Patents by Inventor Dan Ellis
Dan Ellis 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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Publication number: 20260229255Abstract: Provided are systems and methods that leverage machine learning to perform audio editing with improved precision and flexibility. Some example systems utilize a vector-based audio editing representation to condition and control a machine-learned audio editing model. This approach allows for detailed and precise control over audio edits by encoding the edits numerically and processing the encoding with a trained model. The system can handle a variety of edits, including audio generation, removal, transformation, time-shifting, and/or enhancement, thereby providing a comprehensive tool for audio manipulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2026Publication date: August 6, 2026Inventors: Ron Weiss, Eduardo David Fonseca Montero, Dan Ellis, Scott Thomas Wisdom, Aren Jansen, Richard Channing Moore, III, Efthymios Tzinis, Pascal Tom Getreuer, Hakan Erdogan, John Randall Hershey, Kevin William Wilson, Manoj Plakal, Vivek Kumar
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Publication number: 20260038527Abstract: A method and device for automatically increasing the spectral bandwidth of an audio signal including generating a “mapping” (or “prediction”) matrix based on the analysis of a reference wideband signal and a reference narrowband signal, the mapping matrix being a transformation matrix to predict high frequency energy from a low frequency energy envelope, generating an energy envelope analysis of an input narrowband audio signal, generating a resynthesized noise signal by processing a random noise signal with the mapping matrix and the envelope analysis, high-pass filtering the resynthesized noise signal, and summing the high-pass filtered resynthesized noise signal with the original an input narrowband audio signal. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2025Publication date: February 5, 2026Applicant: ST R&DTech, LLCInventors: John Usher, Dan Ellis
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Publication number: 20250356826Abstract: A corpus of textual data is generated with a machine-learned text generation model. The corpus of textual data includes a plurality of sentences. Each sentence is descriptive of a type of audio. For each of a plurality of audio recordings, the audio recording is processed with a machine-learned audio classification model to obtain training data including the audio recording and one or more sentences of the plurality of sentences closest to the audio recording within a joint audio-text embedding space of the machine-learned audio classification model. The sentence(s) are processed with a machine-learned generation model to obtain an intermediate representation of the one or more sentences. The intermediate representation is processed with a machine-learned cascaded diffusion model to obtain audio data. The machine-learned cascaded diffusion model is trained based on a difference between the audio data and the audio recording.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2025Publication date: November 20, 2025Inventors: Qingqing Huang, Daniel Sung-Joon Park, Aren Jansen, Timo Immanuel Denk, Yue Li, Ravi Ganti, Dan Ellis, Tao Wang, Wei Han, Joonseok Lee
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Patent number: 12424235Abstract: A method and device for automatically increasing the spectral bandwidth of an audio signal including generating a “mapping” (or “prediction”) matrix based on the analysis of a reference wideband signal and a reference narrowband signal, the mapping matrix being a transformation matrix to predict high frequency energy from a low frequency energy envelope, generating an energy envelope analysis of an input narrowband audio signal, generating a resynthesized noise signal by processing a random noise signal with the mapping matrix and the envelope analysis, high-pass filtering the resynthesized noise signal, and summing the high-pass filtered resynthesized noise signal with the original an input narrowband audio signal. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2023Date of Patent: September 23, 2025Assignee: ST R&DTech, LLCInventors: John Usher, Dan Ellis
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Publication number: 20250234150Abstract: A computer-implemented method for upmixing audiovisual data can include obtaining audiovisual data including input audio data and video data accompanying the input audio data. Each frame of the video data can depict only a portion of a larger scene. The input audio data can have a first number of audio channels. The computer-implemented method can include providing the audiovisual data as input to a machine-learned audiovisual upmixing model. The audiovisual upmixing model can include a sequence-to-sequence model configured to model a respective location of one or more audio sources within the larger scene over multiple frames of the video data. The computer-implemented method can include receiving upmixed audio data from the audiovisual upmixing model.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2025Publication date: July 17, 2025Inventors: Aren Jansen, Manoj Plakal, Dan Ellis, Shawn Hershey, Richard Channing Moore, III
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Publication number: 20250124942Abstract: A watch for detecting a voice command which includes a touchscreen, a microphone, a speaker, a memory, and a processor that is wirelessly connected to an earphone that includes an earphone microphone where at least one of the microphones are used to determine voice command.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2024Publication date: April 17, 2025Applicant: ST R&DTECH, LLCInventors: John Usher, Dan Ellis
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Patent number: 12273697Abstract: A computer-implemented method for upmixing audiovisual data can include obtaining audiovisual data including input audio data and video data accompanying the input audio data. Each frame of the video data can depict only a portion of a larger scene. The input audio data can have a first number of audio channels. The computer-implemented method can include providing the audiovisual data as input to a machine-learned audiovisual upmixing model. The audiovisual upmixing model can include a sequence-to-sequence model configured to model a respective location of one or more audio sources within the larger scene over multiple frames of the video data. The computer-implemented method can include receiving upmixed audio data from the audiovisual upmixing model. The upmixed audio data can have a second number of audio channels. The second number of audio channels can be greater than the first number of audio channels.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2020Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Aren Jansen, Manoj Plakal, Dan Ellis, Shawn Hershey, Richard Channing Moore, III
