Patents by Inventor Guillaume Lamy

Guillaume Lamy 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: 10181316
    Abstract: A maximum noise suppression level (Gmin) is not a single constant value for an entire frequency range, but is allowed to vary across frequencies. The amount of variation is dynamically computed based on the input noise characteristics. For example, if there is excess noise in the lower frequency region, the maximum noise suppression level in that region will increase to suppress the noise in that frequency region. This feature can be enabled all the time, and will be active when the input conditions warrant extra noise suppression in a particular frequency region. Thus, the effort involved in manually tuning an audio system (e.g., hands-free telephony, voice-controlled automotive head unit, etc.) can be significantly reduced or eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew R. Kirsch, Guillaume Lamy, Bijal Joshi
  • Publication number: 20180075836
    Abstract: A maximum noise suppression level (Gmin) is not a single constant value for an entire frequency range, but is allowed to vary across frequencies. The amount of variation is dynamically computed based on the input noise characteristics. For example, if there is excess noise in the lower frequency region, the maximum noise suppression level in that region will increase to suppress the noise in that frequency region. This feature can be enabled all the time, and will be active when the input conditions warrant extra noise suppression in a particular frequency region. Thus, the effort involved in manually tuning an audio system (e.g., hands-free telephony, voice-controlled automotive head unit, etc.) can be significantly reduced or eliminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Matthew R. Kirsch, Guillaume Lamy, Bijal Joshi
  • Patent number: 9773509
    Abstract: Acoustic noise in an audio signal is reduced by calculating a speech probability presence (SPP) factor using minimum mean square error (MMSE). The SPP factor, which has a value typically ranging between zero and one, is modified or warped responsive to a value obtained from the evaluation of a sigmoid function, the shape of which is determined by a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), which is obtained by an evaluation of the signal energy and noise energy output from a microphone over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Guillaume Lamy, Jianming Song
  • Patent number: 9761245
    Abstract: Acoustic noise in an audio signal is reduced by calculating a speech probability presence (SPP) factor using minimum mean square error (MMSE). The SPP factor, which has a value typically ranging between zero and one, is modified or warped responsive to a value obtained from the evaluation of a sigmoid function, the shape of which is determined by a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), which is obtained by an evaluation of the signal energy and noise energy output from a microphone over time. The shape and aggressiveness of the sigmoid function is determined using an extrinsically-determined SNR, not determined by the MMSE determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Guillaume Lamy
  • Patent number: 9633673
    Abstract: Acoustic noise in an audio signal is reduced by calculating a speech probability presence (SPP) factor using minimum mean square error (MMSE). The SPP factor, which has a value typically ranging between zero and one, is modified or warped responsive to a value obtained from the evaluation of a sigmoid function, the shape of which is determined by a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), which is obtained by an evaluation of the signal energy and noise energy output from a microphone over time. The shape and aggressiveness of the sigmoid function is determined using an extrinsically-determined SNR, not determined by the MMSE determination. The extrinsically-determined SNR is obtained from a long term history of previously-determined speech presence probabilities and a long term history of previously-determined noise histories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Guillaume Lamy, Bijal Joshi
  • Publication number: 20170069337
    Abstract: Acoustic noise in an audio signal is reduced by calculating a speech probability presence (SPP) factor using minimum mean square error (MMSE). The SPP factor, which has a value typically ranging between zero and one, is modified or warped responsive to a value obtained from the evaluation of a sigmoid function, the shape of which is determined by a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), which is obtained by an evaluation of the signal energy and noise energy output from a microphone over time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Guillaume Lamy, Jianming Song
  • Publication number: 20170004842
    Abstract: Acoustic noise in an audio signal is reduced by calculating a speech probability presence (SPP) factor using minimum mean square error (MMSE). The SPP factor, which has a value typically ranging between zero and one, is modified or warped responsive to a value obtained from the evaluation of a sigmoid function, the shape of which is determined by a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), which is obtained by an evaluation of the signal energy and noise energy output from a microphone over time. The shape and aggressiveness of the sigmoid function is determined using an extrinsically-determined SNR, not determined by the MMSE determination. The extrinsically-determined SNR is obtained from a long term history of previously-determined speech presence probabilities and a long term history of previously-determined noise histories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Guillaume Lamy, Bijal Joshi
  • Publication number: 20170004843
