Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8099290 | Voice recognition device A voice recognition unit is constructed in such a way as to create a voice label string for an inputted voice uttered by a user inputted for each language on the basis of a feature vector time series of the inputted voice uttered by the user and data about a sound s... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8065157 | Audio output apparatus, document reading method, and mobile terminal An audio output apparatus includes an audio output unit and a storage unit which stores a predetermined word and a type associated with the word. A controller, upon outputting an electronic document as audio from the audio output unit using speech synthesis, when th... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8046233 | Methods and systems for local, computer-aided translation using remotely-generated translation predictions A method for local, computer-aided translation using remotely-generated translation predictions includes the step of receiving, by a remote translation memory, at least one portion of a document in a source language for translation into a target language. The remote... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8032384 | Hand held language translation and learning device The present invention features a hand-held language translation device comprising a microprocessor configured to receive (i) an audio input signal from a foreign speaker, and (ii) a simultaneous visual input signal generated by a camera which captures the facial exp... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8024196 | Techniques for creating and translating voice applications Embodiments of the present invention include techniques for creating voice applications in different design environments and translating voice applications into any runtime environment. A set of rendering engines creates a translation layer that can convert a voice ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8015016 | Automatic translation method and system based on corresponding sentence pattern Provided are an automatic speech translation system and a method for obtaining accurate translation performance with a simple structure. Because input and output sentences are written in different languages, automatic speech translation requires techniques for proce... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7962345 | Speech-to-speech generation system and method An expressive speech-to-speech generation system which can generate expressive speech output by using expressive parameters extracted from the original speech signal to drive the standard TTS system. The system comprises: speech recognition means, machine translatio... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7949538 | Automated interpretation of clinical encounters with cultural cues A method, system and a computer program product for an automated interpretation and translation are disclosed. An automated interpretation occurs by receiving language-based content from a user. The received language-based content is processed to interpret the recei... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7921018 | Translation system and method of providing translation service A translation system is provided, which comprises: a translation server comprising guidelines for writing original text that serve as criteria for determining whether errors exist in the original text, an original text controller determining whether the original tex... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7912727 | Apparatus and method for integrated phrase-based and free-form speech-to-speech translation An apparatus and method that integrates both phrase-based and free-form speech-to-speech translation approaches using probability models. The starting step of the method is to receive vocal communication in a source language. Then store the received vocal communicat... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7860719 | Disfluency detection for a speech-to-speech translation system using phrase-level machine translation with weighted finite state transducers A computer-implemented method for creating a disfluency translation lattice includes providing a plurality of weighted finite state transducers including a translation model, a language model, and a phrase segmentation model as input, performing a cascaded compositi... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7835914 | Dialog supporting apparatus A dialog supporting apparatus which can support an on-going dialog so that the dialog is smoothly completed. The dialog supporting apparatus includes an utterance receiving unit receiving an utterance of a dialog participant and outputting utterance information, an ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7822615 | Translating expressions in a computing environment A method, and corresponding software and system, for translating an expression are described. The method includes accepting a first expression in a first syntax, the expression including a first character sequence representing a string value using the first syntax; ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7739118 | Information transmission system and information transmission method In this information transmission system, a first user terminal gains access to a business server through a communication network, to transmit a body text of an electronic mail in voice information there. The business server converts the voice information into text i... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7720685 | Receptionist robot system To automate the work of recognizing a guest, check the appointment, notify a host of the arrival of the guest and conduct the guest to a designated place, a robot having a function to autonomously travel is equipped with camera/microphone for recognizing a guest at ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7716058 | Speech recognition using automatic recognition turn off Large vocabulary speech recognition can automatically turn recognition off in one or more ways. A user command can turn on recognition that is automatically turned off after the next end of utterance. A plurality of buttons can each be associated with a different sp... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7711571 | Dynamic context-sensitive translation dictionary for mobile phones A method and apparatus are presented for providing language translation assistance to a user of a mobile terminal. The terminal makes available a number of language translation services to the user, and the mobile terminal has a database for storing translation data... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7711570 | Application abstraction with dialog purpose Controls are provided for a web server to generate client side markups that include recognition and/or audible prompting. The controls comprise elements of a dialog such as a question, answer, confirmation, command or statement. A module forms a dialog by making use... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7672852 | Localization of prompts Localized prompt statements. For each prompt statement to be executed, identifying a resource string that corresponds to a variable associated with the prompt statement permits retrieval of one or more localized media files. For example, the media files may provide ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7627479 | Automation tool for web site content language translation A system, method and computer readable medium for providing translated web content is disclosed. The method on an information processing system includes retrieving a first content in a first language and parsing the first content into a plurality of translatable com... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7624020 | Adapter for allowing both online and offline training of a text to text system An adapter for a text to text training. A main corpus is used for training, and a domain specific corpus is used to adapt the main corpus according to the training information in the domain specific corpus. The adaptation is carried out using a technique that may be... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7610204 | Selective enablement of speech recognition grammars A method for processing speech audio in a network connected client device can include selecting a speech grammar for use in a speech recognition system in the network connected client device; characterizing the selected speech grammar; and, based on the characteriza... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7603279 | Grammar update system and method for speech recognition A grammar update method for storing grammar data for speech interaction used for recognizing speech data and newly recognizing the speech data without using the grammar data, includes determining whether or not a new-recognition result in the newly-recognizing opera... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7596499 | Multilingual text-to-speech system with limited resources A multilingual text-to-speech system includes a source datastore of primary source parameters providing information about a speaker of a primary language. A plurality of primary filter parameters provides information about sounds in the primary language. A plurality... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7555433 | Voice generator, method for generating voice, and navigation apparatus A main controller feeds a spelling translator with a text item representing a place name stored in a map database. The spelling translator translates the spelling of the text item according to rules described in a translation rule table. The spelling translator tran... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7548863 | Adaptive context sensitive analysis A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that converts input data, such as speech or phonetic characters, to text by finding documents that are similar to the input data and using the similar documents to create a customized dictionary including a weig... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7542908 | System for learning a language A system operating on a network for learning a language includes a memory for storing a scenario having tasks to be carried out in the language. A connection manager accepts a plurality of connections from one or more user systems. A virtual reality subsystem repres... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7539619 | Speech-enabled language translation system and method enabling interactive user supervision of translation and speech recognition accuracy A system and method for a highly interactive style of speech-to-speech translation is provided. The interactive procedures enable a user to recognize, and if necessary correct, errors in both speech recognition and translation, thus providing robust translation outp... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7499863 | System and method for constructing phrases for a media server A system and method for constructing phrases for delivery by a media server over a network to a client. Upon initiation of a session an initial ordered play list comprising a plurality of identifiers is conveyed to the media server. Each identifier on the ordered pl... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7487096 | Method to automatically enable closed captioning when a speaker has a heavy accent A method for automatically enabling closed captioning in video conferencing when a heavy accent is detected from a current speaker is provided. Language background and/or ethnicity information is received as a user preference. An acceptable accent level is determine... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7461001 | Speech-to-speech generation system and method An expressive speech-to-speech generation system and method which can generate expressive speech output by using expressive parameters extracted from the original speech signal to drive the standard TTS system. The system comprises: speech recognition means, machine... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7444278 | Method and system for synchronizing the user interface language between a software application and a web site A method and system is generally directed to synchronizing the language used for applications and the language used for information provided across a network. The client language that is associated with the language used for applications on a computing device is det... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7430503 | Method of combining corpora to achieve consistency in phonetic labeling The present invention is a method of combining corpora to achieve consistency in phonetic labeling. Corpora are received. A first corpus is selected from the corpora. Generating a phonetic transcript if the first corpus does not include one. A second corpus is selec... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7421394 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method and recording medium, and program This invention has as its object to save labor time required for correction and adjustments when an error has occurred during either the recognition of input data or the process of the recognition result of an information processing apparatus which recognizes input ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418378 | Method and apparatus for training and deployment of a statistical model of syntactic attachment likelihood The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for improving the performance of a natural language parser. During training, natural language inputs are processed such that statistical information is extracted, concerning the frequency of attachment of certai... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7412388 | Language-enhanced programming tools Statements of a computer program expressed using a first source natural language are made meaningful to a programmer familiar with a second target natural language. The first source natural language of the computer program is determined from the programmer, or throu... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7406408 | Method of recognizing phones in speech of any language Method of recognizing phones in speech of any language. Acquire phones for all languages and a set of languages. Acquire a pronunciation dictionary, a transcript of speech for the set of languages, and speech for the transcript. Receive speech containing unknown pho... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403888 | Language input user interface A language input architecture receives input text (e.g., phonetic text of a character-based language) entered by a user from an input device (e.g., keyboard, voice recognition). The input text is converted to an output text (e.g., written language text of a characte... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7401023 | Systems and methods for providing automated directory assistance using transcripts An automated directory assistance (130) includes a training system (210) and a directory assistance system (220). The training system (210) trains and maintains the directory assistance system (220). The training system (210... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7398215 | Prompt language translation for a telecommunications system A prompt translation application for use in a telecommunications messaging system provides an administrator with a plurality of messaging prompts in a base language for revising, translating, and editing. The administrator can nearly simultaneously revise both a vis... | 07/08/2008 |
