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Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter
A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.
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| 8050917 | Method and apparatus for identification of conference call participants A system including a conferencing telephone coupled to or in communication with an identification service. The identification service is configured to poll user devices of conference participants to determine or confirm identities. In response, the user devices tran... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8024186 | System and method for location based interaction with a device Embodiments of these location-based systems and methods for device interaction may allow a content delivery system to provide certain content to a device, or restrict certain content from being delivered to the device, based on the location of the device. When a use... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8005674 | Data modeling of class independent recognition models A recognition model set is generated. A technique is described to take advantage of the logarithm likelihood of real data for cross entropy to measure the mismatch between a training data and a training data derived model, and compare such type of mismatches between... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7979277 | Speech recognition circuit and method A speech recognition circuit comprising a circuit for providing state identifiers which identify states corresponding to nodes or groups of adjacent nodes in a lexical tree, and for providing scores corresponding to said state identifiers, the lexical tree comprisin... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7970609 | Method of estimating sound arrival direction, sound arrival direction estimating apparatus, and computer program product Sound signals from sound sources present in multiple directions are accepted as inputs of multiple channels, and signal of each channel is transformed into a signal on a frequency axis. A phase component of the transformed signal is calculated for each identical fre... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7904294 | System and method for processing speech recognition An automatic speech recognition (ASR) system and method is provided for controlling the recognition of speech utterances generated by an end user operating a communications device. The ASR system and method can be used with a mobile device that is used in a communic... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7853449 | Methods and apparatus for generating dialog state conditioned language models Techniques are provided for generating improved language modeling. Such improved modeling is achieved by conditioning a language model on a state of a dialog for which the language model is employed. For example, the techniques of the invention may improve modeling ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7664639 | Apparatus and methods for speech recognition A telephone dialing speech recognition method includes determining a location associated with a cellular telephone from geographic indications provided by the cellular telephone, and selects associated search information as a function of the location. Speech based d... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7475013 | Speaker recognition using local models A system and method for voice recognition is disclosed. The system enrolls speakers using an enrollment voice samples and identification information. An extraction module characterizes enrollment voice samples with high-dimensional feature vectors or speaker data po... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7421305 | Audio duplicate detector The present invention relates to a system and methodology to facilitate automatic management and pruning of audio files residing in a database. Audio fingerprinting is a powerful tool for identifying streaming or file-based audio, using a database of fingerprints. D... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7403891 | Apparatus and method for recognizing biological named entity from biological literature based on UMLS The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for recognizing biological named entity from biological literature based on united medical language system (UMLS). The apparatus and the method receives metathesaurus from the UMLS, constructs a concept name d... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7379868 | Method and apparatus for differential compression of speaker models A differential compression technique is disclosed for compression individual speaker models, such as Gaussian mixture models, by computing a delta model from the difference between an individual speaker model and a baseline model. Further compression may be applied ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7369993 | System and method of pattern recognition in very high-dimensional space A system and method of recognizing speech comprises an audio receiving element and a computer server. The audio receiving element and the computer server perform the process steps of the method. The method involves training a stored set of phonemes by converting the... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366352 | Method and apparatus for performing fast closest match in pattern recognition A method and apparatus for determining a closest match of N input patterns relative to R reference patterns using K processing units. Each of a set of input patterns are loaded into the K processing units. One of the Reference patterns is sequentially loaded into ea... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363222 | Method for searching data in at least two databases A method and database system is disclosed for searching data in at least two databases (Dn), particularly for searching telephone directories or the like. To allow simultaneous access to two or more databases by means of speech recognition in order to per... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356467 | Method for processing recognized speech using an iterative process For processing recognized speech a method is proposed, which comprises the steps of receiving and/or generating (S0) recognized speech data (RSD), determining and/or generating (S1) a current measure of confidence (CMOC) for at least possibly erroneous... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356466 | Method and apparatus for performing observation probability calculations A method and apparatus for calculating an observation probability includes a first operation unit that subtracts a mean of a first plurality of parameters of an input voice signal from a second parameter of an input voice signal, and multiplies the subtraction resul... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349576 | Method, device and computer program for recognition of a handwritten character A method for recognition of a handwritten character comprises the steps of determining a plurality of position features defining the handwritten character, and comparing the handwritten character to reference characters stored in a database in order to find the clos... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340392 | Multiple sound fragments processing and load balancing A method, system and article of manufacture of recognizing a voice command. One embodiment of the invention comprises: receiving a voice input; using the number of sound fragments, determining a number of sound fragments to be processed in a first set of sound fragm... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7330813 | Speech processing apparatus and mobile communication terminal A speech processing apparatus able to enhance formants more naturally, wherein a speech analyzing unit analyzes an input speech signal to find LPCs and converts the LPCs to LSPs, a speech decoding unit calculates a distance between adjacent orders of the LSPs by an ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328153 | Automatic identification of sound recordings Copies of original sound recordings are identified by extracting features from the copy, creating a vector of those features, and comparing that vector against a database of vectors. Identification can be performed for copies of sound recordings that have been subje... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321853 | Speech recognition apparatus and speech recognition method The present invention relates to a speech recognition apparatus and a speech recognition method for speech recognition with improved accuracy. A distance calculator 47 determines the distance from a microphone 21 to a user uttering. Data indicating the... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7315819 | Apparatus for performing speaker identification and speaker searching in speech or sound image data, and method thereof A process of identifying a speaker in coded speech data and a process of searching for the speaker are efficiently performed with fewer computations and with a smaller storage capacity. In an information search apparatus, an LSP decoding section extracts and decodes... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315813 | Method of speech segment selection for concatenative synthesis based on prosody-aligned distance measure A method of speech segment selection for concatenative synthesis based on prosody-aligned distance measure is disclosed. This method is based on comparison of speech segments segmented from a speech corpus, wherein speech segments are fully prosody-aligned to each o... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313154 | TDD frame format A method of operating in a point-to-multipoint communication system with a base station and a plurality of remote stations, wherein the communication system enables transmission of data in a multicast mode with different Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) levels,... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7295979 | Language context dependent data labeling Bootstrapping of a system from one language to another often works well when the two languages share the similar acoustic space. However, when the new language has sounds that do not occur in the language from which the bootstrapping is to be done, bootstrapping doe... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295978 | Systems and methods for using one-dimensional gaussian distributions to model speech A system for recognizing speech receives an input speech vector and identifies a Gaussian distribution. The system determines an address from the input speech vector (610) and uses the address to retrieve a distance value for the Gaussian distribution from a ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7283951 | Method and system for enhanced data searching Methods and systems for syntactically indexing and searching data sets to achieve more accurate search results are provided. Example embodiments provide a Syntactic Query Engine (“SQE”) that parses, indexes, and stores a data set, as well as processes natural la... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7274821 | System and method to facilitate pattern recognition by deformable matching A system and method to facilitate pattern recognition or matching between patterns are disclosed that is substantially invariant to small transformations. A substantially smooth deformation field is applied to a derivative of a first pattern and a resulting deformat... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7263484 | Phonetic searching An improved method and apparatus is disclosed which uses probabilistic techniques to map an input search string with a prestored audio file, and recognize certain portions of a search string phonetically. An improved interface is disclosed which permits users to inp... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7249017 | Speech recognition with score calculation In order to prevent degradation of speech recognition accuracy due to an unknown word, a dictionary database has stored therein a word dictionary in which are stored, in addition to words for the objects of speech recognition, suffixes, which are sound elements and ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7231349 | Method and apparatus for compressing asymmetric clustering language models A method and data structure are provided for efficiently storing asymmetric clustering models. The models are stored by storing a first level record for a word identifier and two second level records, one for a word identifier and one for a cluster identifier. An in... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7227994 | Method and apparatus for imbedded pattern recognition using dual alternating pointers A method and apparatus for finding a reference pattern (RP) with K elements imbedded in an input pattern IP with repeating substrings uses dual pointers to point to elements in the RP to compare with input elements sequentially clocked from the IP. The dual pointers... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7219058 | System and method for processing speech recognition results An automatic speech recognition (ASR) system and method is provided for controlling the recognition of speech utterances generated by an end user operating a communications device. The ASR system and method can be used with a mobile device that is used in a communic... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7219059 | Automatic pronunciation scoring for language learning A method and apparatus for generating a pronunciation score by receiving a user phrase intended to conform to a reference phrase and processing the user phrase in accordance with at least one of an articulation-scoring engine, a duration scoring engine and an intona... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7216075 | Speech recognition method and apparatus with noise adaptive standard pattern In a speech recognition method, at least two standard feature vector series having different signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) are prepared in advance for each category. Then, an SNR is calculated from an input speech signal, and a noise adaptive standard feature vector... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7216076 | System and method of pattern recognition in very high-dimensional space A system and method of recognizing speech comprises an audio receiving element and a computer server. The audio receiving element and the computer server perform the process steps of the method. The method involves training a stored set of phonemes by converting the... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7209881 | Preparing acoustic models by sufficient statistics and noise-superimposed speech data Noise-superimposed speech data is grouped according to acoustic similarity, and sufficient statistics are prepared using the speech data in each of the groups. A group acoustically similar to voice data of a user of the speech recognition is selected, and sufficient... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7184959 | System and method for automated multimedia content indexing and retrieval The invention provides a system and method for automatically indexing and retrieving multimedia content. The method may include separating a multimedia data stream into audio, visual and text components, segmenting the audio, visual and text components based on sema... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181398 | Vocabulary independent speech recognition system and method using subword units A speech recognition system provides a subword decoder and a dictionary lookup to process a spoken input. In a first stage of processing, the subword decoder decodes the speech input based on subword units or particles and identifies hypothesized subword sequences u... | 02/20/2007 |
