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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8165888 | Reproducing apparatus Disclosed is a reproducing apparatus comprising: a reproduction section to reproduce reproduction data comprising sound data and/or image data; a selection section to calculate evaluation values between a link source set for the reproduction data and each of a plura... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8145497 | Media interface for converting voice to text Provided are a user interface for processing digital data, a method for processing a media interface, and a recording medium thereof. The user interface is used for converting a selected script into voice to generate digital data having a form of a voice file corres... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145496 | Time varying processing of repeated digital audio samples in accordance with a user defined effect A programmed “Stutter Edit” creates, stores and triggers combinations of effects to be used on a repeated short sample (“slice”) of recorded audio. The combination of effects (“gesture”) act on the sample over a specified duration (“gesture length”),... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8103511 | Multiple audio file processing method and system An audio file generation method and system. A computing system receives a first audio file comprising first speech data associated with a first party. The computing system receives a second audio file comprising second speech data associated with a second party. The... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8050931 | Sound masking system and masking sound generation method In a masking sound generation apparatus, a CPU analyzes a speech utterance speed of a received sound signal. Then, the CPU copies the received sound signal into a plurality of sound signals and performs the following processing on each of the sound signals. Namely, ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7991619 | System and method using blind change detection for audio segmentation A system, method and computer program product for performing blind change detection audio segmentation that combines hypothesized boundaries from several segmentation algorithms to achieve the final segmentation of the audio stream. Automatic segmentation of the aud... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7945446 | Sound processing apparatus and method, and program therefor Spectrum envelope of an input sound is detected. In the meantime, a converting spectrum is acquired which is a frequency spectrum of a converting sound comprising a plurality of sounds, such as unison sounds. Output spectrum is generated by imparting the detected sp... | 05/17/2011 |
| RE41939 | Audio/video reproducing apparatus and method An audio/video reproducing apparatus is connectable to a communications network for selectively reproducing items of audio/video material from a recording medium in response to a request received via the communications network. The audio/video reproducing apparatus ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7778837 | Demographic based classification for local word wheeling/web search Systems and methods that create a classification of sentences in a language, and further construct associated local versions of language models, based on geographical location and/or other demographic criteria—wherein such local language models can be of different... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7743016 | Method and apparatus for data processing and encoding and decoding method, and apparatus therefor An apparatus for processing a signal and method thereof are disclosed. Data coding and entropy coding are performed with interconnection, and grouping is used to enhance coding efficiency. The present invention includes the steps of obtaining index information and e... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7734472 | Speech recognition enhancer The invention concerns a speech recognition enhancer (51) and a speech recognition system comprising such speech recognition enhancer (51), an audio input unit (41) and a speech recognizer (61, 3). The speech recognition enhancer (51 | 06/08/2010 |
| 7664650 | Speech speed converting device and speech speed converting method The invention relates to speech speed conversion, and provides a speech speed converting device and a speech speed converting method for changing a speed of voice without degrading the voice quality, without changing characteristics, regarding a signal containing vo... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7653550 | Interface for providing modeless timeline based selection of an audio or video file A timeline-based approach for selecting and manipulating audio tracks is presented. This is accomplished via a graphical user interface that provides users with a series of visual cues and enhancements when selecting a particular area of an audio track depicted with... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7644000 | Adding audio effects to spoken utterance A system receives a spoken utterance, identifies at least one keyword within the spoken utterance, and identifies a function using the identified at least one keyword. The system further performs the identified function on at least a portion of the spoken utterance ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7603280 | Speech output apparatus, speech output method, and program A speech output apparatus is disclosed, which can allow the user to easily catch synthetic speech when the synthetic speech is output upon being superposed on a music output. The apparatus output can output a music and synthetic speech that indicates contents of inf... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7571104 | Dynamic real-time cross-fading of voice prompts A system and method are provided for creating shorter more natural sounding voice messages and prompts from a plurality of pre-recorded sound segments, the prerecorded sound segments are dynamically cross faded in order to produce a more natural blended sound, vario... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7542909 | Method, system, and apparatus for repairing audio recordings A system and method is disclosed for detecting and repairing audio recordings that contain busy signals and extended periods of silence by searching for clusters of silence by reviewing the amplitude in an audio recording sample and listing each silence and sample t... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7461002 | Method for time aligning audio signals using characterizations based on auditory events A method for time aligning audio signal, wherein one signal has been derived from the other or both have been derived from another signal, comprises deriving reduced-information characterizations of the audio signals, auditory scene analysis. The time offset of one ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7444288 | Automatically mixing audio signals in a predetermined manner A recorded voice message having a first length and a background sound having a second length longer than the first length are received. The first length of the recorded voice message is determined. The level of a portion of the background sound is lowered, the lower... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444280 | Emphasis of short-duration transient speech features A sound processor including a microphone (1), a pre-amplifier (2), a bank of N parallel filters (3), means for detecting short-duration transitions in the envelope signal of each filter channel, and means for applying gain to the outputs of these filter channels in ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7437298 | Method and apparatus for mobile phone using semiconductor device capable of inter-processing voice signal and audio signal A method and apparatus of mobile phone using a semiconductor device includes a first converter, a second converter, a first digital processing circuit, and a second digital processing circuit. The first converter converts a first digital audio signal sampled with a ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7426417 | Method and apparatus for efficiently accounting for the temporal nature of audio processing Some embodiments of the invention provide a computer system for processing an audio track. This system includes at least one DSP for processing the audio track. It also includes an application for editing the audio track. To process audio data in a first interval of... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7415315 | Recording and/or reproducing apparatus and recording apparatus A recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a microphone, a semiconductor memory, an operating section and a controller. An output signal from the microphone is written in the semiconductor memory and the written signals are read out from the semiconductor mem... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415314 | Recording apparatus, reproducing apparatus, and recording and/or reproducing apparatus The present invention provides an apparatus having a microphone, an analog to digital converting circuit, a semiconductor memory, input device, and a controller. The analog to digital converting circuit converts an output signal from the microphone into a digital si... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7409252 | Recording and/or reproducing apparatus and recording apparatus A recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a microphone, a semiconductor memory, an operating section and a controller. An output signal from the microphone is written in the semiconductor memory and the written signals are read out from the semiconductor mem... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7401021 | Apparatus and method for voice modulation in mobile terminal An apparatus for voice modulation in a mobile terminal comprises: a voice input unit being inputted a voice of a subscriber and generating an analog voice signal; a voice modulation unit for modulating the generated analog voice signal; an audio processor for conver... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7395208 | Integrating external voices Integrating voice communication into a game console to minimize or eliminate voice data processing by a primary processor. Input voice data from a microphone or a network is processed by a secondary processor and stored in a circular buffer. Drift between storing an... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7366671 | Speech displaying system and method A speech displaying system and method can display playing progress by waveform and synchronously display text of a speech file using rolling subtitles when playing the speech file. After the speech file is loaded via a loading module, a sentence unit determining mod... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363232 | Method and system for enabling audio speed conversion The present invention provides a method and system for processing an audio signal. According to an exemplary method, an audio signal such as a digital voice signal is received and divided into one or more individual unit cycles. An audio speed conversion operation i... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356245 | Methods to facilitate efficient transmission and playback of digital information Systems, methods, and computer products that facilitate transmission of information used for fast and responsive video and audio playback at non-standard, trick mode speeds. An embodiment of the present invention uses low resolution, compressed, and independent fram... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356476 | Audio signal processing method, audio signal processing apparatus, Hi-Fi video apparatus, digital video apparatus and 8 mm video apparatus An audio signal processing method for repairing an anomalous state such as noise, a discontinuity, and a break of sound, comprising detecting the anomalous state of an audio signal, deleting the audio signal in the anomalous segment, deducing the correct audio signa... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356465 | Perfected device and method for the spatialization of sound The invention relates to a computer device comprising a memory 108 for storing audio signals 114, in part pre-recorded, each corresponding to a defined source, by means of spatial position data 116, and a processing module 110 for process... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349843 | Automatic call distributor with language based routing system and method A method and system for determining a language of a call handled by an automatic call distributor is disclosed. The method includes the steps of detecting the call, sampling an audio portion of the call, fitting a plurality of templates to the sampled portion of the... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343564 | Systems and methods for displaying location-based maps on communication devices Tickers are populated with location-based information that is selected according to the geographic location of communication devices. The location of a communication device is identified based on a GPS system, proximity to transmitters in a wireless network, user in... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343019 | Streaming normalization A normalization for streaming digital audio signals applies a gain factor according to the maximum sample magnitude in a window of samples and compare the gain factor to prior gain factors to adjust the gain factor for the samples in the window of samples. Adaptatio... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343082 | Universal guide track A method and apparatus is disclosed which provides an efficient tool for performing post-production synchronization of a video source. In the preferred embodiment, the graphemes of a detected audio source are synchronized with a script and are shown through a user i... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7335834 | Musical composition data creation device and method An apparatus and a method for making music data each perform converting an input audio signal indicative of a music piece into a frequency signal indicative of magnitudes of frequency components at predetermined time intervals; extracting frequency components corres... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336890 | Automatic detection and segmentation of music videos in an audio/video stream A “music video parser” automatically detects and segments music videos in a combined audio-video media stream. Automatic detection and segmentation is achieved by integrating shot boundary detection, video text detection and audio analysis to automatically detec... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7332668 | Wavetable audio synthesis system The present invention relates to an audio synthesis system for performing wavetable audio synthesis. The system comprises an instrument database, an analysis module, a memory, a judgment module, and a synthesis module. The instrument database is used for storing dat... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330553 | Audio signal reproducing apparatus A small-sized audio signal reproducing apparatus for hearing reproduced audio signals with the aid of a headphone is disclosed. Digitized and compression encoded audio signals, stored in a semiconductor memory, are read out so as to undergo a decoding operation, whi... | 02/12/2008 |
