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

20090240485 - Computer program product and computer system for language-enhanced programming tools: Statements of a computer program expressed using a first source natural language are made meaningful to a programmer familiar with a second target natural language. The first source natural language of the computer program is determined from the programmer, or through analysis, and the second target natural language desired by... Agent: Ibm Endicott (anthony England) Law Office Of Anthony England

20090240486 - Hmm alignment for combining translation systems: A computing system configured to produce an optimized translation hypothesis of text input into the computing system. The computing system includes a plurality of translation machines. Each of the translation machines is configured to produce their own translation hypothesis from the same text. An optimization machine is connected to the... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090240488 - Corrective feedback loop for automated speech recognition: A method for facilitating the updating of a language model includes receiving, at a client device, via a microphone, an audio message corresponding to speech of a user; communicating the audio message to a first remote server; receiving, that the client device, a result, transcribed at the first remote server... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20090240487 - Machine translation: A method for computer-assisted translation from a source language to a target language makes use of number of rules. Each rule forms an association between a representation of a sequence of source language tokens with a corresponding tree-based structure in the target language. The tree-based structure for each of at... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20090240489 - Voice band expander and expansion method, and voice communication apparatus: A band-limited voice signal is processed to reduce its spectral envelope or harmonic structure, or both. The resulting reduced signal is moved into a frequency band above the upper limit frequency of the band-limited voice signal, and then combined with the band-limited voice signal to form a band expanded signal... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090240490 - Method and apparatus for concealing packet loss, and apparatus for transmitting and receiving speech signal: A method and apparatus for concealing frame loss and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving a speech signal that are capable of reducing speech quality degradation caused by packet loss are provided. In the method, when loss of a current received frame occurs, a random excitation signal having the highest... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20090240493 - Method and apparatus for searching fixed codebook: A method and apparatus for searching fixed codebook are provided. The method includes: obtaining a basic codebook which comprises position information of N pulses on M tracks, wherein N and M are positive integers; choosing n pulses as search pulses, wherein the n pulses are parts of the N pulses... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090240492 - Packet loss concealment for sub-band predictive coding based on extrapolation of sub-band audio waveforms: A technique is described for concealing the effect of a lost frame in a series of frames representing an encoded audio signal in a sub-band predictive coding system. In accordance with the technique, a first synthesized sub-band audio signal is synthesized, wherein synthesizing the first synthesized sub-band audio signal comprises... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20090240491 - Technique for encoding/decoding of codebook indices for quantized mdct spectrum in scalable speech and audio codecs: Codebook indices for a scalable speech and audio codec may be efficiently encoded based on anticipated probability distributions for such codebook indices. A residual signal from a Code Excited Linear Prediction (CELP)-based encoding layer may be obtained, where the residual signal is a difference between an original audio signal and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090240494 - Voice encoding device and voice encoding method: Provided is a voice encoding device which performs voice encoding by a fixed code book effectively using a bit. In the voice encoding device, a position/polarity calculation unit (205) in a search loop (204) calculates a pulse position and polarity by using values of yH and HH. Moreover, a correlation... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090240495 - Methods and apparatus for suppressing ambient noise using multiple audio signals: A method for suppressing ambient noise using multiple audio signals may include providing at least two audio signals captured by at least two electro-acoustic transducers. The at least two audio signals may include desired audio and ambient noise. The method may also include performing beamforming on the at least two... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090240496 - Speech recognizer and speech recognizing method: According to one aspect of the invention, a speech recognizer includes: an audio data acquiring portion configured to acquire audio data via a microphone; a speech section detecting portion configured to detect a talking start time and a talking end time based on the audio data; a spoken word identifying... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090240497 - Method and system for message alert and delivery using an earpiece: A method for an earpiece to manage a delivery of a message can include receiving a notice that a message is available at a communication device, parsing the notice for header information that identifies at least a portion of the message, and requesting a subsequent delivery of at least a... Agent: Personics Holdings Inc.

