Patents Examined by Thierry L Pham
  • Patent number: 11308936
    Abstract: A speech signal processing method of a user terminal includes: receiving a speech signal, detecting a personalized information section including personal information in the speech signal, performing data processing on the personalized information section of the speech signal by using a personalized model generated based on the personal information, and receiving, from a server, a result of the data processing performed by the server on a general information section of the speech signal that is different than the personalized information section of the speech signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae-yoon Kim, Sang-ha Kim, Sung-Soo Kim, Jin-sik Lee, Chang-woo Han, Eun-kyoung Kim, Jae-won Lee
  • Patent number: 11302316
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for implementation and use of voice activated laboratory environments (VALET) are disclosed. According to one aspect, a VALET controls a first instrument in a first location, and has, in acoustic proximity to the first location, an audio interface configured to receive voice commands, to enunciate responses to the voice commands, and to transmit a first signal responsive to a first voice command to an intermediary location. The VALET also includes a computer configured to receive a computer instruction from the intermediary location, the computer instruction configuring the computer to select and issue an instrument command to cause the first instrument to effectuate the voice command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: ETS-Lindgren, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Duane Christopher, Radhika Kozhikodakatha Menon
  • Patent number: 11295082
    Abstract: Converting text-based requirements to a live prototype includes receiving text with a natural language string. The text includes a term for a component from a design language system and the natural language string describes at least a part of an interface. The method further includes generating, by a converter module, an output string from the text by: tokenizing the text to form a plurality of tokens that include a token for the term, tagging the token with a tag for the term, and applying a rule that uses the token and the tag. Applying the rule maps the token to the component of the design language system and writes the component into the output string. The method further includes generating the interface from the output string. The interface is made with the design language system and includes the component from the output string. The interface is presented with the component to a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Zhen Li, Zhenghao Ju, Monisha Manoharan, Adelle Knight, Jiajing Guo
  • Patent number: 11288443
    Abstract: A meeting summarization method, system, and computer program product, include capturing notes of a user including a time stamp from the user associated with a meeting, synchronizing an agenda of the meeting and the notes of the user based on a correlation between a time stamp of a topic on the agenda and a time stamp of the notes of the user, and analyzing the synchronized topic and the notes to determine highlights of the meeting based on a co-occurrence of the time stamp of the notes of the user and the time stamp of the topic on the agenda.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keith William Grueneberg, Jason Crawford, Jonathan Lenchner, Satya V. Nitta, Christian Makaya, Sharad C. Sundararajan
  • Patent number: 11288460
    Abstract: The present invention is a translation support system for supporting machine translation from a source-language sentence into a target-language sentence, the translation support system including an input unit that accepts an input of a source-language sentence to be translated; an error database that at least stores words or combinations of words included in a plurality of source-language sentences for which machine translation from the source-language sentences into target-language sentences is not performed correctly; a controlled-source-language-sentence database that stores a plurality of source-language sentences as well as controlled source-language sentences, which are source-language sentences that are controlled, corresponding to the plurality of source-language sentences and expressed in a format satisfying predetermined conditions; a control unit that classifies whether or not the input source-language sentence is machine-translatable; and an output unit that is capable of outputting the input sour
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventor: Shuichi Kurabayashi
  • Patent number: 11281856
