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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7539086 | System and method for the secure, real-time, high accuracy conversion of general-quality speech into text The system is designed to interface with external devices and services, to transcribe audio that may be stored elsewhere such as a wireless phone'voice mail, or occurring between two or more parties such as a conference call. An audio stream is separated into many a... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7295969 | Digital recording and playback system with voice recognition capability for concurrent text generation A recording and playback system is provided. The system includes an audio capturing device configured to receive an analog input and an encoder coupled to the audio capturing device configured to generate a digital signal based on the analog input. The system furthe... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7274775 | Transcription playback speed setting A computer program product resides on a computer-readable medium, and includes computer-readable, computer-executable instructions for causing a computer to analyze a first playback speed history for at least one audio recording recorded by a first speaker and playe... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7212873 | Audio/video transcription system A computer based digital transcription system employs audio and video inputs of a court proceeding, and stores the digital signals in a memory in the form of distinct file segments of a predetermined time length during each recording session. The computer associates... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7136102 | Digital still camera and method of controlling operation of same If a telop-character recording mode is selected, then, in response to depression of a shutter-release button, the image of a subject is sensed and voice enters from a microphone for a fixed period of time so that data representing voice is obtained. Character data f... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136684 | Headset with radio communication function and communication recording system using time information In a communication recording system using a headset with a radio communication function which transmits the first speech signal and receives the second speech signal by radio communications, the headset is provided with a time information acquisition unit for acquir... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7124671 | Method and device for reducing web breakage in a web cutter In a web cutter where a blade is used to cut a continuous paper web into sheets, a tractor is used to move the web past the blade for cutting. The tractor operates in a start-and-stop cycle so that the web is temporarily stopped to allow the blade to lower and shear... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7103552 | Multi-message audio recorder and memento A combination memento and voice recorder. A box includes a mount removably holding a memento. A voice recorder is mounted within a box to record a message thereon. An internal cover mounted in the box conceals the voice recorder while allowing access to playback. | 09/05/2006 |
| 7059816 | Nut plate The invention provides a rivetless nut plate including a nut, a holding bracket having tubular and bracket portions, and a stem having an enlarged head. The stem is positioned within an aperture of the tubular portion such that the head is resting on a shoulder with... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7053938 | Speech-to-text captioning for digital cameras and associated methods A digital camera includes a processor and a microphone. The camera captures audio speech and converts the speech to text. The text can be combined with a captured image to provide a composite file. The processor executes an instruction set which performs the audio t... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7039586 | Data collection and automatic remote transmission system A personal medical dictation system that can be easily and conveniently used to capture and preserve audio information. The system includes a specially designed portable, hand-held recording component that is of a small size, but yet is capable of storing at least o... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7035701 | Hand microphone interfaced to game controller port of personal computer A hand microphone and an adaptor module form an assembly which is a peripheral device for a personal computer. The hand microphone is used to control dictation functions to be carried out by the PC. Two separate analog control signal channels are output from the han... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7027978 | Voice recording and reproducing apparatus, information processing apparatus, and recording medium having recorded an information processing program A system control portion of a voice data recording and reproducing apparatus converts inputted voice signals into digitized voice data, adds header information stored in a table composed of a rewritable nonvolatile storage medium to the converted voice data and reco... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7006894 | Interactive medication cassette This invention relates to an interactive medication cassette with a machine readable and writable information strip that contains information corresponding to the medication in the cassette. The interactive medication cassette holds the medication and couples the co... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006967 | System and method for automating transcription services A system for substantially automating transcription services for multiple users (10, 11, 12) including a manual transcription station (50), speech recognition program (40) and a routing program (200). A uniquely identified voice dictation... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6999566 | Method and system for pending voicemail deletion and status notification A method and system are provided for enabling a sender of a voicemail message to delete that message before it is heard by the intended recipient and to be notified when a pending message is heard by the intended recipient. A voicemail system associated with a recip... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6995853 | Method and system for modifying print stream data to allow printing over a single I/O port The invention is a method and system of modifying print stream data. The method begins by sending a print stream from an application through a graphical device interface to a print spooler. A print stream monitor determines whether or not the print stream comprises ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6975990 | Sequential-data synchronization at real-time on an analog and a digital medium A method and device for synchronizing data between analog and digital mediums recorded either simultaneously from a single source or recorded from different sources, which requires synchronization. User-Data recorded in analog medium is referenced with out-of-band u... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6970185 | Method and apparatus for enhancing digital images with textual explanations A photographer adds explanatory text to a captured image by speaking the text at approximately the time the image is captured by the digital camera. The spoken information is reduced to text by recognizing the user's speech, and is associated with the digital image.... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6961004 | Portable messaging and scheduling device with homebase station A portable device (10) for selective message recordation and playback and scheduling includes a portable unit (11) and an optional homebase station (12). Portable unit (11) includes a housing (15), unit controller (20), tact... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6915258 | Method and apparatus for displaying and manipulating account information using the human voice The present disclosure relates to a computer assisted system which enables a computer user to input data into a computer by using verbal utterances or voice. The present disclosure is more particularly directed to entering data into a computer, where the entered dat... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6912688 | Script editor An editing system has a video store for storing a video sequence and a text store for storing a sequence of text associated with the video sequence. Displays and are provided for displaying the video and the text on the text display. The current text position is ind... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6871107 | Digital audio transcription system A digital audio transcription system includes at least one source of audio signals to be recorded and a computer for storing digital signals corresponding to the audio signals for allowing the stored digital signals to be subsequently played back. Recording sessions... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6856959 | Foot switch for a computer In an input unit (3) which can be operated by foot for a computer (1) which forms a dictating machine with foot-operated input means (24) for manually inputting control information (SI) by which information an audio reproduction mode of the dict... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6671567 | Voice file management in portable digital audio recorder A portable digital voice recorder is interfaced for data communication with a personal computer. Voice data files are stored in the portable recorder together with header data which indicates the status of the voice data files. In response to a batch uplo... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6662248 | Recording/reproducing apparatus using an IC memory A recording/reproducing apparatus using an IC memory, comprising: an IC memory to/from which writing/reading of an audio signal is performed; and a control circuit for controlling writing/reading of the audio signal to/from this IC memory, and its address... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6658384 | Data collection and automatic remote transmission system A personal medical dictation system that can be easily and conveniently used to capture and preserve audio information. The system includes a specially designed portable, hand-held recording component that is of a small size, but yet is capable of storing... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6615294 | Recording/reproducing apparatus using an IC memory A recording/reproducing apparatus using an IC memory includes an IC memory to/from which writing/reading of an audio signal is performed; and a control circuit for controlling writing/reading of the audio signal to/from this IC memory, and its address, an... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6590837 | Apparatus and method for annotating an object with an audio message An apparatus and method for annotating an object, such as a document, with an audio event is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a recording component that makes a recording of an audio event, a data code applicator that places a data code on the object af... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6549614 | Method and apparatus for recording and managing communications for transcription A server located at a first location for recording and managing communications for transcription generated at a second location. Clients contact the server to store communications for transcription. The client is given the option to create a user configur... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6529450 | Hand microphone interfaced to game controller port of personal computer A hand microphone and an adaptor module form an assembly which is a peripheral device for a personal computer. The hand microphone is used to control dictation functions to be carried out by the PC. Two separate analog control signal channels are output f... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6493672 | Automatic distribution of voice files The proceedings of a business meeting are recorded on a portable digital audio recorder. The resulting digitized speech signals are uploaded to a personal computer which is part of a data communication network. Users of the network may arrange to access t... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6182043 | Dictation system which compresses a speech signal using a user-selectable compression rate A dictation system is disclosed comprising a hand held dictation device (1) for storing a speech signal in memory means (15,20), the device comprising data compression means (30) for data compressing the speech signal into a data compressed speech signal ... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6175822 | Method and system for providing network based transcription services A method and system of providing network based transcription of free-form speech signals. A speech signal is recorded as a digital audio file in a storage medium and is then streamed over a data network to a client terminal for transcription. As the speec... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6163508 | Recording method having temporary buffering The initial portion of an audio work received from an audio source is temporarily buffered so as to allow a user to make a recording of an audio work, including the initial portion of the audio work, even when the decision to record is made after the audi... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6002558 | Method of and apparatus for expanding functionality of vehicle cassette tape-player decks to permit dictation or other recording and automatic remote station relaying of the same Method and apparatus for expanding the functionality of vehicle cassette tape player decks to permit driver dictation or other recording and automatic remote station relaying of same through integration with cellular radio telephone apparatus and the like... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5995936 | Report generation system and method for capturing prose, audio, and video by voice command and automatically linking sound and image to formatted text locations A system and method of automatically assembling voice information and image information into reports or data bases is disclosed. The system uses a microphone connected to a computer for converting spoken words into text and then parses the text to disting... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5974005 | Information processing apparatus and method enabling editing data tracks by using table data A track managing unit manages data tracks stored in a predetermined data region and a freely-usable part managing unit manages freely-usable parts in the predetermined data region. A restoring unit causes the track managing unit to manage the freely-usabl... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5956298 | Voice prompting and indexing dictation recorder A method for improving dictation recorders and systems by providing a means to separately and independently record and store and, during any later dictation recording session, separately retrieve and audibly replay multiple dictation-indexing voice-prompt... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5875436 | Virtual transcription system A computerized transcription system is based on a transcribe server that receives voice messages over long distance links, assigns jobs to technicians at remote locations, sends voice files to and receives transcribed work from the technicians, forwards t... | 02/23/1999 |
