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Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression February patent applications/inventions, industry category 02/10

20100049496 - Word translation enquiry system across multiple thesauri and the method thereof: A word translation enquiry system across multiple thesauri and the method thereof are provided. After finding the correlation value of a word in one database is found, it is checked in a word correlation table to find multiple identification codes and index values. According to the identification code and index... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100049497 - Phonetic natural language translation system: The phonetic natural language translation system receives audio output from an electro acoustic device connected as a component in an audio system presented in a theater or auditorium, to identify any speech signal contained within the audio output. The speech signals are broken down into recognizable phonemes. The sequentially generated... Agent: Johnson Manuel-devadoss ("johnson Smith")

20100049498 - Determining utility of a question: A question search system provides a collection of questions having words for use in evaluating the utility of the questions based on a language model. The question search system calculates n-gram probabilities for words within the questions of the collection. The n-gram probability of a word for a sequence of... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20100049500 - Dialogue generation apparatus and dialogue generation method: A dialogue generation apparatus includes a transmission/reception unit configured to receive incoming text and transmit return text, a presentation unit configured to present the contents of the incoming text to a user, a morphological analysis unit configured to perform a morphological analysis of the incoming text to obtain first words... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20100049499 - Document analyzing apparatus and method thereof: In a document analyzing apparatus (10), a computer (14) successively produces a text corpus Ct from a linguistic material which increases in time series in a step S3, segments the text data into morphemes to which information of parts-of-speech is added in a step S5, removes unnecessary morphemes based on... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20100049501 - Dynamic speech sharpening: An enhanced system for speech interpretation is provided. The system may include receiving a user verbalization and generating one or more preliminary interpretations of the verbalization by identifying one or more phonemes in the verbalization. An acoustic grammar may be used to map the phonemes to syllables or words, and... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20100049503 - Method and apparatus for processing natural language using tape-intersection: Operations for weighted and non-weighted multi-tape automata are described for use in natural language processing tasks such as morphological analysis, disambiguation, and entity extraction.... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20100049502 - Method and system of generating reference variations for directory assistance data: Methods and systems of performing user input recognition are disclosed. A digital directory comprising listings is accessed. Metadata information is associated with individual listings describing the individual listings. The metadata information is modified to generate transformed metadata information. Therefore, the transformed metadata information is generated as a function of context... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20100049504 - Measuring topical coherence of keyword sets: Methods and apparatus are described for measuring the topical coherence of a keyword set while simultaneously partitioning the set into contextually related clusters.... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson - Yahoo!

