[brent]

On Nov 3, 2:29*pm, fatalist wrote:
On Nov 3, 1:18*pm, brent wrote:









On Oct 31, 12:40*am, Dude Whocares wrote:

US Patent 7,124,075 “Methods and apparatus for pitch determination”
will be auctioned as Lot 147 at the upcoming ICAP Patent Brokerage
Live IP Action on November 17, 2011 at The Ritz Carlton, San
Francisco.
The patent addresses a core problem of signal processing in general,
and speech signal processing in particular: period (fundamental
frequency) determination of a (quasi)-periodic signal, or pitch
detection problem in speech/audio signal processing.
Patented nonlinear signal processing techniques originate from chaos
theory and address known limitations of traditional linear signal
processing methods like FFT or correlation.
Patented methods are amenable to efficient implementation in both
software and hardware (FPGAs, ASICs).
Forward citations include Microsoft, Mitsubishi Space Software,
Broadcom, Sharp and Teradata.
Visit ICAP’s website for more information:http://icappatentbrokerage.com/forsale

Ideas, it turns out, are a dime a dozen. *Committing to an idea and
putting massive energy into the idea , with the realization that the
work may not even pay off... that is where the money is (or not)- Hide quoted text -

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"Ideas" are not patentable
novel and non-obvious workable solutions to long-standing industry
problems are.

As far as quitting your job and mortgaging your house to fully
"commit" to an "idea": you are more than welcome to do it yourself (if
your wife doesn't mind...)

thanks but no thanks

exactly