Patents by Inventor Christopher M. Kribs

Christopher M. Kribs has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Speech recognition using middle-to-middle context hidden markov models
    Patent number: 5812974
    Abstract: This is a speech recognition method for modeling adjacent word context, comprising: dividing a first word or period of silence into two portions; dividing a second word or period of silence, adjacent to the first word, into two potions; and combining last portion of the first word or period of silence and first portion of the second word or period of silence to make an acoustic model. The method includes constructing a grammar to restrict the acoustic models to the middle-to-middle context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Charles T. Hemphill, Lorin P. Netsch, Christopher M. Kribs