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Patent number: 12236971Abstract: A method and device for automatically increasing the spectral bandwidth of an audio signal including generating a “mapping” (or “prediction”) matrix based on the analysis of a reference wideband signal and a reference narrowband signal, the mapping matrix being a transformation matrix to predict high frequency energy from a low frequency energy envelope, generating an energy envelope analysis of an input narrowband audio signal, generating a resynthesized noise signal by processing a random noise signal with the mapping matrix and the envelope analysis, high-pass filtering the resynthesized noise signal, and summing the high-pass filtered resynthesized noise signal with the input narrowband audio signal. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: ST R&DTech LLCInventors: John Usher, Dan Ellis
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Publication number: 20240282294Abstract: A corpus of textual data is generated with a machine-learned text generation model. The corpus of textual data includes a plurality of sentences. Each sentence is descriptive of a type of audio. For each of a plurality of audio recordings, the audio recording is processed with a machine-learned audio classification model to obtain training data including the audio recording and one or more sentences of the plurality of sentences closest to the audio recording within a joint audio-text embedding space of the machine-learned audio classification model. The sentence(s) are processed with a machine-learned generation model to obtain an intermediate representation of the one or more sentences. The intermediate representation is processed with a machine-learned cascaded diffusion model to obtain audio data. The machine-learned cascaded diffusion model is trained based on a difference between the audio data and the audio recording.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2024Publication date: August 22, 2024Inventors: Qingqing Huang, Daniel Sung-Joon Park, Aren Jansen, Timo Immanuel Denk, Yue Li, Ravi Ganti, Dan Ellis, Tao Wang, Wei Han, Joonseok Lee
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Publication number: 20230386499Abstract: A method and device for automatically increasing the spectral bandwidth of an audio signal including generating a “mapping” (or “prediction”) matrix based on the analysis of a reference wideband signal and a reference narrowband signal, the mapping matrix being a transformation matrix to predict high frequency energy from a low frequency energy envelope, generating an energy envelope analysis of an input narrowband audio signal, generating a resynthesized noise signal by processing a random noise signal with the mapping matrix and the envelope analysis, high-pass filtering the resynthesized noise signal, and summing the high-pass filtered resynthesized noise signal with the original an input narrowband audio signal. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: Staton Techiya LLCInventors: John Usher, Dan Ellis
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Publication number: 20230308823Abstract: A computer-implemented method for upmixing audiovisual data can include obtaining audiovisual data including input audio data and video data accompanying the input audio data. Each frame of the video data can depict only a portion of a larger scene. The input audio data can have a first number of audio channels. The computer-implemented method can include providing the audiovisual data as input to a machine-learned audiovisual upmixing model. The audiovisual upmixing model can include a sequence-to-sequence model configured to model a respective location of one or more audio sources within the larger scene over multiple frames of the video data. The computer-implemented method can include receiving upmixed audio data from the audiovisual upmixing model. The upmixed audio data can have a second number of audio channels. The second number of audio channels can be greater than the first number of audio channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2020Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Aren Jansen, Manoj Plakal, Dan Ellis, Shawn Hershey, Richard Channing Moore, III
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Patent number: 11741985Abstract: A method and device for automatically increasing the spectral bandwidth of an audio signal including generating a “mapping”(or “prediction”) matrix based on the analysis of a reference wideband signal and a reference narrowband signal, the mapping matrix being a transformation matrix to predict high frequency energy from a low frequency energy envelope, generating an energy envelope analysis of an input narrowband audio signal, generating a resynthesized noise signal by processing a random noise signal with the mapping matrix and the envelope analysis, high-pass filtering the resynthesized noise signal, and summing the high-pass filtered resynthesized noise signal with the original an input narrowband audio signal. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Staton Techiya LLCInventors: John Usher, Dan Ellis
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Publication number: 20230142711Abstract: A method and device for automatically increasing the spectral bandwidth of an audio signal including generating a “mapping” (or “prediction”) matrix based on the analysis of a reference wideband signal and a reference narrowband signal, the mapping matrix being a transformation matrix to predict high frequency energy from a low frequency energy envelope, generating an energy envelope analysis of an input narrowband audio signal, generating a resynthesized noise signal by processing a random noise signal with the mapping matrix and the envelope analysis, high-pass filtering the resynthesized noise signal, and summing the high-pass filtered resynthesized noise signal with the input narrowband audio signal. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2023Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: Staton Techiya LLCInventors: John Usher, Dan Ellis
