Patents by Inventor Namhee Kwon

Namhee Kwon 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: 12444510
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for medical assessment based on voice. A query module is configured to audibly question a user from an electronic display screen and/or a speaker of a computing device with one or more open ended questions. A response module is configured to receive a conversational verbal response of a user from a microphone of a computing device in response to one or more open ended questions. A detection module is configured to provide a machine learning assessment for a user of a medical condition based on a machine learning analysis of a received conversational verbal response of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2025
    Assignee: Canary Speech, Inc.
    Inventors: Jangwon Kim, Namhee Kwon, Henry O'Connell, Phillip Walstad, Kevin Shengbin Yang
  • Patent number: 12392740
    Abstract: Provided is an XPS sample holder including: a holder body configured to provide an inner space; a first voltage transmitting member that passes through a top surface of the holder body in a vertical direction; a second voltage transmitting member that passes through the top surface of the holder body in the vertical direction and is spaced apart from the first voltage transmitting member in a first direction that is a horizontal direction; an inner connection member disposed in the holder body and electrically connected to the first voltage transmitting member; a first electrode part disposed on the top surface of the holder body and connected to the first voltage transmitting member; and a second electrode part disposed on the top surface of the holder body and connected to the second voltage transmitting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2025
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Soohyung Park, NamHee Kwon, Habin Kang
  • Publication number: 20250140402
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for techniques for speech language model training and application. An apparatus includes a processor and a memory coupled with the processor. The memory stores code that is executable by the processor to train a first speech model in a first language, the first speech model used to determine one or more characteristics of speech data that is indicative of MCI, train a second speech model for use in a second language using at least a portion of the first speech model trained in the first language, apply the second speech model trained for use in the second language to speech data for a user captured in the second language, and determine, based on output from the second speech model trained for use in the second language, an assessment of MCI for the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicants: Canary Speech, Inc., NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER, SMK CORPORATION
    Inventors: NAMHEE KWON, RAYMOND BRUECKNER, VINOD SUBRAMANIAN, NATE BLAYLOCK, HENRY O'CONNELL, KUNIHIRO NISHIMURA, SOSHIRO OGATA, ERI KIYOSHIGE, MISA TAKEGAMI
  • Publication number: 20240395281
    Abstract: A health condition or change in health condition of a person may be determined by processing the person's speech with a neural network. Speech from more than one time period may be processed and, in some implementations, speech from a time period may be associated with a health condition label. For each time period, a feature vector may be computed from the speech and the feature vector may be processed with a neural network to obtain a speech embedding vector. In some implementations, feature vector may include word-piece encodings and the neural network may be a transformer neural network. The speech embedding vectors may be processed with a mathematical model to determine a change in a health condition between two time periods or to determine a health condition label for a specific time period. In some implementations, the mathematical model may be a regression model or a fully-connected neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: Canary Speech, Inc.
    Inventors: SAMUEL KIM, NAMHEE KWON, NATHAN BLAYLOCK, HENRY J. O'CONNELL, JEFFREY P. ADAMS
  • Patent number: 12125497
    Abstract: A health condition or change in health condition of a person may be determined by processing the person's speech with a neural network. Speech from more than one time period may be processed and, in some implementations, speech from a time period may be associated with a health condition label. For each time period, a feature vector may be computed from the speech and the feature vector may be processed with a neural network to obtain a speech embedding vector. In some implementations, feature vector may include word-piece encodings and the neural network may be a transformer neural network. The speech embedding vectors may be processed with a mathematical model to determine a change in a health condition between two time periods or to determine a health condition label for a specific time period. In some implementations, the mathematical model may be a regression model or a fully-connected neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: CANARY SPEECH, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Kim, Namhee Kwon, Nathan Blaylock, Henry J. O'Connell, Jeffrey P. Adams
  • Publication number: 20240331882
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for medical assessment based on voice. A query module is configured to audibly question a user from an electronic display screen and/or a speaker of a computing device with one or more open ended questions. A response module is configured to receive a conversational verbal response of a user from a microphone of a computing device in response to one or more open ended questions. A detection module is configured to provide a machine learning assessment for a user of a medical condition based on a machine learning analysis of a received conversational verbal response of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: Canary Speech, LLC
    Inventors: JANGWON KIM, NAMHEE KWON, HENRY O’CONNELL, PHILLIP WALSTAD, KEVIN SHENGBIN YANG
  • Patent number: 12051513
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for medical assessment based on voice. A query module is configured to audibly question a user from an electronic display screen and/or a speaker of a computing device with one or more open ended questions. A response module is configured to receive a conversational verbal response of a user from a microphone of a computing device in response to one or more open ended questions. A detection module is configured to provide a machine learning assessment for a user of a medical condition based on a machine learning analysis of a received conversational verbal response of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: CANARY SPEECH, LLC