20100049505 - Method and device for performing packet loss concealment: A method, device and system to implement hiding the loss packet are provided. The provided method, device and system recover the lost frame according to the data before and after the lost frame and enhances the correlation of the recovered lost frame data and the data after the lost frame.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100049506 - Method and device for performing packet loss concealment: A method, device and system to implement hiding the loss packet are provided. The provided method, device and system recover the lost frame according to the data before and after the lost frame and enhances the correlation of the recovered lost frame data and the data after the lost frame.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100049507 - Apparatus for noise suppression in an audio signal: An apparatus for noise suppression having a linear prediction analysis circuit having an LP error filter (LFF), which takes a first, noisy voice signal y(n)=x(n)+ε(n) as a basis for producing an LP-error-filter output signal e(n), having a coefficient calculation unit (KBE), which updates the coefficients of the LP error filter... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20100049509 - Audio encoding device and audio decoding device: Disclosed are an audio encoding device and an audio decoding device which reduce degradation of subjective quality of a decoding signal caused by power mismatch of a decoding signal which is generated by a concealing process upon disappearance of a frame. When a frame is lost, a past encoding parameter... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100049508 - Audio encoding device and audio encoding method: Provided is an audio encoding device which performs a closed loop search of a gain and a sound source vector without significantly increasing the calculation amount as compared to an open loop search. In the audio encoding device, firstly, a first parameter decision unit (121) performs a sound source search... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100049510 - Method and device for performing packet loss concealment: A method, device and system to implement hiding the loss packet are provided. The provided method, device and system recover the lost frame according to the data before and after the lost frame and enhances the correlation of the recovered lost frame data and the data after the lost frame.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100049511 - Coding method, decoding method, coder and decoder: A coding method, a decoding method, a coder, and a decoder are disclosed herein. A coding method includes: obtaining the pulse distribution, on a track, of the pulses to be encoded on the track; determining a distribution identifier for identifying the pulse distribution according to the pulse distribution; and generating... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20100049512 - Encoding device and encoding method: Disclosed is an encoding device and others capable of suppressing quantization distortion while suppressing increase of a bit rate when encoding audio or the like. In the device, a dynamic range calculation unit (12) calculates a dynamic range of an input spectrum as an index indicating a peak of the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100049513 - Automatic conversation system and conversation scenario editing device: A conversation scenario editor generates/edits a conversation scenario for an automatic conversation system. The system includes a conversation device and a conversation server. The conversation device generates an input sentence through speech recognition of an utterance by a user. The conversation server determines the reply sentence based on the conversation... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100049514 - Dynamic speech sharpening: An enhanced system for speech interpretation is provided. The system may include receiving a user verbalization and generating one or more preliminary interpretations of the verbalization by identifying one or more phonemes in the verbalization. An acoustic grammar may be used to map the phonemes to syllables or words, and... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20100049515 - Vehicle-mounted voice recognition apparatus: A vehicle-mounted voice recognition apparatus 1 is comprised of a voice input unit 10 for acquiring an inputted voice, a voice recognition unit 12 for performing voice recognition on the acquired inputted voice, a guidance information output unit 13 (14) for providing a guidance on the basis of the result... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100049517 - Automatic answering device, automatic answering system, conversation scenario editing device, conversation server, and automatic answering method: An automatic answering device and an automatic answering method for automatically answering to a user utterance are configured: to prepare a conversation scenario that is a set of input sentences and replay sentences, the input sentences each corresponding to a user utterance assumed to be uttered by a user, the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100049516 - Method of using microphone characteristics to optimize speech recognition performance: A system and method for tuning a speech recognition engine to an individual microphone using a database containing acoustical models for a plurality of microphones. Microphone performance characteristics are obtained from a microphone at a speech recognition engine, the database is searched for an acoustical model that matches the characteristics,... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20100049518 - System for providing consistency of pronunciations: A system for providing consistency between the pronunciation of a word by a user and a confirmation pronunciation issued by a voice server (1), said voice server comprising both a voice recognition system (20) suitable for recognizing the pronunciation of the word by the user and for associating a text... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20100049519 - Recognizing the numeric language in natural spoken dialogue: A system and a method are provided. A speech recognition processor receives unconstrained input speech and outputs a string of words. The speech recognition processor is based on a numeric language that represents a subset of a vocabulary. The subset includes a set of words identified as being for interpreting... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20100049521 - Selective enablement of speech recognition grammars: A method for processing speech audio in a network connected client device can include selecting a speech grammar for use in a speech recognition system in the network connected client device; characterizing the selected speech grammar; and, based on the characterization, determining whether to process the speech grammar locally in... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20100049520 - Systems and methods for automatically determining culture-based behavior in customer service interactions: Systems and methods are provided to automatically determine culture-based behavioral tendencies and preferences of individuals in the context of customer service interactions. For example, systems and methods are provided to process natural language dialog input of an individual to detect linguistic features indicative of individualistic and collectivistic behavioral tendencies and... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P. C.

20100049522 - Voice conversion apparatus and method and speech synthesis apparatus and method: A voice conversion apparatus stores, in a parameter memory, target speech spectral parameters of target speech, stores, in a voice conversion rule memory, a voice conversion rule for converting voice quality of source speech into voice quality of the target speech, extracts, from an input source speech, a source speech... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20100049523 - System and method for configuring voice synthesis: Systems and methods for providing synthesized speech in a manner that takes into account the environment where the speech is presented. A method embodiment includes, based on a listening environment and at least one other parameter associated with at least one other parameter, selecting an approach from the plurality of... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20100049524 - Method and apparatus for providing search capability and targeted advertising for audio, image and video content over the internet: The present invention provides an apparatus and method for extracting the content of a video, image, and/or audio file or podcast, analyzing the content, and then providing a targeted advertisement, search capability and/or other functionality based on the content of the file or podcast.... Agent: Dla Piper LLP (us )

