Patents by Inventor Markku Majaniemi

Markku Majaniemi 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: 7039364
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for performing measurements in a wireless terminal comprising a receiver for receiving radio frequency signals, means for taking samples from the received signals and means for performing measurements on the basis of said samples. The samples taken from the received signal are stored. Measured values are calculated for the stored samples after a set of samples has been stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Markku Majaniemi
  • Publication number: 20030054772
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for performing measurements in a wireless terminal comprising a receiver for receiving radio frequency signals, means for taking samples from the received signals and means for performing measurements on the basis of said samples. The samples taken from the received signal are stored. Measured values are calculated for the stored samples after a set of samples has been stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2002
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Applicant: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Markku Majaniemi
  • Patent number: 6393403
    Abstract: A mobile telephone 7 having speech recognition and speech synthesis functionality. The telephone 7 has a memory 16 for storing a set of speech recognition templates corresponding to a set of respective spoken commands and a transducer for converting a spoken command into an electrical signal. Signal processing means 13 is provided for analysing a converted spoken command together with templates stored in the memory 16 to identify whether or not the converted spoken command corresponds to one of the set of spoken commands. The phone user can select to download, into the phone's memory 16, a set of templates for a chosen language, from a central station 18 via a wireless transmission channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Limited
    Inventor: Markku Majaniemi
  • Patent number: 5915239
    Abstract: A method for selecting a telephone number by means of voice control, the telephone numbers which can be selected are stored, and for each telephone number which can be selected at least one identifier, such as a name is stored. In the storing phase, the identifier is pronounced and divided into one or several sub-identifiers, which are stored, and to which information on the telephone number is linked, wherein the telephone number mentioned in the selecting phase can be dialed either by pronouncing said sub-identifiers in any order according to a combination or partial combination of the sub-identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1999
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd.
    Inventors: Petri Haavisto, Kari Laurila, Markku Majaniemi
  • Patent number: 5864603
    Abstract: The invention includes a method and an apparatus for controlling a telephone, particularly a mobile telephone used in a cellular network. Advantageously the user interface of the telephone is voice-controlled, whereby dialling can be made without the use of hands e.g. when driving a car. In the method according to the invention, the task of a speech recognizer can be made easier using phone numbers in the phone's memory (102), ie. on the basis of a check command given by the user the phone selects the number to be recognized from among the numbers stored in its memory, whereby also an incorrect recognition can be automatically corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Limited
    Inventors: Petri J. Haavisto, Kari Laurila, Markku Majaniemi