Patents Examined by Thierry L Pham
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Patent number: 12148437Abstract: A method of processing speech includes: providing a first set of audio data having audio features in a first bandwidth; down-sampling the first set of audio data to a second bandwidth lower than the first bandwidth; producing, by a high frequency reconstruction network (HFRN), an estimate of audio features in the first bandwidth for the first set of audio data, based on at least the down-sampled audio data; inputting, into the HFRN, a second set of audio data having audio features in the second bandwidth; producing, by the HFRN, based on a second set of audio data having audio features in the second bandwidth, an estimate of audio features in the first bandwidth for the second set of audio data; and training a speech processing system (SPS) using the estimates of audio features in the first bandwidth for the first and second sets of audio data.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Dushyant Sharma
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Patent number: 12149773Abstract: Voice-based interaction with video content being presented by a media player application is enhanced through the use of an automated assistant capable of identifying when a spoken utterance by a user is a request to playback a specific scene in the video content. A query identified in a spoken utterance may be used to access stored scene metadata associated with video content being presented in the vicinity of the user to identify one or more locations in the video content that correspond to the query, such that a media control command may be issued to the media player application to cause the media player application to seek to a particular location in the video content that satisfies the query.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Matthew Sharifi, Victor Carbune
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Patent number: 12141727Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating natural language explanations of product formulations includes implementing a causal-based formulation network model within a web-based graphical, activating a target causal path of the causal-based formulation network model based on subscriber input; constructing a formulation impact explanation prompt based on a formulation outcome node and a sequence of interconnected formulation parameter nodes of the target causal path; generating, by a large language model, a natural language explanation of the target causal path based on an input of the formulation impact explanation prompt; and surfacing, by the web-based graphical user interface, the natural language explanation of the target casual path.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2024Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Turing Labs, Inc.Inventors: Michael L. Thompson, Manmit Shrimali
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Patent number: 12141526Abstract: The deep semantic feature based few-shot intent recognition method for air traffic control instructions, belonging to the technical field of air traffic control; the method of the present invention solves technical problems in the prior art relating to incomplete and unreliable security situation awareness and semantic representation due to poor intent recognition ability for instructions with a small sample size, as well as difficulty in improving the applicability of models while keeping a small amount of labeled language information; the present invention uses the one obtained air traffic control instruction set to construct a domain language model and adopts an unsupervised learning method to enhance the mining and representation of deep-level features of air traffic control air-ground communication, thereby further improving the reliability of safety situation awareness and semantic representation.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2024Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: BEIHANG UNIVERSITYInventors: Kaiquan Cai, Yang Yang, Yi Hui
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Patent number: 12142263Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for recognizing speech using a spiking neural network acoustic model implemented on a neuromorphic processor are described. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, a trained acoustic model implemented as a spiking neural network (SNN) on a neuromorphic processor of a client device, a set of feature coefficients that represent acoustic energy of input audio received from a microphone communicably coupled to the client device. The acoustic model is trained to predict speech sounds based on input feature coefficients. The acoustic model generates output data indicating predicted speech sounds corresponding to the set of feature coefficients that represent the input audio received from the microphone. The neuromorphic processor updates one or more parameters of the acoustic model using one or more learning rules and the predicted speech sounds of the output data.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions LimitedInventors: Lavinia Andreea Danielescu, Timothy M. Shea, Kenneth Michael Stewart, Noah Gideon Pacik-Nelson, Eric Michael Gallo
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Patent number: 12136431Abstract: Systems and methods for creating a view of an environment are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive parameters and measurements from at least two of one or more microphones, one or more imaging devices, a radar sensor, a lidar sensor, and/or one or more infrared imaging devices located in a computing device; analyze the parameters and measurements received from the multimodal input; generate a world map of the environment around the computing device; and repeat the receiving of parameters and measurements from the input devices and the analyzing steps on a periodic basis to maintain a persistent world map of the environment.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2021Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Embodied, Inc.Inventors: Paolo Pirjanian, Stefan Scherer, Mario E Munich
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Patent number: 12131115Abstract: A meeting summarization method, system, and computer program product, include compiling notes from a meeting between a plurality of users and providing a single document that summarizes the meeting based on the compiled notes.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2021Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Keith William Grueneberg, Jason Crawford, Jonathan Lenchner, Satya V. Nitta, Christian Makaya, Sharad C. Sundararajan
