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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090265162 | Method for Retrieving Items Represented by Particles from an Information Database A set of words is converted to a corresponding set of particles, wherein the words and the particles are unique within each set. For each word, all possible partitionings of the word into particles are determined, and a cost is determined for each possible partitioning.... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090253445 | INTELLIGENT MESSAGE MEDIATOR An Intelligent Message Mediator (IMM) provides a system and method for the delivery of multiple types of messages, voice mail or otherwise, regardless of format, to subscribers of mobile communication platforms. Advantageously, an IMM is administered through a system th... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090248410 | LIGHTED TEXT DISPLAY FOR MOTOR VEHICLES A system and method are disclosed enabling drivers of a vehicle to enter, edit and post messages on a graphical display attached to the interior or exterior of a vehicle. Voice recognition software allows the driver of the vehicle to input, and the system to display, a ... | 10/01/2009 |
| 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 deli... | 09/24/2009 |
| 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 ... | 09/17/2009 |
| 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... | 09/17/2009 |
| 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 disp... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090232284 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSCRIBING AUDIO MESSAGES A transcribing method may include receiving an audio message from a customer via a telephone, determining whether one of the agent transcribers is available, storing the audio message when an agent transcriber is not available, continuing to determine whether a transcri... | 09/17/2009 |
| 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 tem... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090228799 | METHOD FOR VISUALIZING AUDIO DATA A Method for visualizing audio data corresponding to a piece of music, comprising the steps of: determining a structure of said piece of music based on said audio data, said structure comprising music structure segments each having a music structure segment length; allo... | 09/10/2009 |
| 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 engin... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090228126 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANNOTATING A LINE-BASED DOCUMENT To facilitate the use of audio files for annotation purposes, an audio file format, which includes audio data for playback purposes, is augmented with a parallel data channel of line identifiers, or with a map associating time codes for the audio data with line numbers ... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090216532 | Automatic Extraction and Dissemination of Audio Impression A method of creating a voice message is described. A dictated audio input is converted by automatic speech recognition to produce a structured text report that includes report fields with report field data extracted from the dictated audio input. A report message is cre... | 08/27/2009 |
| 20090216531 | PROVIDING TEXT INPUT USING SPEECH DATA AND NON-SPEECH DATA Systems, methods, and computer readable media providing a speech input interface. The interface can receive speech input and non-speech input from a user through a user interface. The speech input can be converted to text data and the text data can be combined with the ... | 08/27/2009 |
| 20090210225 | SUPPORTING ELECTRONIC TASK MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS VIA TELEPHONE The disclosed personal information management (PIM) system supports tasks and reminders via a audio user interface. The user creates a task object via a telephone call to the server. The task object may include an audio recording of the user's voice received during the ... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090210217 | Gaming Apparatus Capable of Conversation with Player and Control Method Thereof A gaming apparatus of the present invention comprises: a microphone; a speaker; a display; a memory storing effect image data for each language type; and a controller. The controller is programmed to conduct the processing of: (A) recognizing a language type from a soun... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090204399 | SPEECH DATA SUMMARIZING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS, SPEECH DATA SUMMARIZING AND REPRODUCING METHOD, AND SPEECH DATA SUMMARIZING AND REPRODUCING PROGRAM Necessary portions of stored speech data representing conference content are summarized and reproduced in a predetermined time. Conference speech is summarized and reproduced using a speech data summarizing and reproducing apparatus comprising a speech data divider for ... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090204510 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PAYING CHARGE OF INTERNET ITEM USING REQUEST OF GIFT IN MOBILE CONFIGURATION The present invention relates to wireless payment system and method in a mobile environment in which a sender makes a gift request for an internet item to a receiver using an MMS message and the sender is provided with the item according to payment of the receiver. The ... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090203450 | Gaming Machine A message display area 85 of a sub monitor 111 provided in each station 101 displays contents uttered by each player through a microphone 116 provided in each station 101 in an output language of the station 101 in question. The... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090195656 | INTERACTIVE TRANSCRIPTION SYSTEM AND METHOD A method and system which seamlessly combines natural way of handwriting (real world) with interactive digital media and technologies (virtual world) for providing a mixed or augmented reality perception to the user is disclosed.... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090198493 | System and Method for Unsupervised and Active Learning for Automatic Speech Recognition A system and method is provided for combining active and unsupervised learning for automatic speech recognition. This process enables a reduction in the amount of human supervision required for training acoustic and language models and an increase in the performance giv... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090192797 | Talk text The patent that I am requesting is for an existing product on the market. It is for voice transponding or activated texting. Rather than typing a text message, the user can simply speak into their cell phone and the message will be typed into the text message.... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090187425 | PDA software robots leveraging past history in seconds with software robots The International market is a vital horizon for todays and future strategies since it provides a robust and competitive arena for expanding business. The focus of the forgoing is to deploy a suite of decision search tools which will live on the phone network and the int... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090187403 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM A copyright managing information processing apparatus includes a storage module for storing copyrighted content including audio data; a first topic module for recognizing audio data in content opened to the public by a to-be-opened information processing apparatus, conv... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090182559 | CONTEXT SENSITIVE MULTI-STAGE SPEECH RECOGNITION A system enables devices to recognize and process speech. The system includes a database that retains one or more lexical lists. A speech input detects a verbal utterance and generates a speech signal corresponding to the detected verbal utterance. A processor generates... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090182560 | USING A PHYSICAL PHENOMENON DETECTOR TO CONTROL OPERATION OF A SPEECH RECOGNITION ENGINE A transmission device such as a cell phone or other mobile communication device includes a physical phenomenon detection device to perform a “push to talk” function by detecting the occurrence of a particular physical phenomenon and using such detection to start and... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090180469 | IP COMMUNICATION APPARATUS An IP communication apparatus employed in a telephone voice/moving picture recording system is comprised of: an IP packet transmitting/receiving I/F for transmitting/receiving an IP packet; an IP address acquiring unit of acquiring an IP address corresponding to a trans... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090177470 | DISTRIBUTED DICTATION/TRANSCRIPTION SYSTEM A distributed dictation/transcription system is provided. The system provides a client station, dictation manager, and dictation server networked such that the dictation manager can select a dictation server to transcribe audio from the client station. The dictation man... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090177469 | SYSTEM FOR RECORDING AND ANALYSING MEETINGS A system for producing a transcript of a meeting having n attendees, the attendees being identified as ID1 to IDn and channel 1 to channel n. A speech discriminator includes a channel monitor which generates a speech output from one or more of channels ... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090171659 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING DISTRIBUTED MULTI-MODAL APPLICATIONS Embodiments include methods and apparatus for synchronizing data and focus between visual and voice views associated with distributed multi-modal applications. An embodiment includes a client device adapted to render a visual display that includes at least one multi-mod... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090164214 | System, method and software program for enabling communications between customer service agents and users of communication devices The present invention provides a system, method and software application for enabling a customer service agent to efficiently communicate with users of a communication device. When a user enters speech input into his communication device, the speech is converted to text... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090150147 | RECORDING AUDIO METADATA FOR STORED IMAGES A method of processing audio signals recorded during display of image data from a media file on a display device to produce semantic understanding data and associating such data with the original media file, includes: separating a desired audio signal from the aggregate... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090150785 | Input device for inputting voice information including voice recognizer An input device for inputting a command to an electronic system such as an on-board navigation system includes a microphone for inputting voice, a voice recognizer for analyzing the inputted voice and comparing it with data stored in a voice recognition dictionary, a to... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090150139 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSLATING A SPEECH There is provided a method for translating a speech, includes recognizing the speech into a text which includes a long sentence containing a plurality of simple sentences, segmenting the long sentence into the simple sentences, and translating each simple sentence into ... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090144057 | Method, Apparatus, and Program for Certifying a Voice Profile When Transmitting Text Messages for Synthesized Speech A mechanism is provided for authenticating and using a personal voice profile. The voice profile may be issued by a trusted third party, such as a certification authority. The personal voice profile may include information for generating a digest or digital signature fo... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090140855 | VOICE OPERATED REMINDER SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF According to certain embodiments, there is provided a voice operated reminder system and method. In one embodiment, the system and method is configured to outputting a reminder message in accordance with a predefined rule. According to certain embodiments the system and... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090138262 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO INDEX AND SEARCH VOICE SITES A method comprises crawling and indexing voice sites and storing results in an index; receiving a search request in voice from a user via a telephone; performing speech recognition on the voice search request and converting the request from voice to text; parsing the qu... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090135741 | Regulated voice conferencing with optional distributed speech-to-text recognition Systems and methods for regulated voice conferencing are provided. A system for regulated voice conferencing includes multiple communication devices connected to a network. The communications devices are operative to receive audio inputs from and deliver audio outputs t... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090132825 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING SECURE AND/OR COPYRIGHTED DIGITAL VIDEO BROADCASTING DATA OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL NETWORK A content distribution method for video copyright authentication and security comprising the steps of invisibly watermarking digital video data input from a video data source to create watermarked data; encrypting the watermarked digital video data using an encryption k... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090125899 | METHOD FOR CHANGING OVER FROM A FIRST ADAPTIVE DATA PROCESSING VERSION TO A SECOND ADAPTIVE DATA PROCESSING VERSION The invention relates to a method and to a system for changing over from a first adaptive data processing version (V1) on data processing means using at least one data model (dm) which is continuously adapted on the basis of data processing results to a second adaptive ... | 05/14/2009 |
