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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120109658 | VOICE-CONTROLLED POWER DEVICE A voice-controlled power device includes a voice-controlled circuit which includes a power module for getting an AC input voltage, a switch module having an electromagnetic relay and a driving circuit, and a control module having a microcontroller, a power unit regulati... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109657 | Narrative Voice Files for GPS Devices The invention consists of a compilation of unified audio tour files in compressed format i.e. MP3 or MP4 that provides pre-recorded spoken commentary to Global Positioning System (GPS) enabled devices. Using satellite technology, audio is triggered based on a user's loc... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120069131 | Reality alternate Among other things, we describe a reality alternative to our physical reality, named the Expandaverse, that includes multiple digital realities that may be continuously created, broadcast, accessed, and used interactively. In what we call an Alternate Reality Teleportal... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120035931 | Automatically Monitoring for Voice Input Based on Context In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes detecting a current context associated with a mobile computing device and determining, based on the current context, whether to switch the mobile computing device from a current mode of operation to a second ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120016677 | Method and device for audio signal classification The present invention discloses a method and a device for audio signal classification, and relates to the field of communications technologies, which solve a problem of high complexity of type classification of audio signals in the prior art. In the present invention, a... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120016676 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WRITING DIGITS IN WORDS AND PRONUNCIATION OF NUMBERS, FRACTIONS, AND UNITS Disclosed is a system and method for converting a digital number to text and for pronouncing the digital number. The system includes a filtration system for determining whether the digital number has nonnumeric symbols and for generating a filtrated number, an analyzing... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120008751 | Home star security system The Home Star is an interactive security and communication system for the home which is wired to doors, windows and other points of entrance, with infrared motion sensors included to detect home invaders. Once tripped, this alarm sends a silent signal to the authorities... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120010889 | VOICE INTERACTION METHOD OF MOBILE TERMINAL BASED ON VOICEXML AND MOBILE TERMINAL The present invention discloses a voice interaction method of a mobile terminal based on VoiceXML and a mobile terminal, which comprises: converting received voice information into a VoiceXML document, parsing the VoiceXML document according to a preset VoiceXML documen... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120004915 | CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH ANALYSIS METHOD, AND CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH ANALYZER The invention provides a conversational speech analyzer which analyzes whether utterances in a meeting are of interest or concern. Frames are calculated using sound signals obtained from a microphone and a sensor, sensor signals are cut out for each frame, and by calcul... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120004916 | SPEECH SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE A speech signal processing device is equipped with a power acquisition unit, a probability distribution acquisition unit, and a correspondence degree determination unit. The power acquisition unit accepts an inputted speech signal and, based on the accepted speech signa... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110320208 | Page identification method for audio book A page identification method for audio book with a main housing, a plurality of pages, a plurality of light blocking panels, an audio record and playback electronic circuit including microphone, speaker, power source, record switch and playback switch, a microprocessor ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110313773 | SEARCH APPARATUS, SEARCH METHOD, AND PROGRAM A search apparatus includes a sound recognition unit which recognizes input sound, a user information estimation unit which estimates at least one of a physical condition and emotional demeanor of a speaker of the input sound based on the input sound and outputs user in... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110307253 | Speech and Noise Models for Speech Recognition An audio signal generated by a device based on audio input from a user may be received. The audio signal may include at least a user audio portion that corresponds to one or more user utterances recorded by the device. A user speech model associated with the user may be... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110304774 | CONTEXTUAL TAGGING OF RECORDED DATA Embodiments are disclosed that relate to the automatic tagging of recorded content. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a computing device comprising a processor and memory having instructions executable by the processor to receive input data comprising one o... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110301956 | Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, and Program An information processing apparatus includes an image analysis unit that executes a process for analyzing an image captured by a camera, a speech analysis unit that executes a process for analyzing speech input from a microphone, and a data processing unit that receives... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110301955 | Predicting and Learning Carrier Phrases for Speech Input Predicting and learning users' intended actions on an electronic device based on free-form speech input. Users' actions can be monitored to develop of a list of carrier phrases having one or more actions that correspond to the carrier phrases. A user can speak a command... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110295607 | System and Method for Recognizing Emotional State from a Speech Signal A computerized method, software, and system for recognizing emotions from a speech signal, wherein statistical and MFCC features are extracted from the speech signal, the MFCC features are sorted to provide a basis for comparison between the speech signal and reference ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110288853 | HANDHELD DEVICE CONTROL OF AN X-RAY SYSTEM In one embodiment, an X-ray system includes a handheld X-ray interface device. The handheld X-ray interface device includes a wireless interface for communicating with an imaging system and at least one input device to receive a user-input command for operation of the i... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110282669 | Estimating a Listener's Ability To Understand a Speaker, Based on Comparisons of Their Styles of Speech An automated telecommunication system adjunct is described that “listens” to one or more participants styles of speech, identifies specific characteristics that represent differences in their styles, notably the accent, but also one or more of pronunciation accuracy... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110282670 | System for Dynamic AD Selection and Placement Within a Voice Application Accessed Through an Electronic Information Page A system for dynamic advertisement selection and presentment within a speech application is provided. The system includes a user operable network browsing interface in communication with a server on a data network; at least one voice link to a voice application interfac... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110282650 | AUTOMATIC NORMALIZATION OF SPOKEN SYLLABLE DURATION A very common problem is when people speak a language other than the language which they are accustomed, syllables can be spoken for longer or shorter than the listener would regard as appropriate. An example of this can be observed when people who have a heavy Japanese... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110276327 | VOICE-TO-EXPRESSIVE TEXT A method including receiving a vocal input including words spoken by a user; determining vocal characteristics associated with the vocal input mapping the vocal characteristics to textual characteristics; and generating a voice-to-expressive text that includes, in addit... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110276333 | Methods and Systems for Synchronizing Media Systems and methods of synchronizing media are provided. A client device may be used to capture a sample of a media stream being rendered by a media rendering source. The client device sends the sample to a position identification module to determine a time offset indic... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110276334 | Methods and Systems for Synchronizing Media Systems and methods of synchronizing media are provided. A client device may be used to capture a sample of a media stream being rendered by a media rendering source. The client device sends the sample to a position identification module to determine a time offset indic... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110276323 | SPEECH-BASED SPEAKER RECOGNITION SYSTEMS AND METHODS The illustrative embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for authenticating a speaker. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving reference speech input including a reference passphrase to form a reference recording, and receiving test speech input ... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110269429 | TRANSCRIPTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS A communication device may participate in telephone calls. The communication device may allow a user to request transcription of a telephone call by prompting the user when the telephone call is completed. The communication device may display a call history user interfa... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110264446 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND MEDIA GATEWAY FOR REPORTING MEDIA INSTANCE INFORMATION A method, a system, and a media gateway (MG) for reporting media instance information are disclosed. The method for reporting media instance information includes: detecting, by an MG, received media data according to a set media instance detection (MID) event; and repor... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110264450 | SPEECH CAPTURING AND SPEECH RENDERING The invention proposes extracting one or more speech signals (151-154) as well as one or more ambient signals (131) from sound signals captured by microphones, wherein each of the speech signals corresponds to a different speaker. The invention prop... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110251845 | VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTOR, VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION PROGRAM, AND PARAMETER ADJUSTING METHOD Judgment result deriving means 74 makes a judgment between active voice and non-active voice every unit time for a time series of voice data in which the number of active voice segments and the number of non-active voice segments are already known as a number of ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110244922 | MENU ICONS WITH DESCRIPTIVE AUDIO A mobile phone comprising: a user interface configured to display a menu system and to receive input; and an electronic device configured to: provide the menu system having menu levels with each menu level comprising distinct menu items, enable the user to make a prelim... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246202 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO WATERMARKING A SUBSTANTIALLY SILENT MEDIA CONTENT PRESENTATION Methods and apparatus for audio watermarking a substantially silent media content presentation are disclosed. An example method to audio watermark a media content presentation disclosed herein comprises obtaining a watermarked noise signal comprising a watermark and a n... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246203 | Dynamic Interactive Voice Interface A dynamic voice user interface system is provided. The dynamic voice user interface system interacts with a user at a first level of formality. The voice user interface system then monitors history of user interaction and adjusts the voice user interface to interact wit... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110238423 | SONIC DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION An apparatus for classifying documents (5) based on sound includes a document transport (30) for transporting a document; an audio transducer (20) for detecting a sonic profile produced by the document as it is transported; and a controller for dete... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110238422 | METHOD FOR SONIC DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION A method to identify and classify a document (5) by weight or thickness based on the sound the document makes while moving through a document transport (30). Using an audio transducer (20), the sound of the document is captured and compared to previ... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110231186 | SPEECH DETECTION METHOD A speech detection method is presented, which includes the following steps. A first voice captured device samples a first signal and a second voice captured device samples a second signal. The first voice captured device is closer to a speech signal source than the seco... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110224988 | INTRACARDIAC ELECTROGRAM TIME FREQUENCY NOISE DETECTION Systems, methods, and apparatus for identifying and classifying noise of an intracardiac electrogram of a cardiac rhythm management device to prevent inaccurate detection of a cardiac episode are disclosed. In an example, three channels are analyzed to identify and dete... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110217967 | EARPIECE WITH VOICE MENU An ear-level device which can be operable in multiple modes supports a voice menu by which more complex functions executable by the ear-level device or by a companion module can be selected using input at the ear-level device. By pushing a button on an earpiece for exam... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110213617 | AUDIO SOURCE SYSTEM AND METHOD A system includes a computer having a device driver. The device driver includes a detection module to detect an audio input. The device driver includes a selection module to send the audio input to audio hardware after detection of the audio input. The device driver als... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110202348 | RHYTHM PROCESSING AND FREQUENCY TRACKING IN GRADIENT FREQUENCY NONLINEAR OSCILLATOR NETWORKS A method for mimicking the auditory system's response to rhythm of an input signal having a time varying structure comprising the steps of receiving a time varying input signal x(t) to a network of n nonlinear oscillators, each oscillator having a different natural freq... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110202349 | ESTABLISHING A MULTIMODAL ADVERTISING PERSONALITY FOR A SPONSOR OF A MULTIMODAL APPLICATION Establishing a multimodal advertising personality for a sponsor of a multimodal application, including associating one or more vocal demeanors with a sponsor of a multimodal application and presenting a speech portion of the multimodal application for the sponsor using ... | 08/18/2011 |
