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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7321857 | Systems and methods for TV navigation with compressed voice-activated commands A method, apparatus and system that receives speech commands at a remote control device microphone, digitizes those input speech commands, compresses the digitized speech commands, multiplexes control commands with the compressed digitized speech commands, and trans... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321882 | Method for supervised teaching of a recurrent artificial neural network A method for the supervised teaching of a recurrent neutral network (RNN) is disclosed. A typical embodiment of the method utilizes a large (50 units or more), randomly initialized RNN with a globally stable dynamics. During the training period, the output units of ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319964 | Method and apparatus for segmenting a multi-media program based upon audio events The present invention provides for a method and apparatus for segmenting a multi-media program based upon audio events. In an embodiment a method of classifying an audio stream is provided. This method includes receiving an audio stream. Sampling the audio stream at... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319396 | RFID transducer alignment system A radio frequency identification (RFID) system having the capacity to detect various geometric parameters of alignment. The described system is configured for use with dental x-ray, medical imaging and treatment, and customary and digital radiography apparatus, but ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319961 | Voice recognition technology to capture geoscience data A hands-free system for capturing data and generating reports recognizes speech as text and commands to create a set of entries intended to have a mathematical relationship to each other such that, if these entries fail to satisfy the relationship, a voice synthesiz... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7320019 | Method and apparatus for automatically checking e-mail addresses in outgoing e-mail communications The present invention provides a system and method for detecting incorrect e-mail addresses in outgoing e-mail communications. In a first embodiment, a domain name database creates a table of domain names by automatically storing the domain names of e-mail addresses... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317908 | Transferring voice mail messages in text format In different embodiments, the invention contemplates a device, system, and method of transferring a voice mail message in text format on a per use basis. The inventive method includes receiving a voice mail message directed to a telephone number, correlating the tel... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318030 | Method and apparatus to perform voice activity detection A method and apparatus to perform voice detection are described. ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318198 | Apparatus operation device for operating an apparatus without using eyesight An apparatus operation device for operating an apparatus comprising an operation input device configured to allow a user to input an instruction for operating the apparatus without using eyesight, and an output device configured to output information informing the u... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318031 | Apparatus, system and method for providing speech recognition assist in call handover An apparatus, system and method for providing speech recognition assist in call handover are provided. With the apparatus, system and method, spoken utterances of the call taker, not the caller, are captured using speech recognition technology and transcribed. The c... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315982 | User-tailorable romanized Chinese text input systems and methods Methods and systems for romanizing Chinese ideograms allow a user to create a personalized spelling dictionary that converts a user's desired roman-alphabet spelling to an equivalent Chinese character. A phonetic combination from a standard Chinese dialect is select... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315821 | System and method for health care information processing based on acoustic features A question as to the physical condition and a question as to the feeling are asked, answers are accepted by voice, acoustic features are extracted from the answer to the question as to the physical condition, and character string information is extracted from the an... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315902 | Compression and abbreviation for fixed length messaging A method, computer program product, and data processing system for compressing and abbreviating text messages at a first text messaging device for transport and subsequent interpretation at a second text messaging device is disclosed. A user-defined message length r... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315810 | Named entity (NE) interface for multiple client application programs The present invention is a named entity (NE) interface to a linguistic analysis layer. The interface exposes each input sentence to the NE recognizers of all applications and returns all recognized NEs. Thus, the present invention can accommodate NEs which dynamical... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315818 | Error correction in speech recognition New techniques and systems may be implemented to improve error correction in speech recognition. These new techniques and systems may be implemented to correct errors in speech recognition systems may be used in a standard desktop environment, in a mobile environmen... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313525 | Method and system for bookmarking navigation points in a voice command title platform A method and system for identifying saving and utilizing bookmarks in a voice-command platform. The system of the invention provides a user of the voice command platform with a list of bookmark names that are appropriate for the application. Once a user selects a bo... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7311524 | System and method assessing student achievement A system and method for assessing and monitoring student academic achievement levels for purposes of identifying students at risk for not meeting minimum academic standards as measured using standardized tests, and for tracking or monitoring student academic perform... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313524 | Voice recognition based on a growth state of a robot A voice recognition apparatus used in a robot performs voice recognition in different manners depending upon the growth state of the robot thereby allowing the robot to provide better entertainment to a user. A growth score setting unit sets growth scores to respect... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313526 | Speech recognition using selectable recognition modes The present invention relates to speech recognition using selectable recognition modes. This includes innovations such as: large vocabulary speech recognition programming that supplies recognized words to external program as they are recognized, and allows a user to... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313527 | Registering an utterance and an associated destination anchor with a speech recognition engine A method for registering an utterance and an associated destination anchor with a speech recognition engine. The method includes getting a list of all nodes with links in a document being displayed by a browser by using a programmatic interface provided by the brows... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313528 | Distributed network based message processing system for text-to-speech streaming data Text-to-speech streaming data is output to an end user using a distributed network based message processing system. The distributed network system includes a user access server that controls access of registered users to the data retrieval system. An internetwork da... | 12/25/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7310782 | Method and apparatus for arranging program and I/O controls A computer system includes a display and a processor. The processor operable to implement a user interface on the display. The user interface including a plurality of program controls for initiating processing tasks. The processor is operable to, responsive to an ac... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310513 | Hand-ear user interface for hand-held device A hand-held information processing device, such as a mobile phone, has a thumb wheel that lets the user scan a circular array of options. Each respective one of the options is represented by a respective audio output that gets played out when the wheel is turned a n... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310604 | Statistical sound event modeling system and methods Complex sound events are created by generating multiple different kinds of simpler sounds with randomly varying repetition rates. The average repetition rate can also be variable. The values of sound parameters such as wave selection, pitch distribution, pan distrib... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310602 | Navigation apparatus In this navigation apparatus, when speech recognition of inputted speech is carried out, keywords included in the content of the recognized speech are searched from a dictionary DB, and then these words are displayed as keywords of a POI search. When a correction of... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310517 | Techniques for archiving audio information communicated between members of a group Techniques for archiving audio information communicated between members of a group using an audio communication system such as a point-to-multipoint audio communication system. The archived audio information can then be retrieved by members of the group or by any ot... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310601 | Speech recognition apparatus and speech recognition method The present invention provides a speech recognition apparatus which appropriately performs speech recognition by generating, in real time, language models adapted to a new topic even in the case where topics are changed. The speech recognition apparatus includes: a ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310642 | Methods, apparatus and data structures for facilitating a natural language interface to stored information An authoring tool (or process) to facilitate the performance of an annotation function and an indexing function. The annotation function may generate informational annotations and word annotations to a database design schema (e.g., an entity-relationship diagram or ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310603 | Voice control apparatus of vacuum cleaner and method thereof A voice control apparatus of a vacuum cleaner includes: a sense signal detector for detecting a sense signal provided from a user to provide a voice recognizable environment in an ambience; a voice command recognizing unit for temporarily stopping a driving of a mot... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7308484 | Apparatus and methods for providing an audibly controlled user interface for audio-based communication devices The invention is directed to techniques for providing an audibly controlled interface for a user of a limited audio-based communication device, for example, a telephony device such as a desktop telephone or a cellular telephone. The communication device has an inter... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7308051 | Efficient signal decoding for low-power applications A signal having a segment is received into a first device, and a segment is sampled before a predetermined match range to determine a first on or off status of the segment. A determination is made whether the first on or off status of the segment matches a first pre... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305438 | Method and system for voice on demand private message chat A system and method for establishing a private message chat between electronic devices. The method includes steps of providing an indication as to the availability of a user for receiving a private message chat; receiving an audio input message from at least one fir... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305340 | System and method for configuring voice synthesis Systems and methods for providing synthesized speech in a manner that may take into account the environment where the speech is presented. In certain cases, the manner in which speech is presented can take into consideration ambient noise and/or can seek to optimize... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305344 | Wirelessly loaded speaking consumer product container method and system A method of communicating product use instructions to patient includes: (a.) providing a group of product container with microprocessors, and, (b.) providing a central processor separate from the product containers. Each product container has the microprocessor atta... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305343 | Method and system for embedding voice notes A method of embedding voice data in a computing system includes detecting a record event and detecting if a software application currently running on the computing system is voice-aware. The method also includes embedding the voice data within associated data in the... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305078 | Speaker identification during telephone conferencing Systems and techniqes for identifying a participant in a teleconference allow other participants at remote locations to be informed of the identify of a current speaker. A currently speaking participant is identified in a teleconference conducted using a connection ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305128 | Anchor person detection for television news segmentation based on audiovisual features A video segmentation method for segmenting video clips according to content of the video clips is disclosed. The method comprises scanning pixels of video frames with a first horizontal scan line to determine if colors of the pixels fall within a predetermined color... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7304228 | Creating realtime data-driven music using context sensitive grammars and fractal algorithms Musical approaches are applied to the sonification of data. The musical approaches do not require directly mapping data to sound. Data is interpreted and transformed into sound through Lindemayer-systems or other methods. Where fractals are used in the interpretatio... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7304229 | Method and apparatus for karaoke scoring A karaoke scoring apparatus includes a memory element, a feature extraction element, a similarity measurement element, and a scoring element. The karaoke system includes a reference audio input to be compared with a target audio input for giving a score. The referen... | 12/04/2007 |
