Patents by Inventor Kevin M. Short

Kevin M. Short 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: 11354381
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatus, and techniques are presented for maintaining cupolets in a state of mutual stabilization. A first cupolet and a second cupolet are generated. A first control code is applied to the first cupolet for a first time to produce a first visitation code. The first visitation code is transformed based on an exchange function to produce a second control code. The second control code is applied to the second cupolet to produce a second visitation code. The second visitation code is transformed based on the exchange function to produce the first control code. The first control code is applied to the first cupolet for a second time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
    Inventors: Kevin M. Short, Matthew A. Morena
  • Patent number: 11056097
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of generating advanced feature discrimination vectors (AFDVs) representing sounds forming part of an audio signal input to a device is provided. The method includes taking a plurality of samples of the audio signal, and for each sample of the audio signal taken: performing a signal analysis on the sample to extract one or more high resolution oscillator peaks therefrom; renormalizing the extracted oscillator peaks to eliminate variations in the fundamental frequency and time duration for each sample occurring over the window; normalizing the power of the renormalized extracted oscillator peaks; and forming the renormalized and power normalized extracted oscillator peaks into a respective AFDV for the sample. The method further includes outputting the respective AFDV to a comparison function configured to identify a characteristic of the sample based on a comparison of the respective AFDV with a library of AFDVs associated with known sounds and/or known speakers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: XMOS INC.
    Inventors: Kevin M. Short, Brian Hone
  • Patent number: 10978088
    Abstract: A method of processing a signal includes taking a signal recorded by a plurality of signal recorders, applying at least one super-resolution technique to the signal to produce an oscillator peak representation of the signal comprising a plurality of frequency components for a plurality of oscillator peaks, computing at least one Cross Channel Complex Spectral Phase Evolution (XCSPE) attribute for the signal to produce a measure of a spatial evolution of the plurality of oscillator peaks between the signal, identifying a known predicted XCSPE curve (PXC) trace corresponding to the frequency components and at least one XCSPE attribute of the plurality of oscillator peaks and utilizing the identified PXC trace to determine a spatial attribute corresponding to an origin of the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: XMOS INC.
    Inventors: Kevin M. Short, Brian T. Hone, Pascal Brunet
  • Patent number: 10957336
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an input signal comprising an original domain signal and creating a first window data set and a second window data set from the signal, wherein an initiation of the second window data set is offset from an initiation of the first window data set, converting the first window data set and the second window data set to a frequency domain and storing the resulting data as data in a second domain different from the original domain, performing complex spectral phase evolution (CSPE) on the second domain data to estimate component frequencies of the first and second window data sets, using the component frequencies estimated in the CSPE, sampling a set of second-domain high resolution windows to select a mathematical representation comprising a second-domain high resolution window that fits at least one of the amplitude, phase, amplitude modulation and frequency modulation of a component of an underlying signal wherein the component comprises at least one oscillator peak, generating an ou
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: XMOS INC.
    Inventors: Kevin M. Short, Brian T. Hone
  • Publication number: 20200394250
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatus, and techniques are presented for maintaining cupolets in a state of mutual stabilization. A first cupolet and a second cupolet are generated. A first control code is applied to the first cupolet for a first time to produce a first visitation code. The first visitation code is transformed based on an exchange function to produce a second control code. The second control code is applied to the second cupolet to produce a second visitation code. The second visitation code is transformed based on the exchange function to produce the first control code. The first control code is applied to the first cupolet for a second time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: University of New Hampshire
    Inventors: Kevin M. Short, Matthew A. Morena
  • Patent number: 10754919
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatus, and techniques are presented for maintaining cupolets in a state of mutual stabilization. A first cupolet and a second cupolet are generated. A first control code is applied to the first cupolet for a first time to produce a first visitation code. The first visitation code is transformed based on an exchange function to produce a second control code. The second control code is applied to the second cupolet to produce a second visitation code. The second visitation code is transformed based on the exchange function to produce the first control code. The first control code is applied to the first cupolet for a second time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: University of New Hampshire
    Inventors: Kevin M. Short, Matthew A. Morena
  • Publication number: 20200160839
    Abstract: A method of renormalizing high-resolution oscillator peaks, extracted from windowed samples of an audio signal, is disclosed. Feature vectors are generated for which variations in both fundamental frequency and time duration of speech are substantially mitigated. The feature vectors may be aligned within a common coordinate space, free of those variations in frequency and time duration that occurs between speakers, and even over speech by a single speaker, to facilitate a simple and accurate determination of matches between those AFDVs generated from a sample of the audio signal and corpus AFDVs generated for known speech at the phoneme and sub-phoneme level. The renormalized feature vectors can be combined with traditional feature vectors such as MFCCs, or they can be used exclusively to identify voiced, semi-voiced and unvoiced sounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Kevin M. Short, Brian Hone
