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There is provided a surgical stapler having a staple formation recognition system incorporated into an anvil member of the surgical stapler. In one series of embodiments, a trace system and controller form an open electrical circuit and a surgical staple acts as an electrical connector to complete an electrical circuit and confirm the proper formation of the surgical staple. In another series of embodiments, a trace system and a controller form a complete electrical circuit which is broken by engagement of a surgical staple with a trace pad of the trace system to signal proper formation of the surgical staple. There is also provided a knife blade position indication system for tracking the progress of a knife blade through the anvil member and relative to staple crimping pockets formed in the anvil member.

The present invention provides a speech recognition system combined with one or more alternate input modalities to ensure efficient and accurate text input. The speech recognition system achieves less than perfect accuracy due to limited processing power, environmental noise, and / or natural variations in speaking style. The alternate input modalities use disambiguation or recognition engines to compensate for reduced keyboards, sloppy input, and / or natural variations in writing style. The ambiguity remaining in the speech recognition process is mostly orthogonal to the ambiguity inherent in the alternate input modality, such that the combination of the two modalities resolves the recognition errors efficiently and accurately. The invention is especially well suited for mobile devices with limited space for keyboards or touch-screen input.

A video detection and monitoring method and apparatus utilizes an application-specific object based segmentation and recognition system for locating and tracking an object of interest within a number of sequential frames of data collected by a video camera or similar device. One embodiment includes a background modeling and object segmentation module to isolate from a current frame at least one segment of the current frame containing a possible object of interest, and a classification module adapted to determine whether or not any segment of the output from the background modeling apparatus includes an object of interest and to characterize any such segment as an object segment. An object segment tracking apparatus is adapted to track the location within a current frame of any object segment and to determine a projected location of the object segment in a subsequent frame.

An automatic speech recognition system includes: a sound source localization module for localizing a sound direction of a speaker based on the acoustic signals detected by the plurality of microphones; a sound source separation module for separating a speech signal of the speaker from the acoustic signals according to the sound direction; an acoustic model memory which stores direction-dependent acoustic models that are adjusted to a plurality of directions at intervals; an acoustic model composition module which composes an acoustic model adjusted to the sound direction, which is localized by the sound source localization module, based on the direction-dependent acoustic models, the acoustic model composition module storing the acoustic model in the acoustic model memory; and a speech recognition module which recognizes the features extracted by a feature extractor as character information using the acoustic model composed by the acoustic model composition module.

A speaker recognition system for authenticating a mobile device user includes an enrollment and learning software module, a voice biometric authentication software module, and a secure software application. Upon request by a user of the mobile device, the enrollment and learning software module displays text prompts to the user, receives speech utterances from the user, and produces a voice biometric print. The enrollment and training software module determines when a voice biometric print has met at least a quality threshold before storing it on the mobile device. The secure software application prompts a user requiring authentication to repeat an utterance based at least on an attribute of a selected voice biometric print, receives a corresponding utterance, requests the voice biometric authentication software module to verify the identity of the second user using the utterance, and, if the user is authenticated, imports the voice biometric print.

The present invention provides a speech recognition system combined with one or more alternate input modalities to ensure efficient and accurate text input. The speech recognition system achieves less than perfect accuracy due to limited processing power, environmental noise, and / or natural variations in speaking style. The alternate input modalities use disambiguation or recognition engines to compensate for reduced keyboards, sloppy input, and / or natural variations in writing style. The ambiguity remaining in the speech recognition process is mostly orthogonal to the ambiguity inherent in the alternate input modality, such that the combination of the two modalities resolves the recognition errors efficiently and accurately. The invention is especially well suited for mobile devices with limited space for keyboards or touch-screen input.

Random partial shared secret recognition is combined with using more than one communication channel between server-side resources and two logical or physical client-side data processing machines. After a first security tier, a first communication channel is opened to a first data processing machine on the client side. The session proceeds by delivering an authentication challenge, identifying a random subset of an authentication credential, to a second data processing machine on the client side using a second communication channel. Next, the user enters an authentication response in the first data processing machine, based on a random subset of the authentication credential. The authentication response is returned to the server side on the first communication channel for matching. The authentication credential can be a one-session-only credential delivered to the user for one session, or a static credential used many times.

