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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8024187 | Pulse allocating method in voice coding A pulse allocating method capable of coding stereophonic voice signals efficiently. In the fixed code note retrievals of this pulse allocating method, for individual subframes, the stereophonic voice signals are compared to judge similarity between channels, and are... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7860714 | Detection system for segment including specific sound signal, method and program for the same The present invention is a detection system of a segment including specific sound signal which detects a segment in a stored sound signal similar to a reference sound signal, including: a reference signal spectrogram division portion which divides a reference signal... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7752044 | Method for recognizing speech To increase the robustness and/or the recognition rate of methods for recognizing speech it is proposed to include phone boundary verification measure features in the process of obtaining and/or generating confidence measures obtained recognition results. ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7684986 | Method, medium, and apparatus recognizing speech considering similarity between the lengths of phonemes An apparatus, medium, and method recognizing speech. The method may include the calculating of scores indicating the degree of similarity between a characteristic of an input speech and characteristics of speech models based on the degree of similarity between the l... | 03/23/2010 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7349844 | Minimizing resource consumption for speech recognition processing with dual access buffering In a processor system for audio processing, such as voice recognition and text-to-speech, a dedicated front-end processor, a core processor and a dedicated back-end processor are provided which are coupled by dual access stack. When an analog audio signal is inputte... | 03/25/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7337116 | Speech processing system A system is provided for allowing a user to add word models to a speech recognition system. In particular, the system allows a user to input a number of renditions of the new word and which generates from these a sequence of phonemes representative of the new word. ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7324941 | Method and apparatus for discriminative estimation of parameters in maximum a posteriori (MAP) speaker adaptation condition and voice recognition method and apparatus including these A method and apparatus for discriminative estimation of parameters in a maximum a posteriori (MAP) speaker adaptation condition, and a voice recognition apparatus having the apparatus and a voice recognition method using the method are provided. The method for discr... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7310600 | Language recognition using a similarity measure 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... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7299187 | Voice command processing system and computer therefor, and voice command processing method When a user issued voice command does not match grammars registered in advance, the voice command is identified as a sentence (step S305). This sentence is compared with the registered grammars to calculate a similarity (step S307). When the similarity... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295980 | Pattern matching method and apparatus A system is provided for matching two or more sequences of phonemes both or all of which may be generated from text or speech. A dynamic programming matching technique is preferably used having constraints which depend upon whether or not the two sequences are gener... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289957 | Verifying a speaker using random combinations of speaker's previously-supplied syllable units A method for verifying a speaker by a computer is specified in which the speaker utters at least one code word consisting of a random combination of syllable units previously supplied by the speaker. A comparison of this uttered code word with at least one pattern v... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283964 | Method and apparatus for voice controlled devices with improved phrase storage, use, conversion, transfer, and recognition The embodiments of the invention provide for the storage of speech phrases. Speech phrases are processed by a speaker-independent speech recognition engine of a voice controlled device. This engine returns a speaker-independent representation of the phrase. The spea... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283953 | Process for identifying excess noise in a computer system The method of identifying excess noise in a computer system includes first recording a silence sample; second recording an isolated noise sample while operating a computer system component in isolation from other computer system components; comparing signal characte... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7284012 | Multiple attribute object comparison based on quantitative distance measurement A system selects a plurality of attributes common to objects being compared and defines at least one value space for each selected attribute. Each selected attribute can have a value space that is different from a value space of the same attribute associated with a ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7266498 | Method and apparatus for reducing conflicts between speech-enabled applications sharing speech menu Method and apparatus are provided for developing a speech menu which is adapted to store a plurality of sound commands for a speech-enabled application. A first sound command of the plurality of sound commands is compared to a second sound command to determine an ac... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7249124 | Adaptive information-retrieval system A vector retrieval/generation/correction unit of a user terminal generates, corrects, and optimizes an inquiry vector on the basis of a vector profile, an inquiry history, a user model, and a user profile. On the other hand, a vector retrieval/generation/correction ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7246061 | Method for the voice-operated identification of the user of a telecommunications line in a telecommunications network in the course of a dialog with a voice-operated dialog system A method for the voice-operated identification of the user of a telecommunications line in a telecommunications network is provided in the course of a dialog with a voice-operated dialog system. Utterances spoken by a caller from a group of callers limited to one te... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7240003 | Database annotation and retrieval A data structure is provided for annotating data files within a database. The annotation data comprises a phoneme and word lattice which allows the quick and efficient searching of data files within the database, in response to a user's input query for desired infor... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7240002 | Speech recognition apparatus The present invention provides a speech recognition apparatus having high speech recognition performance and capable of performing speech recognition in a highly efficient manner. A matching unit 14 calculates the scores of words selected by a preliminary wor... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7225134 | Speech input communication system, user terminal and center system A user system incorporating a voice instruction recognition processing portion and a transmission control portion is connected through a communication line to a center system incorporating a reception control portion, a voice instruction recognition processing porti... | 05/29/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7216077 | Lattice-based unsupervised maximum likelihood linear regression for speaker adaptation Methods and arrangements using lattice-based information for unsupervised speaker adaptation. By performing adaptation against a word lattice, correct models are more likely to be used in estimating a transform. Further, a particular type of lattice proposed herein ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7200558 | Prosody generating device, prosody generating method, and program A prosody generation apparatus capable of suppressing distortion that occurs when generating prosodic patterns and therefore generating a natural prosody is provided. A prosody changing point extraction unit in this apparatus extracts a prosody changing point locate... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7177863 | System and method for determining internal parameters of a data clustering program A system and associated method for tuning a data clustering program to a clustering task, determine at least one internal parameter of a data clustering program. The determination of one or more of the internal parameters of the data clustering program occurs before... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177402 | Voice-activated interactive multimedia information processing system Embodiments of the invention are directed to automated reception systems that may receive voice information indicating action to be taken by the system. The automated reception system may receive a call and transmit a speech message to the caller identifying actions... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7171360 | Background learning of speaker voices A speaker identification system includes a speaker model generator 110 for generating a plurality of speaker models. To this end, the generator records training utterances from a plurality of speakers in the background, without prior knowledge of the speakers... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7165031 | Speech processing apparatus and method using confidence scores A speech recognition method and apparatus is disclosed in which outputs a confidence score indicative of the posterior probability of an utterance being correctly matched to a word model. The confidence score for the matching of an utterance to a word model is deter... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7139706 | System and method of developing automatic speech recognition vocabulary for voice activated services A comprehensive system is provided for designing a voice activated user interface (VA UI) having a semantic and syntactic structure adapted to the culture and conventions of spoken language for the intended users. The system poses, to at least one respondent, a hypo... | 11/21/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7085717 | Scoring and re-scoring dynamic time warping of speech A method includes (i) measuring first distances between (a) vectors belonging to a set of vectors that represent an utterance and (b) vectors belonging to a set of vectors that represent a template, the measuring being done in accordance with a first order of the ut... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7072836 | Speech processing apparatus and method employing matching and confidence scores A speech recognition method and apparatus is disclosed in which each utterance matched to a feature model within a feature model memory (110) is associated with a confidence score indicative of the posterior probability of the word being correctly matched, gi... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7058573 | Speech recognition system to selectively utilize different speech recognition techniques over multiple speech recognition passes Method and apparatus for multi-pass speech recognition. An input device receives spoken input. A processor performs a first pass speech recognition technique on the spoken input and forms first pass results. The first pass results include a number of alternative spe... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054812 | Database annotation and retrieval A system is provided for determining a sequence of sub-word units representative of at least two words output by a word recognition unit in response to an input word to be recognized. In a preferred embodiment, the word alternatives output by the recognition unit ar... | 05/30/2006 |
