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Examiner: Wozniak, James S.


Primary examiner statistics: 36 patents; average approval time: 66 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 65 patents; average approval time: 1824 days

Patents as Primary Examiner

Patent No. Patent Title:
8112270 Digital recording and playback system with voice recognition capa...
8108207 Methods and apparatus for understanding machine vocabulary
8099289 Voice interface and search for electronic devices including bluet...
8078465 System and method for detection and analysis of speech
8073689 Repetitive transient noise removal
8073678 Translation device, translation method, and storage medium
8065148 Method, apparatus, and computer program product for one-step corr...
8060372 Methods and appratus for characterizing media
8060375 Adapting masking thresholds for encoding a low frequency transien...
8055495 Apparatus and method for translating input speech sentences in ac...
8050911 Method and apparatus for transmitting speech activity in distribu...
8050930 Telephone voice command enabled computer administration method an...
8050922 Voice recognition with dynamic filter bank adjustment based on sp...
8041569 Speech synthesis method and apparatus using pre-recorded speech a...
8036878 Device incorporating improved text input mechanism
8036893 Method and system for identifying and correcting accent-induced s...
8036876 Methods of defining ontologies, word disambiguation methods, comp...
8032385 Method for correcting metadata affecting the playback loudness of...
8032363 Adaptive postfiltering methods and systems for decoding speech
8032373 Closed-loop command and response system for automatic communicati...
8027835 Speech processing apparatus having a speech synthesis unit that p...
8024194 Dynamic switching between local and remote speech rendering
8019612 Methods for improving high frequency reconstruction
8019601 Audio coding device with two-stage quantization mechanism
8015000 Classification-based frame loss concealment for audio signals
8015009 Speech derived from text in computer presentation applications
8010350 Decimated bisectional pitch refinement
8010339 Storage device that provides efficient, updatable national langua...
8000964 Method of constructing model of recognizing english pronunciation...
7991614 Correction of matching results for speech recognition
7464031 Speech recognition utilizing multitude of speech features
7454347 Voice labeling error detecting system, voice labeling error detec...
7451083 Removing noise from feature vectors
7451085 System and method for providing a compensated speech recognition ...
7447631 Audio coding system using spectral hole filling
7437285 Adaptive media encoding and decoding equipment

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7457750 Systems and methods for dynamic re-configurable speech recognitio...
7426467 System and method for supporting interactive user interface opera...
7415415 Computer generated prompting
7409347 Data-driven global boundary optimization
7398203 Linguistically intelligent text compression
7398196 Method and apparatus for summarizing multiple documents using a s...
7383185 System and method of epsilon removal of weighted automata and tra...
7379878 Information encoding apparatus and method, information decoding a...
7379871 Speech synthesizing apparatus, speech synthesizing method, and re...
7363223 Policy analysis framework for conversational biometrics
7359857 Method and system of correcting spectral deformations in the voic...
7353165 Example based machine translation system
7346515 Dialog supporting apparatus
7337114 Speech recognition using discriminant features
7310599 Removing noise from feature vectors
7305346 Audio processing method and audio processing apparatus
7295962 Statistical memory-based translation system
7295977 Extracting classifying data in music from an audio bitstream
7295979 Language context dependent data labeling
7277846 Navigation system
7269545 Method for retrieving answers from an information retrieval syste...
7269547 Tokenizer for a natural language processing system
7263483 USB dictation device
7236924 Device for inputting names into navigation system and a correspon...
7209883 Factorial hidden markov model for audiovisual speech recognition
7209878 Noise feedback coding method and system for efficiently searching...
7200556 Methods and apparatus for accessing and processing multimedia mes...
7191133 Script compliance using speech recognition
7177808 Method for improving speaker identification by determining usable...
7165023 Method for mining, mapping and managing organizational knowledge ...
7155393 Method for establishing fixation employing speech recognition
7149695 Method and apparatus for speech recognition using semantic infere...
7130790 System and method for closed caption data translation
7127401 Remote control of a medical device using speech recognition and f...
7127397 Method of training a computer system via human voice input
7117146 System for improved use of pitch enhancement with subcodebooks
7117144 Spell checking for text input via reduced keypad keys
7113905 Method and apparatus for determining unbounded dependencies durin...
7107217 Voice interactive system and voice interactive method
7103534 Machine learning contextual approach to word determination for te...
 
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