Patents by Inventor Fathy F. Yassa
Fathy F. Yassa 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).
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Publication number: 20230245644Abstract: A method for speech synthesis using prosody capture and transfer includes receiving a first speech in a target prosody and receiving a second speech in a target voice; extracting prosodic features from a first speech segment in the target prosody; generating a synthetic speech segment in the target voice with the target prosody based on transferring the prosodic features from the first speech segment per phoneme to a second speech segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: SPEECH MORPHING SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Fathy F. YASSA, Mark Seligman, Darko Pekar
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Patent number: 10440328Abstract: A method and apparatus designed to permit content providers to insert personalized content into a television signal based upon the user preferences or viewing habits.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2008Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Inventor: Fathy F. Yassa
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Publication number: 20080263588Abstract: A method and apparatus designed to permit content providers to insert personalized content into a television signal based upon the user preferences or viewing habits.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2008Publication date: October 23, 2008Inventor: Fathy F. Yassa
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Patent number: 5493598Abstract: A fluoroscopic imager for observing a living creature with reduced x-ray dosage uses a video monitor for displaying frames of image samples received during respective ones of frame scan intervals that regularly and successively occur at a display frame rate sufficiently high that brightness flicker is acceptably low to a human observer; an x-ray source that can be gated on for intervals not as long as a display frame; and a fluoroscopic camera, including a raster-scanning video camera and x-ray-to-light conversion apparatus with persistence not appreciably longer than a display frame and frame-filling apparatus. Especially during purely diagnostic procedures, the frame-filling apparatus generates a continuous succession of frames of image samples at the display frame rate by interpolating between successively grabbed frames of image samples.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 1995Date of Patent: February 20, 1996Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Fathy F. Yassa, Aiman A. Abdel-Malek, John J. Bloomer
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Patent number: 5400383Abstract: A fluoroscopic imager for observing a living creature with reduced x-ray dosage uses a video monitor for displaying frames of image samples received during respective ones of frame scan intervals that regularly and successively occur at a display frame rate sufficiently high that brightness flicker is acceptably low to a human observer; an x-ray source that can be gated on for intervals not as long as a display frame; and a fluoroscopic camera, including a raster-scanning video camera and x-ray-to-light conversion apparatus with persistence not appreciably longer than a display frame and frame-filling apparatus. Especially during purely diagnostic procedures, the frame-filling apparatus generates a continuous succession of frames of image samples at the display frame rate by interpolating between successively grabbed frames of image samples.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 1991Date of Patent: March 21, 1995Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Fathy F. Yassa, Aiman A. Abdel-Malek, John J. Bloomer
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Patent number: 5224141Abstract: A method for fluoroscopically observing a living creature with reduced x-ray dosage is usable with a video monitor for displaying frames of image samples received during respective ones of frame scan intervals that regularly and successively occur at a display frame rate sufficiently high that brightness flicker is acceptably low to a human observer; an x-ray source that can be gated on for intervals not as long as a display frame; a fluoroscopic camera, including a raster-scanning video camera and a x-ray-to-light conversion apparatus with persistence not appreciably longer than a display frame; and frame filling apparatus for grabbing frames of image samples and interpolating between successively grabbed frames of image samples, when necessary, to generate frames of image samples at said display frame rate.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 1991Date of Patent: June 29, 1993Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Fathy F. Yassa, Aiman A. Abdel-Malek, John J. Bloomer, Chukka Srinivas
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Patent number: 5212392Abstract: Apparatus for sensing linear displacement of an object between first and second locations along an axis is used to sense conditions that can be made to vary displacement of an object in accordance with the condition, such as temperature, pressure and rotary motion. A light beam projected along an incident light path to the object is reflected along a reflective light path by a reflector affixed to the object. A photo-sensor array in the reflective light path intercepts the reflected light beam and produces samples of the intensity of the reflected image at multiple positions along a line across the array. An imager coupled to the array converts the light samples to representative electrical samples.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 1991Date of Patent: May 18, 1993Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ertugrul Berkcan, Chung-Yih Ho, Jerome J. Tiemann, Fathy F. Yassa
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Patent number: 5181033Abstract: An oversampled interpolative delta sigma analog-to-digital converter including a delta sigma modulator is provided with a cascade of bit-slice elements at the output of the modulator to form a filter/decimator. Each bit-slice element includes a filter circuit that filters the bit-rate signal in accordance with an arbitrary filter impulse response input signal to provide the converter with a filter characteristic that can be controllably varied without modifying the filter hardware. In each bit-slice element, an adder circuit and a delay circuit decimate the bit-rate signal produced by the delta sigma modulator to provide a digital output signal at a clock cycle rate equal to the Nyquist rate. The filter/decimator also provides encoding of the delta sigma output in 2's complement format.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 1992Date of Patent: January 19, 1993Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Fathy F. Yassa, Steven L. Garverick