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Patent number: 11605395Abstract: A method and device for automatically increasing the spectral bandwidth of an audio signal including generating a “mapping” (or “prediction”) matrix based on the analysis of a reference wideband signal and a reference narrowband signal, the mapping matrix being a transformation matrix to predict high frequency energy from a low frequency energy envelope, generating an energy envelope analysis of an input narrowband audio signal, generating a resynthesized noise signal by processing a random noise signal with the mapping matrix and the envelope analysis, high-pass filtering the resynthesized noise signal, and summing the high-pass filtered resynthesized noise signal with the input narrowband audio signal. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2020Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Staton Techiya, LLCInventors: John Usher, Dan Ellis
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Patent number: 11551704Abstract: A method and device for automatically increasing the spectral bandwidth of an audio signal including generating a “mapping” (or “prediction”) matrix based on the analysis of a reference wideband signal and a reference narrowband signal, the mapping matrix being a transformation matrix to predict high frequency energy from a low frequency energy envelope, generating an energy envelope analysis of an input narrowband audio signal, generating a resynthesized noise signal by processing a random noise signal with the mapping matrix and the envelope analysis, high-pass filtering the resynthesized noise signal, and summing the high-pass filtered resynthesized noise signal with the original an input narrowband audio signal. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Staton Techiya, LLCInventors: John Usher, Dan Ellis
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Publication number: 20220358947Abstract: A method and device for automatically increasing the spectral bandwidth of an audio signal including generating a “mapping ”(or “prediction”) matrix based on the analysis of a reference wideband signal and a reference narrowband signal, the mapping matrix being a transformation matrix to predict high frequency energy from a low frequency energy envelope, generating an energy envelope analysis of an input narrowband audio signal, generating a resynthesized noise signal by processing a random noise signal with the mapping matrix and the envelope analysis, high-pass filtering the resynthesized noise signal, and summing the high-pass filtered resynthesized noise signal with the original an input narrowband audio signal. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2022Publication date: November 10, 2022Applicant: Staton Techiya LLCInventors: John Usher, Dan Ellis
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Publication number: 20200194026Abstract: A method and device for automatically increasing the spectral bandwidth of an audio signal including generating a “mapping” (or “prediction”) matrix based on the analysis of a reference wideband signal and a reference narrowband signal, the mapping matrix being a transformation matrix to predict high frequency energy from a low frequency energy envelope, generating an energy envelope analysis of an input narrowband audio signal, generating a resynthesized noise signal by processing a random noise signal with the mapping matrix and the envelope analysis, high-pass filtering the resynthesized noise signal, and summing the high-pass filtered resynthesized noise signal with the original an input narrowband audio signal. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2020Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicant: Staton Techiya LLCInventors: John Usher, Dan Ellis
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Publication number: 20200176013Abstract: A method and device for automatically increasing the spectral bandwidth of an audio signal including generating a “mapping” (or “prediction”) matrix based on the analysis of a reference wideband signal and a reference narrowband signal, the mapping matrix being a transformation matrix to predict high frequency energy from a low frequency energy envelope, generating an energy envelope analysis of an input narrowband audio signal, generating a resynthesized noise signal by processing a random noise signal with the mapping matrix and the envelope analysis, high-pass filtering the resynthesized noise signal, and summing the high-pass filtered resynthesized noise signal with the input narrowband audio signal. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2020Publication date: June 4, 2020Applicant: Staton Techiya LLCInventors: John Usher, Dan Ellis
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Patent number: 10636436Abstract: A method and device for automatically increasing the spectral bandwidth of an audio signal including generating a “mapping” (or “prediction”) matrix based on the analysis of a reference wideband signal and a reference narrowband signal, the mapping matrix being a transformation matrix to predict high frequency energy from a low frequency energy envelope, generating an energy envelope analysis of an input narrowband audio signal, generating a resynthesized noise signal by processing a random noise signal with the mapping matrix and the envelope analysis, high-pass filtering the resynthesized noise signal, and summing the high-pass filtered resynthesized noise signal with the original an input narrowband audio signal. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2018Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Staton Techiya, LLCInventors: John Usher, Dan Ellis
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Patent number: 10622005Abstract: A method and device for automatically increasing the spectral bandwidth of an audio signal including generating a “mapping” (or “prediction”) matrix based on the analysis of a reference wideband signal and a reference narrowband signal, the mapping matrix being a transformation matrix to predict high frequency energy from a low frequency energy envelope, generating an energy envelope analysis of an input narrowband audio signal, generating a resynthesized noise signal by processing a random noise signal with the mapping matrix and the envelope analysis, high-pass filtering the resynthesized noise signal, and summing the high-pass filtered resynthesized noise signal with the input narrowband audio signal. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Staton Techiya, LLCInventors: John Usher, Dan Ellis