Patents by Inventor Patrick Naylor

Patrick Naylor 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: 11631411
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving information associated with an acoustic environment. Acoustic metadata associated with audio encounter information received by a first microphone system may be received. One or more speaker representations may be defined based upon, at least in part, the acoustic metadata associated with the audio encounter information and the information associated with the acoustic environment. One or more portions of the audio encounter information may be labeled with the one or more speaker representations and a speaker location within the acoustic environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor
  • Patent number: 11631410
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving a signal from each microphone of a plurality of microphones, thus defining a plurality of signals. One or more inter-microphone gain-based augmentations may be performed on the plurality of signals, thus defining one or more inter-microphone gain-augmented signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor, Rong Gong, Stanislav Kruchinin, Ljubomir Milanovic
  • Patent number: 11605381
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving information associated with an acoustic environment. Acoustic metadata associated with audio encounter information received by a first microphone system may be received. One or more speaker representations may be defined based upon, at least in part, the acoustic metadata associated with the audio encounter information and the information associated with the acoustic environment. One or more portions of the audio encounter information may be labeled with the one or more speaker representations and a speaker location within the acoustic environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor
  • Patent number: 11482241
    Abstract: A system for and method of characterizing a target application acoustic domain analyzes one or more speech data samples from the target application acoustic domain to determine one or more target acoustic characteristics, including a CODEC type and bit-rate associated with the speech data samples. The determined target acoustic characteristics may also include other aspects of the target speech data samples such as sampling frequency, active bandwidth, noise level, reverberation level, clipping level, and speaking rate. The determined target acoustic characteristics are stored in a memory as a target acoustic data profile. The data profile may be used to select and/or modify one or more out of domain speech samples based on the one or more target acoustic characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick Naylor, Uwe Helmut Jost
  • Publication number: 20220310055
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for generating a three-dimensional model of at least a portion of a three-dimensional space incorporating an ACI system via a video recording subsystem of an ACI calibration platform; and generating one or more audio calibration signals for receipt by an audio recording system included within the ACI system via an audio generation subsystem of the ACI calibration platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor, Joel Praveen Pinto, Daniel Paulino Almendro Barreda
  • Publication number: 20220262342
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for defining a model representative of a plurality of acoustic variations to a speech signal, thus defining a plurality of time-varying spectral modifications. The plurality of time-varying spectral modifications may be applied to a reference signal using a filtering operation, thus generating a time-varying spectrally-augmented signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Patrick A. Naylor, Dushyant Sharma, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III
  • Publication number: 20220262357
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving one or more inputs indicative of at least one of: a relative location of a speaker and a microphone array, and a relative orientation of the speaker and the microphone array. One or more reference signals may be received. A speech processing system may be trained using the one or more inputs and the one or more reference signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Patrick A. Naylor, Dushyant Sharma, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III
  • Publication number: 20220262343
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for defining model representative of a plurality of acoustic variations to a speech signal, thus defining a plurality of time-varying spectral modifications. The plurality of time-varying spectral modifications may be applied to a plurality of feature coefficients of a target domain of a reference signal, thus generating a plurality of time-varying spectrally-augmented feature coefficients of the reference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Patrick A. Naylor, Dushyant Sharma, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III
  • Publication number: 20220254361
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for obtaining machine vision encounter information using one or more machine vision systems. Audio encounter information may be obtained using a plurality of audio acquisition devices of an audio recording system. The audio encounter information may be encoded using an audio codec. The encoding of the audio encounter information by the audio codec may be adapted based upon, at least in part, the machine vision encounter information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor, Uwe Helmut Jost
  • Publication number: 20220256303
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for generating a plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions associated with a plurality of audio acquisition devices of an audio recording system deployed in an acoustic environment. At least a pair of the plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions from time frames may be compared. A change in the acoustic environment may be detected based upon, at least in part, the comparison of the plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions from at least the pair of time frames.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor, Uwe Helmut Jost
  • Publication number: 20220254359
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for generating a plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions for a plurality of audio acquisition devices of an audio recording system deployed in an acoustic environment. The plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions may be encoded into a first embedding of acoustic relative transfer functions and at least a second embedding of acoustic relative transfer functions. Information may be extracted from at least the first embedding of acoustic relative transfer functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor, Uwe Helmut Jost
  • Publication number: 20220254358
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for generating a plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions between a plurality of audio acquisition devices of an audio recording system based upon, at least in part, one or more of a predefined speech processing application and a predefined acoustic environment. An acoustic relative transfer function codebook may be generated using the plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions. One or more channels from the plurality of audio acquisition devices of the audio recording system may be encoded using the acoustic relative transfer function codebook.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor, Uwe Helmut Jost
  • Publication number: 20220254357
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for generating a plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions associated with a plurality of audio acquisition devices of an audio recording system deployed in an acoustic environment. Acoustic relative transfer functions of at least a pair of audio acquisition devices of the plurality of audio acquisition devices may be compared. Location information associated with an acoustic source within the acoustic environment may be determined based upon, at least in part, the comparison of the acoustic relative transfer functions of the at least a pair of audio acquisition devices of the plurality of audio acquisition devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor, Uwe Helmut Jost
  • Publication number: 20220254356
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for selecting a reference audio acquisition device from a plurality of audio acquisition devices of an audio recording system. Audio encounter information of the reference microphone may be encoded, thus defining encoded reference audio encounter information. A plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions between the reference microphone and the plurality of audio acquisition devices of the audio recording system may be generated. The encoded reference audio encounter information and a representation of the plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions may be transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. A. Naylor, Uwe Helmut Jost
  • Publication number: 20220254360
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for encoding audio encounter information of a reference audio acquisition device of a plurality of audio acquisition devices of an audio recording system, thus defining encoded reference audio encounter information. Location information may be estimated, via a machine vision system, for an acoustic source within an acoustic environment. One or more acoustic relative transfer functions may be selected from a plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions for the plurality of audio acquisition devices of the audio recording system based upon, at least in part, the location information. The encoded reference audio encounter information and a representation of the selected one or more acoustic relative transfer function may be transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor, Uwe Helmut Jost
  • Publication number: 20220246131
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for obtaining calibration information for a three-dimensional space incorporating an ACI system; and processing the calibration information to calibrate the ACI system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor, Joel Praveen Pinto, Daniel Paulino Almendro Barreda
  • Patent number: 11398216
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for generating a three-dimensional model of at least a portion of a three-dimensional space incorporating an ACI system via a video recording subsystem of an ACI calibration platform; and generating one or more audio calibration signals for receipt by an audio recording system included within the ACI system via an audio generation subsystem of the ACI calibration platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: NUANCE COMMUNICATION, INC.
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor, Joel Praveen Pinto, Daniel Paulino Almendro Barreda
  • Patent number: 11361749
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for obtaining calibration information for a three-dimensional space incorporating an ACI system; and processing the calibration information to calibrate the ACI system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor, Joel Praveen Pinto, Daniel Paulino Almendro Barreda
  • Publication number: 20220180318
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for obtaining encounter information of a patient encounter, wherein the encounter information includes machine vision encounter information; and processing the encounter information to generate an encounter transcript.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel Paulino Almendro Barreda, Dushyant Sharma, Joel Praveen Pinto, Uwe Helmut Jost, Patrick A. Naylor
  • Patent number: 11335344
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving a plurality of predefined beams associated with a microphone array. A plurality of predefined nulls associated with the microphone array may be received. One or more predefined beams from the plurality of predefined beams or one or more predefined nulls from the plurality of predefined nulls may be selected. A microphone array may obtain audio encounter information, via the microphone array, using at least one of the one or more selected beams and the one or more selected nulls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor