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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120029907 | myMedicalpen A digital pen designed to assist users in spelling words as they write. The invention is an electronic pen with a speaker located near the top of the device. A microphone may be located directly under the speaker in the form of a small screened concave or convex apertur... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20110231194 | Interactive Speech Preparation In an embodiment, a method of interactive speech preparation is disclosed. The method may include or comprise displaying an interactive speech application on a display device, wherein the interactive speech application has a text display window. The method may also incl... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110115988 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REMOTELY OUTPUTTING AUDIO A method for remotely outputting audio in a display apparatus includes outputting Audio/Visual (AV) data, if a command to remotely output audio is input while the AV data is being output, stopping outputting audio of the AV data while outputting video of the AV data, an... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110093274 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ARTICLE USING SOUND Disclosed is an apparatus and method of manufacturing an article using sound that modifies sound waveforms for sound of living things (including human voice) in various shapes and manufactures articles corresponding to the shapes. An apparatus for manufacturing an artic... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110087493 | Communication System and Method for Representing Information in a Communication The invention relates to a communication system having a display unit (2) and a virtual being (3) that can be visually represented on the display unit (2) and that is designed for communication by means of natural speech with a natural person, where... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110043832 | PRINTED AUDIO FORMAT AND PHOTOGRAPH WITH ENCODED AUDIO A printed audio format includes a printed encoding of an audio signal, and a plurality of spaced-apart and parallel rails. The printed encoding of the audio signal is located between the plurality of rails and each rail comprises at least one marker. The printed encodin... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20100211397 | FACIAL EXPRESSION REPRESENTATION APPARATUS An avatar facial expression representation technology is provided. The avatar facial expression representation technology estimates changes in emotion and emphasis in a user's voice from vocal information, and changes in mouth shape of the user from pronunciation inform... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100198583 | INDICATING METHOD FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM The present invention relates to an indicating method for speech recognition system, comprising a multimedia electronic product and a speech recognition device. The steps of this method include: users enter voice commands into a voice input unit and convert these comman... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100153101 | Automated sound segment selection method and system A computerized method and system is provided for automatically selecting from a digitized sound sample a segment of the sample that is optimal for the purpose of measuring clinical metrics for voice and speech assessment. A quality measure based on quality parameters of... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100066554 | HOME APPLIANCE SYSTEM A home appliance system includes a home appliance outputting product information as a sound and a mobile terminal confirming the product information based on the sound. The mobile terminal can receive the sound, convert the sound into the product information and output ... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20090281810 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUALLY PRESENTING AUDIO SIGNALS A method of visually presenting audio signals includes receiving an audio signal to be presented; generating a predetermined number of discrete frequency components from the audio signal; assigning a graphical object to each of the frequency components, each of the grap... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090259475 | VOICE QUALITY CHANGE PORTION LOCATING APPARATUS A text edit apparatus which presents, based on language analysis information regarding a text, a portion of the text where voice quality may change when the text is read aloud has advantages of predicting likelihood of the voice quality change and judging whether or not... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090248421 | Arrangement for Creating and Using a Phonetic-Alphabet Representation of a Name of a Party to a Call A first party creates and edits a phonetic-alphabet representation of its name. The phonetic representation is conveyed to a second party as “caller-identification” information by messages that set up a call between the parties. The phonetic representation of the na... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090231347 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Natural Facial Animation Natural inter-viseme animation of 3D head model driven by speech recognition is calculated by applying limitations to the velocity and/or acceleration of a normalized parameter vector, each element of which may be mapped to animation node outputs of a 3D model based on ... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090228799 | METHOD FOR VISUALIZING AUDIO DATA A Method for visualizing audio data corresponding to a piece of music, comprising the steps of: determining a structure of said piece of music based on said audio data, said structure comprising music structure segments each having a music structure segment length; allo... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090171667 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LANGUAGE ASSISTED PATIENT INTAKE A method for assisting in the communication of a medical care provider and a patient is disclosed. The method may include displaying a first display section, the first display section including a plurality of anatomical features, each anatomical feature associated with ... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090132257 | System and method for inputting edited translation words or sentence A system and a method for inputting edited translation words or sentence are provided to solve the problem that editing translation words or sentence and inputting the edited translation words or sentence cannot be performed by successive actions. In this system and met... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090125312 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING NEWS INFORMATION BY USING THREE DIMENSIONAL CHARACTER FOR USE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK Disclosed is a method for providing by a news information-providing server news information using a 3D character to a wireless communication terminal having accessed the news information-providing server through a wireless communication network, the method including the... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090099850 | Vocal Command Directives To Compose Dynamic Display Text Methods, apparatus, products are disclosed for displaying speech for a user of a surface computer, the surface computer comprising a surface, the surface computer capable of receiving multi-touch input through the surface and rendering display output on the surface, tha... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090007346 | Method for Controlling Information Display Using the Avatar in the Washing Machine A method for controlling an information display using an avatar of a washing machine is disclosed, which displays all information associated with usage- and control-information of the washing machine via the avatar, and allows a user of the washing machine to easily rec... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20080319755 | Text-to-speech apparatus According to an aspect of an embodiment, an apparatus for converting text data into sound signal, comprises: a phoneme determiner for determining phoneme data corresponding to a plurality of phonemes and pause data corresponding to a plurality of pauses to be inserted a... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080312930 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ALIGNING NATURAL AND SYNTHETIC VIDEO TO SPEECH SYNTHESIS According to MPEG-4's TTS architecture, facial animation can be driven by two streams simultaneously—text, and Facial Animation Parameters. In this architecture, text input is sent to a Text-To-Speech converter at a decoder that drives the mouth shapes of the f... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080294431 | Displaying text of speech in synchronization with the speech Displays a character string representing content of speech in synchronization with reproduction of the speech. An apparatus includes: a unit for obtaining scenario data representing the speech; a unit for dividing textual data resulting from recognition of the speech to... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080228498 | Enhanced coordinated signal generation apparatus A portable information system that, when activated, presents certain data to a user, wherein the information is prepositioned within the portable system or provided to it. The information may be resident within fixed memory, added by means of a smart card, or wirelessly... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080228497 | Method For Communication and Communication Device The invention describes a method for communication by means of a communication device (DS), in which synthesized speech (ss) is output from the communication device (DS), and in which light signals (ls) are output simultaneously with the synthesized speech (ss) in accor... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080221904 | COARTICULATION METHOD FOR AUDIO-VISUAL TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS A method for generating animated sequences of talking heads in text-to-speech applications wherein a processor samples a plurality of frames comprising image samples. The processor reads first data comprising one or more parameters associated with noise-producing orific... | 09/11/2008 |
| 20080114594 | CONVERSATION DATA ACCURACY CONFIRMATION The present invention generally relates to a method and system for providing VoIP clients with the ability to confirm accuracy in conversation data over a digital communication channel. More specifically, a method and system is provided for verifying, via a visual repre... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20080097762 | Multicultural and Multimedia Data Collection and Documentation Computer System, Apparatus and Method A computer system apparatus and method uses a display (20) to present a query (40, 50, 60) and responses (41-45) to the query (40, 50, 60) in a first language. The user may select the most appropriate response (41-45) to ... | 04/24/2008 |
| 20080091433 | Control system A system has a speech control interface operable to provide a speech sequence to which a user response is required before system functionality is operational. A user response can be provided via a spoken command. The system is operable, in response to interruption of th... | 04/17/2008 |
| 20080027731 | Comprehensive Spoken Language Learning System A computerized method of teaching spoken language skills includes receiving multiple user utterances into a computer system, receiving criteria for pronunciation errors, analyzing the user utterances to detect pronunciation errors according to basic sound units and Pron... | 01/31/2008 |
| 20070288243 | Display updating program and display updating apparatus A game machine has an LCD, a cross key, and a memory. The memory stores a plurality of words and a plurality of translations each corresponding to the plurality of words. A computer of the game machine displays at least one of the plurality of words on the LCD, and upda... | 12/13/2007 |
| 20070100636 | SPEECH RECOGNITION APPARATUS A speech recognition apparatus that enables efficient multimodal input in setting a plurality of items by one utterance is provided. An input unit inputs a setting instruction by speech. A speech interpretation unit recognizes and interprets the contents of the setting ... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20070100635 | Combined speech and alternate input modality to a mobile device Both speech and alternate modality inputs are used in inputting information spoken into a mobile device. The alternate modality inputs can be used to perform sequential commitment of words in a speech recognition result. ... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20070067174 | Visual comparison of speech utterance waveforms in which syllables are indicated Speech utterance waveforms are visually compared in which syllables are indicated, such as in color. A speech utterance from a first user and a corresponding speech utterance from a second user are recorded. The phones, or phonemes, of each speech utterance are segmente... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070061151 | Method and system for TTY routing assistance A method for displaying routing instructions includes receiving routing instructions from a call center at a telematics unit via a wireless network, the received route comprising at least one voice instruction. The method further includes converting the at least one voi... | 03/15/2007 |
| 20070038463 | Systems, methods and computer program products providing signed visual and/or audio records for digital distribution using patterned recognizable artifacts Recognizable visual and/or audio artifacts, such as recognizable sounds, are introduced into visual and/or audio content in an identifying pattern to generate a signed visual and/or audio recording for distribution over a digital communications medium. A library of imag... | 02/15/2007 |
| 20060271369 | SIMULTANEOUS MULTI-USER REAL-TIME VOICE RECOGNITION SYSTEM This invention is a combination of software and hardware components and methodologies that enable voice recognition for multiple users simultaneously. It introduces the concept of a “conversational voice log” and how voice logs are combined to represent the spoken w... | 11/30/2006 |
| 20060235702 | Audio font output device, font database, and language input front end processor An audio font output device is disclosed that is able to effectively convert characters or text into an audio signal recognizable by the acoustic sense of human beings. The audio font output device includes a font data base that stores a character corresponding to a sym... | 10/19/2006 |
| 20060111916 | Microphone feedback and control A system and method for positioning a software User Interface (UI) window on a display screen is provided, wherein the method includes displaying the software UI window on the display screen and identifying at least one suitable location on the display screen responsive... | 05/25/2006 |
| 20060074690 | 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 module ... | 04/06/2006 |