20100049525 - Methods, apparatuses, and systems for providing timely user cues pertaining to speech recognition: A method is provided of providing cues from am electronic communication device to a user while capturing an utterance. A plurality of cues associated with the user utterance are provided by the device to the user in at least near real-time. For each of a plurality of portions of the... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20100049526 - System and method for auditory captchas: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer readable-media for performing an audible human verification. The method includes determining that a human verification is needed, presenting an audible challenge to a user which exploits a known issue with automatic speech recognition processes, receiving a response to the audible challenge, and verifying... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20100049529 - Integrated system and method for mobile audio playback and dictation: A method and system provides for a single-pass review and feedback of a document. During audio playback of the document to be reviewed, voice-activated recording of feedback and submission of feedback relative to the location in the original document are accomplished. This provides for a fully integrated, single pass review... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20100049527 - Method and device for voice control of a device or of a system in a motor vehicle: A method for voice controlling of a device or of a system in a motor vehicle, the device or the system being capable of being operated both by voice inputs and also by non-voice inputs, in particular through the actuation of switches and/or buttons and/or a touch screen, and in... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100049528 - System and method for customized prompting: A method for providing an audible prompt to a user within a vehicle. The method includes retrieving one or more data files from a memory device. The data files define certain characteristics of an audio prompt. The method also includes creating the audio prompt from the data files and outputting... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20100049532 - Bitrate constrained variable bitrate audio encoding: A hybrid audio encoding technique incorporates both ABR, or CBR, and VBR encoding modes. For each audio coding block, after a VBR quantization loop meets the NMR target, a second quantization loop might be called to adaptively control the final bitrate. That is, if the NMR-based quantization loop results in... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/apple Inc.

20100049530 - Universal container for audio data: Storing audio data encoded in any of a plurality of different audio encoding formats is enabled by parametrically defining the underlying format in which the audio data is encoded, in audio format and packet table chunks. A flag can be used to manage storage of the size of the audio... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/apple Inc.

20100049531 - Universal container for audio data: Storing audio data encoded in any of a plurality of different audio encoding formats is enabled by parametrically defining the underlying format in which the audio data is encoded, in audio format and packet table chunks. A flag can be used to manage storage of the size of the audio... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/apple Inc.

20100042398 - Building a translation lexicon from comparable, non-parallel corpora: A machine translation system may use non-parallel monolingual corpora to generate a translation lexicon. The system may identify identically spelled words in the two corporal and use them as a seed lexicon. The system may use various clues 1 e.g., context and frequency, to identify and score other possible translation... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20100042397 - Data processing apparatus and method: A data analyzing apparatus is provided with: a first weight memory unit for storing a weight assigned to a node or an edge in a directed graph; a second weight memory unit for storing a weight different from the weight stored in the first weight memory unit when the different... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100042399 - Transviewfinder: The method for a digital imaging device to recognize text on the captured image or video and translate the text to operator's desired language as an overlay to the original image in real-time or replay mode. The image or video is processed in real-time cross referencing translation data and text... Agent: David Park

20100042401 - semantic cognitive map: A semantic cognitive map created by associating each of a multitude of dictionary entries with a point among a multitude of points in a metric space, each of the dictionary entries associated with at least one onym, the at least one onym including at least one synonym or antonym, the... Agent: George Mason University Office Of Technology Transfer, Msn 5g5

20100042402 - Apparatus, and associated method, for detecting fraudulent text message: An apparatus, and an associated method, detects spam and other fraudulent messages sent to a recipient station. The textual portion of a received message is analyzed to determine whether the message includes errors made by non-native language speakers when authoring a text message. A text analysis engine analyzes the text... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100042403 - Context based online advertising: A software and/or hardware facility for inferring user context and delivering advertisements, such as coupons, using natural language and/or sentiment analysis is disclosed. The facility may infer context information based on a user's emotional state, attitude, needs, or intent from the user's interaction with or through a mobile device. The... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20100042404 - Method for building a natural language understanding model for a spoken dialog system: A method of generating a natural language model for use in a spoken dialog system is disclosed. The method comprises using sample utterances and creating a number of hand crafted rules for each call-type defined in a labeling guide. A first NLU model is generated and tested using the hand... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20100042400 - Method for triggering at least one first and second background application via a universal language dialog system: At least one transaction and at least one transaction parameter that is allocated thereto are determined based on at least one user statement in order to trigger at least one first and second background application via a universal language dialogue system, first transactions and first transaction parameters being assigned to... Agent: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC (sen)

20100042405 - Related word presentation device: A related word presentation device (100) for appropriately performing omission prevention search includes: a program information storage unit (101) which stores program information (101a) of each program; an information dividing unit (103a) which generates, for each of the attributes of the words included in the program information (101a), at least... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100042406 - Audio signal processing using improved perceptual model: A perceptual model based on psychoacoustic auditory experiments is based on the (time domain) roughness of an input signal envelope in particular cochlea filter bands rather than the noise-like vs. tonal nature of the input signal. In illustrative embodiments, frequency domain techniques are used to develop envelope and envelope roughness... Agent: At & T- Legal Department - Brendzel

20100042407 - High quality time-scaling and pitch-scaling of audio signals: In one alternative, an audio signal is analyzed using multiple psychoacoustic criteria to identify a region of the signal in which time scaling and/or pitch shifting processing would be inaudible or minimally audible, and the signal is time scaled and/or pitch shifted within that region. In another alternative, the signal... Agent: Dolby Laboratories Inc.

