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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185372 | Apparatus, method and computer program product for translating speech input using example An apparatus includes a first search unit that searches a storage unit for a first example of a first language based on a sentence in the first language; a second search unit that searches for a second example of a second language corresponding to the first example,... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185373 | Method of assessing language translation and interpretation A method of assessing quality of language translation and interpretation by receiving source material and a translation, identifying the source material's content and format, assigning a first rating to the source material's level of difficulty in translating the so... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8175864 | Identifying nearest neighbors for machine translation This specification describes technologies relating to identifying nearest neighbors are provided. In one implementation, a method includes using a first and a second collections of n-grams and their associated probabilities to generate a plurality of randomized rank... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8155944 | Translation apparatus, translation method and computer readable medium A translation apparatus includes: an image acquiring unit that acquires an original document image read from an original document including an original sentence in a first language; a translating unit that translates the original sentence into a second language; a l... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150677 | Machine translation using language order templates Many machine translation scenarios involve the generation of a language translation rule set based on parallel training corpuses (e.g., sentences in a first language and word-for-word translations into a second language.) However, the translation of a source corpus ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150678 | Spoken document retrieval system The present invention provides a spoken document retrieval system capable of high-speed and high-accuracy retrieval of where a user-specified keyword is uttered from spoken documents, even if the spoken documents are large in amount. Candidate periods are narrowed d... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145472 | Language translation using a hybrid network of human and machine translators A Hybrid Distributed Network Language Translation (HDNLT) system having a distributed network of human and machine translators that communicate electronically and provide for the translation of material in source language. Individual translators receive a reputation... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140322 | Method of managing error risk in language translation Methods for analyzing, evaluating, and controlling risk of errors in language translation of medical device labeling are disclosed. The disclosed methods include identifying the risk level of the device; identifying the safety function(s) of the content that is tran... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135573 | Apparatus, method, and computer program product for creating data for learning word translation An input unit receives an input sentence in a source language. A translation generating unit generates a translation in a target language with respect to a word included in the input sentence and likelihood of the translation in the target language. A correspondence... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8126698 | Technique for improving accuracy of machine translation A system for translating messages is provided. The system includes a parsing unit that parses a first message and a second message in which the same content is respectively described in a first language and a second language that are different from each other so as ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126699 | Process for translating machine shorthand into text A method for translating stenographic strokes includes the steps of receiving a series of stenographic strokes, creating a table of translations of one or more strokes within the series of strokes, sequentially assigning a score to each of the one or more strokes, d... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126697 | System and method for language coding negotiation Systems and methods are provided for establishing a communication session between a first and second communication device. A request may be received for a communication session from the first communication device, the request indicating a language for media streams ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8108202 | Machine translation method for PDF file Disclosed is a machine translation method for a PDF file. A machine translation device extracts source language text and non-text from the input source language PDF file through image transformation, corrects the extracted source language text by using the source la... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8090570 | Simultaneous translation of open domain lectures and speeches A real-time open domain speech translation system for simultaneous translation of a spoken presentation that is a spoken monologue comprising one of a lecture, a speech, a presentation, a colloquium, and a seminar. The system includes an automatic speech recognition... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086439 | Translation of text into numbers A text string representing a number in a specific language is converted to a text string by tokenizing the string, distributing the tokens across a multi-level data structure to find possible distributions, and analyzing the combinations to find a valid distribution... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086440 | System and method of prioritizing automated translation of communications from a first human language to a second human language A method of prioritizing the automated translation of communications relating to a predetermined topic includes capturing and inputting into a data processing system a translation-candidate communication rendered in a first human language. A first data set represent... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082142 | Speech recognition method, speech recognition system and server thereof A speech recognition method includes a model selection step which selects a recognition model and translation dictionary information based on characteristic information of input speech and a speech recognition step which translates input speech into text data based ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8073677 | Speech translation apparatus, method and computer readable medium for receiving a spoken language and translating to an equivalent target language Speech translation apparatus includes first generation unit generating first text representing speech recognition result, and first prosody information, second generation unit generating first para-language information, first association unit associating each first ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069028 | 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... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8069027 | Word alignment apparatus, method, and program product, and example sentence bilingual dictionary A word alignment apparatus includes a word extracting portion that extracts each word from an example sentence and from a translation sentence thereof, an alignment calculator that calculates at least one of a similarity degree and an association degree between a wo... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8069029 | Handheld electronic device having multiple-axis input device and selectable language indicator for language selection, and associated method A method of enabling input into a handheld electronic device comprises detecting as an ambiguous input an actuation of one or more input members, employing an operative input method language to output a number of objects that are selectable and that each comprise at... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8060358 | HMM alignment for combining translation systems A computing system configured to produce an optimized translation hypothesis of text input into the computing system. The computing system includes a plurality of translation machines. Each of the translation machines is configured to produce their own translation h... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055495 | Apparatus and method for translating input speech sentences in accordance with information obtained from a pointing device An associated-information storage unit stores a name of associated information and a display position in association with each other. An example storage unit stores a semantic class, an example in a source language, and an example in a target language in association... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050906 | Systems and methods for translating text Systems and methods for translating text are disclosed. The systems and methods parse source text into source text segments and style attributes that are associated with the source text segments. A database may be queried for translation text segments in a desired l... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046211 | Technologies for statistical machine translation based on generated reordering knowledge A method of statistical machine translation (SMT) is provided. The method comprises generating reordering knowledge based on the syntax of a source language (SL) and a number of alignment matrices that map sample SL sentences with sample target language (TL) sentenc... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041555 | Language translation based on a location of a wireless device A method, information processing system, and wireless communication device that translate text within an image captured by a wireless device. At least one image (114) is received image from a wireless device (104). A location where the image (114 | 10/18/2011 |
| 8032356 | Spoken translation system using meta information strings Spoken translation system which detects both speech from the information and also detects meta information streams from the information. A first aspect produces an enriched training corpus of information for use in the machine translation. A second aspect uses two d... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8032355 | Socially cognizant translation by detecting and transforming elements of politeness and respect A socially-cognizant translation system that takes social state between speaker and listener into account when making the translation. The translation may be more formal or less formal based on the social relationship between speaker and listener. Profanities in the... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027830 | Method and device for a source language to be understood by a listener mastering a target language The invention concerns a method for source language comprehension designed for a listener mastering a target language, which consists in causing the listener to listen to a statement, consisting of a series of several contents, in the source language and in displayi... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8005662 | Translation method, translation output method and storage medium, program, and computer used therewith A translation method for properly recognizing and automatically translating a sentence containing an emphasized word including two or more successive identical characters. First, words in a source text to be translated are looked up in a dictionary (step S201... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7991607 | Translation and capture architecture for output of conversational utterances Architecture that combines capture and translation of concepts, goals, needs, locations, objects, locations, and items (e.g., sign text) into complete conversational utterances that take a translation of the item, and morph it with fluidity into sets of sentences th... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7987087 | Method and system for improved software localization A method, system, and computer program for software localization extracts text from resource files, handles file management of the resource files, and uses a database for storage. A method for localizing software comprises extracting text strings in a first language... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7983898 | Generating a phrase translation model by iteratively estimating phrase translation probabilities A phrase translation model is trained without assuming a segmentation of training data into non-overlapping phrase pairs. Instead, the training algorithm assumes that any particular phrase instance has only a single phrase instance in another language as its transla... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983897 | Machine translation feedback Methods, program products and systems for first receiving an indication of when a user-manipulable cursor is positioned in proximity to a first presentation of first text in a graphical user interface (GUI), the first text being in a first language. In response to t... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983895 | System and method for generating grammatically correct text strings A system and method for generating grammatically correct text in a target language based on one or more text templates and corresponding context in a source language comprises a software module configured to select one or more source language text templates and corr... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983896 | In-context exact (ICE) matching Methods, systems and program product are disclosed for determining a matching level of a text lookup segment with a plurality of source texts in a translation memory in terms of context. In particular, the invention determines any exact matches for the lookup segmen... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7970784 | Multi-lingual information display in a single language portal A multi-lingual search and display system and/or methodology. The system providing a single point of access to information in multiple languages by executing a query against a set of targets, where the set of targets can include continents, countries, regions, geogr... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970598 | System for automated translation of speech The present invention allows subscribers to an online information service to participate in real-time conferencing or chat sessions in which a message originating from a subscriber in accordance with a first language is translated to one or more languages before it ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7966170 | Computer program product and computer system for language-enhanced programming tools Statements of a computer program expressed using a first source natural language are made meaningful to a programmer familiar with a second target natural language. The first source natural language of the computer program is determined from the programmer, or throu... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7957953 | Weighted linear bilingual word alignment model A weighted linear word alignment model linearly combines weighted features to score a word alignment for a bilingual, aligned pair of text fragments. The features are each weighted by a feature weight. One of the features is a word association metric, which may be g... | 06/07/2011 |
