Patents Examined by Paul Kim
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Patent number: 11937070Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for audio processing. In some examples, an apparatus for media processing includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receive audio inputs associated with a layered description for a space of interest in an audio scene. The space of interest includes a plurality of subspaces. The layered description includes a first layer and a second layer. The first layer has a common node with a first value that is a common attribute value of two or more subspaces in the plurality of subspaces. The second layer has individual nodes respectively associated with each of the plurality of subspaces. The processing circuitry determines the plurality of subspaces of the space of interest based on the layered description, and renders an audio output based on the audio inputs in response to a location of a subject of the audio scene being in the space of interest.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLCInventors: Jun Tian, Xiaozhong Xu, Shan Liu
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Patent number: 11935547Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium is provided. The non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer instructions stored therein, which when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations. The operations comprise: determining a channel combination scheme for a current frame, where the determined channel combination scheme for the current frame is one of a plurality of channel combination schemes; and determining a coding mode of the current frame based on a channel combination scheme for a previous frame and the channel combination scheme for the current frame, where the coding mode of the current frame is one of a plurality of coding modes.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Bin Wang, Haiting Li, Lei Miao
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Patent number: 11934492Abstract: Implementations disclose determining connections between sound recordings and compositions. A method includes maintaining, by a server device of a content sharing platform, a serving structure to represent resources comprising sound recording resources and composition resources and explicit connections between the resources, generating a hypothesis structure from the serving structure, the hypothesis structure comprising the resources and the explicit connections of the serving structure and inferred connections between the resources, the inferred connections identified based on data comprised in the resources of the serving structure, and upon receiving a user approval of at least one of the inferred connections, adding, by the server device, the at least one of the inferred connections to the serving structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Stanley Wolf, Colby Ranger, Harris Cohen
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Patent number: 11928147Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus of storing slides related to the field of computer technology. The method comprises: the electronic device receives a save-as instruction for target custom show information generated in a first presentation file, wherein the target custom show information includes slides selected from the first presentation file and a show sequence of the selected slides; acquires, based on the save-as instruction, property information of a second presentation file; extracts, based on the property information and following the show sequence of the slides of the target custom show information, the slide data corresponding to the slides selected from the first presentation file, and stores them in the second presentation file.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Inventor: Yuejian Ou
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Patent number: 11919640Abstract: An unmanned aircraft includes: a microphone including a plurality of elements; and a processor that processes signals output from target elements included in the plurality of elements. In the unmanned aircraft, the processor performs a detection process of detecting a target sound signal of a target sound from the signals output from the target elements included in the plurality of elements, and changes the target elements that output the signals to be processed by the processor to select at least one target element that outputs a signal to be processed by the processor from among the plurality of elements, in accordance with a result of the detection process.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Stephen William John, Kazunobu Konishi, Katsuhiko Asai, Shunsuke Kuhara
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Patent number: 11907210Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for providing for searching of relational data via a mobile communications device are provided. Information identifying searchable tables containing fields is received using a metadata application program interface (API). The metadata API provides information about a schema of the fields and a relationship of at least one of the fields to its corresponding object. Information for generating a view of relational data is provided to the mobile communications device. The view is based on at least one of the fields of at least one of the searchable tables, and the relationship between the at least one of the fields and its corresponding object. A set of user inputs is received based on the relationship presented in the view. A query definition corresponding to the set of user inputs for searching the relational data in accordance with the set of user inputs is created and stored.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.Inventors: Jean-Baptiste Pringuey, Nathanael Black