  • Publication number: 20200058316
    Abstract: A method of processing a signal includes taking a signal recorded by a plurality of signal recorders, applying at least one super-resolution technique to the signal to produce an oscillator peak representation of the signal comprising a plurality of frequency components for a plurality of oscillator peaks, computing at least one Cross Channel Complex Spectral Phase Evolution (XCSPE) attribute for the signal to produce a measure of a spatial evolution of the plurality of oscillator peaks between the signal, identifying a known predicted XCSPE curve (PXC) trace corresponding to the frequency components and at least one XCSPE attribute of the plurality of oscillator peaks and utilizing the identified PXC trace to determine a spatial attribute corresponding to an origin of the signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Kevin M. Short, Brian T. Hone, Pascal Brunet
  • Patent number: 10497381
    Abstract: A method of processing a signal includes taking a signal recorded by a plurality of signal recorders, applying at least one super-resolution technique to the signal to produce an oscillator peak representation of the signal comprising a plurality of frequency components for a plurality of oscillator peaks, computing at least one Cross Channel Complex Spectral Phase Evolution (XCSPE) attribute for the signal to produce a measure of a spatial evolution of the plurality of oscillator peaks between the signal, identifying a known predicted XCSPE curve (PXC) trace corresponding to the frequency components and at least one XCSPE attribute of the plurality of oscillator peaks and utilizing the identified PXC trace to determine a spatial attribute corresponding to an origin of the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: XMOS INC.
    Inventors: Kevin M. Short, Brian T. Hone, Pascal Brunet
  • Patent number: 10410623
    Abstract: A method of renormalizing high-resolution oscillator peaks, extracted from windowed samples of an audio signal, is disclosed. Feature vectors are generated for which variations in both fundamental frequency and time duration of speech are substantially mitigated. The feature vectors may be aligned within a common coordinate space, free of those variations in frequency and time duration that occurs between speakers, and even over speech by a single speaker, to facilitate a simple and accurate determination of matches between those AFDVs generated from a sample of the audio signal and corpus AFDVs generated for known speech at the phoneme and sub-phoneme level. The renormalized feature vectors can be combined with traditional feature vectors such as MFCCs, or they can be used exclusively to identify voiced, semi-voiced and unvoiced sounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: XMOS INC.
    Inventors: Kevin M. Short, Brian Hone
  • Publication number: 20180032475
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatus, and techniques are presented for maintaining cupolets in a state of mutual stabilization. A first cupolet and a second cupolet are generated. A first control code is applied to the first cupolet for a first time to produce a first visitation code. The first visitation code is transformed based on an exchange function to produce a second control code. The second control code is applied to the second cupolet to produce a second visitation code. The second visitation code is transformed based on the exchange function to produce the first control code. The first control code is applied to the first cupolet for a second time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: University of New Hampshire
    Inventors: Kevin M. Short, Matthew A. Morena
  • Patent number: 9824065
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatus, and techniques are presented for maintaining cupolets in a state of mutual stabilization. A first cupolet and a second cupolet are generated. A first control code is applied to the first cupolet for a first time to produce a first visitation code. The first visitation code is transformed based on an exchange function to produce a second control code. The second control code is applied to the second cupolet to produce a second visitation code. The second visitation code is transformed based on the exchange function to produce the first control code. The first control code is applied to the first cupolet for a second time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: University of New Hampshire
    Inventors: Kevin M. Short, Matthew A. Morena
  • Publication number: 20170301343
    Abstract: A method of renormalizing high-resolution oscillator peaks, extracted from windowed samples of an audio signal, is disclosed. Feature vectors are generated for which variations in both fundamental frequency and time duration of speech are substantially mitigated. The feature vectors may be aligned within a common coordinate space, free of those variations in frequency and time duration that occurs between speakers, and even over speech by a single speaker, to facilitate a simple and accurate determination of matches between those AFDVs generated from a sample of the audio signal and corpus AFDVs generated for known speech at the phoneme and sub-phoneme level. The renormalized feature vectors can be combined with traditional feature vectors such as MFCCs, or they can be used exclusively to identify voiced, semi-voiced and unvoiced sounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Kevin M. Short, Brian Hone
  • Patent number: 9728182
    Abstract: A method of renormalizing high-resolution oscillator peaks, extracted from windowed samples of an audio signal, is disclosed. Feature vectors are generated for which variations in both fundamental frequency and time duration of speech are substantially mitigated. The feature vectors may be aligned within a common coordinate space, free of those variations in frequency and time duration that occurs between speakers, and even over speech by a single speaker, to facilitate a simple and accurate determination of matches between those AFDVs generated from a sample of the audio signal and corpus AFDVs generated for known speech at the phoneme and sub-phoneme level. The renormalized feature vectors can be combined with traditional feature vectors such as MFCCs, or they can be used exclusively to identify voiced, semi-voiced and unvoiced sounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: SETEM TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin M. Short, Brian Hone
