Patents Examined by Gerald Gauthier
  • Patent number: 12069429
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a cut sheet-like piezoelectric film which includes electrode layers on both surfaces of a piezoelectric layer and is capable of preventing a short circuit of the electrode layers. The object is achieved by providing a cut sheet-like piezoelectric film including a piezoelectric layer which contains piezoelectric particles in a matrix containing a polymer material, and electrode layers which are provided on both surfaces of the piezoelectric layer, in which a distance between the electrode layers at an end portion in a thickness direction is 40% or greater with respect to a thickness of the piezoelectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shingo Fujikata
  • Patent number: 12054102
    Abstract: A sound bar having a mounting assembly configured to pivotally secure the bar. The sound bar includes an elongated, at least partially hollow, housing. The housing has a body extending between two opposing ends. A speaker array is positioned in the body. At least one speaker is positioned in at least one end of the bar. The end speaker(s) are preferably bass speakers in fluid communication with the hollow housing. A grill is preferably positioned over at least one of the housing ends. The grill preferably has a center hub affixed to an outer rim by spokes defining open spaces in the grill to facilitate the emission of sound. A mount is attached to the sound bar to secure the bar to a structure while allowing the bar to pivot along its longitudinal axis. Preferably, the mount is secured to the center hub of the grill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: SOUTHERN AUDIO SERVICES, INC.
    Inventor: Jeff Jordan
  • Patent number: 12058287
    Abstract: Message-based interactive voice response (IVR) menu reconnection is used to reconnect a calling device to a destination at a specific node of a call path after the calling device disconnects from a call with the destination. Menu options of an IVR service presented during a call between the calling device and the destination are determined responsive to the calling device disconnecting from the call. A message including one or more selectable elements each associated with one of the menu options is then transmitted to the calling device. Responsive to a selection of a selectable element at the calling device, the calling device is connected to a destination endpoint. Thus, where the calling device had partially or fully traversed an IVR service during the call, the message-based IVR menu reconnection disclosed herein enables the calling device to reconnect to the destination without having to repeat that IVR service traversal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Vi Dinh Chau
  • Patent number: 12056457
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of real time speech translation wherein at least a source speech and a human interpretation of the source speech are transcribed using an automatic speech recognition system and machine translated into a common language. A best source of data is then selected repeatedly and data from the best source are machine translated into at least one another language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Charles University, Faculty Of Mathematics And Physics
    Inventors: Ondrej Bojar, Dominik Machacek
  • Patent number: 12051439
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for extracting features from digital audio signals which exhibit variations in pitch, timbre, decay, reverberation, and other psychoacoustic attributes and learning, from the extracted features, an artificial neural network model for generating contextual latent-space representations of digital audio signals. A method and system are also provided for learning an artificial neural network model for generating consistent latent-space representations of digital audio signals in which the generated latent-space representations are comparable for the purposes of determining psychoacoustic similarity between digital audio signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Distributed Creation Inc.