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Patent number: 11910176Abstract: An apparatus for generating one or more audio channels. The apparatus comprises a metadata decoder for generating one or more reconstructed metadata signals from one or more processed metadata signals depending on a control signal, wherein each of the one or more reconstructed metadata signals indicates information associated with an audio signal of one or more audio signals, wherein the metadata decoder is configured to generate the one or more reconstructed metadata signals by determining a plurality of reconstructed metadata samples for each of the one or more reconstructed metadata signals. Moreover, the apparatus comprises an audio channel generator for generating the one or more audio channels depending on the one or more audio signals and depending on the one or more reconstructed metadata signals.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Christian Borss, Christian Ertel, Johannes Hilpert
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Patent number: 11902770Abstract: In one embodiment, a system for providing three-dimensional (3D) immersive sound is provided. The system includes a loudspeaker and at least one controller. The loudspeaker transmits an audio output signal in a listening environment. The at least one controller is programmed to store a plurality of directional bands with each directional band being defined by a narrowband frequency interval and to store at least psychoacoustic scale including a sub-band for each directional band. The at least one controller is further programmed to determine an energy for the sub-band and generate a loudspeaker driving signal based at least on the energy for the sub-band to drive the loudspeaker to transmit the audio output signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Harman International Industries, IncorporatedInventor: Ziad Ramez Hatab
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Patent number: 11899679Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, described herein are systems and methods for providing a remote data gateway for use with an analytics environment, such as, for example, an Oracle Analytics Cloud environment, or a data warehouse or other type of analytics or computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, the remote data gateway enables secure access by a data analytics warehouse operating in a cloud environment, to a customer's on-premise data, without migrating their on-premise data to the cloud. An on-premise data client exposes a port, which a data analytics remote data gateway server connects to, authenticates itself, and thereafter calls into the client periodically, via a remote data gateway agent, to check for subsequent requests, for example to provide on-premise data to the cloud environment, or to run data analytics on the on-premise data.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Manish Barman, Sambit Kumar Nanda, Sunil Raj
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Patent number: 11900485Abstract: Making an information retrieval process public, so that it can be followed by others, allows capturing of an interest graph that allows people to learn more about shared interests with other people. This also allows items of interest to a trusted resource (such as an expert) to be identified. These items can then be brought to the attention of other users that share the same interest as the expert. In addition, by keeping track of what particular content a user has already seen, the system can bring items of interest to the user's attention, where the user has not yet seen those items.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: David A. Raskino, Steven W. Ickman, Christopher C. McConnell, Paul A. Steckler, Matthew G. Dyor
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Patent number: 11894013Abstract: Provided is a sound pickup loudspeaker apparatus that has a mechanism for detecting situations in which sound amplification should not be performed and stopping sound amplification from a speaker. The sound pickup loudspeaker apparatus is installed in a vehicle. At least a sound pickup position and a sound amplification position are assumed to be present in the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazunori Kobayashi, Shoichiro Saito
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Patent number: 11895480Abstract: A method and system for processing an obstacle effect in a virtual acoustic space are disclosed. The method includes receiving a parameter for an obstacle candidate plane extracted from spatial information, determining, in response to the parameter, whether the obstacle candidate plane is an obstacle related to a path between a position of a virtual sound source and a position of a user, and applying a sound effect according to the obstacle to an audio signal when the obstacle candidate plane is the obstacle. The obstacle candidate plane is a plane of an object that may become the obstacle in a sound propagation path between the virtual sound source and the user.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Dae Young Jang, Kyeongok Kang, Jae-hyoun Yoo, Yong Ju Lee
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Patent number: 11886423Abstract: Implementations of this specification provide blockchain-based recording and querying methods and apparatuses. An example method includes operations performed by an access gateway, including receiving, from a first service system, user data including a user identifier of a user; transmitting, to an identifier hash system, a first hash request for the user identifier; receiving, from the identifier hash system, a hash digest of the user identifier; replacing the user identifier in the user data with the hash digest of the user identifier, and packaging the user data into a storage transaction; transmitting, to a blockchain, the storage transaction; receiving, from the blockchain, a result of the storage transaction having been performed by a smart contract published by the first service system on the blockchain; and providing, to the first service system, the result of the storage transaction.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Long Cheng, Yanpeng Li