  • Publication number: 20170004844
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an input signal comprising an original domain signal and creating a first window data set and a second window data set from the signal, wherein an initiation of the second window data set is offset from an initiation of the first window data set, converting the first window data set and the second window data set to a frequency domain and storing the resulting data as data in a second domain different from the original domain, performing complex spectral phase evolution (CSPE) on the second domain data to estimate component frequencies of the first and second window data sets, using the component frequencies estimated in the CSPE, sampling a set of second-domain high resolution windows to select a mathematical representation comprising a second-domain high resolution window that fits at least one of the amplitude, phase, amplitude modulation and frequency modulation of a component of an underlying signal wherein the component comprises at least one oscillator peak, generating an ou
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Kevin M. Short, Brian T. Hone
  • Patent number: 9495975
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an input signal comprising an original domain signal and creating a first window data set and a second window data set from the signal, wherein an initiation of the second window data set is offset from an initiation of the first window data set, converting the first window data set and the second window data set to a frequency domain and storing the resulting data as data in a second domain different from the original domain, performing complex spectral phase evolution (CSPE) on the second domain data to estimate component frequencies of the first and second window data sets, using the component frequencies estimated in the CSPE, sampling a set of second-domain high resolution windows to select a mathematical representation comprising a second-domain high resolution window that fits at least one of the amplitude, phase, amplitude modulation and frequency modulation of a component of an underlying signal wherein the component comprises at least one oscillator peak, generating an ou
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Kaonyx Labs LLC
    Inventors: Kevin M. Short, Brian T. Hone
  • Publication number: 20160284343
    Abstract: A method of renormalizing high-resolution oscillator peaks, extracted from windowed samples of an audio signal, is disclosed. Feature vectors are generated for which variations in both fundamental frequency and time duration of speech are substantially mitigated. The feature vectors may be aligned within a common coordinate space, free of those variations in frequency and time duration that occurs between speakers, and even over speech by a single speaker, to facilitate a simple and accurate determination of matches between those AFDVs generated from a sample of the audio signal and corpus AFDVs generated for known speech at the phoneme and sub-phoneme level. The renormalized feature vectors can be combined with traditional feature vectors such as MFCCs, or they can be used exclusively to identify voiced, semi-voiced and unvoiced sounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Kevin M. Short, Brian Hone
  • Patent number: 9443535
    Abstract: A method of processing a signal, including taking a signal formed from a plurality of source signal emitters and expressed in an original domain, decomposing the signal into a mathematical representation of a plurality of constituent elements in an alternate domain, analyzing the plurality of constituent elements to associate at least a subset of the constituent elements with at least one of the plurality of source signal emitters, separating at least a subset of the constituent elements based on the association and reconstituting at least a subset of constituent elements to produce an output signal in at least one of the original domain, the alternate domain and another domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Kaonyx Labs LLC
    Inventors: Kevin M. Short, Brian T. Hone
  • Publication number: 20160071528
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an input signal comprising an original domain signal and creating a first window data set and a second window data set from the signal, wherein an initiation of the second window data set is offset from an initiation of the first window data set, converting the first window data set and the second window data set to a frequency domain and storing the resulting data as data in a second domain different from the original domain, performing complex spectral phase evolution (CSPE) on the second domain data to estimate component frequencies of the first and second window data sets, using the component frequencies estimated in the CSPE, sampling a set of second-domain high resolution windows to select a mathematical representation comprising a second-domain high resolution window that fits at least one of the amplitude, phase, amplitude modulation and frequency modulation of a component of an underlying signal wherein the component comprises at least one oscillator peak, generating an ou
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: Kaonyx Labs LLC
    Inventors: Kevin M. Short, Brian T. Hone
  • Publication number: 20150287422
    Abstract: A method of processing a signal includes taking a signal recorded by a plurality of signal recorders, applying at least one super-resolution technique to the signal to produce an oscillator peak representation of the signal comprising a plurality of frequency components for a plurality of oscillator peaks, computing at least one Cross Channel Complex Spectral Phase Evolution (XCSPE) attribute for the signal to produce a measure of a spatial evolution of the plurality of oscillator peaks between the signal, identifying a known predicted XCSPE curve (PXC) trace corresponding to the frequency components and at least one XCSPE attribute of the plurality of oscillator peaks and utilizing the identified PXC trace to determine a spatial attribute corresponding to an origin of the signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Kevin M. Short, Brian T. Hone, Scott Stackley, Pascal Brunet