Patents by Inventor Nicholas Laurence ENGEL

Nicholas Laurence ENGEL 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).

  • Publication number: 20240160849
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for speaker diarization supporting episodical content. In an embodiment, a method comprises: receiving media data including one or more utterances; dividing the media data into a plurality of blocks; identifying segments of each block of the plurality of blocks associated with a single speaker; extracting embeddings for the identified segments in accordance with a machine learning model, wherein extracting embeddings for identified segments further comprises statistically combining extracted embeddings for identified segments that correspond to a respective continuous utterance associated with a single speaker; clustering the embeddings for the identified segments into clusters; and assigning a speaker label to each of the embeddings for the identified segments in accordance with a result of the clustering. In some embodiments, a voiceprint is used to identify a speaker and the speaker identity for a speaker label.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Andrea FANELLI, Mingqing YUN, Satej Suresh PANKEY, Nicholas Laurence ENGEL, Poppy Anne Carrie Crum
  • Publication number: 20240022224
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method comprises: filtering reference audio content items to separate the reference audio content items into different frequency bands; for each frequency band, extracting a first feature vector from at least a portion of each of the reference audio content items, wherein the first feature vector includes at least one audio characteristic of the reference audio content items; obtaining at least one semantic label from at least a portion of each of the reference audio content items; obtaining a second feature vector consisting of the first feature vectors per frequency band and the at least one semantic label; generating, based on the second feature vector, cluster feature vectors representing centroids of clusters; separating the reference audio content items according to the cluster feature vectors; and computing an average target profile for each cluster based on the reference audio content items in the cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicants: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB
    Inventors: Giulio CENGARLE, Nicholas Laurence ENGEL, Patrick Winfrey SCANNELL, Davide SCAINI