Patents by Inventor Anthony Parks
Anthony Parks 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).
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Patent number: 11935365Abstract: Techniques for creating and managing wagers on possible states within a live event, such as possible outcomes of subparts of a sporting event or other possible occurrences within the event. An initial state and multiple possible future states of a performance parameter of the event are determined based on state information of the event. A betting market may be created by determining probabilities and odds for the possible future states. Bets may be made on the possible future states via a touch-sensitive display. A payout may be made to a winner who selects a possible future state that actually occurs.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: CG TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT, LLCInventors: Lee Amaitis, Andrew Garrood, Mike Colbert, Heather Parks, Anthony Storm, Foster Barton, Thomas D. Bradshaw
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Patent number: 11218796Abstract: Personal audio systems and methods are disclosed. A personal audio system includes a voice activity detector to determine whether or not an ambient audio stream contains voice activity, a pitch estimator to determine a frequency of a fundamental component of an annoyance noise contained in the ambient audio stream, and a filter bank to attenuate the fundamental component and at least one harmonic component of the annoyance noise to generate a personal audio stream. The filter bank implements a first filter function when the ambient audio stream does not contain voice activity, or a second filter function when the ambient audio stream contains voice activity.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2020Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Gints Klimanis, Anthony Parks, Richard Fritz Lanman, III, Noah Kraft, Matthew J. Jaffe, Jeffrey Ross Baker
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Patent number: 11009020Abstract: Techniques for manufacturing miniaturized diaphragm pumps using additive manufacturing techniques, such as polyjet printing, are provided, as are the pumps and systems that result from using such techniques to produce the pumps. The provided pumps include a compression chamber that has a first surface, a second opposed surface, and a conical outer wall that extends between the first surface and the second surface and that has a bowed configuration in which the outer wall has a generally concave shape. A diaphragm is disposed proximate to the compression chamber, and the pump also includes one or more valves that control the flow of fluid between the compression chamber and one more fluid ports. Fluid can be selectively vacuumed into and exhausted out of the compression chambers. Various manufacturing techniques for fabricating the pumps are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2017Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignees: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Edwards VacuumInventors: Luis Fernando Velásquez-García, Anthony Park Taylor
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Publication number: 20200389718Abstract: Personal audio systems and methods are disclosed. A personal audio system includes a voice activity detector to determine whether or not an ambient audio stream contains voice activity, a pitch estimator to determine a frequency of a fundamental component of an annoyance noise contained in the ambient audio stream, and a filter bank to attenuate the fundamental component and at least one harmonic component of the annoyance noise to generate a personal audio stream. The filter bank implements a first filter function when the ambient audio stream does not contain voice activity, or a second filter function when the ambient audio stream contains voice activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2020Publication date: December 10, 2020Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Gints KLIMANIS, Anthony PARKS, Richard Fritz LANMAN, III, Noah KRAFT, Matthew J. JAFFE, Jeffrey Ross BAKER
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Patent number: 10841688Abstract: Personal audio systems and methods are disclosed. A personal audio system includes a voice activity detector to determine whether or not an ambient audio stream contains voice activity, a pitch estimator to determine a frequency of a fundamental component of an annoyance noise contained in the ambient audio stream, and a filter bank to attenuate the fundamental component and at least one harmonic component of the annoyance noise to generate a personal audio stream. The filter bank implements a first filter function when the ambient audio stream does not contain voice activity, or a second filter function when the ambient audio stream contains voice activity.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2018Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Gints Klimanis, Anthony Parks
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Patent number: 10595117Abstract: Personal audio systems and methods are disclosed. A personal audio system includes a class table storing processing parameters respectively associated with a plurality of annoyance noise classes, a controller, and a processor. The controller identifies an annoyance noise class of an annoyance noise included in an ambient audio stream and retrieves, from the class table, one or more processing parameters associated with the identified annoyance noise class. The processor to processes the ambient audio stream according to the one or more retrieved processing parameters class to provide a personal audio stream. The processor includes a pitch tracker to identify a fundamental frequency of the annoyance noise and a filter bank including a band reject filter tuned to the fundamental frequency.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Gints Klimanis, Anthony Parks, Jeff Baker
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Patent number: 10531178Abstract: Personal audio systems and methods are disclosed. A personal audio system includes a voice activity detector to determine whether or not an ambient audio stream contains voice activity, a pitch estimator to determine a frequency of a fundamental component of an annoyance noise contained in the ambient audio stream, and a filter bank to attenuate the fundamental component and at least one harmonic component of the annoyance noise to generate a personal audio stream. The filter bank implements a first filter function when the ambient audio stream does not contain voice activity, or a second filter function when the ambient audio stream contains voice activity.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2016Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Gints Klimanis, Anthony Parks, Richard Fritz Lanman, III, Noah Kraft, Matthew J. Jaffe, Jeffrey Ross Baker