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Patent number: 11889292Abstract: The disclosure relates to an audio processing apparatus, comprising: a plurality of audio sensors, each audio sensor configured to receive a respective plurality of audio frames of an audio signal from an audio source, wherein the respective plurality of audio frames defines an audio channel of the audio signal; and a processing circuitry configured to: determine a respective feature set having at least one feature for each audio frame of each of the plurality of audio frames, wherein the plurality of features define a three-dimensional feature array; process the three-dimensional feature array using a neural network, wherein the neural network comprises a self-attention layer configured to process a plurality of two-dimensional sub-arrays of the three-dimensional feature array; and generate an output signal on the basis of the plurality of processed two-dimensional sub-arrays. Moreover, the disclosure relates to a corresponding audio processing method.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mohammad Taghizadeh, Gil Keren, Shuo Liu, Bjoern Schuller
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Patent number: 11889275Abstract: A device to test the seal quality of an earpiece. Audio processing circuitry produces an audio signal for driving a speaker. Output from the microphone while the speaker is being driven by the audio signal is used to determine the seal. The device or method further includes control circuitry to evaluate a seal quality of the device. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2023Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Staton Techiya LLCInventors: John Usher, John P. Keady
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Patent number: 11886404Abstract: In general, this disclosure describes techniques for automatically restructuring a database to improve one or more parameters of the database. In some examples, a computing system is configured to extract a set of columns and merge the set of columns into a new table of a first new candidate model of the database; determine a table of the database based on a number of columns of that are involved in query “where” or “join” clauses; merge the table with one or more connected tables in a second new candidate model of the database, wherein the one or more connected tables are connected to the table by at least one of the “where” or “join” clauses; select a model of the database from among the candidate models based on one or more parameters; and use the selected model as the current model of the database.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: OPTUM SERVICES (IRELAND) LIMITEDInventors: Vicente Rubén Del Pino Ruiz, Hendrik Kleine, Harutyun Shahumyan
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Patent number: 11882419Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless speaker chair, and more particularly, to a wireless speaker chair capable of providing a sense of space and a three-dimensional effect to a user who sits in the chair through sounds output from a plurality of speaker channels and allowing the plurality of speaker channels to wirelessly receive sound signals and power which are received to output sounds.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2023Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: TROUND INC.Inventor: Jea Bum Park
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Patent number: 11875812Abstract: A system comprises an ear-worn electronic device configured to be worn by a wearer. The ear-worn electronic device comprises a processor and memory coupled to the processor. The memory is configured to store an annoying sound dictionary representative of a plurality of annoying sounds pre-identified by the wearer. A microphone is coupled to the processor and configured to monitor an acoustic environment of the wearer. A speaker or a receiver is coupled to the processor. The processor is configured to identify different background noises present in the acoustic environment, determine which of the background noises correspond to one or more of the plurality of annoying sounds, and attenuate the one or more annoying sounds in an output signal provided to the speaker or receiver.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: STARKEY LABORATORIES, INC.Inventors: Ritwik Giri, Karim Helwani, Tao Zhang
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Patent number: 11877134Abstract: A microphone is provided, which includes: a housing; at least one sound-pickup member disposed on the housing and configured to collect an external sound source; and a control circuit board disposed in the housing and in electrical connection to the at least one sound-pickup member; wherein the control circuit board comprises at least one input jack, and the at least one input jack is configured to operably connect with an external plug to collect other sound source different with the external sound source. In a detailed application, when the at least one sound-pickup member comprises at least two sound-pickup members, the control circuit board is configured, once a selection module of the control circuit board is triggered, to selectively output external sound sources collected by one or more of the at least two sound-pickup members and/or the other sound source collected by the at least one input jack.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: APUTURE IMAGING INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Ziping Fu, Xiangjun Zhou, Yi Xie
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Patent number: 11871207Abstract: A method for acoustic damping of sound clips includes identifying an audio clip for a location of a user in an environment and fragmenting the audio clip into a plurality of sound clips. The method further includes, responsive to determining at least one sound clip from the audio clip requires acoustic damping, performing the acoustic damping on the at least one sound clip, where a damping ratio for the at least one sound clip is altered. The method further includes responsive to determining to stitch the plurality of sound clips, stitching the plurality of sounds clips to form the audio clip, where the plurality of sound clips includes the at least one sound clip with the acoustic damping. The method further includes displaying a visual representation of the audio clip with the plurality of sound clips.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Tushar Agrawal, Christian Compton, Jeremy R. Fox, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Clement Decrop