Patents Examined by Mohammad K Islam
  • Patent number: 12130808
    Abstract: Provided are a device and method for converting a natural language query into a structured query language (SQL) query for a database search. The method includes an operation A of labeling natural language queries included in training data, an operation B of converting the natural language queries into second SQL queries by applying the natural language queries to an SQL conversion model, an operation C of verifying the second SQL queries, and an operation D of training the SQL conversion model by comparing the second SQL queries with third SQL queries corresponding to the natural language queries of the training data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: 42Maru Inc.
    Inventors: Dong Hwan Kim, Han Soo Kim, Ah Rim Sohn, Jun Hyeok Park, In Je Seong, Sun Young Lee
  • Patent number: 12123835
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of predicting physical properties, in particular performance parameters, of superabsorbent polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ward Brullot, Gijs Vanhoutte, Stijn Verbert, Filip Mees, Maarten Vanbel
  • Patent number: 12125474
    Abstract: A learning device includes a learning unit learning, with a first feature value having a first feature and given a first value label, a second feature value having a second feature and given a second value label and a third feature value having a feature between the first feature and the second feature and given a value label having a value between the first value label and the second value label as teacher data, a model for estimating which of the first feature and the second feature an input feature value sequence has.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takanori Ashihara, Yusuke Shinohara, Yoshikazu Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 12119000
    Abstract: A device, such as Network Microphone Device or a playback device, detecting an event associated with the device or a system comprising the device. In response, an input detection window is opened for a given time period. During the given time period the device is arranged to receive an input sound data stream representing sound detected by a microphone. The input sound data stream is analyzed for a plurality of keywords and/or a wake-word for a Voice Assistant Service (VAS) and, based on the analysis, it is determined that the input sound data stream includes voice input data comprising a keyword or a wake-word for a VAS. In response, the device takes appropriate action such as causing the media playback system to perform a command corresponding to the keyword or sending at least part of the input sound data stream to the VAS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Connor Kristopher Smith, Matthew David Anderson
  • Patent number: 12119017
    Abstract: Provided is a device that includes a user spoken voice extraction unit that extracts a user spoken voice from a microphone input sound. The user spoken voice extraction unit analyzes a sound source direction of an input sound, determines whether the input sound includes an external apparatus output sound on the basis of sound source directions of external apparatus output sounds recorded in a database, and removes a sound signal corresponding to a feature amount, for example, a frequency characteristic of the external apparatus output sound recorded in the database, from the input sound to extract a user spoken voice from which the external apparatus output sound has been removed upon determining that the input sound includes the external apparatus output sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Takahashi, Kazuya Tateishi, Yuichiro Koyama, Hiroaki Ogawa, Chie Kamada, Noriko Totsuka, Emiro Tsunoo, Yuki Takeda, Yoshinori Maeda, Kan Kuroda, Akira Fukui, Hideaki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12112748
    Abstract: Methods and systems provide for extracting filler words and phrases from a communication session. In one embodiment, the system receives a transcript of a conversation involving one or more participants produced during a communication session; extracts, from the transcript, utterances including one or more sentences spoken by the participants; identifies a subset of the utterances spoken by a subset of the participants associated with a prespecified organization; extracts filler phrases within the subset of utterances, the filler phrases each comprising one or more words representing disfluencies within a sentence, where extracting the filler phrases includes applying filler detection rules; and presents, for display at one or more client devices, data corresponding to the extracted filler phrases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Davide Giovanardi, Vijay Parthasarathy, Min Xiao-Devins, Xiaojing Zhao
  • Patent number: 12112756
    Abstract: An interaction method triggered by a mouth-covering gesture and an intelligent electronic device are provided. The interaction method is applied to an intelligent electronic device arranged with a sensor. The intelligent electronic device includes a sensor system for capturing a signal of a user putting one hand on a mouth to make a mouth-covering gesture. The interaction method includes: processing the signal to determine whether the user puts the hand on the mouth to make the mouth-covering gesture; and in a case that the user puts the hand on the mouth to make the mouth-covering gesture, determining a mouth-covering gesture input mode as an input mode for controlling an interaction to trigger a control command or trigger another input mode, by executing a program on the intelligent electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chun Yu, Yuanchun Shi
  • Patent number: 12100415
    Abstract: Systems and methods for efficient management of an audio/video conferences is disclosed. The method includes receiving an audio question from a first user of a plurality of users connected to a conference, recording the audio question and preventing an immediate transmission of the audio question to the plurality of users connected to the conference, analyzing an audio portion of the conference to identify a time for transmitting the audio question to the plurality of users connected to the conference, and transmitting the audio question to the plurality of users at the identified time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Ankur Anil Aher, Charishma Chundi
  • Patent number: 12093293
    Abstract: Synchronizing a sensor network and an ontology by analyzing outputs of a set of sensors, analyzing relationships of an ontology, mapping the outputs to the relationships, identifying a correlation among the outputs, and modifying the ontology according to the correlation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron K. Baughman, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Gray Franklin Cannon, Stephen C Hammer
  • Patent number: 12089962
    Abstract: Disclosed in various embodiments of the present invention are a method and a device comprising: a first electrode, a second electrode and a third electrode which make contact with the body of a user; an instrumentation amplifier for differentially amplifying signals received from the first electrode and the second electrode; a feedback amplifier for feeding back feedback noise to the body of the user through the third electrode; and a control circuit, wherein the control circuit is configured to analyze a noise level by using a biosignal obtained from the instrumentation amplifier, and control the gain of the feedback amplifier on the basis of the result of the analysis. Various embodiments are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Suho Lee, Younghyun Kim
  • Patent number: 12094452
    Abstract: Methods for automatically evaluating ASR outputs and providing annotations, including corrections, on the transcriptions—in order to improve recognition—may be based on an analysis of sessions of user voice queries, utilizing time-ordered ASR transcriptions of user voice queries (i.e., user utterances). This utterance-based approach may involve extracting both session-level and query-level characteristics from a voice query sessions and identifying patterns of query reformulation in order to detect erroneous transcriptions and automatically determine an appropriate correction. Alternative, or in addition, ASR outputs may be evaluated based on user behavior. The outcomes may be classified as positive or negative. An ASR transcription may be labeled using the description of the outcome. The labeled transcription may be used as training data to train a model to output improved transcriptions of voice queries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Wenyan Li, Ferhan Ture, Jose Casillas, George Thomas Des Jardins
  • Patent number: 12086504
    Abstract: Techniques enable an automatic adjustment of a muted response setting of an automated assistant based on a determination of an expectation by a user to hear an audible response to their query, despite the muted setting. Determination of the expectation may be based on historical, empirical data uploaded from multiple users over time for a given response scenario. For example, the system may determine from the historical data that a certain type of query has been associated with a user both repeating their query and increasing a response volume setting within a given timeframe. Metrics may be generated, stored, and invoked in response to attributes associated with identifiable types of queries and query scenarios. Automated response characteristics meant to reduce inefficiencies may be associated with certain queries that can otherwise collectively burden network bandwidth and processing resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Michael Schaer, Vitaly Gatsko, Ágoston Weisz
  • Patent number: 12087300
    Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to employing dynamic regulations for governing responsiveness of multiple automated assistant devices, and specifically the responsiveness an automated assistant to a given spoken utterance that has been acknowledged by two or more of the assistant devices. The dynamic regulations can be context-dependent and adapted over time in order that the automated assistant can accommodate assistant interaction preferences that may vary from user to user. For instance, a spoken utterance such as “stop,” may be intended to affect different assistant actions based on a context in which the user provided the spoken utterance. The context can refer to a location of the user relative to other rooms in a home, a time of day, a user providing the spoken utterance, an arrangement of the assistant devices within a home, and/or a state of each device in the home.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Raunaq Shah, Jaclyn Konzelmann, Lisa Takehana, Ruxandra Davies, Adrian Diaconu
  • Patent number: 12086563
    Abstract: Systems and methods for constructing a narrative of an interaction with a subject are disclosed. According to an aspect, a method includes receiving response prompts for interacting with a subject. The method includes constructing a data structure including a set of nodes. Each of the nodes corresponds to one of the response prompts. Each link is traversable based on a response to a response prompt at the respective node. The method includes providing a narrative build manager configured to receive one or more responses to one or more response prompts of the set of nodes. The narrative build manager is configured use the one or more responses to traverse the links. The narrative build manager is configured to construct a narrative of an interaction with a subject based on the traversal of the links and the responses to the response prompts at one or more nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Inventor: Rachel Lea Ballantyne Draelos
