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Here in the uk, to get a patent on anything, you have to prove that the patent is not obvious and that there is no prior art. If there is prior art, then a patent cannot be given, this is why people patenting stuff have to keep it a secret until they actually have the patent, otherwise it is considered to have been released into the public domain. Once something is in the public domain, nobody

Cologne, 10.12.00 Dear Sir, Dear Madam, We are concerned about the possibility that the European Commission might introduce software patenting into the European Community because we think this will harm our profession. We make our living on data management and statistical analyses. Modern statistics crucially depends on algorithms [cf. Venables, W. N., & Ripley, B. D. (1999). Modern applied

I thought this might be interesting to you, it's an extract from the latest streaming media newsletter, I was intrested to note that MS are claiming cd quality audio at 48kbps whichi is obviously very low, I didn't think much of it at first because nobody uses MS codecs for audio anyway! However (a bit I missed off this quote by the look of it) I then read mention of portable audio players

I was wondering how vorbis fares as a speech codec? I mean can it give similar or better quality as GSM/Toast at the same kind of bitrates/filesize? I'm not worried about streaming but I'd love to be able to create really small voice files. Can anyone give me an idea of filesize for recording time for pure speech based use? love Freya __________________________________________________

Hello, Ok, and that's too many work to review a source code.In my codec, I have 3 compression schemes, I think 2 are not patented, but the third... I don't know.For the rest, I think my codec is patent-free (I don't use SPIHT,EZW,zerotree methods), even the wavelet transform is new and don't use the lifting scheme nor the convolution product. Else, if you found time to review the

Looks like the mpeg gestapo are frantically at work cracking down on mpeg projects. Several important projects (tsunami mpeg, gogo, faac, etc) were shut down by the jack booted patent nazis. Since FhG, mpegla, etc plan to start charging royalties on everything even remotely mpeg-related very soon, I expect a lot of interest is going to shift to Vorbis. And soon thereafter, I expect FhG to attack

Alvaro Munoz (Hopkins Epi) is patenting the "diamond graph". http://www.jhsph.edu/Press_Room/Press_Releases/Munoz_diamond_graph.html There is enough prior art (hexagonal binning, among others) to make this amusing, except that it probably will get a patent. It's a reasonable graphical technique, but patentable? best, -tony -- A.J. Rossini rossini at u.washington.edu

Dear List, Suppose we have a variable K.JUN defined as (with 1=wet, 0=dry): K.JUN1984 = c(1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1) K.JUN1985 = c(0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1) K.JUN1986 = c(0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1)

AFAIK g729 patent is expiring sometime in 2019-2020. Mitul Limbani On Feb 8, 2017 5:02 AM, "Victor Villarreal" <mefhigoseth at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Steve, > > I understand your question and your point, but I use the g729 codec from > the link that Carlos share, for almost 6 years from Asterisk 1.4 to v13 > without a single problem. > > So, sory but I

I think need to do something like this: dat<-data.frame(state=sample(id=rep(1:5,each=200),1:3, 1000, replace=T,prob=c(0.7,0.05,0.25)),V1=runif(1,10,1000),V2=rnorm(1000)) rle.dat<-rle(dat$state) temp<-1 out<-data.frame(id=1:length(rle.dat$length)) for(i in 1:length(rle.dat$length)){ temp2<-temp+rle.dat$length[[i]] out$V1[i]<-mean(dat$V1[temp:temp2])

why? > rle Run Length Encoding lengths: int [1:1650061] 2 2 8 2 4 5 6 3 26 46 ... values : chr [1:1650061] "4bbf9e94cbceb70c BG bg" "4fbbf2c67e0fb867 SK sk" ... > as.data.frame(rle) Error in as.data.frame.default(vertices.rle) : cannot coerce class '"rle"' into a data.frame it seems that rle.df <-

I want to make a histogram from the lengths vector which is part of the output of rle. But I don't know how to access that vector so that I use it as an argument of hist(). What argument must I use so that I use the lengths vector as an input to hist()? Example output is: Run Length Encoding lengths: int [1:4] 1 2 3 3 values : num [1:4] -1 1 -1 1 A printout of the function rle() may

I know Tarkin is not the priority right now, but when it becomes it's good to know which company might feel nervous... ------------------------------------------ Compaq sued for alleged patent violations By Bloomberg News November 20, 2000, 5:30 a.m. PT WILMINGTON, Del.--Compaq Computer, the world's biggest personal computer maker, has been sued by a group for allegedly infringing

Patenting a mathematical formula is NOT creating a machine nor is it unique. For example. 2+2=4... apples + apples^2= given outcome. I want to patent this. It's stupid to patent something like that. The same is true for formula algorithms. Algorithms occur in nature. Thus should not be patented. Now, Volley G Mathison inventor of the Electropsychometer had a machine that he could patent. A

Hello there R-help, I'm not sure if this should be posted here - so apologies if this is the case. I've found a problem while using rle and am proposing a solution to the issue. Description: I ran into a niggle with rle today when working with vectors with NA values (using R 2.31.0 on Windows 7 x64). It transpires that a run of NA values is not encoded in the same way as a run of other

Hallo, I have an other problem, I have this vector signData with an alternation of 1 and -1 that corrispond to the duration of two different percepts. I extracted the durations like this: signData<- scan("dataTR10.txt") dur<-rle(signData)$length Now I would like to extract only the positive duration, e.g. signData <- c(1,1,1,1,-1,-1,-1,1,1,-1,-1) posduration <- c(4,2) I

Dear R Community - I hope you might be able to provide some guidance regarding the use of the rle function. I have a set of time-series data where a measured value is recorded every 30 seconds after the start of an experiment. Many of the measured values repeat and I am interested only in the values when there is a change. If I turn the measured values into a vector, the rle function works

Craig Dickson (crdic@yahoo.com) wrote : > Jack Moffitt wrote: > > > I agree that this might be the case. But what happens with the > > violation is by the author? :) > > > > Ie, in the case of PlusV releasing a patented codec under the GPL or in > > the case of LAME or FreeType's authors doing similar things. What > > state is that? > >

Hi R experts :) I'm trying to carry out a survival model on my data, but I am unsure of whether it's appropriate or if I should do something specific in regards to hazard. My data is time to death by predator where I have 8 prey and one predator in the setting. This means that two prey can't possibly die at the same time and I can't quite get my head around how to include this in

Hi everyone, first of all, I searched through the archives for any posts resembling this, I didn't read all posts about the patents so if this has been suggested before I apologise. I read in an article on C|Net (I think, it was linked from Slashdot anyway) that Thompson are threatening to sue you if Ogg Vorbis becomes a success. Which is evil, and I'm also mad at them because they never