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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2013
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Mitchel Weintraub, Cupertino, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Recognition techniques may include the following. On a first processing entity, a first recognition process is performed on a first element, where the first recognition process includes: in a first state machine having M (M>1) states, determining a first best path cost in at least a subset of the M states for at least part of the first element. On a second processing entity, a second recognition process is performed on a second element, where the second recognition process includes: in a second state machine having N (N>1) states, determining a second best path cost in at least a subset of the N states for at least part of the second element. At least one of the following is done: (i) passing the first best path cost to the second state machine, or (ii) passing the second best path cost to the first state machine. The foregoing techniques may include one or more of the following features, either alone or in combination.