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1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a plurality of different images of a first scene, wherein each image has a different exposure level; generating a high dynamic range image using the plurality images; detecting one or more features in each of one or more regions of the high dynamic range image; det...
20130339027
13524351
0
1. A computer-implemented method of recognizing verbal commands, comprising: capturing at least one depth image by a depth camera positioned in a vehicle, each of the depth image covering at least part of a user and comprising pixels representing distances from the depth camera to the at least part of the user; recogni...
20060235688
11105076
0
1. A method of repeating a computer recognized string in a telematics unit in a vehicle, comprising: receiving a user utterance at the telematics unit from a user, the user utterance including a plurality of words and a plurality of user pauses between the words; parsing the user utterance into a plurality of phonemes;...
9269273
13865996
1
1. A computer-implemented method for building an analysis database associating each of a plurality of n-grams with corresponding respective cognitive motivation orientations, comprising: receiving a training corpus of training documents in electronic form; wherein the receiving of the training corpus of training docume...
8208959
12950531
1
1. An anti-blinding welding helmet having a wireless communication function, comprising: a light detecting device to measure the luminance of light based on a signal input from a photo sensor, in order to protect the welder's eyes from light generated from a welding or cutting torch; a control switch to input a user co...
20080249877
12099343
0
1. A method of publishing, comprising: providing a publication site that includes first time-sensitive data from a first data provider and second time-sensitive data pushed from a second data provider; and the site differentially updating the first and second data according to a fee schedule.
20160026618
14877272
0
1. A method comprising: inserting, via a discriminative classification approach, boundary tags into speech utterance text, the boundary tags identifying boundaries selected from a group comprising phrase boundaries, sentence boundaries, and paragraph boundaries, wherein the discriminative classification approach utiliz...
20150221320
14640912
0
1. A method comprising: in one or more computer processes functioning in at least one computer processor: processing an input speech utterance to produce a sequence of representative speech vectors; and performing a single time-synchronous speech recognition pass using a decoding search to determine a recognition outpu...
7778825
11485690
1
1. A method for extracting voiced/unvoiced classification information using a harmonic component of a voice signal, the method comprising the steps of: converting, by a frequency domain conversion unit, an input voice signal into a voice signal of a frequency domain; calculating, by a harmonic-residual signal calculati...
20080133230
11775450
0
1. A vehicle navigation system that generates a text message comprising: an input configured to receive a speech signal corresponding to the text message; a speech recognizer in communication with the input and configured to analyze the speech signal and recognize text of the speech signal; a speech database in communi...
20140126714
13669384
0
1. A method for connecting a website user to a contact center agent, the method comprising: monitoring, by a processor, user interaction associated with the website user; receiving, by the processor, a call request via the website; identifying, by the processor, an agent or an interactive voice response based on the mo...
8051061
12033308
1
1. A method for query suggestion performed by a processor executing computer-executable instructions stored on a memory device, the method comprising: for an input query in source language, identifying a query in target language from a query log of a search engine, the query in target language and the input query in so...
20150039305
14450366
0
1. A controller for a voice-controlled device, comprising: a setting module, configured to generate a threshold according to an environmental parameter associated with an environment that the voice-controlled device disposed in; and a recognition module, configured to receive a speech, to perform speech recognition on ...
8751562
12429794
1
1. A system configured to pre-render an audio representation of textual content for subsequent playback, the system comprising: a requesting device comprising: a memory configured to store a computer program; and a processor configured to execute the computer program, wherein the computer program comprises: a download ...
20140376752
14289865
0
1. A ribbon microphone comprising: a ribbon microphone unit; an acoustic box for mounting a rear acoustic terminal of the ribbon microphone unit; a detective microphone mounted in the acoustic box, the detective microphone detecting sound waves identical to sound waves guided to the rear acoustic terminal of the ribbon...
20100185440
12691283
0
1. A transcoding method, comprising: receiving an input bit stream from a sending end; determining an attribute of discontinuous transmission (DTX) used by a receiving end and a frame type of the input bit stream; and transcoding the input bit stream in a corresponding processing manner according to a determination res...
20090219166
12040306
0
1. A method of event notification comprising: receiving an indication of an occurrence of an event at a handheld communications device, the handheld communications device comprising a display device, the event having a notification definition associated therewith for providing a visual notification of the occurrence of...
20120072859
13301982
0
1. A method for facilitating accurate review of a document by manipulating a scanned image of the document and indicating to the reader portions of the document which have been already reviewed in a previous or master document.
9031897
13429041
1
1. A method for use with a first classification model that classifies an input into one of a plurality of classes, wherein the first classification model was built using labeled training data, wherein the labeled training data comprises a plurality of items of labeled training data, wherein each of the plurality of ite...
20080195610
11672736
0
1. An adaptive query handling method comprising: receiving an initial query in a database driven application; parsing the initial query to identify a query expression key; matching the query expression key to an adaptive query expression; transforming the adaptive query expression to a final query expression through a ...
20030081115
08598457
0
1. A spatial sound conference system comprising: a conference station comprising: right and left spatially disposed microphones connected to a communication channel for receiving right and left audio signals, wherein the differences between the right and left audio signals represent a head-related transfer function; an...
20100144439
12328776
0
1. A method for providing out-of-band voice communication with external services during gameplay on a game console, the method comprising: detecting at the game console a signal from a user indicating the user wishes to issue a voice command; upon detecting the signal, switching via a switching mechanism in the game co...
20160328387
14703018
0
1. An artificial intelligence system comprising: a storage device comprising a terminology database that stores (i) a plurality of terms utilized in a previous communication by a human user requesting a product and/or a service in a first spoken language, (ii) a plurality of responses in a second spoken language to the...
20130320081
13904951
0
1. A method for controlling a payment card comprising a magnetic stripe emulator, a first input region, and a second input region, the method comprising: establishing a wireless connection with the payment card; transmitting a first magnetic sequence command to the payment card over the wireless connection, the first m...
7881534
11455874
1
1. A method for using prior corrections of a user to improve recognition operations comprising: receiving a handwritten input from a user; performing a recognition operation to determine a top recognized word; analyzing a history of prior corrections by the user to calculate a ratio comprising a forward quantity of cor...
20150170044
14105874
0
1. A pattern based audio searching method, comprising: labeling a plurality of source audio data based on patterns to obtain audio label sequences of the source audio data; obtaining, with a processing device, an audio label sequence of target audio data; determining matching degree between the target audio data and th...
4853952
07128254
1
1. Apparatus for storage and retrieval of voice signals, comprising: (a) a plurality of first input means for input of said voice signals; (b) a plurality of second input means for input of input control signals associated with said voice signals, said input control signals including addressee identification signals an...
6098041
08841608
1
1. A speech synthesis system comprising: a schedule managing server comprising: schedule data base for storing schedule information of a plurality of users, schedule retrieving means for retrieving from said schedule data base schedule information meeting predetermined condition, and schedule sending means for sending ...
4651289
06460623
1
1. A pattern recognition apparatus for identifying the category of an input pattern from various categories of value patterns stored in the apparatus comprising: a vector generating means for converting an input pattern signal to an input vector representing the characteristics of the input pattern; a dictionary means ...
9454963
13799962
1
1. A text-to-speech method for use for simulating a plurality of different voice characteristics, said method comprising: inputting text; dividing said inputted text into a sequence of acoustic units; selecting voice characteristics for the inputted text; converting said sequence of acoustic units to a sequence of spee...
20150317383
14267184
0
1. A method, in a data processing system comprising a processor and a memory, for performing an operation based on an identification of similar lines of questioning by input question sources, the method comprising: obtaining, by the data processing system, question information identifying extracted features of an input...
7475084
11134725
1
1. A method for data query comprising: providing a data schema having a data schema query language associated therewith; providing an ontology model including classes and properties, the ontology model having an ontology query language associated therewith, wherein constructs of the data schema are mapped to correspond...
8266164
12329804
1
1. A computer-implemented method for bridging terminology differences between at least two subject areas, comprising executing the following steps on a computer: obtaining a first corpus associated with a first subject area and a second corpus associated with a second subject area; for each obtained corpus, performing ...
7479011
11468081
1
1. A system for administering an assessment of literacy and linguistic abilities in a student comprising: means for audibly projecting a word to a student, the word comprising a plurality of phonemes, each phoneme corresponding to a sound and to at least one letter; means for asking the student to provide an attempt to...
20170263142
15063609
0
1. An anti-cheating system for online examination, comprising: a computer having a computer-monitor to display a first part of an exam question; an eye glasses having an eye-monitor to display a second part of said exam question, an eye-recognition device to continuously monitor and obtain the iris-pattern of a wearer ...
7689974
12339470
1
1. A method of monitoring execution behavior of a program product, the method comprising: (a) providing for the program product a trace tool producing a trace tool output having human-readable trace strings written in a human language, the trace strings including human-readable data fields for recording diagnostic info...
9703769
14877272
1
1. A method comprising: inserting, via a discriminative classification approach, boundary tags into speech utterance text, the boundary tags identifying boundaries selected from a group comprising phrase boundaries, sentence boundaries, and paragraph boundaries, wherein the discriminative classification approach utiliz...
10114895
14455776
1
1. A method for enhancing search queries related to streaming multimedia, the method comprising: at a server with one or more processors and memory storing programs configured for execution by the one or more processors: receiving a search query from a first user device entered by a user during a time window; accessing...
5388164
07932414
1
1. A method for determining an agglutination reaction from a particle pattern formed on an inclined bottom surface of a reaction vessel comprising the steps of: scanning photoelectrically the inclined bottom surface to derive an image signal which represents a two-dimensional image of the particle pattern; processing t...
20040015365
10619716
0
1. A method of speech recognition based interactive information retrieval for ascertaining and retrieving a target information of a user by determining a retrieval key entered by the user using a speech recognition processing, comprising the steps of: (a) storing retrieval key candidates that constitute a number of dat...
20150186360
14544311
0
1. A language system for use with one or more user devices and comprising: an image library; one or more audio libraries for each language, each such audio language library being coupled to the image library when such language is chosen; and wherein the user can comprise words, phrases and/or sentences by selecting one...
20100179964
12655836
0
1. A computer-implemented user interface and system for a two-stage search wherein in the first stage, the target keyphrase the user intends to search for is constructed using one or more searches for keyword(s) or sub keyphrase(s) that comprise the target keyphrase using a first keyword index and in the second stage a...
8065286
11336928
1
1. A method of performing a search, comprising: receiving a query from a query source; selectively including a keyword among a plurality of keywords based on a predetermined frequency of the keyword in a corpus; registering, by a searcher, for the keyword; selecting the searcher based on a ranking of the searcher among...
8700658
13596539
1
1. A system comprising: a database configured to store a plurality of meta models, each meta model being associated with a domain and including one or more two-dimensional data structures, each with a plurality of columns, each column being associated with a title and the title being associated with one or more definit...
8780077
13222483
1
1. A user interface presented by a computing device having a processor, a memory, and a handwriting input device, the user interface comprising: an input window associated with the handwriting input device and configured to one or more of receive a handwriting input and toggle a handwriting input panel for receipt of a...
20100145684
12456012
0
1. A method of processing a narrowband speech signal comprising speech samples in a first range of frequencies, the method comprising: generating from the narrowband speech signal a highband speech signal in a second range of frequencies above the first range of frequencies; determining a pitch of the highband speech s...
20010029454
09821671
0
1. A speech synthesizing method comprising: the division step of acquiring partial speech segments by dividing a speech segment in a predetermined unit with a phoneme boundary; the estimation step of estimating a power value of each partial speech segment obtained in the division step on the basis of a target power val...
8583438
11903020
1
1. At least one computer storage medium having computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform a method comprising: building, based on text, a lattice comprising speech units, wherein each speech unit in the lattice is obtained from a database comprising a plurality of ...
10031523
15393137
1
1. An autonomous vehicle, comprising: a vehicle interior for receiving one or more occupants; a plurality of sensors to collect vehicle-related information, occupant-related information, and exterior environmental and object information associated with the vehicle; an automatic vehicle location system to determine a cu...
9064489
13720900
1
1. A system comprising: one or more processors; a computer-readable memory; and a module comprising executable instructions stored in the computer-readable memory, the module, when executed by the one or more processors, configured to: obtain a voice recording and a corresponding sequence of speech units; select a firs...
20030115063
10291710
0
1. A voice control method for controlling a voice produced by a character appearing in a computer game, the method comprising: a conversion step for converting a voice that is externally input or provided in advance, based upon attribute information on the character; and an output step for outputting the converted voic...
20080065379
11983494
0
1. A printer circuit comprising: a speech recognizer comprising: a first input that receives a remotely generated voice message; a second input that receives speech patterns and vocabulary words from a speech bank; logic for comparing the remotely generated voice message to the speech patterns and vocabulary words from...
20030018469
09909530
0
1. A method of generating a sentence from a semantic representation, the method comprising: (A) mapping the semantic representation to an unordered set of syntactic nodes; (B) using grammar rules from a generation grammar and statistical goodness measure values from a corresponding analysis grammar to create a tree str...
7932895
11137093
1
1. A method comprising: recording with a gesture input device a gesture, wherein the gesture is defined by a moving point having a trajectory broken into partial gestures which are contiguous touch gestures, and where waypoints separate the partial gestures and the trajectory of the moving point is uninterrupted from a...
20140379347
13926659
0
1. An electronic system configured to perform speech processing comprising: an audio detection system configured to receive a signal including speech; a memory having stored therein a database of keyword models forming an ensemble of filters associated with each keyword in the database; a processor configured to: i) re...
20170301342
15203758
0
1. A device configured to identify phonemes within audible signal data, the device comprising: one or more audio sensors configured to receive the audible signal data; a spectral feature characterization module configured to generate a first feature stream and a plurality of targeted feature streams from the received a...
20040181520
10784768
0
1. A document search system for the retrieval of documents related to a search key that is entered, said system comprising: a word sense associative network presenting portion for presenting a meaning of said search key together with its related meaning in a network; a search portion for conducting a search using said ...
8937537
13097146
1
1. A method of operating an audio system in an automobile, comprising the steps of: identifying a user of the audio system; identifying an audio recording playing on the audio system; sensing an audio setting entered into the audio system by the identified user while the audio recording is being played by the audio sys...
20080096726
11848988
0
1. An athletic performance control system, comprising: a display system that presents workout information to a user, wherein the workout information includes information relating to content of a user's workout routine; a user interface system that prompts the user for a first input relating to a desired workout intensi...
8817775
12715754
1
1. An access gateway comprising: an IAD interface for receiving IP packets comprised of control packets and voice packets both sent from an integrated access device (IAD) together, to perform IP telephone service functions for each subscriber selectively in the access gateway, instead of performing IP telephone service...
20010055370
09835237
0
1. Voice portal hosting system, intended to be connected to a first voice telecommunication network in order for a plurality of users in said network to establish a connection with said system using a voice equipment, said system comprising a memory in which a plurality of interactive voice response applications have b...
20140129222
14126567
0
1. A speech recognition system comprising: a first speech recognition device; a second speech recognition device; and an acoustic model identifier series generation apparatus, wherein the first speech recognition device comprises: a sound input unit configured to obtain sound and to output sound data of the obtained so...
6052491
08788141
1
1. A method of converting a monotonic sequence of input words to a sequence of digital output words, said method comprising: translating said sequence of consecutively valued input words to produce a range of output words, said translating step producing an output word for each input word, wherein said range of output ...
9941900
15724265
1
1. A method performed by a computing system comprising one or more processors and memory, the method comprising: compressing an original content item to a baseline lossless compressed data format; binarizing the baseline lossless compressed data format to a binarized format; arithmetically coding the binarized format b...
20090254348
12099041
0
1. A method for voice enabling a Web page with free form input field support comprising: receiving speech input for an input field in a Web page; parsing a core attribute for the input field and identifying an external statistical language model (SLM) referenced by the core attribute of the input field; posting the rec...
8090093
11988005
1
1. An echo canceller comprising: a pseudo echo generation means including an adaptive filter, the pseudo echo generation means generating a pseudo echo signal in accordance with a receiving-speech signal; an echo cancellation means which subtracts the pseudo echo signal from a sending-speech signal, thereby canceling a...
20030001760
10233458
0
1. A method of converting a stream of databits of a binary information signal into a stream of databits of a constrained binary channel signal, wherein the stream of databits of the binary information signal is divided into n-bit information words, said information words being converted into m 1 -bit channel words in a...
9020245
13367425
1
1. A training device, comprising: a memory configured to store computer executable instructions; a processor configured to execute the computer executable instructions to perform operations comprising; storing data which is relevant to a training course for a user to train operations of an input device other than the t...
20120226644
13041253
0
1. A method of accurate neural network training for library-based critical dimension (CD) metrology, the method comprising: optimizing a threshold for a principal component analysis (PCA) of a spectrum data set to provide a principal component (PC) value; estimating a training target for one or more neural networks; tr...
9335899
14095025
1
1. A method for executing a function executing command through a gesture input, the method comprising: displaying a keyboard window for inputting text and a text input field for displaying the text inputted by the keyboard window on a touch screen display; recognizing one of gesture inputs performed in the text input f...
10049666
14989642
1
1. A method comprising: receiving a voice input; determining a transcription for the voice input, wherein determining the transcription for the voice input includes, for a plurality of segments of the voice input: maintaining a plurality of contexts and respective base weights associated with the plurality of contexts;...
20090244033
12479678
0
1. A method of performing operations on a computing system having a touch sensitive surface, the method comprising: tracking the paths of multiple distinguishable contacts, the contacts corresponding to touch devices as they move on or near the surface at the same time, wherein tracking is based on at least shape and p...
7725309
11422406
1
1. A method for performing speech recognition, the method being performed by one or more processors that perform steps comprising: identifying a plurality of entries from a sequence of phonetic units that are recognized from a spoken input, wherein the plurality of entries individually match to one or more items that c...
9443254
14665860
1
1. A method for selecting at least one product record for embedding into a document and display with the document in a user interface, the method comprising: analyzing, with a computing device, at least a portion of the document, the analysis including at least a frequency of words in the document; constructing, with a...
20140136200
14059813
0
1. A method of adapting a speech system, comprising: processing a spoken command with one or more models of one or more model types to achieve model results; evaluating a frequency of the model results; and selectively updating the one or more models of the one or more model types based on the evaluating.
9064495
13889277
1
1. A system comprising: a user device configured to: receive a voice signal corresponding to an utterance of a user; determine a first time corresponding to a first point in the voice signal, wherein the first time corresponds to a user-device time; transmit the voice signal to a server device over a network, wherein t...
20170287485
15624935
0
1. (canceled)
20130117018
13288594
0
1. A method comprising: receiving, via one or more computing devices, an indication to provide one or more real-time voice content-to-text content transcriptions to a first collaboration session participant, the one or more real-time voice content-to-text content transcriptions corresponding to voice content of a secon...
20050171926
10768675
0
1. A method for recognizing information from an information source comprising the steps of: determining portions of information from a first ambiguous information source; determining portions of context information from a second information source temporally associated with the portions of information from the first in...
20160294751
15184863
0
1. A machine implemented method of communicating, comprising: (i) composing an electronic message, via a first device having a processing unit and program code stored on a storage device of said first device; (ii) selecting a well-known animation character, via the first device; (iii) transmitting the electronic messag...
9807217
15134705
1
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: determining, by one or more computer processors, that a particular computing device received a message; determining, by the one or more computer processors and based on a determination whether the particular computing device is connected to a user earpiece, whether to cause...
4856067
07082211
1
1. A speech-recognition system in which time-series patterns of characteristic quantities are extracted periodically at each frame defined as a predetermined time interval from an input utterance within a voiced interval, i.e. within a time interval from the start point of the utterance until its end point, the similar...
8396878
13245840
1
1. A computer-implemented method of generating automated tags for a video file, the method comprising: receiving one or more manually generated tags associated with a video file; based at least in part on the one or more manually entered tags, determining a preliminary category for the video file; based on the prelimin...
20020175930
09863895
0
1. A method for assisting a speaker of a first language in operating a remote control device designed for a speaker of a second language, the method comprising: storing an icon for each of a plurality of interactive options periodically available within an interactive television system, each interactive option correspo...
9569698
14434723
1
1. A method for classifying a multimodal test object, termed a multimedia test object, described according to at least one first modality and one second modality, said method comprising: constructing a recoding matrix X of representatives of the first modality forming a dictionary of the first modality including a plur...
20120197636
13018973
0
1. A method for processing a single-channel input including speech and noise, comprising: receiving, by a processor, the single-channel input captured via a microphone; for processing a current frame of the single-channel input: performing, by the processor, a time-frequency transformation on the single-channel input o...
20110099013
12604628
0
1. A method for improving speech recognition accuracy using textual context, the method causing a computing device to perform steps comprising: retrieving a recorded utterance; retrieving text captured from a device display associated with the spoken dialog and viewed by one party to the recorded utterance; identifying...
20110281253
12953724
0
1. A computer-aided learning system with adaptive optimization, comprising: a storage module configured for storing learning data; a man-machine interface configured for providing the learning data to at least one learner; an information collection module configured for tracking and recording an interactive learning pr...
20030081677
10284280
0
1. A method for determining entropy of a pixel of a real time streaming digital video image signal, comprising the steps of: (a) receiving and characterizing the streaming digital video image input signal during a pre-determined time interval; (b) assigning and characterizing a local neighborhood of neighboring pixels ...
20120166370
13412871
0
1. A method of identifying attributes in a sentence, the method comprising: representing the sentence as a first feature vector; training a binary classifier based upon the first feature vector; obtaining a vector of probability for the sentence; concatenating the first feature vector with the vector of probability to ...
20080300871
11754814
0
1. A method of identifying an acoustic environment of a caller, the method comprising: analyzing acoustic features of a received audio signal from a caller; receiving meta-data information; classifying a background environment of the caller based on the analyzed acoustic features and the meta-data; selecting an acousti...
20120022952
12893939
0
1. A computer-implemented method for combining probability of click models in an online advertising system, said method comprising: receiving, at a computer, at least one feature set slice; training, in a computer, a plurality of slice predictive models, the slice predictive models corresponding to at least a portion o...
9285907
14108655
1
1. A method for recognizing a multiple input point gesture comprising: detecting initial contact as an unordered set of point locations, the unordered set of point locations indicating that simultaneous contact was detected at a plurality of locations in a planar input surface without regard for the order in which cont...
8233592
10705328
1
1. A method for remotely requesting information and/or services from at least one remote service server through a home personal computer, the method comprising steps of: receiving, at the home personal computer, a telephone call from a user that is registered with the home personal computer, wherein the telephone call ...
20100272351
12765190
0
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a learning unit configured to sequentially execute learning with respect to weak discriminators based on learning data held in a storage device; a calculating unit configured to calculate an evaluation value for the weak discriminator at the time of the learning; a dis...
7742920
12101465
1
1. A variable voice rate method of controlling a reproduction rate of voice, comprising: generating voice data from the voice; generating, in a text data generating unit, text data indicating a content of the voice data, based on the generated voice data; generating, in a division information generating unit, division ...
7827239
10832035
1
1. A method for delivering dynamic media content to collaborators, the method comprising: providing collaborative event media content, wherein the collaborative event media content further comprises a grammar and a structured document including: creating, in dependence upon original media content, a structured document...
9361890
14032973
1
1. An apparatus comprising: a microphone array; a processor; a memory storing computer readable code executable by the processor, the computer readable code comprising: a type module that determines if a recipient process of an audio signal from the microphone array is a speech recognition recipient type else that dete...
20110046435
12528296
0
1. A sound enrichment system for provision of tinnitus relief, the sound enrichment system comprising: a noise generator; an environment classifier that is configured to determine a classification of an ambient sound environment of the sound enrichment system; a processing system for adjusting a noise signal based at l...
10071575
15795353
1
1. A printer comprising: a thickness detection module comprising: a pinch arm assembly comprising: a pinch arm having a first end and a second end; an encoder disposed at the second end of the pinch arm, the encoder configured to rotate in response to engagement of the pinch arm with at least a portion of the print med...