Patents by Inventor Thomas Drugman

Thomas Drugman 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: 8862472
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for coding excitation signal of a target speech comprising the steps of: extracting from a set of training normalized residual frames, a set of relevant normalized residual frames, said training residual frames being extracted from a training speech, synchronized on Glottal Closure Instant(GCI), pitch and energy normalized; determining the target excitation signal of the target speech; dividing said target excitation signal into GCI synchronized target frames; determining the local pitch and energy of the GCI synchronized target frames; normalizing the GCI synchronized target frames in both energy and pitch, to obtain target normalized residual frames; determining coefficients of linear combination of said extracted set of relevant normalized residual frames to build synthetic normalized residual frames close to each target normalized residual frames; wherein the coding parameters for each target residual frames comprise the determined coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignees: Universite de Mons, Acapela Group S.A.
    Inventors: Geoffrey Wilfart, Thomas Drugman, Thierry Dutoit
  • Publication number: 20120123782
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for coding excitation signal of a target speech comprising the steps of: extracting from a set of training normalised residual frames, a set of relevant normalised residual frames, said training residual frames being extracted from a training speech, synchronised on Glottal Closure Instant (GCI), pitch and energy normalised; determining the target excitation signal of the target speech; dividing said target excitation signal into GCI synchronised target frames; determining the local pitch and energy of the GCI synchronised target frames; normalising the GCI synchronised target frames in both energy and pitch, to obtain target normalised residual frames; determining coefficients of linear combination of said extracted set of relevant normalised residual frames to build synthetic normalised residual frames close to each target normalised residual frames; wherein the coding parameters for each target residual frames comprise the determined coefficients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Inventors: Geoffrey Wilfart, Thomas Drugman, Thierry Dutoit