20100042408 - System for bandwidth extension of narrow-band speech: A system and method are disclosed for extending the bandwidth of a narrowband signal such as a speech signal. The method applies a parametric approach to bandwidth extension but does not require training. The parametric representation relates to a discrete acoustic tube model (DATM). The method comprises computing narrowband linear... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20100042409 - Automated voice system and method: A voice browser for use in a customer interaction management system for interacting with a customer, based on data contained in one or more generic knowledge trees. The system can traverse the knowledge tree based on customer responses to presented questions until a leaf node of the knowledge tree is... Agent: Bereskin And Parr LLP/s.e.n.c.r.l., S.r.l.

20100042410 - Training and applying prosody models: Techniques for training and applying prosody models for speech synthesis are provided. A speech recognition engine processes audible speech to produce text annotated with prosody information. A prosody model is trained with this annotated text. After initial training, the model is applied during speech synthesis to generate speech with non-standard... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20100042411 - Automatic creation of audio files: A method of building an audio description of a particular product of a class of products includes providing a plurality of human voice recordings, wherein each of the human voice recordings includes audio corresponding to an attribute value common to many of the products. The method also includes automatically obtaining... Agent: James Marc Leas Law Office Of James Marc Leas

20100042412 - Skipping radio/television program segments: Techniques for notifying at least one entity of an occurrence of an event in an audio signal are provided. At least one preference is obtained from the at least one entity. An occurrence of an event in the audio signal is determined. The event is related to at least one... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20100042413 - Voice activated application service architecture and delivery: A system and method for retrieving distributed content responsive to voice data are disclosed. Voice data is transmitted from a source client device to media server which applies a mixing table to route the voice data to one or more destinations described by the mixing table. The media server also... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20100042414 - System and method for improving name dialer performance: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer readable-media for improving name dialer performance. The method includes receiving a speech query for a name in a directory of names, retrieving matches to the query, if the matches are uniquely spelled homophones or near-homophones, identifying information that is unique to all retrieved... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20100042415 - Audio signal coding method and decoding method: An audio signal coding method for coding an audio signal to be coded, the method comprising: judging for each of frames whether or not coding should be performed on each of two or more subframes into which the frame is divided, based on an audio signal contained in the frame... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100042416 - Coding/decoding method, system and apparatus: An encoding method includes: extracting core layer characteristic parameters and enhancement layer characteristic parameters of a background noise signal, encoding the core layer characteristic parameters and enhancement layer characteristic parameters to obtain a core layer codestream and an enhancement layer codestream. The disclosure also provides an encoding device, a decoding... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100042417 - Multiplexing apparatus, multiplexing method, program, and recording medium: A multiplexing apparatus for multiplexing audio data into transport stream (TS) packets includes a first encoding section encoding the audio data by a first encoding method; a second encoding section encoding the audio data by a second encoding method, which is a variable-length encoding method and which differs from the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100036653 - Method and apparatus of translating language using voice recognition: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus of translating a language using voice recognition. The present invention provides a method of translating a language using voice recognition, comprising: receiving a voice input comprising a first language; acquiring at least one recognition candidate corresponding to the voice input by... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100036654 - Systems and methods for identifying collocation errors in text: Systems and methods for detecting collocation errors in a text sample using a reference database from a corpus are provided. Collocation candidates are identified within the text sample based upon syntactic patterns in the text sample. Whether a given collocation candidate contains a collocation error is detected, the detecting including:... Agent: Jones Day

20100036655 - Probability-based approach to recognition of user-entered data: A method for entering keys in a small key pad is provided. The method comprising the steps of: providing at least a part of keyboard having a plurality of keys; and predetermining a first probability of a user striking a key among the plurality of keys. The method further uses... Agent: Frank F. Tian

