Patents Examined by Paul Kim
  • Patent number: 11805383
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a signal processing device, method, and program that can improve encoding efficiency. A signal processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires reverb information including at least one of space reverb information specific to a space around an audio object or object reverb information specific to the audio object and an audio object signal of the audio object; and a reverb processing unit that generates a signal of a reverb component of the audio object on the basis of the reverb information and the audio object signal. The present technology can be applied to a signal processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Honma, Minoru Tsuji, Toru Chinen
  • Patent number: 11803596
    Abstract: Methods and computer storage media are provided for generating entries for documents in a forward index. A document and its document identification are received, in addition to static features that are query-independent. The document is parsed into tokens to form a token stream corresponding to the document. Relevant data used to calculate rankings of document is identified and a position of the data is determined. The entry is then generated from the document identification, the token stream of the document, the static features, and the positional information of the relevant data. The entry is stored in the forward index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Knut Magne Risvik, Michael Hopcroft, John G. Bennett, Karthik Kalyanaraman, Trishul Chilimbi, Chad P. Walters, Vishesh Parikh, Jan Otto Pedersen
  • Patent number: 11801519
    Abstract: Disclosed is a noise suppressor for use inside a nozzle and adjacent a nozzle liner. The suppressor can include an inlet with a cross-sectional area larger than that of the nozzle liner outlet. The suppressor can also have an entrance length with a diverging cross-sectional area, and an exit length extending from the entrance length. By incorporating this geometry, the noise suppressor reduces noise and improves performance of the apparatus in which the suppressor is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Figure, Inc.
    Inventors: Leonard McCreary, Chris Holtzclaw, Jonathon McDaniels
  • Patent number: 11804810
    Abstract: Mechanisms for controlling an audio level of an HDMI audio system are provided, the mechanisms comprising: causing audio data to be presented by an HDMI audio system at a current system volume level; receiving a requested volume level from a second screen device; and controlling a system volume level by: (a) determining the current system volume level; (b) determining a change in volume based on a difference between the requested volume level and the current system volume level; (c) determining a direction in which to cause the system volume level to change; (d) sending a volume control message to the system using a consumer electronic control bus connected to the system indicating whether to increase or decrease the system volume level based on the determined direction of system volume change; and (e) repeating (a)-(d) until the current system volume level reaches a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Eric Jason Roberts
  • Patent number: 11805385
    Abstract: An audio signal processing method includes generating an initial reflected sound control signal according to a geometrical shape of a virtual space, generating a reverberant sound control signal using a reflected sound parameter of the virtual space, calculating timing of connection, the timing of connection being a point in time at which a volume of an initial reflected sound reproducible by the initial reflected sound control signal is a same as a volume of a reverberant sound reproducible by the reverberant sound control signal, based on the geometrical shape of the virtual space, and increasing, in a period of time before the timing of connection, a level of the reverberant sound control signal so as to cause the volume of the reverberant sound to be closer to the volume of the reverberant sound at the timing of connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Watanabe, Dai Hashimoto, Hiroomi Shidoji
  • Patent number: 11797595
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for integrating user-specific context indicators into a searchable enterprise platform. In one embodiment, an apparatus is configured to apply a learned user profile, to a set of search results to obtain a user-specific, ranked arrangement of search results. The learned user profile may be developed through the application of a machine learning and/or trained model to a set of user behaviors that have been determined or otherwise detected within an enterprise platform, such that the user-specific context in which a user's search arises can be modeled and applied to retrieved digital content items associated with a search query within the enterprise platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: ATLASSIAN PTY LTD.
    Inventor: Jon Hartlaub
  • Patent number: 11800269
    Abstract: Described embodiments generally relate to a signal processing device for on ear detection for an earbud. The device comprises a first microphone input for receiving a microphone signal from a first microphone, the first microphone being configured to be positioned within an ear of a user when the earbud is being worn; a second microphone input for receiving a microphone signal from a second microphone, the second microphone being configured to be positioned outside the ear of the user when the earbud is being worn; a signal generator configured to generate a signal for acoustic playback from a speaker configured to be positioned within the earbud; and a processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic Inc.