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Publication number: 20190345926Abstract: Techniques for manufacturing miniaturized diaphragm pumps using additive manufacturing techniques, such as polyjet printing, are provided, as are the pumps and systems that result from using such techniques to produce the pumps. The provided pumps include a compression chamber that has a first surface, a second opposed surface, and a conical outer wall that extends between the first surface and the second surface and that has a bowed configuration in which the outer wall has a generally concave shape. A diaphragm is disposed proximate to the compression chamber, and the pump also includes one or more valves that control the flow of fluid between the compression chamber and one more fluid ports. Fluid can be selectively vacuumed into and exhausted out of the compression chambers. Various manufacturing techniques for fabricating the pumps are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2017Publication date: November 14, 2019Inventors: Luis Fernando Velásquez-García, Anthony Park Taylor
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Publication number: 20190279610Abstract: An earpiece for real-time audio processing of ambient sound includes an ear bud that provides passive noise attenuation to the earpiece such that exterior ambient sound is substantially reduced within an ear of a wearer, an exterior microphone that receives ambient sound and converts the received ambient sound into analog electrical signals, and an analog-to-digital converter that converts the analog electrical signals into digital signals representative of the ambient sounds. The earpiece further includes a digital signal processor that performs a transformation operation on the digital signals according to instructions received from a mobile device, the transformation operation transforms the digital signals into modified digital signals, a digital-to-analog converter that converts the modified digital signals into modified analog electrical signals, and a speaker that outputs the modified analog electrical signals as audio waves.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2019Publication date: September 12, 2019Inventors: Jeffrey Baker, Anthony Parks, Sal Gregory Garcia, Thomas Ezekiel Burgess, Matthew Fumio Yamamoto, Nils Jacob Palmborg, Noah Kraft, Richard Fritz Lanman, III, Daniel C. Wiggins
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Patent number: 10325585Abstract: Ambient sound is converted into digital signals. A processor performs active noise cancellation and/or a transformation operation that is distinct from the active noise cancellation on the digital signals. The active noise cancellation and the transformation operation transform the digital signals into modified digital signals. The modified digital signals are converted into modified analog signals. The modified analog signals are outputted as audio waves. An interior microphone is configured to output an output signal to the processor in response to receiving the modified analog signals. In response to receiving the output signal from the interior microphone, the processor is configured to determine whether the modified digital signals produce desired audio waves.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2016Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Baker, Anthony Parks, Sal Gregory Garcia, Thomas Ezekiel Burgess, Matthew Fumio Yamamoto, Nils Jacob Palmborg, Noah Kraft, Richard Fritz Lanman, III, Daniel C. Wiggins
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Publication number: 20190037301Abstract: Personal audio systems and methods are disclosed. A personal audio system includes a voice activity detector to determine whether or not an ambient audio stream contains voice activity, a pitch estimator to determine a frequency of a fundamental component of an annoyance noise contained in the ambient audio stream, and a filter bank to attenuate the fundamental component and at least one harmonic component of the annoyance noise to generate a personal audio stream. The filter bank implements a first filter function when the ambient audio stream does not contain voice activity, or a second filter function when the ambient audio stream contains voice activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Gints KLIMANIS, Anthony PARKS
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Publication number: 20180330743Abstract: Personal audio systems and methods are disclosed. A personal audio system includes a voice activity detector to determine whether or not an ambient audio stream contains voice activity, a pitch estimator to determine a frequency of a fundamental component of an annoyance noise contained in the ambient audio stream, and a filter bank to attenuate the fundamental component and at least one harmonic component of the annoyance noise to generate a personal audio stream. The filter bank implements a first filter function when the ambient audio stream does not contain voice activity, or a second filter function when the ambient audio stream contains voice activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2016Publication date: November 15, 2018Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Gints KLIMANIS, Anthony PARKS, Richard Fritz LANMAN, III, Noah KRAFT, Matthew J. JAFFE, Jeffrey Ross BAKER
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Patent number: 10045115Abstract: Personal audio systems and methods are disclosed. A personal audio system includes a voice activity detector to determine whether or not an ambient audio stream contains voice activity, a pitch estimator to determine a frequency of a fundamental component of an annoyance noise contained in the ambient audio stream, and a filter bank to attenuate the fundamental component and at least one harmonic component of the annoyance noise to generate a personal audio stream. The filter bank implements a first filter function when the ambient audio stream does not contain voice activity, or a second filter function when the ambient audio stream contains voice activity.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2016Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Gints Klimanis, Anthony Parks
