公开(公告)号：US06169538A

公开(公告)日：2001-01-02

申请号：US09133751

申请日：1998-08-13

申请人： Steven Nowlan ,  Kannan Parthasarathy ,  Sheridan Rawlins

发明人： Steven Nowlan ,  Kannan Parthasarathy ,  Sheridan Rawlins

IPC分类号： G09G500

CPC分类号： G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/0233 ,  G06F2203/04805

摘要： A method and apparatus for implementing a graphical user interface keyboard (10) and a text buffer (12) on an electronic device. A character that is active upon pointer-up is accepted as a text character, even though the character that is active upon pointer-up is different from a character that was active and inserted in the text buffer (12) upon pointer-down.

摘要翻译： 一种用于在电子设备上实现图形用户界面键盘（10）和文本缓冲器（12）的方法和装置。 即使在指针向上处于活动状态的字符与在指针下降时活动并插入到文本缓冲区（12）中的字符不同，也可以接受作为文本字符处于活动状态的字符。

公开(公告)号：US06204848B1

公开(公告)日：2001-03-20

申请号：US09291344

申请日：1999-04-14

申请人： Steven Nowlan ,  Ali Ebrahimi ,  David Richard Whaley ,  Pierre Demartines ,  Sreeram Balakrishnan ,  Sheridan Rawlins

发明人： Steven Nowlan ,  Ali Ebrahimi ,  David Richard Whaley ,  Pierre Demartines ,  Sreeram Balakrishnan ,  Sheridan Rawlins

IPC分类号： G06F3023

CPC分类号： H04M1/72552 ,  G06F3/0237 ,  H04M1/72547 ,  H04M2250/70

摘要： A data entry apparatus (10) receives a first character key from a keypad (12). A set of characters associated with the first character key is displayed. A second character key from the keypad (12) is received, wherein a second set of characters is associated with the second character key. A character from the first set of characters is combined with a character from the second set of characters. A set of alternative n-grams is displayed, derived from the step of combining, in descending order based on a probability of frequency of use in a given language. When an alternative n-gram is detected as being actively highlighted, the n-gram is locked to create a locked n-gram and characters associated with subsequent character keys vary in their combinations with respect to the locked n-gram.

摘要翻译： 数据输入装置（10）从小键盘（12）接收第一字符键。 显示与第一个字符键相关联的一组字符。 接收来自键盘（12）的第二个字符键，其中第二组字符与第二个字符键相关联。 来自第一组字符的字符与来自第二组字符的字符组合。 基于在给定语言中的使用频率的概率，按照从降序组合的步骤中导出一组替代的n-gram。 当检测到替代的n-gram被激活地突出显示时，n-gram被锁定以产生锁定的n-gram，并且与随后的字符键相关联的字符在其相对于锁定的n-gram的组合中变化。

公开(公告)号：US20080243766A1

公开(公告)日：2008-10-02

申请号：US11694549

申请日：2007-03-30

申请人： Steven Nowlan ,  William F. Zancho ,  Jon Godston ,  Kenneth W. Douros ,  Maria B. Thompson ,  Christopher W. Drackett ,  Deborah A. Matteo

发明人： Steven Nowlan ,  William F. Zancho ,  Jon Godston ,  Kenneth W. Douros ,  Maria B. Thompson ,  Christopher W. Drackett ,  Deborah A. Matteo

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： H04W8/245 ,  G06Q20/102 ,  H04L67/34 ,  Y10S707/99932 ,  Y10S707/99939

摘要： A configuration of an electronic device (400) is managed by obtaining (1005) stakeholder attributes of a component resident in the electronic device from stakeholder requirements (FIGS. 7, 8) of one or more stakeholders and correlating (1020) the respective stakeholder attributes as well as available sets of values of attributes of the component to determine (1025) a set of selected values of the attributes, and establishing (1030) at least a portion of a new configuration of the electronic device using the set of selected values of the attributes of the component. When the stakeholder requirements cannot be met with an existing application in the electronic device, the application may be formed (1200) from components of existing applications.

