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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120185237 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PERFORMING USER-SPECIFIC AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION Speech recognition models are dynamically re-configurable based on user information, application information, background information such as background noise and transducer information such as transducer response characteristics to provide users with alternate input mod... | 07/19/2012 |
| 20120173223 | BILINGUAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL APPARATUS, TRANSLATION APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM A bilingual information retrieval apparatus includes an input text acquisition unit, a first memory, a first language construct information selection unit, a second memory, and a second language construct information selection unit. The input text acquisition unit acqui... | 07/05/2012 |
| 20120143594 | Enhanced operator-precedence parser for natural language processing An operator-precedence parser is disclosed that incorporates enhancements that support analysis of human languages. Operator-precedence parser are typically used to analyze arithmetic expression in calculators. Enhancements include allowing the result of applying an ope... | 06/07/2012 |
| 20120109633 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIACRITIZING ARABIC LANGUAGE TEXT The present invention provides a method and system for diacritizing a text. The method includes analyzing the text to determine whether the text require one or more diacritical marks of a set of diacritical marks. The text includes a plurality of characters associated w... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109631 | PROVIDING MULTI-LINGUAL TRANSLATION FOR THIRD PARTY CONTENT FEED APPLICATIONS Multi-lingual translation for third party content feed applications is provided in social network and similar environments in an independent manner from the content feed. A copy of a content feed may be distributed to consumers via content feed channels of a social netw... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109634 | Bidirectional Text Checker Methods and systems for checking bidirectional text in text content, such as in a web page, are provided. A method for checking bidirectional text may include determining intrinsic and declared text directions of text content. The method may also include generating a bi... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109635 | BI-DIRECTIONAL HANDWRITING INSERTION AND CORRECTION Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing bi-directional handwriting recognition and correction. A combined handwriting recognizer is provided that supports left-to-right and right-to-left language recognition by using a combined dictionary. The co... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120095748 | Language Identification in Multilingual Text Methods, systems, and media are provided for identifying languages in multilingual text. A document is decoded into a universal representative coding for easier tag manipulation, then broken into plain-text content sections. The sections are identified and assigned a we... | 04/19/2012 |
| 20120095749 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL AUDIO DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOVIE THEATERS AND OTHER PUBLIC AND PRIVATE VENUES Audiovisual presentation methods, systems and apparatus for improving and enhancing the listening experience of attendees of audiovisual presentations. An exemplary audiovisual presentation system includes an audio processing and distribution unit (APDU) configured to g... | 04/19/2012 |
| 20120059645 | Methods and Apparatus for Teaching or Learning Vocabulary Provided herein are methods and apparatus for teaching or learning vocabulary comprising providing a writing instrument and one or more vocabulary words and corresponding definitions displayed on the exterior surface of the writing instrument. Also provided herein are m... | 03/08/2012 |
| 20120059646 | Script Detection Service Script detection service techniques are described. In an implementation, values representing individual text characters in a string of one or more text characters are identified to determine which human writing system is associated with the individual text characters. T... | 03/08/2012 |
| 20120053926 | INTERACTIVE INPUT METHOD A user input is received by a computing device. An interactive input module determines whether the first user input is a first character of a script for a supported language. If the first user input is a first character, the first character is stored in an input buffer.... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120046935 | FINITE STATE TRANSDUCER DETERMINIZING DEVICE AND FINITE STATE TRANSDUCER DETERMINIZING METHOD According to one embodiment, a finite state transducer determinizing device includes a symbol determination unit, a state merging unit, and a single-value processing unit. The symbol determination unit generates an identification symbol different from an input symbol as... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120041754 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND TAPE PRINT APPARATUS There is provided an electronic apparatus including a display unit configured to display a system language switching screen for selecting and switching a system language from a plurality of options and a display control unit configured to carry out display control of th... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120041755 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING SELECTABLE LANGUAGE INDICATOR FOR LANGUAGE SELECTION AND METHOD THEREFOR A method of enabling the selection of a language to be employed as a method input language by a disambiguation routine of a handheld electronic device having stored therein a plurality of method input languages and disambiguation routine number, includes detecting a sel... | 02/16/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120035911 | CUSTOMER PREMISES EQUIPMENT AND CONFIGURATION METHOD THEREOF A customer premises equipment accessible with electronic equipment. The electronic equipment has a browser. Many types of language environments are stored in the customer premises equipment. The customer premises equipment includes a language module, a matching module, ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120035913 | MULTI-LANGUAGE BUFFERING DURING MEDIA PLAYBACK A data processor for processing a data stream having audio and video data has an input buffer for buffering the data stream; a data stream analyzer for analyzing the data stream for finding information on a plurality of language-specific content in different languages; ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120035912 | MULTILINGUAL SENTENCE EXTRACTOR The invention relates to a multilingual method for summarizing an article, which comprises an offline stage in which a weights vector is determined using, among others, plurality of predefined metrics, a collection of documents and expert prepared summaries, subjection ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120029906 | Language Detection Service Language detection techniques are described. In implementation, a method comprises determining which human writing system is associated with text characters in a string based on values representing the text characters. When the values are associated with more than one h... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120022853 | Multi-Modal Input on an Electronic Device A computer-implemented input-method editor process includes receiving a request from a user for an application-independent input method editor having written and spoken input capabilities, identifying that the user is about to provide spoken input to the application-ind... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120016660 | PARSING CULTURALLY DIVERSE NAMES Provided are techniques for parsing a name. A name to be parsed is received. A culture of the name is identified. One or more name phrases from the name are identified. Statistics for the one or more name phrases are identified. It is determined whether to perform a fir... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120016659 | Display Apparatus for Work Machine and Language Rewriting System for Display Apparatus The invention provides for making it possible to readily display information relating to a work machine, even when the mode of national language differs between the user and the vendor. The invention is characterized by a user information displaying means for displaying... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120010871 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND PROGRAM An information processing apparatus includes a display apparatus that is provided with a button that can be used by users of different native language-types with names that are registered as character strings in language-types displayable on the display apparatus. Accor... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120004899 | DYNAMIC AD SELECTION FOR AD DELIVERY SYSTEMS Systems and systems are disclosed for a portable device that employs voice recognition and/or encoding/decoding techniques which may be employed to gather, analyze and identify the media's content class, language being spoken, topic of conversation and/or other informat... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120004900 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY SETTING LANGUAGE TYPES OF PUSH-BASED SERVICES, CLIENT, AND SERVER THEREOF A method for automatically setting language types of push-based services is applied to a client, and includes the steps of: receiving a beacon signal which indicating a push-based service; reading a language setting of the client; generating a language code according to... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110320481 | SEARCHING AND MATCHING OF DATA Described herein is a technology for facilitating searching and matching of data. In some implementations, an input data string, including one or more ideographic elements, is received and converted to a Latin-based input data string. One or more input keys may be gener... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110307243 | MULTILINGUAL RUNTIME RENDERING OF METADATA Translated versions of metadata are provided to a user at runtime based on a working language selection. Translated versions of metadata in secondary languages are associated with an original version in a primary language as properties instead of being separate items wi... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110301938 | MULTILINGUAL TAGGING OF CONTENT WITH CONDITIONAL DISPLAY OF UNILINGUAL TAGS One or more computers are programmed to obtain an identifier of a natural language (“session language”). Additionally, the one or more computers are programmed to create and store in a computer memory, a webpage to be displayed to the user, including at least a titl... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110301939 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELECTING A LANGUAGE FOR TEXT SEGMENTATION Methods and systems for selecting a language for text segmentation are disclosed. In one embodiment, at least a first candidate language and a second candidate language associated with a string of characters are identified, at least a first segmented result associated w... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110295590 | ACOUSTIC MODEL ADAPTATION USING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for enhancing speech recognition accuracy. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an audio signal that corresponds to an utterance recorded by a mobile device, determi... | 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 |
| 20110282649 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED CONTENT GENERATION A content generation service is described that generates content for electronic documents in different languages based upon templates. The templates may include paragraph templates composed of sentence types including sentence templates. The sentence templates may furth... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110282645 | Electronic Multi-Language-to-Multi-Language Translation Method and System An electronic multi-language-to-multi-language translation method and system is disclosed. The system includes a first user to communicate in a first language, a server, where the first user and the server are in communication, a second user to communicate in a second l... | 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 |
| 20110270602 | Opening A Message Catalog File For a Language That Is Not Installed A first computer system sends a request to a second computer system. The second computer system determines that the first computer system utilizes a message catalog file that is not installed on the second computer system. As a result, the second computer system sends a... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110270601 | UNIVERSAL TRANSLATOR A speech translator includes a device adapted to be worn in the ear and includes means responsive to audible speech in a first language to convert that speech to electrical signals representing words and phrases and applying the signals to a database to retrieve other s... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110264440 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DISPLAY LOCALIZED RESOURCES IN PROCESS CONTROL APPLICATIONS Example methods and apparatus to display localized resources in a process control system are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes receiving in a server a locale identifier and a resource identifier from an application, identifying via the server a language fil... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110258229 | Mining Multilingual Topics Techniques for utilizing data mining technology to extract universal topics with multilingual representations from a multilingual database, and to organize existing or new documents in different languages by analyzing their respective topic distributions.... | 10/20/2011 |
