Patents by Inventor Gordon P Wichern

Gordon P Wichern 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: 11798574
    Abstract: A speech separation device (12) of a speech separation system includes a feature amount extraction unit (121) configured to extract time-series data of a speech feature amount of mixed speech, a block division unit (122) configured to divide the time-series data of the speech feature amount into blocks having a certain time width, a speech separation neural network (1b) configured to create time-series data of a mask of each of a plurality of speakers from the time-series data of the speech feature amount divided into blocks, and a speech restoration unit (123) configured to restore the speech data of each of the plurality of speakers from the time-series data of the mask and the time-series data of the speech feature amount of the mixed speech.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES, INC.
    Inventors: Ryo Aihara, Toshiyuki Hanazawa, Yohei Okato, Gordon P Wichern, Jonathan Le Roux
  • Publication number: 20210233550
    Abstract: A speech separation device (12) of a speech separation system includes a feature amount extraction unit (121) configured to extract time-series data of a speech feature amount of mixed speech, a block division unit (122) configured to divide the time-series data of the speech feature amount into blocks having a certain time width, a speech separation neural network (1b) configured to create time-series data of a mask of each of a plurality of speakers from the time-series data of the speech feature amount divided into blocks, and a speech restoration unit (123) configured to restore the speech data of each of the plurality of speakers from the time-series data of the mask and the time-series data of the speech feature amount of the mixed speech.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES, INC.
    Inventors: Ryo AIHARA, Toshiyuki HANAZAWA, Yohei OKATO, Gordon P WICHERN, Jonathan LE ROUX
  • Patent number: 10529349
    Abstract: Systems and methods for an audio signal processing system for transforming an input audio signal. A processor implements steps of a module by inputting an input audio signal into a spectrogram estimator to extract an audio feature sequence, and process the audio feature sequence to output a set of estimated spectrograms. Processing the set of estimated spectrograms and the audio feature sequence using a spectrogram refinement module, to output a set of refined spectrograms. Wherein the processing of the spectrogram refinement module is based on an iterative reconstruction algorithm. Processing the set of refined spectrograms for the one or more target audio signals using a signal refinement module, to obtain the target audio signal estimates. An output interface to output the optimized target audio signal estimates. Wherein the module is optimized by minimizing an error using an optimizer stored in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Le Roux, John R Hershey, Zhongqiu Wang, Gordon P Wichern
  • Publication number: 20190318754
    Abstract: Systems and methods for an audio signal processing system for transforming an input audio signal. A processor implements steps of a module by inputting an input audio signal into a spectrogram estimator to extract an audio feature sequence, and process the audio feature sequence to output a set of estimated spectrograms. Processing the set of estimated spectrograms and the audio feature sequence using a spectrogram refinement module, to output a set of refined spectrograms. Wherein the processing of the spectrogram refinement module is based on an iterative reconstruction algorithm. Processing the set of refined spectrograms for the one or more target audio signals using a signal refinement module, to obtain the target audio signal estimates. An output interface to output the optimized target audio signal estimates. Wherein the module is optimized by minimizing an error using an optimizer stored in the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Jonathan Le Roux, John R Hershey, Zhongqiu Wang, Gordon P Wichern