20090240498 - Similiarity measures for short segments of text: Systems and methods to perform short text segment similarity measures. Illustratively, a short text segment similarity environment comprises a short text engine operative to process data representative of short segments of text and an instruction set comprising at least one instruction to instruct the short text engine to process data... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090240499 - Large vocabulary quick learning speech recognition system: A speech recognition system comprising: an analog to digital converter, a time to frequency transformer, a noise filter; a context preprocessor, an acoustic word classifier, an initial acoustic model generator, a textual search module, and a trainer. The system recognizes speech initially prior to training, due to the context preprocessor... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20090240500 - Speech recognition apparatus and method: A speech recognition apparatus includes a storage unit which store vocabularies, each of vocabularies including plural word body data, each of the word body data obtained by removing a specific word head from a word or sentence, and store at least one word head portion including labeled nodes to express... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20090240501 - Automatically generating new words for letter-to-sound conversion: Described is a technology by which artificial words are generated based on seed words, and then used with a letter-to-sound conversion model. To generate an artificial word, a stressed syllable of a seed word is replaced with a different syllable, such as a candidate (artificial) syllable, when the phonemic structure... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090240502 - Multimedia controller tablet: A media controller tablet is disclosed comprising: an ergonomic housing including a pair of complimentary curvilinear surfaces tapering from an upper end to a lower end, and a gripping surface in contact with one of the complimentary curvilinear surfaces wherein the gripping surface and the complimentary curvilinear surfaces are adapted... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20090240503 - Acoustic signal processing apparatus and acoustic signal processing method: An acoustic signal processing apparatus (24) converts down-mixed acoustic signals of NI channels to acoustic signals of NO channels, where NO>NI. The acoustic signal processing apparatus includes: a first matrix arithmetic unit (241) for performing arithmetic on a matrix with K rows and NI columns, where NO>K≧NI, for the down-mixed... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090240509 - Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding using bandwidth extension in portable terminal: An apparatus and method for encoding and decoding using mutual information between a high band signal and a low band signal to increase a coding efficiency in a portable terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a bandwidth extender for extracting auxiliary information relating to a characteristic of a high band... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090240506 - Audio bitstream data structure arrangement of a lossy encoded signal together with lossless encoded extension data for said signal: Lossless compression algorithms can only exploit redundancies of the original audio signal to reduce the data rate, but not irrelevancies as identified by psycho-acoustics. Lossless audio coding schemes apply a filter or transform for decorrelation and then encode the transformed signal. The encoded bit stream comprises the parameters of the... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090240505 - Audio decoding: An audio decoder comprises a receiver (801) for receiving input data comprising an N-channel signal corresponding to a down-mixed signal of an M-channel audio signal, M>N, having complex valued subband encoding matrices applied in frequency subbands and parametric multi-channel data. A subband filter bank (805) generates real-valued frequency subbands for... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090240504 - Method and apparatus for processing an audio signal: A method for processing an audio signal, comprising the steps of extracting an ancillary signal for generating the audio signal and an extension signal included in the ancillary signal from a received bit stream, reading length information for the extension signal, skipping decoding of the extension signal or not using... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090240507 - Method and device for transcoding audio signals: The present invention provides method and device for transcoding between audio coding formats with different time-frequency analysis domains, as used for example by MPEG-AAC and mp3, particularly for facilitated and faster transcoding between such audio signals. A method for transcoding a framed audio signal from a first parameter domain into... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090240508 - Sampling rate conversion apparatus and method thereof: A sampling rate conversion apparatus and a method thereof are provided which increase the sampling rate of a discrete audio signal sampled at a predetermined sampling rate by using a fractal interpolation function (FIF). An audio signal portion formed by a predetermined number of sampling data items is divided into... Agent: Alpine/bhgl

20090234632 - Character input apparatus, character input assist method, and character input assist program: Disclosed herein is a character input apparatus including: a display section having a screen capable of displaying at least characters; an operation section configured to allow a user to input at least the characters; a first character input processing section configured to perform a first character input process of causing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090234634 - Method for automatically modifying a machine translation and a system therefor: A method for automatically modifying a machine translation includes the steps of: providing a source language; generating a target machine translation language according to the source language by means of machine translation; defining at least one of error types of the target machine translation language; designating at least one of... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20090234633 - Systems and methods for enabling inter-language communications: A method of enabling communication between a first person and a second person is disclosed. The method includes receiving at a server a message from the first person, the message addressed to the second person constructed in a first language; determining a preferred language of receipt of a message by... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Burlington

