公开(公告)号：US06768969B1

公开(公告)日：2004-07-27

申请号：US09824946

申请日：2001-04-03

申请人： Alexei V. Nikitin ,  Mark G. Frei ,  Naresh C. Bhavaraju ,  Ivan Osorio

发明人： Alexei V. Nikitin ,  Mark G. Frei ,  Naresh C. Bhavaraju ,  Ivan Osorio

IPC分类号： G01L2100

CPC分类号： G06K9/00536 ,  G06F17/10 ,  G06F17/18 ,  G06F19/24 ,  G16H50/20 ,  G16H50/50

摘要： A method, computer program, and system for real-time signal analysis providing characterization of temporally-evolving densities and distributions of signal features of arbitrary-type signals in a moving time window by tracking output of order statistic filters (also known as percentile, quantile, or rank-order filters). Given a raw input signal of arbitrary type, origin, or scale, the present invention enables automated quantification and detection of changes in the distribution of any set of quantifiable features of that signal as they occur in time. Furthermore, the present invention's ability to rapidly and accurately detect changes in certain features of an input signal can also enable prediction in cases where the detected changes associated with an increased likelihood of future signal changes.

摘要翻译： 一种用于实时信号分析的方法，计算机程序和系统，通过跟踪顺序统计滤波器的输出（也称为百分位数，分位数）来提供移动时间窗口中的任意类型信号的时间演化密度和信号特征分布的表征 或等级阶滤波器）。 给定任意类型，原点或尺度的原始输入信号，本发明能够自动量化和检测该信号随时间发生的任何一组可量化特征的分布变化。 此外，本发明快速准确地检测输入信号的某些特征的变化的能力还可以在与未来信号的可能性增加相关联的检测到的变化的情况下进行预测。

公开(公告)号：US06408273B1

公开(公告)日：2002-06-18

申请号：US09453085

申请日：1999-12-02

申请人： Gilles Quagliaro ,  Philippe Gournay ,  Frédéric Chartier ,  Gwenaël Guilmin

发明人： Gilles Quagliaro ,  Philippe Gournay ,  Frédéric Chartier ,  Gwenaël Guilmin

IPC分类号： G01L2100

CPC分类号： H04R25/356 ,  G10L21/0364 ,  G10L2021/065 ,  H04R25/505

摘要： A method for providing auditory correction for a hearing-impaired individual, including extracting pitch, voicing, energy and spectrum characteristics of an input speech signal. The method also includes modifying the extracted pitch characteristic by multiplying a pitch factor times the extracted pitch characteristic, modifying the extracted voicing characteristic by multiplying a voicing factor times the extracted voicing characteristic, modifying the extracted energy characteristic by applying a compression function to the extracted energy characteristic, and modifying the extracted spectrum characteristic by applying a homothetical compression function to the extracted spectrum characteristic. Further, a speech signal is reconstituted perceptible to the hearing-impaired individual based on the modified pitch, voicing, energy and spectrum characteristics.

摘要翻译： 一种用于为听力受损个体提供听觉校正的方法，包括提取输入语音信号的音高，发音，能量和频谱特性。 该方法还包括通过将音调因子乘以所提取的音调特性来修改提取的音调特性，通过将发音因子乘以所提取的发音特征来修改提取的发声特性，通过对所提取的能量应用压缩函数来修改提取的能量特性 特征，并通过对所提取的光谱特性应用均匀压缩函数来修改提取的光谱特性。 此外，基于修改的音调，发音，能量和频谱特性，对听力受损个体可感知的语音信号被重构。

