Patents by Inventor Bryan Pardo

Bryan Pardo 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: 20250107770
    Abstract: Systems and methods for contactless monitoring of cardiac activities include a vibration sensor operable to collect audio input signals of a user and a processor. The processor is operable to extract, using an audio model, cardiac sound data from the audio input signals, and transfer, using a trained neural network, the cardiac sound data into the simulated electrocardiogram (ECG) data based on a weak alignment between cardiac sounds and ECG.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul D. Schmalenberg, Kleanthis Avramidis, Frederico Marcolino Quintao Severgnini, Bryan Pardo
  • Patent number: 9093056
    Abstract: A method includes determining a first spectrogram of the audio signal, defining a similarity matrix of the audio signal based on the first spectrogram and a transposed version of the first spectrogram, identifying two or more similar frames in the similarity matrix that are more similar to a designated frame than to one or more other frames in the similarity matrix, creating a repeating spectrogram model based on the two or more similar frames that are identified in the similarity matrix, and deriving a mask based on the repeating spectrogram model and the first spectrogram of the audio signal. The mask is representative of similarities between the repeating spectrogram model and the first spectrogram of the audio signal. The method also includes extracting a repeating structure from the audio signal by applying the mask to the audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Bryan Pardo, Zafar Rafii
  • Publication number: 20140272883
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for equalization preference learning are provided. An example method includes receiving a first label for a first audio concept for a media object and applying active learning to select a first example not yet rated by a first current user. The example method includes collecting a first user rating, by the first current user, of the first example compared to the first audio concept and applying transfer learning to combine the first user rating with ratings from prior users of examples not yet rated by the first current user to build a model of the first audio concept. The example method includes creating a tool operable by the first user to generate examples close to and far from the first label to modify the media object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Bryan Pardo, Alexander M. Madjar, David Frank Little, Darren Gergle
  • Publication number: 20130064379
    Abstract: A method includes determining a first spectrogram of the audio signal, defining a similarity matrix of the audio signal based on the first spectrogram and a transposed version of the first spectrogram, identifying two or more similar frames in the similarity matrix that are more similar to a designated frame than to one or more other frames in the similarity matrix, creating a repeating spectrogram model based on the two or more similar frames that are identified in the similarity matrix, and deriving a mask based on the repeating spectrogram model and the first spectrogram of the audio signal. The mask is representative of similarities between the repeating spectrogram model and the first spectrogram of the audio signal. The method also includes extracting a repeating structure from the audio signal by applying the mask to the audio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Bryan Pardo, Zafar Rafii