20090234635 - Voice entry controller operative with one or more translation resources: A system for scheduled and instant translations from speech to text has a web server for receiving translation requests and registering translation capabilities, a database for storing the requests and capabilities, a scheduler for issuing connection requests between a requester and a translator, a connection server for handling connections between... Agent: Jay Chesavage

20090234636 - Hand held language translation and learning device: The present invention features a hand-held language translation device comprising a microprocessor configured to receive (i) an audio input signal from a foreign speaker, and (ii) a simultaneous visual input signal generated by a camera which captures the facial expression and body language of the foreign language speaker while the... Agent: Nw-ip-law

20090234637 - Information processor, information processing method, and computer readable medium: An information processor includes: a character recognizing unit; a recognized character feature obtaining unit; a translation deciding unit; a translating unit; a translated result feature obtaining unit; an output deciding unit; an image receiving unit; and an output unit that, wherein the character recognizing unit recognizes a character in character... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090234639 - Human-like response emulator: Human-like response emulator stores a library (14) comprising one or more different subject matter data structures. Each data structure comprising a set of stimuli related to the subject matter of the data structure and one or more output instructions associated with each stimulus. Each output instruction is for producing a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090234640 - Method and an apparatus for automatic semantic annotation of a process model: An apparatus and a method for automated semantic annotation of a process model having model elements named by natural language expressions, wherein said apparatus comprises at least one semantic pattern analyser which analyses the textual structure of each natural language expression on the basis of predefined semantic pattern descriptions to... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090234641 - Method and system for assisting the protection of trade marks: Method for assisting the protection of trade marks comprising the following steps: collecting data comprising at least one natural language term relating to a field of activity, these data being indicated by a user; determining, in an automated manner, on the basis of the natural language term or terms indicated... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090234638 - Use of a speech grammar to recognize instant message input: In general, this disclosure describes techniques of using a grammar to identify concepts expressed by audio messages and text messages and to respond to the concepts expressed by the audio messages and the text messages. As described herein, a server may receive audio messages and text messages. The server may... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090234642 - Method and apparatus for low complexity combinatorial coding of signals: To reduce the complexity of the encoding/decoding of pulse positions and/or pulse magnitudes associated with complex combinatorial computations, a method and structure for encoding and decoding of pulse position and/or pulse magnitudes requires fewer computations of these combinatorial functions. Approximation of such functions is acceptable as long as certain sufficient... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090234643 - Transcription system and method: One embodiment of the system and method relates to streaming in one portion of the audio message to a first available agent transcriber for transcription purposes, and to providing a pre-streamed recorded portion of the same audio message to a subsequently available second agent transcriber to provide rapid transcription of... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20090234644 - Low-complexity encoding/decoding of quantized mdct spectrum in scalable speech and audio codecs: The combinatorial position coding technique includes generating a lexicographical index for a selected subset of spectral lines, where each lexicographic index represents one of a plurality of possible binary strings representing the positions of the selected subset of spectral lines. The lexicographical index represents non-zero spectral lines in a binary... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090234645 - Methods and arrangements for a speech/audio sender and receiver: An audio/speech sender and an audio/speech receiver and methods thereof. The audio/speech sender comprising a core encoder adapted to encode a core frequency band of an input audio/speech signal having a first sampling frequency, wherein the core frequency band comprises frequencies up to a cut-off frequency. The audio/speech sender further... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090234646 - Method for reduction of aliasing introduced by spectral envelope adjustment in real-valued filterbanks: The present invention proposes a new method for improving the performance of a real-valued filterbank based spectral envelope adjuster. By adaptively locking the gain values for adjacent channels dependent on the sign of the channels, as defined in the application, reduced aliasing is achieved. Furthermore, the grouping of the channels... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090234647 - Speech recognition disambiguation on mobile devices: A method, program storage device and mobile device provide speech disambiguation. Audio for speech recognition processing is transmitted by the mobile device. Results representing alternates identified to match the transmitted audio are received. The alternates are displayed in a disambiguation dialog screen for making corrections to the alternates. Corrections are... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090234648 - Speech recogniton system, speech recognition method, and program: Disclosed is a speech recognition system which including speech input means for receiving the speech data, speech recognition means for receiving the input speech data from the speech input means and performing speech recognition, recognition result evaluation means for determining a priority of at least one of a recognition result... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090234649 - Audio matching: Aspects of the invention relate to an audio matching system for detecting matching of audio signals. In one embodiment, the system comprises a digital signature generation device configured to generate signatures from an audio signal. The device may comprise a signal energy analyser, an event detector, a signature generator, and... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090234650 - Apparatus and method for spoken dialog: A spoken dialogue apparatus which retrieves desired data from a data storage unit storing data in association with attribute values concerning a plurality of attributes of the data, includes a calculation unit configured to calculate estimated numbers of data as costs concerning a first response and a second response based... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20090234651 - Speech understanding method and system: A speech recognition system includes a mobile device and a remote server. The mobile device receives the speech from the user and extracts the features and phonemes from the speech. Selected phonemes and measures of uncertainty are transmitted to the server, which processes the phonemes for speech understanding and transmits... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20090234652 - Voice synthesis device: The voice synthesis device includes: an emotion input unit (202) which obtains an utterance mode of a voice waveform for which voice synthesis is to be performed; a prosody generation unit (205) which generate a prosody which is used when a language-processed text is uttered in the obtained utterance mode;... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090234653 - Audio decoding device and audio decoding method: Provided is an audio decoding device performing frame loss compensation capable of obtaining a decoded audio which is natural for ears with little noise. The audio decoding device includes: a non-cyclic pulse waveform detection unit (19) for detecting a non-cyclic pulse waveform section in a n−1-th frame which is repeatedly... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090234654 - Text parser: Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for processing of patents. Similar words to each word in a claim may be found to words in a patent document. Often the words of the claims may be searched for in a cited reference to flag to the practitioner an area of... Agent: Anand Ramakrishnan

20090234655 - Mobile electronic device with active speech recognition: An electronic device analyzes a voice communication for actionable speech using speech recognition. When actionable speech is detected, the electronic device may carry out a corresponding function, including storing information in a log or presenting one or more programs, services and/or control functions to the user. The actionable speech may... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090234657 - Energy shaping apparatus and energy shaping method: A temporal processing apparatus (energy shaping apparatus) (600a) includes: a splitter (601) splitting an audio signal, included in the sub-band domain, which are obtained through a hybrid time and frequency transformation into diffuse signals indicating reverberating components and direct signals indicating non-reverberating components; a downmix unit (604) generating a downmix... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090234656 - 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.

20090228263 - Machine translating apparatus, method, and computer program product: A machine translating apparatus includes an input unit that inputs a source language sentence, a syntax analyzing unit that performs a syntactic analysis on the source language sentence and generates syntax information, an extracting unit that extracts from the syntax information the first partial information that includes the first partial... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090228264 - Management of conversations: In one aspect, a communication is received from a user. A concept recognition process is applied to automatically derive a representation of concepts embodied in the communication. The concept representation is used to provide to a human agent information useful in responding to the natural language communication.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20090228265 - Interactive conversation-learning system and a method thereof: A method of an interactive conversation-learning system includes the steps of: selecting at least one conversation topic provided with at least one conversation target and a plurality of conversation sentences; inputting a first conversation sentence into the interactive conversation-learning system; defining at least one conversation route according to the first... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20090228266 - Fixed codebook searching apparatus and fixed codebook searching method: A fixed codebook searching apparatus which slightly suppresses an increase in the operation amount, even if the filter applied to the excitation pulse has the characteristic that it cannot be represented by a lower triangular matrix and realizes a quasi-optimal fixed codebook search. This fixed codebook searching apparatus is provided... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090228267 - Fixed codebook searching apparatus and fixed codebook searching method: A fixed codebook searching apparatus which slightly suppresses an increase in the operation amount, even if the filter applied to the excitation pulse has the characteristic that it cannot be represented by a lower triangular matrix and realizes a quasi-optimal fixed codebook search. This fixed codebook searching apparatus is provided... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090228268 - System, method, and program product for processing voice data in a conversation between two persons: A system, method, and program product for processing voice data in a conversation between two persons to determine characteristic conversation patterns. The system includes: a variation calculator for calculating a variation of a speech ratio of a first speaker and a variation calculator for calculating a variation of a speech... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090228271 - Method and system for preventing speech comprehension by interactive voice response systems: A method of and system for generating a speech signal with an overlayed random frequency signal using prosody modification of a speech signal output by a text-to-speech (TTS) system to substantially prevent an interactive voice response (IVR) system from understanding the speech signal without significantly degrading the speech signal with... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hb Patent Docketing

