A method and apparatus for retrieving, accessing, and storing medical data relating to a patient during a medical procedure. The invention provides a single interface to many disparate forms of medical data, which is accessible over a local area network; wide area network, direct connection, or combinations thereof. In one embodiment, an operating room control system for use during a medical procedure on a patient includes an input device, a display device, and a controller that is coupled to the input device and the display device. The controller receives one or more user inputs, transmits a command to a server located outside of the operating room to retrieve medical data, receives the medical data from the server, and displays the medical data on the display device. Medical data can be captured by the controller using, for example, a camera and a video/image capture board, keyboard, and microphone during surgery or examination of the patient. The captured medical data can be stored on one or more remote servers as part of the patient records.

Method and apparatus for accessing medical data over a network

SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM ABSTRACT Apparatus and method for evaluating the likelihood of a word in a vocabulary of words wherein a total score is evaluated for each word, each total score being the re-sult of combining at least two word scores generated by differing algorithms. In one embodiment, a detailed acoustic match word score is combined with an approxi-mate acoustic match word score to provide a total word score for a subject word. In another embodiment, a polling word score is combined with an acoustic match word score to provide a total word score for a subject word. The acoustic models employed in the acoustic matching may correspond, alternatively, to phonetic el-ements or to fenemes. Fenemes represent labels generated by an acoustic processor in response to a spoken input. Apparatus and method for determining word scores ac-cording to approximate acoustic matching and for deter-mining word scores according to a polling methodology are disclosed.

Speech recognition system

A method and system for the automatic identification of audio, video, multimedia, and/or data recordings based on immutable characteristics of these works. The invention does not require the insertion of identifying codes or signals into the recording. This allows the system to be used to identify existing recordings that have not been through a coding process at the time that they were generated. Instead, each work to be recognized is “played” into the system where it is subjected to an automatic signal analysis process that locates salient features and computes a statistical representation of these properties. These features are then stored as patterns for later recognition of live input signal streams. A different set of features is derived for each audio or video work to be identified and stored. During real-time monitoring of a signal stream, a similar automatic signal analysis process is carried out, and many features are computed for comparison with the patterns stored in a large feature database. For each particular pattern stored in the database, only the relevant characteristics are compared with the real-time feature set. Preferably, during analysis and generation of reference patterns, data are extracted from all time intervals of a recording. This allows a work to be recognized from a single sample taken from any part of the recording.

Method and apparatus for automatically recognizing input audio and/or video streams

A robotic system which controls the movement of a surgical instrument in response to voice commands from the user. The robotic system has a computer controlled arm that holds the surgical instrument. The user provides voice commands to the computer through a microphone. The computer contains a phrase recognizer that matches the user' speech with words stored in the computer. Matched words are then processed to determine whether the user has spoken a robot command. If the user has spoken a recognized robot command the computer will move the robotic arm in accordance with the command.

Speech interface for an automated endoscopic system

A method and system of speech recognition presented by a back channel from multiple user sites within a network supporting cable television and/or video delivery is disclosed.

System and method of voice recognition near a wireline node of a network supporting cable television and/or video delivery

A voice recognition apparatus which can recognize the voice of a specific speaker, which has previously been analyzed, the distinctive features extracted, and the pattern of those distinctive features registered, is arranged so that, preferably at the time of registration of the distinctive features pattern, based on the detection of a voice interval, the voice data is entered into temporary storage, and then, after the speaking has terminated, the voice data is reproduced for verification by the speaker.

An improved method of speech recognition suitable for use in simple type speech recognition systems is disclosed. The method of speech recognition uses short time self-correlation functions as feature parameters for recognition of speech or speech-like words and especially effecting preliminary selection utilizing part of data for final recognition, that is, short time self-correlation functions of lower degrees (typically, primary to cubic). In carrying out recognition of speech or speech-like sounds, the method involves creating self-correlation functions for input sound signals, deciding the intervals of the sound signals, normalizing the time axies in conjunction with the sound intervals, and conducting recognization of words or the like through deciding using the self-correlation functions as feature parameters whether there is matching with reference patterns. In the above method, preliminary selection is effected prior to the final recognization step by means of linear matching using the self-correlation functions of lower degrees.

Recognition of speech or speech-like sounds

In a speech recognition system, similarity calculations between speech feature patterns are reduced by stopping similarity calculations for any one reference pattern when a frame in the pattern fails to exceed a corresponding similarity threshold.

Method of speech recognition

Speech recognition executes the final matching operation for each characteristic pattern according to the preliminarily selected order prior to the final matching, where any further calculation in reference to such a characteristic pattern is not executed after a specific condition has been satisfied during the matching calculation, and as result, calculation requirements can be drastically minimized so that the speech recognition can eventually be implemented at higher speed and yet under a sharply reduced cost.

Speech recognition with preliminary matching

Inputted voice signals are analyzed in units of syllables. Each syllable is compared with standard syllables preregistered in a memory and thereby recognized but corrections may be made on erroneous recognitions by referencing a dictionary or entering a command. Each standard pattern is associated with phonological information on the neighborhood in a voice signal from where it was extracted and may be updated by another pattern having the same phonological information. Temporal sequences of correct and erroneous recognitions of individual syllables as well as whole syllables are stored and referenced in determining whether a standard pattern should be updated. A maximum pattern number may be set for each syllable.

Hiroyuki Iwahashi

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Speech recognition system

Recognition of speech or speech-like sounds

Method of speech recognition

Speech recognition with preliminary matching

Voice recognition method and apparatus by updating reference patterns