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Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter
A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5111530 | Digital audio signal generating apparatus A digital audio signal generating apparatus suitable for the application to electronic musical instruments, sound effect generators for amusement machines and the like. This digital audio signal generating apparatus has a signal processing section and a m... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5047952 | Communication system for deaf, deaf-blind, or non-vocal individuals using instrumented glove A communication system for deaf, deaf-blind, or non-vocal individuals includes an instrumented glove for obtaining electrical signals indicative of a hand configuration of a first individual. Strain gage sensors in the glove flex with movement of the hand... | 09/10/1991 |
| 5014318 | Apparatus for checking audio signal processing systems Disclosed is an apparatus for checking audio signal processing systems. The apparatus has the following features: the apparatus is provided with a first input connection, to which the input signal of the audio processing system to be checked is transmitted, a ... | 05/07/1991 |
| 4903301 | Method and system for transmitting variable rate speech signal A speech signal transmission system for transmitting coded speech signals with variable bit rate is disclosed, which comprises a coder for analyzing digital speech signals inputted in a one-frame period and transforming them into coded data comprising a p... | 02/20/1990 |
| 4890252 | Long period pseudo random number sequence generator A circuit for generating a sequence of pseudo random numbers, {Ak }. There is an exponentiator (30') in GF(2m) for the normal basis representation of elements in a finite field GF(2m) each represented by m binary digits an... | 12/26/1989 |
| 4887225 | Method and device for controlling exposure beams A D-A converter outputs feed pitch error signals on an exposure head. The error signals are inverted to be supplied to a multiplier, and non-inverted to be supplied to a second multiplier. The exposure head radiates multiple beams, and ON/OFF dot signal f... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4771390 | Motor vehicle speech processor method and apparatus A speech synthesizer circuit for use in an automobile. The circuit includes a dedicated microprocessor and a speech synthesizer integrated circuit which has an output couplable to the speakers of the automobile's radio. The microprocessor monitors various... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4747143 | Speech enhancement system having dynamic gain control An arrangement for a speech enhancement processor which maintains the processed speech at a constant level regardless of large changes in the associated noise level. The composite speech and noise signal is applied to a first AGC circuit and then to a spe... | 05/24/1988 |
| 4720802 | Noise compensation arrangement Adaptive speech recognition is improved by extracting an estimate of the background noise during unknown speech input, and using the noise estimate to modify the noiseless prestored reference speech signals for comparison with the input. Averaged values o... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4720861 | Digital speech coding circuit A digital speech coding circuit makes use of linear predictive coding, vector quantization and difference, Huffman coding, and excitation estimation to produce digital representations of human speech having bit rates low enough to be transmitted over such... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4718093 | Speech recognition method including biased principal components A speech recognition method and apparatus employ a speech processing circuitry for repetitively deriving from a speech input, at a frame repetition rate, a plurality of acoustic parameters. The acoustic parameters represent the speech input signal for a f... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4718088 | Speech recognition training method A speech recognition method and apparatus employ a speech processing circuitry for repetitively deriving from a speech input, at a frame repetition rate, a plurality of acoustic parameters. The acoustic parameters represent the speech input signal for a f... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4718094 | Speech recognition system Speech words are recognized by first recognizing each spectral vector identified by a label (feneme), then identifying the word by matching the string of labels against phones using simplified phone machines based on label and transition probabilities and... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4718092 | Speech recognition activation and deactivation method Speech recognition calculations are decreased by deactivating (or activating) a word in a grammar graph at the "kernel" level. A word is a sequence of acoustic kernels, each kernel a phoneme spectral vector with min-max duration data on a template.... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4716593 | Identity verification system An input pattern of an individual requesting identity verification, such as a speech pattern, is compared with reference patterns of a plurality of categories in a category recognition unit to recognize the category of the input pattern. A differential pa... | 12/29/1987 |
| 4716591 | Speech synthesis method and device Speech synthesis is improved by using normalized values of pitch and amplitude data to modify phoneme signals which are further processed by a quantizing noise filter which computes and interleaves the average value between adjacent samples.... | 12/29/1987 |
| 4715004 | Pattern recognition system In speech recognition, an unknown input signal is analyzed for its feature pattern sequence Ai which is compared to prestored reference patterns grouped in categories. Each category m has a representative reference pattern Bm which r... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4713778 | Speech recognition method A speech recognition method and apparatus employ a speech processing circuitry for repetitively deriving from a speech input, at a frame repetition rate, a plurality of acoustic parameters. The acoustic parameters represent the speech input signal for a f... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4713777 | Speech recognition method having noise immunity In a speech recognition system, the beginning of speech versus non-speech (a cough or noise) is distinguished by reverting to a non-speech decision process whenever the liklihood cost of template (vocabulary) patterns, including silence, is worse than a p... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4712242 | Speaker-independent word recognizer Speaker-independent word recognition is performed, based on a small acoustically distinct vocabulary, with minimal hardware requirements. After a simple preconditioning filter, the zero crossing intervals of the input speech are measured and sorted by dur... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4710959 | Voice encoder and synthesizer A very small, very flexible, high-quality, linear predictive vocoder has been implemented with commercially available integrated circuits. This fully digital realization is based on a distributed signal processing architecture employing three commercial S... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4709390 | Speech message code modifying arrangement Natural quality and bit-rate for LPC speech synthesis is improved by encoding the LPC residual signal in a prescribed multipulse format formed for each LPC frame. Voiced, unvoiced, and mixed (hiss plus periodic) excitation is inherent. The speaking-rate i... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4709340 | Digital speech synthesizer Speech synthesis is selectable in two modes: "normal" mode in which the synthesis filter is responsive to prestored parameters, and "test" mode which executes a checking procedure based on test words from an outside source. Each mode has corresponding ins... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4707794 | Playback operation circuit in synthetic-speech calculator A synthetic-speech calculator includes a calculating circuit inclusive of a plurality of memory locations to allow successive or chain calculations by some calculations equations and calculating numerical data, and voice synthesizer for providing pronunci... | 11/17/1987 |
| 4707857 | Voice command recognition system having compact significant feature data Waveform significant event parameters based on the duration of a first running average of the duration of positive slope portions and a second running average of the duration of negative slope portions of the wave, include occurrences of dwells, creeps, a... | 11/17/1987 |
| 4706288 | Speech synthesizer output device Repeated announcements by a talking timepiece are selectable in two modes: predetermined intervals selected by a selector switch, or arbitrary intervals selected by a keyboard.... | 11/10/1987 |
| 4706293 | Circuitry for characterizing speech for tamper protected recording Circuitry usable in a tamper protected recording system for characterizing audio signals at the time of recording including a filter for selecting a portion of the audio signal, a zero crossing detector to detect zero crossings, a threshold detector to de... | 11/10/1987 |
| 4704730 | Multi-state speech encoder and decoder Audio signals are analyzed for predictable components (reflection coefficients) and non-predictable (residual) components. The original signal state, over a short-term interval of samples (packet) is defined as one of four states: Silence, Hiss, Sigma, or... | 11/03/1987 |
| 4704696 | Method and apparatus for voice control of a computer A voice control system for controlling execution of a computer program includes a microphone (10) operative to receive voice commands having the output thereof connected to a clipping circuit (12) which amplifies and clips the microphone output to generat... | 11/03/1987 |
| 4703505 | Speech data encoding scheme A coding scheme which uses Shannon-Fano coding for data headers to identify the type of command signal, uses a first set of formant data in the command signal to generate second sets of formant data for sound class initialization, and uses delta modulatio... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4701953 | Signal compression system A signal compression system includes a plurality of channels. A plurality of these channels include a bandpass filter (for filtering out all but a portion of an input signal), an intensity detector (for deriving a spectrally weighted estimate of the inten... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4701862 | Audio output device with speech synthesis technique In a talking alarm clock, coincidence of real-time and preset alarm-time causes output of a fixed-plus-variable word message. Fixed words are stored in a ROM, while variable words are entered and stored in a circulating analog semiconductor memory.... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4701954 | Multipulse LPC speech processing arrangement A multipulse-code approximation of of one frame of a predictive residual signal may lose the frame-to-frame redundancy. Accordingly, pitch redundancy removal during the iterative process of forming the multipulse sequence, rather than frame-to-frame code ... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4700393 | Speech synthesizer with variable speed of speech In a speech synthesizer, speech speed is selectable by a switch which selects the number of repetitions of a basic waveform or equivalent parameters thereof.... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4700390 | Signal synthesizer To enhance low and high frequency components in a sound signal, low frequency components are used to generate new yet lower frequencies (subharmonics), and high frequency components are used to generate new yet higher frequencies (harmonics), the new freq... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4700322 | General technique to add multi-lingual speech to videotex systems, at a low data rate Video display of stored text is accompanied by associated speech from a speech synthesizer using coded sounds and intonation. A central processor controls selection of text and speech. Speech is selectable in one of a plurality of prestored languages code... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4700394 | Method of recognizing speech pauses Method of recognizing pauses in a speech signal when a slowly varying noise signal is superposed on the speech signal. For the purpose of pause recognition so-called short-time mean values connected with a clock pulse are continuously determined from the ... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4700391 | Method and apparatus for pitch controlled voice signal processing Digital processing of speech signals for compression/expansion pitch change is provided by writing and reading a ROM at different rates and controlling the discard/repeat segments of memory to be integral multiples of the pitch period. The rear pointer ju... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4700392 | Speech signal detector having adaptive threshold values Speech presence is detected by first comparing input signal absolute value versus a first threshold which is proportional to input signal RMS noise power, accumulating the first comparison output signal, then comparing the accumulated signal versus a seco... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4698776 | Recording/reproducing apparatus There is provided an apparatus which automatically records and reproduces. The digital signal based on the acoustic signal is stored in memory means due to the operation of write control means in response to the recording instruction. When the recording i... | 10/06/1987 |
