Texas Instruments Corporation

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Philip R Thrift

Charles T Hemphill

Marion C Lineberry

Schuyler T Patton, Jr

Cynthia C Martin

Rajko Milovanovic

Ryan Middleton

Todd Killian

This is a voice activated Hypermedia system using grammatical metadata, the system comprising: a speech user agent; a browsing module; and an information resource. The system may include: embedded intelligence in hypermedia source; a means for processing the actions of a user based on the embedded intelligence; a means for returning a result of the actions to the user. In addition, the hypermedia source maybe a HTML page or an instructional module for communicating allowed actions by a user. The system may also include embedded intelligence as a grammar or reference to a grammar. The grammar may be dynamically added to a speech recognizer. In addition, the actions can come from a speech recognizer. Furthermore, the system may include voice activated hypermedia links and intelligent modules that process information from the information resources for allowing actions from the user. Other devices, systems and methods are also disclosed.

Voice activated hypermedia systems using grammatical metadata

An apparatus and method for customizing television content uses an application () operating on a computing platform () associated with a display device (). The platform () accesses a display component database () containing display components (). The application () includes a profile database () that stores a viewer profile () and a filter module () that is coupled to the profile database (). The filter module () accesses the viewer profile () and display components () and, in response, selects a preferred display component (') according to the viewer profile () and the display components (). The preferred display component (&#x2032;) facilitates the targeting of viewers based on demographic information.

Apparatus and method to facilitate the customization of television content with supplemental data

Integration of DSP running algorithms with general purpose processor running applications including plugin objects as proxies for the DSP algorithms and with quality of service including application controls of algorithm scheduling and algorithm events reported to the applications.

Media accelerator quality of service

A plug-and-play architecture including an extension of a general purpose processor media framework for adjoining DSP processing power.

Architecture with digital signal processor plug-ins for general purpose processor media frameworks

Voice activated apparatus for accessing information on the World Wide Web

A system for nonlinear viewing of television show segments is provided by transmitting a main signal and an ancillary signal. The ancillary signal is a short show segment. The television receiver system can select either the main signal or the ancillary signal. The ancillary signal is stored in a small cache memory for later access in place of the main signal. An icon is generated on the television set to notify the user of the presence of the ancillary signal.

System for nonlinear viewing of television show segments

A Java television receiver ( ) includes a Java television platform ( ) that has a bidirectional Internet connection ( ) capable of sending Internet data to the Java television platform ( ) and transmitting data from the Java television platform ( ) to an Internet provider. Additionally, a tuner/decoder ( ) connected to the Java television platform ( ) is provided which can receive, tune and decode television signals. An audio/video overlay ( ) connected to the Java television platform is provided to combine displays from the Java television platform ( ) and television signals from the tuner/decoder ( ). Finally, a video output ( ) and an audio output ( ) sends the combined Internet data and television signals to a television ( ).

Apparatus for the integration of television signals and information from an information service provider

A hand-held wireless voice-activated device (,) for controlling a host system (,), such as a computer connected to the World Wide Web. The device (,) has a display (,), a microphone (,), and a wireless transmitter (,) and receiver (,). It may also have a processor (,) and memory (,) for performing voice recognition. A device (,) can be specifically designed for Web browsing, by having a processor (,) and memory (,) that perform both voice recognition and interpretation of results of the voice recognition.

Wireless voice-activated device for control of a processor-based host system

A method enabling a neural network, having weights organized into a weight vector, to learn, comprising the steps of: (a) assigning a first memory location for storing a first learning rate, a second memory location for storing a momentum factor, a memory block for storing the weight vector, and a third memory location for storing a second learning rate; (b) initializing the learning rate, momentum factor, and weight vector; (c) storing the first learning rate, the momentum factor, and the weight vector into their respective memory locations; (d) saving the first learning rate in the second learning rate by storing it into the third memory location; (e) using a search technique to adjust the first learning rate to adjust the weight vector, and updating the first memory location and the memory block; (f) adapting the momentum factor using the first learning rate and the second learning rate; and repeating steps (c) through (f) until a predetermined convergence criterion has been met.

Method and apparatus for adaptive learning in neural networks

A method is provided for using a computer to select a travel route based on a selected performance criteria from a plurality of possible travel routes connecting a plurality of destinations. Information is input describing the location of each destination to be visited. For each pair of destinations, a connecting path having an optimum performance value based on the selected performance criteria is determined. An array of randomly ordered sequences is created with each sequence representing a unique ordering of the destinations to be visited. For each sequence, the optimum performance values for each connecting path of each pair of destinations are summed to obtain a total performance value for the routes described by the sequence. A genetic cellular automaton is iteratively applied to the array to determine the travel route having the selected performance criteria by computing a near optimum sequence of destinations.

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Philip R Thrift