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APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CODEC SIGNAL IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

Application Number: 20130132100
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Electronics and Telecommunications Research,

The present invention relates to a codec apparatus and method for coding/decoding speech and audio signals in a communication system. In accordance with the present invention, a speech and audio signal in a time domain is transformed into a speech and audio signal in a frequency domain and calculating frequency coefficients of the speech and audio signal, the frequency coefficients are split by a plurality of sub-bands and the sub-band coefficients of the respective sub-bands are calculated ...

CODING DEVICE, DECODING DEVICE, AND METHODS THEREOF

Application Number: 20130132099
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Hori, Takako; Ehara, Hiroyuki; Oshikiri, Masahiro

Provided are a coding device, a decoding device, and methods thereof, with which it is possible to implement high sound quality coding and decoding in layered coding (scalable coding or embedded coding) wherein each layer comprises a plurality of bit rates (multi-rate). In the coding device (100), a feature analysis unit (101) extracts feature values of an input signal. Then a bit rate determination unit (102) determines, on the basis of the feature values of the input ...

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CODING AND DECODING MULTI-OBJECT AUDIO SIGNAL WITH VARIOUS CHANNEL INCLUDING INFORMATION BITSTREAM CONVERSION

Application Number: 20130132098
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute,

Provided is an apparatus and method for coding and decoding multi-object audio signals with various channels and providing backward compatibility with a conventional spatial audio coding (SAC) bitstream. The apparatus includes: an audio object coding unit for coding audio-object signals inputted to the coding apparatus based on a spatial cue and creating rendering information for the coded audio-object signals, where the rendering information provides a coding apparatus including spatial cue ...

APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AN AUDIO SIGNAL AND METHOD THEREOF

Application Number: 20130132097
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Oh, Hyen-O

An apparatus for processing an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes receiving a downmix signal and side information; extracting extension type identifier indicating whether extension area includes a residual signal from the side information; when the extension type identifier indicates that the extension area includes the residual signal, extracting control restriction information for residual using mode from the side information; receiving control ...

Systems and Techniques for Producing Spoken Voice Prompts

Application Number: 20130132096
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Krull, Ivy; Lavoie, Lisa; Merrow, Lucas; Rizzo, Frank; Drane, Alexandra

Methods and systems are described in which spoken voice prompts can be produced in a manner such that they will most likely have the desired effect, for example to indicate empathy, or produce a desired follow-up action from a call recipient. The prompts can be produced with specific optimized speech parameters, including duration, gender of speaker, and pitch, so as to encourage participation and promote comprehension among a wide range of patients or listeners. Upon hearing such voice ...

AUDIO PATTERN MATCHING FOR DEVICE ACTIVATION

Application Number: 20130132095
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Giaimo, III, Edward C.; Murthi, Raghu

A system and method are disclosed for activating an electric device from a standby power mode to a full power mode. The system may include one or more microphones for monitoring audio signals in the vicinity of the electric device, and a standby power activation unit including a low-power microprocessor and a non-volatile memory. Audio captured by the one or more microphones is digitized and compared by the microprocessor against predefined activation pattern(s) stored in the non-volatile ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VOICE ACTUATED CONFIGURATION OF A CONTROLLING DEVICE

Application Number: 20130132094
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Lim, Jonathan

A speech recognition engine is provided voice data indicative of at least a brand of a target appliance. The speech recognition engine uses the voice data indicative of at least a brand of the target appliance to identify within a library of codesets at least one codeset that is cross-referenced to the brand of the target appliance. The at least one codeset so identified is then caused to be provisioned to the controlling device for use in commanding functional operations of the target ...

System and Method for Generating Challenge Items for CAPTCHAs

Application Number: 20130132093
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: April 13, 2010, John Nicholas and Kristin Gross Trust U/A/D

Challenge items for an audible based electronic challenge system are generated using a variety of techniques to identify optimal candidates. The challenge items are intended for use in a computing system that discriminates between humans and text to speech (TTS) ...

METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR CERTIFYING A VOICE PROFILE WHEN TRANSMITTING TEXT MESSAGES FOR SYNTHESIZED SPEECH

Application Number: 20130132092
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Nuance Communications, Inc.,

A mechanism is provided for authenticating and using a personal voice profile. The voice profile may be issued by a trusted third party, such as a certification authority. The personal voice profile may include information for generating a digest or digital signature for text messages. A speech synthesis system may speak the text message using the voice characteristics, such as prosodic characteristics, only if the voice profile is authenticated and the text message is valid and free of ...

Dynamic Pass Phrase Security System (DPSS)

Application Number: 20130132091
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Skerpac, Valene

There is disclosed an n-dimensional biometric security system as well as a method of identifying and validating a user through the use of a automated random one-time passphrase generation. The use of tailored templates to generate one-time phase phrase text as well as the use of update subscriptions of templates ensures a high level of security. A verification session preferably uses short, text-independent one-time pass phrases and secure audio tokens with master audio generated from an ...

Voice Data Retrieval System and Program Product Therefor

Application Number: 20130132090
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Hitachi, Ltd.,

A voice data retrieval system including an inputting device of inputting a keyword, a phoneme converting unit of converting the inputted keyword in a phoneme expression, a voice data retrieving unit of retrieving a portion of a voice data at which the keyword is spoken based on the keyword in the phoneme expression, a comparison keyword creating unit of creating a set of comparison keywords having a possibility of a confusion of a user in listening to the keyword based on a phoneme confusion ...

CONFIGURABLE SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM USING MULTIPLE RECOGNIZERS

Application Number: 20130132089
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Nuance Communications, Inc.,

Techniques for combining the results of multiple recognizers in a distributed speech recognition architecture. Speech data input to a client device is encoded and processed both locally and remotely by different recognizers configured to be proficient at different speech recognition tasks. The client/server architecture is configurable to enable network providers to specify a policy directed to a trade-off between reducing recognition latency perceived by a user and usage of network resources. ...

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING EMOTION BASED ON EMOTIONAL SEGMENTS

Application Number: 20130132088
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: KIM, Hyun-Jun

An apparatus and method to recognize a user's emotion based on emotional segments are provided. An emotion recognition apparatus includes a sampling unit configured to extract sampling data from input data for emotion recognition. The emotion recognition apparatus further includes a data segment creator configured to segment the sampling data into a plurality of data segments. The emotion recognition apparatus further includes an emotional segment creator configured to create a plurality of ...

AUDIO INTERFACE

Application Number: 20130132087
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Kuwahara, Noriaki; Miyasato, Tsutomu; Sumi, Yasuyuki

Methods, systems, and apparatus are generally described for providing an audio ...

METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ADAPTING GRAMMARS IN HYBRID SPEECH RECOGNITION ENGINES FOR ENHANCING LOCAL SR PERFORMANCE

Application Number: 20130132086
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Robert Bosch GmbH,

A speech recognition method includes providing a processor communicatively coupled to each of a local speech recognition engine and a server-based speech recognition engine. A first speech input is inputted into the server-based speech recognition engine. A first recognition result from the server-based speech recognition engine is received at the processor. The first recognition result is based on the first speech input. The first recognition result is stored in a memory device in association ...

Systems and Methods for Non-Negative Hidden Markov Modeling of Signals

Application Number: 20130132085
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Mysore, Gautham J.; Smaragdis, Paris

Methods and systems for non-negative hidden Markov modeling of signals are described. For example, techniques disclosed herein may be applied to signals emitted by one or more sources. In some embodiments, methods and systems may enable the separation of a signal's various components. As such, the systems and methods disclosed herein may find a wide variety of applications. In audio-related fields, for example, these techniques may be useful in music recording and processing, source extraction, ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING DUAL MODE SPEECH RECOGNITION

Application Number: 20130132084
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Stonehocker, Timothy; Mont-Reynaud, Bernard; Mohajer, Keyvan

A system and method for performing dual mode speech recognition, employing a local recognition module on a mobile device and a remote recognition engine on a server device. The system accepts a spoken query from a user, and both the local recognition module and the remote recognition engine perform speech recognition operations on the query, returning a transcription and confidence score, subject to a latency cutoff time. If both sources successfully transcribe the query, then the system ...

GENERIC FRAMEWORK FOR LARGE-MARGIN MCE TRAINING IN SPEECH RECOGNITION

Application Number: 20130132083
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Microsoft Corporation,

A method and apparatus for training an acoustic model are disclosed. A training corpus is accessed and converted into an initial acoustic model. Scores are calculated for a correct class and competitive classes, respectively, for each token given the initial acoustic model. Also, a sample-adaptive window bandwidth is calculated for each training token. From the calculated scores and the sample-adaptive window bandwidth values, loss values are calculated based on a loss function. The loss ...

Systems and Methods for Concurrent Signal Recognition

Application Number: 20130132082
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Smaragdis, Paris

Methods and systems for recognition of concurrent, superimposed, or otherwise overlapping signals are described. A Markov Selection Model is introduced that, together with probabilistic decomposition methods, enable recognition of simultaneously emitted signals from various sources. For example, a signal mixture may include overlapping speech from different persons. In some instances, recognition may be performed without the need to separate signals or sources. As such, some of the techniques ...

CONTENTS PROVIDING SCHEME USING SPEECH INFORMATION

Application Number: 20130132081
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: KT CORPORATION,

An apparatus for providing contents based on speech information is provided. The apparatus includes a speech information reception unit configured to receive speech information from a first device, a device identification unit configured to receive device information of the first device from the first device and identify the first device based on the received device information, a speech information translation unit configured to translate the speech information into text information according ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CROWD-SOURCED DATA LABELING

Application Number: 20130132080
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Alonso, Tirso; Melamed, Ilya Dan; Hollister, Barbara B.; Williams, Jason

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for crowd-sourced data labeling. The system requests a respective response from each of a set of entities. The set of entities includes crowd workers. Next, the system incrementally receives a number of responses from the set of entities until at least one of an accuracy threshold is reached and m responses are received, wherein the accuracy threshold is based on characteristics of the number of responses. ...

INTERACTIVE SPEECH RECOGNITION

Application Number: 20130132079
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Sehgal, Muhammad Shoaib B.; Raza, Mirza Muhammad

A first plurality of audio features associated with a first utterance may be obtained. A first text result associated with a first speech-to-text translation of the first utterance may be obtained based on an audio signal analysis associated with the audio features, the first text result including at least one first word. A first set of audio features correlated with at least a first portion of the first speech-to-text translation associated with the at least one first word may be obtained. A ...

VOICE ACTIVITY SEGMENTATION DEVICE, VOICE ACTIVITY SEGMENTATION METHOD, AND VOICE ACTIVITY SEGMENTATION PROGRAM

Application Number: 20130132078
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Arakawa, Takayuki; Tanaka, Daisuke

Provided is a noise-robust voice activity segmentation device which updates parameters used in the determination of voice-active segments without burdening the user, and also provided are a voice activity segmentation method and a voice activity segmentation program.

The voice activity segmentation device comprises: a first voice activity segmentation means for determining a voice-active segment (first voice-active segment) and a voice-inactive segment (first ...

Semi-Supervised Source Separation Using Non-Negative Techniques

Application Number: 20130132077
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Mysore, Gautham J.; Smaragdis, Paris

Systems and methods for semi-supervised source separation using non-negative techniques are described. In some embodiments, various techniques disclosed herein may enable the separation of signals present within a mixture, where one or more of the signals may be emitted by one or more different sources. In audio-related applications, for instance, a signal mixture may include speech (e.g., from a human speaker) and noise (e.g., background noise). In some cases, speech may be separated from ...

SMART REJECTER FOR KEYBOARD CLICK NOISE

Application Number: 20130132076
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY LTD,

According to various embodiments of the invention, a new and effective keyboard click noise reduction scheme is presented. The keyboard click noise reduction scheme may have various processing units including: Dynamic Signal Modeler, Smart Model Selector, Adaptive Filtering Module, Keyboard/Impulse Noise and Voice Activity Detectors, and a Post-Processing Unit. By adaptively changing the coefficients of the proposed adaptive filter through minimizing the output energy, the scheme can provide ...

METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK

Application Number: 20130132075
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: L M ERICSSON (PUBL), TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET

The present invention relates to a postfilter and a postfilter control to be associated with a postfilter for improving perceived quality of speech reconstructed at a speech decoder. The postfilter control comprises means for measuring stationarity of a speech signal reconstructed at a decoder, means for determining a coefficient to a postfilter control parameter based on the measured stationarity, and means for transmitting the determined coefficient to a postfilter, such that the postfilter ...

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REPRODUCING AND DISTRIBUTING SOUND SOURCE OF ELECTRONIC TERMINAL

Application Number: 20130132074
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Kim, Byung chan

There is provided a method of reproducing and distributing a sound source of en electronic terminal. The method includes a step of starting to simultaneously reproduce a stream of an MR (Music Recorded) sound source file and a stream of an AR (All Recorded) sound source file that a voice is recorded to be added to the MR sound source file by a reproducing unit of the electronic terminal, and outputting one stream of the streams through an output unit; and a step of controlling the reproducing ...

SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF BUILDING AND USING CUSTOM WORD LISTS

Application Number: 20130132073
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED,

Standard word lists that are often used for such operations as predictive text, spell checking, and word completion are based on general linguistic data that might not accurately reflect actual text usage patterns of particular users. Systems and methods of building and using a custom word list for use in text operations on an electronic device are provided. A collection of text items associated with a user of the electronic device is scanned to identify words in the text items. A weighting is ...

ENGINE FOR HUMAN LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION OF INTENT AND COMMAND EXECUTION

Application Number: 20130132072
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Pradhan, Rajesh; Pradhan, Amit

The invention provides a computer system for interacting with a user. A set of concepts initially forms a target set of concepts. An input module receives a language input from the user. An analysis system executes a plurality of narrowing cycles until a concept packet having at least one concept has been identified. Each narrowing cycle includes identifying at least one portion of the language and determining a subset of concepts from the target set of concepts to form a new target subset. An ...

Method and Apparatus for Automatically Analyzing Natural Language to Extract Useful Information

Application Number: 20130132071
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: PETERSON, Richard L.

An automatic language-processing system uses a human-curated lexicon to associate words and word groups with broad sentiments such as fear or anger, and topics such as accounting fraud or earnings projections. Grammar processing further characterizes the sentiments or topics with logical (“is” or “is not”), conditional (probability), temporal (past, present, future), quantitative (larger/smaller, higher/lower, etc.), and speaker identification (“I” or “He” or “Alan ...

Computer-Based Construction of Arbitrarily Complex Formal Grammar Expressions

Application Number: 20130132070
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Dayan, Yigal S.; Fuchs, Gil; Magdalen, Josemina M.

A method, system and computer program product for building an expression, including utilizing any formal grammar of a context-free language, displaying an expression on a computer display via a graphical user interface, replacing at least one non-terminal display object within the displayed expression with any of at least one non-terminal display object and at least one terminal display object, and repeating the replacing step a plurality of times for a plurality of non-terminal display objects ...

Text To Speech Synthesis for Texts with Foreign Language Inclusions

Application Number: 20130132069
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Nuance Communications, Inc.,

A speech output is generated from a text input written in a first language and containing inclusions in a second language. Words in the native language are pronounced with a native pronunciation and words in the foreign language are pronounced with a proficient foreign pronunciation. Language dependent phoneme symbols generated for words of the second language are replaced with language dependent phoneme symbols of the first language, where said replacing includes the steps of assigning to each ...

DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DISPLAYING MULTIPLE LANGUAGE CHARACTERS

Application Number: 20130132068
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: LIN, Ching-Wen; HSIEH, Yu-Chi

A method to display multiple language characters is provided. The method comprises a number of steps. A multiple language character data is stored. The multiple language character data comprises a common character part and a plurality of offset parts. The common character part comprises a plurality of common characters and each of the offset parts comprises a plurality of specific language characters. A selection command is received. One of the offset parts is retrieved according to the ...

MULTI-LINGUAL OUTPUT DEVICE

Application Number: 20130132067
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Gelbman, Lawrence Stephen

This application discloses A multi-lingual output device for output of transactional information for a given customer, the device that includes a data base for determining what transaction information needs to be outputted, the local language in which the information is to be outputted, and the preferred language of the customer in which the information is to be outputted; and, a local transaction subsystem in communication with said database, wherein said local transaction sub system includes ...

TECHNIQUES FOR PERFORMING TRANSLATION OF MESSAGES

Application Number: 20130132066
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Eldawy, Mohamed

Techniques for providing a translation environment interface to a user are disclosed herein. The techniques include receiving a message template to be translated, the message template including a text portion and one or more template placeholders, parsing the message template to identify the text portion and the template placeholders, generating non-editable objects corresponding to the template placeholders and generating a display message template by replacing each of the one or more template ...

Acquiring Accurate Machine Translation

Application Number: 20130132065
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Danielyan, Tatiana

A method is disclosed for translating a sentence from a source language or input language into an output language. The method includes analyzing a source sentence using linguistic descriptions of the source language, constructing a language-independent semantic structure to represent the meaning of the source sentence, and generating an output sentence to represent the meaning of the source sentence using linguistic descriptions of the output language. To improve the accuracy of translation, ...

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DECODING USING JOINT TOKENIZATION AND TRANSLATION

Application Number: 20130132064
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventors: Hwang, Young Sook; Yin, Chang Hao; Xiao, Xinyan; Liu, Yang; Liu, Qun; Lin, Shouxun; Kim, Sang-Bum

Disclosed are a joint decoding apparatus and a joint decoding method that joins a tokenization process and a translation process. More particularly, the present disclosure can generate all available candidate tokens, reduce translation errors, and obtain an optimal translation result by jointly conducting a decoding by simultaneously conducting the tokenization process and the translation process for an input character sequence while ...

Tagging and identification system for luggage

Application Number: 20130130741
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: GRIMARD, LOUISE

An itinerary travel tag attached to a piece of luggage, the travel tag including a code; a mechanism for retrieving and sending the code electronically; an internet server connected electronically to the mechanism for receiving the code, and for providing a website including a webpage associated with the code and used to provide information pertaining to the piece of luggage, such that the piece of luggage can be tracked and the information used remotely to locate and retrieve the piece of ...

GESTURE AND VOICE RECOGNITION FOR CONTROL OF A DEVICE

Application Number: 20130127712
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Inventor: Matsubayashi, Koji

A user interface allows one or more gestures to be devised by a user and mapped or associated with one or more commands or operations of a TV or other device. The user can select the command/operation that is to be associated with each gesture that he/she devised or created. The user is not limited to the use of pre-set gestures that were previously programmed into a system and is not limited to using pre-set commands/operations that were previously associated with pre-set gestures. In ...

Method, Device and System for Signal Encoding and Decoding

Application Number: 20130124216
Publication Date: 2013-05-16
Inventor: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.,

A method, device, and system for signal encoding and decoding are disclosed. The method includes: encoding a core layer signal to obtain a core layer signal code; selecting an enhancement sample point that requires enhancement layer signal encoding according to the core layer signal code and the number of bits that can be used by an enhancement layer; obtaining an enhancement layer signal code of the enhancement sample point; and outputting a bit stream, where the bit stream includes the core ...

CODER USING FORWARD ALIASING CANCELLATION

Application Number: 20130124215
Publication Date: 2013-05-16
Inventor: der angewandten Forschung e.V., Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung

A codec supporting switching between time-domain aliasing cancellation transform coding mode and time-domain coding mode is made less liable to frame loss by adding a further syntax portion to the frames, depending on which the parser of the decoder may select between a first action of expecting the current frame to have, and thus reading forward aliasing cancellation data from the current frame and a second action of not-expecting the current frame to have, and thus not reading forward ...

SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM

Application Number: 20130124214
Publication Date: 2013-05-16
Inventors: Chinen, Toru; Yamamoto, Yuki; Hatanaka, Mitsuyuki

A method, system, and computer program product for processing an encoded audio signal is described. In one exemplary embodiment, the system receives an encoded low-frequency range signal and encoded energy information used to frequency shift the encoded low-frequency range signal. The low-frequency range signal is decoded and an energy depression of the decoded signal is smoothed. The smoothed low-frequency range signal is frequency shifted to generate a high-frequency range signal. The ...

Method and Apparatus for Interpolating Script Data

Application Number: 20130124213
Publication Date: 2013-05-16
Inventors: Chang, Walter W.; Scoggins, II, Jerry R.

Provided in some embodiments is a computer implemented method that includes providing script data including script words indicative of dialogue words to be spoken, providing audio data corresponding to at least a portion of the dialogue words to be spoken, wherein the audio data includes timecodes associated with dialogue words, generating a sequential alignment of the script words to the dialogue words, matching at least some of the script words to corresponding dialogue words to determine ...

Method and Apparatus for Time Synchronized Script Metadata

Application Number: 20130124212
Publication Date: 2013-05-16
Inventors: Chang, Walter W.; Van Winkle, Charles E.; Hayhurst, Simon R.; Scoggins, II, Jerry R.; Kuspa, David A.

A method includes receiving script data including script words for dialogue, receiving audio data corresponding to at least a portion of the dialogue, wherein the audio data includes timecodes associated with dialogue words, generating a sequential alignment of the script words to the dialogue words, matching at least some of the script words to corresponding dialogue words to determine hard alignment points, partitioning the sequential alignment of script words into alignment sub-sets, wherein ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED COMMUNICATIONS VIA SMALL DATA RATE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

Application Number: 20130124211
Publication Date: 2013-05-16
Inventor: Shorthand Mobile, Inc.,

A system and method for interacting with an interactive communication system include processing a profile associated with an interactive communication system; generating a user interface based on the processing of the profile to solicit a user response correlating to a response required by the interactive communication system; receiving the user response via the user interface; updating the user interface using the profile based on the user response; and sending a signal to the interactive ...

INFORMATION TERMINAL, CONSUMER ELECTRONICS APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM

Application Number: 20130124210
Publication Date: 2013-05-16
Inventor: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba,

According to an information terminal connectable to a target apparatus, including a determining unit and a control unit wherein the determining unit determines whether the information terminal is held by a user or not, the control unit perform to output, when changed from a status of being held to a status of not being held, a control signal to instruct accepting an operation given from the user to the target apparatus, and the control unit performs, when changed from the status of not being ...

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

Application Number: 20130124209
Publication Date: 2013-05-16
Inventor: Sony Corporation,

An information processing apparatus includes: a plurality of information input units; an event detection unit that generates event information including estimated position information and estimated identification information of users present in the real space based on analysis of the information from the information input unit; and an information integration processing unit that inputs the event information, and generates target information including a position of each user and user ...

REAL-TIME DISPLAY OF SYSTEM INSTRUCTIONS

Application Number: 20130124208
Publication Date: 2013-05-16
Inventors: Danieli, Oren; Kostepen, Hakan; Odinak, Gilad

A system and method for reviewing inputted voice instructions in a vehicle-based telematics control unit. The system includes a microphone, a speech recognition processor, and an output device. The microphone receives voice instructions from a user. Coupled to the microphone is the speech recognition processor that generates a voice signal by performing speech recognition processing of the received voice instructions. The output device outputs the generated voice signal to the user, The system ...

VOICE-CONTROLLED CAMERA OPERATIONS

Application Number: 20130124207
Publication Date: 2013-05-16
Inventors: Sarin, Raman Kumar; Matthews, III, Joseph H.; Lau, James Kai Yu; Gonzalez Veron, Monica Estela; Park, Jae Pum

A computing device (e.g., a smart phone, a tablet computer, digital camera, or other device with image capture functionality) causes an image capture device to capture one or more digital images based on audio input (e.g., a voice command) received by the computing device. For example, a user's voice (e.g., a word or phrase) is converted to audio input data by the computing device, which then compares (e.g., using an audio matching algorithm) the audio input data to an expected voice command ...

VIDEO GENERATION BASED ON TEXT

Application Number: 20130124206
Publication Date: 2013-05-16
Inventors: Rouhi, Ali; Rezvani, Behrooz

Techniques for generating a video sequence of a person based on a text sequence, are disclosed herein. Based on the received text sequence, a processing device generates the video sequence of a person to simulate visual and audible emotional expressions of the person, including using an audio model of the person's voice to generate an audio portion of the video sequence. The emotional expressions in the visual portion of the video sequence are simulated based a priori knowledge about the ...