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).
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Patent number: 12444510Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 13, 2024Date of Patent: October 14, 2025Assignee: Canary Speech, Inc.Inventors: Jangwon Kim, Namhee Kwon, Henry O'Connell, Phillip Walstad, Kevin Shengbin Yang
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Patent number: 12392740Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 26, 2023Date of Patent: August 19, 2025Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Soohyung Park, NamHee Kwon, Habin Kang
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Publication number: 20250140402Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2023Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicants: Canary Speech, Inc., NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER, SMK CORPORATIONInventors: NAMHEE KWON, RAYMOND BRUECKNER, VINOD SUBRAMANIAN, NATE BLAYLOCK, HENRY O'CONNELL, KUNIHIRO NISHIMURA, SOSHIRO OGATA, ERI KIYOSHIGE, MISA TAKEGAMI
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Publication number: 20240395281Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2024Publication date: November 28, 2024Applicant: Canary Speech, Inc.Inventors: SAMUEL KIM, NAMHEE KWON, NATHAN BLAYLOCK, HENRY J. O'CONNELL, JEFFREY P. ADAMS
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Patent number: 12125497Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 7, 2021Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: CANARY SPEECH, LLCInventors: Samuel Kim, Namhee Kwon, Nathan Blaylock, Henry J. O'Connell, Jeffrey P. Adams
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Publication number: 20240331882Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2024Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: Canary Speech, LLCInventors: JANGWON KIM, NAMHEE KWON, HENRY O’CONNELL, PHILLIP WALSTAD, KEVIN SHENGBIN YANG
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Patent number: 12051513Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 5, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: CANARY SPEECH, LLCInventors: Jangwon Kim, Namhee Kwon, Henry O'Connell, Phillip Walstad, Kevin Shengbin Yang
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Publication number: 20240125716Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Soohyung PARK, NamHee KWON, Habin KANG
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Publication number: 20230352194Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: Canary Speech, LLCInventors: JANGWON KIM, NAMHEE KWON, HENRY O’CONNELL, PHILLIP WALSTAD, KEVIN SHENGBIN YANG
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Patent number: 11756693Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 30, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: CANARY SPEECH, LLCInventors: Jangwon Kim, Namhee Kwon, Henry O'Connell, Phillip Walstad, Kevin Shengbin Yang
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Patent number: 11749414Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 18, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: CANARY SPEECH, LLCInventors: Jangwon Kim, Namhee Kwon, Henry O'Connell, Phillip Walstad, Kevin Shengbin Yang
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Publication number: 20230072242Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2021Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: Canary Speech, LLCInventors: SAMUEL KIM, NAMHEE KWON, NATHAN BLAYLOCK, HENRY J. O'CONNELL, JEFFREY P. ADAMS
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Publication number: 20220293286Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: Canary Speech, LLCInventors: JANGWON KIM, NAMHEE KWON, HENRY O'CONNELL, PHILLIP WALSTAD, KEVIN SHENGBIN YANG
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Patent number: 11348694Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 24, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Canary Speech, Inc.Inventors: Jangwon Kim, Namhee Kwon, Henry O'Connell, Phillip Walstad, Kevin Shengbin Yang
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Publication number: 20210142917Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2021Publication date: May 13, 2021Applicant: Canary Speech, LLCInventors: JANGWON KIM, NAMHEE KWON, HENRY O'CONNELL, PHILLIP WALSTAD, KEVIN SHENGBIN YANG
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Patent number: 10896765Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: CANARY SPEECH, LLCInventors: Jangwon Kim, Namhee Kwon, Henry O'Connell, Phillip Walstad, Kevin Shengbin Yang
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Publication number: 20190311815Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Applicant: Canary Speech, LLCInventors: JANGWON KIM, NAMHEE KWON, HENRY O'CONNELL, PHILLIP WALSTAD, KEVIN SHENGBIN YANG
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Patent number: 10311980Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 7, 2018Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: CANARY SPEECH, LLCInventors: Jangwon Kim, Namhee Kwon, Henry O'Connell, Phillip Walstad, Kevin Shengbin Yang
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Publication number: 20190080804Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Applicant: Canary Speech, LLCInventors: JANGWON KIM, NAMHEE KWON, HENRY O'CONNELL, PHILLIP WALSTAD, KEVIN SHENGBIN YANG
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Patent number: 10152988Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 7, 2018Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: CANARY SPEECH, LLCInventors: Jangwon Kim, Namhee Kwon, Henry O'Connell, Phillip Walstad, Kevin Shengbin Yang