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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8140329 | Method and apparatus for automatically recognizing audio data A method and apparatus are proposed for automatically recognizing observed audio data. An observation vector is created of audio features extracted from the observed audio data and the observed audio data is recognized from the observation vector. The audio features... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8010356 | Parameter learning in a hidden trajectory model Parameters for distributions of a hidden trajectory model including means and variances are estimated using an acoustic likelihood function for observation vectors as an objection function for optimization. The estimation includes only acoustic data and not any inte... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7412384 | Digital signal processing method, learning method, apparatuses for them, and program storage medium A digital signal processing method and learning method and devices therefor, and a program storage medium which are capable of further improving the waveform reproducibility of a digital signal. Self correlation coefficients are calculated by cutting parts out of th... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7356464 | Method and device for estimating signal power in compressed audio using scale factors Estimating a signal power in a compressed audio signal [A] is provided, the audio signal comprising blocks of quantized samples, a given block being provided with a set of scale factors. The estimating is performed by extracting the set of scale factors from the com... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7337109 | Multiple step adaptive method for time scaling A multiple step adaptive method for time scaling. Synthesizing S3[n] signal from signal S1[n]signal and S2[n]signal. Comprising following steps: (a) calculating a first magnitude of a cross-correlation function of S1[n]sig... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7327885 | Method for detecting short term unusual events in videos A method detects short term, unusual events in a video. First, features are extracted features from the audio and the video portions of the video. Segments of the video are labeled according to the features. A global sliding window is applied to the labeled segments... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7284200 | Organization of handwritten notes using handwritten titles A system and method for associating an ink title with a note is described. A user may hand write a title for a document or note and have the handwritten ink title be displayed when interacting with the system when, for example, viewing the contents of a directory, r... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7269557 | Coarticulated concatenated speech Described are methods and systems for reducing the audible gap in concatenated recorded speech, resulting in more natural sounding speech in voice applications. The sound of concatenated, recorded speech is improved by also coarticulating the recorded speech. The re... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7257528 | Method and apparatus for Chinese character text input A method and apparatus for inputting Chinese character text into a machine such as a word processor or personal computer. The system consists of an apparatus which forms a closed feedback loop with the operator. The operator supplies stroke selections and other data... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7239321 | Static and dynamic 3-D human face reconstruction A system for three-dimensional (3-D) facial animation, including a base 3-D surface model representing a human face, and a set of displacement fields representing surface motion patterns associated with muscle movements. Each displacement field is a displacement vec... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7240207 | Fingerprinting media entities employing fingerprint algorithms and bit-to-bit comparisons A system and methods for the creation, management, and distribution of media entity fingerprinting are provided. In connection with a system that convergently merges perceptual and digital signal processing analysis of media entities for purposes of classifying the ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7231348 | Tone detection algorithm for a voice activity detector There is provided a voice activity detection method for indicating an active voice mode and an inactive voice mode. The method comprises receiving an input signal having a plurality of frames, determining whether each of the plurality of frames includes an active vo... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7212968 | Pattern matching method and apparatus A dynamic programming technique is provided for matching two sequences of phonemes both of which may be generated from text or speech. The scoring of the dynamic programming matching technique uses phoneme confusion scores, phoneme insertion scores and phoneme delet... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7181437 | Associative database scanning and information retrieval A method and device are disclosed for an associative and approximate, analog or digital scanning of databases that allows for the asynchronous accessing of data from a mass storage medium. The invention includes providing dedicated analog and digital circuitry and d... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181386 | Systems and methods for generating weighted finite-state automata representing grammars A context-free grammar can be represented by a weighted finite-state transducer. This representation can be used to efficiently compile that grammar into a weighted finite-state automaton that accepts the strings allowed by the grammar with the corresponding weights... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7174293 | Audio identification system and method A method and system for direct audio capture and identification of the captured audio. A user may then be offered the opportunity to purchase recordings directly over the Internet or similar outlet. The system preferably includes one or more user-carried portable au... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7162215 | Method and system for setting user preference satellite radio music selections in a mobile vehicle A system and method is directed to setting user preference satellite radio music selections in a mobile vehicle. The method provides creating at least one vehicle preference selection list utilizing a user interface, transferring the vehicle preference selection lis... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7139705 | Determination of the time relation between speech signals affected by time warping A method of determining the time relation between an original or input speech signal (10) and an output speech signal (15) affected by time warping in a communications system, such as a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) system. Wherein corresponding ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7130292 | Optical processor enhanced receiver architecture (opera) A method and apparatus for enhancing the receiving and information identification functions of multiple access communications systems by employing one or more optical processors configured as a bank of 1-D correlators. The present invention is particularly useful in... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7124085 | Constraint-based speech recognition system and method A constraint-based speech recognition system for use with a form-filling application employed over a telephone system is disclosed. The system comprises an input signal, wherein the input signal includes both speech input and non-speech input of a type generated by ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7080253 | Audio fingerprinting A system and methods for the creation, management, and distribution of media entity fingerprinting are provided. In connection with a system that convergently merges perceptual and digital signal processing analysis of media entities for purposes of classifying the ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7065544 | System and method for detecting repetitions in a multimedia stream Large amounts of multimedia data are transmitted over information networks in the form of a digital stream, analog video, or text captioning. Often, repetitions such as paid advertisements, theme music at the commencement of a TV broadcast, and common jingles and sl... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7058569 | Fast waveform synchronization for concentration and time-scale modification of speech A synthesis method for concatenative speech synthesis is provided for efficiently concatenating waveform segments in the time-domain. A digital waveform provider produces an input sequence of digital waveform segments. A waveform concatenator concatenates the input ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7035798 | Speech recognition system including speech section detecting section A trained vector generation section 16 generates beforehand a trained vector v of unvoiced sounds. An LPC Cepstrum analysis section 18 generates a feature vector A of a voice within the non-voice period, an inner product operation section 19 cal... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7020604 | Audio information processing method, audio information processing apparatus, and method of recording audio information on recording medium A harmonic generation circuit compares audio data supplied from the outside every sample, detects a top-peak and an under-peak of the audio data on the basis of the comparison outputs, and detects patterns of the comparison output between continuous top-peak and und... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6996291 | Systems and methods for correlating images in an image correlation system with reduced computational loads After one or both of a pair of images are obtained, an auto-correlation function for one of those images is generated to determine a smear amount and possibly a smear direction. The smear amount and direction are used to identify potential locations of a peak portio... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6980950 | Automatic utterance detector with high noise immunity An utterance detector for speech recognition is described. The detector consists of two components. The first part makes a speech/non-speech decision for each incoming speech frame. The decision is based on a frequency-selective autocorrelation function obtained by ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6978240 | Speech translation system utilizing holographic data storage medium A speech translation system and method are disclosed utilizing a holographic storage medium having a plurality of frames therein, each frame containing one or more discrete speech wave forms thereon for comparison with a spoken word wave form to select a wave form o... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6965631 | Low power passive correlators for multichannel global positioning system signal receiver One embodiment of the present invention includes a circular shift register, K storage elements, and a code register. The circular shift register having N data samples circularly shifts a first data sample of the N data samples into a data position at a first clock f... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6944579 | SIGNAL SEPARATION METHOD, SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR RESTORING MULTIDIMENSIONAL SIGNALS FROM OBSERVED DATA IN WHICH MULTIPLE SIGNALS ARE MIXED Signals are separated by introducing a function having a monotonously increasing characteristic like an exponential type function as a cost function, and applying an adaptive algorithm that minimizes that cost function in terms of a signal separation matrix. That is... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6920424 | Determination and use of spectral peak information and incremental information in pattern recognition Generally, the present invention determines and uses spectral peak information, which preferably augments feature vectors and creates augmented feature vectors. The augmented feature vectors decrease errors in pattern recognition, increase noise immunity for wide-ba... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6920188 | Method and apparatus for processing a multiple-component wide dynamic range signal An apparatus is provided for processing a wide dynamic range analog signal which comprises multiple components such as a signal with an in-phase component and a quadrature-phase component in for example separate I and Q data channels, wherein each channel has a dyna... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6912504 | Distributing television advertisements over the internet A client processor-based system may receive software from a web site server as well as information about when commercial advertisements will be distributed over video distribution systems. This information may be used by the client processor-based system to automati... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6823305 | Apparatus and method for speaker normalization based on biometrics Speaker normalization is carried out based on biometric information available about a speaker, such as his height, or a dimension of a bodily member or article of clothing. The chosen biometric parameter correlates with the vocal tract length. Speech can be normaliz... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6687672 | Methods and apparatus for blind channel estimation based upon speech correlation structure Methods and apparatus for blind channel estimation of a speech signal corrupted by a communication channel are provided. One method includes converting a noisy speech signal into either a cepstral representation or a log-spectral representation; estimatin... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6560575 | Speech processing apparatus and method An apparatus is provided for checking the consistency between two training words which can be used in, for example, a speech recognition or verification system. Two training examples are aligned using a dynamic programming alignment process and an average... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6314392 | Method and apparatus for clustering-based signal segmentation In a computerized method a continuous signal is segmented in order to determine statistically stationary units of the signal. The continuous signal is sampled at periodic intervals to produce a timed sequence of digital samples. Fixed numbers of adjacent ... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6275799 | Reference pattern learning system A first parameter set constituting reference patterns of each category in speech recognition based on pattern matching with a reference pattern is to be determined from a plurality of learning utterance data. The first parameter set is determined so that ... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6253175 | Wavelet-based energy binning cepstal features for automatic speech recognition Systems and methods for processing acoustic speech signals which utilize the wavelet transform (and alternatively, the Fourier transform) as a fundamental tool. The method essentially involves "synchrosqueezing" spectral component data obtained by perform... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6201960 | Speech quality measurement based on radio link parameters and objective measurement of received speech signals An improved method and system of measuring the perceived speech quality in mobile telecommunications networks is disclosed herein. In an embodiment of the invention, the method uses both radio link parameters and an objective measuring technique performed... | 03/13/2001 |
