Patents by Inventor Josef ANASTASIADIS

Josef ANASTASIADIS 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).

  • Coordinating electronic personal assistants
    Patent number: 11929065
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a representation of a spoken utterance, processing the representation of the spoken utterance to identify, from a number of candidate domains, a request and a serving domain, and routing the request to a personal assistant based on the request and the serving domain. Identification of the serving domain is based on one or more of a contextual state, a behavior profile of a speaker of the utterance, and a semantic content of the utterance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Cerence Operating Company
    Inventors: Giuseppe Iacobelli, Binh Nguyen, Josef Anastasiadis
  • Multi-microphone speech dialog system for multiple spatial zones
    Patent number: 11367437
    Abstract: There is provided a speech dialog system that includes a first microphone, a second microphone, a processor and a memory. The first microphone captures first audio from a first spatial zone, and produces a first audio signal. The second microphone captures second audio from a second spatial zone, and produces a second audio signal. The processor receives the first audio signal and the second audio signal, and the memory contains instructions that control the processor to perform operations of a speech enhancement module, an automatic speech recognition module, and a speech dialog module that performs a zone-dedicated speech dialog.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Timo Matheja, Markus Buck, Andreas Kirbach, Martin Roessler, Tim Haulick, Julien Premont, Josef Anastasiadis, Rudi Vuerinckx, Christophe Ris, Stijn Verschaeren, Hakan Ari, Dieter Ranz
  • Coordinating Electronic Personal Assistants
    Publication number: 20220036886
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a representation of a spoken utterance, processing the representation of the spoken utterance to identify, from a number of candidate domains, a request and a serving domain, and routing the request to a personal assistant based on the request and the serving domain. Identification of the serving domain is based on one or more of a contextual state, a behavior profile of a speaker of the utterance, and a semantic content of the utterance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Giuseppe Iacobelli, Binh Nguyen, Josef Anastasiadis
  • Coordinating electronic personal assistants
    Patent number: 11189271
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a representation of a spoken utterance, processing the representation of the spoken utterance to identify, from a number of candidate domains, a request and a serving domain, and routing the request to a personal assistant based on the request and the serving domain. Identification of the serving domain is based on one or more of a contextual state, a behavior profile of a speaker of the utterance, and a semantic content of the utterance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Cerence Operating Company
    Inventors: Giuseppe Iacobelli, Binh Nguyen, Josef Anastasiadis
  • COORDINATING ELECTRONIC PERSONAL ASSISTANTS
    Publication number: 20210256967
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a representation of a spoken utterance, processing the representation of the spoken utterance to identify, from a number of candidate domains, a request and a serving domain, and routing the request to a personal assistant based on the request and the serving domain. Identification of the serving domain is based on one or more of a contextual state, a behavior profile of a speaker of the utterance, and a semantic content of the utterance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Giuseppe Iacobelli, Binh Nguyen, Josef Anastasiadis
  • MULTI-MICROPHONE SPEECH DIALOG SYSTEM FOR MULTIPLE SPATIAL ZONES
    Publication number: 20200380967
    Abstract: There is provided a speech dialog system that includes a first microphone, a second microphone, a processor and a memory. The first microphone captures first audio from a first spatial zone, and produces a first audio signal. The second microphone captures second audio from a second spatial zone, and produces a second audio signal. The processor receives the first audio signal and the second audio signal, and the memory contains instructions that control the processor to perform operations of a speech enhancement module, an automatic speech recognition module, and a speech dialog module that performs a zone-dedicated speech dialog.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Timo MATHEJA, Markus BUCK, Andreas KIRBACH, Martin ROESSLER, Tim HAULICK, Julien PREMONT, Josef ANASTASIADIS, Rudi VUERINCKX, Christophe RIS, Stijn VERSCHAEREN, Hakan ARI, Dieter RANZ