    Inventors: Alejandro Koretzky, Naveen Sasalu Rajashekharappa
  • Patent number: 12047741
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a substrate, functional elements on a first main surface of the substrate, an outer support portion on the substrate around a region where the functional elements are disposed, a cover portion opposed to the first main surface of the substrate with the outer support portion interposed therebetween, a support portion in a hollow space defined by the substrate, the outer support portion, and the cover portion, a wiring pattern electrically connected to the functional elements, and a through electrode extending through the substrate and electrically connected to the wiring pattern. A gap is provided between the support portion and the cover portion. A distance from the first main surface of the substrate to an upper surface of the support portion is greater than a distance from the first main surface of the substrate to an upper surface of the functional elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koichiro Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 12045571
    Abstract: At least some embodiments are directed to an entity classification system receives informational data associated with an entity. The informational data includes sentences associated with the entity. The entity classification system utilizes a first machine learning model to determine a first contextual meaning among words of a sentence associated with the entity based on a first word embedding technique, and determines at least one category associated with the entity based at least in part on the first contextual meaning. The entity classification system utilizes a second machine learning model to determine a second contextual meaning shared by a set of sentences based on a second embedding technique, and determines a subcategory of the category associated with the entity based at least in part on the second contextual meaning. The entity classification system generates an output including the category and subcategory associated with the entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Prodip Hore, Mrigank Prince, Jayatu Sen Chaudhury, Prakhar Thapak, Soham Banerjee, Shailja Pandey, Chanderpreet Singh Duggal
  • Patent number: 12047534
    Abstract: A system and method for automated chatbot testing to provide training and quality assurance of conversational artificial intelligence systems, comprising a chatbot testing administrator interface which allows chatbot makers to define what a chatbot is supposed to do, create test scripts to test the performance of the chatbot, and review the results of the chatbot tests, a chatbot testing server which provides and interface between chatbot testing agents and the administrator interface, instantiates chatbot agents and distributes them across available hardware and runs testing programs which activate, configure, and deactivate chatbot testing agents as needed. A plurality of chatbot agents may be running in parallel to provide automated testing based upon test script configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Cyara Solutions Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Geoff Willshire, Florian Treml, Christoph Börner
  • Patent number: 12041404
    Abstract: An audio device with a body configured to be worn on or abutting an outer ear of a user, wherein the body is configured to contact at least one of the outer ear and the portion of the head that abuts the outer ear, at two separate spaced contact locations, and wherein the body is compliant at a body portion that defines one of the contact locations. The device also has an acoustic module carried by the body and configured to locate a sound-emitting opening anteriorly of and proximate the user's ear canal opening when the body is worn on or abutting the ear of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Bose Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew D. Dominijanni, Nathan A. Jeffery, David W. Beverly, Yang Liu, Christopher A. Pare, Paul T. Bender, Eric M. Wallace, George E. P. Chute
  • Patent number: 12033661
    Abstract: An infotainment system for a vehicle selects and plays recordings based on a current emotion of a user in response to receiving a user-generated query. The user-generated query includes one or more words indicating a current state of mind of the user. The infotainment system includes one or more controllers in electronic communication with one or more recording databases that store a plurality of content clusters that each describe a specific recording. The one or more controllers execute instructions to select a recording described by a selected content cluster, where the recording reflects the current emotion of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Vikramaditya Nimmagadda, Arun Adiththan, Aravind Gangumalla
  • Patent number: 12022263
    Abstract: Disclosed herein, among other things, are systems and methods for a hearing device antenna. One aspect of the present subject matter includes a hearing device configured to be worn in an ear of a wearer to perform wireless communication. The hearing device includes a housing, hearing electronics within the housing, and an inverted F antenna or loop antenna disposed at least partially in the housing and configured for performing 2.4 GHz wireless communication. In various embodiments, at least a portion of the antenna protrudes from an exterior of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Beau Jay Polinske, Jay Rabel, Randy Kannas, Deepak Pai Hosadurga, Zhenchao Yang, Jay Stewart, Michael J. Tadeusiak, Stephen Paul Flood
  • Patent number: 12020138
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a prediction of an audio signal. One of the methods includes receiving a request to generate an audio signal; obtaining a semantic representation of the audio signal; generating, using one or more generative neural networks and conditioned on at least the semantic representation, an acoustic representation of the audio signal; and processing at least the acoustic representation using a decoder neural network to generate the prediction of the audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Neil Zeghidour, David Grangier, Marco Tagliasacchi, Raphaël Marinier, Olivier Teboul, Zalán Borsos
  • Patent number: 12010108
    Abstract: Embodiments may generally be directed components and techniques to detect a request to provide banking account information over a one or more voice connections, identify the requested banking account information, and generate speech data representing the banking account information requested. In embodiments further include communicating the speech data to another device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Abdelkader M'Hamed Benkreira, Michael Mossoba, Joshua Edwards
  • Patent number: 12010161
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for producing and mixing a video stream based on a predetermined video layout template and a set of selectable video streaming parameters. A plurality of individual video streams is received from a respective plurality of participant users and mixed into a mixed video stream on a mixing server which is distributed to a plurality of viewing users. An authoring server allows an authoring user to configure various video streaming parameters which instruct the mixing and display of the mixed video stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: StreamYard, Inc.
