Patents Examined by Paul Kim
  • Patent number: 11748340
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a data pair generating method, apparatus, electronic device and storage medium, and the field of artificial intelligence such as natural language processing and deep learning. The method may include: generating M SQL query statements for a given database, where M is a positive integer greater than one; performing the following processing for each SQL query statement: dividing the SQL query statement into at least one SQL clause; obtaining a question description corresponding to each SQL clause; combining the question descriptions to obtain a question corresponding to the SQL query statement. The solution of the present disclosure may be applied to save manpower and time costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lijie Wang, Ao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11750309
    Abstract: An audio mixer includes an operation panel having a plurality of faders, a display device, and a first surface, a second surface, and a third surface, the second surface extending from the first surface and the third surface extending from the second surface, in a front-back direction. The plurality of faders are disposed along the first surface and arranged in a left-right direction. The display device is disposed along the third surface. A first reference distance from a common reference point to a first point of the first surface is equal to greater than a second reference distance from the common reference point to a second point of the third surface. The first point is disposed at a frontmost portion of the operation panel. The second point is disposed higher than the first point, at an uppermost portion of the third surface. The common reference position is disposed higher than the second point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke Saito, Masafumi Ito, Shunichi Kamiya, Arata Imai
  • Patent number: 11741182
    Abstract: A system includes one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to dynamically link a plurality of content objects to a plurality of product pages, each content object and each product page having a first product tag. The system may assign each product page with a respective page score and each content object with a respective content score. The system may select a first product page having a first page score and a first content object having a first content score, compare the first content weight associated with the first content object to a first content threshold associated with the first product page and determine whether the first content object may be assigned to the first product page. When the first content weight is less than the first content threshold, the system may dynamically link the first content object with the first product page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: CARMAX ENTERPRISE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventor: Chris Ferguson
  • Patent number: 11729310
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a system, method, and computer readable medium for providing information to a receiving party in a communications network. The method includes receiving a message from a sending party and performing a lookup of information relating to the sending party in a database via an Internet Protocol connection. The lookup is based on an identifier of at least one of the sending party and the receiving party. Subsequently, the information is provided to the receiving party based on the availability of the information in the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Inventors: Monica Rose Martino, Kevin V. Nguyen, M. Gregory Smith
  • Patent number: 11729570
    Abstract: A device includes a memory configure to store instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to obtain spatial audio data at a first audio output device. The one or more processors are further configured to perform data exchange, between the first audio output device and a second audio output device, of exchange data based on the spatial audio data. The one or more processors are also configured to generate first monaural audio output at the first audio output device based on the spatial audio data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventor: Andre Schevciw
  • Patent number: 11729541
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the disclosure, an audio device is provided comprising a communications interface configured to be communicatively coupled to an audio source, at least one sensor, and a controller configured to control the audio device to be in a low-power mode, receive, from the sensor(s), information indicative of a presence of a user's body, initiate, via the communications interface responsive to receiving the information, a wireless communication pairing process to establish a wireless communication bond with the audio source prior to determining that the audio device is fully engaged with the user's body, determine, subsequent to initiating the wireless communication pairing process and based on information received from the sensor(s), that the audio device is fully engaged with the user's body, and control, responsive to determining that the audio device is fully engaged with the user's body, the audio device to be in an active mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Bose Corporation
    Inventors: David Minich, Josue Malaver, Miriam Israelowitz, Alexia Delhoume, Michelle Gelberger
  • Patent number: 11729574
    Abstract: A method including: obtaining at least one spatial audio signal including at least one audio signal, wherein the at least one spatial audio signal at least partially defines an audio scene; obtaining at least one augmentation audio signal; determining at least two audio objects based upon the at least one augmentation audio signal; determining audio-object dependency information for the determined at least two audio objects; and augmenting the audio scene based, at least partially, on both the determined at least two audio objects and the determined audio-object dependency information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Lasse Laaksonen
  • Patent number: 11721313
    Abstract: Noise cancellation systems and methods are provided that generate an anti-noise signal configured to destructively interfere with noise in a cancellation zone. The systems and methods receive a signal representative of the noise in the cancellation zone. The signal is analyzed to identify a frequency to be reduced in the cancellation zone, and the signal is down converted to place the identified frequency at baseband. A baseband anti-noise signal is generated based upon the down converted signal. The baseband anti-noise signal is up converted to the identified frequency to produce an anti-noise signal having components at the identified frequency, and the anti-noise signal is provided to be transduced into an acoustic signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Bose Corporation
    Inventors: Yashar Motedayen Aval, Siamak Farahbakhsh
  • Patent number: 11716585
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device (WED) corrects an error where a user hears binaural sound. A processor processes sound into binaural sound that localizes to the user at a location, and the WED determines a gaze direction of the user when the user hears the binaural sound. The WED corrects an error between the location and the gaze direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Inventors: Philip Scott Lyren, Glen A. Norris
  • Patent number: 11708741
    Abstract: On the basis of a bitstream (P), an n-channel audio signal (X) is reconstructed by deriving an m-channel core signal (Y) and multichannel coding parameters (?) from the bitstream, where 1?m<n. Also derived from the bitstream are pre-processing dynamic range control, DRC, parameters (DRC2) quantifying an encoder-side dynamic range limiting of the core signal. The n-channel audio signal is obtained by parametric synthesis in accordance with the multichannel coding parameters and while cancelling any encoder-side dynamic range limiting based on the pre-processing DRC parameters. In particular embodiments, the reconstruction further includes use of compensated post-processing DRC parameters quantifying a potential decoder-side dynamic range compression. Cancellation of an encoder-side range limitation and range compression are preferably performed by different decoder-side components. Cancellation and compression may be coordinated by a DRC pre-processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignees: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION, DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB
    Inventors: Jeffrey Riedmiller, Karl J. Roeden, Kristofer Kjoerling, Heiko Purnhagen, Vinay Melkote, Leif Sehlstrom
  • Patent number: 11707633
    Abstract: A system capable of self-adjusting both sound level and spectral content to improve audibility and intelligibility of electronic device audible cues. Audible cues are stored as sound files. Ambient noise is detected, and the output of the audible cues is altered based on the ambient noise. Various embodiments include processed sound files that are more robust in noisy environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Physio-Control, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Eugene Smith
  • Patent number: 11706580
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide a multi-audio input, stereo audio output, push-to-talk (PTT) switch device. The device may include an audio processing unit configured to perform spatial separation/positioning for one or a plurality of audio sources. The audio processing unit of the device may apply unique head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) to produce left and right audio outputs that correspond to predetermined or dynamically positioned spatial locations for each of the incoming audio streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: OTTO ENGINEERING, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel F. Stanek, Bernard L. Knych, Brian Prorok, Eric Growney
  • Patent number: 11704216
    Abstract: Each of one or more commit cycles may be associated with a predicted number of updates. A statistics collection time for a database table can be determined by estimating a sum of predicted updates included in one or more commit cycles. Whether the estimated sum of predicted updates is greater than a first threshold may be determined. In addition, a progress point for a first one of the commit cycles can be determined. A time to collect statistics may be selected based on the progress point of the first commit cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rafal P. Konik, Roger A. Mittelstadt, Brian R. Muras, Chad A. Olstad
  • Patent number: 11693840
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving a request to store a skill-based attribute of a user at a database, temporarily storing the skill-based attribute and an identification of one or more storage nodes associated with the skill-based attribute in a temporary data structure of the database, determining whether a predetermined amount of the one or more storage nodes have authenticated the user as having the skill-based attribute, and, in response successful authentication of the skill-based attribute by the predetermined amount of storage nodes, transferring the authenticated skill-based attribute from the temporary data structure to a primary data structure of the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sandeep Sukhija, Harish Bharti, Rajesh Kumar Saxena, Vishal Agrawal
  • Patent number: 11696088
    Abstract: This patent teaches a method and apparatus of an enhanced reading experience. This enables books to be brought to life by enhancing the reading experience by delivering sounds and visual effects at a precise timing based on eye tracking technology during the reading experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Opic Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Edwin Douglas, David Byron Douglas
  • Patent number: 11695381
    Abstract: A system comprising audio processing circuitry is provided. The audio processing circuitry is operable to receive audio signals. The audio processing circuitry is operable to process the audio signals to detect strength of a chat component of the audio signals and strength of a game component of the audio signals. The audio processing circuitry is operable to automatically control a volume setting based on one or both of: the detected strength of the chat component, and the detected strength of the game component. The combined-game-and-chat audio signals may comprise a left channel signal and a right channel signal. The processing of the combined-game-and-chat audio signals may comprise measuring strength of a vocal-band signal component that is common to the left channel signal and the right channel signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Kulavik, Shobha Devi Kuruba Buchannagari, Carmine Bonanno
  • Patent number: 11694671
    Abstract: An active noise control device includes a control signal generating unit including a first adaptive filter configured to generate a control signal by performing a filtering process on a reference signal corresponding to noise, an identifying unit configured to identify a peak frequency in an impedance frequency characteristic of an actuator, a peak frequency storage unit configured to store an initial peak frequency of the actuator, a first determination unit configured to determine whether or not a difference between the peak frequency currently identified and the initial peak frequency is greater than or equal to a threshold value, and a control unit configured to change a characteristic of the control signal generated by the control signal generating unit when the first determination unit determines that the difference is greater than or equal to the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kosuke Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11689846
    Abstract: An acoustic customization system to enhance a user's audio environment. One type of enhancement would allow a user to wear headphones and specify what ambient audio and source audio will be transmitted to the headphones. Added enhancements may include the display of an image representing the location of one or more audio sources referenced to a user, an audio source, or other location and/or the ability to select one or more of the sources and to record audio in the direction of the selected source(s). The system may take advantage of an ability to identify the location of an acoustic source or a directionally discriminating acoustic sensor, track an acoustic source, isolate acoustic signals based on location, source and/or nature of the acoustic signal, and identify an acoustic source. In addition, ultrasound may be serve as an acoustic source and communication medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: STAGES LLC
    Inventor: Benjamin D Benattar
  • Patent number: 11688413
    Abstract: An arcing detection system detects arcing within a semiconductor processing cleanroom environment. The arcing detection system includes an array of microphones positioned within the cleanroom environment. The microphones receive soundwaves within the cleanroom environment and generate audio signals based on the sound waves. The arcing system includes a control system that receives the audio signals from the microphones. The control system analyzes the audio signals and detects arcing within the cleanroom environment based on the audio signals. The control system can adjust a semiconductor process in real time responsive to detecting arcing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chih-Yu Wang
  • Patent number: 11678128
    Abstract: The present application provides method and apparatus for a binaural hearing assistance system using a monaural audio signal input. The system, in various examples, provides adjustable delay/phase adjustment and sound level adjustment. Different embodiments are provided for receiving the monaural signal and distributing it to a plurality of hearing assistance devices. Different relaying modes are provided. Special functions are supported, such as telecoil functions. The system also has examples that account for a head-related transfer function in providing advanced sound processing for the wearer. Other examples are provided that are described in the detailed description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Brent Edwards