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Wearable Pet Enclosure

An enclosure for small animals which is wearable on the front or back of an animate being.

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Examiner: Storm, Donald L.


Primary examiner statistics: 73 patents; average approval time: 1348 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 242 patents; average approval time: 1099 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7389227 High-speed search method for LSP quantizer using split VQ and fix...
7383178 System and method for speech processing using independent compone...
7366662 Separation of target acoustic signals in a multi-transducer arran...
7363218 Method and apparatus for fast CELP parameter mapping
7356459 Program-controlled household appliance and method of operating th...
7340394 Using quality and bit count parameters in quality and rate contro...
7333933 Speech based status and control user interface customisable by th...
7328151 Audio decoder with dynamic adjustment of signal modification
7321857 Systems and methods for TV navigation with compressed voice-activ...
7319956 Method and apparatus to perform speech reference enrollment based...
7319959 Multi-source phoneme classification for noise-robust automatic sp...
7313523 Method and apparatus for assigning word prominence to new or prev...
7313520 Adaptive variable bit rate audio compression encoding
7308403 Compensation for utterance dependent articulation for speech qual...
7308402 Error resistant scalable audio coding partitioned for determining...
7305341 Method of reflecting time/language distortion in objective speech...
7302394 Front-end device independence for natural interaction platform
7302388 Method and apparatus for detecting voice activity
7299175 Normalizing to compensate for block size variation when computing...
7295971 Accounting for non-monotonicity of quality as a function of quant...
7295973 Quality control quantization loop and bitrate control quantizatio...
7295969 Digital recording and playback system with voice recognition capa...
7289950 Extended finite state grammar for speech recognition systems
7283952 Correcting model bias during quality and rate control for digital...
7283961 High-quality speech synthesis device and method by classification...
7277848 Measuring and using reliability of complexity estimates during qu...
7272564 Method and apparatus for multimodal communication with user contr...
7266492 Training machine learning by sequential conditional generalized i...
7263482 Accounting for non-monotonicity of quality as a function of quant...
7263487 Generating a task-adapted acoustic model from one or more differe...
7260525 Filtering of control parameters in quality and rate control for d...
7257533 Database searching and retrieval using phoneme and word lattice
7251596 Method and device for analyzing a wave signal and method and appa...
7249016 Quantization matrices using normalized-block pattern of digital a...
7240011 Controlling the listening horizon of an automatic speech recognit...
7231343 Synonyms mechanism for natural language systems
7231342 Method, system, and computer program product in a logically parti...
7219065 Emphasis of short-duration transient speech features
7194409 Method and system for preventing error amplification in natural l...
7191126 Sound encoder and sound decoder performing multiplexing and demul...

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7363227 Disruption of speech understanding by adding a privacy sound ther...
7089183 Accumulating transformations for hierarchical linear regression H...
7027975 Guided natural language interface system and method
7013272 Amplitude masking of spectra for speech recognition method and ap...
7013266 Method for determining speech quality by comparison of signal pro...
7006971 Recognition of a speech utterance available in spelled form
7006972 Generating a task-adapted acoustic model from one or more differe...
6999921 Audio overhang reduction by silent frame deletion in wireless cal...
6990448 Database annotation and retrieval including phoneme data
6988064 System and method for combined frequency-domain and time-domain p...
6988072 Controlling the listening horizon of an automatic speech recognit...
6985861 Systems and methods for combining subword recognition and whole w...
6985853 Compressed audio stream data decoder memory sharing techniques
6965860 Speech processing apparatus and method measuring signal to noise ...
6961704 Linguistic prosodic model-based text to speech
6934677 Quantization matrices based on critical band pattern information ...
6928410 Method and apparatus for musical modification of speech signal
6920425 Visual interactive response system and method translated from int...
6917918 Method and system for frame alignment and unsupervised adaptation...
6912496 Preprocessing modules for quality enhancement of MBE coders and d...
6889186 Method and apparatus for improving the intelligibility of digital...
6889191 Systems and methods for TV navigation with compressed voice-activ...
6885988 Bit error concealment methods for speech coding
6879957 Method for producing a speech rendition of text from diphone soun...
6873951 Speech recognition system and method permitting user customizatio...
6871177 Pattern recognition with criterion for output from selected model...
6847932 Speech synthesis device handling phoneme units of extended CV
6836760 Use of semantic inference and context-free grammar with speech re...
6829582 Controlled access to audio signals based on objectionable audio c...
6829579 Transcoding method and system between CELP-based speech codes
6826528 Weighted frequency-channel background noise suppressor
6823309 Speech synthesizing system and method for modifying prosody based...
6820055 Systems and methods for automated audio transcription, translatio...
6807527 Method and apparatus for determination of an optimum fixed codebo...
6799162 Semi-supervised speaker adaptation
6799164 Method, apparatus, and medium of digital acoustic signal coding l...
6798878 Local loop telecommunication repeater housing having mounting slo...
6785649 Text formatting from speech
6782364 Controlling a listening horizon of a speech recognition system fo...
6775652 Speech recognition over lossy transmission systems
 
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