    Inventor: Jan Hesters
  • Patent number: 12008997
    Abstract: A conferencing system for determining a participant's status during a conference may include (1) a conference server configured to identify one or more conference topics, and (2) one or more participant devices in communication with the conference server, wherein each participant device is assigned to a unique participant. A natural language processor (NLP) may be in communication with the conference server, wherein the NLP processor is configured to identify a participant and one or more topics on which the participant comments. A ranking engine is configured to identify one or both of (a) whether the participant was an originator of an idea related to a conference topic, and (b) the participant's contribution to a conference topic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Mitel Networks Corporation
    Inventors: Logendra Naidoo, Shayane Umar, Mithu Babu
  • Patent number: 12010153
    Abstract: A virtual space view is provided in an online meeting user interface associated with a videoconferencing system that is changeable by gestures of meeting participants. The virtual space view displays avatars or video feeds of the meeting participants on their respective participant computers. The videoconferencing system captures video feeds of all meeting participants, including meeting participants being displayed as avatars. Software of the videoconferencing system recognizes a specific gesture of a meeting participant. The specific gesture is associated with a predefined directional movement of the meeting participant's avatar or video feed within the virtual space view during the online meeting, and the predefined directional movement is requested by the meeting participant via the specific gesture. The specific gesture of the meeting participant is a physical body gesture of the meeting participant which is captured in the video feed of the meeting participant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Inventor: Benjamin Slotznick
  • Patent number: 12010504
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for spherical video streaming over a network by a processing system including a processor, the method including prefetching audio data for rendering the spherical video; determining whether there is a single source or a plurality of sources of audio in the audio data; responsive to a determination that there is only one dominant source of the audio in the audio data, prefetching video data in a field of view centered on spatial coordinates of the dominant source of audio; responsive to a determination that there is the plurality of sources of the audio in the audio data, sorting the plurality of sources of the audio according to an estimated sound source energy for each source in the plurality of sources, thereby creating a sorted list of the plurality of sources; and prefetching video data in plural fields of view centered on spatial coordinates of each audio source in the sorted list of the plurality of sources, wherein the prefetching is
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Bo Han, Manuel Briand, Vijay Gopalakrishnan
  • Patent number: 12001791
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for screening data instances based on a target text of a target corpus. A screening device analyzes a target corpus to generate at least two term dictionaries for the target corpus. The screening apparatus, based on a frequency of a term in the target corpus, determines a term weight for the term; for each data instance, determines term scores for the data instance and the target text based on the term weights; filters the data instances based on the term scores, to generate a short list of data instances; determines term similarity scores between each data instance of the short list and target text based on the term weights; and provides a data instance determined to likely correspond to the target text and an indication of the corresponding term similarity score(s). A term is a word or an n-gram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Mina Naghshnejad, Angelina Yang, Tarun Joshi, Vijayan Nair, Harsh Singhal, Agus Sudjianto
  • Patent number: 11993817
    Abstract: The present invention relates to coding of audio signals, and in particular to high frequency reconstruction methods including a frequency domain harmonic transposer. A system and method for generating a high frequency component of a signal from a low frequency component of the signal is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Lars Villemoes, Per Ekstrand
  • Patent number: 11995528
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training an encoder neural network that is configured to process an input observation to generate a latent representation of the input observation. In one aspect, a method includes: obtaining a sequence of observations; for each observation in the sequence of observations, processing the observation using the encoder neural network to generate a latent representation of the observation; for each of one or more given observations in the sequence of observations: generating a context latent representation of the given observation; and generating, from the context latent representation of the given observation, a respective estimate of the latent representations of one or more particular observations that are after the given observation in the sequence of observations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: DeepMind Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Aaron Gerard Antonius van den Oord, Yazhe Li, Oriol Vinyals