Patents by Inventor Paul Breen
Paul Breen 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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Publication number: 20240129680Abstract: A hearing assistance system is disclosed that comprises a hearing assistance device configured to reproduce sounds and to assist a person to hear the sounds, the hearing assistance device including a left hearing assistance device and a right hearing assistance device, and a computing device in communication with the hearing assistance device. The computing device interacts with the hearing assistance device to implement a fitting mode wherein the hearing assistance device is caused to generate fitting sounds usable to evaluate whether the left and right hearing devices are properly fitted into respective left and right ears of the person. The computing device produces a communication indicative of whether the left and right hearing assistance devices are properly fitted into respective left and right ears of the person.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: NUHEARA IP PTY LTDInventors: Clint MATHURINE, Andrew Victor CAMMELL, Gregory Paul BREEN, Peng JIANG, David Ronald WARD, Alan DAVIS
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Patent number: 11889273Abstract: A system is disclosed for configuring a hearing device. The system includes an audiogram processing component arranged to process image data indicative of an image of an audiogram associated with a person so as to produce audiogram data indicative of the audiogram, and a hearing device configuration component arranged to produce hearing device configuration data based on the audiogram data. The configuration data is indicative of configuration settings for a hearing device that will cause the hearing device to assist the hearing of the person.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: NUHEARA IP PTY LTDInventors: Clint Mathurine, Andrew Victor Cammell, Gregory Paul Breen, Peng Jiang, David Ronald Ward, Alan Davis
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Publication number: 20240013770Abstract: During text-to-speech processing, a speech model creates output audio data, including speech, that corresponds to input text data that includes a representation of the speech. A spectrogram estimator estimates a frequency spectrogram of the speech; the corresponding frequency-spectrogram data is used to condition the speech model. A plurality of acoustic features corresponding to different segments of the input text data, such as phonemes, syllable-level features, and/or word-level features, may be separately encoded into context vectors; the spectrogram estimator uses these separate context vectors to create the frequency spectrogram.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Jaime Lorenzo Trueba, Thomas Renaud Drugman, Viacheslav Klimkov, Srikanth Ronanki, Thomas Edward Merritt, Andrew Paul Breen, Roberto Barra-Chicote
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Patent number: 11823655Abstract: A speech-processing system receives both text data and natural-understanding data (e.g., a domain, intent, and/or entity) related to a command represented in the text data. The system uses the natural-understanding data to vary vocal characteristics in determining spectrogram data corresponding to the text data based on the natural-understanding data.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Antonio Bonafonte, Panagiotis Agis Oikonomou Filandras, Bartosz Perz, Arent van Korlaar, Ioannis Douratsos, Jonas Felix Ananda Rohnke, Elena Sokolova, Andrew Paul Breen, Nikhil Sharma
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Patent number: 11763797Abstract: A speech model includes a sub-model corresponding to a vocal attribute. The speech model generates an output waveform using a sample model, which receives text data, and a conditioning model, which receives text metadata and produces a prosody output for use by the sample model. If, during training or runtime, a different vocal attribute is desired or needed, the sub-model is re-trained or switched to a different sub-model corresponding to the different vocal attribute.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Roberto Barra Chicote, Adam Franciszek Nadolski, Thomas Edward Merritt, Bartosz Putrycz, Andrew Paul Breen
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Patent number: 11735162Abstract: During text-to-speech processing, a speech model creates output audio data, including speech, that corresponds to input text data that includes a representation of the speech. A spectrogram estimator estimates a frequency spectrogram of the speech; the corresponding frequency-spectrogram data is used to condition the speech model. A plurality of acoustic features corresponding to different segments of the input text data, such as phonemes, syllable-level features, and/or word-level features, may be separately encoded into context vectors; the spectrogram estimator uses these separate context vectors to create the frequency spectrogram.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jaime Lorenzo Trueba, Thomas Renaud Drugman, Viacheslav Klimkov, Srikanth Ronanki, Thomas Edward Merritt, Andrew Paul Breen, Roberto Barra-Chicote
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Publication number: 20230113297Abstract: A speech-processing system receives both text data and natural-understanding data (e.g., a domain, intent, and/or entity) related to a command represented in the text data. The system uses the natural-understanding data to vary vocal characteristics in determining spectrogram data corresponding to the text data based on the natural-understanding data.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Inventors: Antonio Bonafonte, Panagiotis Agis Oikonomou Filandras, Bartosz Perz, Arent van Korlaar, Ioannis Douratsos, Jonas Felix Ananda Rohnke, Elena Sokolova, Andrew Paul Breen, Nikhil Sharma