公开(公告)号：US06697717B2

公开(公告)日：2004-02-24

申请号：US10254873

申请日：2002-09-26

申请人： Takehiko Shioda ,  Yukitaka Saito

发明人： Takehiko Shioda ,  Yukitaka Saito

IPC分类号： G01L2100

CPC分类号： B60W20/12 ,  B60K6/48 ,  B60K6/54 ,  B60L11/14 ,  B60L11/1862 ,  B60L15/2045 ,  B60L2240/421 ,  B60L2240/441 ,  B60L2240/622 ,  B60L2240/64 ,  B60L2250/16 ,  B60L2250/30 ,  B60L2270/12 ,  B60W10/04 ,  B60W10/06 ,  B60W10/08 ,  B60W20/00 ,  B60W40/02 ,  B60W2510/244 ,  B60W2540/02 ,  B60W2550/141 ,  B60W2550/22 ,  B60W2550/402 ,  G01C21/3461 ,  G01C21/3469 ,  Y02T10/54 ,  Y02T10/6221 ,  Y02T10/6291 ,  Y02T10/645 ,  Y02T10/70 ,  Y02T10/7005 ,  Y02T10/7044 ,  Y02T10/705 ,  Y02T10/7077 ,  Y02T10/72 ,  Y02T10/7283 ,  Y02T10/7291 ,  Y02T90/16 ,  Y02T90/161 ,  Y02T90/162 ,  Y10S903/917

摘要： A navigation system of a hybrid car retrieves a route to detect whether any restricted area forbidden for automobiles that emit exhaust gases is on the route or not. Before the hybrid car arrives at the restricted area, an electric motor is driven by a gasoline engine portion to charge a battery portion. After the hybrid car arrives at the restricted area, only the electric motor is operated by electric power of the battery portion so that the hybrid car can pass through the restricted area. As a result, the hybrid car can arrive at a destination by the shortest distance without bypassing the restricted area, and the environment of the restricted area can be protected because the gasoline engine portion is not operated in the restricted area.

摘要翻译： 混合动力汽车的导航系统检索路线，以检测对排放废气的汽车禁止的任何限制区域是否在路线上。 在混合动力轿车到达限制区域之前，电动机由汽油发动机部分驱动以对电池部分充电。 在混合动力汽车到达限制区域之后，只有电动机由电池部分的电力运行，使得混合动力汽车可以通过限制区域。 结果，混合动力汽车可以以最短的距离到达目的地而不绕过限制区域，并且由于汽油发动机部分不在限制区域中操作，所以可以保护限制区域的环境。

公开(公告)号：US06219646B1

公开(公告)日：2001-04-17

申请号：US09567824

申请日：2000-05-09

申请人： Julius Cherny

发明人： Julius Cherny

IPC分类号： G01L2100

CPC分类号： G06F17/2872 ,  G06F17/2735 ,  G06F17/2765 ,  G06F17/2818 ,  G06F17/289

摘要： Methods and apparatus for performing translation between different language are provided. The present invention includes a translation system that performs translation having increased accuracy by providing a three-dimensional topical dual-language database. The topical database includes a set of source-to-target language translations for each topic that the database is being used for. In one embodiment, a user first selects the topic of conversation, then words spoken into a telephone are translated and produced as synthesized voice signals from another telephone so that a near real-time conversation may be had between two people speaking different languages. An additional feature of the present invention is the addition of a computer terminal that displays the input and output phrases so that either user may edit the input phrases, or indicate that the translation was ambiguous and request a rephrasing of the material.

摘要翻译： 提供用于执行不同语言之间的翻译的方法和装置。 本发明包括通过提供三维局部双语言数据库来提高精度的翻译的翻译系统。 主题数据库包括数据库正在使用的每个主题的一组源到目标语言翻译。 在一个实施例中，用户首先选择对话主题，然后将来自电话的话转换成来自另一个电话的合成语音信号，从而可以在两个不同语言的人之间进行接近实时的对话。 本发明的附加特征是添加了显示输入和输出短语的计算机终端，使得任一用户可以编辑输入短语，或指示翻译是不明确的，并请求重新表述材料。

公开(公告)号：US06658386B2

公开(公告)日：2003-12-02

申请号：US09735693

申请日：2000-12-12

申请人： Kimberlee A. Kemble ,  James R. Lewis ,  Vanessa V. Michelini ,  Margarita Zabolotskaya

发明人： Kimberlee A. Kemble ,  James R. Lewis ,  Vanessa V. Michelini ,  Margarita Zabolotskaya

IPC分类号： G01L2100

CPC分类号： G10L15/22

摘要： A method for adjusting a speech menu interface in a speech recognition system. The method can include a series of steps which can include identifying one or more menu items from a data structure in memory for presentation using the speech menu interface. The step of retrieving the one or more menu items from the data structure can be included. Also, the step of reading at least one attribute corresponding to the one or more menu items with menu item criteria can be included. Based on the comparing step, the method can include selecting a presentation style for presentation of the one or more menu items using the speech menu interface.