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Patent number: 5164724Abstract: Conversion apparatus is used to convert digital data words to a digit-serial data format wherein digit bit-width is optimal for subsequent processing of the digital data words. Optimization is with regard to throughput efficiency, a measure of integrated circuit performance proportional to throughput rate of integrated circuitry and inversely proportional to the area of that integrated circuitry, comprising processing circuitry and attendant conversion circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 1990Date of Patent: November 17, 1992Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Richard I. Hartley, Peter F. Corbett, Fathy F. Yassa, Sharbel E. Noujaim
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Patent number: 5124656Abstract: Apparatus for measuring or compensating for phase or time delay between a reference signal and a desired signal produces an approximate error signal by differentially summing the desired and reference signals. The appoximate error signal is then used, in a feedback loop, to control application of an adaptive delay to each of the reference and desired signals. The total lead or lag difference is represented by the difference between the two delays applied to the reference and desired signals, respectively. The phase or time delay measurement or compensation arrangements may be applied to linear variable differential transformers, synchronous AM detectors, zero crossing detectors and phase locked loops. Variations on this basic technique can yield substantially exact measurement or compensation. The invention is applicable to sampling arrangements including oversampling/decimation or interpolation/decimation to increase compensation accuracy to any desired degree.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 1990Date of Patent: June 23, 1992Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Fathy F. Yassa, Kenneth B. Welles, II
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Patent number: 5034908Abstract: One type of transversal filter using digit-serial signals in its operation comprises a to-digit-serial converter for converting a succession of input data words received at its input port each to a respective succession of m-bit-wide digits supplied from its output port in order of progressively greater significance, m being a positive plural integer; a clocked delay line having an input tap connected for responding to the m-bit-wide digits supplied from the output port of the to-digit-serial converter and having at least one further tap for supplying a respective tap signal; and means for performing a weighted summation of the input signal to the clocked delay line and each tap signal from the clocked delay line, to generate a filter response in digit-serial format.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 1990Date of Patent: July 23, 1991Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Richard I. Hartley, Peter F. Corbett, Fathy F. Yassa, Sharbel E. Noujaim
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Patent number: 5025257Abstract: Conversion apparatus is used to convert digital data words to a digit-serial data format wherein digit bit-width is optimal for subsequent processing of the digital data words. Optimization is with regard to throughput efficiency, a measure of integrated circuit performance proportional to throughput rate of integrated circuitry and inversely proportional to the area of that integrated circuitry, comprising processing circuitry and attendant conversion circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 1990Date of Patent: June 18, 1991Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Richard I. Hartley, Peter F. Corbett, Fathy F. Yassa
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Patent number: 5016011Abstract: Conversion apparatus is used to convert digital data words to a digit-serial data format wherein digit bit-width is optimal for subsequent processing of the digital data words. Optimization is with regard to throughput efficiency, a measure of integrated circuit performance proportional to throughput rate of integrated circuitry and inversely proportional to the area of that integrated circuitry, comprising processing circuitry and attendant conversion circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 1990Date of Patent: May 14, 1991Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Richard I. Hartley, Peter F. Corbett, Fathy F. Yassa
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Patent number: 4942396Abstract: Conversion apparatus is used to convert digital data words to a digit-serial data format wherein digit bit-width is optimal for subsequent processing of the digital data words. Optimization is with regard to throughput efficiency, a measure of integrated circuit performance proportional to throughput rate of integrated circuitry and inversely proportional to the area of that integrated circuitry, comprising processing circuitry and attendant conversion circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 1989Date of Patent: July 17, 1990Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Richard I. Hartley, Peter F. Corbett, Fathy F. Yassa, Sharbel E. Noujaim
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Patent number: 4888719Abstract: Sine and cosine waves are simultaneously accumulated in accordance with the following equations in apparatus embodying the invention.M sin .theta.=[M sin (.theta.-.delta..theta.)] cos .delta..theta.+[M cos (.theta.-.delta..theta.)] sin .delta..theta.M cos .theta.=[M cos (.theta.-.delta..theta.)] cos .delta..theta.-]M sin (.theta.-.delta..theta.)] sin .delta..theta.Here .delta..theta. is an incremental angle between successive steps of accumulation.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1988Date of Patent: December 19, 1989Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Fathy F. Yassa
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Patent number: RE35456Abstract: A method of fluoroscopically observing a living creature with reduced x-ray dosage is usable with a video monitor for displaying frames of image samples received during respective ones of frame scan intervals that regularly and successively occur at a display frame rate sufficiently high that brightness flicker is acceptably low to a human observer; an x-ray source that can be gated on for intervals not as long as a display frame; a fluoroscopic camera, including a raster-scanning video camera and a x-ray-to-light conversion apparatus with persistence not appreciably longer than a display frame; and frame filling apparatus for grabbing frames of image samples and interpolating between successively grabbed frames of image samples, when necessary, to generate frames of image samples at said display frame rate.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 1994Date of Patent: February 18, 1997Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Fathy F. Yassa, Aiman A. Abdel-Malek, John J. Bloomer, Chukka Srinivas