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Publication number: 20230058658Abstract: During text-to-speech processing, a speech model creates output audio data, including speech, that corresponds to input text data that includes a representation of the speech. A spectrogram estimator estimates a frequency spectrogram of the speech; the corresponding frequency-spectrogram data is used to condition the speech model. A plurality of acoustic features corresponding to different segments of the input text data, such as phonemes, syllable-level features, and/or word-level features, may be separately encoded into context vectors; the spectrogram estimator uses these separate context vectors to create the frequency spectrogram.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Jaime Lorenzo Trueba, Thomas Renaud Drugman, Viacheslav Klimkov, Srikanth Ronanki, Thomas Edward Merritt, Andrew Paul Breen, Roberto Barra-Chicote
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Publication number: 20230043916Abstract: During text-to-speech processing, a speech model creates synthesized speech that corresponds to input data. The speech model may include an encoder for encoding the input data into a context vector and a decoder for decoding the context vector into spectrogram data. The speech model may further include a voice decoder that receives vocal characteristic data representing a desired vocal characteristic of synthesized speech. The voice decoder may process the vocal characteristic data to determine configuration data, such as weights, for use by the speech decoder.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: Roberto Barra Chicote, Vatsal Aggarwal, Andrew Paul Breen, Javier Gonzalez Hernandez, Nishant Prateek
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Patent number: 11545134Abstract: Techniques for the generation of dubbed audio for an audio/video are described.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Marcello Federico, Robert Enyedi, Yaser Al-Onaizan, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Andrew Paul Breen, Ritwik Giri, Mehmet Umut Isik, Arvindh Krishnaswamy, Hassan Sawaf
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Publication number: 20220400873Abstract: A method of teaching a child to walk is disclosed in which blocks are placed on a supporting surface at a distance apart. The child stands is encouraged to walk between the blocks. One type of block is a box defining a storage compartment including a top wall, a plurality of side walls, and a bottom wall. A layer of padding is provided on the top wall and the plurality of side walls, and a weight member is disposed adjacent the bottom wall. Another type of block is a body of foam including a top surface, a plurality of side surfaces and a bottom surface. A weight member disposed adjacent the bottom surface. With either type of block, a removable cover is provided to receive and enclose the block.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2022Publication date: December 22, 2022Inventor: Matthew Paul BREEN
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Publication number: 20220386049Abstract: A system is disclosed for configuring a hearing device. The system includes an audiogram processing component arranged to process image data indicative of an image of an audiogram associated with a person so as to produce audiogram data indicative of the audiogram, and a hearing device configuration component arranged to produce hearing device configuration data based on the audiogram data. The configuration data is indicative of configuration settings for a hearing device that will cause the hearing device to assist the hearing of the person.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicant: NUHEARA IP PTY LTDInventors: Clint MATHURINE, Andrew Victor CAMMELL, Gregory Paul BREEN, Peng JIANG, David Ronald WARD, Alan DAVIS
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Patent number: 11463821Abstract: An audio transmitter including an audio input interface receiving first audio signals indicative of input audio from an audio source, a wireless transmitter wirelessly streaming second audio signals indicative of the input audio to a first audio reproducing device, and an audio output interface connectable to a second audio reproducing device, the audio transmitter arranged to supply third audio signals indicative of the input audio to the audio output interface. The audio transmitter facilitates connection to the audio transmitter to control wireless streaming of the second audio signals. A characteristic of sound of the wirelessly streamed second audio signals is controllable independently of a characteristic of sound of the third audio signals. An initial connection is established between the audio transmitter and a computing device in response to detection that the location of the computing device relative to the audio transmitter is less than a defined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2021Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: NUHEARA IP PTY LTDInventors: Alan Davis, Gregory Paul Breen, Clint Mathurine, Peter Mather Combes, Andrew Victor Cammell
