Patents by Inventor Joseph Picone

Joseph Picone 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: 20190142291
    Abstract: A system and method for automatically interpreting EEG signals is described. In certain aspects, the system and method use a statistical model trained to automatically interpret EEGs using a three-level decision-making process in which event labels are converted into epoch labels. In the first level, the signal is converted to EEG events using a hidden Markov model based system that models the temporal evolution of the signal. In the second level, three stacked denoising autoencoders (SDAs) are implemented with different window sizes to map event labels onto a single composite epoch label vector. In the third level, a probabilistic grammar is applied that combines left and right context with the current label vector to produce a final decision for an epoch. A physician's report with diagnoses, event markers and confidence levels can be generated based on output from the statistical model. Systems and methods for dealing with channel variation or a missing EEG electrode valve are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Iyad Obeid, Joseph Picone, Amir Hossein Harati Nejad Torbati, Steven D. Tobochnik, Mercedes Jacobson
  • Patent number: 6609246
    Abstract: An integrated development environment on a client provides for developing transaction programs, web pages, and applets for execution on a high performance transactional based World Wide Web server. The transaction programs are developed on the client, then automatically transferred to the server, where they are automatically compiled, linked, loaded into a TP library, registered with a TP monitor for execution, and tested. Similarly, the web pages and applets are developed on the client, then automatically transferred to the server, loaded into a database, and tested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: Bull HN Information Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Jerry T. Guhr, Joseph Picone
  • Patent number: 5293452
    Abstract: A voice log-in system is based on a person's spoken name input only, using speaker-dependent acoustic name recognition models in a performing speaker-independent name recognition. In an enrollment phase, a dual pass endpointing procedure defines both the person's full name (broad endpoints), and the component names separated by pauses (precise endpoints). An HMM (Hidden Markov Model) recognition model generator generates a corresponding HMM name recognition model modified by the insertion of additional skip transitions for the pauses between component names. In a recognition/update phase, a spoken-name speech signal is input to an HMM name recognition engine which performs speaker-independent name recognition--the modified HMM name recognition model permits the name recognition operation to accommodate pauses between component names of variable duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1994
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Joseph Picone, Barbara J. Wheatley
  • Patent number: 4914692
    Abstract: A customer inquiry unit that allows the recognition of human speech in the presence of an initial prerecorded message transmitted by the customer inquiry unit via a telephone network. The customer inquiry system is designed to be utilized to respond to inquiries received via the telephone network. The system functions by responding to a telephone call received via the network to transmit an initial speech message to the customer. Due to a variety of network problems, a portion of the speech energy of the message is reflected back to the inquiry system. This reflected energy is commonly referred to as an echo. If the customer starts to speak before the inquiry system has finished the initial message, the system utilizes an echo canceler to remove the echo received back from the telephone network and only transfers the speech response to a recognition subsystem. The echo canceler adapts to the telephone network during the initial portion of the initial speech message before the customer can respond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1990
    Assignee: AT&T Bell Laboratories
    Inventors: Walter T. Hartwell, Mark A. Johnson, Joseph Picone
  • Patent number: 4912764
    Abstract: An speech analysis and synthesis system where pitch information for excitation is transmitted during voiced segments of speech and modified residual information for excitation is transmitted during unvoiced speech segments along with linear predictive coded (LPC) parameters. The speech analysis portion of the system uses a pitch detection circuit to determine when the speech is voiced or unvoiced and to calculate the pitch information during voiced segments. A multi-pulse excitation forming circuit generates the modified residual signal which is obtained from the cross correlation of the residual signal and the LPC-recreated original signal. The pitch detection circuit controls a multiplexer which selects either the output of the multi-pulse excitation forming circuit or the output of the pitch detection circuit for transmission as the excitation information with LPC parameters to the synthesizer portion of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1990
    Assignee: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, AT&T Bell Laboratories
    Inventors: Walter T. Hartwell, Joseph Picone, Dimitrios P. Prezas
  • Patent number: 4879748
    Abstract: A pitch detector system for use with speech analysis and synthesis methods having a plurality of identical detectors each responsive to a different portion of a speech signal for estimating a pitch value and a voter circuit responsive to the estimated pitch values for determining a final pitch value. The pitch detectors are identical in design which allows for an efficient software implementation since only one set of program instructions is necessary to implement all of the encoders. The voter subsystem may be implemented by a digital signal processor executing program instructions that calculate a pitch value from the estimated pitch values determined by the pitch detectors and a second set of program instructions for constraining the final pitch value outputted by the voter subsystem so that the calculated pitch value is in agreement with calculated pitch values for previous frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1989
    Assignees: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, AT&T Bell Laboratories
    Inventors: Joseph Picone, Dimitrios Prezas