Abstract: A speaker adaptation system and method for speech models of symbols displays a multi-word symbol to be spoken as a symbol. The supervised adaptation system and method has unsupervised adaptation for multi-word symbols, limited to the set of words associated with each multi-word symbol.

Abstract: A telephone dialing speech recognition method includes determining a location associated with a cellular telephone from geographic indications provided by the cellular telephone, and selects associated search information as a function of the location. Speech based dialers operating in a car environment often have difficulty determining the digits said since some digits have similar sounding names in certain languages. To improve recognition performance, constraints are added to the recognition process, based on the natural constraints of the dialing process. The method utilizes the selected associated search information when recognizing the incoming speech signal. For speech dialing, if the user defines a location where the phone is used, then the “numbering plan” of that country may be used to constrain certain digits. Such constraining of the speech recognizer significantly improves the recognition results.

Abstract: A touchpad pointing device utilized as a pattern input device for a pattern recognition system. The input pattern received from the touchpad pointing device is translated into a start application command. The recognition system forms part of a computer having an operating system and includes a touchpad pointing device, a recognition module and a signal capturer. In addition, a unit for launching an application to run on a computer having an operating system and a pointing device which produces an input pattern in response to movement upon it, is described. The unit includes a recognition module and a launcher. The recognition module attempts to recognize the input pattern as a previously trained launching pattern. The launcher launches the application by providing a launching command which is associated with the launching pattern to the operating device. A security application enables access to the computer upon receipt of an input signature from a user with access privileges.

Abstract: A handwritten pattern and stroke recognition system recognizes an input pattern by comparing it to reference patterns. The input and reference patterns comprise at least one stroke, where a stroke is defined as the series of sample points from pen-down to pen-up. The system of the present invention compares the input and reference patterns stroke by stroke and thus, compares input strokes to reference strokes. The system includes a tangent and stable point extractor, a reference database and a stable-point-based classifier. The extracter determines tangents to at least some of the sample points of the input stroke and determines, which of the sample points between a beginning and end of the input stroke are stable points. The reference database stores tangents of sample points of the reference strokes and stable points of the reference strokes.

Abstract: A pattern recognition method of dynamic time warping of two sequences of feature sets onto each other is provided. The method includes the steps of creating a rectangular graph having the two sequences on its two axes, defining a swath of width r, where r is an odd number, centered about a diagonal line connecting the beginning point at the bottom left of the rectangle to the endpoint at the top right of the rectangle and also defining r−1 lines within the swath. The lines defining the swath are parallel to the diagonal line. Each array element k of an r-sized array is associated with a separate array of the r lines within the swath and for each row of the rectangle, the dynamic time warping method recursively generates new path values for each array element k as a function of the previous value of the array element k and of at least one of the current values of the two neighboring array elements k−1 and k+1 of the array element k.