Patents by Inventor Jia-You Ke

Jia-You Ke 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: 9123342
    Abstract: A method of recognizing gender or age of a speaker according to speech emotion or arousal includes the following steps of A) segmentalizing speech signals into a plurality of speech segments; B) fetching the first speech segment from the plural speech segments to further acquire at least one of emotional features or arousal degree in the speech segment; C) determining whether at least one of the emotional feature and the arousal degree conforms to some condition; if yes, proceed to the step D); if no, return to the step B) and then fetch the next speech segment; D) fetching the feature indicative of gender or age from the speech segment to further acquire at least one feature parameter; and E) recognizing the at least one feature parameter to further determine the gender or age of the speaker at the currently-processed speech segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Oscal Tzyh-Chiang Chen, Ping-Tsung Lu, Jia-You Ke
  • Publication number: 20130268273
    Abstract: A method of recognizing gender or age of a speaker according to speech emotion or arousal includes the following steps of A) segmentalizing speech signals into a plurality of speech segments; B) fetching the first speech segment from the plural speech segments to further acquire at least one of emotional features or arousal degree in the speech segment; C) determining whether at least one of the emotional feature and the arousal degree conforms to some condition; if yes, proceed to the step D); if no, return to the step B) and then fetch the next speech segment; D) fetching the feature indicative of gender or age from the speech segment to further acquire at least one feature parameter; and E) recognizing the at least one feature parameter to further determine the gender or age of the speaker at the currently-processed speech segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Inventors: Oscal Tzyh-Chiang Chen, Ping-Tsung Lu, Jia-You Ke