Patents by Inventor Fondation de I'Institut de Recherche Idiap

Fondation de I'Institut de Recherche Idiap 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: 20130096922
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method, apparatus and computer program product for determining the location of a plurality of speech sources in an area of interest, comprising performing an algorithm on a signal issued by either one of said plurality of speech sources in the area to for iteratively recover data characteristic to said signal, wherein the algorithm is an iterative model-based sparse recovery algorithm, and wherein for each of a plurality of points in said area, the iteratively recovered data is indicative of a presence of a plurality of speech sources contributing to the signal received at each of a plurality of points in the area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: Fondation de I'Institut de Recherche Idiap
    Inventor: Fondation de I'Institut de Recherche Idiap