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Alan B. Waits

Examiner (ID: 13341, Phone: (571)270-3664 , Office: P/3656 )

Most Active Art Unit
3656
Art Unit(s)
3656, 3617, 3682
Total Applications
1536
Issued Applications
1009
Pending Applications
116
Abandoned Applications
441

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
08/461646 SPEECH RECOGNIZER Jun 4, 1995 Abandoned
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08/452545
Speech synthesis apparatus and method for causing a computer to perform speech synthesis by calculating product of parameters for a speech waveform and a read waveform generation matrix May 29, 1995 Issued
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08/449184
Time-frequency interpolation with application to low rate speech coding May 23, 1995 Issued
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08/446077
Speech recognition apparatus utilizing utterance length information May 18, 1995 Issued
Array ( [id] => 3693786 [patent_doc_number] => 05633984 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => NA [patent_issue_date] => 1997-05-27 [patent_title] => 'Method and apparatus for speech processing' [patent_app_type] => 1 [patent_app_number] => 8/439652 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 1995-05-12 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 5 [patent_figures_cnt] => 6 [patent_no_of_words] => 2753 [patent_no_of_claims] => 11 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 2 [patent_words_short_claim] => 172 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] => patents/05/633/05633984.pdf [firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 439652 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
08/439652
Method and apparatus for speech processing May 11, 1995 Issued
Array ( [id] => 3750058 [patent_doc_number] => 05699482 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => NA [patent_issue_date] => 1997-12-16 [patent_title] => 'Fast sparse-algebraic-codebook search for efficient speech coding' [patent_app_type] => 1 [patent_app_number] => 8/438703 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 1995-05-11 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 4 [patent_figures_cnt] => 5 [patent_no_of_words] => 4533 [patent_no_of_claims] => 18 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 2 [patent_words_short_claim] => 317 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] => patents/05/699/05699482.pdf [firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 438703 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
08/438703
Fast sparse-algebraic-codebook search for efficient speech coding May 10, 1995 Issued
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08/437057
Methods and apparatus for improving the reliability of recognizing words in a large database when the words are spelled or spoken May 8, 1995 Issued
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08/436602
Learning system operated through a layered neural network May 7, 1995 Issued
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08/422729
Analysis/synthesis-based microphone array speech enhancer with variable signal distortion Apr 13, 1995 Issued
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08/419229
Voice activated hypermedia systems using grammatical metadata Apr 9, 1995 Issued
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08/417727
Speech recognition method and system Apr 5, 1995 Issued
08/415840 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTELLIGIBLE FAST FORWARD AND REVERSE PLAYBACK OF TIME-SCALE COMPRESSED VOICE MESSAGES Apr 2, 1995 Abandoned
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08/411909
Voice synthesis system utilizing a transfer function Mar 28, 1995 Issued
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08/409947
Learning type waveform recognizer Mar 22, 1995 Issued
08/401785 DEPTH-FIRST ALGEBRAIC-CODEBOOK SEARCH FOR FAST CODING OF SPEECH Mar 9, 1995 Abandoned
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08/400124
Dynamically stable associative learning neural network system Mar 1, 1995 Issued
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08/395739
Communication system and method using a speaker dependent time-scaling technique Feb 27, 1995 Issued
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08/394111
Automatic target noise cancellation for speech enhancement Feb 23, 1995 Issued
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08/393024
Neural network learning system inferring an input-output relationship from a set of given input and output samples Feb 22, 1995 Issued
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08/382875
Parametric speech coding Feb 2, 1995 Issued
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