20100036656 - Audio switching device and audio switching method: There is disclosed a speech switching device capable of improving quality of a decoded signal. In the device, a weighted addition unit (114) outputs a mixed signal of a narrow-band speech signal and a wide-band speech signal when switching the speech signal band. A mixing unit formed by an extended... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100036657 - Speech estimation system, speech estimation method, and speech estimation program: The speech estimation system of the present invention includes a transmitter (2) for transmitting a test signal, a receiver (3) for receiving the test signal, and a speech estimation unit (4) for estimating speech from a received signal. Transmitter (2) transmits the test signal toward speech organs, receiver (3) receives... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20100036658 - Speech compression and decompression apparatuses and methods providing scalable bandwidth structure: A speech compression apparatus including: a first band-transform unit transforming a wideband speech signal to a narrowband low-band speech signal; a narrowband speech compressor compressing the narrowband low-band speech signal and outputting a result of the compressing as a low-band speech packet; a decompression unit decompressing the low-band speech packet... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100036659 - Noise-reduction processing of speech signals: The present invention relates to a method for signal processing comprising the steps of providing a set of prototype spectral envelopes, providing a set of reference noise prototypes, wherein the reference noise prototypes are obtained from at least a sub-set of the provided set of prototype spectral envelopes, detecting a... Agent: Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP

20100036660 - Emotion detection device and method for use in distributed systems: A prosody analyzer enhances the interpretation of natural language utterances. The analyzer is distributed over a client/server architecture, so that the scope of emotion recognition processing tasks can be allocated on a dynamic basis based on processing resources, channel conditions, client loads etc. The partially processed prosodic data can be... Agent: Patentbest

20100036662 - Journaling device and information management system: A portable journaling device is useful for thought and behavior tracking, documenting, optimizing, teaching, and training. The device is arranged and configured to receive and store voice data, and to transmit the received voice data to a server. The server transcribes the voice data, if possible, and stores the transcribed... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20100036661 - Methods and systems for providing grammar services: A computing system, comprising: an I/O platform for interfacing with a user; and a processing entity configured to implement a dialog with the user via the I/O platform. The processing entity is further configured for: identifying a grammar template and an instantiation context associated with a current point in the... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20100036663 - Speech detection using order statistics: The method and system disclosed herein reduces total bandwidth requirement for communication in a voice over Internet protocol application. Sample [101] and convert [102] the analog input audio signal into digital signals and derive sampled frames [103]. Compute spacings of order statistics [104]. Measure the entropy for each of the... Agent: Ashok Tankha

20100036664 - Subtitle generation and retrieval combining document processing with voice processing: An apparatus for retrieving a character string includes: storage for storing text data obtained by recognizing a voice in a presentation, second text data extracted from document data used in the presentation, and associated information of the first text data and the second text data. The apparatus also includes a... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20100036665 - Generating speech-enabled user interfaces: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for automatically creating a speech-based user interface involve identifying a software service definition that includes service inputs, service outputs, and context data and accessing a standard user interface incorporating the service input and output. The standard user interface defines a set of... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100036666 - Method and system for providing meta data for a work: A method for providing meta data for a work includes designating a file for uploading data associated therewith to a telematics unit operatively connected to a vehicle; and using meta data associated with the designed file, obtaining phonetic meta data for the designed file from an on-line service. The method... Agent: Julia Church Dierker Dierker & Associates, P.C.

20100036668 - Method and apparatus for improved detection of rate errors in variable rate receivers: A system and method for detection of rate determination algorithm errors in variable rate communications system receivers. The disclosed embodiments prevent rate determination algorithm errors from causing audible artifacts such as screeches or beeps. The disclosed system and method detects frames with incorrectly determined data rates and performs frame erasure... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100036667 - Voice assistant system: Methods and apparatuses to assist a user in the performance of a plurality of tasks are provided. The method may comprise storing at least one care plan in a voice assistant, the care plan defining a plurality of tasks to be performed, capturing speech input from the user, determining, from... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20100030548 - Method for displaying software applications in a secondary language while interacting and viewing the default language version: A method in one embodiment includes selecting an application under test; selecting one or more secondary human languages; starting a single instance of the application under test; receiving input via a first window displaying data from the application in a primary human language, the input invoking steps in a testing... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC- Ibms