摘要翻译： 电子设备（400）的配置通过从一个或多个利益相关者的利益相关者要求（图7,8）获得（1005）驻留在电子设备中的组件的利益相关者属性来管理，并且将（1020）各个利益相关者属性 以及组件的属性值的可用集合以确定（1025）属性的一组选定值，以及使用所选择的值的集合来建立（1030）电子设备的新配置的至少一部分 组件的属性。 当利益相关者的要求不能满足电子设备中的现有应用时，可以从现有应用的组件形成应用（1200）。

公开(公告)号：US20080237337A1

公开(公告)日：2008-10-02

申请号：US11694576

申请日：2007-03-30

申请人： Christopher W. Drackett ,  Deborah W. Matteo ,  Steven Nowlan ,  William F. Zancho ,  Jon Godston ,  Kenneth W. Douros

发明人： Christopher W. Drackett ,  Deborah W. Matteo ,  Steven Nowlan ,  William F. Zancho ,  Jon Godston ,  Kenneth W. Douros

IPC分类号： G06K5/00

CPC分类号： G06Q40/00

摘要： An electronic device (130) uses a record (122) which defines capabilities desired for the electronic device. The requirements of one or more stakeholders are entrusted using stakeholder priority certificates (136). Signatures in the stakeholder priority certificates are authenticated by a device (130). A processor compares components (140) of the electronic device against the received record (122) and the trusted stakeholder requirements to determine operation characteristics of the electronic device (130). The processor can execute a conflict resolution process (133) to resolve conflicts among stakeholder requirements such as arbitrating among at least two of the stakeholders. The processor can resolve conflicts among the stakeholder requirements using a predetermined priority sequence (135).

摘要翻译： 电子设备（130）使用定义电子设备所期望的能力的记录（122）。 使用利益相关者优先权证书（136）委托一个或多个利益相关者的要求。 利益相关者优先级证书中的签名由设备（130）认证。 处理器将电子设备的组件（140）与所接收的记录（122）进行比较，以及信任的利益相关者要求以确定电子设备（130）的操作特性。 处理器可以执行冲突解决过程（133）来解决利益相关者要求之间的冲突，例如至少两个利益相关者之间的仲裁。 处理器可以使用预定的优先级顺序来解决利益相关者要求之间的冲突（135）。

公开(公告)号：US20060208878A1

公开(公告)日：2006-09-21

申请号：US11072569

申请日：2005-03-03

申请人： Steven Nowlan

发明人： Steven Nowlan

IPC分类号： G08B1/08 ,  G07C11/00 ,  G08B23/00 ,  G08B13/00

CPC分类号： G08B21/0258 ,  G08B21/0269

摘要： A system and method to provide location signaling for service, such as a request for transport from a child to his or her parent(s) to be picked up from school, for example. A dedicated communication device has location capabilities and a control to request service for the bearer. At least one monitoring communication device, such as one for each parent, is operable to receive a location with a request for service and acknowledge same. A secure domain manager can be used to; receive the location and request service instruction, deliver the location and request service instruction to the monitoring device(s), obtain an acknowledgment from one monitoring device, and send the acknowledgment to the other monitoring devices and the bearer's communication device. Communication is only allowed between the bearer's device and monitoring devices. The location of the communication device can be tracked, and navigation can be provided thereto.

摘要翻译： 提供用于服务的位置信令的系统和方法，例如从小孩到他或她的父母从学校接收的请求。 专用通信设备具有定位能力和对承载请求服务的控制。 至少一个监控通信设备，例如每个父母的一个监视通信设备，可操作以接收具有服务请求的位置并确认相同的位置。 一个安全的域管理器可以用来; 接收位置和请求服务指令，向监控设备发送位置和请求服务指令，从一个监控设备获取确认，并将确认发送给其他监控设备和承载通信设备。 通信只能在承载设备和监控设备之间进行通信。 可以跟踪通信设备的位置，并且可以向其提供导航。

