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| 20060074690 | Speech displaying system and method A speech displaying system and method can display playing progress by waveform and synchronously display text of a speech file using rolling subtitles when playing the speech file. After the speech file is loaded via a loading module, a sentence unit determining module ... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060064303 | Method and apparatus for programming a portable device A method of and apparatus for programming a screen of a portable device is provided. The method includes the steps of providing a sound file encoded with screen information for programming a display of a portable device, playing the sound file to send an audio signal to... | 03/23/2006 |
| 20060031074 | Coordinated signal generation apparatus A portable signal generating apparatus that, when activated, emits a visual or audible signal in coordination with other compatible apparatus in the vicinity that it can detect, and with which it can synchronize to create a coordinated signal effect. ... | 02/09/2006 |
| 20060015345 | Coordinated signal generation apparatus A portable signal generating device that, when activated, emits a visual or audible signal in coordination with other compatible devices in the vicinity that it can detect, and with which it can synchronize to create a coordinated signal effect. ... | 01/19/2006 |
| 20050256721 | Interactive water effects using texture coordinate shifting A system and process for adding a photorealistic rendering of a body of water to a virtual 3D scene or image and creating a video therefrom having interactive water effects. A region of water is added to an image by adding an area depicting the original scene as it woul... | 11/17/2005 |
| 20050216274 | Object tracking method and apparatus using stereo images An object tracking method and apparatus, the method includes: segmenting a segment of a zone, in which an object is located, from a current frame among consecutively input images and obtaining predetermined measurement information of the segment; determining a plurality... | 09/29/2005 |
| 20050203751 | Error correction in speech recognition New techniques and systems may be implemented to improve error correction in speech recognition. These new techniques and systems may be implemented to correct errors in speech recognition systems may be used in a standard desktop environment, in a mobile environment, o... | 09/15/2005 |
| 20050203750 | Displaying text of speech in synchronization with the speech Displays a character string representing content of speech in synchronization with reproduction of the speech. An apparatus includes: a unit for obtaining scenario data representing the speech; a unit for dividing textual data resulting from recognition of the speech to... | 09/15/2005 |
| 20050197843 | Multimodal aggregating unit In a voice processing system, a multimodal request is received from a plurality of modality input devices, and the requested application is run to provide a user with the feedback of the multimodal request. In the voice processing system, a multimodal aggregating unit i... | 09/08/2005 |
| 20050171783 | Message recognition using shared language model A system is disclosed for generating text responsive to both voice and handwriting input, including a microphone, stylus, and a tablet having an flat-panel display integrated into its surface. The system performs speech and handwriting recognition using a shared languag... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050159958 | Image processing apparatus, method and program An emotion is decided based on both image and voice data, and then a decorated image or a substitute image is outputted. Further, a segment of voice signal is precisely determined for the analysis of the signal. Emotion analysis is conducted along with operations of ext... | 07/21/2005 |
| 20050159957 | Combined speech recognition and sound recording A handheld device with both large-vocabulary speech recognition and audio recoding allows users to switch between at least two of the following three modes: (1) recording audio without corresponding speech recognition; (2) recording with speech recognition; and (3) spee... | 07/21/2005 |
| 20050154594 | Method and apparatus of simulating and stimulating human speech and teaching humans how to talk This invention comprises a method and apparatus for combining electronic voice recognition circuits, electronic voice synthesis circuits, electronic computational artificial intelligence algorithms and computer programs in an interactive learning process, so as to simul... | 07/14/2005 |
| 20050137879 | Electronic translator with a printing functionality For an electronic translator with a printing functionality and related operation method, the electronic translator has a printer driver circuit and a small printer. When a user inquires about a vocabulary word, the electronic translator marks the vocabulary word and its... | 06/23/2005 |
| 20050091064 | Speech recognition module providing real time graphic display capability for a speech recognition engine A speech recognition module includes transformation and synchronization algorithms. The transformation algorithms receive raw text from the speech recognition engine and produce a mapped text file and a module mapped text file. The mapped text file contains all the char... | 04/28/2005 |
| 20050083300 | Pointer control system Systems for controlling the motion of a pointer on a display. These systems may involve, among other aspects, (1) providing a reference object on the display; (2) defining an orientation indicated by the reference object; (3) changing the orientation indicated by the re... | 04/21/2005 |
| 20050080631 | Information processing apparatus and method therefor An information processing apparatus using a speech signal, comprising a playback unit configured to play back the speech signal, a speech recognition unit configured to subject the speech signal to speech recognition, a text generator to generate a linguistic text havin... | 04/14/2005 |
| 20050080630 | System and method for analyzing automatic speech recognition performance data In a disclosed method for interpreting automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance data, a data processing system may receive user input that selects a log file to be processed. The log file may contain log records produced by an ASR system as a result of verbal inte... | 04/14/2005 |
| 20050075886 | Method and system for processing knowledge The invention provides a knowledge sharing method for supporting mobile workers before, during and after visiting a location, organisation or individual as part of their day to day activities. It achieves this through a knowledge management system which has a database f... | 04/07/2005 |
| 20050075885 | Visual indication of current voice speaker Visually identifying one or more known or anonymous voice speakers to a listener in a computing session. For each voice speaker, voice data include a speaker identifier that is associated with a visual indicator displayed to indicate the voice speaker who is currently s... | 04/07/2005 |
| 20050043956 | Speech communiction system and method, and robot apparatus This invention realizes a speech communication system and method, and a robot apparatus capable of significantly improving entertainment property. A speech communication system with a function to make conversation with a conversation partner is provided with a speech re... | 02/24/2005 |
| 20050043955 | Speech animation Methods and systems, including computer program products, for speech animation. The system includes a speech animation engine and a client application in communication with the speech animation engine. The client application sends a request for speech animation to the s... | 02/24/2005 |
