Patents by Inventor William Drewes

William Drewes 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: 9947313
    Abstract: In an embodiment, speech is recorded and converted to digital text based on a shared vocabulary dictionary. During the session, voice recognition errors, that is, speech that could not be automatically identified (if any exists), are identified by the system and associated with digital text. When text for the voice recognition error is identified (e.g., by an editor), the shared vocabulary dictionary is updated (so that that particular voice recognition error will not occur again), thereby improving the performance of the system for all users that use the shared vocabulary dictionary. The identification of voice recognitions errors and the updated of the vocabulary dictionary are performed on an ongoing basis, so that the performance of the system for all users continually improves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Inventor: William Drewes
  • Publication number: 20170133007
    Abstract: In an embodiment, speech is recorded and converted to digital text based on a shared vocabulary dictionary. During the session, voice recognition errors, that is, speech that could not be automatically identified (if any exists), are identified by the system and associated with digital text. When text for the voice recognition error is identified (e.g., by an editor), the shared vocabulary dictionary is updated (so that that particular voice recognition error will not occur again), thereby improving the performance of the system for all users that use the shared vocabulary dictionary. The identification of voice recognitions errors and the updated of the vocabulary dictionary are performed on an ongoing basis, so that the performance of the system for all users continually improves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventor: William Drewes
  • Publication number: 20160275942
    Abstract: In an embodiment, speech is recorded and converted to digital text based on a shared vocabulary dictionary. During the session, voice recognition errors, that is, speech that could not be automatically identified (if any exists), are identified by the system and associated with digital text. When text for the voice recognition error is identified (e.g., by an editor), the shared vocabulary dictionary is updated (so that that particular voice recognition error will not occur again), thereby improving the performance of the system for all users that use the shared vocabulary dictionary. The identification of voice recognitions errors and the updated of the vocabulary dictionary are performed on an ongoing basis, so that the performance of the system for all users continually improves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: William Drewes
  • Publication number: 20120284015
    Abstract: A method of improving the accuracy of the translation output of Statistical Machine Translation (SMT), while increasing the effectiveness of an ongoing professional human translation effort by correlating the ongoing professional human translation effort directly with the translation errors made by the system. Once the translation errors have been corrected by professional human translators and are re-input to the system, the SMT's training process may ensure that the same, and possibly similar, translation error(s) may not occur again.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Inventor: William Drewes
  • Publication number: 20090192782
    Abstract: A method to significantly improve the accuracy of Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) translation output, while increasing the effectively of the required ongoing human translation effort by correlating said ongoing professional human translation effort directly to the translation errors made by the system. Once said translation errors have been corrected by professional human translators and re-input to the system, the SMT's inherent “learning process” will ensure that the same, and possibly similar, translation error(s) will not occur again.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Inventor: William Drewes
  • Publication number: 20090125295
    Abstract: The present invention discloses the system design, module requirements, specifications and methods that comprise the core technology required to enable the development of a viable Multi-Lingual Auto-Translation Telephony System. During a conversation utilizing said Multi-Lingual Auto-Translation Telephony System, each participant speaks only one language for the duration of the conversation, and there is no limit on the number of participants that may participate in said conversation, provided said number of participants is two or greater, nor is there any limit on the number of different languages that may be employed by said different participants during said conversation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2008
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Inventor: William Drewes
  • Publication number: 20080177528
    Abstract: A method of utilizing multiple Machine Translation “Language Pairs” to create a “Community of Language Pairs” (The Community) that consists of one “Language Pair” for every possible combination of every two languages and/or language dialects included in The Community. The present invention greatly enhances the utility of the art of Machine Translation. Utilizing the present invention, any user whose native language, or other language in which the user is fluent, which is included in The Community may now have access to machine translations of electronically recorded material produced in any other language, or language dialect, included in The Community. The present invention applies to both machine translation of material that is electronically recorded in different languages included in The Community, as well as real time interactive communication with and among multiple users whose native language, or other language in which each user is fluent, is included in The Community.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventor: William Drewes
  • Patent number: 6156549
    Abstract: A method of destroying cells selected for destruction within a host body with little to no collateral damage to healthy surrounding tissue utilizes energy to effect resonant destruction of intracellular components within the cells selected for destruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: William Drewes
    Inventors: William Drewes, Alon Amitay, Giora Rosenhouse
  • Patent number: 4349898
    Abstract: A system for transmitting a parametrically pumped sonic signal through a transmission medium to a remote location is disclosed. The preferred system, which is particularly intended for use as a sonic weapon, comprises a sound source; means for separating the sound into a plurality of discrete frequency components including a fundamental component and at least one additional component, each additional component having a frequency twice that of the next lowest frequency component; means for adjusting the phase difference between each frequency component and the next lowest frequency component to substantially 90.degree.; means for colinearly focusing the components on the remote location; and means for rendering the transmission medium nonlinear between the focusing means and the remote location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1982
    Assignee: William Drewes
    Inventors: William Drewes, Edward M. Vlicki
  • Patent number: 4315514
    Abstract: Method for destroying selected cells in a host without damage to non-selected cells comprises selecting a transmission path from an energy source (12) to the selected cells (30); determining one or more of the resonant frequencies of the selected cells (30); selecting as a destructive frequency one of the resonant frequencies at which the transmissibility of the selected cells (30) is higher than the transmissibility of the non-selected cells in the transmission path; and transmitting energy from the source (12) at the destructive frequency along the path with sufficient intensity to destroy the selected cells (30) without destroying the non-selected cells. Apparatus for practicing the method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1982
    Assignee: William Drewes
    Inventors: William Drewes, Martin Levine