公开(公告)号：US07346153B2

公开(公告)日：2008-03-18

申请号：US10988082

申请日：2004-11-12

申请人： James R. Lewis ,  Wallace J. Sadowski

发明人： James R. Lewis ,  Wallace J. Sadowski

IPC分类号： H04M11/06

CPC分类号： H04M3/493 ,  H04M3/36 ,  H04M3/53391 ,  H04M2201/36 ,  H04M2203/254

摘要： A method, system and apparatus for dynamically alerting calling parties of menu structure changes in a telephone prompting system. In a telephone prompting system, a menu structure change alert method can include determining whether a menu structure change has occurred for the telephone prompting system in response to the receipt of an incoming call from a calling party. Subsequently, the calling party can be selectively alerted of the menu structure change. In this regard, an alert message can be played to the calling party.

摘要翻译： 一种用于在电话提示系统中动态地提醒主叫方菜单结构变化的方法，系统和装置。 在电话提示系统中，菜单结构改变警报方法可以包括响应于从呼叫方接收到来话确定电话提示系统是否发生菜单结构改变。 随后，主叫方可以选择性地提醒菜单结构的改变。 在这方面，可以向呼叫方播放警报消息。

公开(公告)号：US07287617B2

公开(公告)日：2007-10-30

申请号：US11113778

申请日：2005-04-25

申请人： Larry J. Mobley ,  Brian McMillin ,  Jimmy H. Edwards ,  James R. Lewis

发明人： Larry J. Mobley ,  Brian McMillin ,  Jimmy H. Edwards ,  James R. Lewis

IPC分类号： B60K28/06

CPC分类号： B60K28/063 ,  G01N33/4972

摘要： A vehicle ignition interlock system includes a breath analyzer and a controller operably connected to the breath analyzer and to an ignition system of the vehicle. The breath analyzer detects breath alcohol level of a vehicle operator and prevents vehicle ignition if a breath alcohol level is greater than or equal to a threshold value. The controller requires the vehicle operator to periodically take breath analyzer “retests” after vehicle ignition in order to allow vehicle operation to continue. The breath analyzer includes first and second alcohol sensors. The second alcohol sensor is a backup for the first alcohol sensor and becomes operational if the first alcohol sensor malfunctions. The first or second alcohol sensors may be a mouth contamination sensor that distinguishes between mouth contaminants and alcohol contained within a deep lung breath sample. The system also includes sensors configured to detect impact (abuse) and vehicle motion.

摘要翻译： 车辆点火互锁系统包括呼吸分析器和可操作地连接到呼吸分析器和车辆的点火系统的控制器。 呼吸分析仪检测车辆驾驶员的呼吸酒精水平，并且如果呼吸酒精浓度大于或等于阈值，则防止车辆点燃。 控制器要求车辆操作人员在车辆点火后定期进行呼吸分析仪“重新测试”，以使车辆操作能够继续。 呼吸分析仪包括第一和第二醇传感器。 第二个酒精传感器是第一个酒精传感器的备份，如果第一个酒精传感器发生故障，它将会运行。 第一或第二酒精传感器可以是口腔污染传感器，其区分口腔污染物和深呼吸样本中所含的酒精。 该系统还包括被配置为检测碰撞（滥用）和车辆运动的传感器。

公开(公告)号：US07103533B2

公开(公告)日：2006-09-05

申请号：US09790352

申请日：2001-02-21

申请人： James R. Lewis ,  Kerry A. Ortega ,  C. Thomas Rutherfoord ,  Maria E. Smith

发明人： James R. Lewis ,  Kerry A. Ortega ,  C. Thomas Rutherfoord ,  Maria E. Smith

IPC分类号： G06F17/27

CPC分类号： G10L15/063 ,  G10L15/197

摘要： A method of generating language model statistics for a new word added to a language model incorporating at least one class file containing contextually related words. The method can include the following steps: First, language model statistics can be computed based on references to at least one incorporated class file. Second, a new word can be substituted for each reference to a selected class file. Additionally, the language model statistics can be re-computed based on the new word having been substituted for the reference. Third, the re-computed language model statistics can be displayed in a user interface and modifications can be accepted to the re-computed language model statistics through the user interface. Fourth, the language model statistics can be further re-computed based on the modifications. In consequence, the language model statistics are re-computed for the new word without introducing contextual inaccuracies in the language model.

公开(公告)号：US07076814B2

公开(公告)日：2006-07-18

申请号：US10720718

申请日：2003-11-24

申请人： Michael H. Ostrowski ,  Jeffrey L. Mueller ,  James R. Lewis ,  Stanley P. Kaymen ,  John H. Schott

发明人： Michael H. Ostrowski ,  Jeffrey L. Mueller ,  James R. Lewis ,  Stanley P. Kaymen ,  John H. Schott

IPC分类号： A47K3/00 ,  A47K3/10

CPC分类号： E03B7/04 ,  A61H33/0087 ,  A61H33/6015 ,  D06F39/08 ,  D06F39/087 ,  D06F39/088 ,  E03B11/02 ,  E03C1/00 ,  Y02A20/106

摘要： An assembly for rapidly filing bathtubs, whirlpools, spas, washing machine drums and the like includes a basin, water storage tank(s) (such as hot and cold water storage tanks), and a system for controlling the filling of the basin from the tank(s). When it is desired to supply water to the basin, this is expedited by placing the tank(s) above the basin, using connecting piping with extra large area, using a pressure pump, and/or providing extra large delivery ports. The tank(s) are dedicated to the assembly, and preferably are closely adjacent thereto. Controls are provided to avoid excess weight gathering adjacent the basin.

摘要翻译： 用于快速填充浴缸，漩涡，水疗中心，洗衣机桶等的组件包括盆，储水箱（例如冷热水储罐），以及用于控制盆中的填充物的系统 坦克。 当需要向盆中供水时，通过使用压力泵和/或提供额外的大的输送口将容器放置在盆地上方，使用超大面积的连接管道加速。 该罐专用于组件，并且优选地与其紧邻。 提供控制以避免靠近盆地的多余重量聚集。

公开(公告)号：US06826306B1

公开(公告)日：2004-11-30

申请号：US09240146

申请日：1999-01-29

申请人： James R. Lewis ,  Julia E. Maners ,  Kerry A. Ortega ,  Michael P. Perrone ,  Eugene H. Ratzlaff ,  Jayashree Subrahmonia ,  Ron Van Buskirk ,  Huifang Wang

发明人： James R. Lewis ,  Julia E. Maners ,  Kerry A. Ortega ,  Michael P. Perrone ,  Eugene H. Ratzlaff ,  Jayashree Subrahmonia ,  Ron Van Buskirk ,  Huifang Wang

IPC分类号： G06K900

CPC分类号： G10L15/07 ,  G06K9/6255

摘要： A system and method for automatically providing quality assurance for user enrollment in a recognition system. Advantageously, the quality a new enrollment (i.e., a newly trained user-dependent prototype) is assessed before the new enrollment is accepted in place of a current enrollment. This quality check is performed by decoding stored user test data using the new enrollment, comparing the decoding results of the new enrollment to the known script used to generate the test data to obtain an accuracy score for the new enrollment, and then comparing the accuracy score for the new enrollment with an accuracy score of a previous qualified enrollment (or, in the case where there is no previous, qualified enrollment, to the accuracy of the speaker independent model). If the decoding results of the new enrollment are acceptable, the new enrollment will be used for recognition; otherwise it will be rejected and discarded.

摘要翻译： 一种用于自动提供用户在识别系统中注册的质量保证的系统和方法。 有利的是，在新的注册被接受以替代当前注册之前，评估新的注册（即，新培训的用户依赖的原型）的质量。 通过使用新的注册对存储的用户测试数据进行解码来执行该质量检查，将新注册的解码结果与用于生成测试数据的已知脚本进行比较，以获得新注册的准确性分数，然后比较准确度分数 对于新注册，具有先前合格注册的准确性分数（或者在没有以前的合格注册的情况下，符合说话者独立模式的准确性）。 如果新注册的解码结果可以接受，新的注册将被用于识别; 否则将被拒绝和丢弃。

公开(公告)号：US06795806B1

公开(公告)日：2004-09-21

申请号：US09665939

申请日：2000-09-20

申请人： James R. Lewis ,  Kerry A. Ortega

发明人： James R. Lewis ,  Kerry A. Ortega

IPC分类号： G10L1500

CPC分类号： G10L15/24 ,  G06F3/167 ,  G10L2015/227 ,  G10L2015/228

摘要： A method for discriminating between an instance of a voice command and an instance of speech dictation can include identifying a focus point in a user interface; defining a surrounding region about the focus point; identifying user interface objects in the surrounding region; further identifying among the identified user interface objects those user interface objects which are configured to accept speech dictated text and those user interface objects which are not configured to accept speech dictated text; computing a probability based upon those user interface objects which have been further identified as being configured to accept speech dictated text and those user interface objects which have been further identified as not being configured to accept speech dictated text; receiving speech input; and, biasing a determination of whether the speech input is a voice command or speech dictation based upon the computed probability. Additionally, the method can include identifying a focus point outside of the user interface; and, biasing a determination of whether the speech input is a voice command or speech dictation based upon a default probability.

摘要翻译： 用于区分语音命令的实例和语音听写实例的方法可以包括在用户界面中识别焦点; 定义关于聚焦点的周围区域; 识别周边地区的用户界面对象; 在所识别的用户界面对象中进一步识别被配置为接受语音指定文本的那些用户界面对象以及未配置为接受语音指定文本的那些用户界面对象; 基于已经被进一步识别为被配置为接受语音指定文本的那些用户界面对象计算概率，并且已经被进一步识别为未被配置为接受语音指定文本的那些用户界面对象; 接收语音输入; 以及基于所计算的概率偏置语音输入是否是语音命令或语音听写的确定。 另外，该方法可以包括识别用户界面外的聚焦点; 并且基于默认概率偏置语音输入是语音命令还是语音听写的确定。

公开(公告)号：US06611802B2

公开(公告)日：2003-08-26

申请号：US09330668

申请日：1999-06-11

申请人： James R. Lewis ,  Barbara E. Ballard ,  Gary R. Hanson ,  Kerry A. Ortega ,  Ronald E. Vanbuskirk ,  Arthur Keller

发明人： James R. Lewis ,  Barbara E. Ballard ,  Gary R. Hanson ,  Kerry A. Ortega ,  Ronald E. Vanbuskirk ,  Arthur Keller

IPC分类号： G10L1300

CPC分类号： G06F17/273 ,  G10L13/00 ,  G10L2015/228

摘要： A method of proofreading and correcting dictated text contained in an electronic document comprises the steps of: selecting proofreading criteria for identifying textual errors contained in the electronic document; playing back each word contained in the electronic document; and, marking as a textual error each played back word in nonconformity with at least one of the proofreading criteria. The method can further comprise the step of editing each the marked textual error identified in the marking step. In particular, the editing step can include reviewing each the marked textual error identified in the marking step; accepting user specified changes to each marked textual error reviewed in the reviewing step; and, unmarking each marked textual error corrected by the user in the accepting step. Also, the reviewing step can include highlighting each the word in the electronic document corresponding to the marked textual error marked in the marking step; and, displaying an explanation for each marked textual error in a user interface. Moreover, the reviewing step can further include suggesting a recommended change to the marked textual error; displaying the recommended change in the user interface; and, accepting a user specified preference to substitute the recommended change for the marked textual error.

摘要翻译： 一种校正和纠正电子文档中包含的指定文本的方法包括以下步骤：选择用于识别电子文档中包含的文本错误的校对标准; 播放电子文档中包含的每个单词; 并且标记为文本错误，每个都使用至少一个校对标准在不合格中播放单词。 该方法还可以包括编辑在标记步骤中识别的每个标记的文本错误的步骤。 特别地，编辑步骤可以包括查看在标记步骤中识别的标记的文本错误; 在审查步骤中审查的每个标记的文字错误接受用户指定的更改; 并且在接受步骤中取消标记由用户校正的每个标记的文本错误。 此外，审查步骤可以包括突出显示与标记步骤中标记的标记的文本错误相对应的电子文档中的单词; 并且在用户界面中显示每个标记的文本错误的说明。 此外，审查步骤还可以包括建议对标记的文字错误的建议更改; 显示用户界面中推荐的更改; 并且接受用户指定的首选项以替代所标记的文本错误的推荐更改。

公开(公告)号：US06591236B2

公开(公告)日：2003-07-08

申请号：US09290814

申请日：1999-04-13

申请人： James R. Lewis ,  Kerry Ortega

发明人： James R. Lewis ,  Kerry Ortega

IPC分类号： G10L1504

CPC分类号： G10L15/26 ,  G10L15/22 ,  G10L2015/223 ,  G10L2015/228

摘要： A method and system for use with a computer speech recognition system to efficiently identify valid system commands to users. The method involves a series of steps including: receiving data representative of a speech recognition system user input; comparing the data to a grammar defined for the speech recognition system to determine whether the data is representative of a user input which is a valid system command; and notifying the user as to whether the data is representative of a valid system command. The process can also involve the additional steps of determining a functional expression for the data; and comparing the functional expression to a set of all functional expressions permitted in the grammar to identify any alternate user inputs for producing the functional expression.

摘要翻译： 一种用于计算机语音识别系统的方法和系统，用于向用户有效地识别有效的系统命令。 该方法涉及一系列步骤，包括：接收表示语音识别系统用户输入的数据; 将数据与为语音识别系统定义的语法进行比较，以确定数据是否代表作为有效系统命令的用户输入; 并通知用户该数据是否代表有效的系统命令。 该过程还可以涉及确定数据的功能表达式的附加步骤; 以及将功能表达式与语法中允许的所有功能表达集合进行比较，以识别用于产生功能表达式的任何替代用户输入。

公开(公告)号：US06308157B1

公开(公告)日：2001-10-23

申请号：US09328095

申请日：1999-06-08

申请人： Ronald E. Vanbuskirk ,  James R. Lewis ,  Kerry A. Ortega ,  Huifang Wang ,  Amado Nassiff

发明人： Ronald E. Vanbuskirk ,  James R. Lewis ,  Kerry A. Ortega ,  Huifang Wang ,  Amado Nassiff

IPC分类号： G10L1514

CPC分类号： G10L15/26 ,  G10L2015/228

摘要： A method and system efficiently identifies voice commands for a user of a speech recognition system. The method involves a series of steps including: receiving input from a user; monitoring the computer system to log system events and ascertain a current system state; predicting a probable next event according to the current system state and logged events; and identifying acceptable voice commands to perform the next event. The system events include commands, system control activities, timed activities, and application activation. These events are statistically analyzed in light of the current system state to determine the probable next event. The voice commands for performing the probable next event are displayed to the user.

摘要翻译： 方法和系统有效地识别用于语音识别系统的用户的语音命令。 该方法涉及一系列步骤，包括：从用户接收输入; 监视计算机系统以记录系统事件并确定当前的系统状态; 根据当前的系统状态和记录的事件预测可能的下一个事件; 并且识别可接受的语音命令以执行下一个事件。 系统事件包括命令，系统控制活动，定时活动和应用程序激活。 根据当前系统状态对这些事件进行统计分析，以确定可能的下一个事件。 用于执行可能的下一个事件的语音命令被显示给用户。

公开(公告)号：US06275792B1

公开(公告)日：2001-08-14

申请号：US09305625

申请日：1999-05-05

申请人： James R. Lewis

发明人： James R. Lewis

IPC分类号： G06F1727

CPC分类号： G06F17/2705 ,  G06F17/2881 ,  G10L15/01 ,  G10L15/193

摘要： A method for automatically generating a minimal set of test phrases for testing a natural commands grammar includes the steps of selecting a line of text in the natural commands grammar; forming a test phrase for the selected line of text; detecting a previous inclusion of the test phrase in the minimal set of test phrases; and, adding the test phrase to the minimal set of test phrases only if the test phrase has not been detected as having been previously included in the minimal set of test phrases in the detecting step.

摘要翻译： 用于自动生成用于测试自然命令语法的最小测试短语集合的方法包括以下步骤：在自然命令语法中选择文本行; 形成所选择的文本行的测试短语; 检测以前将测试短语包含在最小的测试短语集合中; 并且仅当测试短语未被检测为已经包含在检测步骤中的最小测试短语集合中时，将测试短语添加到最小测试短语集合。