    Abstract: A method for matching character strings to a reference character string is disclosed. One or more processors receive a plurality of character strings. The one or more processors match each of the plurality of character strings to a main reference character string and registers a match to positions on the main reference character string that satisfy a pre-set match criteria. The one or more processors match each of the plurality of character strings to an alternate reference character string and registers a match to positions on the alternate reference character string that satisfy the pre-set match criteria. The alternate reference character string is derived from the main character string. The one or more processors identifies a match for each of the plurality of character strings that match to either a position on the main reference character string or the alternate reference character string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: GNX DATA SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventors: Yuval Porat, Moshe Einhorn, Amir Trabelsi
  • Patent number: 11269413
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a brain-computer interface system and a method for recognizing a conversation intention of a user using the same in addition to inferring the waveform of word sound intended by a user from an imagined speech brainwave associated with a word intended by a user, since the user can intuitively recognize the sentence he/she wants to speak through the imagined speech by classifying words that are most relevant to the imagined speech brainwave of the user in a database in which a word often used by the user or frequently used in a specific situation is stored and by generating a sentence intended by the user by recognizing the words classified in this way, it is possible to perform communication by only thoughts of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: Seong-Whan Lee, Ji-Hoon Jeong, No-Sang Kwak, Seo-Hyun Lee
  • Patent number: 11264013
    Abstract: Identifying private information and preventing privacy violations is provided by a process that evaluates digital information obtained by an organization as part of a digital information stream from a user. The evaluating identifies a user utterance, including keyword(s), entity/ies, and intent(s), and applies natural language understanding to the digital information to ascertain a contextual understanding for the user utterance. The process selects training set(s) of historical information from available training sets that includes vocabulary used in varying contexts. The process compares the identified user utterance to an ontology based on the selected training set(s), and determines a confidence level that the digital information includes digital private information. The process also flags for the organization an action to take with respect to handling of the digital information. The flagging is based on the determined confidence level that the digital information includes digital private information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Kyndryl, Inc.
    Inventors: Mary E. Rudden, Dennis Anthony Perpetua, Jr., Bernard Freund
  • Patent number: 11244124
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method that includes storing translator linguistic resources for a personal account and project linguistic resources for a corporate account. The method includes creating a private profile for the personal account in response to the personal account being added to a team for the corporate account or being assigned to a translation project for the corporate account. A graphical user interface provides access to the translator linguistic resources within the translation project for the private profile without providing access to the translator linguistic resources within the translation project for the corporate account. The graphical user interface provides translation suggestions from the project linguistic resources within the translation project for the private profile without providing full access to the project linguistic resources within the translation project for the private profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Smartcat LLC
    Inventors: Sergey Andreev, Irina Petrenko, Artem Ukrainets, Ivan Smolnikov
  • Patent number: 11232801
    Abstract: The present document relates to a method of layered encoding of a compressed sound representation of a sound or sound field. The compressed sound representation comprises a basic compressed sound representation comprising a plurality of components, basic side information for decoding the basic compressed sound representation to a basic reconstructed sound representation of the sound or sound field, and enhancement side information including parameters for improving the basic reconstructed sound representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Sven Kordon, Alexander Krueger
  • Patent number: 11232809
    Abstract: A method, for preventing the intelligible voice recording is provided. The voice of a subject or interlocutor is recorded for a given time interval thereby providing a voice recording. The voice recording is cut into shorter time interval segments thereby providing a set of voice recording segments. The set of voice recording segments is mixed in a randomly rearranged order. The mixed set of voice recording segments is spliced into a single randomly mixed voice recording. Emitting the randomly mixed voice recording during speaking of the subject or interlocutor prevents the intelligible recording of the voice of the subject or interlocutor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: 12539322 CANADA INC.
