Patents by Inventor Jeffrey C. O'Neill

Jeffrey C. O'Neill 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).

  • Publication number: 20230394224
    Abstract: Interactive natural language processing (NLP) results may be generated that allow a user to interact with the NLP results but do so in an offline manner so that the documents being processed need not be stored online. To provide interactive NLP results, event handlers may be attached to elements of the NLP results. A user may then select a word or phrase of the NLP results to cause computer software provided with the NLP to present the interactive features. For example, a user may click on a definite noun phrase to view information for diagnosing antecedent basis errors. For another example, a user may click on a word to view information about how that word is used in a document, such as viewing portions of the document that include the word or variants of the word.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventor: Jeffrey C. O'Neill
  • Patent number: 11768995
    Abstract: Interactive natural language processing (NLP) results may be generated that allow a user to interact with the NLP results but do so in an offline manner so that the documents being processed need not be stored online. To provide interactive NLP results, event handlers may be attached to elements of the NLP results. A user may then select a word or phrase of the NLP results to cause computer software provided with the NLP to present the interactive features. For example, a user may click on a definite noun phrase to view information for diagnosing antecedent basis errors. For another example, a user may click on a word to view information about how that word is used in a document, such as viewing portions of the document that include the word or variants of the word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Patent Bots, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey C. O'Neill
  • Publication number: 20220156450
    Abstract: Interactive natural language processing (NLP) results may be generated that allow a user to interact with the NLP results but do so in an offline manner so that the documents being processed need not be stored online. To provide interactive NLP results, event handlers may be attached to elements of the NLP results. A user may then select a word or phrase of the NLP results to cause computer software provided with the NLP to present the interactive features. For example, a user may click on a definite noun phrase to view information for diagnosing antecedent basis errors. For another example, a user may click on a word to view information about how that word is used in a document, such as viewing portions of the document that include the word or variants of the word.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventor: Jeffrey C. O'Neill
  • Patent number: 9615171
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods are described for inverting transformations of signals due to room acoustics. In some implementations, a transformation of a calibration signal from a particular location in a room may be determined. From this transformation, an inverse transformation may be determined and the inverse transformation may be applied to a speech signal received from a similar location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey C. O'Neill, Stan W. Salvador
  • Patent number: 9401140
    Abstract: An unsupervised acoustic modeling service for speech recognition is disclosed. A computing device may be present in a listening zone, such as a household or office, and may receive an audio signal that may include speech. In some instances, the speech is not directed to the computing device. Speech recognition results may be generated from the audio signal, using an acoustic model, and the results used to update the acoustic model. For example, the acoustic model may be updated to reflect a particular speaker's pronunciation of certain sound units, such as phonemes. By using speech that is not necessarily directed to the computing device, more data may be available for updating an acoustic model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick V. Weber, Jeffrey C. O'Neill
  • Patent number: 9099087
    Abstract: A method for producing speech recognition results on a device includes receiving first speech recognition results, obtaining a language model, wherein the language model represents information stored on the device, and using the first speech recognition results and the language model to generate second speech recognition results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Canyon IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey P. Adams, Kenneth Basye, Ryan Thomas, Jeffrey C. O'Neill
  • Patent number: 9047868
    Abstract: A specific language model for speech recognition may be built. In some embodiments, the specific language model is associated with a user and built using a corpus of text obtained from a user computing device. In some embodiments, a sequence of words is constructed from the corpus of text. The sequence of words may be obfuscated, and the obfuscated sequence of words may be stored in the specific language model. A server or a user device may use the specific language model in conjunction with a general language model to perform speech recognition on an utterance made by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey C. O'Neill, Ryan P. Thomas
  • Publication number: 20120059653
    Abstract: A method for producing speech recognition results on a device includes receiving first speech recognition results, obtaining a language model, wherein the language model represents information stored on the device, and using the first speech recognition results and the language model to generate second speech recognition results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Inventors: Jeffrey P. Adams, Kenneth Basye, Ryan Thomas, Jeffrey C. O'Neill
  • Patent number: 6178261
    Abstract: Method and system for extracting features from measurement signals obtained from real world, physical signals by first forming an invariant component of the measurement signals and then using a technique based on a noise subspace algorithm. This technique first casts or projects the transformed measurement signals into separate subspaces for each extraneous variation or group of variations. The subspaces have minimal over-lap. The recognition of a particular invariant component within a pertinent subspace is then preferably performed using Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) techniques to generate a pattern recognition signal. A series of transformations can be used to form an invariant component called the Scale and Translation Invariant Representation (STIR).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of Michigan
    Inventors: William J. Williams, Eugene J. Zalubas, Robert M. Nickel, Alfred O. Hero, III, Jeffrey C. O'Neill