| Top Inventors for class "Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression" |
| Rank | Inventor's name | Country | City/State | Last publication | # of patent apps in this class |
| 1 | Yang-Won Jung | KR | Seoul | Oct 06, 2011 / 20110246208 - Method and Apparatus for Decoding an Audio Signal | 67 |
| 2 | Dong Soo Kim | KR | Seoul | Oct 06, 2011 / 20110246208 - Method and Apparatus for Decoding an Audio Signal | 66 |
| 3 | Jae Hyun Lim | KR | Seoul | Jun 14, 2012 / 20120147137 - METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING A MULTIVIEW VIDEO SIGNAL | 65 |
| 4 | Hee Suk Pang | KR | Seoul | Oct 06, 2011 / 20110246208 - Method and Apparatus for Decoding an Audio Signal | 62 |
| 5 | Toshiyuki Morii | JP | Kanagawa | Dec 06, 2012 / 20120307913 - CONTENT COMMUNICATION DEVICE, CONTENT PROCESSING DEVICE AND CONTENT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | 45 |
| 6 | Masahiro Oshikiri | JP | Kanagawa | May 23, 2013 / 20130132099 - CODING DEVICE, DECODING DEVICE, AND METHODS THEREOF | 36 |
| 7 | Vadim Fux | CA | Waterloo | Mar 21, 2013 / 20130073572 - METHOD OF LEARNING CHARACTER SEGMENTS FROM RECEIVED TEXT, AND ASSOCIATED HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE | 35 |
| 8 | Yang Gao | US | Mission Viejo, CA | Dec 20, 2012 / 20120323567 - Packet Loss Concealment for Speech Coding | 34 |
| 9 | Koji Yoshida | JP | Kanagawa | Feb 28, 2013 / 20130053643 - ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM | 32 |
| 10 | Hiroyuki Ehara | JP | Kanagawa | May 23, 2013 / 20130132099 - CODING DEVICE, DECODING DEVICE, AND METHODS THEREOF | 30 |
| 11 | Michael S. Phillips | US | Belmont, MA | Mar 17, 2011 / 20110066634 - SENDING A COMMUNICATIONS HEADER WITH VOICE RECORDING TO SEND METADATA FOR USE IN SPEECH RECOGNITION, FORMATTING, AND SEARCH IN MOBILE SEARCH APPLICATION | 29 |
| 12 | Markus Multrus | DE | Nuernberg | Jan 10, 2013 / 20130013323 - AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHOD FOR ENCODING AND AUDIO INFORMATION, METHOD FOR DECODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING A MODIFICATION OF A NUMBER REPRESENTATION OF A NUMERIC PREVIOUS CONTEXT VALUE | 29 |
| 13 | Alejandro Acero | US | Bellevue, WA | Oct 25, 2012 / 20120271632 - Speaker Identification | 28 |
| 14 | Tomofumi Yamanashi | JP | Kanagawa | May 16, 2013 / 20130124201 - DECODING DEVICE, ENCODING DEVICE, AND METHODS FOR SAME | 28 |
| 15 | John N. Nguyen | US | Arlington, MA | Mar 17, 2011 / 20110066634 - SENDING A COMMUNICATIONS HEADER WITH VOICE RECORDING TO SEND METADATA FOR USE IN SPEECH RECOGNITION, FORMATTING, AND SEARCH IN MOBILE SEARCH APPLICATION | 28 |
| 16 | Srinivas Bangalore | US | Morristown, NJ | Jun 06, 2013 / 20130144616 - SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MACHINE-MEDIATED HUMAN-HUMAN CONVERSATION | 28 |
| 17 | Hyen-O Oh | KR | Gyeonggi-Do | Feb 23, 2012 / 20120047416 - BROADCASTING RECEIVER AND BROADCAST SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD | 27 |
| 18 | Qing Zhang | CN | Shenzhen | Dec 06, 2012 / 20120307909 - ENCODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD, ENCODER AND DECODER | 26 |
| 19 | Nam-Suk Lee | KR | Suwon-Si | Mar 14, 2013 / 20130066639 - SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, ENCODING APPARATUS THEREOF, AND DECODING APPARATUS THEREOF | 25 |
| 20 | Tilman Liebchen | DE | Berlin | Sep 16, 2010 / 20100235172 - METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AN AUDIO SIGNAL | 22 |
| 21 | Nikolaus Rettelbach | DE | Nuernberg | Jan 10, 2013 / 20130013323 - AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHOD FOR ENCODING AND AUDIO INFORMATION, METHOD FOR DECODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING A MODIFICATION OF A NUMBER REPRESENTATION OF A NUMERIC PREVIOUS CONTEXT VALUE | 22 |
| 22 | Hyeon O Oh | KR | Gyeonggi-Do | Oct 06, 2011 / 20110246208 - Method and Apparatus for Decoding an Audio Signal | 22 |
| 23 | Jong-Hoon Jeong | KR | Suwon-Si | Dec 13, 2012 / 20120314875 - METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING 3-DIMENSIONAL AUDIO SIGNAL | 22 |
| 24 | Mazin Gilbert | US | Warren, NJ | Nov 29, 2012 / 20120304239 - Multimodal Portable Communication Interface for Accessing Video Content | 22 |
| 25 | Alistair D. Conkie | US | Morristown, NJ | Jun 06, 2013 / 20130144624 - SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOW-LATENCY WEB-BASED TEXT-TO-SPEECH WITHOUT PLUGINS | 22 |
| 26 | Bernhard Grill | DE | Lauf | Oct 25, 2012 / 20120271644 - AUDIO SIGNAL ENCODER, AUDIO SIGNAL DECODER, METHOD FOR ENCODING OR DECODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL USING AN ALIASING-CANCELLATION | 22 |
| 27 | Han Shu | US | Brookline, MA | Aug 11, 2011 / 20110196668 - Integrated Language Model, Related Systems and Methods | 21 |
| 28 | Wei-Ge Chen | US | Sammamish, WA | Jun 13, 2013 / 20130151244 - HARMONICITY-BASED SINGLE-CHANNEL SPEECH QUALITY ESTIMATION | 21 |
| 29 | Andrej Ljolje | US | Morris Plains, NJ | Nov 15, 2012 / 20120290298 - SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING SPEECH RECOGNITION AND NATURAL LANGUAGE PARAMETERS WITH USER FEEDBACK | 20 |
| 30 | Sung Yong Yoon | KR | Seoul | Sep 06, 2012 / 20120226496 - APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING A SIGNAL AND METHOD THEREOF | 19 |
| 31 | Joseph P. Cerra | US | Pawling, NY | Jan 29, 2009 / 20090030698 - USING SPEECH RECOGNITION RESULTS BASED ON AN UNSTRUCTURED LANGUAGE MODEL WITH A MUSIC SYSTEM | 19 |
| 32 | Max Neuendorf | DE | Nuernberg | Oct 25, 2012 / 20120271644 - AUDIO SIGNAL ENCODER, AUDIO SIGNAL DECODER, METHOD FOR ENCODING OR DECODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL USING AN ALIASING-CANCELLATION | 19 |
| 33 | Guillaume Fuchs | DE | Erlangen | Jan 10, 2013 / 20130013323 - AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHOD FOR ENCODING AND AUDIO INFORMATION, METHOD FOR DECODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING A MODIFICATION OF A NUMBER REPRESENTATION OF A NUMERIC PREVIOUS CONTEXT VALUE | 19 |
| 34 | Charles W. Cross | US | Wellington, FL | Jan 12, 2012 / 20120011443 - ENABLING SPEECH WITHIN A MULTIMODAL PROGRAM USING MARKUP | 19 |
| 35 | Detlef Koll | US | Pittsburgh, PA | Dec 20, 2012 / 20120323598 - Using Alternative Sources of Evidence in Computer-Assisted Billing Coding | 18 |
| 36 | Ho-Sang Sung | KR | Yongin-Si | Nov 01, 2012 / 20120278089 - ERROR CONCEALMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO SIGNAL AND DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO SIGNAL USING THE SAME | 18 |
| 37 | Han-Gil Moon | KR | Seoul | Mar 28, 2013 / 20130077793 - METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DOWN-MIXING MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO | 18 |
| 38 | Juin-Hwey Chen | US | Irvine, CA | May 17, 2012 / 20120123773 - System and Method for Multi-Channel Noise Suppression | 18 |
| 39 | Michael J. Lebeau | US | Palo Alto, CA | Jan 10, 2013 / 20130013316 - Multisensory Speech Detection | 18 |
| 40 | Dong Yu | US | Kirkland, WA | Oct 04, 2012 / 20120254086 - DEEP CONVEX NETWORK WITH JOINT USE OF NONLINEAR RANDOM PROJECTION, RESTRICTED BOLTZMANN MACHINE AND BATCH-BASED PARALLELIZABLE OPTIMIZATION | 18 |
| 41 | Sang Kyu Park | KR | Daejeon | May 09, 2013 / 20130117020 - PERSONALIZED ADVERTISEMENT DEVICE BASED ON SPEECH RECOGNITION SMS SERVICE, AND PERSONALIZED ADVERTISEMENT EXPOSURE METHOD BASED ON SPEECH RECOGNITION SMS SERVICE | 18 |
| 42 | Kok Seng Chong | SG | Singapore | Jun 06, 2013 / 20130144611 - CODING DEVICE, DECODING DEVICE, CODING METHOD, AND DECODING METHOD | 18 |
| 43 | Charles W. Cross, Jr. | US | Wellington, FL | Jan 17, 2013 / 20130018658 - DYNAMICALLY EXTENDING THE SPEECH PROMPTS OF A MULTIMODAL APPLICATION | 18 |
| 44 | Phillip A. Hetherington | CA | Port Moody | Dec 20, 2012 / 20120321095 - Signature Noise Removal | 17 |
| 45 | Ki Hyun Choo | KR | Seoul | Dec 13, 2012 / 20120316887 - METHOD, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM FOR BANDWIDTH EXTENSION ENCODING AND DECODING | 17 |
| 46 | James P. Ashley | US | Naperville, IL | Jun 13, 2013 / 20130148749 - APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMBINATORIAL CODING OF SIGNALS | 17 |
| 47 | Robert A. Kennewick | US | Seattle, WA | Nov 01, 2012 / 20120278073 - MOBILE SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF SUPPORTING NATURAL LANGUAGE HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTIONS | 17 |
| 48 | Juergen Herre | DE | Buckenhof | Jun 06, 2013 / 20130142341 - APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MERGING GEOMETRY-BASED SPATIAL AUDIO CODING STREAMS | 17 |
| 49 | Rathinavelu Chengalvarayan | US | Naperville, IL | Mar 28, 2013 / 20130080173 - CORRECTING UNINTELLIGIBLE SYNTHESIZED SPEECH | 17 |
| 50 | Stefan Bayer | DE | Nuernberg | May 09, 2013 / 20130117015 - AUDIO SIGNAL DECODER, AUDIO SIGNAL ENCODER, METHOD FOR DECODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL, METHOD FOR ENCODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING A PITCH-DEPENDENT ADAPTATION OF A CODING CONTEXT | 17 |
| 51 | Masanao Suzuki | JP | Kawasaki | Nov 29, 2012 / 20120302926 - BODY MOVEMENT DETECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD | 16 |
| 52 | Chen Hu | CN | Shenzhen | Oct 18, 2012 / 20120265543 - MULTI-CHANNEL SIGNAL ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM | 16 |
| 53 | Wendi L. Nusbickel | US | Boca Raton, FL | Oct 25, 2012 / 20120271643 - INFERRING SWITCHING CONDITIONS FOR SWITCHING BETWEEN MODALITIES IN A SPEECH APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT EXTENDED FOR INTERACTIVE TEXT EXCHANGES | 16 |
| 54 | Victor S. Moore | US | Lake City, FL | May 23, 2013 / 20130132326 - RULES ENGINE ECOSYSTEM | 16 |
| 55 | Sascha Disch | DE | Fuerth | May 09, 2013 / 20130117015 - AUDIO SIGNAL DECODER, AUDIO SIGNAL ENCODER, METHOD FOR DECODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL, METHOD FOR ENCODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING A PITCH-DEPENDENT ADAPTATION OF A CODING CONTEXT | 16 |
| 56 | Eun Mi Oh | KR | Seongnam-Si | Dec 27, 2012 / 20120328122 - METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING NOISE SIGNAL | 16 |
| 57 | Chang Hyun Kim | KR | Daejeon | Jan 31, 2013 / 20130030790 - TRANSLATION APPARATUS AND METHOD USING MULTIPLE TRANSLATION ENGINES | 16 |
| 58 | Dimitri Kanevsky | US | Ossining, NY | Jan 10, 2013 / 20130013538 - RECOVERING THE STRUCTURE OF SPARSE MARKOV NETWORKS FROM HIGH-DIMENSIONAL DATA | 16 |
| 59 | Matthew I. Lloyd | US | Cambridge, MA | Nov 22, 2012 / 20120296655 - PREDICTIVE PRE-RECORDING OF AUDIO FOR VOICE INPUT | 15 |
| 60 | Robert W. Zopf | US | Rancho Santa Margarita, CA | Jan 12, 2012 / 20120010882 - CONSTRAINED AND CONTROLLED DECODING AFTER PACKET LOSS | 15 |
| 61 | Yoon-Hyung Roh | KR | Daejeon | Jun 21, 2012 / 20120156660 - DIALOGUE METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE SAME | 15 |
| 62 | Hyo Jin Kim | KR | Seoul | Sep 20, 2012 / 20120237969 - Method of Preparing Cells Susceptible to Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy and the Creation of TSE Persistently Infected Cells | 15 |
| 63 | Ki Young Lee | KR | Daejeon | Oct 04, 2012 / 20120251883 - ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE WITH HIGH CAPACITY AND METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME | 15 |
| 64 | Alon Konchitsky | US | Santa Clara, CA | Mar 14, 2013 / 20130066629 - Speech & Music Discriminator for Multi-Media Applications | 15 |
| 65 | Heiko Purnhagen | SE | Sundbyberg | Jun 06, 2013 / 20130142340 - CONCEALMENT OF INTERMITTENT MONO RECEPTION OF FM STEREO RADIO RECEIVERS | 15 |
| 66 | Lars Villemoes | SE | Jaerfaella | May 09, 2013 / 20130117015 - AUDIO SIGNAL DECODER, AUDIO SIGNAL ENCODER, METHOD FOR DECODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL, METHOD FOR ENCODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING A PITCH-DEPENDENT ADAPTATION OF A CODING CONTEXT | 15 |
| 67 | Oh Woog Kwon | KR | Daejeon | Jun 21, 2012 / 20120156660 - DIALOGUE METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE SAME | 15 |
| 68 | Sung Kwon Choi | KR | Daejeon | Jun 21, 2012 / 20120156660 - DIALOGUE METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE SAME | 15 |
| 69 | Takeshi Otani | JP | Kawasaki | Mar 28, 2013 / 20130077798 - REVERBERATION SUPPRESSION DEVICE, REVERBERATION SUPPRESSION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A REVERBERATION SUPPRESSION PROGRAM | 14 |
| 70 | William K. Bodin | US | Austin, TX | Jan 17, 2013 / 20130018658 - DYNAMICALLY EXTENDING THE SPEECH PROMPTS OF A MULTIMODAL APPLICATION | 14 |
| 71 | Yifan Gong | US | Sammamish, WA | Mar 28, 2013 / 20130080165 - Model Based Online Normalization of Feature Distribution for Noise Robust Speech Recognition | 14 |
| 72 | Young Kil Kim | KR | Daejeon | Jan 31, 2013 / 20130030790 - TRANSLATION APPARATUS AND METHOD USING MULTIPLE TRANSLATION ENGINES | 14 |
| 73 | Hyen-O Oh | KR | Seoul | Jan 10, 2013 / 20130013321 - APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AN AUDIO SIGNAL AND METHOD THEREOF | 14 |
| 74 | Michael G. Elizarov | CA | Waterloo | Jan 10, 2013 / 20130013292 - HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH TEXT DISAMBIGUATION | 14 |
| 75 | Paul Albrecht | US | Bedford, MA | Jan 10, 2013 / 20130012827 - Use of Patterns in Processing on Mobile Monitoring Device and Computer System | 14 |
| 76 | Hong Goo Kang | KR | Seoul | Jan 10, 2013 / 20130013321 - APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AN AUDIO SIGNAL AND METHOD THEREOF | 14 |
| 77 | Balazs Kovesi | FR | Lannion | Oct 18, 2012 / 20120265542 - OPTIMIZED PARAMETRIC STEREO DECODING | 14 |
| 78 | Frank Kao-Ping Soong | CN | Beijing | Nov 01, 2012 / 20120276504 - Talking Teacher Visualization for Language Learning | 14 |
| 79 | Sanjeev Mehrotra | US | Kirkland, WA | May 23, 2013 / 20130128735 - UNIVERSAL RATE CONTROL MECHANISM WITH PARAMETER ADAPTATION FOR REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS | 14 |
| 80 | Dirk Jeroen Breebaart | NL | Eindhoven | Dec 06, 2012 / 20120308093 - Method and System for Generating a Representation of a Finger Print Minutiae Information | 14 |
| 81 | Per Ekstrand | SE | Stockholm | Nov 08, 2012 / 20120281859 - APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A HIGH FREQUENCY AUDIO SIGNAL USING ADAPTIVE OVERSAMPLING | 14 |
| 82 | Young-Ae Seo | KR | Daejeon | Jan 31, 2013 / 20130030790 - TRANSLATION APPARATUS AND METHOD USING MULTIPLE TRANSLATION ENGINES | 14 |
| 83 | Ashish Verma | IN | New Delhi | Feb 21, 2013 / 20130046539 - Automatic Speech and Concept Recognition | 14 |
| 84 | Bernard S. Renger | US | New Providence, NJ | May 30, 2013 / 20130138461 - Mobile Service Platform | 13 |
| 85 | Yun-Cheng Ju | US | Bellevue, WA | Apr 11, 2013 / 20130090921 - PRONUNCIATION LEARNING FROM USER CORRECTION | 13 |
| 86 | Koen Bernard Vos | US | San Francisco, CA | Jun 28, 2012 / 20120166189 - Speech Coding | 13 |
| 87 | Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong | US | Boca Raton, FL | Jun 28, 2012 / 20120166201 - INVOKING TAPERED PROMPTS IN A MULTIMODAL APPLICATION | 13 |
| 88 | Ho Young Jung | KR | Daejeon | Feb 07, 2013 / 20130035938 - APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING VOICE | 13 |
| 89 | Stefan Bruhn | SE | Sollentuna | Apr 18, 2013 / 20130096913 - METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVE MULTI RATE CODEC | 13 |
| 90 | Michael Elizarov | CA | Waterloo | Jan 17, 2013 / 20130018653 - HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISAMBIGUATION OF COMPOUND TEXT INPUT EMPLOYING DIFFERENT GROUPINGS OF DATA SOURCES TO DISAMBIGUATE DIFFERENT PARTS OF INPUT | 13 |
| 91 | Gaurav Talwar | US | Farmington Hills, MI | Mar 28, 2013 / 20130080173 - CORRECTING UNINTELLIGIBLE SYNTHESIZED SPEECH | 13 |
| 92 | Fuliang Weng | US | Mountain View, CA | Jan 24, 2013 / 20130024113 - Selecting and Controlling the Density of Objects Rendered in Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Navigation Maps | 13 |
| 93 | Jianfeng Xu | CN | Shenzhen | Sep 08, 2011 / 20110218800 - METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING PITCH GAIN, AND CODER AND DECODER | 13 |
| 94 | Lei Miao | CN | Shenzhen | Dec 29, 2011 / 20110320195 - METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR LINEAR PREDICTION CODING ANALYSIS | 13 |
| 95 | Tadashi Emori | JP | Tokyo | Apr 12, 2012 / 20120089397 - LANGUAGE MODEL GENERATING DEVICE, METHOD THEREOF, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREOF | 13 |
| 96 | Lei Miao | CN | Beijing | May 09, 2013 / 20130114817 - METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING INTERCHANNEL DELAY OF SOUND SIGNAL | 13 |
| 97 | Ann K. Syrdal | US | Morristown, NJ | Mar 14, 2013 / 20130066632 - SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENRICHING TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS WITH AUTOMATIC DIALOG ACT TAGS | 13 |
| 98 | Bruno Bessette | CA | Sherbrooke | Oct 25, 2012 / 20120271644 - AUDIO SIGNAL ENCODER, AUDIO SIGNAL DECODER, METHOD FOR ENCODING OR DECODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL USING AN ALIASING-CANCELLATION | 13 |
| 99 | Raymond C. Kurzweil | US | Newton, MA | Jan 10, 2013 / 20130012827 - Use of Patterns in Processing on Mobile Monitoring Device and Computer System | 13 |
| 100 | Chul-Woo Lee | KR | Suwon-Si | Aug 20, 2009 / 20090210236 - METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING STEREO AUDIO | 13 |