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...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120109626 | Speech Morphing Communication System A communication system is described. The communication system including an automatic speech recognizer configured to receive a speech signal and to convert the speech signal into a text sequence. The communication also including a speech analyzer configured to receive t... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109629 | Speech Morphing Communication System A communication system is described that includes an automatic speech recognizer configured to receive a speech signal and to convert the speech signal into a text sequence and includes a speech analyzer configured to receive the translator speech signal and to convert ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105719 | SPEECH SUBSTITUTION OF A REAL-TIME MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION Disclosed are a method, an apparatus and/or system of speech substitution of a real-time multimedia presentation on an output device. In one embodiment, a method includes processing a multimedia signal of a multimedia presentation, using a processor. The multimedia sign... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109630 | TEXT-TO-SPEECH METHOD AND SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT THEREFOR A text-to-speech system adapted to operate on text in a first language including sections in a second language, includes a grapheme/phoneme transcriptor for converting the sections in the second language into phonemes of the second language; a mapping module configured ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109627 | Speech Morphing Communication System A networked communication system is described. The communication system including an automatic speech recognizer configured to receive a speech signal from a client over a network and to convert the speech signal into a text sequence. The communication also including a ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105653 | INFORMATION REPRODUCTION/I/O METHOD USING DOT PATTERN, INFORMATION REPRODUCTION DEVICE, MOBILE INFORMATION I/O DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC TOY USING DOT PATTERN The present invention proposes a dot pattern on which code information and x and y coordinate information can be defined even if the dot pattern is extremely small, and proposes an information reproducing method and an information reproducing device based on the dot pat... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109623 | Stimulus Description Collections The subject disclosure generally describes a technology by which text and/or speech descriptions are collected by showing a stimulus such as video clips to contributors (e.g., of a crowd-sourcing service). The descriptions, which are in the language of each contributor'... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109869 | RESOURCE ANALYSIS Various embodiments provide techniques for analyzing resources based on a set of rules to determine problems that may occur during a product (e.g., a software product) development cycle. In accordance with some embodiments, resources can include files, strings, images, ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109625 | SYNCHRO TRANSLATION VERIFICATION TEST FOR SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS Verifying text translation in a program including obtaining a first program integrated information (PII) file and a second PII file of text in the program. An original page is generated by using the first PII file. Document object model (DOM) tree information of the ori... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109628 | Speech Morphing Communication System A communication system is described. The communication system including an automatic speech recognizer configured to receive a speech signal and to convert the speech signal into a text sequence. The communication system also including a speech analyzer configured to re... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109624 | TEXT CONVERSION METHOD AND TEXT CONVERSION SYSTEM A text conversion method and a text conversion system are provided. A term mapping table recording a term mapping relationship between a source language and a target language is provided. A tokenization process is performed on a paragraph in the source language to obtai... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120072203 | System and method for using first language input to instantly output second language A system and a method for using first language input to instantly output second language are provided. The system and the method continuously receive input words in the first language and find the corresponding translation words in the second language according to the s... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072201 | LANGUAGE TRANSLATION REUSE IN DIFFERENT SYSTEMS An account system obtains a first translation file associated with it. The account system obtains a second translation file from a second account system, wherein the second account system is a data processing system. The account system determines whether a third account... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072202 | Sentence-based paragraphic online translating system and method thereof A sentence-based paragraphic online translating system and the method thereof are described. The paragraphic online translating system and the method thereof establish at least one sentence item in the database of a server, wherein each of the sentence items contains a ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120046933 | System and Method for Translation A system and method for translating speech from one language to another is disclosed herein.... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120041752 | EXTENSION FRAMEWORK FOR INPUT METHOD EDITOR Implementations of the present disclosure provide an input method editor (IME) extension framework for extending the functionality of (IMEs). In some implementations, a user input into a user interface of an (IME) is received and is provided to a script engine. A script... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120041753 | TRANSLATION SYSTEM COMBINING HIERARCHICAL AND PHRASE-BASED MODELS A method comprises: receiving or generating bi-content including source content in a source language or format and corresponding target content in a target language or format, wherein the target language or format is different from the source language or format; generat... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120041751 | Evaluating And Modifying Transliteration Rules Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for adjusting transliteration weights. One methods includes maintaining transliteration rules and a weight for each rule and receiving training pairs comprising a first word ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120035905 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING MULTIPLE LANGUAGES IN TEXT A system and method for processing text are disclosed. The method includes receiving text to be processed. A main language of the text is identified. At least one unknown sequence in the text is identified, each unknown sequence comprising at least one word that is unkn... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036529 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller operable to monitor for emergency messages over a broadcast network and over the Internet, obtain an emergency message based on the monitoring where the... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120035906 | Translation Station An interactive electronic translation and communications process is provided for use in a translation station that provides a mobile or stationary fixed interactive facility for interviews or interrogations to be carried out between two persons speaking in different lan... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120035908 | Translating Languages A method, performed on a server, of translating between languages includes receiving first audio data for a first language from a mobile device, translating the first audio data to second audio data for a second language, receiving an indication that the mobile device h... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120035907 | TRANSLATING LANGUAGES A method, performed on a server, of translating between languages includes receiving first audio data for a first language from a mobile device, translating the first audio data to second audio data for a second language, receiving an indication that the mobile device h... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120029902 | MODE SUPPORTING MULTIPLE LANGUAGE INPUT FOR ENTERING TEXT Strings entered into a computer system are converted to a common language. The process of converting strings to a common language comprises determining a user-selected target language, associating a user-selected primary input language with the target language and assoc... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120029904 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADDING NEW VOCABULARY TO INTERACTIVE TRANSLATION AND DIALOGUE SYSTEMS The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for adding new vocabulary to interactive translation and dialogue systems. In one embodiment, a method for adding a new word to a vocabulary of an interactive dialogue includes receiving an input signal that includ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120029903 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING INTERACTIVE TRANSLATION AND DIALOGUE SYSTEMS The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for enhancing interactive translation and dialogue systems. In one embodiment, a method for conducting an interactive dialogue includes receiving an input signal in a first language, where the input signal includes... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120020577 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT UNIFIED MESSAGING SYSTEM SUPPORT FOR SPEECH-TO-TEXT SERVICE Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for communicating information about transcription progress from a unified messaging (UM) server to a UM client. In one embodiment, the transcription progress describes speech to te... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120022850 | Statistical machine translation processing A method of statistical machine translation (SMT) is provided. The method comprises generating reordering knowledge based on the syntax of a source language (SL) and a number of alignment matrices that map sample SL sentences with sample target language (TL) sentences. ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120016655 | DYNAMIC LANGUAGE TRANSLATION OF WEB SITE CONTENT Methods, systems, and computer readable medium for providing translated web content. A request is received from a user for content in a second language translated from content in a first language from a first Internet source. The content in the first language is obtaine... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120016656 | DYNAMIC LANGUAGE TRANSLATION OF WEB SITE CONTENT Methods, systems, and computer readable medium for providing a translated message in telecommunications. A request is received for translating a current message in a first language into a current message in a second language destined for a user. Whether the current mess... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120016657 | METHOD OF AND A SYSTEM FOR TRANSLATION A translation system for translating source text from a first language to target text in a second language. The system comprises a translation memory (TM) module that stores translation segments. The TM module is operable to generate a TM target text output in response ... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120010870 | ELECTRONIC DICTIONARY AND DICTIONARY WRITING SYSTEM Described herein is a computer implemented method for creating content for electronic dictionaries. An exemplary system includes a user interface, entry filtration system, and interface tools for dictionary entry comparison, entry merge, and visual markup of changes. Ma... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120005592 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Metadata-Based User Interfaces Methods and apparatus provide for the production of metadata-based user interfaces (UIs) such as graphical user interfaces (GUIs). In one example, keypad descriptor metadata is obtained. The keypad descriptor metadata is data identifying a plurality of available keypad ... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110313754 | LANGUAGE TRANSLATION OF SELECTED CONTENT IN A WEB CONFERENCE A method for translating selected content in a web conference may include receiving, by a processing device, a selected area in an image from a shared application in a web conference. The selected area may contain text for translation into a chosen language. The method ... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110307241 | ENHANCED SPEECH-TO-SPEECH TRANSLATION SYSTEM AND METHODS A speech translation system and methods for cross-lingual communication that enable users to improve and modify content and usage of the system and easily abort or reset translation. The system includes a speech recognition module configured for accepting an utterance, ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307240 | DATA MODELING OF MULTILINGUAL TAXONOMICAL HIERARCHIES Translations are provided as a property in multilingual taxonomical hierarchies. Translations for each node in a tree structure are associated with the node of a primary language as labels, where each node can have a plurality of labels. If the translation into a second... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110301935 | LOCATING PARALLEL WORD SEQUENCES IN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS Systems and methods for automatically extracting parallel word sequences from comparable corpora are described. Electronic documents, such as web pages belonging to a collaborative online encyclopedia, are analyzed to locate parallel word sequences between electronic do... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110301936 | INTERPRETATION TERMINALS AND METHOD FOR INTERPRETATION THROUGH COMMUNICATION BETWEEN INTERPRETATION TERMINALS A method for interpreting a dialogue between two terminals includes establishing a communication channel between interpretation terminals of two parties in response to an interpretation request; specifying a language of an initiating party and a language of the other pa... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110288849 | Multi-language translator The present invention relates to techniques for translating documents characteristic for a specific field of knowledge from a source language in a target language. Elements causing translation errors in exemplary documents translated by a machine translator (e.g., Inter... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110288850 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS WITH MULTI-MODE INTERACTIVE OPERATION METHOD An electronic apparatus with a multi-mode interactive operation method is disclosed. The electronic apparatus includes a display unit, a selecting unit, a voice recognition unit and a control unit. The display unit displays a frame. The selecting unit selects an arbitra... | 11/24/2011 |
