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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2005
Filed:
May. 24, 2001
Applicants:
Jason Peter Andrew Charlesworth, Haslemere, GB;
Philip Neil Garner, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Jason Peter Andrew Charlesworth, Haslemere, GB;
Philip Neil Garner, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F017/00 ; G10L015/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An indexing apparatus and method are described for use in identifying portions of data in a database for comparison with a query. In an embodiment, the index includes a key which comprises a sequence of phoneme classifications derived from the input query by classifying each of the phonemes in the input query with a number of phoneme classes, with the phonemes in each class being defined as those that are confusable with the other phonemes in the same class.