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Patent number: 12130851Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a system for improving performance of text summarization and has an object of improving performance of a technique for generating a summary from a given paragraph. According to the invention to achieve the object, a method for improving performance of text summarization includes: an a step of generating an embedding vector by vectorizing a natural language-based context; a b step of generating a graph using the embedding vector and calculating a first likelihood of each of at least one node included in the graph; a c step of generating a second likelihood by assigning a weight to the first likelihood according to a result of comparing at least one node included in the graph with the context; and a d step of calculating a third likelihood for all candidate paths present in the graph based on the second likelihood, selecting a path having a highest third likelihood, and generating a summary based on the path.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2023Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: 42Maru Inc.Inventors: Dong Hwan Kim, Han Su Kim, Woo Tae Jeong, Seung Hyeon Lee, Chang Hyeon Lim
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Patent number: 12093660Abstract: A server accesses a natural language query. The server facilitates a mapping of the natural language query to a vector using a query-to-vector engine. The server matches the vector to an intent representing a prediction associated with the natural language query. The server provides a response to the natural language query based on the intent.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2023Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.Inventors: Justin Bryce Betteridge, Connor Isaac Brinton, Samuel John Wenke
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Patent number: 12093652Abstract: Systems and methods for content framing monitoring and intervention are disclosed. In one example, a method includes receiving, at a computing device, first text conveying first information, performing natural language processing of the first text, determining a first framing of the first information based on the natural language processing of the first text, determining second text conveying the first information with a second framing, different from the first framing, and outputting the second text on an electronic display.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.Inventors: Kent Lyons, Charlene C. Wu, Matthew Lee, Rumen Iliev, Yanxia Zhang, Yue Weng
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Patent number: 12086557Abstract: Disclosed implementations include systems, methods, and apparatus that process multiple, disparate streams of data, determine correlations and relationships between the data and provide natural language responses that provide insights for events or activities that have occurred and foresights for events or activities that are forecasted to occur. The disclosed implementations include a model that understands data statistics and provides both insights and foresights that are backed with statistical support that can be presented to and understood by operators. Still further, the disclosed implementations are capable of operating at edge locations that may be frequently or permanently disconnected from conventional or cloud based systems.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2023Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Armada Systems, Inc.Inventors: Sina Ehsani, Pragyana K. Mishra
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Patent number: 12086560Abstract: Implementations of the disclosure provide a method, system and computer program product for model localization. In an implementation of the disclosure, a method for model localization includes parsing a model to identify translatable terms, generating a seed file associating each of the translatable terms with a corresponding tag and replacing each translatable term in the model with a corresponding tag and submitting each of the translatable terms to machine translation for a target language to produce a different translation file mapping each tag from the seed file with a translated term in the target language of a corresponding one of the translatable terms. Then, the model may be deployed in a data analytics application using the different translation file to dynamically translate each translatable term into a corresponding translated term within a user interface to the data analytics application.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2022Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Andrew Leahy, Steven Talbot
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Patent number: 12087314Abstract: An encoder for encoding a parametric spectral representation (f) of auto-regressive coefficients that partially represent an audio signal. The encoder includes a low-frequency encoder configured to quantize elements of a part of the parametric spectral representation that correspond to a low-frequency part of the audio signal. It also includes a high-frequency encoder configured to encode a high-frequency part (fH) of the parametric spectral representation (f) by weighted averaging based on the quantized elements ({circumflex over (f)}L) flipped around a quantized mirroring frequency ({circumflex over (f)}m), which separates the low-frequency part from the high-frequency part, and a frequency grid determined from a frequency grid codebook in a closed-loop search procedure. Described are also a corresponding decoder, corresponding encoding/decoding methods and UEs including such an encoder/decoder.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2023Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Volodya Grancharov, Sigurdur Sverrisson
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Patent number: 12079254Abstract: A document processing system is configured to identify, for each accessed electronic document in a first set of multiple electronic documents, a set of identified multi-word phrases determined to be in ordered text information in the accessed electronic document, each multi-word phrase of the set of identified multi-word phrases including adjacent words in the ordered text information; and determine, for each accessed electronic document in the first set of multiple electronic documents, a selected document type from the first set of document types based at least on an analysis of the set of identified multi-word phrases with respect to multi-word-phrase characteristics identified by a first definition and associated with each document type in a first set of document types associated with a first document-set type.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2023Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: DOCUFREE CORPORATIONInventor: John Frank Walsh
