Patents by Inventor Bozhao Tan

Bozhao Tan 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).

  • Publication number: 20150073795
    Abstract: A low power sound recognition sensor is configured to receive an analog signal that may contain a signature sound. Sparse sound parameter information is extracted from the analog signal. The extracted sparse sound parameter information is processed using a speaker dependent sound signature database stored in the sound recognition sensor to identify sounds or speech contained in the analog signal. The sound signature database may include several user enrollments for a sound command each representing an entire word or multiword phrase. The extracted sparse sound parameter information may be compared to the multiple user enrolled signatures using cosine distance, Euclidean distance, correlation distance, etc., for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventor: Bozhao Tan
  • Publication number: 20150066498
    Abstract: A low power sound recognition sensor is configured to receive an analog signal that may contain a signature sound. The received analog signal is evaluated using a detection portion of the analog section to determine when background noise on the analog signal is exceeded. A feature extraction portion of the analog section is triggered to extract sparse sound parameter information from the analog signal when the background noise is exceeded. An initial truncated portion of the sound parameter information is compared to a truncated sound parameter database stored locally with the sound recognition sensor to detect when there is a likelihood that the expected sound is being received in the analog signal. A trigger signal is generated to trigger classification logic when the likelihood that the expected sound is being received exceeds a threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Ma, Bozhao Tan, Zhenyong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20150063575
    Abstract: A low power sound recognition sensor is configured to receive an analog signal that may contain a signature sound. Sparse sound parameter information is extracted from the analog signal. The extracted sparse sound parameter information is processed using a sound signature database stored in the sound recognition sensor to identify sounds or speech contained in the analog signal, wherein the sound signature database comprises a plurality of sound signatures each representing an entire word or multiword phrase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Bozhao Tan
  • Patent number: 8098906
    Abstract: Various systems, methods, and programs embodied in computer-readable mediums are provided for fingerprint liveness detection. In one embodiment, a method for determining fingerprint liveness is provided that comprises receiving a fingerprint image; extracting a region of interest from the fingerprint image; generating a histogram of the region of interest; determining a statistical feature of the histogram; and determining liveness of the fingerprint image based upon the statistical feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: West Virginia University Research Corp., WVU Office of Technology Transfer & WVU Business Incubator
    Inventors: Stephanie Shuckers, Lawrence Hornak, Bozhao Tan
  • Publication number: 20080253626
    Abstract: Various systems, methods, and programs embodied in computer-readable mediums are provided for fingerprint liveness detection. In one embodiment, a method for determining fingerprint liveness is provided that comprises receiving a fingerprint image; extracting a region of interest from the fingerprint image; generating a histogram of the region of interest; determining a statistical feature of the histogram; and determining liveness of the fingerprint image based upon the statistical feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Inventors: Stephanie Shuckers, Lawrence Hornak, Bozhao Tan