Patents by Inventor Aaron Lee Mathers Challenner

Aaron Lee Mathers Challenner has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11398236
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for generating intent-specific results in an automatic speech recognition system. The results can be generated by utilizing a decoding graph containing tags that identify portions of the graph corresponding to a given intent. The tags can also identify high-information content slots and low-information carrier phrases for a given intent. The automatic speech recognition system may utilize these tags to provide a semantic representation based on a plurality of different tokens for the content slot portions and low information for the carrier portions. A user can be presented with a user interface containing top intent results with corresponding intent-specific top content slot values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hugh Evan Secker-Walker, Aaron Lee Mathers Challenner, Ariya Rastrow
  • Publication number: 20200388282
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for generating intent-specific results in an automatic speech recognition system. The results can be generated by utilizing a decoding graph containing tags that identify portions of the graph corresponding to a given intent. The tags can also identify high-information content slots and low-information carrier phrases for a given intent. The automatic speech recognition system may utilize these tags to provide a semantic representation based on a plurality of different tokens for the content slot portions and low information for the carrier portions. A user can be presented with a user interface containing top intent results with corresponding intent-specific top content slot values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Hugh Evan Secker-Walker, Aaron Lee Mathers Challenner, Ariya Rastrow
  • Patent number: 10811013
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for generating intent-specific results in an automatic speech recognition system. The results can be generated by utilizing a decoding graph containing tags that identify portions of the graph corresponding to a given intent. The tags can also identify high-information content slots and low-information carrier phrases for a given intent. The automatic speech recognition system may utilize these tags to provide a semantic representation based on a plurality of different tokens for the content slot portions and low information for the carrier portions. A user can be presented with a user interface containing top intent results with corresponding intent-specific top content slot values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hugh Evan Secker-Walker, Aaron Lee Mathers Challenner, Ariya Rastrow
  • Patent number: 10460729
    Abstract: A method for selective transmission of audio data to a speech processing server uses detection of an acoustic trigger in the audio data in determining the data to transmit. Detection of the acoustic trigger makes use of an efficient computation approach that reduces the amount of run-time computation required, or equivalently improves accuracy for a given amount of computation, by using a neural network to determine an indicator of presence of the acoustic trigger. In some example, the neural network combines a “time delay” structure in which intermediate results of computations are reused at various time delays, thereby avoiding computation of computing new results, and decomposition of certain transformations to require fewer arithmetic operations without sacrificing significant performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ming Sun, Aaron Lee Mathers Challenner, Yixin Gao, Shiv Naga Prasad Vitaladevuni
  • Patent number: 9922650
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for generating intent-specific results in an automatic speech recognition system. The results can be generated by utilizing a decoding graph containing tags that identify portions of the graph corresponding to a given intent. The tags can also identify high-information content slots and low-information carrier phrases for a given intent. The automatic speech recognition system may utilize these tags to provide a semantic representation based on a plurality of different tokens for the content slot portions and low information for the carrier portions. A user can be presented with a user interface containing top intent results with corresponding intent-specific top content slot values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hugh Evan Secker-Walker, Aaron Lee Mathers Challenner, Ariya Rastrow
  • Patent number: 9728188
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting similar audio being received by separate voice activated electronic devices, and ignoring those commands, is described herein. In some embodiments, a voice activated electronic device may be activated by a wakeword that is output by the additional electronic device, such as a television or radio, may capture audio of sound subsequently following the wakeword, and may send audio data representing the sound to a backend system. Upon receipt, the backend system may, in parallel to performing automated speech recognition processing to the audio data, generate a sound profile of the audio data, and may compare that sound profile to sound profiles of recently received audio data and/or flagged sound profiles. If the generated sound profile is determined to match another sound profiles, then the automated speech recognition processing may be stopped, and the voice activated electronic device may be instructed to return to a keyword spotting mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Alexander David Rosen, Michael James Rodehorst, George Jay Tucker, Aaron Lee Mathers Challenner