Patents by Inventor Hannes Gamper
Hannes Gamper 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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Patent number: 11847261Abstract: A computer device is provided that includes a display device, and a sensor system configured to be mounted adjacent to a user's head and to measure an electrical potential near one or more electrodes of the sensor system. The computer device further includes a processor configured to present a periodic motion-based visual stimulus having a changing motion that is frequency-modulated for a target frequency or code-modulated for a target code, detect changes in the electrical potential via the one or more electrodes, identify a corresponding visual evoked potential feature in the detected changes in electrical potential that corresponds to the periodic motion-based visual stimulus, and recognize a user input to the computing device based on identifying the corresponding visual evoked potential feature.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Andrew D. Wilson, Hakim Si Mohammed, Christian Holz, Adrian Kuo Ching Lee, Ivan Jelev Tashev, Hannes Gamper, Edward Bryan Cutrell, David Emerson Johnston, Dimitra Emmanouilidou, Mihai R. Jalobeanu
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Publication number: 20220365599Abstract: A computer device is provided that includes a display device, and a sensor system configured to be mounted adjacent to a user's head and to measure an electrical potential near one or more electrodes of the sensor system. The computer device further includes a processor configured to present a periodic motion-based visual stimulus having a changing motion that is frequency-modulated for a target frequency or code-modulated for a target code, detect changes in the electrical potential via the one or more electrodes, identify a corresponding visual evoked potential feature in the detected changes in electrical potential that corresponds to the periodic motion-based visual stimulus, and recognize a user input to the computing device based on identifying the corresponding visual evoked potential feature.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Andrew D. WILSON, Hakim SI MOHAMMED, Christian HOLZ, Adrian Kuo Ching LEE, Ivan Jelev TASHEV, Hannes GAMPER, Edward Bryan CUTRELL, David Emerson JOHNSTON, Dimitra EMMANOUILIDOU, Mihai R. JALOBEANU
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Patent number: 11409361Abstract: A computer device is provided that includes a display device, and a sensor system configured to be mounted adjacent to a user's head and to measure an electrical potential near one or more electrodes of the sensor system. The computer device further includes a processor configured to present a periodic motion-based visual stimulus having a changing motion that is frequency-modulated for a target frequency or code-modulated for a target code, detect changes in the electrical potential via the one or more electrodes, identify a corresponding visual evoked potential feature in the detected changes in electrical potential that corresponds to the periodic motion-based visual stimulus, and recognize a user input to the computing device based on identifying the corresponding visual evoked potential feature.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Andrew D. Wilson, Hakim Si Mohammed, Christian Holz, Adrian Kuo Ching Lee, Ivan Jelev Tashev, Hannes Gamper, Edward Bryan Cutrell, David Emerson Johnston, Dimitra Emmanouilidou, Mihai R. Jalobeanu
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Patent number: 11205443Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices are disclosed for improved audio feature discovery using a neural network. One method including: receiving a trained neural network model, the trained neural network configured to output an audio feature classification of audio data; deconstructing the trained neural network model to generate at least one saliency map, the at least one saliency map providing a successful classification of the audio feature; and extracting at least one visualization of the audio feature the trained neural network model relies on for classification based on the at least one saliency map.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2018Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Etienne Thuillier, Hannes Gamper, Ivan Jelev Tashev
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Publication number: 20210240264Abstract: A computer device is provided is includes a display device, and a sensor system configured to be mounted adjacent to a user's head and to measure an electrical potential near one or more electrodes of the sensor system. The computer device further includes a processor configured to present a periodic motion-based visual stimulus having a changing motion that is frequency-modulated for a target frequency or code-modulated for a target code, detect changes in the electrical potential via the one or more electrodes, identify a corresponding visual evoked potential feature in the detected changes in electrical potential that corresponds to the periodic motion-based visual stimulus, and recognize a user input to the computing device based on identifying the corresponding visual evoked potential feature.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2020Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Andrew D. WILSON, Hakim SI MOHAMMED, Christian HOLZ, Adrian Kuo Ching LEE, Ivan Jelev TASHEV, Hannes GAMPER, Edward Bryan CUTRELL, David Emerson JOHNSTON, Dimitra EMMANOUILIDOU, Mihai R. JALOBEANU
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Patent number: 11012802Abstract: A computing system that facilitates decoding a spherical harmonics (SH) representation of a three-dimensional sound signal to a binaural sound signal is described herein. The computing system generates a binaural sound signal based upon the SH representation, a tapering window function that is selected based on an SH encoding order of the SH representation, and a coloration compensation filter that incorporates the tapering window function. The computing system causes the binaural sound signal to be played over at least two speakers.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Christoph Felix Hold, Hannes Gamper, Ville Topias Pulkki, Nikunj Raghuvanshi, Ivan Jelev Tashev
