Patents by Inventor Joan Bachenko

Joan Bachenko 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 and system for the automatic recognition of deceptive language
    Publication number: 20070010993
    Abstract: A system for identifying deception within a text includes a processor for receiving and processing a text file. The processor includes a deception indicator tag analyzer for inserting into the text file at least one deception indicator tag that identifies a potentially deceptive word or phrase within the text file, and an interpreter for interpreting the at least one deception indicator tag to determine a distribution of potentially deceptive word or phrases within the text file and generating deception likelihood data based upon the density or distribution of potentially deceptive word or phrases within the text file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Publication date: January 11, 2007
    Inventors: Joan Bachenko, Michael Schonwetter
  • Speech-recognition-assisted selective suppression of silent and filled speech pauses during playback of an audio recording
    Patent number: 6161087
    Abstract: A method for playback of speech in an audio recording. The method comprises performing full word-level recognition of the speech including recognition of silent pauses and filled pauses, suppressing playback of the filled pauses and silent pauses, alerting a listener of the audio recording to locations of suppressed filled pauses and silent pauses during playback of the audio recording, and accepting a user command to disable suppression of any filled pause or silent pause during playback of the audio recording.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V.
    Inventors: Colin W. Wightman, Joan Bachenko