Patents by Inventor David Mark Krowitz

David Mark Krowitz 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: 10049669
    Abstract: Techniques for combining the results of multiple recognizers in a distributed speech recognition architecture. Speech data input to a client device is encoded and processed both locally and remotely by different recognizers configured to be proficient at different speech recognition tasks. The client/server architecture is configurable to enable network providers to specify a policy directed to a trade-off between reducing recognition latency perceived by a user and usage of network resources. The results of the local and remote speech recognition engines are combined based, at least in part, on logic stored by one or more components of the client/server architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Newman, Anthony Gillet, David Mark Krowitz, Michael D. Edgington
  • Patent number: 10032455
    Abstract: Techniques for combining the results of multiple recognizers in a distributed speech recognition architecture. Speech data input to a client device is encoded and processed both locally and remotely by different recognizers configured to be proficient at different speech recognition tasks. The client/server architecture is configurable to enable network providers to specify a policy directed to a trade-off between reducing recognition latency perceived by a user and usage of network resources. The results of the local and remote speech recognition engines are combined based, at least in part, on logic stored by one or more components of the client/server architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Newman, Anthony Gillet, David Mark Krowitz, Michael D. Edgington
  • Patent number: 9953653
    Abstract: Techniques for combining the results of multiple recognizers in a distributed speech recognition architecture. Speech data input to a client device is encoded and processed both locally and remotely by different recognizers configured to be proficient at different speech recognition tasks. The client/server architecture is configurable to enable network providers to specify a policy directed to a trade-off between reducing recognition latency perceived by a user and usage of network resources. The results of the local and remote speech recognition engines are combined based, at least in part, on logic stored by one or more components of the client/server architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Newman, Anthony Gillet, David Mark Krowitz, Michael D. Edgington
  • Patent number: 9313336
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for capturing at least one audio signal using a plurality of microphones that generate a plurality of representations of the at least one audio signal. In some embodiments, the plurality of microphones are disposed in a multiple-microphone setting so that the at least one audio signal is captured by at least two of the plurality of microphones. In some embodiments, at least one of the plurality of microphones is a microphone of a mobile device. The plurality of representations of the at least one audio signal may be processed to obtain a processed representation of the at least one audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: William F. Ganong, III, David Mark Krowitz
  • Patent number: 9183843
    Abstract: Techniques for combining the results of multiple recognizers in a distributed speech recognition architecture. Speech data input to a client device is encoded and processed both locally and remotely by different recognizers configured to be proficient at different speech recognition tasks. The client/server architecture is configurable to enable network providers to specify a policy directed to a trade-off between reducing recognition latency perceived by a user and usage of network resources. The results of the local and remote speech recognition engines are combined based, at least in part, on logic stored by one or more components of the client/server architecture. An indication of the availability of the remote speech recognition to perform speech recognition at a point in time may be provided to a user of the client device via a user interface of the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Fanty, Timothy Lynch, Michael J. Newman, Anthony Gillet, David Mark Krowitz, Michael D. Edgington
  • Patent number: 8930194
    Abstract: Techniques for combining the results of multiple recognizers in a distributed speech recognition architecture. Speech data input to a client device is encoded and processed both locally and remotely by different recognizers configured to be proficient at different speech recognition tasks. The client/server architecture is configurable to enable network providers to specify a policy directed to a trade-off between reducing recognition latency perceived by a user and usage of network resources. The results of the local and remote speech recognition engines are combined based, at least in part, on logic stored by one or more components of the client/server architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Newman, Anthony Gillet, David Mark Krowitz, Michael D. Edgington
  • Patent number: 8898065
    Abstract: Techniques for combining the results of multiple recognizers in a distributed speech recognition architecture. Speech data input to a client device is encoded and processed both locally and remotely by different recognizers configured to be proficient at different speech recognition tasks. The client/server architecture is configurable to enable network providers to specify a policy directed to a trade-off between reducing recognition latency perceived by a user and usage of network resources. The results of the local and remote speech recognition engines are combined based, at least in part, on logic stored by one or more components of the client/server architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Newman, Anthony Gillet, David Mark Krowitz, Michael D. Edgington
  • Publication number: 20130022189
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for using different interfaces to receive from different devices representations of at least one audio signal. In some embodiments, each representation may be generated using at least one microphone of the respective device during a meeting attended by a plurality of participants. In some further embodiments, a first representation may be received from a first device via a telephone network, while a second representation may be received from a second device via a data network. In yet some further embodiments, the first and second representations may be processed to obtain a processed representation of the at least one audio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: William F. Ganong, III, David Mark Krowitz
