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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8095367 | Methods and systems for parasitic sensing Methods and systems of parasitic sensing are shown and described. The method includes, measuring, at a first time using one or more electrical elements native to a domain, a parameter of a circuit within the domain and measuring, at a second time using the one or mo... | 01/10/2012 |
| 7974846 | Data embedding device and data extraction device A data embedding device for embedding data in a speech code obtained by encoding a speech in accordance with a speech encoding method based on a voice generation process of a human being, includes an embedding judgment unit, every speech code, judging whether or not... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7809577 | Apparatus for simulating the operation of a vehicle To eliminate a wrong recognition of speech and reduce processing load to be applied to a computer in a simulation apparatus. The simulation apparatus includes a speech recognition section for referring to dictionary data in which a plurality of phrase data are recor... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7640164 | System for performing interactive dialog The system for performing interactive dialog of the present invention recognizes a question from a user and outputs an answer by a synthesized voice. The system includes; a selection unit for selecting the answer from a database; an evaluation unit for evaluating a ... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7636664 | Golf commentator A putting device comprising a storage means having a plurality of recorded audio samples stored thereon; a randomizing means, and a sensing means; wherein all said means are cooperatively connected together; upon activation of said sensing means, said randomizing me... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7613613 | Method and system for converting text to lip-synchronized speech in real time A method and system for presenting lip-synchronized speech corresponding to the text received in real time is provided. A lip synchronization system provides an image of a character that is to be portrayed as speaking text received in real time. The lip synchronizat... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7523037 | Data synthesis apparatus and program A data synthesis apparatus detects the start of a period of voice waveform data, stores the voice waveform data in a first storage device, starting with its part indicative of the start of the detected period. The apparatus stores in a second storage device musical-... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7512537 | NLP tool to dynamically create movies/animated scenes The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates integrating natural language input and graphics in a cooperative manner. In particular, as natural language input is entered by a user, an illustrated or animated scene can be generated to co... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7426467 | System and method for supporting interactive user interface operations and storage medium There is provided a system for supporting interactive operations for inputting user commands to a household electric apparatus such as a television set/monitor and information apparatuses. According to the system for supporting interactive operations applying an ani... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7415407 | Information transmitting system, information encoder and information decoder The invention relates to an information transmission system capable of transmitting target information via voice, as well as to an information encoding apparatus and an information decoding apparatus for use with the system. The information encoding apparatus (31... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7392192 | Method of and apparatus for improving research and/or communication interaction with animals such as dolphins and the like, and providing more facile communication with humans lacking speaking capability A novel method and microprocessor-controlled apparatus are provided for improving research and/or communication interaction between human and animals, such as dolphins and the like, or between normal humans and speech-impaired humans, by playing back audible pre-rec... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7379871 | Speech synthesizing apparatus, speech synthesizing method, and recording medium using a plurality of substitute dictionaries corresponding to pre-programmed personality information Various sensors detect conditions outside a robot and an operation applied to the robot, and output the results of detection to a robot-motion-system control section. The robot-motion-system control section determines a behavior state according to a behavior model. ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376564 | Stored-value card with audio capabilities A stored-value card includes an audio circuit, a speaker, a housing, decorative indicia, and a button. The audio circuit stores an audio file, and the speaker is coupled to the audio circuit. The housing generally encloses the audio circuit and the speaker and inclu... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373516 | Systems and methods of securing resources through passwords Disclosed is a method of authorizing access to an item that maintains a lockout count and blocks access to the item if the lockout count exceeds a predetermined value. One feature is that the invention “variably” increments the lockout count if the presented pas... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370275 | System and method for providing context to an input method by tagging existing applications An improved system and method for providing context information of executable code to an input method is provided. Advanced text input methods may be made aware of the type of text expected to be received as input so that input methods may achieve a higher accuracy ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7360694 | System and method for secure telephone and computer transactions using voice authentication A secure electronic payment system and method for conducting a secure transaction using voice authentication is provided. A merchant's computer transmits an authorization request to an access control server. The access control server places a telephone call to the p... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360157 | Aligning content in an electronic document Aligning the contents of document objects on an electronic document page. Organizing a page of document objects so textual content is aligned to natural eye scanning patterns promotes readership and usability. When a user creates a new island of text, the new text c... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356154 | Audio player activated by greeting card retraction The audio player is configured to be attached to a gift. In one embodiment, the audio player contains an electric circuit including a battery, a switch, an audio memory and loudspeaker in a series circuit. The switch is held open by a card positioned in a slot in th... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356537 | Providing contextually sensitive tools and help content in computer-generated documents A method and system are provided for creation, implementation, and use of computer-generated “smart” documents to which functionality is attached for providing contextually sensitive tools, controls and help content to users of those documents. Portions of docum... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7340393 | Emotion recognizing method, sensibility creating method, device, and software An object of the invention is to provide an emotion detecting method capable of detecting emotion of a human accurately, and provide sensibility generating method capable of outputting sensibility akin to that of a human. An intensity, a tempo, and intonation in eac... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336779 | Topical dynamic chat The present invention is directed to a customer contact 100 in which a session monitor 140 identifies and implements multi-customer sessions. A conferencing function 136 connects the plurality of customers 110-118 simultaneously to... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7324943 | Voice tagging, voice annotation, and speech recognition for portable devices with optional post processing A media capture device has an audio input receptive of user speech relating to a media capture activity in close temporal relation to the media capture activity. A plurality of focused speech recognition lexica respectively relating to media capture activities are s... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324636 | Multiple voice channel communications According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided apparatus for controlling a communications system having a plurality of voice channels and a user terminal for receiving at least one of the voice channels comprising: a receiving element for receiv... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325194 | Method, system, and apparatus for converting numbers between measurement systems based upon semantically labeled strings Number conversion between different units of measurement in a document is enabled. A string of text entered into an application program is analyzed to determine whether it includes a number having an associated unit name. Found numbers with associated unit names are... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324859 | Substrate for use with audio file player A substrate includes at least one visual representation of an audio file and encoded data associated with the at least one audio file. The encoded data can be sensed by a selection device to cause an audio file stored in a computer system to be provided to the selec... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321854 | Prosody based audio/visual co-analysis for co-verbal gesture recognition The present method incorporates audio and visual cues from human gesticulation for automatic recognition. The methodology articulates a framework for co-analyzing gestures and prosodic elements of a person's speech. The methodology can be applied to a wide range of ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319955 | Audio-visual codebook dependent cepstral normalization An arrangement for yielding enhanced audio features towards the provision of enhanced audio-visual features for speech recognition. Input is provided in the form of noisy audio-visual features and noisy audio features related to the noisy audio-visual features. ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7318032 | Speaker recognition method based on structured speaker modeling and a “Pickmax” scoring technique A technique for improved score calculation and normalization in a framework of recognition with phonetically structured speaker models. The technique involves determining, for each frame and each level of phonetic detail of a target speaker model, a non-interpolated... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318029 | Method and apparatus for a interactive voice response system There is disclosed an interactive voice response system for prompting a user with feedback during speech recognition. A user who speaks too slowly or too quickly may speak even more slowly or quickly in response to an error in speech recognition. The present system ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7313227 | Animated/digitally depicted interactive voice session services over an IP network A telecommunications service application. The application includes associating, each of a plurality of subscribers with at least one respective avatar, where the at least one avatar includes at least one of a visual avatar and an audible avatar. In response to a fir... | 12/25/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7296150 | Database management systems and methods of operating the same Introduced are systems for managing a database of selectable records, and methods of operating the same. One advantageous embodiment provides a database administrator for association with a computer system having distributed memory units. The database administrator ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7286887 | Audio player with sensing device An audio player (10) is provided with an image sensor (16) capable of imaging invisible infrared tags (78) on a substrate (70). The tags (78) encode identity data which is directly or indirectly associated in a computer system with... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7281245 | Mechanism for downloading software components from a remote source for use by a local software application A method and system are provided for downloading software components from a remote source to a software application for providing updates or additions to the application's functionality. All components and files that may be utilized to update or add to functionality... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277765 | Interactive sound reproducing An audio system attachable to a computer includes a sound reproduction device for producing audible sound from audio signals. The sound reproduction device includes a radio tuner and a powered speaker. The audio system further includes a connector for connecting the... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277671 | Wireless response system and method A wireless response system includes a base unit and a plurality of handheld response units communicating with the base unit over a wireless communication link. The base unit sends polling commands to the response units over the wireless communication. The response u... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7272788 | Client-server system for merging of metadata with images A method and system for merging metadata with digital images is disclosed, where the digital images are stored as image files having metadata fields associated therewith. The method and system include receiving data uploaded from a remote location, providing a web a... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272558 | Speech recognition training method for audio and video file indexing on a search engine A method and a related system to index audio and video documents and to automatically train the language model of a speech recognition system according to the context of the documents being indexed. ... | 09/18/2007 |
