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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189814 | Multiplayer participation type gaming system having walls for limiting dialogue voices outputted from gaming machine A multiplayer participation type gaming system, comprising: a plurality of gaming machines arranged on a predetermined play area; and a sound insulating wall disposed between adjacent gaming machines among the gaming machines, each of the gaming machines carries out... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8094838 | Voice command of audio emitting device A method of extracting a voice command produced in an enclosed or partially enclosed environment, includes providing an impulse response signal of the enclosed or partially enclosed environment; recording the voice command and ambient sounds; and using the impulse r... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8081778 | VOX circuit with 2-wire interfaces A VOX interface is provided that interfaces with at least two communication paths to two separate devices. One communication path may be to a first electronic device, such as a central monitoring station remote from the VOX interface, and another communication path ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8059835 | Impulsive communication activated computer control device and method An impulsive communication activated device for connection to a computer input port for controlling a computer, is disclosed. The disclosed device includes an output connector for communicating with the computer input port, and includes a sensor for detecting an imp... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8023666 | Voice input support program, voice input support device, and voice input support method There is provided a voice input support program, voice input support device, and voice input support method for assisting users to input voice properly. A voice input support program executable from a computer, for assisting voice input under a noisy environment by ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8014542 | System and method of providing audio content A system, set-top box, and method of providing audio content are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the set-top box device includes an audio input device that is configured to receive a voice command. The set-top box device also includes a display disposed on a ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7929713 | External ear canal voice detection Ear-level full duplex audio communication systems each include one or two ear attachment devices, such as in-the-ear (ITE) or behind-the-ear (BTE) devices, that wirelessly communicates to a remote device such as a computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a cell... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7724910 | Atmosphere control device The present invention provides elimination of atmosphere that is not suitable to a space concerned by controlling atmosphere. The present invention is characterized that atmosphere in space is analyzed based on voice, and if atmosphere that is not suitable to... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7706553 | Auto-mute command stream by voice-activated remote control A voice-activated, or voice-operated, remote control is adapted to reduce or eliminate the sound output of one or more entertainment appliances in order quiet the environment and thereby improve the effectiveness and accuracy its voice recognition functions. In one ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7512245 | Method for detection of own voice activity in a communication device In the method according to the invention a signal processing unit receives signals from at least two microphones worn on the user's head, which are processed so as to distinguish as well as possible between the sound from the user's mouth and sounds originating from... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7427921 | Monitoring system capable of generating audible messages A system for generating an audible message to a human includes an apparatus having an input for receiving an audio message. The audio message is stored in a memory. An output may be used for rendering the audio message. The apparatus further includes a microphone an... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7415116 | Method and system for improving communication in a vehicle An embodiment and/or method to improve communication in a vehicle. Voice signals of the occupants of a vehicle may be picked up on an individual basis via separately arranged microphones. The individually picked-up voice signals may then be amplified separately for ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7366309 | Robot A robot includes first and second microphones and movable portions. The first microphone gathers a first sound reception signal by gathering mainly a target signal. The second microphone gathers a second reception sound signal by gathering mainly noise other than th... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366663 | Measuring a talking quality of a telephone link in a telecommunications network For measuring the influence of noise on the talking quality of a telephone link in a telecommunications network, a talker speech signal (s(t)) and a degraded speech signal (s′(t)) are fed to an objective measurement device for obtaining an output signal (q) repres... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7353169 | Transient detection and modification in audio signals A system and method are disclosed for transient detection and modification in audio signals. Digital signal processing techniques are used to detect transients and modify an audio signal to enhance or suppress such transients, as desired. A transient audio event is ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349158 | Diffraction grating-based encoded micro-particles for multiplexed experiments Microparticles 8 includes an optical substrate 10 having at least one diffraction grating 12 disposed therein. The grating 12 having a plurality of colocated pitches Λ which represent a unique identification digital code that is detected... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343362 | Low complexity classification from a single unattended ground sensor node Disclosed are a system and method of multi-modality sensor data classification and fusion comprising partitioning data stored in a read only memory unit on a sensor node using a low query complexity boundary-decision classifier, applying an iterative two-dimensional... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342492 | Electrical appliance A device 15, 2 to 6 and 10 to 14 for controlling appliance functions and for communicating with a user need not stay switched on during the entire operating time. These mostly include optical indicating means 10 to 14 whose ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340070 | Voice-data processing circuit and voice-data processing method When selecting a specific input source that can be processed by only a second voice-data processing unit instead of an input source currently being processed by a first voice-data processing unit, a voice-data processing circuit selects and delivers an input source ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7321857 | Systems and methods for TV navigation with compressed voice-activated commands A method, apparatus and system that receives speech commands at a remote control device microphone, digitizes those input speech commands, compresses the digitized speech commands, multiplexes control commands with the compressed digitized speech commands, and trans... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7292981 | Signal variation feature based confidence measure A method for predicting a misrecognition in a speech recognition system, is based on; the insight that variations in a speech input signal are different depending on the origin of the signal being a speech or a non-speech event. The method comprises steps for receiv... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7286992 | Voice control system for surgical microscopes A control apparatus, in particular for a surgical microscope (8), has a voice operating unit (2) and at least one other operating unit such as a manual operating unit (4), a foot-controlled operating unit (5), and/or an eye-controlled ope... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7277766 | Method and system for analyzing digital audio files A method and system for analyzing audio files is provided. Plural audio file feature vector values based on an audio file's content are determined and the audio file feature vectors are stored in a database that also stores other pre-computed audio file features. Th... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7271579 | AC signal level detection circuit An AC voltage generated by an AC power source 1 is rectified by a full-wave rectifying circuit 2, which generates a rectified voltage. An internal regulator 33 performs waveform shaping of the rectified voltage. A comparator 42 compares t... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7266206 | Channel down mixing apparatus for car audio system The present invention relates to a channel down mixing apparatus for a car audio system for reducing manufacture cost and switching noise by implementing a sub-woofer down mixing portion, a buffer portion and a switching circuit portion to one body with an applicati... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260538 | Method and apparatus for voice control of a television control device A method and apparatus is disclosed for remotely processing voice commands for controlling a television. A voice command is uttered by a user into a microphone contained in a remote control. The voice command is digitized, modulated, compressed, and wirelessly trans... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259906 | System and method for voice control of medical devices A light source includes a wavelength shifter that is capable of shifting a shorter optical signal wavelength to a longer optical signal wavelength based at least in part on a Raman effect in a waveguide. The wavelength shifter includes a pump laser that operable to ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254535 | Method and apparatus for equalizing a speech signal generated within a pressurized air delivery system A method for equalizing a speech signal generated within a pressurized air delivery system, the method including the steps of: generating an inhalation noise model (1152) based on inhalation noise; receiving an input signal (802) that includes a speech... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7247139 | Method and apparatus for natural voice control of an ultrasound machine The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing voice control of a device, an ultrasound device for example. One embodiment of the present invention comprises an apparatus for providing voice control of the ultrasound device having a plurality ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7236603 | Device and method to adapt a hearing device In the adaptation of hearing devices to specific auditory situations, mistakes can be reduced between detected auditory situations, and individual classifications should be enabled. For this, evaluation data are provided for various predetermined auditory situations... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7236859 | Remote control system for a locomotive A remote control system for a locomotive. The remote control system includes a lead controller and follower controller connected to one another over a wireless communication link. The lead controller issues commands over the wireless communication link and those com... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7236638 | Methods and apparatus for reduction of high dimensional data Data compression techniques particularly applicable to high dimensional data. The invention uses a hierarchical partitioning approach in conjunction with a subspace sampling methodology which is sensitive to a subject data set. The dual nature of this hierarchical p... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7231060 | Systems and methods of generating control signals Separating a source in a stereo signal having a left channel and a right channel includes transforming the signal into a short-time transform domain; computing a short-time similarity measure between the left channel and the right channel; classifying portions of th... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7228229 | Information processing device and travel information voice guidance method An information processing device and travel information voice guidance method for moving objects, capable of reliably providing travel information through voice guidance while avoiding insofar as possible the interruption of the user's enjoyment of music during musi... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7206414 | Method and device for selecting a sound algorithm The invention relates to a method for selecting a sound algorithm for processing an audio signal. The audio signal is analyzed and the type of audio signal is ascertained based on the analysis. The audio signal is classified as a music signal or another signal, and ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203322 | Acoustic detector with noise cancellation An acoustic detector that includes active noise cancellation is presented. An acoustic detector converts sound waves, which include sound waves of interest as well as noise, to an electronic signal. An operator listens for a characteristic sound, for example the sou... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7194755 | Information signal transmission system and remote control device for the same An information signal transmission system and a remote control device for such a system for allowing a viewer to continuously watch, for example, in a bedroom a program the viewer has watched in a living room. A recipient of information is detected referring to iden... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7190522 | Chemical synthesis using diffraction grating-based encoded optical elements An optical identification element having a synthesized chemical attached thereto includes an optical substrate having at least one diffraction grating disposed therein, the grating having a resultant refractive variation at a grating location, said grating being emb... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7190799 | Audio routing for an automobile An audio signal processing system for a vehicle is disclosed. The vehicle has a plurality of audio output producing devices. The system includes an audio input circuit, a processor, an audio output circuit, and at lease one speaker. The audio input circuit receives ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7184556 | Compensation system and method for sound reproduction A sound compensation system alters an electrical audio signal for input to a sonic reproduction device having associated behavioral characteristics. The behavior characteristics of the device are defined by individual or groups of individual components of the sonic ... | 02/27/2007 |