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Publication number: 20210006923Abstract: A computing system that facilitates decoding a spherical harmonics (SH) representation of a three-dimensional sound signal to a binaural sound signal is described herein. The computing system generates a binaural sound signal based upon the SH representation, a tapering window function that is selected based on an SH encoding order of the SH representation, and a coloration compensation filter that incorporates the tapering window function. The computing system causes the binaural sound signal to be played over at least two speakers.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2019Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventors: Christoph Felix HOLD, Hannes GAMPER, Ville Topias PULKKI, Nikunj RAGHUVANSHI, Ivan Jelev TASHEV
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Publication number: 20200035259Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices are disclosed for improved audio feature discovery using a neural network. One method including: receiving a trained neural network model, the trained neural network configured to output an audio feature classification of audio data; deconstructing the trained neural network model to generate at least one saliency map, the at least one saliency map providing a successful classification of the audio feature; and extracting at least one visualization of the audio feature the trained neural network model relies on for classification based on the at least one saliency map.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2018Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Etienne THUILLIER, Hannes GAMPER, Ivan Jelev TASHEV
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Patent number: 10278002Abstract: Systems and methods for HRTF personalization are provided. More specifically, the systems and methods provide HRTF personalization utilizing non-parametric processing of three-dimensional head scans. Accordingly, the systems and methods for HRTF personalization generate a personalized set of HRTFs for a user without having to extract specific geometric and/or anthropometric features from a three dimensional head scan of a user and/or from the three dimensional head scans of training subjects in a database.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Hannes Gamper, David Johnston, Ivan Tashev, Archontis Politis, Mark R. P. Thomas
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Patent number: 10129684Abstract: Systems and methods of providing an audio signal are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method of delivering an audio signal from a device toward a user's ear includes, for example, transmitting a filtered audio signal from a transducer positioned at a location on the device that is longitudinally spaced apart from an entrance of an auditory canal of the user's ear when the device is worn on the user's head.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2017Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Hannes Gamper, Mark Richard Paul Thomas, Ivan Jelev Tashev, David Emerson Johnston
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Publication number: 20180270603Abstract: Systems and methods for HRTF personalization are provided. More specifically, the systems and methods provide HRTF personalization utilizing non-parametric processing of three-dimensional head scans. Accordingly, the systems and methods for HRTF personalization generate a personalized set of HRTFs for a user without having to extract specific geometric and/or anthropometric features from a three dimensional head scan of a user and/or from the three dimensional head scans of training subjects in a database.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Hannes Gamper, David Johnston, Ivan Tashev, Archontis Politis, Mark R. P. Thomas
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Patent number: 10028070Abstract: Systems and methods for HRTF personalization are provided. More specifically, the systems and methods provide HRTF personalization for a user based on a depth image of the user. Accordingly, the provided systems and methods are less complicated, easier to use, and easier to implement for personalizing HRTFs when compared to previously utilized systems and methods that required high-resolution three-dimensional head scans or one or more specific and/or discrete anthropomorphic measurements of the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2017Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Hannes Gamper, David Johnston, Ivan Tashev
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Publication number: 20170156017Abstract: Systems and methods of providing an audio signal are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method of delivering an audio signal from a device toward a user's ear includes, for example, transmitting a filtered audio signal from a transducer positioned at a location on the device that is longitudinally spaced apart from an entrance of an auditory canal of the user's ear when the device is worn on the user's head.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2017Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Hannes Gamper, Mark Richard Paul Thomas, Ivan Jelev Tashev, David Emerson Johnston
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Patent number: 9609436Abstract: Systems and methods of providing an audio signal are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method of producing an audio signal includes applying, for example, a head related transfer function (HRTF) and a transducer position compensation filter to an input audio signal to generate an enhanced audio signal configured to be transmitted toward an entrance of the user's ear from a transducer carried by a headset and spaced apart from the entrance to a user's ear.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Hannes Gamper, Mark Richard Paul Thomas, Ivan Jelev Tashev, David Emerson Johnson
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Publication number: 20160345095Abstract: Systems and methods of providing an audio signal are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method of producing an audio signal includes applying, for example, a head related transfer function (HRTF) and a transducer position compensation filter to an input audio signal to generate an enhanced audio signal configured to be transmitted toward an entrance of the user's ear from a transducer carried by a headset and spaced apart from the entrance to a user's ear.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2015Publication date: November 24, 2016Inventors: Hannes Gamper, Mark Richard Paul Thomas, Ivan Jelev Tashev, David Emerson Johnston