Abstract: A Web page in a first language can be translated into a second language by interpreting the URL used to request the Web page. A character string is located that is similar to at least a portion of the URL. A translating environment is linked to the located character string and automatically translates the Web page transmitted from the server. The translated Web page may be displayed in both the first and second languages.

Abstract: In this invention, an approach is employed to carry out blocking of an input signal to transform the blocked signals into spectrum signals to divide the spectrum signals into a plurality of units to normalize them thereafter to implement variable length encoding to all or a portion of the spectrum signals to output the variable-length encoded signals along with normalization coefficient and the number of re-quantization bits of each unit, wherein an upper limit is provided with respect to the number of bits per each block of a signal to be encoded and outputted to compulsorily change, in a block for which the number of bits above the upper limit is required, normalization coefficient of at least one unit thereafter to re-quantize and entropy-encode a corresponding signal to output the encoded spectrum signal, thereby permitting hardware scale to be smaller as compared to the conventional apparatus without depending upon unevenness of the number of bits by variable length encoding.

Abstract: In a speech coding system which encodes speech parameters into a plurality of frames, each frame having a predetermined number of bits, a predefined number of bits per frame are employed to transmit a speech parameter delta. The speech parameter delta specifies the amount by which the value of a given parameter has changed from a previous frame to the present frame. According to a preferred embodiment disclosed herein, a speech parameter delta representing change in pitch delay from the present frame to the immediately preceding frame is transmitted in the present frame, and the predefined number of bits is in the approximate range of four to six. The speech parameter delta is used to update a memory table in the speech coding system when a frame erasure occurs.

Abstract: In allocating the number of quantization bits in a method for encoding audio signal using the characteristics of human auditory system, the encoding method improves operation speed by allocating quantization bits sequentially from highest frequency bands to lowest frequency bands, thereby enabling non-iterative operation, which reduces the number of operations.