    Inventor: Alexandre Santos
  • Patent number: 11222051
    Abstract: A document may be received. An ontology associated with a domain may be identified or retrieved. A set of concepts in the document may be extracted, the set represented in the ontology. A set of concepts selected from the ontology may be received. A search may be performed based on the set of selected concepts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Marcio Ferreira Moreno, Viviane Torres da Silva, Daniel Salles Civitarese, Rafael Rossi de Mello Brandao, Renato Fontoura de Gusmao Cerqueira
  • Patent number: 11222177
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for intelligent augmentation of word representations in a computing system by a processor. One or more character shape embeddings may be created in an artificial neural network (ANN) by augmenting one or more word representations based on a set of natural language processing (NLP) data, a set of word embedding vectors, and one or more clustering operations. A shape, a category, and a contextual identify of the one or more word representations may be analyzed used in creating the one or more character shape embeddings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stefano Braghin, Cennet Oguz, Killian Levacher
  • Patent number: 11216615
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method, a device and a storage medium for predicting a punctuation in a text. The method includes: inputting a text to be predicted into a sequence tagging model to obtain at least one prediction result and a corresponding first score of each character in the text to be predicted; generating a text to be inputted corresponding to each of the at least one prediction result; obtaining a second score corresponding to each of the at least one prediction result; determining a punctuation existence situation of the corresponding character based on the first score and the second score corresponding to each of the at least one prediction result; and performing punctuation processing on the text to be predicted based on the punctuation existence situation of each character in the text to be predicted to obtain a punctuated text corresponding to the text to be predicted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingxin Liang, Xiaoyin Fu
  • Patent number: 11205055
    Abstract: A management device is connected to an apparatus and configured to manage the apparatus. The management device includes a multi-language display processing unit configured to, when an input unit receives a change request to change a language of messages to be displayed on a display unit, transmit standard language data to a translation device, and a translated data reception unit configured to acquire translated data translated into a language corresponding to a language environment of a mobile terminal on the translation device with reference to the standard language data. The multi-language display processing unit is configured to change a language of messages to be displayed on the display unit from a default language to a language corresponding to the language environment of the mobile terminal by using the translated data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki Obana
  • Patent number: 11188584
    Abstract: A media item, for example an electronic book (eBook), may be presented via an electronic device during a time period. A user of the electronic device may read a portion of the media item but end their reading session prior to finishing the entire media item. Data associated with a media item and consumption of the media item by the user may be gathered. When the media item is presented via the electronic device during a subsequent time period, a customized synopsis of the media item or a portion of the media item may be presented via the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Inventor: Charles Edward Allen
  • Patent number: 11188714
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a voice receiving unit, a display unit, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to perform control so as to identify the language of a voice input received by the voice receiving unit. In a case where it is determined the identified language, which is a first language, is different from a second language set as a primary language in the electronic apparatus, the control unit is configured to display on the display unit, a message for confirming whether to change the primary language from the second language to the first language in both the first language and the second language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shimpei Kitai
  • Patent number: 11182555
    Abstract: A sequence processing method and apparatus are provided. The sequence processing method includes determining a word of a first R-node corresponding to a root node based on an input sequence, generating first I-nodes that are connected to the first R-node and include relative position information with respect to the word of the first R-node, determining a word of a second R-node to correspond to each of the first I-nodes, and determining an output sequence corresponding to the input sequence based on the determined words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hwidong Na, Min-Joong Lee
  • Patent number: 11182568
    Abstract: A sentence evaluation apparatus evaluates a sentence which is input. The sentence evaluation apparatus includes an acquisition device and a processor. The acquisition device acquires information indicating a first input sentence and information indicating a second input sentence. The processor executes information processing on the information acquired by the acquisition device, using an algorithm based on machine learning. The processor includes a first encoder that recognizes the first input sentence and a second encoder that recognizes the second input sentence, in the algorithm based on the machine learning. The processor generates evaluation information indicating evaluation on the first input sentence with reference to the second input sentence, based on a result of recognition by the first encoder on the first input sentence and a result of recognition by the second encoder on the second input sentence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Ishida, Taketoshi Nakao, Mikio Morioka
  • Patent number: 11176947
    Abstract: Methods and systems for classifying a multimedia file using interclass data is disclosed. One of the methods includes receiving, from a first transcription engine, one or more transcription results of one or more audio segments of the multimedia file; identifying a first transcription result for a first audio segment having a low confidence of accuracy; identifying a first image data of the multimedia file corresponding to the first segment; receiving, from an image classification engine trained to classify image data, an image classification result of one or more portions of the first image data in response to requesting the image classification engine to classify the first image data; and selecting, based at least on the image classification result of the one or more portions of the first image data, a second transcription engine to re-classify the first audio segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: VERITONE, INC.
    Inventors: Chad Steelberg, Peter Nguyen, David Kettler, Karl Schwamb, Yu Zhao