摘要翻译： 一种用于在语音识别系统中调整语音菜单界面的方法。 该方法可以包括一系列步骤，其可以包括从存储器中的数据结构中识别一个或多个菜单项，以使用语音菜单界面呈现。 可以包括从数据结构检索一个或多个菜单项的步骤。 此外，可以包括读取与具有菜单项标准的一个或多个菜单项相对应的至少一个属性的步骤。 基于比较步骤，该方法可以包括使用语音菜单界面选择用于呈现一个或多个菜单项的呈现风格。

公开(公告)号：US06358765B1

公开(公告)日：2002-03-19

申请号：US09750798

申请日：2000-12-28

申请人： Taizou Tanaka

发明人： Taizou Tanaka

IPC分类号： G01L2100

摘要： In a method for manufacturing an organic EL element, a low-resistance conductive layer is formed on an electrode of an organic EL element formed on a substrate in a state in which the substrate is at a temperature not higher than the freezing point so that no abnormal current nor short circuit occurs on the organic EL element when applying a voltage to it.

公开(公告)号：US06311153B1

公开(公告)日：2001-10-30

申请号：US09165297

申请日：1998-10-02

申请人： Yoshihisa Nakatoh ,  Takeshi Norimatsu ,  Mineo Tsushima ,  Tomokazu Ishikawa ,  Mitsuhiko Serikawa ,  Taro Katayama ,  Junichi Nakahashi ,  Yoriko Yagi

发明人： Yoshihisa Nakatoh ,  Takeshi Norimatsu ,  Mineo Tsushima ,  Tomokazu Ishikawa ,  Mitsuhiko Serikawa ,  Taro Katayama ,  Junichi Nakahashi ,  Yoriko Yagi

IPC分类号： G01L2100

CPC分类号： H04B1/665 ,  G10L2019/0005

摘要： An audio signal compression apparatus for compressively coding an input audio signal comprises a time-to-frequency transformation unit for transforming the input audio signal to a frequency domain signal; a spectrum envelope calculation unit for calculating a spectrum envelope having different resolutions for different frequencies, from the input audio signal, using a weighting function on frequency based on human auditory characteristics; a normalization unit for normalizing the frequency domain signal using the spectrum envelope to obtain a residual signal; a power normalization unit for normalizing the residual signal by the power; an auditory weighting calculation unit for calculating weighting coefficients on frequency, based on the spectrum of the input audio signal and human auditory characteristics; and a multi-stage quantization device having plural stages of vector quantizers connected in series, to which the normalized residual signal is input, and at least one of the vector quantizers quantizing the residual signal using the weighting coefficients. Therefore, a low frequency band, which is auditively important, can be analyzed with a higher frequency resolution as compared with a high frequency band, whereby efficient signal compression utilizing human auditory characteristics is realized.

摘要翻译： 一种用于对输入音频信号进行压缩编码的音频信号压缩装置包括用于将输入音频信号变换为频域信号的时间 - 频率变换单元; 频谱包络计算单元，用于根据输入的音频信号，使用基于人的听觉特征的频率的加权函数来计算用于不同频率的不同分辨率的频谱包络; 归一化单元，用于使用频谱包络对频域信号进行归一化以获得残余信号; 功率归一化单元，用于通过所述功率归一化所述残余信号; 听觉加权计算单元，用于基于输入音频信号的频谱和人类听觉特征来计算频率上的加权系数; 以及具有串联连接的多级矢量量化器的多级量化装置，其中输入归一化残差信号，以及使用加权系数量化残差信号的矢量量化器中的至少一个。 因此，与高频带相比，可以以更高的频率分辨率来分析具有重要意义的低频带，从而实现利用人类听觉特性的有效信号压缩。

公开(公告)号：US06487527B1

公开(公告)日：2002-11-26

申请号：US09566909

申请日：2000-05-09

申请人： Rahmin Soheili

发明人： Rahmin Soheili

IPC分类号： G01L2100

CPC分类号： G10L19/07

摘要： A linear predictive speech encoding method combines vector quantization with the search for roots of LSP polynomials. At Under this method, a code book searchable using line spectral pair (LSP) values is created from a line spectral frequency (LSF) code book, thus ensuring linear distortion performance without the costly run-time complexity of finding roots to high-order LSP polynomials in the LSF domain.

摘要翻译： 线性预测语音编码方法将矢量量化与对LSP多项式的根的搜索相结合。 在这种方法下，可以从线谱频率（LSF）码本创建使用线谱对（LSP）值可搜索的码本，从而确保线性失真性能，而无需花费高昂的运行时复杂度来找到高阶LSP LSF域中的多项式。

公开(公告)号：US06338020B2

公开(公告)日：2002-01-08

申请号：US09195917

申请日：1998-11-19

申请人： Takahiro Hashimoto

发明人： Takahiro Hashimoto

IPC分类号： G01L2100

CPC分类号： G08G1/0969 ,  G01C21/34

摘要： A system for acquiring map information reliably even when a vehicle is running in a blind area where the map information is not acquirable in real time, assisting the vehicle to keep running smoothly. In this system, necessary map information can be acquired from an external information center upon request via a communication device. Specifying data of a blind area in which the map information is not acquirable in real time is previously stored in a memory. Based on the specifying data stored in the memory and a current position of the vehicle detected as by GPS, a processor acquires the map information of the blind area from the information center upon request when the vehicle approaches the blind area. The acquired map information is stored in the memory and is read out for use in navigation.

摘要翻译： 即使车辆在无法实时获取地图信息的盲区行驶时也可靠地获取地图信息的系统，有助于车辆保持平稳运行。 在该系统中，可以经由通信装置从外部信息中心获取必要的地图信息。 将地图信息不能实时获取的盲区的数据预先存储在存储器中。 基于存储在存储器中的指定数据和通过GPS检测到的车辆的当前位置，当车辆接近盲区时，处理器从请求信息中心获取盲区的地图信息。 所获取的地图信息被存储在存储器中并被读出以用于导航。

公开(公告)号：US06272405B1

公开(公告)日：2001-08-07

申请号：US09349721

申请日：1999-07-08

申请人： Yosuke Kubota

发明人： Yosuke Kubota

IPC分类号： G01L2100

CPC分类号： G01S19/49 ,  G01C21/12 ,  G01S19/41 ,  G01S19/48 ,  G05D1/0261 ,  G05D1/0278 ,  G05D2201/0201 ,  G05D2201/0202 ,  G05D2201/0208

摘要： An apparatus for guiding a vehicle autonomously to a target point by finding a current position based on radio waives from satellites and comparing the current position with the target point comprises a means for storing a reference position data of a reference point whose accurate position is known, a means for obtaining a position data of the vehicle when the vehicle is located on the reference point, a means for obtaining a correction data by calculating a difference between the reference position data and the position data, and a means for correcting the current position by using the correction data to obtain a real position of the vehicle.

摘要翻译： 一种用于通过基于来自卫星的无线电放弃找到当前位置并将当前位置与目标点进行比较的方式将车辆自主地引导到目标点的装置包括用于存储其准确位置已知的参考点的参考位置数据的装置， 用于当车辆位于参考点时获得车辆的位置数据的装置，用于通过计算参考位置数据和位置数据之间的差来获得校正数据的装置，以及用于通过以下方式校正当前位置的装置： 使用校正数据来获得车辆的实际位置。