Patents by Inventor Daniel Kenneth Bone

Daniel Kenneth Bone 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).

  • Patent number: 11545174
    Abstract: Described herein is a system for emotion detection in audio data using a speaker's baseline. The baseline may represent a user's speaking style in a neutral emotional state. The system is configured to compare the user's baseline with input audio representing speech from the user to determine a emotion of the user. The system may store multiple baselines for the user, each associated with a different context (e.g., environment, activity, etc.), and select one of the baselines to compare with the input audio based on the contextual situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Kenneth Bone, Chao Wang, Viktor Rozgic
  • Patent number: 11532300
    Abstract: A device with a microphone acquires audio data of a user's speech. A neural network accepts audio data as input and provides sentiment data as output. The neural network is trained using training data based on input from raters who provide votes as to which sentiment descriptors they think are associated with a sample of speech. A vote by a rater assessing the sample for a particular semantic descriptor is distributed to a plurality of semantically similar semantic descriptors. Semantic descriptor similarity data indicates relative similarity between possible semantic descriptors in the semantic space. The distributed partial votes may be aggregated to produce training data comprising samples of speech and weights of corresponding semantic descriptors. The training data is then used to train the neural network. For example, the neural network may be trained with the training data using per-instance cosine similarity loss or correlational loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Kenneth Bone, Viktor Rozgic, Chao Wang
  • Patent number: 11393462
    Abstract: A device with a microphone acquires audio data of a user's speech. That speech comprises utterances, that together comprise a session. The audio data is processed to determine sentiment data indicative of perceived emotional content of the speech as conveyed by individual utterances of the user. That information is then used to determine the emotional content of the session. For example, the information may include several words describing the overall and outlying emotions of the session. Numeric metrics may also be determined, such as activation and valence. A user interface may present the words and metrics to the user. The user may use this information to assess their state of mind, facilitate interactions with others, and so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Narendra Gyanchandani, Bilyana Slavova, Daniel Kenneth Bone, Hanhan Wang, Njenga Kariuki
  • Publication number: 20210249035
    Abstract: Described herein is a system for emotion detection in audio data using a speaker's baseline. The baseline may represent a user's speaking style in a neutral emotional state. The system is configured to compare the user's baseline with input audio representing speech from the user to determine a emotion of the user. The system may store multiple baselines for the user, each associated with a different context (e.g., environment, activity, etc.), and select one of the baselines to compare with the input audio based on the contextual situation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Daniel Kenneth Bone, Chao Wang, Viktor Rozgic
  • Patent number: 10943604
    Abstract: Described herein is a system for emotion detection in audio data using a speaker's baseline. The baseline may represent a user's speaking style in a neutral emotional state. The system is configured to compare the user's baseline with input audio representing speech from the user to determine a emotion of the user. The system may store multiple baselines for the user, each associated with a different context (e.g., environment, activity, etc.), and select one of the baselines to compare with the input audio based on the contextual situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Kenneth Bone, Chao Wang, Viktor Rozgic