus. The textual string is aligned with the... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20090063129 - Method and system for instantly translating text within image: A method and a system for instantly translating text within an image are provided. The method and the system are suitable for using a service end device to translate text within the image captured by a portable communication device. First, the image is captured by the portable communication device, and... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20090063130 - Fast beam-search decoding for phrasal statistical machine translation: Improved systems, methods and apparatuses are provided for fast beam-search decoding for phrasal statistical machine translation. The provided techniques incorporate a front-loaded distortion penalty estimate for future estimated distortion penalty and/or early pruning to reduce the search space. The improvements result in up to an order of magnitude increase in... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090063132 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: An information processing apparatus includes: morphological analysis means for performing morphological analysis on a text document; managing means for managing a connection pattern indicating a connection relationship of a morpheme of a predetermined part of speech; and extracting means extracting, from a string of morphemes obtained by performing morphological analysis... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090063131 - Methods and systems for language representation: A method of representing a language statement having one or more words includes capturing an expression of the language statement, associating one or more properties with each of the one or more words in the language statement, substantially removing as necessary one or more first ambiguities in the language statement,... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090063133 - System and article of manufacture for filtering content using neural networks: Provided are a system and article of manufacture for filtering communications received from over a network for a person-to-person communication program. A communication is received for the person-to person communication program. The communication is processed to determine predefined language statements. Information on the determined language statements is inputted into a... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20090063135 - Handheld electronic device and method employing logical proximity of characters in spell checking: An improved handheld electronic device and associated method employing an improved spell checking routine enable proposed spelling corrections having a close logical proximity to an active input to be output at a position of preference for easy selection by the user. By way of example, a base character and the... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20090063136 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program: An information processing apparatus includes a foreign language dictionary, an input unit through which a user input a letter, a determination unit, a storage unit storing notation information about the letter, a search unit, a converter, and an output unit. The foreign language dictionary stores each foreign word in one... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090063134 - Media content assessment and control systems: Computer implemented methods and computing systems wherein relationships of words or phrases within a textual corpus are assessed via frequencies of occurrence of particular words or phrases and via frequencies of co-occurrence of particular pairs of words or phrases within defined tracts of text from within the textual corpus.... Agent: Michael Blaine Brooks, P.C.

20090063137 - Method and apparatus of low-complexity psychoacoustic model applicable for advanced audio coding encoders: A method and an apparatus of a low-complexity psychoacoustic model applicable for advanced audio coding encoders use a modified discrete cosine transform based (MDCT-based) psychoacoustic model and a simplified look-up table to compute the MDCT-based psychoacoustic model by a logarithm based logarithmic method to simplify the computational complexity, and then... Agent: Hdls Patent & Trademark Services

20090063138 - Method and system for determining predominant fundamental frequency: Methods, digital systems, and computer readable media are provided for determining a predominant fundamental frequency of a frame of an audio signal by finding a maximum absolute signal value in history data for the frame, determining a number of bits for downshifting based on the maximum absolute signal value, computing... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090063139 - Signal modification method for efficient coding of speech signals: For determining a long-term-prediction delay parameter characterizing a long term prediction in a technique using signal modification for digitally encoding a sound signal, the sound signal is divided into a series of successive frames, a feature of the sound signal is located in a previous frame, a corresponding feature of... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090063140 - Encoding and decoding of audio signals using complex-valued filter banks: An encoder (109) comprises a receiver (201) which receives a time domain audio signal. A filter bank (203) generates a first subband signal from the time domain audio signal where the first subband signal corresponds to a non-critically sampled complex subband domain representation of the time domain signal. A conversion... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090063141 - Apparatus and method for adjusting prompt voice depending on environment: An apparatus for adjusting a prompt voice depending on an environment comprises a receiver module used for receiving a background sound, an analyzer module generating a control signal according to the background sound and an output module adjusting an output frequency of a prompt voice through the control signal and... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC

20090063142 - Method and apparatus for controlling echo in the coded domain: A method and corresponding apparatus for coded-domain acoustic echo control is presented. An echo control problem is considered as that of perceptually matching an echo signal to a reference signal. A perceptual similarity function that is based on the coded spectral parameters produced by the speech codec is defined. Since... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090063143 - System for speech signal enhancement in a noisy environment through corrective adjustment of spectral noise power density estimations: A system estimates the spectral noise power density of an audio signal includes a spectral noise power density estimation unit, a correction term processor, and a combination processor. The spectral noise power density estimation unit may provide a first estimate of the spectral noise power density of the audio signal.... Agent: Harman - Brinks Hofer Chicago Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090063144 - System and method for providing a compensated speech recognition model for speech recognition: An automatic speech recognition (ASR) system and method is provided for controlling the recognition of speech utterances generated by an end user operating a communications device. The ASR system and method can be used with a communications device that is used in a communications network. The ASR system can be... Agent: At & T Legal Department

20090063145 - Combining active and semi-supervised learning for spoken language understanding: Combined active and semi-supervised learning to reduce an amount of manual labeling when training a spoken language understanding model classifier. The classifier may be trained with human-labeled utterance data. Ones of a group of unselected utterance data may be selected for manual labeling via active learning. The classifier may be... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090063146 - Voice processing device and program: In a voice processing device, a male voice index calculator calculates a male voice index indicating a similarity of the input sound relative to a male speaker sound model. A female voice index calculator calculates a female voice index indicating a similarity of the input sound relative to a female... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20090063148 - Calibration of word spots system, method, and computer program product: An example embodiment of the invention may include a system, a method and/or a computer program product for enabling calibrating of word spots resulting from a spoken query, including, e.g., but not limited to, presenting a plurality of word spots to a user, each of the plurality of word spots... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090063147 - Phonetic, syntactic and conceptual analysis driven speech recognition 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

