Nec Corporation

Amgen Inc.

Teijin Pharma Limited

Keiko Shimada

Hisashi Fujisaki

Patricia Lopez

Shon Booker

Ryan D White

Victor J Cee

Timothy David Cushing

Xiaolin Hao

Ryuhei Fujiwara

Ryan Paul Wurz

Brian M Fox

Youngsook Shin

Hilary Plake Beck

Lewis D Pennington

Steven H Olson

Stephanie Geuns-Meyer

Jason Brooks Human

Zihao Hua

Xiao Mei Zheng

Oleg Epstein

Ryota Nakajima

Nagasree Chakka

Howard Bregman

Kosuke Sasaki

Kazuhisa Okada

Kenta Hibiya

Shuyan Yi

Hiroyuki Oono

Jun Hirata

Shinji Kakuda

Shon Keith Booker

Jason Human

The present invention relates to a novel compound having a function of inhibiting ROR&#x3b3; activity. The present invention also relates to pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound, a use of the compound in treating or preventing autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases, metabolic diseases, or cancer diseases.

Pyrazole amide derivative

In a speech recognition system for deciding an input pattern as one of reference patterns by calculating dissimilarities of the input pattern and the reference patterns and selecting the minimum one of the dissimilarities which is then compared with a reject value to decide the input speech as a particular reference pattern which produces the minimum dissimilarity, in order to reduce interference by noise accompanying an input speech pattern in the input pattern, a noise level is detected from an input pattern before the input speech pattern is detected and the reject value is produced corresponding to the noise level. The minimum dissimilarity is normalized by the time duration when the input speech pattern continues to produce a normalized value. The normalized value is compared with the reject value.

Method and system for speech recognition without noise interference

A voice recognition dialing unit of a telephone mounted on a vehicle or similar mobile body and which allows a call to be originated with ease. When the user of the telephone enters a voice command on a voice inputting section, the dialing unit originates a call automatically and thereby connects the other party to the telephone line. In a call origination procedure, the operations for call origination and the verifications are performed between the user and the unit in an interactive sequence. In a preferred embodiment, the unit has a particular call origination procedure in which, when the other party recognized by the unit is wrong as determined by the user by verification, lower-place candidates for the other party are called up in response to a particular voice command. In an alternative embodiment, the unit indicates the other party by voicing a name for verification purpose. The alternative embodiment selects and stores only the name of the other party in response to an entered voice signal and, in the event of response for verification, combines the name having been stored and response information stored beforehand to produce composite response voice.

Voice recognition dialing unit

In a speech recognition system, a method for deciding an input pattern as one of reference patterns includes steps for calculating dissimilarities of the input pattern and the reference patterns and selecting a particular one of the dissimilarities which is lower than a threshold value. In order to reduce noise accompanying an input speech pattern in the input pattern, an average noise level is detected from an input pattern before the input speech pattern is detected and a noise factor is produced corresponding to the average noise level. The dissimilarities are multiplied by the noise factor to produce products and then the products are compared with the threshold value to recognize the input speech pattern. According to one aspect of the speech recognition system, particularly the system using the known clockwise DP matching with a beam search technique, the beam width factor is determined as a function of the noise level.

Speech recognition method with noise reduction and a system therefor

A branched telephone system having a plurality of telephones which are connected to a single subscriber line or to single radio apparatus functions to establish a priority set condition in which the communicating function of particular one of the telephones is validated to prevent the other telephones from being used, and further includes the function of automatically cancelling such a priority set condition.

Branched telephone system

A loud speaking telephone has separate volume level control circuits positioned in the transmit and receive paths, respectively. The frequency is shifted in at least one of the paths to provide a signal which is less likely to produce echos or singing. A comparator compares the levels in the send and receive paths to produce a control signal. The control signal adjusts the volume level controls to prevent singing.

Loudspeaking telephone with a frequency shifting circuit

A loudspeaker telephone has a circuit which is much less likely to go into singing or howling during the change over time while it is switching between transmit and receive modes. This is done by using FETs as variable resistors during the change over period. As a result of the resistance variation during change over, the total gain of both the transmit and receive channels added together does not exceed the gain during either the transmit or the receive modes.

Loudspeaking telephone with a variable gain circuit

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Keiko Shimada