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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127072 | CONTROL METHOD USING VOICE AND GESTURE IN MULTIMEDIA DEVICE AND MULTIMEDIA DEVICE THEREOF A multimedia device and a method for controlling the same are disclosed, in which voice and gesture of a user are recognized by the multimedia device to allow the user to execute a desired operation. The method Includes enabling an input of a remote controller input of ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130719 | REMOTE CONTROL SIGNALING USING AUDIO WATERMARKS A system for using a watermark embedded in an audio signal to remotely control a device. Various devices such as toys, computers, and appliances, equipped with an appropriate detector, detect the hidden signals, which can trigger an action, or change a state of the devi... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127258 | REMOTE CONTROL WITH TOP AND LOWER SURFACE INPUTS A remote control having a housing with a top surface and bottom surface. The top surface has a first set of one or more inputs adapted to be used when the housing is held in one hand of a user. The bottom surface has a plurality of second inputs configured in a recessed... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120053947 | WEB BROWSER IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS Web browser implementable instructions are generated from interactive voice instructions that are not natively interpreted by web browsers. Generating web browser implementable instructions in this manner allows for faster and cheaper deployment of voice, video, and/or ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120052907 | Hands-Free, Eyes-Free Mobile Device for In-Car Use In one embodiment, a method determines an event at a mobile device and a movement value for a speed of movement of the mobile device based on the event. The movement value is compared to a threshold. If the movement value has passed the threshold, the method enables a m... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120046952 | REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD A remote control system includes a receiving and recognition module, a converting module, and a control interface module. The receiving and recognition is used for receiving a signal from a user and recognizing the signal as a user command associated with an electronic ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120046953 | ESTABLISHING A MULTIMODAL PERSONALITY FOR A MULTIMODAL APPLICATION Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are described for establishing a multimodal personality for a multimodal application that include selecting, by the multimodal application, matching vocal and visual demeanors and incorporating, by the multimodal applica... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120041766 | VOICE-CONTROLLED NAVIGATION DEVICE AND METHOD In a voice-controlled navigation device and method, a voice command is received, and divided into voice segments Vi (i=1˜n) by comparing with one or more keywords. A voice segment Vi (i=1˜n) is obtained in sequence to be compared with tree nodes in a search tree of pl... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120035924 | DISAMBIGUATING INPUT BASED ON CONTEXT In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes receiving, at a mobile computing device, ambiguous user input that indicates more than one of a plurality of commands; and determining a current context associated with the mobile computing device that indica... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120035935 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING VOICE COMMAND An apparatus and method for recognizing a voice command for use in an interactive voice user interface are provided. The apparatus includes a command intention belief generation unit that is configured to recognize a first voice command and that may generate one or more... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120029921 | SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD According to the present invention, a method for integrating processes with a multi-faceted human centered interface is provided. The interface is facilitated to implement a hands free, voice driven environment to control processes and applications. A natural language m... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120029922 | METHOD OF ACCESSING A DIAL-UP SERVICE A method of accessing a dial-up service is disclosed. An example method of providing access to a service includes receiving a first speech signal from a user to form a first utterance; recognizing the first utterance using speaker independent speaker recognition; reques... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030712 | NETWORK-INTEGRATED REMOTE CONTROL WITH VOICE ACTIVATION A method and system for network-integrated remote control includes voice activation of a user interface context on a remote control device. A user may utter a voice command, which the remote control device may use to obtain a user interface context from a network server... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120022873 | Speech Recognition Language Models Methods, computer program products and systems are described for forming a speech recognition language model. Multiple query-website relationships are determined by identifying websites that are determined to be relevant to queries using one or more search engines. Clus... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120022876 | Voice Actions on Computing Devices A computer-implemented method includes receiving spoken input at a computing device from a user of the computing device, the spoken input including a carrier phrase and a subject to which the carrier phrase is directed, providing at least a portion of the spoken input t... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120022874 | DISAMBIGUATION OF CONTACT INFORMATION USING HISTORICAL DATA Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for disambiguating contact information. A method includes receiving an audio signal, generating an affinity score based on a frequency with which a user has previously com... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020466 | System And Method For Identifying Audio Command Prompts For Use In A Voice Response Environment A system and method for identifying audio command prompts for use in a voice response environment is provided. A signature is generated for audio samples each having preceding audio, reference phrase audio, and trailing audio segments. The trailing segment is removed an... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120022875 | SYNCHRONIZING VISUAL AND SPEECH EVENTS IN A MULTIMODAL APPLICATION Exemplary methods, systems, and products are disclosed for synchronizing visual and speech events in a multimodal application, including receiving from a user speech; determining a semantic interpretation of the speech; calling a global application update handler; ident... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120016678 | Intelligent Automated Assistant An intelligent automated assistant system engages with the user in an integrated, conversational manner using natural language dialog, and invokes external services when appropriate to obtain information or perform various actions. The system can be implemented using an... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120010890 | POWER-OPTIMIZED WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE The present invention is an Always On, Hands-free, Speech Activated, Power-optimized Wireless Communications Device with associated base. The unique value of the device is that a person can use the device at any time, 24×7, with hands-free operation. People can ... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120010876 | VOICE INTEGRATION PLATFORM A voice integration platform and method provide for integration of a voice interface with a data system that includes stored data. The voice integration platform comprises one or more generic software components, the generic software components being configured to enabl... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120002025 | METHOD FOR DETECTING A VIEWING APPARATUS A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a method for detecting a viewing apparatus, and causing a presentation device to present a media program in a time division multiplexed (TDM) scheme or a space division multiplexing... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110321103 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING A VIDEO OF INTEREST USING A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE Systems and methods are operable to identify videos of interest using information acquired by a portable electronic device. An exemplary embodiment receives the acquired information pertaining to a video of interest, wherein the acquired information was acquired by the ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110313774 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Measuring Health Methods, systems, and products measure health data related to a user. A spoken phrase is received and time-stamped. The user is identified from the spoken phrase. A window of time is determined from a semantic content of the spoken phrase. A sensor measurement is receiv... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110313767 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA INTENSIVE LOCAL INFERENCE Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for approximating an accent source. A system practicing the method collects data associated with customer specific services, generates country-specific or dialect-specific weights ... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110313775 | Television Remote Control Data Transfer A computer-implemented method for information sharing between a portable computing device and a television system includes receiving a spoken input from a user of the portable computing device, by the portable computing device, submitting a digital recording of the spok... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110313776 | System and Method for Controlling Devices that are Connected to a Network A system, method and computer-readable medium for controlling devices connected to a network. The method includes receiving an utterance from a user for remotely controlling a device in a network; converting the received utterance to text using an automatic speech recog... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110307098 | AUTOMATED REFRIGERATOR OPENER An automated refrigerator opener is described. The automated refrigerator opener includes a door seal separator (e.g., solenoid) for breaking a door seal between a refrigerator door and a refrigerator door casing. Also included is a powered door opener (e.g., linear act... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307260 | MULTI-MODAL GENDER RECOGNITION Gender recognition is performed using two or more modalities. For example, depth image data and one or more types of data other than depth image data is received. The data pertains to a person. The different types of data are fused together to automatically determine ge... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307250 | Modular Speech Recognition Architecture A speech recognition system is provided. The speech recognition system includes a speech recognition module; a plurality of domain specific dialog manager modules that communicate with the speech recognition module to perform speech recognition; and a speech interface m... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110301959 | VOICE ACQUISITION SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE A voice acquisition system for a vehicle includes an interior rearview mirror assembly attached at an inner portion of the windshield of a vehicle equipped with the interior rearview mirror assembly. The interior rearview mirror assembly includes at least two microphone... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110301958 | System-Initiated Speech Interaction Whenever an event occurs on a computing system which will accept a response from a user of the system, the system automatically determines whether or not to enable speech interaction with the system for the event response. Whenever speech interaction is enabled with the... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110301950 | SPEECH INPUT DEVICE, SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD A device for speech input includes a speech input unit configured to convert a speech of a user to a speech signal; an angle detection unit configured to detect an angle of the speech input unit; a distance detection unit configured to detect a distance between the spee... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110291801 | PERSONAL WARNING DEVICE A personal warning device for preventing or stopping attacks on individuals by persons or animals. The device may be manually activated or may be activated by voice recognition. The device may be programmed to recognize a specific user's voice and may be reused and prog... | 12/01/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110288859 | LANGUAGE CONTEXT SENSITIVE COMMAND SYSTEM AND METHOD A system and method implements a command system in a speech recognition context in such a way as to enable a user to speak a voice command in a first spoken language to a computer that is operating an application in a second spoken language configuration. The command sy... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110288871 | INFORMATION PRESENTATION SYSTEM In an in-vehicle navigation apparatus, an in-vehicle BT communications device receives a speech recognition result via a BT communications link from a cellular phone. Based on the received speech recognition result, an in-vehicle control circuit outputs a talk-back soun... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110282673 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a voice analysis unit which performs an analysis process for a user speech; and a data processing unit which is input with analysis results of the voice analysis unit to determine a process which is to be perfor... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110276335 | METHODS FOR SYNCHRONOUS AND ASYNCHRONOUS VOICE-ENABLED CONTENT SELECTION AND CONTENT SYNCHRONIZATION FOR A MOBILE OR FIXED MULTIMEDIA STATION A system is provided for enabling voice-enabled selection and execution for playback of media files stored on a media content playback device. The system includes a voice input circuitry and speech recognition module for enabling voice input recognizable on the device a... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110270615 | GLOBAL SPEECH USER INTERFACE A global speech user interface (GSUI) comprises an input system to receive a user's spoken command, a feedback system along with a set of feedback overlays to give the user information on the progress of his spoken requests, a set of visual cues on the television screen... | 11/03/2011 |