  • Patent number: 12087922
    Abstract: Energy storage device, in particular for the starter of an internal combustion engine, includes at least one energy storage element, a data generating unit for acquiring operating parameters of the energy storage device and generating corresponding data, at least one separating device for reversibly separating an electrically conductive connection between the energy storage element and a power source and/or an electrically conductive connection between the energy storage element and a power receiver, and a data transmitting unit for transmitting data between the data generating unit and a data input/output device and between the data input/output device and the separating device, where the separating device is actuated depending on data which is transmitted from the data generating unit and/or the data transmitting unit to the separating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: LITEWERKS GMBH
    Inventor: Frederic Dietze
  • Patent number: 12086501
    Abstract: An automotive processing unit includes an infotainment system having a speech interface, an application suite comprising one or more spatially-cognizant applications, and an automotive assistant that is configured to execute one or more of the spatially-cognizant applications. The speech interface is configured to receive a navigation announcement from a navigator and a touring announcement from one of the spatially-cognizant applications and, in response, to cause a spoken announcement to be made audible in a vehicle's cabin through a loudspeaker. The spoken announcement comprising content from at least one of the touring announcement and the navigation announcement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Cerence Operating Company
    Inventors: Nils Lenke, Christian Benien, Prasad Mandge, Ketan Kankapure, Aditya Chauhan, Duygu Kanver, Kalpeshkumar Bhanubhai Patel, Marina Matveevskaia, Abbas Vanak
  • Patent number: 12087316
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle quality problem management system and a data processing method thereof. The system includes a management server including a server communication device that performs wireless communication with a mobile device, and a server processing device connected to the server communication device, and the server processing device receives a voice signal containing a current quality problem from the mobile device, converts the current quality problem in the voice signal to text using speech to text (STT), and registers the current quality problem converted into the text in a database (DB).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventor: Byoung Il Choi
  • Patent number: 12087409
    Abstract: A method for predicting a property of a sample molecule involves, for each of a multitude of reference molecules, obtaining a multitude of fingerprints and at least one property, and obtaining the multitude of fingerprints of the sample molecule. The method further involves for each of the multitude of reference molecules, using each of the multitude of fingerprints, calculating distances to the sample molecule, and for each of the multitude of reference molecules, determining a relative predictive dominance, based on the distances to the sample molecule. The method also involves, for each of the multitude of reference molecules, determining a fitness value based on the relative predictive dominance, and predicting the at least one property of the sample molecule based on the at least one property of the multitude of reference molecules and the fitness values obtained for the reference molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Cyclica Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Edward Brereton, Sana Alwash, Stephen Scott Mackinnon, Joseph Christian Campbell Somody, Andreas Windemuth
  • Patent number: 12073828
    Abstract: Described herein is a method for Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based speech source separation, wherein the method includes the steps of: (a) providing multiple frames of a time-frequency transform of an original noisy speech signal; (b) inputting the time-frequency transform of said multiple frames into an aggregated multi-scale CNN having a plurality of parallel convolution paths; (c) extracting and outputting, by each parallel convolution path, features from the input time-frequency transform of said multiple frames; (d) obtaining an aggregated output of the outputs of the parallel convolution paths; and (e) generating an output mask for extracting speech from the original noisy speech signal based on the aggregated output. Described herein are further an apparatus for CNN based speech source separation as well as a respective computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium with instructions adapted to carry out said method when executed by a device having processing capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Jundai Sun, Zhiwei Shuang, Lie Lu, Shaofan Yang, Jia Dai
  • Patent number: 12068001
    Abstract: Techniques for detecting certain acoustic events from audio data are described. A system may perform event aggregation for certain types of events before sending an output to a device representing the event is detected. The system may bypass the event aggregation process for certain types of events that the system may detect with a high level of confidence. In such cases, the system may send an output to the device when the event is detected. The system may be used to detect acoustic events representing presence of a person or other harmful circumstances (such as, fire, smoke, etc.) in a home, an office, a store, or other types of indoor settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Harshavardhan Sundar, Sheetal Laad, Jialiang Bao, Ming Sun, Chao Wang, Chungnam Chan, Cengiz Erbas, Mathias Jourdain, Nipul Bharani, Aaron David Wirshba