Charles A Micchelli

6374216, Apr 16, 2002

Sep 27, 1999

09/404995

Charles A. Micchelli - Mohegan Lake NY
Peder A. Olsen - New York NY

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G10L 1508

704236, 704231

A nonparametric family of density functions formed by histogram estimators for modeling acoustic vectors are used in automatic recognition of speech. A Gaussian kernel is set forth in the density estimator. When the densities are found for all the basic sounds in a training stage, an acoustic vector is assigned to a phoneme label corresponding to the highest likelihood for the basis of the decoding of acoustic vectors into text.

6609094, Aug 19, 2003

May 22, 2000

09/576429

Sankar Basu - Tenafly NJ
Charles A. Micchelli - Mohegan Lake NY
Peder Olsen - New York NY

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G10L 1508

704240, 704239, 704254

Improvements in speech recognition systems are achieved by considering projections of the high dimensional data on lower dimensional subspaces, subsequently by estimating the univariate probability densities via known univariate techniques, and then by reconstructing the density in the original higher dimensional space from the collection of univariate densities so obtained. The reconstructed density is by no means unique unless further restrictions on the estimated density are imposed. The variety of choices of candidate univariate densities as well as the choices of subspaces on which to project the data including their number further add to this non-uniqueness. Probability density functions are then considered that maximize certain optimality criterion as a solution to this problem. Specifically, those probability density functions that either maximize the entropy functional, or alternatively, the likelihood associated with the data are considered.

6671414, Dec 30, 2003

Mar 13, 2000

09/524266

Charles A. Micchelli - Mohegan Lake NY
Marco Martens - Chappaqua NY
Timothy J. Trenary - Fort Collins CO
Joan L. Mitchell - Longmont CO

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06K 936

382250, 382277, 382248, 382280, 382244, 382294, 382300

A method of transform domain processing of transformed data is applied to image processing in various applications. A one-dimensional algorithm allows for the selection of an arbitrary contiguous eight component DCT sub-block from two adjacent DCT blocks that foregoes the expense of image manipulation in the real domain. Due to the fact that non-zero DCT coefficients are generally sparse, this algorithm lends itself nicely to the development of special cases which are faster than methods in use today. The de-quantization and re-quantization can be combined at execution time with the constants.

6678423, Jan 13, 2004

Mar 13, 2000

09/524389

Timothy J. Trenary - Fort Collins CO
Joan L. Mitchell - Longmont CO
Charles A. Micchelli - Mohegan Lake NY
Marco Martens - Chappaqua NY

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06K 936

382250, 382277, 382248, 382280, 382244, 382294, 382300

A one-dimensional algorithm for perform the merging of complementary portions from two independent overlapped images on the same 8Ã8 grid without the computational expense of conversion to and from the real domain is extended to a two-dimensional procedure. The merging process is performed exclusively in the frequency domain. The extension to two dimensions is done by shifting and/or merging rows of side-by-side two-dimensional transformed data blocks using the one-dimensional algorithm. Then a vertical shifting and/or merging can be performed on the horizontally shifted and/or merged blocks again using the one-dimensional algorithm with an independent shift/merge parameter.

6954290, Oct 11, 2005

Nov 9, 2000

09/708517

Gordon W. Braudaway - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Frank P. Giordano - Scarsdale NY, US
Marco Martens - Chappaqua NY, US
Charles P. Tresser - Mamaroneck NY, US
Chai Wah Wu - Poughquag NY, US
Charles A. Micchelli - Mohegan Lake NY, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06K015/00

358 326, 358474, 358488

Pages of books are copied without distortion due to curvature of the page near the book binding or the distortion in a copied page is corrected using the spacing of equidistant bars on tape strips applied to the top and bottom edges of a page before copying. The tape is preferably transparent and rather narrow and easily attached to a page to be copied. The first step in the distortion correction procedure is to locate the bars at the top and bottom of the page. The distortion of the spacing between the imaged bars is computed based on the known distance between the equidistant bars. The computed distortion of the spacing is then input to a distortion correction algorithm. The output of the distortion correction algorithm generates a corrected image. This image may also optionally delete the bars so that they are not printed in the copy. The corrected image is then copied.

7215445, May 8, 2007

Jun 7, 2005

11/145968

Gordon W. Braudaway - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Frank P. Giordano - Scarsdale NY, US
Marco Martens - Chappaqua NY, US
Charles P. Tresser - Mamaroneck NY, US
Chai Wah Wu - Poughquag NY, US
Charles A. Micchelli - Mohegan Lake NY, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06K 15/00

358 326, 358474, 358488

Pages of books are copied without distortion due to curvature of the page near the book binding or the distortion in a copied page is corrected using the spacing of equidistant bars on tape strips applied to the top and bottom edges of a page before copying. The tape is preferably transparent and rather narrow and easily attached to a page to be copied. The first step in the distortion correction procedure is to locate the bars at the top and bottom of the page. The distortion of the spacing between the imaged bars is computed based on the known distance between the equidistant bars. The computed distortion of the spacing is then input to a distortion correction algorithm. The output of the distortion correction algorithm generates a corrected image. This image may also optionally delete the bars so that they are not printed in the copy. The corrected image is then copied.