    Inventors: Jangwon Kim, Namhee Kwon, Henry O'Connell, Phillip Walstad, Kevin Shengbin Yang
  • Publication number: 20240125716
    Abstract: Provided is an XPS sample holder including: a holder body configured to provide an inner space; a first voltage transmitting member that passes through a top surface of the holder body in a vertical direction; a second voltage transmitting member that passes through the top surface of the holder body in the vertical direction and is spaced apart from the first voltage transmitting member in a first direction that is a horizontal direction; an inner connection member disposed in the holder body and electrically connected to the first voltage transmitting member; a first electrode part disposed on the top surface of the holder body and connected to the first voltage transmitting member; and a second electrode part disposed on the top surface of the holder body and connected to the second voltage transmitting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Soohyung PARK, NamHee KWON, Habin KANG
  • Publication number: 20230352194
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for medical assessment based on voice. A query module is configured to audibly question a user from an electronic display screen and/or a speaker of a computing device with one or more open ended questions. A response module is configured to receive a conversational verbal response of a user from a microphone of a computing device in response to one or more open ended questions. A detection module is configured to provide a machine learning assessment for a user of a medical condition based on a machine learning analysis of a received conversational verbal response of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Canary Speech, LLC
    Inventors: JANGWON KIM, NAMHEE KWON, HENRY O’CONNELL, PHILLIP WALSTAD, KEVIN SHENGBIN YANG
  • Patent number: 11756693
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for medical assessment based on voice. A query module is configured to audibly question a user from an electronic display screen and/or a speaker of a computing device with one or more open ended questions. A response module is configured to receive a conversational verbal response of a user from a microphone of a computing device in response to one or more open ended questions. A detection module is configured to provide a machine learning assessment for a user of a medical condition based on a machine learning analysis of a received conversational verbal response of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: CANARY SPEECH, LLC
    Inventors: Jangwon Kim, Namhee Kwon, Henry O'Connell, Phillip Walstad, Kevin Shengbin Yang
  • Patent number: 11749414
    Abstract: A mathematical model may be trained to diagnose a medical condition of a person by processing acoustic features and language features of speech of the person. The performance of the mathematical model may be improved by appropriately selecting the features to be used with the mathematical model. Features may be selected by computing a feature selection score for each acoustic feature and each language feature, and then selecting features using the scores, such as by selecting features with the highest scores. In some implementations, stability determinations may be computed for each feature and features may be selected using both the feature selection scores and the stability determinations. A mathematical model may then be trained using the selected features and deployed. In some implementations, prompts may be selected using computed prompt selection scores, and the deployed mathematical model may be used with the selected prompts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: CANARY SPEECH, LLC
    Inventors: Jangwon Kim, Namhee Kwon, Henry O'Connell, Phillip Walstad, Kevin Shengbin Yang
  • Publication number: 20230072242
    Abstract: A health condition or change in health condition of a person may be determined by processing the person's speech with a neural network. Speech from more than one time period may be processed and, in some implementations, speech from a time period may be associated with a health condition label. For each time period, a feature vector may be computed from the speech and the feature vector may be processed with a neural network to obtain a speech embedding vector. In some implementations, feature vector may include word-piece encodings and the neural network may be a transformer neural network. The speech embedding vectors may be processed with a mathematical model to determine a change in a health condition between two time periods or to determine a health condition label for a specific time period. In some implementations, the mathematical model may be a regression model or a fully-connected neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: Canary Speech, LLC
    Inventors: SAMUEL KIM, NAMHEE KWON, NATHAN BLAYLOCK, HENRY J. O'CONNELL, JEFFREY P. ADAMS
  • Publication number: 20220293286
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for medical assessment based on voice. A query module is configured to audibly question a user from an electronic display screen and/or a speaker of a computing device with one or more open ended questions. A response module is configured to receive a conversational verbal response of a user from a microphone of a computing device in response to one or more open ended questions. A detection module is configured to provide a machine learning assessment for a user of a medical condition based on a machine learning analysis of a received conversational verbal response of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: Canary Speech, LLC
    Inventors: JANGWON KIM, NAMHEE KWON, HENRY O'CONNELL, PHILLIP WALSTAD, KEVIN SHENGBIN YANG
  • Patent number: 11348694
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for medical assessment based on voice. A query module is configured to audibly question a user from a speaker of a mobile computing device with one or more open ended questions. A response module is configured to receive a conversational verbal response of a user from a microphone of a mobile computing device in response to one or more open ended questions. A detection module is configured to provide a machine learning assessment for a user of a medical condition based on a machine learning analysis of a received conversational verbal response of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Canary Speech, Inc.