20090228269 - Method for synchronization between a voice recognition processing operation and an action triggering said processing: Method of synchronization between an operation for processing, by automatic speech recognition, a voice sequence (Sv) uttered by a speaker and an action of said speaker intended to trigger said processing. According to the invention, said processing operation is effected from a given time (t0) preceding said action of the... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090228270 - Recognizing multiple semantic items from single utterance: Semantically distinct items are extracted from a single utterance by repeatedly recognizing the same utterance using constraints provided by semantic items already recognized. User feedback for selection or correction of partially recognized utterance may be used in a hierarchical, multi-modal, or single step manner. An accuracy of recognition is preserved... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090228272 - System for distinguishing desired audio signals from noise: A system distinguishes a primary audio source and background noise to improve the quality of an audio signal. A speech signal from a microphone may be improved by identifying and dampening background noise to enhance speech. Stochastic models may be used to model speech and to model background noise. The... Agent: Harman - Brinks Hofer Chicago Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090228273 - Handwriting-based user interface for correction of speech recognition errors: A speech recognition result is displayed for review by a user. If it is incorrect, the user provides pen-based editing marks. An error type and location (within the speech recognition result) are identified based on the pen-based editing marks. An alternative result template is generated, and an N-best alternative list... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090228274 - Use of intermediate speech transcription results in editing final speech transcription results: A communication system includes at least one transmitting device and at least one receiving device, one or more network systems for connecting the transmitting device to the receiving device, and an automatic speech recognition (“ASR”) system, including an ASR engine. A user speaks an utterance into the transmitting device, and... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20090228275 - System for enhancing live speech with information accessed from the world wide web: A system that includes a speaker workstation and a system that includes an auditor device. The speaker workstation is configured to perform a method for generating a Speech Hyperlink-Time table in conjunction with a system of universal time. The speaker workstation creates a Speech Hyperlink table. While a speech is... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090228277 - Search aided voice recognition: A method and apparatus for incorporating voice recognition into a search engine is provided. The phonetic voice recognition system lacking grammar and spell checking is used. The output of the phonetic voice recognition system is forwarded to a search engine. The search engine performs disambiguation and relevancy analysis based on... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090228276 - Voice recognition apparatus: A voice recognition apparatus 10, which performs voice recognition of an input voice by referring to a voice recognition dictionary and outputs a voice recognition result, has an external information acquiring section 14 for acquiring from externally connected devices 20-1-20-N connected thereto a type of each externally connected device, and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090228278 - Communication device and method of processing text message in the communication device: The application discloses a communication device and method of processing a text message in the communication device. An aspect of the present application is a method of processing text message in a communication device, the method including receiving a text message from an external sender, receiving a request to transform... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090228279 - Recording of an audio performance of media in segments over a communication network: An audio performance of a media selection is recorded in segments over a communication network. A sender obtains a copy of a media selection that may be divided into media segments for audio recording. The sender can annotate and record a reading of each media segment and any additional commentary.... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090228280 - Text-based search query facilitated speech recognition: Systems and methods for text-based search query facilitated speech recognition are disclosed. In one aspect of the present disclosure, a number of text-based search queries (e.g., search terms) are identified and logged such that variations (e.g., reference variations) of such search terms can be created. Reference variations of a search... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20090228281 - Voice recognition grammar selection based on context: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes receiving geographical information derived from a non-verbal user action associated with a first computing device. The non-verbal user action implies an interest of a user in a geographic location. The method also includes... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090228282 - Gaming machine and gaming system with interactive feature, playing method of gaming machine, and control method of gaming system: A gaming machine and a gaming system include an engine for interactively advancing a game by a conversation with a player using sounds and texts as media.... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20090228285 - Apparatus for mixing a plurality of input data streams: An apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention for mixing a first frame of a first input data stream and a second frame of a second input data stream has a processing unit adapted to generate an output frame, wherein the output frame has output spectral data describing... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090228286 - Audio signal processing apparatus: An audio signal encoding apparatus includes a device for compressing multiple-channel digital audio signals into compression-resultant multiple-channel signals respectively. The multiple-channel digital audio signals relate to a sampling frequency and a quantization bit number. The compression-resultant multiple-channel signals, a signal representative of the sampling frequency, and a signal representative of... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20090228287 - Audio signal processing apparatus: An audio signal encoding apparatus includes a device for compressing multiple-channel digital audio signals into compression-resultant multiple-channel signals respectively. The multiple-channel digital audio signals relate to a sampling frequency and a quantization bit number. The compression-resultant multiple-channel signals, a signal representative of the sampling frequency, and a signal representative of... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20090228288 - Audio signal processing apparatus: An audio signal encoding apparatus includes a device for compressing multiple-channel digital audio signals into compression-resultant multiple-channel signals respectively. The multiple-channel digital audio signals relate to a sampling frequency and a quantization bit number. The compression-resultant multiple-channel signals, a signal representative of the sampling frequency, and a signal representative of... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20090228289 - Audio signal processing apparatus: An audio signal encoding apparatus includes a device for compressing multiple-channel digital audio signals into compression-resultant multiple-channel signals respectively. The multiple-channel digital audio signals relate to a sampling frequency and a quantization bit number. The compression-resultant multiple-channel signals, a signal representative of the sampling frequency, and a signal representative of... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20090228283 - Data reproduction device: A data reproduction device is provided that can achieve seamless reproduction of a stream even at the switching positions of the validity of the bandwidth extension function even in the case where the validity of the bandwidth extension function is switched in the stream. A data reproduction device (2000) includes:... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090228284 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding multi-channel audio signal by using a plurality of variable length code tables: A method and apparatus for encoding a multi-channel audio signal is provided. The method includes the operations of selecting a first variable length code table (VLC) that is to be used to encode the multi-channel audio signal in a given frequency band, from among a plurality of VLC tables, and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090228290 - Mixed lossless audio compression: A mixed lossless audio compression has application to a unified lossy and lossless audio compression scheme that combines lossy and lossless audio compression within a same audio signal. The mixed lossless compression codes a transition frame between lossy and lossless coding frames to produce seamless transitions. The mixed lossless coding... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20090222255 - Using gender analysis of names to assign avatars in instant messaging applications: A method for displaying gender-based avatar representations of users in instant messaging communications comprises receiving a username for a first user having a first user account registered with an instant messaging system; performing an anthroponomastic analysis of the username to assign a probable gender for the first user selected from... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Austin

20090222256 - Apparatus and method for machine translation: In a machine-translation apparatus, an example storage unit stores therein target language examples in a target language and source language examples in a source language, while keeping the target language examples and the source language examples in correspondence with one another. An input receiving unit receives an input sentence in... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090222257 - Speech translation apparatus and computer program product: A translation direction specifying unit specifies a first language and a second language. A speech recognizing unit recognizes a speech signal of the first language and outputs a first language character string. A first translating unit translates the first language character string into a second language character string that will... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090222258 - Voice activity detection system, method, and program product: A voice activity detection method in a low SNR environment. The voice activity detection is performed by extracting a long-term spectrum variation component and a harmonic structure as feature vectors from a speech signal and increasing difference in feature vectors between speech and non-speech (i) using the long-term spectrum variation... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090222259 - Apparatus, method and computer program product for feature extraction: A feature extraction apparatus includes a spectrum calculating unit that calculates, based on an input speech signal, a frequency spectrum having frequency components obtained at regular intervals on a logarithmic frequency scale for each of frames that are defined by regular time intervals, and thereby generates a time series of... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090222260 - System and method for multi-channel pitch detection: A method and system for multi-channel detection of pitch may comprise one or more of the following steps and/or means therefore: (a) sampling an audio input stream including at least a first channel and a second channel; (b) setting a search frequency for each of the first channel and the... Agent: Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20090222261 - Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding signal: Encoding and decoding apparatuses and encoding and decoding methods are provided. The decoding method includes extracting a plurality of encoded signals from an input bitstream, determining which of a plurality of decoding methods is to be used to decode each of the encoded signals, decoding the encoded signals using the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090222262 - Systems and methods for blind source signal separation: Signal separation techniques based on frequency dependency are described. In one implementation, a blind signal separation process is provided that avoids the permutation problem of previous signal separation processes. In the process, two or more signal sources are provided, with each signal source having recognized frequency dependencies. The process uses... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20090222263 - Method and apparatus for transmitting speech data to a remote device in a distributed speech recognition system: A method of transmitting speech data to a remote device in a distributed speech recognition system, includes the steps of: dividing an input speech signal into frames; calculating, for each frame, a voice activity value representative of the presence of speech activity in the frame; grouping the frames into multiframes,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090222264 - Sub-band codec with native voice activity detection: An augmented version of a Low-Complexity Sub-band Coder (LC-SBC) is described herein that is better suited than conventional LC-SBC for wideband voice communication in the Bluetooth™ framework, where minimizing the power consumption is of paramount importance. The augmented version of LC-SBC utilizes certain techniques associated with speech coding, such as... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20090222265 - Voice recognition apparatus: A voice recognition apparatus 10 includes a voice recognition means 12 for performing voice recognition, and a control means for controlling receipt of a voice input to the voice recognition means, and for performing recognition according to a result of the voice recognition acquired by the voice recognition means. In... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090222266 - Apparatus, method, and recording medium for clustering phoneme models: A phoneme model clustering apparatus stores a classification condition of a phoneme context, generates a cluster by performing a clustering of context-dependent phoneme models having different acoustic characteristics of central phoneme for each model having a common central phoneme according to the classification condition, sets a conditional response for each... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090222267 - Automated sentence planning in a task classification system: The invention relates to a task classification system (900) that interacts with a user. The task classification system (900) may include a recognizer (920) that may recognize symbols in the user's input communication, and a natural language understanding unit (900) that may determine whether the user's input communication can be... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20090222269 - Sentence reading aloud apparatus, control method for controlling the same, and control program for controlling the same: An apparatus for voice synthesis includes: a word database for storing words and voices; a syllable database for storing syllables and voices; a processor for executing a process including: extracting a word from a document, generating a voice signal based on the extracted voice when the extracted word is included... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090222268 - Speech synthesis system having artificial excitation signal: A speech synthesis system synthesizes a speech signal corresponding to an input speech signal based on a spectral envelope of the input speech signal. A glottal pulse generator generates a time series of glottal pulses, that are processed into a glottal pulse magnitude spectrum. A shaping circuit shapes the glottal... Agent: Harman - Brinks Hofer Chicago Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090222271 - Method for operating a navigation system: A method for operating a navigation system analyzes several address components to determine the most likely address desired by a user. The navigation device includes a receiving device on which an acoustic address input consisting of several input components can be registered. The input components of the address are analyzed... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20090222270 - Voice command interface device: A device includes a speech input device. A speech recognition processor connected to the speech input device receives speech input. The device includes a computer readable medium coupled to the speech recognition processor. A command table stored on the computer readable medium includes commands corresponding to a control on a... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090222273 - Coding/decoding of a digital audio signal, in celp technique: The invention aims at constructing improved dictionaries of CELP excitation vectors for coding/decoding digital audio signals. Usually, each vector of dimension N comprises pulses capable of occupying N valid positions. The invention concerns the construction of dictionaries with particular structure by: providing a common sequence of pulses forming a base... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090222272 - Controlling spatial audio coding parameters as a function of auditory events: An audio encoder or encoding method receives a plurality of input channels and generates one or more audio output channels and one or more parameters describing desired spatial relationships among a plurality of audio channels that may be derived from the one or more audio output channels, by detecting changes... Agent: Dolby Laboratories Inc.