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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5297151 | Adjustable weighted random test pattern generator for logic circuits A test pattern generator includes a random pattern generator and a shift register. The random pattern generator generates a series of digits which are input to the shift register and stored therein. Each digit output by the random pattern generator has a ... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5293584 | Speech recognition system for natural language translation A speech recognition system displays a source text of one or more words in a source language. The system has an acoustic processor for generating a sequence of coded representations of an utterance to be recognized. The utterance comprises a series of one... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5293451 | Method and apparatus for generating models of spoken words based on a small number of utterances A method and apparatus for modeling words based on match scores representing (a) the closeness of a match between probabilistic word models and the acoustic features of at least two utterances, and (b) the closeness of a match between word models and the ... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5280562 | Speech coding apparatus with single-dimension acoustic prototypes for a speech recognizer In speech recognition and speech coding, the values of at least two features of an utterance are measured during a series of time intervals to produce a series of feature vector signals. A plurality of single-dimension prototype vector signals having only... | 01/18/1994 |
| 5278942 | Speech coding apparatus having speaker dependent prototypes generated from nonuser reference data A speech coding apparatus and method for use in a speech recognition apparatus and method. The value of at least one feature of an utterance is measured during each of a series of successive time intervals to produce a series of feature vector signals rep... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5278983 | Boundary representation solid modeling system A solid modeling system for combining a plurality of geometric model elements to form a whole model. The whole model is represented as a collection of non-manifold boundary elements. A data file maintains a record of the correspondence between each non-ma... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276766 | Fast algorithm for deriving acoustic prototypes for automatic speech recognition An apparatus for generating a set of acoustic prototype signals for encoding speech includes a memory for storing a training script model comprising a series of word-segment models. Each word-segment model comprises a series of elementary models. An acous... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5267345 | Speech recognition apparatus which predicts word classes from context and words from word classes A language generator for a speech recognition apparatus scores a word-series hypothesis by combining individual scores for each word in the hypothesis. The hypothesis score for a single word comprises a combination of the estimated conditional probability... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5263117 | Method and apparatus for finding the best splits in a decision tree for a language model for a speech recognizer A method and apparatus for finding the best or near best binary classification of a set of observed events, according to a predictor feature X so as to minimize the uncertainty in the value of a category feature Y. Each feature has three or more possible ... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5258909 | Method and apparatus for "wrong word" spelling error detection and correction A method of detecting and correcting an error in a string of information signals. When each information signal represents a word, the method detects and corrects spelling errors. The method detects and corrects an error which is a properly spelled word, b... | 11/02/1993 |
| 5233681 | Context-dependent speech recognizer using estimated next word context A speech recognition apparatus and method estimates the next word context for each current candidate word in a speech hypothesis. An initial model of each speech hypothesis comprises a model of a partial hypothesis of zero or more words followed by a mode... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5230037 | Phonetic Hidden Markov model speech synthesizer A method and a system for synthesizing speech from unrestricted text, based on the principle of associating a written string of text with a sequence of speech features vectors that most probably model the corresponding speech utterance. The synthesizer is... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5222146 | Speech recognition apparatus having a speech coder outputting acoustic prototype ranks A speech coding and speech recognition apparatus. The value of at least one feature of an utterance is measured over each of a series of successive time intervals to produce a series of feature vector signals. The closeness of the feature value of each fe... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5195167 | Apparatus and method of grouping utterances of a phoneme into context-dependent categories based on sound-similarity for automatic speech recognition Symbol feature values and contextual feature values of each event in a training set of events are measured. At least two pairs of complementary subsets of observed events are selected. In each pair of complementary subsets of observed events, one subset h... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5165007 | Feneme-based Markov models for words In a speech recognition system, apparatus and method for modelling words with label-based Markov models is disclosed. The modelling includes: entering a first speech input, corresponding to words in a vocabulary, into an acoustic processor which converts ... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5129001 | Method and apparatus for modeling words with multi-arc markov models Modeling a word is done by concatenating a series of elemental models to form a word model. At least one elemental model in the series is a composite elemental model formed by combining the starting states of at least first and second primitive elemental ... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5072452 | Automatic determination of labels and Markov word models in a speech recognition system In a Markov model speech recognition system, an acoustic processor generates one label after another selected from an alphabet of labels. Each vocabulary word is represented as a baseform constructed of a sequence of Markov models. Each Markov model is st... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5067166 | Method and apparatus for DP matching using multiple templates A pattern recognition method and apparatus using dynamic programming in which an input sequence of labels is matched to a set of candidate templates (candidate reference label sequences). The set of candidate reference label sequences is grouped into subs... | 11/19/1991 |