    Inventors: Jangwon Kim, Namhee Kwon, Henry O'Connell, Phillip Walstad, Kevin Shengbin Yang
  • Publication number: 20210142917
    Abstract: A mathematical model may be trained to diagnose a medical condition of a person by processing acoustic features and language features of speech of the person. The performance of the mathematical model may be improved by appropriately selecting the features to be used with the mathematical model. Features may be selected by computing a feature selection score for each acoustic feature and each language feature, and then selecting features using the scores, such as by selecting features with the highest scores. In some implementations, stability determinations may be computed for each feature and features may be selected using both the feature selection scores and the stability determinations. A mathematical model may then be trained using the selected features and deployed. In some implementations, prompts may be selected using computed prompt selection scores, and the deployed mathematical model may be used with the selected prompts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Canary Speech, LLC
    Inventors: JANGWON KIM, NAMHEE KWON, HENRY O'CONNELL, PHILLIP WALSTAD, KEVIN SHENGBIN YANG
  • Patent number: 10896765
    Abstract: A mathematical model may be trained to diagnose a medical condition of a person by processing acoustic features and language features of speech of the person. The performance of the mathematical model may be improved by appropriately selecting the features to be used with the mathematical model. Features may be selected by computing a feature selection score for each acoustic feature and each language feature, and then selecting features using the scores, such as by selecting features with the highest scores. In some implementations, stability determinations may be computed for each feature and features may be selected using both the feature selection scores and the stability determinations. A mathematical model may then be trained using the selected features and deployed. In some implementations, prompts may be selected using computed prompt selection scores, and the deployed mathematical model may be used with the selected prompts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: CANARY SPEECH, LLC
    Inventors: Jangwon Kim, Namhee Kwon, Henry O'Connell, Phillip Walstad, Kevin Shengbin Yang
  • Publication number: 20190311815
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for medical assessment based on voice. A query module is configured to audibly question a user from a speaker of a mobile computing device with one or more open ended questions. A response module is configured to receive a conversational verbal response of a user from a microphone of a mobile computing device in response to one or more open ended questions. A detection module is configured to provide a machine learning assessment for a user of a medical condition based on a machine learning analysis of a received conversational verbal response of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: Canary Speech, LLC
    Inventors: JANGWON KIM, NAMHEE KWON, HENRY O'CONNELL, PHILLIP WALSTAD, KEVIN SHENGBIN YANG
  • Patent number: 10311980
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for medical assessment based on voice. A query module is configured to audibly question a user from a speaker of a mobile computing device. A response module is configured to receive a verbal response of a user from a microphone of a mobile computing device. A detection module is configured to provide an assessment for a user of a medical condition based on an analysis of a received verbal response of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: CANARY SPEECH, LLC
    Inventors: Jangwon Kim, Namhee Kwon, Henry O'Connell, Phillip Walstad, Kevin Shengbin Yang
  • Publication number: 20190080804
    Abstract: A mathematical model may be trained to diagnose a medical condition of a person by processing acoustic features and language features of speech of the person. The performance of the mathematical model may be improved by appropriately selecting the features to be used with the mathematical model. Features may be selected by computing a feature selection score for each acoustic feature and each language feature, and then selecting features using the scores, such as by selecting features with the highest scores. In some implementations, stability determinations may be computed for each feature and features may be selected using both the feature selection scores and the stability determinations. A mathematical model may then be trained using the selected features and deployed. In some implementations, prompts may be selected using computed prompt selection scores, and the deployed mathematical model may be used with the selected prompts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: Canary Speech, LLC
    Inventors: JANGWON KIM, NAMHEE KWON, HENRY O'CONNELL, PHILLIP WALSTAD, KEVIN SHENGBIN YANG
  • Patent number: 10152988
    Abstract: A mathematical model may be trained to diagnose a medical condition of a person by processing acoustic features and language features of speech of the person. The performance of the mathematical model may be improved by appropriately selecting the features to be used with the mathematical model. Features may be selected by computing a feature selection score for each acoustic feature and each language feature, and then selecting features using the scores, such as by selecting features with the highest scores. In some implementations, stability determinations may be computed for each feature and features may be selected using both the feature selection scores and the stability determinations. A mathematical model may then be trained using the selected features and deployed. In some implementations, prompts may be selected using computed prompt selection scores, and the deployed mathematical model may be used with the selected prompts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: CANARY SPEECH, LLC
    Inventors: Jangwon Kim, Namhee Kwon, Henry O'Connell, Phillip Walstad, Kevin Shengbin Yang