Patents by Inventor Thomas Charles BUTCHER

Thomas Charles BUTCHER 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: 10969935
    Abstract: An Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven content generation system is configured to interact with and inject user inputs into the decision-making process to navigate the user through the boundless creative space offered by content generation algorithms powered by AI. A content generation application may generate an initial collection of artifacts (e.g., multimedia) for exposure to a user, which may be generated based on user input, context awareness, or randomly generated. Responsive to user selection of one of the initial artifacts, a subsequent collection of artifacts is generated based on characteristics of the selected artifact. The generative process is recursive in that the generative application and the user continue to interact until the user decides to use one of the generated artifacts. The generative process enables the user to navigate the virtually infinite creative space of artifacts which may be generated by AI algorithms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Charles Butcher, Eric Paul Nichols, Mark Fenwick Wheeler, Ted Tai-Yu Chen, George Valavanis, Wesley Hodgson, Ines Khelifi
  • Patent number: 10936275
    Abstract: A system and method include presentation of a plurality of virtual objects to a first user, reception, from the first user, of a command to associate a voice annotation with one of the plurality of virtual objects, reception of audio signals of a first voice annotation from the first user, and storage the received audio signals in association with metadata indicating the first user and the one of the plurality of virtual objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Duncan Og Macconnell, Ilya Yurievich Rostovtsev, Stephen Earl Fenton, Bill Chau, Kenneth Douglas Smith, Kelly Jean Graham, Ines Khelifi, Thomas Charles Butcher
  • Publication number: 20200211540
    Abstract: A system and method includes capture of first speech audio signals emitted by a first user, conversion of the first speech audio signals into text data, input of the text data into a trained network to generate second speech audio signals based on the text data, processing of the second speech audio signals based on a first context of a playback environment, and playback of the processed second speech audio signals in the playback environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Duncan Og MACCONNELL, Thomas Charles BUTCHER
  • Publication number: 20200210138
    Abstract: A system and method include presentation of a plurality of virtual objects to a first user, reception, from the first user, of a command to associate a voice annotation with one of the plurality of virtual objects, reception of audio signals of a first voice annotation from the first user, and storage the received audio signals in association with metadata indicating the first user and the one of the plurality of virtual objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Duncan Og MACCONNELL, Ilya Yurievich ROSTOVTSEV, Stephen Earl FENTON, Bill CHAU, Kenneth Douglas SMITH, Kelly Jean GRAHAM, Ines KHELIFI, Thomas Charles BUTCHER
  • Publication number: 20190377460
    Abstract: An Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven content generation system is configured to interact with and inject user inputs into the decision-making process to navigate the user through the boundless creative space offered by content generation algorithms powered by AI. A content generation application may generate an initial collection of artifacts (e.g., multimedia) for exposure to a user, which may be generated based on user input, context awareness, or randomly generated. Responsive to user selection of one of the initial artifacts, a subsequent collection of artifacts is generated based on characteristics of the selected artifact. The generative process is recursive in that the generative application and the user continue to interact until the user decides to use one of the generated artifacts. The generative process enables the user to navigate the virtually infinite creative space of artifacts which may be generated by AI algorithms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas Charles BUTCHER, Eric Paul NICHOLS, Mark Fenwick WHEELER, Ted Tai-Yu CHEN, George VALAVANIS, Wesley HODGSON, Ines KHELIFI