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EP1197949 - Avoiding online speaker over-adaptation in speech recognition [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  12.11.2004
Database last updated on 31.08.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip27.07.2007Lapse of the patent in a contracting state
New state(s): IT
published on 29.08.2007  [2007/35]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Sony International (Europe) GmbH
Kemperplatz 1
10785 Berlin / DE
[2002/16]
Inventor(s)01 / Goronzy, Silke, Advanced Technology Center
Sony International(Europe) GmbH
Hedelfinger Strasse 61, 70327 Stuttgart / DE
02 / Kompe, Ralf, Advanced Technology Center
Sony International(Europe) GmbH
Hedelfinger Strasse 61, 70327 Stuttgart / DE
03 / Marasek, Krzysztof, Advanced Technology Center
Sony International(Europe) GmbH
Hedelfinger Strasse 61, 70327 Stuttgart / DE
 [2002/16]
Representative(s)Müller Hoffmann & Partner
Patentanwälte mbB
St.-Martin-Straße 58
81541 München / DE
[N/P]
Former [2002/16]Müller . Hoffmann & Partner Patentanwälte
Innere Wiener Strasse 17
81667 München / DE
Application number, filing date00122025.010.10.2000
[2002/16]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP1197949
Date:17.04.2002
Language:EN
[2002/16]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP1197949
Date:07.01.2004
Language:EN
[2004/02]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP06.03.2001
ClassificationIPC:G10L15/06
[2002/16]
CPC:
G10L15/065 (EP,US); G10L2015/0635 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   DK,   ES,   FI,   FR,   GB,   IT,   SE [2003/02]
Former [2002/16]AT,  BE,  CH,  CY,  DE,  DK,  ES,  FI,  FR,  GB,  GR,  IE,  IT,  LI,  LU,  MC,  NL,  PT,  SE 
TitleGerman:Vermeidung von Online-Sprecherüberanpassung bei der Spracherkennung[2003/49]
English:Avoiding online speaker over-adaptation in speech recognition[2002/16]
French:Eviter la sur-adaptation en ligne au locuteur en reconnaissance de la parole[2002/16]
Former [2002/16]Vermeidung von Online-Sprecher-Überanpassung für Spracherkennung
Examination procedure21.06.2002Examination requested  [2002/35]
03.04.2003Communication of intention to grant the patent
16.07.2003Fee for grant paid
16.07.2003Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)08.10.2004No opposition filed within time limit [2004/53]
Fees paidRenewal fee
29.10.2002Renewal fee patent year 03
28.10.2003Renewal fee patent year 04
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipFI07.01.2004
IT07.01.2004
DK07.04.2004
SE07.04.2004
ES18.04.2004
[2007/35]
Former [2005/02]FI07.01.2004
DK07.04.2004
SE07.04.2004
ES18.04.2004
Former [2004/46]FI07.01.2004
SE07.04.2004
ES18.04.2004
Former [2004/40]FI07.01.2004
SE07.04.2004
Documents cited:Search[A]US5617486  (CHOW YEN-LU [US], et al) [A] 1-13 * abstract * * column 2, lines 26-46 *;
 [A]EP1008983  (SONY INT EUROPE GMBH [DE]) [A] 1-13 * the whole document *;
 [A]  - MARTIN E A ET AL, Dynamic adaptation of Hidden Markov models for robust isolated-word speech recognition, 1988, NEW YORK, NY, USA, IEEE, USA, PAGE(S) 52 - 54 VOL.1, ICASSP 88: 1988 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (CAT. NO.88CH2561-9), NEW YORK, NY, USA, 11-14 APRIL 1988, XP002160890 [A] 1-13 * page 52, column R, paragraph 1 *
 [A]  - THELEN E, "Long term on-line speaker adaptation for large vocabulary dictation", PROCEEDINGS ICSLP 96. FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROCESSING (CAT. NO.96TH8206), ICSLP '96, PHILADELPHIA, PA, USA, 3-6 OCT. 1996, 1996, New York, NY, USA, IEEE, USA, ISBN 0-7803-3555-4, pages 2139 - 2142 vol.4, XP002160889 [A] 1-13 * abstract *
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