A method and system for direct audio capture and identification of the captured audio. A user may then be offered the opportunity to purchase recordings directly over the Internet or similar outlet. The system preferably includes one or more user-carried portable audio capture devices that employ a microphone, analog to digital converter, signal processor, and memory to store samples of ambient audio or audio features calculated from the audio. Users activate their capture devices when they hear a recording that they would like to identify or purchase. Later, the user may connect the capture device to a personal computer to transfer the audio samples or audio feature samples to an Internet site for identification. The Internet site preferably uses automatic pattern recognition techniques to identify the captured samples from a library of recordings offered for sale. The user can then verify that the sample is from the desired recording and place an order online. The pattern recognition process uses features of the audio itself and does not require the presence of artificial codes or watermarks. Audio to be identified can be from any source, including radio and television broadcasts or recordings that are played locally.

The present invention provides a speech recognition system combined with one or more alternate input modalities to ensure efficient and accurate text input. The speech recognition system achieves less than perfect accuracy due to limited processing power, environmental noise, and / or natural variations in speaking style. The alternate input modalities use disambiguation or recognition engines to compensate for reduced keyboards, sloppy input, and / or natural variations in writing style. The ambiguity remaining in the speech recognition process is mostly orthogonal to the ambiguity inherent in the alternate input modality, such that the combination of the two modalities resolves the recognition errors efficiently and accurately. The invention is especially well suited for mobile devices with limited space for keyboards or touch-screen input.

A real-time system incorporating speech recognition and linguistic processing for recognizing a spoken query by a user and distributed between client and server, is disclosed. The system accepts user's queries in the form of speech at the client where minimal processing extracts a sufficient number of acoustic speech vectors representing the utterance. These vectors are sent via a communications channel to the server where additional acoustic vectors are derived. Using Hidden Markov Models (HMMs), and appropriate grammars and dictionaries conditioned by the selections made by the user, the speech representing the user's query is fully decoded into text (or some other suitable form) at the server. This text corresponding to the user's query is then simultaneously sent to a natural language engine and a database processor where optimized SQL statements are constructed for a full-text search from a database for a recordset of several stored questions that best matches the user's query. Further processing in the natural language engine narrows the search to a single stored question. The answer corresponding to this single stored question is next retrieved from the file path and sent to the client in compressed form. At the client, the answer to the user's query is articulated to the user using a text-to-speech engine in his or her native natural language. The system requires no training and can operate in several natural languages.

There is provided a surgical stapler having a staple formation recognition system incorporated into an anvil member of the surgical stapler. In one series of embodiments, a trace system and controller form an open electrical circuit and a surgical staple acts as an electrical connector to complete an electrical circuit and confirm the proper formation of the surgical staple. In another series of embodiments, a trace system and a controller form a complete electrical circuit which is broken by engagement of a surgical staple with a trace pad of the trace system to signal proper formation of the surgical staple. There is also provided a knife blade position indication system for tracking the progress of a knife blade through the anvil member and relative to staple crimping pockets formed in the anvil member.

Controls are provided for a web server to generate client side markups that include recognition and / or audible prompting. The controls comprise elements of a dialog such as a question, answer, confirmation, command or statement. A module forms a dialog by making use of the information carried in the controls. The dialog follows a selected order of prompting and receiving input from a user as related to the order of the controls, and departs from the selected order as a function of responses from the user. The speech controls are adapted such that elements of the speech controls can be combined or re-used.

A speech control system that can recognize a spoken command and associated words (such as “call mom at home”) and can cause a selected application (such as a telephone dialer) to execute the command to cause a data processing system, such as a smartphone, to perform an operation based on the command (such as look up mom's phone number at home and dial it to establish a telephone call). The speech control system can use a set of interpreters to repair recognized text from a speech recognition system, and results from the set can be merged into a final repaired transcription which is provided to the selected application.

Speech signal information is formatted, processed and transported in accordance with a format adapted for TCP / IP protocols used on the Internet and other communications networks. NULL characters are used for indicating the end of a voice segment. The method is useful for distributed speech recognition systems such as a client-server system, typically implemented on an intranet or over the Internet based on user queries at his / her computer, a PDA, or a workstation using a speech input interface.

