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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 |
| 5440663 | Computer system for speech recognition The invention concerns a computer system for speech recognition with a word table and a triphone table in its memory. In response to a new word not contained in the word table and which is encountered by the computer system during recognition of an unknow... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5428707 | Apparatus and methods for training speech recognition systems and their users and otherwise improving speech recognition performance A tutorial instructs how to use a word recognition system, such as one for speech recognition. It specifies a set of allowed response words for each of a plurality of states. It sends messages on how to use the recognizer in certain states, and, in others... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5390278 | Phoneme based speech recognition A flexible vocabulary speech recognition system is provided for recognizing speech transmitted via the public switched telephone network. The flexible vocabulary recognition (FVR) system is a phoneme based system. The phonemes are modelled as hidden Marko... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5386492 | Speech recognition system utilizing vocabulary model preselection Preliminary screening of vocabulary models is provided by successively applying two different high speed distance measuring functions which provide progressively increasing measurement accuracy. Both distance measuring functions utilize subsampled represe... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5384892 | Dynamic language model for speech recognition A method of speech recognition which determines acoustic features in a sound sample; recognizes words comprising the acoustic features based on a language model, which determines the possible sequences of words that may be recognized; and the selection of... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5349645 | Word hypothesizer for continuous speech decoding using stressed-vowel centered bidirectional tree searches A word hypothesis module for speech decoding consists of four submodules: vowel center detection, bidirectional tree searches around each vowel center, forward-backward pruning, and additional short words hypotheses. By detecting the strong energy vowel c... | 09/20/1994 |
| 5345537 | Network reformer and creator A user inputs a network to an inputter of a network reformer for automatically reforming a network connecting basic units of data per a predetermined rewriting rule. The inputter sends the data to a partial path separator. The partial path separator separ... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5267345 | Speech recognition apparatus which predicts word classes from context and words from word classes A language generator for a speech recognition apparatus scores a word-series hypothesis by combining individual scores for each word in the hypothesis. The hypothesis score for a single word comprises a combination of the estimated conditional probability... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5233681 | Context-dependent speech recognizer using estimated next word context A speech recognition apparatus and method estimates the next word context for each current candidate word in a speech hypothesis. An initial model of each speech hypothesis comprises a model of a partial hypothesis of zero or more words followed by a mode... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5146503 | Speech recognition A speech recognition system comprises a recogniser (2) for receiving speech signals from users. The recogniser (2) compares each received word with templates of words stored in a reference template store (3) and flags each template that corresponds most c... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5086472 | Continuous speech recognition apparatus A conventional speech recognition network finite-state automaton, which follows regular grammar rules, is improved by adding subnetworks tapped into the original network at call and return points, whereby context-free grammar rules may be used, with avoid... | 02/04/1992 |
| 5040127 | Continuous speech recognition system A continuous speech recognition system employs a grammar tree of alternative potentially recognized word paths. A technique of tracing back through the grammar tree is utilized in determining which partial word path is common to all potential word paths. ... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5005203 | Method of recognizing continuously spoken words A method of recognizing continuously spoken words in which, during the speech recognition, speech values derived from the speech signal are compared with comparison values of the individual words of a given vocabulary. In order to reduce the rate of recog... | 04/02/1991 |
| 5003601 | Speech recognition method and apparatus thereof A speech recognition method and apparatus in which a plurality of time-sequential acoustic parameters are derived from a segmented input speech signal and are used to form a first trajectory that is time normalized. The time-normalized trajectory is sampl... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4984178 | Chart parser for stochastic unification grammar A chart parser is disclosed which incorporates rule and observation probabilities with stochastic unification grammars. The parser operates frame synchronously to provide top-down hypotheses and to incorporate observation probabilities as they become avai... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4984275 | Method and apparatus for speech recognition Power information from an input signal is used to detect the presence of speech. A reference point is established as the moment of detection of the speech. During a period between the reference point and a subsequent point distant from the reference point... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4977598 | Efficient pruning algorithm for hidden markov model speech recognition An efficient pruning method reduces central processing unit (CPU) loading during real time speech recognition by instructing the CPU to compare a current state's previously calculated probability score against a predetermined threshold value and to discar... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4926483 | Pattern recognition system using hueristic search technique The input pattern to a pattern recognition system is defined as a candidate graph composed of several possibly valid category strings. The most valid category string is selected as the input pattern. Each category string is composed of linked category seg... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4882759 | Synthesizing word baseforms used in speech recognition Apparatus and method for synthesizing word baseforms for words not spoken during a training session, wherein each synthesized baseform represents a series of models from a first set of models, which include: (a) uttering speech during a training session a... | 11/21/1989 |
| 4876720 | Speech recognition system The invention relates to a muffler which includes a first expansion chamber, a second expansion chamber, a resonator chamber, and an inlet pipe having a first open end and a second open end. The first open end of the inlet pipe is inserted into the first ... | 10/24/1989 |
| 4852173 | Design and construction of a binary-tree system for language modelling In order to determine a next event based upon available data, a binary decision tree is constructed having true or false questions at each node and a probability distribution of the unknown next event based upon available data at each leaf. Starting at th... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4792976 | Pattern recognizing device with pattern matching in slant parallelogrammic blocks of widths dependent on classified reference pattern lengths On pattern matching an input pattern arranged along a first time axis to each concatenation of patterns selected from reference patterns and arranged along a second time axis with feature vectors of the input pattern and the concatenation placed at a comm... | 12/20/1988 |
| 4761815 | Speech recognition system based on word state duration and/or weight A low cost, speaker independent, limited vocabulary, word recognizing microcomputer. The microcomputer divides each spoken word into a series of word states, determines the length of each state and classifies each state as fricative, vowel-like, or silent... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4718094 | Speech recognition system Speech words are recognized by first recognizing each spectral vector identified by a label (feneme), then identifying the word by matching the string of labels against phones using simplified phone machines based on label and transition probabilities and... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4713777 | Speech recognition method having noise immunity In a speech recognition system, the beginning of speech versus non-speech (a cough or noise) is distinguished by reverting to a non-speech decision process whenever the liklihood cost of template (vocabulary) patterns, including silence, is worse than a p... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4707858 | Utilizing word-to-digital conversion A communications system each end of which includes means for analyzing human speech and comparing each word to prestored words for word and speacker recognition, the message then being digitized along with characteristic properties of the speackers voice ... | 11/17/1987 |
| 4513435 | System operable as an automaton for recognizing continuously spoken words with reference to demi-word pair reference patterns A system for recognizing a continuously spoken word sequence with reference to preselected reference words with the problem of coarticulation removed, comprises a pattern memory for memorizing demi-word pair reference patterns consisting of a former and a... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4388495 | Speech recognition microcomputer A simplified, speaker independent, selected vocabulary, word recognizing microcomputer functions without the use of a typical front end filtering network. The microcomputer identifies vowel-like fricative-like, and silence signal states within a word or p... | 06/14/1983 |
| 4319085 | Speech recognition apparatus and method In this speech recognition system the array formed by a timewise sequence of speech signal feature vectors includes digital data at each time slot representing both presence/absence and consistency of occurence.... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4156868 | Syntactic word recognizer A syntactic analyzer recognizes a series of spoken words as one of a set of predetermined sequences of prescribed words defined by a state sequence array of state transition signals representing state linked prescribed words. Each sequence corresponds to ... | 05/29/1979 |
| 4069393 | Word recognition apparatus and method An apparatus which receives spoken input training words and a subsequent spoken input command word and generates a correlation function is indicative of the resemblance of the command word to each training word. A feature extraction means processes receiv... | 01/17/1978 |
