Patents Examined by Richemond Dorvil
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Patent number: 9892723Abstract: Methods and systems are described herein for generating an audible presentation of a communication received from a remote server. A presentation of a media asset on a user equipment device is generated for a first user. A textual-based communication is received, at the user equipment device from the remote server. The textual-based communication is transmitted to the remote server by a second user and the remote server transmits the textual-based communication to the user equipment device responsive to determining that the second user is on a list of users associated with the first user. An engagement level of the first user with the user equipment device is determined. Responsive to determining that the engagement level does not exceed a threshold value, a presentation of the textual-based communication is generated in audible form.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2013Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.Inventor: William Korbecki
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Patent number: 9881009Abstract: Techniques are described for identifying book title sets. The techniques may include a first-pass comparison with other books to identify other candidate title sets. A second-pass comparison may then be performed with respect to the candidate title sets. The first-pass comparison may be based on book metadata such as titles and authorship. The second-pass comparison may include a more comprehensive content comparison, such as comparing the body text of the books.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2011Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Christopher F. Weight, Andrew D. Birkett, Janna Hamaker, Tom Killalea, Alexander William Robb Nelson
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Patent number: 9871916Abstract: A system and methods is provided for providing SIP based voice transcription services. A computer implemented method includes: transcribing a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based conversation between one or more users from voice to text transcription; identifying each of the one or more users that are speaking using a device SIP_ID of the one or more users; marking the identity of the one or more users that are speaking in the text transcription; and providing the text transcription of the speaking user to non-speaking users.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2009Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: John R. Dingler, Sri Ramanathan, Matthew A. Terry, Matthew B. Trevathan
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Patent number: 9872066Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a data rate in a data client for a digital audio broadcasting system includes a buffer for storing data, a codec for coding data, and a control module for controlling a bit rate of the codec in response to a level of the data in the buffer. A method performed by the apparatus is also included.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2007Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: Ibiquity Digital CorporationInventor: Russell Iannuzzelli
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Patent number: 9830314Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for performing tabular data correction in a document. The mechanisms receive a natural language document comprising a portion of content and analyze the portion of content within the natural language document to identify an erroneous sub-portion comprising an erroneous or missing item of information. The mechanisms generate a semantic signature for the erroneous sub-portion and generate a query based on the semantic signature. The mechanisms apply the query to a knowledge base to identify a candidate sub-portion of content. The mechanisms correct the erroneous sub-portion using the identified candidate sub-portion of content to generate a corrected natural language document.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2013Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Donna K. Byron, Alexander Pikovsky, Abhishek Shivkumar, Timothy P. Winkler
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Patent number: 9817809Abstract: A system and method for homonym treatment in a speech recognition system and method are provided. The system and method for homonym treatment in a speech recognition system may be used in a mobile wireless communication devices that are voice operated after their initial activation. The system may use a voice command interpreter to identify a correct interpretation for a received word that has one or more homonyms based on the received word and the one or more pieces of grammar for the word includes the inserted information about the one or more homonyms.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2009Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: VOCERA COMMUNICATIONS, INC.Inventor: Robert E. Shostak
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Patent number: 9798720Abstract: A system and method for hybrid machine translation approach is based on a statistical transfer approach using statistical and linguistic features. The system and method may be used to translate from one language into another. The system may include at least one database, a rule based translation module, a statistical translation module and a hybrid machine translation engine. The database(s) store source and target text and rule based language models and statistical language models. The rule based translation module translates source text based on the rule based language models. The statistical translation module translates source text based on the statistical language models. A hybrid machine translation engine, having a maximum entropy algorithm, is coupled to the rule based translation module and the statistical translation module and is capable of translating source text into target text based on the rule based and statistical language models.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2009Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventors: Hassan Sawaf, Mohammad Shihadah, Mudar Yaghi
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Patent number: 9792283Abstract: A computer-implemented method for presenting statistical analysis in a natural language textual output comprising: receiving data to be analyzed by the processor; processing the data according to at least one of a plurality of pre-established statistical analysis types, thereby providing processed data; interpreting the processed data by analyzing the processed data to provide a pre-determined natural language text, thereby providing interpreted data; and generating a natural language textual output for the interpreted data according to at least one pre-established rule for converting the interpreted data to a natural language textual output.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2016Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: INTELLECTUS STATISTICS, LLCInventors: James A. Lani, Melissa Moran
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Patent number: 9786296Abstract: A method, performed in an electronic device, for assigning a target keyword to a function is disclosed. In this method, a list of a plurality of target keywords is received at the electronic device via a communication network, and a particular target keyword is selected from the list of target keywords. Further, the method may include receiving a keyword model for the particular target keyword via the communication network. In this method, the particular target keyword is assigned to a function of the electronic device such that the function is performed in response to detecting the particular target keyword based on the keyword model in an input sound received at the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2013Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Taesu Kim, Minsub Lee
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Patent number: 9779731Abstract: An audio processing system configured to generate, based at least in part on captured sound, an audio signal that includes a speech component corresponding to a user's speech utterance and an audio component corresponding to audio output of another device is described herein. The audio processing system is also configured to receive a reference signal that corresponds to the audio output of the other device. The reference signal may be received as ultrasonic audio output of the other device or from a remote server. The audio processing device then processes the generated audio signal to remove at least a part of the generated audio signal that corresponds to the reference signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2012Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Menashe Haskin, Kavitha Velusamy
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Patent number: 9779079Abstract: A method for supervising text includes receiving input text in a natural language, the input text including at least one source sentence. The input text is analyzed, which includes, for a source sentence in the input text, generating a syntacetic representation. A target sentence is generated in the same natural language, based on the syntacetic representation. The source sentence is compared with the target sentence to determine whether there is a match. A decision is output, based on the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2007Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Claude Roux, Jean-Yves Vion-Dury