    Abstract: Acoustic noise in an audio signal is reduced by calculating a speech probability presence (SPP) factor using minimum mean square error (MMSE). The SPP factor, which has a value typically ranging between zero and one, is modified or warped responsive to a value obtained from the evaluation of a sigmoid function, the shape of which is determined by a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), which is obtained by an evaluation of the signal energy and noise energy output from a microphone over time. The shape and aggressiveness of the sigmoid function is determined using an extrinsically-determined SNR, not determined by the MMSE determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventor: Guillaume Lamy
  • Patent number: 9449615
    Abstract: Acoustic noise in an audio signal is reduced by calculating a speech probability presence (SPP) factor using minimum mean square error (MMSE). The SPP factor, which has a value typically ranging between zero and one, is modified or warped responsive to a value obtained from the evaluation of a sigmoid function, the shape of which is determined by a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), which is obtained by an evaluation of the signal energy and noise energy output from a microphone over time. The shape and aggressiveness of the sigmoid function is determined using an extrinsically-determined SNR, not determined by the MMSE determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Guillaume Lamy
  • Patent number: 9449609
    Abstract: Acoustic noise in an audio signal is reduced by calculating a speech probability presence (SPP) factor using minimum mean square error (MMSE). The SPP factor, which has a value typically ranging between zero and one, is modified or warped responsive to a value obtained from the evaluation of a sigmoid function, the shape of which is determined by a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), which is obtained by an evaluation of the signal energy and noise energy output from a microphone over time. The shape and aggressiveness of the sigmoid function is determined using an extrinsically-determined SNR, not determined by the MMSE determination. The extrinsically-determined SNR is obtained from a long term history of previously-determined speech presence probabilities and a long term history of previously-determined noise histories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Guillaume Lamy, Bijal Joshi
  • Patent number: 9449610
    Abstract: Acoustic noise in an audio signal is reduced by calculating a speech probability presence (SPP) factor using minimum mean square error (MMSE). The SPP factor, which has a value typically ranging between zero and one, is modified or warped responsive to a value obtained from the evaluation of a sigmoid function, the shape of which is determined by a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), which is obtained by an evaluation of the signal energy and noise energy output from a microphone over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Guillaume Lamy, Jianming Song
  • Patent number: 9086863
    Abstract: A method provides a non-optimized list of elements, with some of the elements having multiple terms. A table of sub-elements is generated from the elements list, with each sub-element having one term only and with a number of times a sub-element appears in the elements list being weighted in the sub-elements table. A weighted singleton histogram table is generated using a singleton dictionary, and a total popularity score of each singleton is computed from the sub-elements table. For each element from the elements list, an elements score is generated based on the total popularity score of each singleton within the element. An optimally sorted list of the elements list is generated based on the elements scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Guillaume Lamy
  • Publication number: 20150127329
    Abstract: Acoustic noise in an audio signal is reduced by calculating a speech probability presence (SPP) factor using minimum mean square error (MMSE). The SPP factor, which has a value typically ranging between zero and one, is modified or warped responsive to a value obtained from the evaluation of a sigmoid function, the shape of which is determined by a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), which is obtained by an evaluation of the signal energy and noise energy output from a microphone over time. The shape and aggressiveness of the sigmoid function is determined using an extrinsically-determined SNR, not determined by the MMSE determination. The extrinsically-determined SNR is obtained from a long term history of previously-determined speech presence probabilities and a long term history of previously-determined noise histories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Guillaume Lamy, Bijal Joshi
  • Publication number: 20150127330
    Abstract: Acoustic noise in an audio signal is reduced by calculating a speech probability presence (SPP) factor using minimum mean square error (MMSE). The SPP factor, which has a value typically ranging between zero and one, is modified or warped responsive to a value obtained from the evaluation of a sigmoid function, the shape of which is determined by a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), which is obtained by an evaluation of the signal energy and noise energy output from a microphone over time. The shape and aggressiveness of the sigmoid function is determined using an extrinsically-determined SNR, not determined by the MMSE determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Guillaume Lamy
  • Publication number: 20150127331
    Abstract: Acoustic noise in an audio signal is reduced by calculating a speech probability presence (SPP) factor using minimum mean square error (MMSE). The SPP factor, which has a value typically ranging between zero and one, is modified or warped responsive to a value obtained from the evaluation of a sigmoid function, the shape of which is determined by a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), which is obtained by an evaluation of the signal energy and noise energy output from a microphone over time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Guillaume Lamy, Jianming Song