Inventor · Hoffman Estates, IL, US

Ira A. Gerson

41Patents
24h-index
15Co-inventors
82Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 28, 1979 → May 10, 2013

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6868385B1 Method and apparatus for the provision of information signals based upon speech recognition Electricity 265 Expired
US4630305A Automatic gain selector for a noise suppression system Electricity 229 Expired
US6937977B2 Method and apparatus for processing an input speech signal during presentation of an output audio signal Electricity 217 Expired
US4811404A Noise suppression system Physics 206 Expired
US4630304A Automatic background noise estimator for a noise suppression system Electricity 202 Expired
US4628529A Noise suppression system Electricity 189 Expired
US4737976A Hands-free control system for a radiotelephone Electricity 149 Expired
US6963759B1 Speech recognition technique based on local interrupt detection Physics 140 Expired
US4817157A Digital speech coder having improved vector excitation source Physics 94 Expired
US4945570A Method for terminating a telephone call by voice command Electricity 86 Expired
US4870686A Method for entering digit sequences by voice command Physics 82 Expired
US5668926A Method and apparatus for converting text into audible signals using a neural network Physics 61 Expired
US4896361A Digital speech coder having improved vector excitation source Physics 60 Expired
US4751737A Template generation method in a speech recognition system Physics 45 Expired
US4797929A Word recognition in a speech recognition system using data reduced word templates Chemistry; Metallurgy 41 Expired
US5359696A Digital speech coder having improved sub-sample resolution long-term predictor Physics 36 Expired
US4544919A Method and means of determining coefficients for linear predictive coding Physics 34 Expired
US5657418A Provision of speech coder gain information using multiple coding modes Physics 32 Expired
US5826224A Method of storing reflection coeffients in a vector quantizer for a speech coder to provide reduced storage requirements Physics 30 Expired
US4918732A Frame comparison method for word recognition in high noise environments Physics 28 Expired
US4354248A Programmable multifrequency tone receiver Electricity 27 Expired
US5040127A Continuous speech recognition system Physics 25 Expired
US4905288A Method of data reduction in a speech recognition Physics 25 Expired
US5675702A Multi-segment vector quantizer for a speech coder suitable for use in a radiotelephone Physics 24 Expired
US5253269A Delta-coded lag information for use in a speech coder Physics 22 Expired

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