A method and system for direct audio capture and identification of the captured audio. A user may then be offered the opportunity to purchase recordings directly over the Internet or similar outlet. The system preferably includes one or more user-carried portable audio capture devices that employ a microphone, analog to digital converter, signal processor, and memory to store samples of ambient audio or audio features calculated from the audio. Users activate their capture devices when they hear a recording that they would like to identify or purchase. Later, the user may connect the capture device to a personal computer to transfer the audio samples or audio feature samples to an Internet site for identification. The Internet site preferably uses automatic pattern recognition techniques to identify the captured samples from a library of recordings offered for sale. The user can then verify that the sample is from the desired recording and place an order online. The pattern recognition process uses features of the audio itself and does not require the presence of artificial codes or watermarks. Audio to be identified can be from any source, including radio and television broadcasts or recordings that are played locally.

A speech recognition system recognizes an input speech signal by using a first speech recognizer and a second speech recognizer each coupled to a decision module. Each of the first and second speech recognizers outputs first and second recognized speech texts and first and second associated confidence scores, respectively, and the decision module selects either the first or the second speech text depending upon which of the first or second confidence score is higher. The decision module may also adjust the first and second confidence scores to generate first and second adjusted confidence scores, respectively, and select either the first or second speech text depending upon which of the first or second adjusted confidence scores is higher. The first and second confidence scores may be adjusted based upon the location of a speaker, the identity or accent of the speaker, the context of the speech, and the like.

Exemplary systems and methods for malware attack detection and identification are provided. A malware detection and identification system can comprise a controller. The controller can comprise an analysis environment configured to transmit network data to a virtual machine, flag input values associated with the network data from untrusted sources, monitor the flagged input values within the virtual machine, identify an outcome of one or more instructions that manipulate the flagged input values, and determine if the outcome of the one or more instructions comprise an unauthorized activity.

A tool for use with an electronic tool recognition system includes a tool blank with a distal tip configured for performing a procedure and a proximal handle encasing, fixedly, a proximal end of the tool blank. A tool-identifying apparatus including a mechanical resonator is embedded in a proximal end of the tool blank to provide a tool identifier. A conductive wire in electrical contact with the resonator provides the identifier to a processor. In another arrangement, conductive brushes in contact with slip rings provide the identifier to a processor. In another arrangement, a dental tool handle includes an insulating portion defining a recess in a proximal end of the handle configured to receive either a sensor or an information-managing chip.

A system and method for acquiring and analyzing the bets at a plurality of locations at a plurality of tables is provided. The system includes a gaming table with a raised platform, underneath which is positioned a video camera for each of the wagering locations on the table. The video cameras one each table are coupled together into a multiplexer, and the multiplexers from the plurality of tables are coupled together and into a central computer. The system and method thus eliminate the labor intensive and often inaccurate technique of tracking the gambling habits of patrons at the gaming tables.

The invention relates to a method and apparatus for training a multilingual speech model set. The multilingual speech model set generated is suitable for use by a speech recognition system for recognizing spoken utterances for at least two different languages. The invention allows using a single speech recognition unit with a single speech model set to perform speech recognition on utterances from two or more languages. The method and apparatus make use of a group of a group of acoustic sub-word units comprised of a first subgroup of acoustic sub-word units associated to a first language and a second subgroup of acoustic sub-word units associated to a second language where the first subgroup and the second subgroup share at least one common acoustic sub-word unit. The method and apparatus also make use of a plurality of letter to acoustic sub-word unit rules sets, each letter to acoustic sub-word unit rules set being associated to a different language. A set of untrained speech models is trained on the basis of a training set comprising speech tokens and their associated labels in combination with the group of acoustic sub-word units and the plurality of letter to acoustic sub-word unit rules sets. The invention also provides a computer readable storage medium comprising a program element for implementing the method for training a multilingual speech model set.

An adaptive speech recognition system is provided including an input for receiving a signal derived from a spoken utterance indicative of a certain vocabulary item, a speech recognition dictionary, a speech recognition unit and an adaptation module. The speech recognition dictionary has a plurality of vocabulary items each being associated to a respective dictionary transcription group. The speech recognition unit is in an operative relationship with the speech recognition dictionary and selects a certain vocabulary item from the speech recognition dictionary as being a likely match to the signal received at the input. The results of the speech recognition process are provided to the adaptation module. The adaptation module includes a transcriptions bank having a plurality of orthographic groups, each including a plurality of transcriptions associated with a common vocabulary item. A transcription selector module in the adaptation module retrieves a given orthographic group from the transcriptions bank on a basis of the vocabulary item recognized by the speech recognition unit. The transcription selector module processes the given orthographic group on the basis of the signal received at the input to select a certain transcription from the transcriptions bank. The adaptation module then modifies a dictionary transcription group corresponding to the vocabulary item selected as being a likely match to the signal received at the input on the basis of the selected certain transcription.

A speech control system that can recognize a spoken command and associated words (such as “call mom at home”) and can cause a selected application (such as a telephone dialer) to execute the command to cause a data processing system, such as a smartphone, to perform an operation based on the command (such as look up mom's phone number at home and dial it to establish a telephone call). The speech control system can use a set of interpreters to repair recognized text from a speech recognition system, and results from the set can be merged into a final repaired transcription which is provided to the selected application.

A gesture recognition system includes: elements for detecting and generating a signal corresponding a number of markers arranged on an object, elements for processing the signal from the detecting elements, members for detecting position of the markers in the signal. The markers are divided into first and second set of markers, the first set of markers constituting a reference position and the system comprises elements for detecting movement of the second set of markers and generating a signal as a valid movement with respect to the reference position.

A method including detecting a selection of a plurality of erroneous words in text presented on a display of a device, in an automatic speech recognition system, receiving sequentially dictated corrections for the selected erroneous words in a single, continuous operation where each dictated correction corresponds to at least one of the selected erroneous words, and replacing the plurality of erroneous words with one or more corresponding words of the dictated corrections where each erroneous word is matched with the one or more corresponding words of the dictated corrections in an order the erroneous words appear according to a reading direction of the text.

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.

Apparatus, methods, and systems for centrally and uniformly controlling the operation of a variety of devices, such as communication, consumer electronic, audio-video, analog, digital, 1394, and the like, over a variety of protocols within a network system and, more particularly, a control system and uniform user interface for centrally controlling these devices in a manner that appears seamless and transparent to the user. In a preferred embodiment, a command center or hub of a network system includes a context and connection permutation sensitive control system that enables centralized and seamless integrated control of all types of input devices. The control system preferably includes a versatile icon based graphical user interface that provides a uniform, on-screen centralized control system for the network system. The user interface, which includes a visual recognition system, enables the user to transparently control multiple input devices over a variety of protocols while operating on a single control layer of an input command device. In an alternative embodiment, the control system also enables gated signal pass-through control while avoiding signal jamming.

Systems and methods are operable to associate each of a plurality of stored audio patterns with at least one of a plurality of digital tokens, identify a user based on user identification input, access a plurality of stored audio patterns associated with a user based on the user identification input, receive from a user at least one audio input from a custom language made up of custom language elements wherein the elements include at least one monosyllabic representation of a number, letter or word, select one of the plurality of stored audio patterns associated with the identified user, in the case that the audio input received from the identified user corresponds with one of the plurality of stored audio patterns, determine the digital token associated with the selected one of the plurality of stored audio patterns, and generate the output signal for use in a device based on the determined digital token.

A virtual vocabulary database is provided for use with a with a particular user database as part of a speech recognition system. Vocabulary elements within the virtual database are imported from the user database and are tagged to include numerical data corresponding to the historical use of the vocabulary element within the user database. For each speech input, potential vocabulary element matches from the speech recognition system are provided to the virtual database software which creates virtual sub-vocabularies from the criteria according to predefined criteria templates. The software then applies vocabulary element weighting adjustments according to the virtual sub-vocabulary weightings and applies the adjustment to the default weighting provided by the speech recognition system. The modified weightings are returned with the associated vocabulary elements to the speech engine for selection of an appropriate match to the input speech.