Patents by Inventor Laura Hiatt

Laura Hiatt 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).

  • Method and system for interactive conversational dialogue for cognitively overloaded device users
    Patent number: 7716056
    Abstract: A system and method to interactively converse with a cognitively overloaded user of a device, includes maintaining a knowledge base of information regarding the device and a domain, organizing the information in at least one of a relational manner and an ontological manner, receiving speech from the user, converting the speech into a word sequence, recognizing a partial proper name in the word sequence, identifying meaning structures from the word sequence using a model of the domain information, adjusting a boundary of the partial proper names to enhance an accuracy of the meaning structures, interpreting the meaning structures in a context of the conversation with the cognitively overloaded user using the knowledge base, selecting a content for a response to the cognitively overloaded user, generating the response based on the selected content, the context of the conversation, and grammatical rules, and synthesizing speech wave forms for the response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignees: Robert Bosch Corporation, Volkswagen of America
    Inventors: Fuliang Weng, Lawrence Cavedon, Badri Raghunathan, Danilo Mirkovic, Laura Hiatt, Hauke Schmidt, Alexander Gruenstein, Stanley Peters
  • Method and system for interactive conversational dialogue for cognitively overloaded device users
    Publication number: 20060074670
    Abstract: A system and method to interactively converse with a cognitively overloaded user of a device, includes maintaining a knowledge base of information regarding the device and a domain, organizing the information in at least one of a relational manner and an ontological manner, receiving speech from the user, converting the speech into a word sequence, recognizing a partial proper name in the word sequence, identifying meaning structures from the word sequence using a model of the domain information, adjusting a boundary of the partial proper names to enhance an accuracy of the meaning structures, interpreting the meaning structures in a context of the conversation with the cognitively overloaded user using the knowledge base, selecting a content for a response to the cognitively overloaded user, generating the response based on the selected content, the context of the conversation, and grammatical rules, and synthesizing speech wave forms for the response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2004
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Fuliang Weng, Lawrence Cavedon, Badri Raghunathan, Danilo Mirkovic, Laura Hiatt, Hauke Schmidt, Alexander Gruenstein, Stanley Peters