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Patent number: 12080277Abstract: Systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable media for attributing generated audio contents to training examples are provided. A first audio content generated using a generative model may be received. The generative model may be a result of training a machine learning model using training examples. Each training example may be associated with a respective audio content. Properties of the first audio content may be determined. For each training example of the training examples, the respective audio content may be analyzed to determine properties of the respective audio content. The properties of the first audio content and the properties of the audio contents associated with the training examples may be used to attribute the first audio content to a subgroup of the training examples. A respective data-record associated with a source associated with the training examples of the subgroup may be updated based on the attribution.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2023Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: BRIA ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LTD.Inventors: Yair Adato, Michael Feinstein, Nimrod Sarid, Ron Mokady, Eyal Gutflaish, Vered Horesh-Yaniv
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Patent number: 12080287Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to using voice interaction to access call functionality of a companion device. In an example process, a user utterance is received. Based on the user utterance and contextual information, the process causes a server to determine a user intent corresponding to the user utterance. The contextual information is based on a signal received from the companion device. In accordance with the user intent corresponding to an actionable intent of answering the incoming call, a command is received. Based on the command, instructions are provided to the companion device, which cause the companion device to answer the incoming call and provide audio data of the answered incoming call. Audio is outputted according to the audio data of the answered incoming call.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2021Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Karl Ferdinand Schramm, Justin Binder, Benjamin S. Phipps, Po Keng Sung
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Patent number: 12073180Abstract: Methods are provided, such as a method of interacting with a large language model (LLM), including the step of a processing system using a structured, machine-readable representation of data that conforms to a machine-readable language, such as a universal language, to provide new context data for the LLM, in order to improve the output, such as continuation text output, generated by the LLM in response to a prompt; and such as a method of interacting with a LLM, including the step of providing continuation data generated by the LLM to a processing system that uses a structured, machine-readable representation of data that conforms to a machine-readable language, such as a universal language, in which the processing system is configured to analyse the continuation output generated by the LLM in response to a prompt to enable an improved version of that continuation output to be provided to a user. Related computer systems are provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2023Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: UNLIKELY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LIMITEDInventors: William Tunstall-Pedoe, Robert Heywood, Seth Warren, Paul Benn, Duncan Reynolds, Ayush Shah, Luci Krnic, Ziyi Zhu
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Patent number: 12067362Abstract: Methods are provided, such as a method of interacting with a large language model (LLM), including the step of a processing system using a structured, machine-readable representation of data that conforms to a machine-readable language, such as a universal language, to provide new context data for the LLM, in order to improve the output, such as continuation text output, generated by the LLM in response to a prompt; and such as a method of interacting with a LLM, including the step of providing continuation data generated by the LLM to a processing system that uses a structured, machine-readable representation of data that conforms to a machine-readable language, such as a universal language, in which the processing system is configured to analyse the continuation output generated by the LLM in response to a prompt to enable an improved version of that continuation output to be provided to a user. Related computer systems are provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: UNLIKELY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LIMITEDInventors: William Tunstall-Pedoe, Robert Heywood, Seth Warren, Paul Benn, Duncan Reynolds, Ayush Shah, Luci Krnic, Ziyi Zhu
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Patent number: 12032919Abstract: Examples provide a large language model confidence scoring post-calibration based on a combination of temperature scaling, softmax denominator top-k probabilities selection, and polynomial regression. A secure machine learning system receives results generated by a machine learning (ML) model, the results including at least one confidence score. The secure ML system identifies at least one challenge in accuracy of the results generated by the ML model configured to perform document processing and understanding.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2023Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Snowflake Inc.Inventor: Andrzej Szwabe
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Patent number: 12014141Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for categorizing a transaction description using natural language processing.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2021Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: INTUIT INC.Inventors: Tanmay Shah, Pavanakumar Manakatti, Suchit Kumar Biswal, Neha Kumari