  • Publication number: 20130024196
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for using at least one mobile device to receive a representation of at least one audio signal. In some embodiments, the at least one audio signal comprises speech of at least one of a plurality of first participants of a meeting, the plurality of first participants participating in the meeting from a first location, and the at least one audio signal may be audibly rendered to at least one second participant of the meeting at a second location different from the first location. In some embodiments, the at least one mobile device may further receive an indication of an identity of a leading speaker of the speech in the at least one audio signal, the leading speaker being identified from among the plurality of first participants, and may render the identity of the leading speaker to the at least one second participant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: William F. Ganong, III, David Mark Krowitz, Tobias Wolff, Markus Buck
  • Publication number: 20130022216
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for capturing at least one audio signal using a plurality of microphones that generate a plurality of representations of the at least one audio signal. In some embodiments, the plurality of microphones are disposed in a multiple-microphone setting so that the at least one audio signal is captured by at least two of the plurality of microphones. In some embodiments, at least one of the plurality of microphones is a microphone of a mobile device. The plurality of representations of the at least one audio signal may be processed to obtain a processed representation of the at least one audio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: William F. Ganong, III, David Mark Krowitz
  • Publication number: 20120179471
    Abstract: Techniques for combining the results of multiple recognizers in a distributed speech recognition architecture. Speech data input to a client device is encoded and processed both locally and remotely by different recognizers configured to be proficient at different speech recognition tasks. The client/server architecture is configurable to enable network providers to specify a policy directed to a trade-off between reducing recognition latency perceived by a user and usage of network resources. The results of the local and remote speech recognition engines are combined based, at least in part, on logic stored by one or more components of the client/server architecture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Newman, Anthony Gillet, David Mark Krowitz, Michael D. Edgington
  • Publication number: 20120179469
    Abstract: Techniques for combining the results of multiple recognizers in a distributed speech recognition architecture. Speech data input to a client device is encoded and processed both locally and remotely by different recognizers configured to be proficient at different speech recognition tasks. The client/server architecture is configurable to enable network providers to specify a policy directed to a trade-off between reducing recognition latency perceived by a user and usage of network resources. The results of the local and remote speech recognition engines are combined based, at least in part, on logic stored by one or more components of the client/server architecture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: Nuance Communication, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Newman, Anthony Gillet, David Mark Krowitz, Michael D. Edgington
  • Publication number: 20120179464
    Abstract: Techniques for combining the results of multiple recognizers in a distributed speech recognition architecture. Speech data input to a client device is encoded and processed both locally and remotely by different recognizers configured to be proficient at different speech recognition tasks. The client/server architecture is configurable to enable network providers to specify a policy directed to a trade-off between reducing recognition latency perceived by a user and usage of network resources. The results of the local and remote speech recognition engines are combined based, at least in part, on logic stored by one or more components of the client/server architecture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Newman, Anthony Gillet, David Mark Krowitz, Michael D. Edgington
  • Publication number: 20120179457
    Abstract: Techniques for combining the results of multiple recognizers in a distributed speech recognition architecture. Speech data input to a client device is encoded and processed both locally and remotely by different recognizers configured to be proficient at different speech recognition tasks. The client/server architecture is configurable to enable network providers to specify a policy directed to a trade-off between reducing recognition latency perceived by a user and usage of network resources. The results of the local and remote speech recognition engines are combined based, at least in part, on logic stored by one or more components of the client/server architecture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Newman, Anthony Gillet, David Mark Krowitz, Michael D. Edgington
  • Publication number: 20120179463
    Abstract: Techniques for combining the results of multiple recognizers in a distributed speech recognition architecture. Speech data input to a client device is encoded and processed both locally and remotely by different recognizers configured to be proficient at different speech recognition tasks. The client/server architecture is configurable to enable network providers to specify a policy directed to a trade-off between reducing recognition latency perceived by a user and usage of network resources. The results of the local and remote speech recognition engines are combined based, at least in part, on logic stored by one or more components of the client/server architecture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Newman, Anthony Gillet, David Mark Krowitz, Michael D. Edgington