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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 7099280 | Method and system for logging voice quality issues for communication connections A method and system for logging voice quality issues for a communication connection includes receiving a signal for logging quality information for a voice connection at an endpoint of the voice connection. Voice samples are collected from the voice connection at th... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099820 | Method and apparatus for concealing jitter buffer expansion and contraction Methods for concealing audible distortions resulting from changes in jitter buffer size include receiving an audio stream, storing the audio stream in a jitter buffer, and determining a pitch period associated with the audio stream. To expand the jitter buffer, a me... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7100000 | System and methods for processing audio using multiple speech technologies An audio splitting system for sharing speech data associated with the same utterance between multiple speech technologies (consumers). In one aspect, the system comprises one or more queues for storing data, a plurality of consumers each sharing the data stored in t... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7093500 | Tunable empty pipe function An electromagnetic flowmeter for measuring a flow rate of a fluid in a pipe is described. A pipe carries a fluid. A magnetic coil is disposed adjacent to the pipe for inducing a magnetic flux in the fluid. A plurality of electrodes are disposed within the pipe, and ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7089184 | Speech recognition for recognizing speaker-independent, continuous speech A speech recognition method and apparatus are provided for converting a voice stream into a digital voice stream representation. A method for performing speech recognition on a voice stream according to a first method embodiment includes the steps of determining one... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7085654 | Phase based system and method for determining signal consistency A phase based system and method for determining signal consistency (e.g., in a video signal processing system). Various aspects of the present invention may, for example, include receiving a first and second signal, each of which includes a respective first sub-sign... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7085711 | Method and apparatus for blind separation of an overcomplete set mixed signals A data processing system blind source separation of an overcomplete set of signals generally includes means for storing input from sensors in a mixed signal matrix X 200, noise in a noise matrix V 202, an estimate of the individual signals from the mix... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7085710 | Vehicle computer system audio entertainment system A vehicle computer system has an audio entertainment system implemented in a logic unit and audio digital signal processor (DSP) independent from the host CPU. The audio entertainment system employs a set of ping/pong buffers and direct memory access (DMA) circuits ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7082298 | Using a mobile device to compose an electronic message that includes audio content Methods, systems, and computer program products for using a mobile device to compose an electronic message by adding audio content to the message. Mobile devices include any type of portable or hand-held computing device, such as wireless telephones, personal digita... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7080010 | Complexity resource manager for multi-channel speech processing A multi-channel speech processor for encoding speech in a packet network environment is disclosed. In one illustrative aspect, a complexity resource manager (CRM) is executed by a controller or processor. The CRM manages the level of complexity of encoding which is ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7078608 | Mixing system control method, apparatus and program In order to set in advance, for each scene, setting data that should belong to (or should not belong to) a recall range, a predetermined recall setting window is displayed for a current data set representing current settings of a mixing system. Buttons in a paramete... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7080012 | Dynamic time division multiplexing of voice signals into Ethernet data streams over a WAN circuit The present invention injects and/or removes voice data into and/or out-of an Ethernet stream in a dynamic, Time Division Multiplexer-like manner, thus providing optimum quality Voice with minimal impact on data bandwidth. ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7076016 | Method and apparatus for buffering data samples in a software based ADSL modem A method and apparatus for buffering data samples in a software-based ADSL modem. The method includes receiving samples of data in a buffer and determining if the received samples of data will exceed the storage capacity of the buffer. Selected samples of data from ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7076049 | Method of designing a telecommunications call center interface A method is provided for designing an interface system. The method includes receiving a call from a customer at a call center, and logging a reason the customer is calling the call center. Subsequently, reasons from multiple customers are collected and categorized i... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7076421 | Method and system for supporting increased channel density An exemplary multi-channel speech processor comprises a controller capable of interfacing with a plurality of channels, and at least one signal processing unit (SPU) coupled to the controller, where the multi-channel speech processor has a maximum execution time for... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7072832 | System for speech encoding having an adaptive encoding arrangement In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a selector supports the selection of a first encoding scheme or the second encoding scheme based upon the detection or absence of the triggering characteristic in the interval of the input speech signal. The first enco... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072833 | Speech processing system A system is provided for detecting the presence of speech within an input audio signal. The system includes a memory for storing a predetermined function which gives, for a given set of audio signal values, a probability density for parameters of a predetermined spe... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7071847 | Encoding method of recording media An encoding method of recording media is used to speed up the encoding procedure in a recording media. Different conditions of states and paths set in advance during the encoding procedure to simply the actual operation loading for possible paths in the look-ahead c... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072477 | Method and apparatus for automatically normalizing a perceived volume level in a digitally encoded file Automatically normalizing a perceived loudness for a digitally encoded audio track formed of a number of channels during playback on a multimedia asset player is described. A number of auditory selectivity frequency bands are selected and for each channel in the tra... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072686 | Voice controlled multimedia and communications device A portable multimedia and communications device can include a transducive element for receiving sound. The device also can include a base unit having a plurality of multimedia units and a processor executing a speech recognition engine for recognizing user speech. E... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7071861 | Apparatus and method for transmitting a digitized signal, and a data source and data sink to implement the method The utilization of the capacity of a data transmission system (e.g., a MOST vehicle network) is improved in the event that the operating frequency and channel width of the system do not match the word frequency and word width of the digitized signal. The data words ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7069224 | Receiver for receiving audio data and audio-related information A method for transferring audio data and audio-related information includes: a generation step of generating second audio data from first audio data; a transmission step of transmitting the second audio data and audio-related information associated with the second a... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7065485 | Enhancing speech intelligibility using variable-rate time-scale modification The method and preprocessor enhances the intelligibility of narrowband speech without essentially lengthening the overall time duration of the signal. Both spectral enhancements and variable-rate time-scaling procedures are implemented to improve the salience of ini... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062431 | Speech analyzing stage and method for analyzing a speech signal A speech analyzing stage (12) and a method for analyzing a speech signal is described. The speech analyzing stage (12) is part of an automatic speech recognition system (10) and is adapted for analyzing in the spectral domain a speech signal sam... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058577 | Voice user interface with personality The present invention provides a voice user interface with personality. In one embodiment, a method includes executing a voice user interface, and controlling the voice user interface to provide the voice user interface with a personality. The method includes select... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058568 | Voice quality improvement for voip connections on low loss network The type of audio stored in the payload of a data packet transmitted over a data network is identified as speech audio or non-speech audio through the use of a non-speech identifier included in a header in the data packet. Upon detection of data packet containing no... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054805 | Method and system for allocating memory during encoding of a datastream Certain embodiments of the invention provide a method and system for allocating memory during encoding of an uncompressed information stream. A method for allocating memory during encoding of a uncompressed information stream may include allocating at least a portio... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054809 | Rate selection method for selectable mode vocoder There is provided rate selection methods and systems for selecting coding rates for coding frames of a speech signal to realize an average bit rate indicated by a mode. For example, a mode 0, mode 1, and a mode 2 may be defined, with each mode requiring a different ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050924 | Test signalling The perceptibility of degradations caused to signals transmitted over a transmission medium is measured by generating one or more predetermined transmission degradation conditions (et) and subjecting a test signal (St) to the transmission degra... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050972 | Enhancing the performance of coding systems that use high frequency reconstruction methods An apparatus for encoding an audio signal to obtain an encoded audio signal to be used by a decoder having a high frequency reconstruction module for performing a high frequency reconstruction for a frequency range above a crossover frequency includes, a core encode... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050818 | Location based service request system A wireless phone based system to accommodate users of wireless phones for providing information as to the location of certain services such as gasoline stations, movie theatres, drug stores, etc., includes the utilization of a GPS receiver and a wireless phone, with... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050553 | Communication device that provides enhanced services A communication device is described that includes a POTS interface system, a processing system, a conversion system, a voice interface system, and a digital interface system. When in operation, the POTS interface system receives analog voice signals for a call. The ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7047186 | Voice decoder, voice decoding method and program for decoding voice signals A voice decoder comprises the first voice decoding circuit which is specialized for decoding narrow band voice signal, the second voice decoding circuit which is specialized for decoding wide band voice signals, and a band determination circuit which determines whet... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7044741 | On demand contents providing method and system A system for providing customized audio content, based on a client-server communication network, includes a means for producing a plurality of audio content with different attributes; and a content-providing server for converting the plurality of audio content into ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046795 | Method and apparatus for active latency characterization Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a method for actively characterizing the latency of an audio channel of a computer, such as a personal computer, is provided. At least two signal streams for a waveform are created in the audio channel. Th... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047185 | Method and apparatus for dynamically switching between speech coders of a mobile unit as a function of received signal quality A power management system for a mobile unit wherein the mobile unit detects the quality of the signals received from the base station. Based on this signal quality, the mobile unit determines if the voice data could be adequately transmitted using a secondary speech... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047196 | System and method of voice recognition near a wireline node of a network supporting cable television and/or video delivery A method and system of speech recognition presented by a back channel from multiple user sites within a network supporting cable television and/or video delivery is disclosed. The preferred embodiment of the invention comprises ans system and method of using a back ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7038327 | Anisotropic conductive film bonding pad Enhanced ACF bonding pads for use in conjunction with anisotropic conductive film (ACF) in electronic devices, such as, liquid crystal display panels and plasma display panels have at least two finger-like portions. Such bonding pads, typically provided on a flexibl... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039698 | Notification device interaction Devices and methods are disclosed for establishing device interaction among electronic devices of a device environment and a notification device interfaced with the user. Notification devices allow the user to communicate directly with the device environment, such a... | 05/02/2006 |
