Nokia Mobile Phones Limited

Nokia Corporation

Udo Gortz

Wolfgang Theimer

Reza Serafat

Peter Buth

Amir Imam

Ari Salomaki

Frank Dufhues

Christian Steinert

Thomas Druke

Klaus Rateitschek

Klaus Rateitscheck

A communication apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus has an input/output (I/O) controller and a processor hosting a number of applications. The I/O controller responds to messages encoded according to a defined markup language. The applications communicate using the structure of the defined markup language.

Communication terminal

The invention relates to a method for inputting data into a system. In order to make it easier for users to input data, the invention provides that, in response to an input by a user, one or more terms which are as appropriate as possible for this input are determined as identified terms, that a confidence value is defined for each of these identified terms, and that the terms associated with an input are dealt with further, taking account of their confidence values.

Method for inputting data into a system

The invention relates to an interface device ( ) for transmitting information between input/output means ( ) and application units ( ) in an information and/or communication system. In order, to be able to operate application units with different output/input means of a user interface without changing their input/output interface, the interface device comprises an interface circuit ( ) and a storage device ( ), connected to the interface circuit ( ) for system data and input/output formats and structures, the interface circuit ( ) processing input and/or output information to be transmitted in accordance with the stored system data as a function of the input/output means ( ) available with the aid of the stored input/output formats and structures, and outputting said information to the respective application unit ( ) and/or to the input/output means ( ) available.

Interface device for transmitting information between input/output means

Method for assignment of a selectable option to an actuating means in which a voice-aided control device is activated in order to assign to the actuating means a selectable option for a selection command. In order to assist a user in the selection of an option to be assigned to the actuating means, the invention provides that after activation of the voice-aided control device, the selectable options which are currently available can be announced.

Method for assignment of a selectable option to an actuating means

The invention relates to a method for controlling an electronic device, in particular a mobile station in a mobile radio network. In order to allow simple and flexible control, the invention provides that a sound is varied in order to select from a plurality of predetermined options.

Method for acoustically controlling an electronic device, in particular a mobile station in a mobile radio network

The invention describes one way of coding a speech signal without the elaborate searhing of a stochastic codebook. An 'ideal' Regular Pulse Excitation (RPE) is used as the starting point for the method. The five strongest RPE pulses are quantized with equal amplitude and differ by their sign. The other RPE pulses are set to zero. This method, which is simple and can be carried out quickly, provides the same speech quality as with considerably more elaborate closed-loop methods.

Method for synthesizing a frame of a speech signal with a computed

A new scheme to generate the stochastic excitation for a CELP-type speech codec based upon a hybrid stochastic codebook search technique including use of regular pulse excitation codebooks is described. From the ideal RPE sequence the position of the first nonzero pulse and the position of the pulse with maximum amount as well as the overall sign of the RPE sequence are determined. The corresponding target vectors and pulse responses of the synthesis filter are stored in databases belonging to the positions of the maximum pulse, respectively. These databases are used to derive the stochastic codebook via the so-called LBG-algorithm. Once the codebook has become available, the position of the maximum pulse serves as pre-selection measure to limit the search for the 'best' candidate vector to a 'small' subset of the stochastic codebook.

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Udo Gortz