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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6591409 | Measuring integrated circuit layout efficiency A method and system of measuring layout efficiency is disclosed wherein after the initial layout (A), and the layout is drawn (B) a layout verification step C includes identifying seed devices or layers and the devices or layers are grown according to des... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6589800 | Method of estimation of wafer-to-wafer thickness A method for extracting wafer-to-wafer thickness variation from interferometry signals off patterned (product) wafer polish during non-endpointed CMP. The method includes sensing sample signals representing polishing trace from product wafers near the end... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6584588 | System signalling schemes for processor & memory module A computer system includes a main processing unit (12) coupled to a DSP/memory module (40). The DSP/memory module (40) includes semiconductor memory (42) and digital signal processor circuitry (44) including one or more digital signal processors (56). The... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6577997 | System and method of noise-dependent classification A noise-dependent classifier for a speech recognition system includes a recognizer (15) that provides scores and score differences of two closest in-vocabulary words from a received utterance. A noise detector (17) detects the noise level of a pre-speech ... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6573165 | Method of providing polysilicon spacer for implantation An improved method of implanting source and drain for CMOS devices is provided by a hard mask and dry etching to form polysilicon gates 20 percent longer than desired, implanting to form the source and drain of the PMOS transistor with dopant that moves f... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6553329 | System for mapping logical functional test data of logical integrated circuits to physical representation using pruned diagnostic list An improved method for mapping logical function test data of logical integrated circuits to physical representations uses a pruned diagnostic list. The steps include creating a final logical diagnostic list of potential bridging faults in response to test... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6543048 | Debugger with real-time data exchange A collection of program instructions capable of executing on a host processor suitable for reading from a memory location of a target processor and suitable for creating a real-time data channel between said host and target processors.... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6510557 | Apparatus for the integration of television signals and information from an information service provider A Java television receiver (10) includes a Java television platform (12) that has a bidirectional Internet connection (14) capable of sending Internet data to the Java television platform (12) and transmitting data from the Java television platform (12) t... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6483938 | System and method for classifying an anomaly A method and system for generating and managing a knowledgebase for use in identifying anomalies on a manufactured object, such as a semiconductor wafer, includes measures for adding, deleting, and organizing data from the knowledgebase.... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6477471 | Product defect predictive engine A software predictive engine is described that provides a tool to analyze the import of defects in the software development process. By providing a prediction of escaping defects, in terms of the normalized sigma measure and the predicted lines of code, t... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6470315 | Enrollment and modeling method and apparatus for robust speaker dependent speech models Speech recognition and the generation of speech recognition models is provided including the generation of unique phonotactic garbage models (15) to identify speech by, for example, English language constraints in addition to noise, silence and other non-... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6470309 | Subframe-based correlation A subframe-based correlation method for pitch and voicing is provided by finding the pitch track through a speech frame that minimizes pitch prediction residual energy over the frame. The method scans the range of possible time lags T and computes for eac... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6459910 | Use of speech recognition in pager and mobile telephone applications A method of and system for compressing and transmitting information which comprises recognizing a plurality of different types of information and providing a first representation of a recognized one of the plurality of different types of information havin... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6456974 | System and method for adding speech recognition capabilities to java In a system (10) for adding speech recognition capabilities to Java, there is provided a speech recognition server (18) coupled to a Java application (24) through an application program interface (20). The Java application (24) dynamically specifies a gra... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6456970 | Minimization of search network in speech recognition The search network in a speech recognition system is reduced by parsing the incoming speech expanding all active paths (101), comparing to speech models and scoring the paths and storing recognition level values at the slots (103) and accumulating the sco... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6456965 | Multi-stage pitch and mixed voicing estimation for harmonic speech coders A "multi-stage" method of estimating pitch in a speech encoder (FIG. 2). In a first stage of the method, a set of candidate pitch values is selected, such as by using a cost function that operates on said speech signal (steps 21-23). In a second stage of ... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6442277 | Method and apparatus for loudspeaker presentation for positional 3D sound A method and device for placement of sound sources in three-dimensional space via two loudspeakers. This technique uses an efficient implementation which consists of binaural signal processing and loudspeaker crosstalk cancellation, followed by panning in... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6438517 | Multi-stage pitch and mixed voicing estimation for harmonic speech coders A "multi-stage" method of estimating pitch in a speech encoder (FIG. 2). In a first stage of the method, a set of candidate pitch values is selected, such as by using a cost function that operates on said speech signal (steps 21-23). In a second stage of ... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6437808 | Apparatus and method for transmitting graphical representations An apparatus and method for transmitting graphical representations is disclosed. The present invention has an image generator (112) that generates an image (114) of a head (106) with facial features, including an eye portion (202) that correlates to an ey... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6424370 | Motion based event detection system and method A method to provide automatic content-based video indexing from object motion is described. Moving objects in video from a surveillance camera 11 detected in the video sequence using motion segmentation methods by motion segmentor 21. Objects are tracked ... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6421527 | System for dynamic adaptation of data/channel coding in wireless communications A system for dynamic adaptation of wireless communication between a Mobile Station (11) and a Base Station (13) wherein the transmitted frame from the Mobile Station includes a convolutionally coded portion containing a down-link measurement bit and a rep... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6418411 | Method and system for adaptive speech recognition in a noisy environment The system uses utterances recorded in low noise condition, such as a car engine off to optimally adapt speech acoustic models to transducer and speaker characteristics and uses speech pauses to adjust the adopted models to a changing background noise, su... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6418406 | Synthesis of high-pitched sounds An improvement in the synthesis of high-pitched voices and sounds is provided by downshifting the pitch 11 of the original input voice or sound before LPC analysis 13. This downshifting of the pitch is provided by upsampling 21, low pass filtering 22, dow... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6411932 | Rule-based learning of word pronunciations from training corpora A text-to-pronunciation system (11) includes a large training set of word pronunciations (19) and an extractor for extracting language specific information from the training set to produce pronunciations for words not in its training set. A learner (13) f... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6389393 | Method of adapting speech recognition models for speaker, microphone, and noisy environment The recognition of hands-free speech in a car environment has to deal with variabilities from speaker, microphone channel and background noises. A two-stage model adaptation scheme is presented. The first stage adapts speaker-independent HMM seed model se... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6389383 | System and method for interfacing software and hardware A system (100) for interfacing hardware and software components in a simulation system is disclosed. The present invention includes at least one cell (110) having a model access and control hub (140) and at least one block (142) within the cell (110) conn... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6381571 | Sequential determination of utterance log-spectral mean by maximum a posteriori probability estimation Utterance-based mean removal in log-domain, or in any linear transformation of log-domain, e.g., cepstral domain, is known to improve substantially a recognizer's robustness to transducer difference, channel distortion, and speaker variation. Applicants t... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6381272 | Multi-channel adaptive filtering A multi-channel adaptive filter system for use, for example, in echo cancellation for generating an echo estimate for each channel is described. The system includes a forward and backward prediction filter parameter generator that in response to the multi... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6380000 | Automatic recovery for die bonder wafer table wafermap operations An automatic recovery method for a Die Bonder Wafer Table in the event of loss of wafermap coordinate data is provided. If after moving to the first map die position and there is no die, the wafer table is moved back one die position in the direction of t... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6377924 | Method of enrolling phone-based speaker specific commands A method of enrolling phone-based speaker specific commands includes the first step of providing a set of (H) of speaker-independent phone-based Hidden Markov Models (HMMs), grammar (G) comprising a loop of phones with optional between word silence (BWS) ... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6374222 | Method of memory management in speech recognition A memory management method is described for reducing the size of memory required in speech recognition searching. The searching involves parsing the input speech and building a dynamically changing search tree. The basic unit of the search network is a sl... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6310629 | System and method for advanced interfaces for virtual environments A system and method for providing a controllable virtual environment includes a computer (11) with processor and a display coupled to the processor to display 2-D or 3-D virtual environment objects. Speech grammars are stored as attributes of the virtual ... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6308080 | Power control in point-to-multipoint systems The invention provides methods and systems for power control in point-to-multipoint communications systems. Methods are described for both downstream and upstream control. Subscriber signals received at the base station 11 are level detected at receiver 7... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6304846 | Singing voice synthesis A method of singing voice synthesis uses commercially-available MIDI-based music composition software as a user interface (13). The user specifies a musical score and lyrics; as well as other music control parameters. The control information is stored in ... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6304762 | Point to multipoint communication system with subsectored upstream antennas A point-to-multipoint communication system wherein the base station broadcasts the same frequency band signals over multiple sectors of given node. The base station includes a plurality of channel receivers (ch. 1-ch. n) for each sector and a plurality of... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6301581 | Method and system for managing access to a plurality of data objects The system of the present invention having a first module (20) for storing information describing a plurality of data objects (150, 160, and 170), attributes of each of the plurality of data objects, and relationships therebetween; a second module (15) fo... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6292582 | Method and system for identifying defects in a semiconductor A system and method allow for associating a descriptive label with an anomaly on a manufactured object, such as a semiconductor wafer. The method includes placing the manufactured device on a moveable stage; capturing and preparing a digital-pixel-based r... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6285981 | Speed up speech recognition search using macro evaluator A speed up speech recognition search method is provided wherein the number of HMM states is determined and a microslot is allocated for Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) below a given threshold level of states. A macroslot treats a whole HMM as a basic unit. Th... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282512 | Enhancement of markup language pages to support spoken queries Enhancement of hypertext pages containing graphical images is provided by extracting 102 the ALT tag from the markup language to support selection of the corresponding hypertext link by uttering the ALT tag phrase. We describe how to add a speakable phras... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6263341 | Information repository system and method including data objects and a relationship object A data model for an information repository (10) models data as objects (12), the relationships (14) or interdependencies between the data, their physical storage or access information (18) and rules or methods of accessing the data (16).... | 07/17/2001 |