| 5054074 | Optimized speech recognition system and method A speech recognition system estimates a set of Poisson intensities for a spoken word, each intensity representing a respectively different word from a vocabulary of words. Each of the functions used to calculate these intensities has two variable paramete... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5050215 | Speech recognition method For circumstance adaption, for example, speaker adaption, confusion coefficients between the labels of the label alphabet for initial training and those for adaption are determined by alignment of adaption speech with the corresponding initially trained M... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5046099 | Adaptation of acoustic prototype vectors in a speech recognition system In a speech recognition system, the prior parameters of acoustic prototype vectors are adapted to a new speaker to obtain posterior parameters by having the speaker utter a set of adaptation words. The prior parameters of an acoustic prototype vector are ... | 09/03/1991 |
| 5031217 | Speech recognition system using Markov models having independent label output sets A speech recognition system measures the values of at least two classes of features of an utterance: (1) a first class whose value is related to the frequency spectrum of the utterance, and (2) a second class whose value is related to the variation with t... | 07/09/1991 |
| 5018201 | Speech recognition dividing words into two portions for preliminary selection A speech recognition apparatus makes a preliminary selection of a number of candidate words from a vocabulary of words, one of which candidate words is most likely the spoken word to be recognized. For the preliminary selection, each candiate word is divi... | 05/21/1991 |
| 4977599 | Speech recognition employing a set of Markov models that includes Markov models representing transitions to and from silence Apparatus and method for constructing word baseforms which can be matched against a string of generated acoustic labels. A set of phonetic phone machines are formed, wherein each phone machine has (i) a plurality of states, (ii) a plurality of transitions... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4947344 | Method of rotating image data in a partitioned display buffer A method of operating a graphics system, in which a host processor sends a display terminal image data and image orders. The image orders coordinate the position and size of a source rectangle area and the postion of a destination rectangle area in an ima... | 08/07/1990 |
| 4939599 | Method and apparatus for measuring dynamic track misregistration A method and apparatus for measuring dynamic head and track misregistration in, for example, a magnetic disk file. A reference signal waveform is recorded onto a track on a recording medium. The track has a center line and an off-center line parallel to t... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4931887 | Capacitive measurement and control of the fly height of a recording slider A device and method for capacitive measurement and control of the fly height of a recording slider. A recording slider is vertically spaced from a rotating disk surface by an "air bearing". The disk has a first electrically conductive pattern at its surfa... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4922238 | Method and system for smooth scrolling of a displayed image on a display screen A method and apparatus for independently and dynamically performing smooth-scrolling a display line at a time is disclosed herein. An offset value for smooth-scrolling for each display line, is provided which shifts the image information of each display l... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4919780 | Method of making self-aligned apertures A method for fabricating exactly aligned apertures for use in electron and ion microscopy involves the placing of a very sharply pointed tip (1) in front of a set of extremely thin, precisely spaced metal foils (3,5) in an atmosphere of heavy gas atoms. T... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4914704 | Text editor for speech input A text editor is connected to a speech recognizing unit for editing preferably spoken input text using a display speech. For each text word (including digits), and each punctuation mark that can be recognized and is contained in a dictionary, a token is s... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4910505 | Graphic display apparatus with combined bit buffer and character graphics store A graphics display apparatus with a combined bit buffer and character graphics store includes a coded display buffer containing pointers to the store. The store is constituted by odd and even memories used to derive bit patterns for odd and even character... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4910579 | Semiconductor integrated display device with overlapping electrodes A semiconductor integrated display is disclosed herein in which a matrix of conductive display electrodes is formed over a corresponding matrix of switching devices which are integrated in a single crystal semiconductor chip such that the display electrod... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4902994 | Deflecting device for a cathode ray tube A deflector for a cathode ray tube (called herein "CRT"), and more particularly a stator type deflector in which a plurality of slots for windings are formed in the inner surface of a tubular core and deflecting coils are positioned in these slots. Both c... | 02/20/1990 |
| 4868554 | Display apparatus A raster scan type display apparatus for displaying characters having attributes. The attributes are, for example: (i) underlining, (ii) reverse video, (iii) high intensity, and (iv) blinking. The characters and attributes are stored in a refresh memmory.... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4868696 | Linear actuator using a compound parallel bendable element suspension system An apparatus for the linear translation of read/write heads in a data recording system is disclosed herein. The apparatus comprises a compound parallel bending element suspension with a driver connected thereto. The compound parallel suspension comprises ... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4865423 | Method for generating images This invention relates to a method for generating images by using a ray-tracing method. The method for generating images according to the invention registers only a cell containing the surface of an object among cells that are obtained by dividing the reg... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4852173 | Design and construction of a binary-tree system for language modelling In order to determine a next event based upon available data, a binary decision tree is constructed having true or false questions at each node and a probability distribution of the unknown next event based upon available data at each leaf. Starting at th... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4845644 | Data display system A data display system in which input-output display devices are connected to a central processor, and users select application programs that are run on the central processor. The control system of the central processor includes a display manager control s... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4833712 | Automatic generation of simple Markov model stunted baseforms for words in a vocabulary In a system that (i) defines each word in a vocabulary by a fenemic baseform of fenemic phones, (ii) defines an alphabet of composite phones each of which corresponds to at least one fenemic phone, and (iii) generates a string of fenemes in response to sp... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4831550 | Apparatus and method for estimating, from sparse data, the probability that a particular one of a set of events is the next event in a string of events Apparatus and method for evaluating the likelihood of an event (such as a word) following a string of known events, based on event sequence counts derived from sparse sample data. Event sequences--or m-grams--include a key and a subsequent event. For each... | 05/16/1989 |