20100030549 - Mobile device having human language translation capability with positional feedback: A mobile electronic device has a touch sensitive screen and an accelerometer. A translator is to translate a word or phrase that is in a first human language and that is entered via a first virtual keyboard displayed on the touch sensitive screen, into a second human language. A translator... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100030550 - Synchronization of web site content between languages: A system, method and computer readable medium for synchronizing web content is disclosed. The method includes retrieving a first web content in a first language from a web site, the first web content corresponding to a second web content wherein the second web content is a translation in a second... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20100030551 - Jargon translation in an instant messaging environment: A translation system, method and program product for an instant messaging (IM) infrastructure. The system includes a profile look-up system for determining a profile for both a first and a second user engaged in an IM session; a jargon translation profile system for building a translation profile for the first... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20100030552 - Deriving ontology based on linguistics and community tag clouds: In some embodiments, a method comprises receiving a tag cloud including tags that hyperlink to web content. The method can also comprise separating the tags into different linguistic categories, assigning a weight to each tag, and grouping the tags into clusters, wherein tags in a cluster are associated with a... Agent: Ibm Raleigh Iplaw (dg) C/o Delizio Gilliam, PLLC

20100030553 - Linguistic analysis: A method of operating a computer to perform linguistic analysis includes the steps of splitting an input text into words and sentences; for each sentence, comparing phrases in the sentence with known phrases stored in a database, as follows: for each word in the sentence, comparing its value and values... Agent: Richard M. Goldberg

20100030554 - Signal separation reproduction device and signal separation reproduction method: A first matrix (W(k)) indicating frequency characteristics of a separation filter is calculated from input signals of a plurality of channels. A second matrix (Ws(k)) is calculated by using the restriction coefficients (Ci(k)) for restricting the separation filter and the first matrix, and separation filter coefficients (wsij(s)) are calculated by... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20100030555 - Clipping detection device and method: A clipping detection device calculates an amplitude distribution of an input signal for each predetermined period, calculates a deflection degree of the distribution on the basis of the calculated amplitude distribution, and then detects clipping of a communication signal on the basis of the calculated deflection degree of the distribution.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100030556 - Noise detecting device and noise detecting method: A difference signal calculating unit of a noise detecting device calculates a difference between the amplitudes of a residual signal at each sample timing and a residual signal at the preceding sample timing. A difference signal comparing unit determines whether or not an impulsive noise is present on the basis... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100030557 - Voice and text communication system, method and apparatus: The disclosure relates to systems, methods and apparatus to convert speech to text and vice versa. One apparatus comprises a vocoder, a speech to text conversion engine, a text to speech conversion engine, and a user interface. The vocoder is operable to convert speech signals into packets and convert packets... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100030558 - Method for determining the presence of a wanted signal component: This invention provides a method for determining, in a speech dialogue system issuing speech prompts, a score value as an indicator for the presence of a wanted signal component in an input signal stemming from a microphone, comprising the steps of: using a first likelihood function to determine a first... Agent: Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP

20100030559 - System and method for an endpoint detection of speech for improved speech recognition in noisy environments: According to a disclosed embodiment, an endpointer determines the background energy of a first portion of a speech signal, and a cepstral computing module extracts one or more features of the first portion. The endpointer calculates an average distance of the first portion based on the features. Subsequently, an energy... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20100030560 - Speech recognition system, speech recognition method, and speech recognition program: Disclosed is a speech recognition system in which a common data processing means performs speech recognition of a speech captured by a speech input means to generate recognition result hypotheses which is not biased to one of applications and an adaptation data processing means regenerates recognition result hypotheses, using adaptation... Agent: Young & Thompson

20100030561 - Annotating phonemes and accents for text-to-speech system: A system that outputs phonemes and accents of texts. The system has a storage section storing a first corpus in which spellings, phonemes, and accents of a text input beforehand are recorded separately for individual segmentations of the words that are contained in the text. A text for which phonemes... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20100030562 - Sound determination device, sound detection device, and sound determination method: A sound determination device (100) includes: an FFT unit (2402) which receives a mixed sound including a to-be-extracted sound and a noise, and obtains a frequency signal of the mixed sound for each of a plurality of times included in a predetermined duration; and a to-be-extracted sound determination unit (101... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100030563 - Apparatus and method for generating an ambient signal from an audio signal, apparatus and method for deriving a multi-channel audio signal from an audio signal and computer program: An apparatus for generating an ambient signal from an audio signal includes a compressor for lossy compression of a representation of the audio signal so as to obtain a compressed representation of the audio signal describing a compressed audio signal. The apparatus for generating the ambient signal further includes a... Agent: Schoppe, Zimmermann , Stockeler & Zinkler C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP