Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090171662 | Robust Information Extraction from Utterances - The performance of traditional speech recognition systems (as applied to information extraction or translation) decreases significantly with, larger domain size, scarce training data as well as under noisy environmental conditions. This invention mitigates these problems through the introduction of a novel predictive feature extraction method which combines linguistic and statistical information for representation of information embedded in a noisy source language. The predictive features are combined with text classifiers to map the noisy text to one of the semantically or functionally similar groups. The features used by the classifier can be syntactic, semantic, and statistical. | 07-02-2009 |
20090177460 | Methods for Using Manual Phrase Alignment Data to Generate Translation Models for Statistical Machine Translation - The present invention adopts the fundamental architecture of a statistical machine translation system which utilizes statistical models learned from the training data and does not require expert knowledge for rule-based machine translation systems. Out of the training parallel data, a certain amount of sentence pairs are selected for manual alignment. These sentences are aligned at the phrase level instead of at the word level. Depending on the size of the training data, the optimal amount for manual alignment may vary. The alignment is done using an alignment tool with a graphical user interface which is convenient and intuitive to the users. Manually aligned data are then utilized to improve the automatic word alignment component. Model combination methods are also introduced to improve the accuracy and the coverage of statistical models for the task of statistical machine translation. | 07-09-2009 |
20090177461 | Mobile Speech-to-Speech Interpretation System - Interpretation from a first language to a second language via one or more communication devices is performed through a communication network (e.g. phone network or the internet) using a server for performing recognition and interpretation tasks, comprising the steps of: receiving an input speech utterance in a first language on a first mobile communication device; conditioning said input speech utterance; first transmitting said conditioned input speech utterance to a server; recognizing said first transmitted speech utterance to generate one or more recognition results; interpreting said recognition results to generate one or more interpretation results in an interlingua; mapping the interlingua to a second language in a first selected format; second transmitting said interpretation results in the first selected format to a second mobile communication device; and presenting said interpretation results in a second selected format on said second communication device. | 07-09-2009 |
20130124195 | Phrase-Based Dialogue Modeling With Particular Application to Creating a Recognition Grammar - The invention enables creation of grammar networks that can regulate, control, and define the content and scope of human-machine interaction in natural language voice user interfaces (NLVUI). The invention enables phrase-based modeling of generic structures of verbal interaction to be used for the purpose of automating part of the design of such grammar networks. Most particularly, the invention enables such grammar networks to be used in providing a voice-controlled user interface to human readable text data that is also machine-readable (such as a Web page, a word processing document, a PDF document, or a spreadsheet). | 05-16-2013 |
20130173255 | Methods for Creating A Phrase Thesaurus - The invention enables creation of grammar networks that can regulate, control, and define the content and scope of human-machine interaction in natural language voice user interfaces (NLVUI). More specifically, the invention concerns a phrase-based modeling of generic structures of verbal interaction and use of these models for the purpose of automating part of the design of such grammar networks. | 07-04-2013 |
20130204813 | SELF-LEARNING, CONTEXT AWARE VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A virtual assistant learning system is presented. A monitoring device, a cell phone for example, observes user interactions with an environment by acquiring sensor data. The monitoring device uses the sensor data to identify the interactions, which in turn is provided to an inference engine. The inference engine leverages the interaction data and previously stored knowledge elements about the user to determine if the interaction exhibits one or more user preferences. The inference engine can use the preferences and interactions to construct queries targeting search engines to seek out possible future interactions that might be of interest to the user. | 08-08-2013 |
20130211841 | Multi-Dimensional Interactions and Recall - Methods for initiating actions based on analysis of multi-dimensional interactions are presented. Electronic devices can acquire sensor data representing interactions among multiple entities. Analysis engines can use the interaction data to create or otherwise manage interaction guide queues based on conceptual threads associated with the interactions. Interaction guides within the queue comprise instructions, possibly domain-specific instructions, for devices to participate in the interactions. Contemplated engines manage the queues as a function of attributes, for example priority, derived from the interactions. | 08-15-2013 |
20130226892 | MULTIMODAL NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE FOR FACETED SEARCH - Search interfaces, systems, and methods are presented. Contemplated search interfaces allow electronic devices to capture multi-modal interaction data, including audio signals. A dialog interface capable of interacting with a user processes the interaction data and communicates with a user to establish a desirable query interpretation. Further, the dialog interface can identify a target search engine for a corresponding query based on modalities of the interaction data beyond the data represented by the audio signal. | 08-29-2013 |
20130282757 | MECHANICAL TURK INTEGRATED IDE, SYSTEMS AND METHOD - A Mechanical Turk-Integrated Development Environment system is disclosed. An integrated development environment (IDE) can include one or more interfaces capable of communicating with a mechanical turk engine. As a developer creates applications within the IDE, the developer can use the IDE to submit one or more requests to the mechanical turk engine. The engine constructs a mechanical turk project based on the requests and provides project tasks to workers. The results of the tasks can then be compiled and integrated back into the developer's application via the IDE. An example use includes constructing large domain specific data sets that can be applied to spoken dialog interfaces. | 10-24-2013 |
20130297288 | Mobile Speech-to-Speech Interpretation System - Interpretation from a first language to a second language via one or more communication devices is performed through a communication network (e.g. phone network or the internet) using a server for performing recognition and interpretation tasks, comprising the steps of: receiving an input speech utterance in a first language on a first mobile communication device; conditioning said input speech utterance; first transmitting said conditioned input speech utterance to a server; recognizing said first transmitted speech utterance to generate one or more recognition results; interpreting said recognition results to generate one or more interpretation results in an interlingua; mapping the interlingua to a second language in a first selected format; second transmitting said interpretation results in the first selected format to a second mobile communication device; and presenting said interpretation results in a second selected format on said second communication device. | 11-07-2013 |
20130339030 | INTERACTIVE SPOKEN DIALOGUE INTERFACE FOR COLLECTION OF STRUCTURED DATA - A multimodal dialog interface for data capture at point of origin is disclosed. The interface is designed to allow loading of forms needed for task record keeping, and is therefore customizable to wide range of record keeping requirements such as medical record keeping or recording clinical trial. The interface has a passive mode that is able to capture data while the user is performing other tasks, and an interactive dialog mode that ensures completion of all required information. | 12-19-2013 |
20140108019 | Smart Home Automation Systems and Methods - A smart home interaction system is presented. It is built on a multi-modal, multithreaded conversational dialog engine. The system provides a natural language user interface for the control of household devices, appliances or household functionality. The smart home automation agent can receive input from users through sensing devices such as a smart phone, a tablet computer or a laptop computer. Users interact with the system from within the household or from remote locations. The smart home system can receive input from sensors or any other machines with which it is interfaced. The system employs interaction guide rules for processing reaction to both user and sensor input and driving the conversational interactions that result from such input. The system adaptively learns based on both user and sensor input and can learn the preferences and practices of its users. | 04-17-2014 |
20140136189 | Phrase-Based Dialogue Modeling With Particular Application to Creating a Recognition Grammar - The invention enables creation of grammar networks that can regulate, control, and define the content and scope of human-machine interaction in natural language voice user interfaces (NLVUI). The invention enables phrase-based modeling of generic structures of verbal interaction to be used for the purpose of automating part of the design of such grammar networks. Most particularly, the invention enables such grammar networks to be used in providing a voice-controlled user interface to human readable text data that is also machine-readable (such as a Web page, a word processing document, a PDF document, or a spreadsheet). | 05-15-2014 |
20140163968 | Phrase-Based Dialogue Modeling with Particular Application to creating Recognition Grammars for Voice-Controlled User Interfaces - The invention enables creation of grammar networks that can regulate, control, and define the content and scope of human-machine interaction in natural language voice user interfaces (NLVUI). More specifically, the invention concerns a phrase-based modeling of generic structures of verbal interaction and use of these models for the purpose of automating part of the design of such grammar networks. | 06-12-2014 |
20140316762 | Mobile Speech-to-Speech Interpretation System - Interpretation from a first language to a second language via one or more communication devices is performed through a communication network (e.g. phone network or the internet) using a server for performing recognition and interpretation tasks, comprising the steps of: receiving an input speech utterance in a first language on a first mobile communication device; conditioning said input speech utterance; first transmitting said conditioned input speech utterance to a server; recognizing said first transmitted speech utterance to generate one or more recognition results; interpreting said recognition results to generate one or more interpretation results in an interlingua; mapping the interlingua to a second language in a first selected format; second transmitting said interpretation results in the first selected format to a second mobile communication device; and presenting said interpretation results in a second selected format on said second communication device. | 10-23-2014 |
20150134336 | Robust Information Extraction From Utterances - The performance of traditional speech recognition systems (as applied to information extraction or translation) decreases significantly with, larger domain size, scarce training data as well as under noisy environmental conditions. This invention mitigates these problems through the introduction of a novel predictive feature extraction method which combines linguistic and statistical information for representation of information embedded in a noisy source language. The predictive features are combined with text classifiers to map the noisy text to one of the semantically or functionally similar groups. The features used by the classifier can be syntactic, semantic, and statistical. | 05-14-2015 |
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20090314409 | Apparatus and Method of Reinforcing a Conduit or Vessel - A web for reinforcing the wall of a vessel or conduit, and methods of installation therein, is disclosed. The vessel or conduit is any structure that has a concave or arched inner surface. The web is comprised of an elongated composite laminate that has a fabric layer with a plurality of fibers embedded into a cured resin matrix. When cured on a curing surface, the composite laminate retains an elastic memory of the curing surface such that the composite laminate is substantially self-supporting against the inside surface of the wall due to its elastic memory. In use, a tack coat of epoxy with viscosities ranging from low to high, or gel epoxy, is applied to at least a portion of the bottom side of the laminate, which is then applied to the inside surface of the wall so as to reinforce the wall. Multiple such composites may be applied to the wall in turn in a ring pattern or in a spiral pattern, overlapping at least one recently applied composite to form a water-tight seal within the conduit and to reinforce the conduit. | 12-24-2009 |
20100078118 | REPAIR AND STRENGTHENING OF SMALL DIAMETER PIPES WITH FRP LAMINATES - A method is disclosed for repairing or strengthening a damaged portion of a pipe. A patch of required dimensions is prepared from a composite laminate having a fabric layer with a plurality of fibers embedded into a cured resin. The pipe is then prepared to receive the patch and the epoxy resin is applied to an outside surface of the patch. The patch is then coiled and secured around a mandrel and transported thereby to the damaged portion of the pipe through an open end thereof, such that during transport through the pipe the patch does not contact the inside surface of the pipe. A bladder inside the coiled patch is pressurized to force the unrolling of the patch to contact the inside surface of the patch. The pressure is maintained against the patch until the epoxy resin is substantially cured, whereupon the bladder is deflated and removed with the mandrel from the pipe. A method of repairing such a pipe while fluid flows therethrough, and a method of repairing a corrugated steel pipe, is also disclosed. | 04-01-2010 |
20130014467 | RECONSTRUCTION METHODS FOR STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS - A method and an article of manufacture are disclosed for externally reinforcing various solid structures, such as columns, poles, piles, beams, pipes and the like, constructed from various materials. Multiple sheets laminated together with resin and grout constitutes a structure reinforcement wrap (SRW) for the formation of an external reinforcement shell. The multiple layers include a spacer sheet, a reinforcement sheet, such as Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) saturated with resin. The spacer sheet creates a small, substantially planar space between the spacer sheet and the solid structure, which space may be filled with concrete, grout, epoxy, or other similar reinforcing material. In various embodiments, a surface groove is created in the solid structure and a reinforcing bar (rebar) is embedded in the groove to further structurally bond the solid structure to the reinforcing material poured in the planar space created by the spacer sheet. | 01-17-2013 |
20130014468 | RESTORATION METHODS FOR STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS - A method and an article of manufacture are disclosed for externally reinforcing various solid structures, such as columns, poles, piles, beams, pipes and the like, constructed from various materials. Pre-preg and pre-cured reinforcement sheets with high tensile strength fabric core and with desired rigidity and elasticity are wrapped around structural elements, forming an external reinforcement shell with a space between the structural element and the shell, where the space will be filled with materials such as concrete, grout, epoxy, or other similar reinforcing material. In various embodiments, a surface groove is created in the solid structure and a reinforcing bar (rebar) is embedded in the groove to further structurally bond the solid structure to the reinforcing material poured in the space created between the structural element and the shell. | 01-17-2013 |
20130213562 | CONTINUOUS ONSITE-MANUFACTURED PIPE - Method and article of manufacture are disclosed for onsite-manufacturing of any length, any shape, size, and any thickness pipe. Sheets of fabrics saturated with resin may be wrapped around desired shape mandrels, cured, and removed to form such pipes onsite. Cured laminated sheets of resin-saturated fabrics may be wrapped around to also form onsite manufactured pipes. Disclosed pipes eliminate almost all weaknesses of plastic, metal and concrete pipes and noticeably reduce costs of transportation as well as manufacturing. One of the advantages of the disclosed pipes is that they have few joints, limiting the leakage and other problems associated with joints in ordinary pipes. | 08-22-2013 |
20140298656 | STRUCTURE REINFORCEMENT PARTIAL SHELL - A method and an article of manufacture are disclosed for reinforcing various structures with only partially accessible circumference, such as columns closely adjacent to or protruding out of a wall or beams holding a ceiling. Some of these structures may be partly or completely submerged in water, such as retaining walls on the sides of rivers and water-ways. In some embodiments a prefabricated shell will fully or partly cover the exposed and reachable part of the structure and will be secured in place by various means. The shell may hug the structure tightly or loosely and the space between the shell and the structure may be filled with such curable materials as glue, epoxy, grout, concrete and the like. In various embodiments additional reinforcement such as rebar may be placed in the space between the shell and the structure. | 10-09-2014 |
20150059926 | WOOD COLUMN REPAIR, REINFORCEMENT, AND EXTENSION - Methods and systems of repairing and/or extending wood piles and columns are disclosed. In these methods and systems a portion of the wood pile is removed and replaced by a preferable timber section. To strengthen the pile after addition of the new section, strips or sheets of reinforcing material is attached along the length of the new section of the pile such that the reinforcing material extends over the old part(s) of the pile and crosses over the joint or interface of the old and new parts of the pile. Subsequently a shell is provided around the new section of the pile and its attached reinforcing material and the annular space between the shell and the pile is filled with resin or similar materials. | 03-05-2015 |
20150074962 | LOAD BEARING CONTAINER MADE FROM REINFORCED WRAP - A method and an article of manufacture are disclosed for making a load bearing structural container with a reinforced wrap, substantially without using additional structural reinforcements. In various embodiments, a fiber reinforced polymer sheet may be used as the reinforced wrap to make the reinforced wrap container having detailed patterns and complex shapes embedded therein using a molding technique. Once the wrap is set and cured, the container holds its shape permanently. The container may include burial caskets and coffins, various shaped boxes, and cases for musical instrument, jewelry technical or medical equipment, guns, camera equipment, and the like. The Container may also be used as shipping packaging for the same types of equipment enumerated above. | 03-19-2015 |
20150183169 | REPAIR AND STRENGTHENING OF STRUCTURES WITH HEAT-CURED WRAP - A method and an article of manufacture are disclosed for reinforcing various structures, such as pipes, piles, walls, tanks, silos, chimneys, and the like, constructed from various materials including steel, concrete, masonry, wood, plastics, and the like. Some of the various structures may be used to transport water, gas, oil, and the like. Multiple layers of various material sheets, each sheet having substantially the same or different properties, may be impregnated with resin and wrapped around or attached to the surface of a structure to be reinforced or to the surface of a spacer shell surrounding the structure and subjected to heat to cure the resin and to bond the reinforcement sheets to the structure or the spacer shell. The multiple layers together constitute a heat-cured structure reinforcement wrap (HRW) to reinforce the structure against external and internal loads, such as weight, impact load, blast load, internal pressure, ballistic load, and the like. | 07-02-2015 |
20150183170 | REPAIR AND STRENGTHENING OF STRUCTURES WITH ELECTRICALLY-CURED RESIN-IMPREGNATED WRAP - A method and an article of manufacture are disclosed for reinforcing various structures, such as pipes, piles, walls, tanks, silos, chimneys, and the like, constructed from various materials including steel, concrete, masonry, wood, plastics, and the like. Some of the various structures may be used to transport water, gas, oil, and the like. One or multiple layers of various material sheets, each sheet having substantially the same or different properties, may be impregnated with resin and wrapped around or attached to the surface of a structure to be reinforced or to the surface of a spacer shell surrounding the structure and subjected to heat to cure the resin and to bond the reinforcement sheets to the structure or the spacer shell. The multiple layers together constitute a heat-cured structure reinforcement wrap (HRW) to reinforce the structure against external and internal loads, such as weight, impact load, blast load, internal pressure, ballistic load, and the like. | 07-02-2015 |
20150190972 | REPAIR AND STRENGTHENING OF STRUCTURES WITH RESIN-IMPREGNATED HEATABLE WRAP - A method and an article of manufacture are disclosed for reinforcing various structures, such as pipes, piles, walls, tanks, silos, chimneys, and the like, constructed from various materials including steel, concrete, masonry, wood, plastics, and the like. Some of the various structures may be used to transport water, gas, oil, and the like. One or multiple layers of various material sheets, each sheet having substantially the same or different properties, may be impregnated with resin and wrapped around or attached to the surface of a structure to be reinforced or to the surface of a spacer shell surrounding the structure and subjected to heat to cure the resin and to bond the reinforcement sheets to the structure or the spacer shell. The multiple layers together constitute a heat-cured structure reinforcement wrap (HRW) to reinforce the structure against external and internal loads, such as weight, impact load, blast load, internal pressure, ballistic load, and the like. | 07-09-2015 |