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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190438 | Targeted audio in multi-dimensional space In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, system, and program products for providing sound from multiple audio sources. A first audio stream is played from a first source through a multi-speaker audio system. A signal... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8099286 | System and method for providing situational awareness enhancement for low bit rate vocoders Situational awareness enhancement is promoted in a radio communication transceiver receiving non-verbal content and verbal content from a remote source. A vocoder communicatively coupled with the transceiver receives the verbal content packets, and a situational awa... | 01/17/2012 |
| 7991618 | Method and device for outputting information and/or status messages, using speech In a method and device for outputting information and/or messages from at least one device using speech, the information and/or messages required for vocal output are provided in a voice memory, the information and/or messages are read by a processing device accordi... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7941318 | Public speaking self-evaluation tool A public speaking self-evaluation tool that helps a user practice public speaking in terms of avoiding undesirable words or sounds, maintaining a desirable speech rhythm, and ensuring that the user is regularly glancing at the audience. The system provides a user in... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7904299 | Method, system, and apparatus for monitoring security events using speech recognition A method of monitoring for security events using a speech recognition system can include receiving a sound signal within the speech recognition system and determining at least one attribute of the sound signal. The attribute of the sound signal can be compared with ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7818179 | Devices and methods providing automated assistance for verbal communication Devices and methods are provided for automatically analyzing a user's conversation or verbal presentation and providing feedback to the user, in real-time and/or off-line, to make the user aware of improper speech habits and thus enable the user to acquire better la... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7454350 | Methods for evaluating near-term suicidal risk using vocal parameters A method for evaluating near-term suicidal risk by analysis of a series of spoken words includes converting the spoken series of words into a signal having characteristics indicative of said words as spoken, dynamically monitoring said signal to detect changes there... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7386151 | System and method for assessing suspicious behaviors Identity and biometric data are collected from individuals. The collected data is used to form biometric data packages, each of which contains information about one biometric feature and identity data associated with the corresponding individual. Each biometric data... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7376565 | Method, system, and apparatus for monitoring security events using speech recognition A method of monitoring for security events using a speech recognition system can include receiving a sound signal within the speech recognition system and determining at least one attribute of the sound signal. The attribute of the sound signal can be compared with ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7356473 | Management and assistance system for the deaf A computer-aided communication and assistance system that uses a signal processing and other algorithms in a processor in wireless communication with a microphone system to aid a deaf person. An instrumented communication module receives information from one or more... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7336565 | Talking alarm clock An educational alarm clock radio is provided that speaks a new word each day when the alarm goes off, the words each being stored in a memory cartridge as an individual increments of information in a sequential set of increments. When the alarm goes off, the word of... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330596 | Image decoding technique for suppressing tile boundary distortion An image decoding device for decoding a hierarchically encoded compressed code obtained by dividing an image into a plurality of tiles and performing discrete wavelet transform on the pixel values of the image tile by tile includes a tile boundary smoothing part tha... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7318033 | Method, apparatus and program for recognizing, extracting, and speech synthesizing strings from documents Even when a copying machine with a voice guidance function is used, a problem of wastefully copying wrong documents or documents with missing pages remains unsolved for visually impaired persons. To this end, a document image is read, character strings on the read d... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7298256 | Crisis monitoring system Provided is a crisis monitoring system that detects a crisis by identifying a person's emotion from his/her utterance includes an input unit to which an audio signal is inputted, a recording unit which records information necessary to judge a crisis situation, and a... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7272368 | System and method for reduced deviation time domain FM/PM discriminator to achieve a reduced bandwidth frequency or phase modulation communications channels The present disclosure provides a receiver for receiving a narrow frequency deviation frequency modulated or phase modulated base band signal including a mixer for mixing the received narrow frequency deviation signal to generate an intermediate frequency signal, a ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7260538 | Method and apparatus for voice control of a television control device A method and apparatus is disclosed for remotely processing voice commands for controlling a television. A voice command is uttered by a user into a microphone contained in a remote control. The voice command is digitized, modulated, compressed, and wirelessly trans... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254544 | Speech processing unit with priority assigning function to output voices A speech processing unit assigns priority either to voice guidance processing or to speech recognition processing to be carried out previously, when a speech input requesting for the speech recognition processing is accepted while the voice guidance processing is be... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7240010 | Voice interaction with and control of inspection equipment The non-destructive inspection equipment is provided with voice interaction to interface with the inspector and/or operator who preferably controls the inspection equipment and the inspection process, at least in part, through the use of voice control and by receivi... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7240009 | Dialogue control apparatus for communicating with a processor controlled device A Control apparatus for controlling communication between a user and at least one processor controlled device, such as a printer or copier, capable of carrying out at least one task. The control includes a processor configured to conduct a dialog with the user to de... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7194412 | Speech activated door operator system A barrier operator system, such as a garage door operator system, includes one or more remote control units, such as an inside remote control unit, an external wall mounted remote control unit and portable vehicle disposed remote control units which include speech r... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7181203 | Barrier movement operator human interface method and apparatus A programmable transmitter that verbally questions a user with audible questions to determine a type of a transmitter being emulated. The transmitter receives indicia of the type the transmitter and determines the type of the necessary transmission parameters based ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7174297 | System, method and computer program product for a dynamically configurable voice portal A system, method and computer program product are disclosed for dynamically configuring a speech recognition portal. A session with a user is conducted utilizing a speech recognition portal which provides access to a network during the session. Utterances are receiv... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7167829 | Curing lamp apparatus giving operating conditions with electronic voice A curing lamp apparatus is used for providing electronic voice information to report a number of operating conditions associated with the curing lamp. The apparatus includes a light sensor for sensing output power, voltage and current sensors for sensing input power... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7155384 | Speech coding and decoding apparatus and method with number of bits determination An audio signal coding device, an audio signal decoding device and a method to improve audio quality. The audio signal coding device and method include a quantizer that quantizes a given signal according to a number of assigned bits in order to generate a codeword. ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7145448 | Seatbelt reminder system A seatbelt reminder system for outputting a reminder for an occupant when the occupant leaves a seatbelt unfastened. The system includes a driver's seat reminder instruction section for outputting a reminder according to a first pattern (S405), a front passen... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7139710 | Audio synthesis of a currently tuned frequency A system 10 is provided which is receptive to selective tuning at particular frequencies. The system 10 includes a display device 15, an audio synthesizer 14, and a controller 20. The controller 20 is in communication with t... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7103750 | Method and apparatus for finding repeated substrings in pattern recognition A method and apparatus for compressing a reference pattern (RP) with repeated substrings by encoding produce compressed reference patterns (CRPs) with reduce storage requirements. Operation codes and a flag are stored with the CRPs. During comparison of reference el... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7091976 | System and method of customizing animated entities for use in a multi-media communication application A method of creating a personal animated entity for delivering a multi-media message from a sender to a recipient is disclosed. The method comprises receiving from the sender an image file at a server, the image file having an entity and a background image. The serv... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7080014 | Hands-free, voice-operated remote control transmitter A wireless, programmable, sound-activated and voice-operated remote control transmitter can be used to add hands-free speech control operation to a plurality of remotely controlled appliances manufactured by various manufacturers, each of which is normally controlle... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7072686 | Voice controlled multimedia and communications device A portable multimedia and communications device can include a transducive element for receiving sound. The device also can include a base unit having a plurality of multimedia units and a processor executing a speech recognition engine for recognizing user speech. E... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7062443 | Methods and apparatus for evaluating near-term suicidal risk using vocal parameters A method for evaluating near-term suicidal risk by analysis of a series of spoken words includes converting the spoken series of words into a signal having characteristics indicative of said words as spoken, dynamically monitoring said signal to detect changes there... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7050818 | Location based service request system A wireless phone based system to accommodate users of wireless phones for providing information as to the location of certain services such as gasoline stations, movie theatres, drug stores, etc., includes the utilization of a GPS receiver and a wireless phone, with... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7031924 | Voice synthesizing apparatus, voice synthesizing system, voice synthesizing method and storage medium There are provided a voice outputting apparatus, a voice outputting system, a voice outputting method and a storage medium which, when the synthetic voices of a plurality of text data are to be uttered in overlapping relationship with each other, voice-synthesize th... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7024367 | Biometric measuring system with detachable announcement device A measuring system according to the present invention includes a biosensor 2, and a measuring device 1 capable of assaying a specified component in a biological sample applied to the sensor 2. An announcement device 22 indicates a measuri... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020289 | Remote control interface for replacement vehicle stereos An interface device for interconnecting fixed controls of a vehicle to a replacement stereo. The interface device is capable of receiving control signals from fixed controls, such as steering wheel controls, backseat controls, handlebar controls, and the like, and t... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7015807 | Method and apparatus for indicating activation of a smoke detector alarm A method for detecting smoke detector alarms comprises analyzing at least two parameters of ambient sound over a period of time to detect a temporal pattern of the alarm. In one embodiment, a series of samples are taken over a period of time sufficiently long to inc... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7010490 | Method, system, and apparatus for limiting available selections in a speech recognition system A method and system for completing user input in a speech recognition system. The method can include a series of steps which can include receiving a user input. The user input can specify an attribute of a selection. The method can include comparing the user input w... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7009514 | Self contained power disruption alert devices and methods for generating audible alerts A low cost self-contained power disruption alert device is configured with a light-weight pocket and/or palm sized compact body to generate a local audible alert that is output by a speaker when power to an electrical wall outlet is disrupted. ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6999923 | System and method for control of lights, signals, alarms using sound detection A system and method for detecting the presence of a particular source of audible content using an automatic speech recognizer component which is trained to recognize specific non-speech sounds. Training of the automatic speech recognizer component is accomplished by... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6975986 | Voice spelling in an audio-only interface A voice spelling method. A voice spelling method can include the steps of: in an audio-only interface, receiving a plurality of audio signals representative of spoken characters, the plurality of spoken characters specifying a string; and, through the audio-only int... | 12/13/2005 |
