Patents by Inventor Margaret Song

Margaret Song 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).

  • COORDINATED SPEECH AND GESTURE INPUT
    Publication number: 20150199017
    Abstract: A method to be enacted in a computer system operatively coupled to a vision system and to a listening system. The method applies natural user input to control the computer system. It includes the acts of detecting verbal and non-verbal touchless input from a user of the computer system, selecting one of a plurality of user-interface objects based on coordinates derived from the non-verbal, touchless input, decoding the verbal input to identify a selected action from among a plurality of actions supported by the selected object, and executing the selected action on the selected object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Oscar Murillo, Lisa Stifelman, Margaret Song, David Bastien, Mark Schwesinger