公开(公告)号：US5812698A

公开(公告)日：1998-09-22

申请号：US891937

申请日：1997-07-14

申请人： John C. Platt ,  Steven Nowlan ,  Joseph Decker ,  Nada Matic

发明人： John C. Platt ,  Steven Nowlan ,  Joseph Decker ,  Nada Matic

IPC分类号： G06K9/00 ,  G06K9/22

CPC分类号： G06K9/00879 ,  G06K9/00416 ,  G06K9/00429

摘要： A system for recognizing handwritten characters, including pre-processing apparatus for generating a set of features for each handwritten character, a neural network disposed for operating on sparse data structures of those features and generating a set of confidence values for each possible character symbol which might correspond to the handwritten character, and post-processing apparatus for adjusting those confidence values and for selecting a character symbol consistent with external knowledge about handwritten characters and the language they are written in. The pre-processing apparatus scales and re-parameterizes the handwritten strokes, encodes the scaled and re-parameterizd strokes into fuzzy membership vectors and binary pointwise data, and combines the vectors and data into a sparse data structure of features. The (nonconvolutional) neural network performs a matrix-vector multiply on the sparse data structure, using only the data for nonzero features collected in that structure, and, for a first layer of that neural network, using only successive chunks of the neural weights. The post-processing apparatus adjusts the confidence values for character symbols using a set of expert rules embodying common-sense knowledge, from which it generates a set of character probabilities for each character position; these character probabilities are combined with a Markov model of character sequence transitions and a dictionary of known words, to produce a final work output for a sequence of handwritten characters.

摘要翻译： 一种用于识别手写字符的系统，包括用于为每个手写字符生成一组特征的预处理装置，设置用于对这些特征的稀疏数据结构进行操作并为每个可能的字符符号产生一组置信度值的神经网络， 对应于手写字符，以及用于调整这些置信度的后处理装置，以及用于选择符合关于手写字符的外部知识及其写入的语言的字符符号。预处理装置对手写笔画进行缩放和重新参数化 ，将缩放和重新参数化的笔划编码为模糊隶属向量和二进制点向数据，并将向量和数据组合成特征的稀疏数据结构。 （非卷积）神经网络在稀疏数据结构上执行矩阵向量，仅使用在该结构中收集的非零特征的数据，并且对于该神经网络的第一层，仅使用连续的神经权重块。 后处理装置使用体现常识知识的一组专家规则来调整字符符号的置信度值，从而生成针对每个字符位置的一组字符概率; 这些字符概率与字符序列转换的马尔科夫模型和已知单词的字典组合，以产生一系列手写字符的最终工作输出。

公开(公告)号：US20080244470A1

公开(公告)日：2008-10-02

申请号：US11694593

申请日：2007-03-30

申请人： Steven Nowlan ,  Kenneth W. Douros ,  Maria B. Thompson ,  Deborah A. Matteo

发明人： Steven Nowlan ,  Kenneth W. Douros ,  Maria B. Thompson ,  Deborah A. Matteo

IPC分类号： G06F3/00

CPC分类号： H04M1/72544

摘要： An electronic device (130) uses a theme record (120) which defines themes desired for the electronic device. An example patriotic theme might call for red, white and blue screen colors. A processor compares the theme record (120) against at least components (140) of the electronic device to determine operation characteristics of the electronic device (130). The processor can execute a correlation process (133) to resolve conflicts among configurations. The theme records (120) can be shared among users of the portable devices.

摘要翻译： 电子设备（130）使用定义电子设备所期望的主题的主题记录（120）。 一个爱国主义的例子可能需要红色，白色和蓝色的屏幕颜色。 处理器将主题记录（120）与电子设备的至少组件（140）进行比较，以确定电子设备（130）的操作特性。 处理器可以执行相关处理（133）以解决配置之间的冲突。 主题记录（120）可以在便携式设备的用户之间共享。

公开(公告)号：US20070129945A1

公开(公告)日：2007-06-07

申请号：US11294959

申请日：2005-12-06

申请人： Changxue Ma ,  Yan Cheng ,  Steven Nowlan ,  Tenkasi Ramabadran

发明人： Changxue Ma ,  Yan Cheng ,  Steven Nowlan ,  Tenkasi Ramabadran

IPC分类号： G10L15/04

CPC分类号： G10L25/69 ,  G10L15/26

摘要： A method and apparatus are provided for reproducing a speech sequence of a user through a communication device of the user. The method includes the steps of detecting a speech sequence from the user through the communication device, recognizing a phoneme sequence within the detected speech sequence and forming a confidence level of each phoneme within the recognized phoneme sequence. The method further includes the steps of audibly reproducing the recognized phoneme sequence for the user through the communication device and gradually highlighting or degrading a voice quality of at least some phonemes of the recognized phoneme sequence based upon the formed confidence level of the at least some phonemes.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于通过用户的通信设备再现用户的语音序列的方法和装置。 该方法包括以下步骤：通过通信设备检测来自用户的语音序列，识别检测到的语音序列内的音素序列，并形成识别的音素序列内每个音素的置信度。 该方法还包括以下步骤：通过通信设备可听地再现用户的识别音素序列，并基于所形成的至少一些音素的置信水平逐渐突出或降低所识别的音素序列的至少一些音素的语音质量 。

公开(公告)号：US07539796B2

公开(公告)日：2009-05-26

申请号：US11694549

申请日：2007-03-30

申请人： Steven Nowlan ,  William F. Zancho ,  Jon Godston ,  Kenneth W. Douros ,  Maria B. Thompson ,  Christopher W. Drackett ,  Deborah A. Matteo

发明人： Steven Nowlan ,  William F. Zancho ,  Jon Godston ,  Kenneth W. Douros ,  Maria B. Thompson ,  Christopher W. Drackett ,  Deborah A. Matteo

IPC分类号： G06F13/00 ,  G06F17/30

CPC分类号： H04W8/245 ,  G06Q20/102 ,  H04L67/34 ,  Y10S707/99932 ,  Y10S707/99939

摘要： A configuration of an electronic device (400) is managed by obtaining (1005) stakeholder attributes of a component resident in the electronic device from stakeholder requirements (FIGS. 7, 8) of one or more stakeholders and correlating (1020) the respective stakeholder attributes as well as available sets of values of attributes of the component to determine (1025) a set of selected values of the attributes, and establishing (1030) at least a portion of a new configuration of the electronic device using the set of selected values of the attributes of the component. When the stakeholder requirements cannot be met with an existing application in the electronic device, the application may be formed (1200) from components of existing applications.

摘要翻译： 电子设备（400）的配置通过从一个或多个利益相关者的利益相关者要求（图7,8）获得（1005）驻留在电子设备中的组件的利益相关者属性来管理，并且将（1020）各个利益相关者属性 以及组件的属性值的可用集合以确定（1025）属性的一组选定值，以及使用所选择的值的集合来建立（1030）电子设备的新配置的至少一部分 组件的属性。 当利益相关者的要求不能满足电子设备中的现有应用时，可以从现有应用的组件形成应用（1200）。

公开(公告)号：US20060247921A1

公开(公告)日：2006-11-02

申请号：US11118670

申请日：2005-04-29

申请人： Changxue Ma ,  Yan Cheng ,  Chen Liu ,  Ted Mazurkiewicz ,  Steven Nowlan ,  James Talley ,  Yuan-Jun Wei

发明人： Changxue Ma ,  Yan Cheng ,  Chen Liu ,  Ted Mazurkiewicz ,  Steven Nowlan ,  James Talley ,  Yuan-Jun Wei

IPC分类号： G10L11/04

CPC分类号： G10L17/26 ,  G10L13/033 ,  G10L15/22

摘要： An electronic device (300) for speech dialog includes functions that receive (305, 105) a speech phrase that comprises a request phrase that includes an instantiated variable (215), generate (335, 115) pitch and voicing characteristics (315) of the instantiated variable, and performs voice recognition (319, 125) of the instantiated variable to determine a most likely set of acoustic states (235). The electronic device may generate (335, 140) a synthesized value of the instantiated variable using the most likely set of acoustic states and the pitch and voicing characteristics of the instantiated variable. The electronic device may use a table of previously entered values of variables that have been determined to be unique, and in which the values are associated with a most likely set of acoustic states and the pitch and voicing characteristics determined at the receipt of each value to disambiguate (425, 430) a newly received instantiated variable.

摘要翻译： 一种用于语音对话的电子设备（300）包括接收（305,105）语音短语的功能，该语音短语包括包含实例化变量（215）的请求短语，产生（335,115）音调和语音特征（315） 并且执行所述实例化变量的语音识别（319,125）以确定最可能的一组声学状态（235）。 电子设备可以使用最可能的声学状态集合和实例化变量的音调和语音特征来生成（335,140）实例化变量的合成值。 电子设备可以使用已经被确定为唯一的先前输入的变量值的表，并且其中值与最可能的一组声学状态相关联，并且在接收每个值时确定的音高和发声特性 消除歧义（425,430）一个新接收的实例变量。