Patents by Inventor Karen Payton

Karen Payton 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: 10718742
    Abstract: In environments (such as acoustic and bioelectrical environments) characterized by multiple simultaneous sources, effective blind source separation from sensor response mixtures becomes difficult as the number of sources increases-especially when the true number of sources is both unknown and changing over time. However, in some environments, non-sensor information can provide useful hypotheses for some sources. Embodiments of the present invention provide an adaptive filtering architecture for validating such source hypotheses, extracting an estimated representation of source signals corresponding to valid hypotheses, and improving the separation of the remaining “hidden” source signals from the sensor response mixtures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignees: Speech Technology and Applied Research Corporation
    Inventors: Richard S. Goldhor, Keith Gilbert, Joel MacAuslan, Karen Payton
  • Publication number: 20200072799
    Abstract: In environments (such as acoustic and bioelectrical environments) characterized by multiple simultaneous sources, effective blind source separation from sensor response mixtures becomes difficult as the number of sources increases-especially when the true number of sources is both unknown and changing over time. However, in some environments, non-sensor information can provide useful hypotheses for some sources. Embodiments of the present invention provide an adaptive filtering architecture for validating such source hypotheses, extracting an estimated representation of source signals corresponding to valid hypotheses, and improving the separation of the remaining “hidden” source signals from the sensor response mixtures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Richard S. Goldhor, Keith Gilbert, Joel MacAuslan, Karen Payton
  • Patent number: 10473628
    Abstract: In environments (such as acoustic and bioelectrical environments) characterized by multiple simultaneous sources, effective blind source separation from sensor response mixtures becomes difficult as the number of sources increases—especially when the true number of sources is both unknown and changing over time. However, in some environments, non-sensor information can provide useful hypotheses for some sources. Embodiments of the present invention provide an adaptive filtering architecture for validating such source hypotheses, extracting an estimated representation of source signals corresponding to valid hypotheses, and improving the separation of the remaining “hidden” source signals from the sensor response mixtures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Speech Technology & Applied Research Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Goldhor, Keith Gilbert, Joel MacAuslan, Karen Payton
  • Publication number: 20140195201
    Abstract: In environments (such as acoustic and bioelectrical environments) characterized by multiple simultaneous sources, effective blind source separation from sensor response mixtures becomes difficult as the number of sources increases—especially when the true number of sources is both unknown and changing over time. However, in some environments, non-sensor information can provide useful hypotheses for some sources. Embodiments of the present invention provide an adaptive filtering architecture for validating such source hypotheses, extracting an estimated representation of source signals corresponding to valid hypotheses, and improving the separation of the remaining “hidden” source signals from the sensor response mixtures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Inventors: Richard Goldhor, Keith Gilbert, Joel MacAuslan, Karen Payton