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Patent number: 11445313Abstract: A system is disclosed for configuring a hearing device. The system comprises an audiogram processing component arranged to process image data indicative of an image of an audiogram associated with a person so as to produce audiogram data indicative of the audiogram, and a hearing device configuration component arranged to produce hearing device configuration data based on the audiogram data. The configuration data is indicative of configuration settings for a hearing device that will cause the hearing device to assist the hearing of the person.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2018Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: NUHEARA IP PTY LTDInventors: Clint Mathurine, Andrew Victor Cammell, Gregory Paul Breen, Peng Jiang, David Ronald Ward, Alan Davis
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Patent number: 11410639Abstract: During text-to-speech processing, a speech model creates output audio data, including speech, that corresponds to input text data that includes a representation of the speech. A spectrogram estimator estimates a frequency spectrogram of the speech; the corresponding frequency-spectrogram data is used to condition the speech model. A plurality of acoustic features corresponding to different segments of the input text data, such as phonemes, syllable-level features, and/or word-level features, may be separately encoded into context vectors; the spectrogram estimator uses these separate context vectors to create the frequency spectrogram.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jaime Lorenzo Trueba, Thomas Renaud Drugman, Viacheslav Klimkov, Srikanth Ronanki, Thomas Edward Merritt, Andrew Paul Breen, Roberto Barra-Chicote
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Patent number: 11373633Abstract: During text-to-speech processing, a speech model creates synthesized speech that corresponds to input data. The speech model may include an encoder for encoding the input data into a context vector and a decoder for decoding the context vector into spectrogram data. The speech model may further include a voice decoder that receives vocal characteristic data representing a desired vocal characteristic of synthesized speech. The voice decoder may process the vocal characteristic data to determine configuration data, such as weights, for use by the speech decoder.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Roberto Barra Chicote, Vatsal Aggarwal, Andrew Paul Breen, Javier Gonzalez Hernandez, Nishant Prateek
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Patent number: 11367431Abstract: A speech-processing system receives both text data and natural-understanding data (e.g., a domain, intent, and/or entity) related to a command represented in the text data. The system uses the natural-understanding data to vary vocal characteristics in determining spectrogram data corresponding to the text data based on the natural-understanding data.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Antonio Bonafonte, Panagiotis Agis Oikonomou Filandras, Bartosz Perz, Arent van Korlaar, Ioannis Douratsos, Jonas Felix Ananda Rohnke, Elena Sokolova, Andrew Paul Breen, Nikhil Sharma
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Patent number: 11291380Abstract: A blood volume monitor includes a carrier mountable on a subject's body part. A measuring arrangement is mounted on the carrier. The measuring arrangement provides data relating to a change in volume of the body part, and outputs signals representative of the change. A control unit is in communication with the measuring arrangement to process data output by the measuring arrangement to determine, using the volume data, the volume of the body part and determines blood volume in the body part. The control unit uses the response signals received from the measuring arrangement and the determined volume of the part of the body to determine the blood volume.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Inventors: Paul Breen, Gaetano Gargiulo
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Publication number: 20210287656Abstract: A speech-processing system receives both text data and natural-understanding data (e.g., a domain, intent, and/or entity) related to a command represented in the text data. The system uses the natural-understanding data to vary vocal characteristics in determining spectrogram data corresponding to the text data based on the natural-understanding data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2020Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Antonio Bonafonte, Panagiotis Agis Oikonomou Filandras, Bartosz Perz, Arent van Korlaar, Ioannis Douratsos, Jonas Felix Ananda Rohnke, Elena Sokolova, Andrew Paul Breen, Nikhil Sharma
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Publication number: 20210168519Abstract: An audio transmitter including an audio input interface receiving first audio signals indicative of input audio from an audio source, a wireless transmitter wirelessly streaming second audio signals indicative of the input audio to a first audio reproducing device, and an audio output interface connectable to a second audio reproducing device, the audio transmitter arranged to supply third audio signals indicative of the input audio to the audio output interface. The audio transmitter facilitates connection to the audio transmitter to control wireless streaming of the second audio signals. A characteristic of sound of the wirelessly streamed second audio signals is controllable independently of a characteristic of sound of the third audio signals. An initial connection is established between the audio transmitter and a computing device in response to detection that the location of the computing device relative to the audio transmitter is less than a defined threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2021Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicant: Nuheara IP Pty LtdInventors: Alan Davis, Greg Paul Breen, Clint Mathurine, Peter Mather Combes, Andrew Victor Cammell