    Inventor: Brenton Steele
  • Patent number: 11798278
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method, apparatus, and storage medium for classifying a multimedia resource. The method includes obtaining a multimedia resource. extracting a plurality of features of the multimedia resource; clustering the plurality of features to obtain at least one cluster set, and determining cluster description information of each cluster set, the each cluster set comprising at least one feature of the multimedia resource; determining at least one piece of target feature description information of the multimedia resource based on the cluster description information of each cluster set, each piece of target feature description information being used for representing an association between one piece of cluster description information and the remaining cluster description information; and classifying the multimedia resource based on the at least one piece of target feature description information of the multimedia resource, to obtain a classification result of the multimedia resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Yongyi Tang, Lin Ma, Wei Liu, Lianqiang Zhou
  • Patent number: 11797609
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product for presenting a user interface for a conversational system is described. A unified contextual graph for use by the conversational system, the unified contextual graph comprising components based on database queries of the conversational system and a user dialog between a user and the conversational system. For each of a set of user utterances produced in a dialog with the conversational system, a semantic meaning representation is determined. The semantic meaning representations are converted to respective sentential concept graphs. The unified contextual graph is updated based on new sentential concept graphs while the dialog with the conversational system progresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Intenrational Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rangachari Anand, Ashima Arora, Raimo Bakis, Song Feng, Jatin Ganhotra, Chulaka Gunasekara, David Nahamoo, Lazaros Polymenakos, Sunil D Shashidhara, Li Zhu
  • Patent number: 11789903
    Abstract: A plurality of files that include unsearchable computer data may be analyzed and tagged. A plurality of tags that relate to characteristics of the files is determined. The characteristics relate to both the data included in the files as well as the general structure or nature of the files. The plurality of computer files is then tagged or associated with these tags, enabling the plurality of computer files to be searched to identify and retrieve relevant files of the computer files. The tags may be updated in response to various prompts to reflect changing computer files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Neil Kakita, Abhijit Rao, Robert Louis Sellers
  • Patent number: 11785412
    Abstract: A headphone for spatial audio rendering includes a first database having an impulse response pair corresponding to a reference speaker location. A head sensor provides head orientation information to a second database having rotation filters, the filters corresponding to different azimuth and elevation positions relative to the reference speaker location. A digital signal processor combines the rotation filters with the impulse response pair to generate an output binaural audio signal to transducers of the headphone. Efficiencies in creating impulse response or HRTF databases are achieved by sampling the impulse response less frequently than in conventional methods. This sampling at coarser intervals reduces the number of data measurements required to generate a spherical grid and reduces the time involved in capturing the impulse responses. Impulse responses for data points falling between the sampled data points are generated by interpolating in the frequency domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY LTD.
    Inventors: Teck Chee Lee, Geith Mark Benjamin Leslie, Mark Anthony Davies, Edwin Tomboza, Toh Onn Desmond Hii
  • Patent number: 11785383
    Abstract: A method and system for compensating a frequency response of a microphone array are provided. The method includes: multiple microphones in a microphone array respectively receiving a compensation signal sent from a calibration speaker and outputting multiple output signals respectively; determining a uniform frequency response of the multiple microphones based on the multiple output signals; calculating a compensation gain for each of the multiple microphones according to the uniform frequency response; and storing the calculated compensation gain of each microphone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Xueli Fan, Xiangru Bi
  • Patent number: 11785413
    Abstract: Media content playback is based on an identified geographic location of a sound source. A geolocation of a target venue is determined. A first geolocation of a media playback device is determined. An indication that the media playback device is within a threshold distance of the target venue is received. Media content associated with the target venue is transferred to the media playback device, wherein one or more characteristics of the media content are dynamically modified to simulate audio originating from the target device. The one or more characteristics of the media content can include audio content characteristics associated with a timing filter, a loudness filter, and a timbre filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventor: Rachel Bittner
  • Patent number: 11775665
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for executing access transactions of documents, for example, pertaining to drug discovery. A document and its metainformation are obtained, and value features are extracted from the document based on identification of concepts associated with the document. An importance score of the document is determined based on the value features and the metainformation. A summarized view of the document is constructed based on the value features, the metainformation, the concepts and the importance score. A unique identifier is generated for the document and associated with the summarized view and the concepts of the document. A search query is processed, and the summarized view of the document is retrieved and displayed based on the query. A request for accessing the document is validated, and document access is allowed when the request is validated successfully. The document access transaction may, for example, be facilitated using a blockchain platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Innoplexus AG
    Inventors: Abhijit Keskar, Akshesh Doshi
  • Patent number: 11762817
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods are disclosed for snapshots of a non-volatile device. A method includes writing data in a sequential log structure for a non-volatile device. A method includes marking a point, in a sequential log structure, for a snapshot of data. A method includes preserving a logical-to-physical mapping for a snapshot based on a marked point and a temporal order for data in a sequential log structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Nisha Talagala, Swaminathan Sundararaman, Sriram Subramanian
  • Patent number: 11762869
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for generating and providing journey flow visualizations. In one computer-implemented embodiments, a data intake and query system can be used to generate and provide journey flow visualizations. In operation, a set of journey instances associated with a journey having a set of steps is obtained. Thereafter, a journey flow visualization that represents flow paths for the set of journey instances is generated, for example, by a data intake and query system. The generation of the journey flow visualization includes, for each node representing a corresponding step of the journey, determining a flow level based on a shortest distance among the set of journey instances between the corresponding step and a journey start. The generation of the journey flow visualization further includes, for each node, determining an in-level position within the flow level based on positions of nodes in a higher flow level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventor: Horst Werner
  • Patent number: 11755636
    Abstract: A system for optimization of a block of text in accordance with a specific writing style, the system comprising a client application that implements functionality to process one or more blocks of text and a text processing system. The text processing system comprises an API and plurality of system components. The API receives requests from the client application as one or more blocks of text for optimization in accordance with a specific writing style or system. A given system component is operative to receive a given one of the one or more blocks of text from the API to return a recommendation to the client application that optimizes conformance of the given block of text in accordance with the specific writing style or system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: AXIOS HQ INC.
    Inventors: Priyanka Oberoi, Sean P. Wojcik, Grism L. Bolks, Temitope Akinsipe, Kaya Mana Baber, Poornima Devi Kannan, Nicholas Bisby, Charlotte de Wolfe, Roilan Salinas-Ortiz
  • Patent number: 11751000
    Abstract: A method of modeling the human head is provided. The human head model has a width and an aspect ratio. The aspect ratio defines different head shapes independent of the size of the human head model. The method includes the steps of forming a high-frequency head model based on ray-tracing and a plurality of half plane sections, coupling the high-frequency head model with a far-field shadowing filter, coupling the far-field shadowing filter with a near-field compensation filter to compensate for acoustic changes between the far-field and near-field regions and modifying the aspect ratio of the human head model to configure variable geometric models of the human head ranging from a nearly spherical to a very narrow embodiment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Hélène Bahu, David E. Romblom
  • Patent number: 11750995
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for processing a stereo signal. The method can include obtaining a center channel signal by up-mixing the stereo signal. The method can also include generating a filtered center channel signal by applying one or more peak filters and one or more notch filters to the center channel signal. Furthermore, the method can include generating a binaural signal based on the filtered center channel signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liyun Pang, Fons Adriaensen, Song Li, Roman Schlieper
  • Patent number: 11748340
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a data pair generating method, apparatus, electronic device and storage medium, and the field of artificial intelligence such as natural language processing and deep learning. The method may include: generating M SQL query statements for a given database, where M is a positive integer greater than one; performing the following processing for each SQL query statement: dividing the SQL query statement into at least one SQL clause; obtaining a question description corresponding to each SQL clause; combining the question descriptions to obtain a question corresponding to the SQL query statement. The solution of the present disclosure may be applied to save manpower and time costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lijie Wang, Ao Zhang