Patents by Inventor Laurence P. Sansone

Laurence P. Sansone 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: 11250872
    Abstract: Method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for customizing an automatic closed captioning system. In some embodiments, at a data use (DU) location, an automatic closed captioning system that includes a base model is provided, search criteria are defined to request from one or more data collection (DC) locations, a search request based on the search criteria is sent to the one or more DC locations, relevant closed caption data from the one or more DC locations are received responsive to the search request, the received relevant closed caption data are processed by computing a confidence score for each of a plurality of data sub-sets of the received relevant closed caption data and selecting one or more of the data sub-sets based on the confidence scores, and the automatic closed captioning system is customized by using the selected one or more data sub-sets to train the base model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Samuel Thomas, Yinghui Huang, Masayuki Suzuki, Zoltan Tueske, Laurence P. Sansone, Michael A. Picheny
  • Publication number: 20210183404
    Abstract: Method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for customizing an automatic closed captioning system. In some embodiments, at a data use (DU) location, an automatic closed captioning system that includes a base model is provided, search criteria are defined to request from one or more data collection (DC) locations, a search request based on the search criteria is sent to the one or more DC locations, relevant closed caption data from the one or more DC locations are received responsive to the search request, the received relevant closed caption data are processed by computing a confidence score for each of a plurality of data sub-sets of the received relevant closed caption data and selecting one or more of the data sub-sets based on the confidence scores, and the automatic closed captioning system is customized by using the selected one or more data sub-sets to train the base model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Samuel Thomas, Yinghui Huang, Masayuki Suzuki, Zoltan Tueske, Laurence P. Sansone, Michael A. Picheny
  • Patent number: 11019306
    Abstract: A method of combining data streams from fixed audio-visual sensors with data streams from personal mobile devices including, forming a communication link with at least one of one or more personal mobile devices; receiving at least one of an audio data stream and/or a video data stream from the at least one of the one or more personal mobile devices; determining the quality of the at least one of the audio data stream and/or the video data stream, wherein the audio data stream and/or the video data stream having a quality above a threshold quality is retained; and combining the retained audio data stream and/or the video data stream with the data streams from the fixed audio-visual sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stanley Chen, Kenneth W. Church, Vaibhava Goel, Lidia L. Mangu, Etienne Marcheret, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Laurence P. Sansone, Abhinav Sethy, Samuel Thomas
  • Publication number: 20190149769
    Abstract: A method of combining data streams from fixed audio-visual sensors with data streams from personal mobile devices including, forming a communication link with at least one of one or more personal mobile devices; receiving at least one of an audio data stream and/or a video data stream from the at least one of the one or more personal mobile devices; determining the quality of the at least one of the audio data stream and/or the video data stream, wherein the audio data stream and/or the video data stream having a quality above a threshold quality is retained; and combining the retained audio data stream and/or the video data stream with the data streams from the fixed audio-visual sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: STANLEY CHEN, KENNETH W. CHURCH, VAIBHAVA GOEL, LIDIA L. MANGU, ETIENNE MARCHERET, BHUVANA RAMABHADRAN, LAURENCE P. SANSONE, ABHINAV SETHY, SAMUEL THOMAS
  • Patent number: 10230922
    Abstract: A method of combining data streams from fixed audio-visual sensors with data streams from personal mobile devices including, forming a communication link with at least one of one or more personal mobile devices; receiving at least one of an audio data stream and/or a video data stream from the at least one of the one or more personal mobile devices; determining the quality of the at least one of the audio data stream and/or the video data stream, wherein the audio data stream and/or the video data stream having a quality above a threshold quality is retained; and combining the retained audio data stream and/or the video data stream with the data streams from the fixed audio-visual sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stanley Chen, Kenneth W. Church, Vaibhava Goel, Lidia L. Mangu, Etienne Marcheret, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Laurence P. Sansone, Abhinav Sethy, Samuel Thomas
  • Patent number: 9912909
    Abstract: A method of combining data streams from fixed audio-visual sensors with data streams from personal mobile devices including, forming a communication link with at least one of one or more personal mobile devices; receiving at least one of an audio data stream and/or a video data stream from the at least one of the one or more personal mobile devices; determining the quality of the at least one of the audio data stream and/or the video data stream, wherein the audio data stream and/or the video data stream having a quality above a threshold quality is retained; and combining the retained audio data stream and/or the video data stream with the data streams from the fixed audio-visual sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stanley Chen, Kenneth W. Church, Vaibhava Goel, Lidia L. Mangu, Etienne Marcheret, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Laurence P. Sansone, Abhinav Sethy, Samuel Thomas
  • Publication number: 20180027213
    Abstract: A method of combining data streams from fixed audio-visual sensors with data streams from personal mobile devices including, forming a communication link with at least one of one or more personal mobile devices; receiving at least one of an audio data stream and/or a video data stream from the at least one of the one or more personal mobile devices; determining the quality of the at least one of the audio data stream and/or the video data stream, wherein the audio data stream and/or the video data stream having a quality above a threshold quality is retained; and combining the retained audio data stream and/or the video data stream with the data streams from the fixed audio-visual sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: STANLEY CHEN, KENNETH W. CHURCH, VAIBHAVA GOEL, LIDIA L. MANGU, ETIENNE MARCHERET, BHUVANA RAMABHADRAN, LAURENCE P. SANSONE, ABHINAV SETHY, SAMUEL THOMAS
  • Publication number: 20170154264
    Abstract: A method, executed by a computer, includes monitoring a conversation between a plurality of meeting participants, identifying a conversational focus within the conversation, generating at least one question corresponding to the conversational focus, and retrieving at least one answer corresponding to the at least one question. A computer system and computer program product corresponding to the method are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: Stanley Chen, Kenneth W. Church, Robert G. Farrell, Vaibhava Goel, Lidia L. Mangu, Etienne Marcheret, Michael A. Picheny, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Laurence P. Sansone, Abhinav Sethy, Samuel Thomas
  • Publication number: 20170150100
    Abstract: A method of combining data streams from fixed audio-visual sensors with data streams from personal mobile devices including, forming a communication link with at least one of one or more personal mobile devices; receiving at least one of an audio data stream and/or a video data stream from the at least one of the one or more personal mobile devices; determining the quality of the at least one of the audio data stream and/or the video data stream, wherein the audio data stream and/or the video data stream having a quality above a threshold quality is retained; and combining the retained audio data stream and/or the video data stream with the data streams from the fixed audio-visual sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: STANLEY CHEN, KENNETH W. CHURCH, VAIBHAVA GOEL, LIDIA L. MANGU, ETIENNE MARCHERET, BHUVANA RAMABHADRAN, LAURENCE P. SANSONE, ABHINAV SETHY, SAMUEL THOMAS
  • Patent number: 9584758
    Abstract: A method of combining data streams from fixed audio-visual sensors with data streams from personal mobile devices including, forming a communication link with at least one of one or more personal mobile devices; receiving at least one of an audio data stream and/or a video data stream from the at least one of the one or more personal mobile devices; determining the quality of the at least one of the audio data stream and/or the video data stream, wherein the audio data stream and/or the video data stream having a quality above a threshold quality is retained; and combining the retained audio data stream and/or the video data stream with the data streams from the fixed audio-visual sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stanley Chen, Kenneth W. Church, Vaibhava Goel, Lidia L. Mangu, Etienne Marcheret, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Laurence P. Sansone, Abhinav Sethy, Samuel Thomas