Patents by Inventor Biman Najika LIYANAGE

Biman Najika LIYANAGE has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20210118464
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and apparatus for emotion recognition from speech. According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for emotion recognition from speech may include: receiving an audio signal; performing data cleaning on the received audio signal; slicing the cleaned audio signal into at least one segment; performing feature extraction on the at least one segment to extract a plurality of Mel frequency cepstral coefficients and a plurality of Bark frequency cepstral coefficients from the at least one segment; performing feature padding by padding the plurality of Mel frequency cepstral coefficients and the plurality of Bark frequency cepstral coefficients into a feature matrix based a length threshold; and performing machine learning inference on the feature matrix to recognize the emotion indicated in the audio signal. Embodiments of the present invention can be adaptive to an audio signal in almost any size, and can real time recognizing emotions over the speech.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Christopher C. DOSSMAN, Biman Najika LIYANAGE, Ted Jens Mats OESTREM
  • Patent number: 10813829
    Abstract: This invention will allow men suffering from full and periodic erectile dysfunction to achieve, or at least assist in the process of achieving a firm and lasting erection. And, for all men, this device will be able to measure blood-flow to the penis, as well as increase sexual pleasure through micro-electronic stimulation to the penis (induce erection). Blood-flow data captured from devices' internal sensors will be processed by software and presented to users via a smart-phone app to provide useful, actionable, and customizable tasks to improve penile and overall sexual performance, health, and wellness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: CIRQ TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Biman Najika Liyanage, Mitchell Martin Miller, Alexander Ververis
  • Publication number: 20180353372
    Abstract: This invention will allow men suffering from full and periodic erectile dysfunction to achieve, or at least assist in the process of achieving a firm and lasting erection. And, for all men, this device will be able to measure blood-flow to the penis, as well as increase sexual pleasure through micro-electronic stimulation to the penis (induce erection). Blood-flow data captured from devices' internal sensors will be processed by software and presented to users via a smart-phone app to provide useful, actionable, and customizable tasks to improve penile and overall sexual performance, health, and wellness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Biman Najika LIYANAGE, Mitchell Martin MILLER, Alexander VERVERIS