20090063149 - Speech retrieval apparatus: A speech retrieval apparatus derives a times series of pitch or power values of speech input as a retrieval condition, obtains a pattern of local maxima, local minima, and inflection points in the time series, compares this pattern with similar patterns obtained from speech stored in a speech database, and... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090063150 - Method for automatically identifying sentence boundaries in noisy conversational data: Sentence boundaries in noisy conversational transcription data are automatically identified. Noise and transcription symbols are removed, and a training set is formed with sentence boundaries marked based on long silences or on manual markings in the transcribed data. Frequencies of head and tail n-grams that occur at the beginning and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20090063151 - Keyword spotting using a phoneme-sequence index: In some aspects, a wordspotter is used to locate occurrences in an audio corpus of each of a set of predetermined subword units, which may be phoneme sequences. To locate a query (e.g., a keyword or phrase) in the audio corpus, constituent subword units in the query are indentified and... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20090063152 - Audio reproducing method, character code using device, distribution service system, and character code management method: A character code is associated with sound as well as character or sign so as to enhance expressiveness on the Internet or in electronic mail. Sound data is recorded in the character code using device in association with the character code. The user can reproduce an intended sound in the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090063154 - Emotive text-to-speech system and method: 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

20090063153 - System and method for blending synthetic voices: A system and method for generating a synthetic text-to-speech TTS voice are disclosed. A user is presented with at least one TTS voice and at least one voice characteristic. A new synthetic TTS voice is generated by blending a plurality of existing TTS voices according to the selected voice characteristics.... Agent: At & T Legal Department

20090063155 - Robot apparatus with vocal interactive function and method therefor: The present invention provides a robot apparatus with a vocal interactive function. The robot apparatus receives a vocal input, and recognizes the vocal input. The robot apparatus stores a plurality of output data, an output count of each of the output data, and a weighted value of each of the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090063156 - Voice synthesis method and interpersonal communication method, particularly for multiplayer online games: A voice synthesis method, said method comprising a step of choosing a synthetic voice from among a set of voices having predetermined spectral signatures and a step of recording the natural voice of a first person, the method comprising a step of transforming the natural recorded voice so as to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090063157 - Apparatus and method of generating information on relationship between characters in content: A method of generating information on relationships between characters of a content includes dividing a text extracted from the content into one or more predetermined units, determining one or more dominant relationships between characters of the content by comparing the divided units with relationship keyword information in which keywords contained... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090063159 - Audio metadata verification: A digital bitstream, comprising data bits representing audio, metadata intended to be correct for the audio, and metadata verification information, wherein all or part of the metadata may not be correct for the audio. The metadata verification information is usable to detect whether or not metadata is correct for the... Agent: Gallagher & Lathrop, A Professional Corporation

20090063160 - Configurable common filterbank processor applicable for various audio standards and processing method thereof: A configurable common filterbank processor applicable for various audio standards and its processing method. Inverse modified discrete cosine transform (IMDCT) and window and overlap-add (WOA) decoding operations required by AC-3 and AAC, and IMDC, WOA, and matrixing decoding operations required by MP3 are divided into several different modes, and a... Agent: Hdls Patent & Trademark Services

20090063158 - Efficient audio coding using signal properties: An audio encoder comprising optimizing means ET OPT adapted to generate an optimized encoding template OET based on properties PV of an input audio signal IN, such as in form of a property vector. The optimized encoding template OET is being optimized with respect to a predetermined encoding efficiency criterion.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090063161 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding continuation sinusoidal signal of audio signal: Provided are an audio signal encoding method and apparatus that encode a continuation sinusoidal signal of a current frame in different ways according to information on a sinusoidal signal of a previous frame by using the characteristics of the continuation sinusoidal signal, and an audio signal decoding method and apparatus.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090063163 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding media signal: Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding/decoding a media signal. The method of encoding a media signal includes: when harmonics exist in a sinusoid of a previous frame section, predicting a harmonic frequency of a current frame section that is to be encoded by using a harmonic frequency of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090063164 - Method and system for reduction of quantization-induced block-discontinuities and general purpose audio codec: A method and system for reduction of quantization-induced block-discontinuities arising from lossy compression and decompression of continuous signals, especially audio signals. One embodiment encompasses a general purpose, ultra-low latency, efficient audio codec algorithm. More particularly, the invention includes a method and apparatus for compression and decompression of audio signals using... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090063162 - Parametric audio encoding and decoding apparatus and method thereof: Provided are parametric audio encoding and decoding apparatuses and methods thereof. In the parametric audio encoding method, an audio signal is segmented into a plurality of segments. At least one sine wave is extracted from each of the segments, and the extracted sine waves are connected. It is determined whether... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090063165 - System and method for providing amr-wb dtx synchronization: A system and method for providing improved adaptive multi-rate wideband (AMR-WB) discontinuous transmission (DTX) synchronization. According to various embodiments, an indication on the start of the inactive speech period is signalled to the decoder via a voice activity detection (VAD) flag a predetermined number of frames before the DTX period... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP