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US 7,480,618 B2Granted
Eliminating interference of noisy modality in a multimodal application
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsZhan Ding, David K. Burton, Yun-Cheng Ju
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Abstract
Aspects of the present invention provide for ranking various input modalities relative to each other and processing recognition results received through these input modalities based in part on the ranking.
Claims8
A method for processing inputs from a user into a computer, the method comprising:
- ranking input modalities;
- receiving responses from the user pursuant to a plurality of modalities including receiving a confidence measure for each response;
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- processing, via a processing unit, the responses based on the rankings using a weighting factor for each input modality in combination with the associated confidence measure to select a user response to be used.
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A computer-readable storage medium having instructions that would cause a processor to process inputs from a user into a computer, the instructions comprising:
- i. receiving responses from the user pursuant to a plurality of modalities;
- ii. receiving a confidence measure for each response;
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- iii. processing the responses using a weighting factor for each input modality in combination with the associated confidence to select a user response to be used.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.