Patents by Inventor Karl-Heinz Pflaum

Karl-Heinz Pflaum 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).

  • Patent number: 7266373
    Abstract: System and method for the registration of a mobile part (MT, OA, HA) in a base station (BS) in a telecommunication system designed for wireless communication between a mobile part (MT, OA, HA) and a base station (BS. The base station and the mobile part are initially placed in an access standby state. Subsequently, a verification procedure determines a message exchange (MA) between the mobile part and the base station if the base station supports a voice-controlled registration and if the mobile part is theoretically connected to the base station. If the theoretical connection is determined, a user channel connection suitable for the transmission of voice data is established between the mobile part and the base station. The mobile part is then either registered in the base station, or the registration attempt is rejected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Roland Aubauer, Erich Kamperschroer, Stefano Ambrosius Klinke, Niels Kunstmann, Karl-Heinz Pflaum
  • Patent number: 7194410
    Abstract: For a voice recognition system in a voice-controlled communication appliance, command words from a vocabulary are entered in text form and are transmitted to a separate converter station via a communication link initiated by the communication appliance, wherein the converter station performs word/model conversion on the command words and sends the reference models created in this way via a communication link to the terminal, in which they are stored and are made available to the voice recognition system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ralf Kern, Karl-Heinz Pflaum
  • Patent number: 7120246
    Abstract: A computer apparatus is provided, which has a multipath acoustic output system and a multipath acoustic input system, which includes parts for enabling an adaptation of the filter of an acoustic echo canceller incorporated in the computer apparatus that is always precise regardless of the chronological delays of the components of the computer apparatus, wherein the chronological delays are variable for acoustic signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefano Ambrosius Klinke, Karl-Heinz Pflaum
  • Publication number: 20060148501
    Abstract: System and method for the registration of a mobile part (MT, OA, HA) in a base station (BS) in a telecommunication system designed for wireless communication between a mobile part (MT, OA, HA) and a base station (BS. The base station and the mobile part are initially placed in an access standby state. Subsequently, a verification procedure determines a message exchange (MA) between the mobile part and the base station if the base station supports a voice-controlled registration and if the mobile part is theoretically connected to the base station. If the theoretical connection is determined, a user channel connection suitable for the transmission of voice data is established between the mobile part and the base station. The mobile part is then either registered in the base station, or the registration attempt is rejected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2004
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Inventors: Roland Aubauer, Erich Kamperschroer, Stefano Klinke, Niels Kunstmann, Karl-Heinz Pflaum
  • Patent number: 7043427
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for speech recognition are provided, by which, whereby the speech is optionally input via a microphone (14) close to the speaker or a microphone (20) remote from the speaker. A correction unit (15) is connected into the transmission channel (12) with microphone (14) close to the speaker, the correction unit modifying the electrical speech signal in such a way that it contains room transmission characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ralf Kern, Karl-Heinz Pflaum
  • Publication number: 20060053013
    Abstract: The user language of a device can be set to a user language by speaking the designation of the user language to be set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2003
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Inventors: Roland Aubauer, Erich Kamperschroer, Stefan Klinke, Niels Kunstmann, Karl-Heinz Pflaum
  • Patent number: 6700954
    Abstract: Digital answering machine that can receive not only voice but also fax information via a telephone line. In order to receive and send faxes with a computer, it is inventively provided to expand a digital answering machine such that incoming faxes are intermediately stored in a memory and can be transmitted to the computer via an interface after the computer is switched on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Karl-Heinz Pflaum
  • Patent number: 6611595
    Abstract: In order to be able to measure the transmission properties of transmission links mutually influencing one another with crosstalk in electrical message systems, particularly of handsfree equipment (FSE) such that the measurement is not falsified by occurring crosstalk influences, measuring signals that are essentially orthogonal are generated in the time or frequency domain in the measuring system (MS) from respectively at least two voice or test signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dieter Leckschat, Karl-Heinz Pflaum
  • Publication number: 20030104846
    Abstract: According to the invention, at least one acoustic output is connected to at least one acoustic input of a computer appliance having a multiway acoustic output and input system. The acoustic signal that is guided via said connection is supplied to an acoustic echo canceller (F) as a reference signal for levelling with an acoustic signal which is supplied to the acoustic echo canceller (F) by means of at least one other multiway acoustic input which is connected to a microphone (M). Echo filtering is thus made possible in a personal computer because the supplied signals are always timely correlated with one another regardless of the delays in signal processing, whereby said delays are caused by the operating system. Echo filtering allows for handsfree talking when entering voice data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2002
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Inventors: Stefano Ambrosius Klinke, Karl-Heinz Pflaum