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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7552048 | Method and device for performing frame erasure concealment on higher-band signal A method for performing a frame erasure concealment for a higher-band signal involves calculating a periodic intensity of the higher-band signal with respect to pitch period information of a lower-band signal; comparing the periodic intensity to a preconfigured thre... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7486457 | Method and apparatus for predicting write failure resulting from flying height modulation A method and apparatus for predicting write failure resulting from flying height modulation and initiating re-writing of data upon occurrence of the predicted write failure is disclosed. According to the present invention, if the slider or transducer flying height m... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7464026 | Semantic analysis system for interpreting linguistic structures output by a natural language linguistic analysis system The present invention is a system and method for performing semantic analysis that interprets a linguistic structure output by a natural language linguistic analysis system. The semantic analysis system converts the linguistic output by the natural language linguist... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7464027 | Method and device for quantizing an information signal Quantizing an information signal of a sequence of information values includes frequency-selective filtering the sequence of information values to obtain a sequence of filtered information values and quantizing the filtered information values to obtain a sequence of ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7464029 | Robust separation of speech signals in a noisy environment A method for improving the quality of a speech signal extracted from a noisy acoustic environment is provided. In one approach, a signal separation process is associated with a voice activity detector. The voice activity detector is a two-channel detector, which ena... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7464023 | Linguistic analysis system A computer provided with a word processing program comprising a syntax evaluation and amendment means adapted to identify predetermined syntax arrangements in inputted text, and to provide alternative syntax arrangements for the inputted text, characterised in that ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7464030 | Vector search method Each of the M basic vectors in a noise code book 260 is multiplied by a factor ±1 in a sign adder 270 and combined in an adder 280 to create 2M noise signed vectors. The characteristic of the binary Gray code is utilized as follows. ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7464020 | Visibly distinguishing portions of compound words A method and apparatus for displaying a compound word is provided. According to one aspect, a component word is located within a compound word. The compound word is displayed with the component word visibly distinguished from the remainder of the compound word. As a... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7464024 | Chinese character-based parser A parser is provided that parses a Chinese text stream at the character level and builds a syntactic structure of Chinese character sequences. A character-based syntactic parse tree contains word boundaries, part-of-speech tags, and phrasal structure information. Sy... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7460991 | System and method for shaping a data signal for embedding within an audio signal There is described a number of encoders for encoding a data signal within an audio signal. In some of the encoders, the audio signal is separated into a tonal part and a residual part, and the data signal is shaped based on the residual part. In other encoders, the ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7461000 | System and methods for conducting an interactive dialog via a speech-based user interface A system and methods are provided for conducting an interactive dialog via a speech-based user interface. The system includes an auditory prompt module for generating a sequence of goal-directed auditory prompts based upon a pre-determined user-oriented task, and an... | 12/02/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7457747 | Noise detection for audio encoding by mean and variance energy ratio The techniques described are utilized for detection of noise and noise-like segments in audio coding. The techniques can include performing a prediction gain calculation, an energy compaction calculation, and a mean and variation energy calculation. Signal adaptive ... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7457753 | Telephone pathology assessment A system for remote assessment of a user is disclosed. The system comprises application software resident on a server and arranged to interact across a network with a user operating a client device to obtain one or more sample signals of the user's speech. A datasto... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7454333 | Separating multiple audio signals recorded as a single mixed signal A method according to the invention separates multiple audio signals recorded as a mixed signal via a single channel. The mixed signal is A/D converted and sampled. A sliding window is applied to the samples to obtain frames. The logarithms of the power spectra of t... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454354 | Hierarchical lossless encoding/decoding method, hierarchical lossless encoding method, hierarchical lossless decoding method, its apparatus and program A hierarchical lossless encoding and decoding technology for digital signals such as of music data, audio data, or the like. A lossless reproduced signal is made identical to an input signal even when the processing accuracy in an encoding apparatus and the processi... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454353 | Method and device for the generation of a scalable data stream and method and device for decoding a scalable data stream In a method of producing a scalable data stream of at least two blocks of output data of a first coder and a block of output data of a second coder, wherein the at least two blocks of output data of the first coder together represent a current section of an input si... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454339 | Discriminative training for speaker and speech verification A method for discriminatively training acoustic models is provided for automated speaker verification (SV) and speech (or utterance) verification (UV) systems. The method includes: defining a likelihood ratio for a given speech segment, whose speaker identity (for S... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454328 | Speech encoding system, and speech encoding method A speech encoding apparatus calculates encoding distortion of a noise-like fixed code vector and multiplies the encoding distortion by a fixed weight corresponding to the noise-like degree of the noise-like fixed code vector, calculates encoding distortion of a non-... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454330 | Method and apparatus for speech encoding and decoding by sinusoidal analysis and waveform encoding with phase reproducibility A speech encoding method and apparatus in which an input speech signal is divided in terms of blocks or frames as encoding units and encoded in terms of the encoding units, whereby explosive and fricative consonants can be impeccably reproduced, while there is an at... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454344 | Language model architecture An architectural design is disclosed wherein a single reusable language model component is shared by multiple applications. The language model component is loaded once for a plurality of applications, thereby reducing the amount of memory consumed by the application... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454340 | Voice recognition performance estimation apparatus, method and program allowing insertion of an unnecessary word A voice recognition estimating apparatus for a voice recognition apparatus, including a voice data property generator that generates properties of voice data used to determine, based on an estimation item, a feature of synthetic voice data. The estimation item is us... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454334 | Method and apparatus for automatically identifying animal species from their vocalizations Relatively powerful hand-held computing devices, Digital Signal Processors, Audio signal processing technology, voice recognition technology, expert systems, Hidden Markov Models, and/or neural networks are employed in a device capable of real-time automated species... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7451089 | System and method of spoken language understanding in a spoken dialog service A voice-enabled help desk service is disclosed. The service comprises an automatic speech recognition module for recognizing speech from a user, a spoken language understanding module for understanding the output from the automatic speech recognition module, a dialo... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7451088 | System and method of handling problematic input during context-sensitive help for multi-modal dialog systems A method of presenting a multi-modal help dialog move to a user in a multi-modal dialog system is disclosed. The method comprises presenting an audio portion of the multi-modal help dialog move that explains available ways of user inquiry and presenting a correspond... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7451087 | System and method for converting text-to-voice A method for converting text to concatenated voice by utilizing a digital voice library and a set of playback rules is provided. The method includes receiving and expanding text data to form a sequence of text and pseudo words. The sequence of text and pseudo words ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7451084 | Cell phone having an information-converting function A voice discriminating tag for making a reception voice and a transmission voice distinguishable is added to the voice inputted into a cell phone. Further, a volume discriminating tag is added based on a detection result of a volume detector. A CPU converts the voic... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7451079 | Emotion recognition method and device Emotion recognition is performed by extracting a set comprising at least one feature derived from a signal, and processing the set of extracted feature(s) to detect an emotion therefrom. The voice signal is low pass filtered prior to extracting therefrom at least on... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7451076 | Information display control apparatus, server, and program which display example sentences with respect to input or selected words and addition words An information display control apparatus includes: an example sentence storing unit for storing example sentences each including words; a word inputting unit for inputting a word; a list display control unit for controlling a search for example sentences each includ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7447640 | Acoustic signal encoding method and apparatus, acoustic signal decoding method and apparatus and recording medium In an acoustic signal encoding apparatus (100), a tonal noise verification unit (110) verifies whether the input acoustic time-domain signals are tonal or noisy. If the input acoustic time-domain signals are tonal, tonal component signals are extracted... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7447627 | Compound word breaker and spell checker A method of determining the component words of a compound word is disclosed. The method identifies the component words, by comparing the word with a list of words found in a lexicon. If the word is not found in the lexicon the method proceeds to analyze the word on ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7444279 | Question answering system and question answering processing method A question answering system estimates an answer type of an answer from a input question statement, extracts keywords from the question statement and retrieves a document database, extracts language expressions (answer candidates) from the extracted document data, as... | 10/28/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7444289 | Audio decoding method and apparatus for reconstructing high frequency components with less computation An audio decoding method and apparatus for reconstructing high frequency components with less computation are provided. The audio decoding apparatus includes a decoder, a channel similarity determination unit, a high frequency component generation unit, and an audio... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444286 | Speech recognition using re-utterance recognition The present invention relates to speech recognition that enables a user to perform re-utterance recognition, in which speech recognition is performed upon both a second saying of a sequence of one or more words and upon an earlier saying of the same sequence to help... | 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 |
| 7440894 | Method and system for creation of voice training profiles with multiple methods with uniform server mechanism using heterogeneous devices A system and method for creating user voice profiles enables a user to create a single user voice profile that is compatible with one or more voice servers. Such a system includes a training server that receives audio information from a client associated with a user... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440888 | Methods, systems and computer program products for national language support using a multi-language property file National language support for an application is provided by recording translations of a text string in corresponding different languages in a single property file so as to allow display of the translations in the property file. One of the translations of the text st... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437292 | Dialog system for a man-machine interaction having cooperating dialog devices A system and method for a dialog system which provides for a user to carry on a dialog with dialog experts having different capabilities, during an existing dialog session. A terminal device may be connected to a special switching device, which, in dependence upon a... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437284 | Methods and systems for language boundary detection Disclosed are methods and systems for detecting boundaries between areas of different languages in a body of text. ... | 10/14/2008 |
