Patents by Inventor Herve Bourlard

Herve Bourlard 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).

  • Method, apparatus and computer program product for determining the location of a plurality of speech sources
    Patent number: 9689959
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method, apparatus and computer program product for determining the location of a plurality of speech sources in an area of interest, comprising performing an algorithm on a signal issued by either one of said plurality of speech sources in the area to for iteratively recover data characteristic to said signal, wherein the algorithm is an iterative model-based sparse recovery algorithm, and wherein for each of a plurality of points in said area, the iteratively recovered data is indicative of a presence of a plurality of speech sources contributing to the signal received at each of a plurality of points in the area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Foundation de l'Institut de Recherche Idiap
    Inventors: Afsaneh Asaei, Herve Bourlard, Volkan Cevher
  • SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS BASED ON STRUCTURED SPARSITY OF PHONOLOGICAL FEATURES
    Publication number: 20170069306
    Abstract: A multimodal processing method comprising the steps of: A) Retrieving a data set representing distinctive phonological features; B) Identifying structured sparse patterns in said data set; C) Processing said structured sparse patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Afsaneh ASAEI, Milos Cernak, Herve Bourlard