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Patent number: 9755770Abstract: Disclosed are a method, a device and a system of generation of a modified digital media file based on encoding of a digital media file with decodable data such that the decodable data is indistinguishable through a human ear from a primary audio stream. In one embodiment, a method includes validating a user as a publisher, associating a response action to a message of the user, using a processor and a memory, generating a unique identifier through a hash function applied to the response action, encoding a digital media file with a decodable data using the unique identifier such that the decodable data is indistinguishable from a primary audio stream through a human ear, and generating a modified digital media file based on the encoding of the message with the decodable data such that the decodable data is indistinguishable from a primary audio stream through the human ear.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2013Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: MYMINFO PTY LTD.Inventor: Roland Storti
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Patent number: 9740681Abstract: A computer-implemented method, program product, and system, for extracting pieces of text from a plurality of pieces of text. The method includes: primarily evaluating a measure of positive expressions and a measure of negative expressions included in each of pieces of text; secondarily evaluating each of the pieces of text on the basis of a plurality of evaluation functions, where certain evaluation functions among the plurality of evaluation functions include, as variables, the measure of positive expressions and the measure of negative expressions; and extracting a piece of text having an evaluation result with a higher rating in preference to a piece of text having an evaluation result with a lower rating, where the individual evaluation results are based on the same evaluation function among the plurality of evaluation functions.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2013Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Kanayama, Takuma Murakami, Daisuke Takuma
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Patent number: 9741342Abstract: A dictation device includes: an audio input device configured to receive a voice utterance including a plurality of words; a video input device configured to receive video of lip motion during the voice utterance; a memory portion; a controller configured according to instructions in the memory portion to generate first data packets including an audio stream representative of the voice utterance and a video stream representative of the lip motion; and a transceiver for sending the first data packets to a server end device and receiving second data packets including combined dictation based upon the audio stream and the video stream from the server end device. In the combined dictation, first dictation generated based upon the audio stream has been corrected by second dictation generated based upon the video stream.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2015Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Yuichiro Takayanagi, Masashi Kusaka
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Patent number: 9740685Abstract: Embodiments relate to a method, apparatus and program product and for generating a natural language processing model for an information domain. The method derives a skeleton of a natural language lexicon from a source model and uses it to form a dictionary. It also applies a set of syntactical rules defining concepts and relationships to the dictionary and expands the skeleton of the natural language lexicon based on a plurality of reference documents from the information domain. Using the expanded skeleton of the natural language lexicon, it also provides a natural language processing model for the information domain.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2012Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: David Beaurpere, David Kearns, Daniel McCloskey
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System and method for translating real-time speech using segmentation based on conjunction locations
Patent number: 9734820Abstract: A system, method and computer-readable storage device which balance latency and accuracy of machine translations by segmenting the speech upon locating a conjunction. The system, upon receiving speech, will buffer speech until a conjunction is detected. Upon detecting a conjunction, the speech received until that point is segmented. The system then continues performing speech recognition on the segment, searching for the next conjunction, while simultaneously initiating translation of the segment. Upon translating the segment, the system converts the translation to a speech output, allowing a user to hear an audible translation of the speech originally heard.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2013Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Srinivas Bangalore, John Chen -
Patent number: 9721585Abstract: A processing buffer unit stores an audio signal. A pitch calculation unit and a pitch cycle correction unit calculate a multiple of N as the number of samples in a pitch cycle of the audio signal, in which N is an integer equal to or more than 1. A processing control unit and a start-position movement amount correction unit sequentially determine, as a sample in a start position of a compression process in a time axis domain of the audio signal, a (multiple of N)-th sample from a start position immediately before the start position. An operation unit compresses samples in a predetermined number times the pitch cycle from the sample in the start position in a time axis domain, and sets the number of samples after the compression to be the multiple of N. The present technology, for example, may be applied to an audio signal processing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2012Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Akira Inoue, Akihiro Mukai
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Patent number: 9721563Abstract: A speech recognition system uses, in one embodiment, an extended phonetic dictionary that is obtained by processing words in a user's set of databases, such as a user's contacts database, with a set of pronunciation guessers. The speech recognition system can use a conventional phonetic dictionary and the extended phonetic dictionary to recognize speech inputs that are user requests to use the contacts database, for example, to make a phone call, etc. The extended phonetic dictionary can be updated in response to changes in the contacts database, and the set of pronunciation guessers can include pronunciation guessers for a plurality of locales, each locale having its own pronunciation guesser.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2012Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Devang K. Naik
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Patent number: 9711148Abstract: A processing system receives an audio signal encoding an utterance and determines that a first portion of the audio signal corresponds to a predefined phrase. The processing system accesses one or more text-dependent models associated with the predefined phrase and determines a first confidence based on the one or more text-dependent models associated with the predefined phrase, the first confidence corresponding to a first likelihood that a particular speaker spoke the utterance. The processing system determines a second confidence for a second portion of the audio signal using one or more text-independent models, the second confidence corresponding to a second likelihood that the particular speaker spoke the utterance. The processing system then determines that the particular speaker spoke the utterance based at least in part on the first confidence and the second confidence.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2013Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Dominik Roblek
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Patent number: 9704486Abstract: Power consumption for a computing device may be managed by one or more keywords. For example, if an audio input obtained by the computing device includes a keyword, a network interface module and/or an application processing module of the computing device may be activated. The audio input may then be transmitted via the network interface module to a remote computing device, such as a speech recognition server. Alternately, the computing device may be provided with a speech recognition engine configured to process the audio input for on-device speech recognition.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2012Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth John Basye, Hugh Evan Secker-Walker, Tony David, Reinhard Kneser, Jeffrey Penrod Adams, Stan Weidner Salvador, Mahesh Krishnamoorthy