Patents by Inventor Jonathan William Plumb

Jonathan William Plumb 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).

  • Conversation detection
    Patent number: 10529359
    Abstract: Various embodiments relating to detecting a conversation during presentation of content on a computing device, and taking one or more actions in response to detecting the conversation, are disclosed. In one example, an audio data stream is received from one or more sensors, a conversation between a first user and a second user is detected based on the audio data stream, and presentation of a digital content item is modified by the computing device in response to detecting the conversation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Arthur Charles Tomlin, Jonathan Paulovich, Evan Michael Keibler, Jason Scott, Cameron Brown, Jonathan William Plumb
  • Speech to text conversion
    Patent number: 9280972
    Abstract: Embodiments that relate to converting audio inputs from an environment into text are disclosed. For example, in one disclosed embodiment a speech conversion program receives audio inputs from a microphone array of a head-mounted display device. Image data is captured from the environment, and one or more possible faces are detected from image data. Eye-tracking data is used to determine a target face on which a user is focused. A beamforming technique is applied to at least a portion of the audio inputs to identify target audio inputs that are associated with the target face. The target audio inputs are converted into text that is displayed via a transparent display of the head-mounted display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel McCulloch, Abby Lin Lee, Adam Benjamin Smith-Kipnis, Jonathan William Plumb, Alexandre David, Michael O Hale, Jeff Cole, Hendrik Mark Langerak
  • CONVERSATION DETECTION
    Publication number: 20150302867
    Abstract: Various embodiments relating to detecting a conversation during presentation of content on a computing device, and taking one or more actions in response to detecting the conversation, are disclosed. In one example, an audio data stream is received from one or more sensors, a conversation between a first user and a second user is detected based on the audio data stream, and presentation of a digital content item is modified by the computing device in response to detecting the conversation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Arthur Charles Tomlin, Jonathan Paulovich, Evan Michael Keibler, Jason Scott, Cameron Brown, Jonathan William Plumb
  • SPEECH TO TEXT CONVERSION
    Publication number: 20140337023
    Abstract: Embodiments that relate to converting audio inputs from an environment into text are disclosed. For example, in one disclosed embodiment a speech conversion program receives audio inputs from a microphone array of a head-mounted display device. Image data is captured from the environment, and one or more possible faces are detected from image data. Eye-tracking data is used to determine a target face on which a user is focused. A beamforming technique is applied to at least a portion of the audio inputs to identify target audio inputs that are associated with the target face. The target audio inputs are converted into text that is displayed via a transparent display of the head-mounted display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Daniel McCulloch, Abby Lin Lee, Adam Benjamin Smith-Kipnis, Jonathan William Plumb, Alexandre David, Michael O. Hale, Jeff Cole, Hendrik Mark Langerak