http://www.freshpatents.com/Data-processing--speech-signal-processing-linguistics-language-translation-and-audio-compression-decompression-dtnewntc704.php USPTO Class 704 - Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression en-us Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:35 -0800 1000 Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 141 31 http://www.freshpatents.com/index.php?rss=true http://www.freshpatents.com/images/freshpatentsnav_rss.gif http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120029904.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:35 -0800 The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for adding new vocabulary to interactive translation and dialogue systems. In one embodiment, a method for adding a new word to a vocabulary of an interactive dialogue includes receiving an input signal that includes at least one word not currently in... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120029903.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:35 -0800 The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for enhancing interactive translation and dialogue systems. In one embodiment, a method for conducting an interactive dialogue includes receiving an input signal in a first language, where the input signal includes one or more words, processing the words in accordance with... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120029902.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:35 -0800 Strings entered into a computer system are converted to a common language. The process of converting strings to a common language comprises determining a user-selected target language, associating a user-selected primary input language with the target language and associating a user-selected secondary input language with the target language. The process... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120029905.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:35 -0800 A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input, the device is able to... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120029906.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:35 -0800 Language detection techniques are described. In implementation, a method comprises determining which human writing system is associated with text characters in a string based on values representing the text characters. When the values are associated with more than one human language, the string is compared with a targeted dictionary to... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120029908.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:35 -0800 There is provided an information processing device including an information providing unit that provides related information related to main information, a related sentence generation unit that generates a sentence indicating a relation between the main information and the related information and a related sentence providing unit that provides the sentence... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120029907.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:35 -0800 A digital pen designed to assist users in spelling words as they write. The invention is an electronic pen with a speaker located near the top of the device. A microphone may be located directly under the speaker in the form of a small screened concave or convex aperture. A... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120029909.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:35 -0800 According to one embodiment, a speech processing device includes an utterance error occurrence determination information storage unit that stores utterance error occurrence determination information; a related word information storage unit that stores related word information including words; an utterance error occurrence determining unit that compares each of the divided words... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120029910.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:35 -0800 The present invention provides a system comprising a user interface configured to receive text input by a user, a text prediction engine comprising a plurality of language models and configured to receive the input text from the user interface and to generate concurrently text predictions using the plurality of language... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120029911.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:35 -0800 A method for streaming audio data in a network, the audio data having a sequence of samples, includes encoding the sequence of samples into a plurality of coded base bitstreams, generating a plurality of enhancement streams, and transmitting the coded base bitstreams and the enhancement bitstreams to a receiver for... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120029912.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:35 -0800 An invention for eliminating the noise generated by a user speaking into a microphonic instrument is disclosed herein. In a first embodiment, the invention comprises a soundproofed housing arranged to cover a user's mouth region and a loudspeaker that outputs a processed sound wave having a phase that is opposite... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120029914.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:35 -0800 A method and an apparatus for transmitting a speech signal are provided. A speech signal transmitter includes a quadrature mirror filter, a base sub-band encoder, an enhancement sub-band encoder, and a network connector. The quadrature mirror filter receives a speech signal, divides the speech signal into an enhancement band speech... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120029915.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:35 -0800 A method for processing multichannel acoustic signals which processes input signals of a plurality of channels including the voices of a plurality of speaking persons. The method is characterized by detecting the voice section of each speaking person or each channel, detecting overlapped sections wherein the detected voice sections are... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120029913.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:35 -0800 According to one embodiment, there is provided a sound quality control apparatus, including: a characteristic parameter extractor; a speech score calculator; a music score calculator; a power value acquisition module; a first storage configured to store speech scores and music scores; a second storage configured to store power values; a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120029916.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:35 -0800 A method for processing multichannel acoustic signals which is characterized by calculating the feature quantity of each channel from the input signals of a plurality of channels, calculating similarity between the channels in the feature quantity of each channel, selecting channels having high similarity, and separating signals using the input... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120029917.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:35 -0800 A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server including a controller to receive audio signals and content identification information from a media processor, generate text representing a voice message based on the audio signals, determine an identity of media content based on the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120029918.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:35 -0800 Systems for recording, searching for, and sharing media files among a plurality of users are disclosed. The systems include a server that is configured to receive, index, and store a plurality of media files, which are received by the server from a plurality of sources, within at least one database... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120029919.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:35 -0800 One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for placing linguistically-aware variables in computer-generated text. During operation, the system receives a sentence at a computer system, wherein the sentence comprises two or more words. Next, the system analyzes the sentence to identify a first variable, wherein the first variable... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120029920.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:35 -0800 A handheld device includes an image input device capable of acquiring images, circuitry to send a representation of the image to a remote computing system that performs at least one processing function related to processing the image and circuitry to receive from the remote computing system data based on processing... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120029922.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:35 -0800 A method of accessing a dial-up service is disclosed. An example method of providing access to a service includes receiving a first speech signal from a user to form a first utterance; recognizing the first utterance using speaker independent speaker recognition; requesting the user to enter a personal identification number;... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120029921.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:35 -0800 According to the present invention, a method for integrating processes with a multi-faceted human centered interface is provided. The interface is facilitated to implement a hands free, voice driven environment to control processes and applications. A natural language model is used to parse voice initiated commands and data, and to... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120029923.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:35 -0800 A scheme for coding a set of transform coefficients that represent an audio-frequency range of a signal uses a harmonic model to parameterize a relationship between the locations of regions of significant energy in the frequency domain.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120029926.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:35 -0800 A scheme for coding a set of transform coefficients that represent an audio-frequency range of a signal uses information from a reference frame that describes a previous frame of the signal to determine frequency-domain locations of regions of significant energy in a target frame of the signal.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120029925.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:35 -0800 A dynamic bit allocation operation determines a bit allocation for each of a plurality of vectors, based on a corresponding plurality of gain factors, and compares each allocation to a threshold value that is based on a dimensionality of the vector.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120029924.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:35 -0800 A multistage shape vector quantizer architecture uses information from a selected first-stage codebook vector to generate a rotation matrix. The rotation matrix is used to rotate the direction of the input vector to support shape quantization of the first-stage quantization error.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120029927.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:34:35 -0800 Methods and an apparatus for enhancement of source coding systems utilizing high frequency reconstruction (HFR) are introduced. The problem of insufficient noise contents is addressed in a reconstructed highband, by using Adaptive Noise-floor Addition. New methods are also introduced for enhanced performance by means of limiting unwanted noise, interpolation and...