Patents by Inventor Kathleen Worthington McMahon

Kathleen Worthington McMahon 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: 11955135
    Abstract: Eyewear having a speech to moving lips algorithm that receives and translates speech and utterances of a person viewed through the eyewear, and then displays an overlay of moving lips corresponding to the speech and utterances on a mask of the viewed person. A database having text to moving lips information is utilized to translate the speech and generate the moving lips in near-real time with little latency. This translation provides the deaf/hearing impaired users the ability to understand and communicate with the person viewed through the eyewear when they are wearing a mask. The translation may include automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language understanding (NLU) as a sound recognition engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Kathleen Worthington McMahon
  • Publication number: 20230056847
    Abstract: Eyewear having a speech to moving lips algorithm that receives and translates speech and utterances of a person viewed through the eyewear, and then displays an overlay of moving lips corresponding to the speech and utterances on a mask of the viewed person. A database having text to moving lips information is utilized to translate the speech and generate the moving lips in near-real time with little latency. This translation provides the deaf/hearing impaired users the ability to understand and communicate with the person viewed through the eyewear when they are wearing a mask. The translation may include automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language understanding (NLU) as a sound recognition engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventor: Kathleen Worthington McMahon
  • Patent number: 11393463
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for setting up a communication link between a device or application and a system with a controller. The controller can collect and send information to the application. A user interfaces with the controller to access the functionality of the application through providing commands to the controller. The system allows the user to interface with multiple applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SoundHound, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy P. Stonehocker, Kathleen Worthington McMahon
  • Patent number: 11266184
    Abstract: A mask is worn to cover a mouth of a wearer, and includes a mask main body made of a cloth-like material, a microphone arranged on the mask main body, and configured to collect voice of the wearer, a cord connected to the microphone, and a support portion that supports the microphone. The support portion is joined to a peripheral portion of the mask main body and higher in rigidity than the mask main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Inventor: Kathleen Worthington McMahon
  • Publication number: 20200335101
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for setting up a communication link between a device or application and a system with a controller. The controller can collect and send information to the application. A user interfaces with the controller to access the functionality of the application through providing commands to the controller. The system allows the user to interface with multiple applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: SoundHound, Inc.
    Inventors: Kathleen Worthington McMahon, Timothy P. Stonehocker
  • Publication number: 20200315266
    Abstract: A mask is worn to cover a mouth of a wearer, and includes a mask main body made of a cloth-like material, a microphone arranged on the mask main body, and configured to collect voice of the wearer, a cord connected to the microphone, and a support portion that supports the microphone. The support portion is joined to a peripheral portion of the mask main body and higher in rigidity than the mask main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: SoundHound, Inc.
    Inventor: Kathleen Worthington McMahon
  • Publication number: 20160314794
    Abstract: A client, such as a mobile phone, receives an audio signal from a microphone; the sound comes from a broadcast signal such as a radio or television program. The client sends a segment of audio data from the broadcast program to a detection system, such as a server. A broadcast monitoring system receives many broadcast audio signals and encodes their fingerprints in a database for matching. The detection system compares the client's audio data fingerprints to the content fingerprints to identify which broadcast station broadcast the signal having the sampled content. This information enables the client to resume the experience of the broadcast from one of a number of possible media sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: SoundHound, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Leitman, Bernard Mont-Reynaud, Kathleen Worthington McMahon, Regina Collecchia
  • Publication number: 20140078331
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure disclose a method and system for associating sound-derived data with an image. The method includes receiving a signal to activate an image capture device. Upon activation, sound is captured along with capturing an image. After this, the captured sound is processed to generate sound identification data. Finally, the sound identification data is associated with the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: SOUNDHOUND, INC.
    Inventors: Kathleen Worthington McMahon, Bernard Mont-Reynaud