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Patent number: 9825598Abstract: A combined ambient sound and secondary audio system comprises at least one microphone for receiving ambient sound, at least one receiver for receiving secondary audio from a secondary audio source not audible in the ambient sound. The system further includes a memory storing one or more sets processing parameters comprising instructions for processing the ambient sound and the secondary audio and a processor coupled to the memory, the microphone, and the receiver configured to generate combined ambient and secondary sound by combining the ambient sound and the secondary audio as directed by a selected set of processing parameters retrieved from the memory.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Doppler Labs, Inc.Inventors: Noah Kraft, Richard Fritz Lanman, III, Jeff Baker, Gints Klimanis, Anthony Parks, Daniel C. Wiggins
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Publication number: 20170195777Abstract: Personal audio systems and methods are disclosed. A personal audio system includes a class table storing processing parameters respectively associated with a plurality of annoyance noise classes, a controller, and a processor. The controller identifies an annoyance noise class of an annoyance noise included in an ambient audio stream and retrieves, from the class table, one or more processing parameters associated with the identified annoyance noise class. The processor to processes the ambient audio stream according to the one or more retrieved processing parameters class to provide a personal audio stream. The processor includes a pitch tracker to identify a fundamental frequency of the annoyance noise and a filter bank including a band reject filter tuned to the fundamental frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2017Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventors: Gints Klimanis, Anthony Parks, Jeff Baker
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Publication number: 20170176370Abstract: Articles and methods involving sensors and thin films suitable for use in sensors are generally provided. In some embodiments, the sensors may comprise a graphene oxide component and/or a thin film with a percolated structure. The sensors may have one or more advantageous properties, such as an appropriate value of resistance, a high degree of sensitivity, and a low response time.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2016Publication date: June 22, 2017Applicants: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Edwards VacuumInventors: Luis Fernando Velasquez-Garcia, Anthony Park Taylor
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Publication number: 20170142510Abstract: Personal audio systems and methods are disclosed. A personal audio system includes a class table storing processing parameters respectively associated with a plurality of annoyance noise classes, a controller, and a processor. The controller identifies an annoyance noise class of an annoyance noise included in an ambient audio stream and retrieves, from the class table, one or more processing parameters associated with the identified annoyance noise class. The processor to processes the ambient audio stream according to the one or more retrieved processing parameters class to provide a personal audio stream. The processor includes a pitch tracker to identify a fundamental frequency of the annoyance noise and a filter bank including a band reject filter tuned to the fundamental frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2015Publication date: May 18, 2017Inventors: Gints Klimanis, Anthony Parks, Jeff Baker
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Publication number: 20170142512Abstract: Personal audio systems and methods are disclosed. A personal audio system includes a voice activity detector to determine whether or not an ambient audio stream contains voice activity, a pitch estimator to determine a frequency of a fundamental component of an annoyance noise contained in the ambient audio stream, and a filter bank to attenuate the fundamental component and at least one harmonic component of the annoyance noise to generate a personal audio stream. The filter bank implements a first filter function when the ambient audio stream does not contain voice activity, or a second filter function when the ambient audio stream contains voice activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2016Publication date: May 18, 2017Inventors: Gints Klimanis, Anthony Parks
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Patent number: 9654861Abstract: Personal audio systems and methods are disclosed. A personal audio system includes a class table storing processing parameters respectively associated with a plurality of annoyance noise classes, a controller, and a processor. The controller identifies an annoyance noise class of an annoyance noise included in an ambient audio stream and retrieves, from the class table, one or more processing parameters associated with the identified annoyance noise class. The processor to processes the ambient audio stream according to the one or more retrieved processing parameters class to provide a personal audio stream. The processor includes a pitch tracker to identify a fundamental frequency of the annoyance noise and a filter bank including a band reject filter tuned to the fundamental frequency.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2015Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: Doppler Labs, Inc.Inventors: Gints Klimanis, Anthony Parks, Jeff Baker
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Patent number: 9648436Abstract: An augmented reality sound systems is disclosed. An augmented reality sound system includes a at least one microphone for receiving ambient sound and a memory storing one or more augmented reality sound profiles and a respective set of processing parameters. The system further includes a processor coupled to the memory and configured to generate augmented ambient sound from the ambient sound by reproducing the ambient sound in conjunction with processed sound superimposed over the ambient sound as directed by one or more of the set of processing parameters retrieved from the memory based on a selected augmented reality sound profile.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Doppler Labs, Inc.Inventors: Noah Kraft, Richard Fritz Lanman, III, Jeff Baker, Gints Klimanis, Anthony Parks, Daniel C. Wiggins