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Patent No. 5823572

Self Defense Weapon With Memo

A self defense weapon formed as a memo pad and which is easily held by a person's fingers, therefore making it possible to provide protection from a mugger and also to quickly and easily write a record or a message without failure of missing or forgetting significant information under a stressful situation.

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Examiner: Azad, Abul K.


Primary examiner statistics: 185 patents; average approval time: 185 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 166 patents; average approval time: 168 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7440897 Method and system for automatically detecting morphemes in a task...
7433821 Methods and systems for intelligibility measurement of audio anno...
7433820 Asynchronous Hidden Markov Model method and system
7433822 Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding pause information
7428490 Method for spectral subtraction in speech enhancement
7426465 Speech signal decoding method and apparatus using decoded informa...
7421386 Full-form lexicon with tagged data and methods of constructing an...
7418393 Data reproduction device, method thereof and storage medium
7415414 Systems and methods for determining and using interaction models
7409345 Methods for reducing spurious insertions in speech recognition
7398198 System and method of identifying a translation resource
7389232 Communication device and learning tool
7389229 Unified clustering tree
7383177 Method for speech coding, method for speech decoding and their ap...
7379873 Singing voice synthesizing apparatus, singing voice synthesizing ...
7376568 Voice signal processor
7373291 Linguistic support for a recognizer of mathematical expressions
7366659 Methods and devices for selectively generating time-scaled sound ...
7366660 Transmission apparatus, transmission method, reception apparatus,...
7363220 Method for speech coding, method for speech decoding and their ap...
7359853 Method and system for low bit rate voice encoding and decoding ap...
7353171 Methods and apparatus to operate an audience metering device with...
7346509 Software for statistical analysis of speech
7346510 Method of speech recognition using variables representing dynamic...
7346517 Method of inserting additional data into a compressed signal
7340396 Method and apparatus for providing a speaker adapted speech recog...
7340391 Apparatus and method for processing a multi-channel signal
7333932 Method for speech synthesis
7328147 Automatic resolution of segmentation ambiguities in grammar autho...
7324945 Method of dynamically altering grammars in a memory efficient spe...
7324937 Method for packet loss and/or frame erasure concealment in a voic...
7319958 Polyphone network method and apparatus
7318031 Apparatus, system and method for providing speech recognition ass...
7313518 Noise reduction method and device using two pass filtering
7310605 Method and apparatus to transliterate text using a portable devic...
7308398 Translation correlation device
7302387 Modification of fixed codebook search in G.729 Annex E audio codi...
7302384 Left-corner chart parsing
7299186 Speech input system, speech portal server, and speech input termi...
7295983 Musical tune playback apparatus

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7464030 Vector search method
7089179 Voice coding method, voice coding apparatus, and voice decoding a...
6865533 Text to speech
6847931 Expressive parsing in computerized conversion of text to speech
6832189 Integration of speech recognition and stenographic services for i...
6823305 Apparatus and method for speaker normalization based on biometric...
6823307 Language model based on the speech recognition history
6823302 Real-time quality analyzer for voice and audio signals
6823311 Data processing system for vocalizing web content
6820056 Recognizing non-verbal sound commands in an interactive computer ...
6795804 System and method for enhancing speech and pattern recognition us...
6785654 Distributed speech recognition system with speech recognition eng...
6772114 High frequency and low frequency audio signal encoding and decodi...
6766295 Adaptation of a speech recognition system across multiple remote ...
6760700 Method and system for proofreading and correcting dictated text
6757655 Method of speech recognition
6745165 Method and apparatus for recognizing from here to here voice comm...
6732070 Wideband speech codec using a higher sampling rate in analysis an...
6728683 Reproducing apparatus and reproducing method
6728678 Variable rate video playback with synchronized audio
6725195 Method and apparatus for probabilistic recognition using small nu...
6725194 Speech recognition device with text comparing means
6725197 Method of automatic recognition of a spelled speech utterance
6711537 Comfort noise generation for open discontinuous transmission syst...
6711541 Technique for developing discriminative sound units for speech re...
6691085 Method and system for estimating artificial high band signal in s...
6687674 Waveform forming device and method
6687670 Error concealment in digital audio receiver
6681205 Method and apparatus for enrolling a user for voice recognition
6681202 Wide band synthesis through extension matrix
6678657 Method and apparatus for a robust feature extraction for speech r...
6671670 System and method for pre-processing information used by an autom...
6665639 Speech recognition in consumer electronic products
6665643 Method of and apparatus for animation, driven by an audio signal,...
6658378 Decoding method and apparatus and program furnishing medium
6658388 Personality generator for conversational systems
6654721 Voice activated communication system and program guide
6651043 User barge-in enablement in large vocabulary speech recognition s...
6640208 Voiced/unvoiced speech classifier
6633840 Method and system for transmitting data on a speech channel
 
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