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David D. Knepper

Examiner (ID: 12652)

Most Active Art Unit
2308
Art Unit(s)
2301, 2308, 2741, 2748, 2654, 2626, 2311, 2899, 2645
Total Applications
818
Issued Applications
529
Pending Applications
74
Abandoned Applications
214

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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09/263439
Speech coding Mar 3, 1999 Issued
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09/155936
Wavelet processing with leading and trailing edge extrapolation Mar 3, 1999 Issued
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09/259333
Speech synthesis system and prosodic control method in the speech synthesis system Feb 28, 1999 Issued
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09/249940
Updating a language model based on a function-word to total-word ratio Feb 11, 1999 Issued
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09/239642
Analyzing inflectional morphology in a spoken language translation system Jan 28, 1999 Issued
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09/237059
Speaker recognition using a hierarchical speaker model tree Jan 25, 1999 Issued
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09/235956
Communication device for screening speech recognizer input Jan 21, 1999 Issued
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09/232274
Instability eradication for analysis-by-synthesis speech codecs Jan 14, 1999 Issued
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09/227189
Multistage inverse quantization having the plurality of frequency bands Jan 7, 1999 Issued
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09/226535
Noise padding and normalization in dynamic time warping Jan 5, 1999 Issued
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09/155156
Speech synthesis based on cricothyroid and cricoid modeling Jan 5, 1999 Issued
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09/225136
Script development systems and methods useful therefor Jan 3, 1999 Issued
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09/218569
Systems and methods for communicating through computer animated images Dec 21, 1998 Issued
Array ( [id] => 4374704 [patent_doc_number] => 06219635 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => NA [patent_issue_date] => 2001-04-17 [patent_title] => 'Instantaneous detection of human speech pitch pulses' [patent_app_type] => 1 [patent_app_number] => 9/200339 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 1998-11-25 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 6 [patent_figures_cnt] => 8 [patent_no_of_words] => 10994 [patent_no_of_claims] => 10 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 2 [patent_words_short_claim] => 294 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] => patents/06/219/06219635.pdf [firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 200339 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
09/200339
Instantaneous detection of human speech pitch pulses Nov 24, 1998 Issued
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09/200335
Extracting formant-based source-filter data for coding and synthesis employing cost function and inverse filtering Nov 24, 1998 Issued
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09/187439
Automatic gain control in a speech recognition system Nov 5, 1998 Issued
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09/186439
Speech band division decoder Nov 4, 1998 Issued
09/173357 METHOD FOR COMPUTER-AIDED FOREIGN LANGUAGE Oct 14, 1998 Abandoned
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09/159838
Apparatus and method for distinguishing similar-sounding utterances speech recognition Sep 23, 1998 Issued
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09/149036
Clustered patterns for text-to-speech synthesis Sep 7, 1998 Issued
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