Patents by Inventor Richard Z. Cohen
Richard Z. Cohen 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: 9697829Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are described for receiving, by a speech recognition engine, audio data that encodes an utterance and determining, by the speech recognition engine, that a transcription of the utterance includes one or more keywords associated with a command, and a pronoun. In addition, the methods, computer program products, and systems described herein pertain to transmitting a disambiguation request to an application, wherein the disambiguation request identifies the pronoun, receiving, by the speech recognition engine, a response to the disambiguation request, wherein the response references an item of content identified by the application, and generating, by the speech recognition engine, the command using the keywords and the response.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2016Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Simon Tickner, Richard Z. Cohen
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Patent number: 9378730Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are described for receiving, by a speech recognition engine, audio data that encodes an utterance and determining, by the speech recognition engine, that a transcription of the utterance includes one or more keywords associated with a command, and a pronoun. In addition, the methods, computer program products, and systems described herein pertain to transmitting a disambiguation request to an application, wherein the disambiguation request identifies the pronoun, receiving, by the speech recognition engine, a response to the disambiguation request, wherein the response references an item of content identified by the application, and generating, by the speech recognition engine, the command using the keywords and the response.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2013Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Simon Tickner, Richard Z. Cohen
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Patent number: 8731912Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for audible alert tones are disclosed. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of determining whether audio input data received after ceasing output of a first instance of an audible alert tone includes voice activity and determining whether to delay a successive instance of the audible alert tone based on determining whether the audio input data includes voice activity.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Simon Tickner, Peter J Hodgson, Richard Z. Cohen
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Patent number: 8606568Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are described for receiving, by a speech recognition engine, audio data that encodes an utterance and determining, by the speech recognition engine, that a transcription of the utterance includes one or more keywords associated with a command, and a pronoun. In addition, the methods, computer program products, and systems described herein pertain to transmitting a disambiguation request to an application, wherein the disambiguation request identifies the pronoun, receiving, by the speech recognition engine, a response to the disambiguation request, wherein the response references an item of content identified by the application, and generating, by the speech recognition engine, the command using the keywords and the response.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2012Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Simon Tickner, Richard Z. Cohen
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Patent number: 8571851Abstract: Methods, and systems, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable storage mediums, including a method for performing semantic interpretation using gaze order. The method includes obtaining data identifying a sequence of gaze attention dwell positions, obtaining a semantic description of elements displayed on a visual display, obtaining a transcription of an utterance, correlating the gaze attention dwell positions with the semantic description of elements to generate a sequence of one or more of the elements, performing semantic interpretation of at least one term included in the transcription based at least on the sequence of the elements, and outputting a result of performing the semantic interpretation of the at least one term.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2012Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Simon Tickner, Richard Z. Cohen
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Patent number: 8538754Abstract: A method for providing suggestions includes capturing audio that includes speech and receiving textual content from a speech recognition engine. The speech recognition engine performs speech recognition on the audio signal to obtain the textual content, which includes one or more passages. The method also includes receiving a selection of a portion of a first word in a passage in the textual content, wherein the passage includes multiple words, and retrieving a set of suggestions that can potentially replace the first word. At least one suggestion from the set of suggestions provides a multi-word suggestion for potentially replacing the first word. The method further includes displaying, on a display device, the set of suggestions, and highlighting a portion of the textual content, as displayed on the display device, for potentially changing to one of the suggestions from the set of suggestions.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Richard Z. Cohen, Marcus A. Foster, Luca Zanolin
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Patent number: 8515751Abstract: This specification describes technologies relating to recognition of text in various media. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include receiving an input signal including data representing one or more words and passing the input signal to a text recognition system that generates a recognized text string based on the input signal. The methods may further include receiving the recognized text string from the text recognition system. The methods may further include presenting the recognized text string to a user and receiving a corrected text string based on input from the user. The methods may further include checking if an edit distance between the corrected text string and the recognized text string is below a threshold. If the edit distance is below the threshold, the corrected text string may be passed to the text recognition system for training purposes.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2012Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Luca Zanolin, Marcus A. Foster, Richard Z. Cohen
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Publication number: 20130085754Abstract: A method for providing suggestions includes capturing audio that includes speech and receiving textual content from a speech recognition engine. The speech recognition engine performs speech recognition on the audio signal to obtain the textual content, which includes one or more passages. The method also includes receiving a selection of a portion of a first word in a passage in the textual content, wherein the passage includes multiple words, and retrieving a set of suggestions that can potentially replace the first word. At least one suggestion from the set of suggestions provides a multi-word suggestion for potentially replacing the first word. The method further includes displaying, on a display device, the set of suggestions, and highlighting a portion of the textual content, as displayed on the display device, for potentially changing to one of the suggestions from the set of suggestions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: April 4, 2013Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: Richard Z. Cohen, Marcus A. Foster, Luca Zanolin
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Publication number: 20130080164Abstract: This specification describes technologies relating to recognition of text in various media. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include receiving an input signal including data representing one or more words and passing the input signal to a text recognition system that generates a recognized text string based on the input signal. The methods may further include receiving the recognized text string from the text recognition system. The methods may further include presenting the recognized text string to a user and receiving a corrected text string based on input from the user. The methods may further include checking if an edit distance between the corrected text string and the recognized text string is below a threshold. If the edit distance is below the threshold, the corrected text string may be passed to the text recognition system for training purposes.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2012Publication date: March 28, 2013Inventors: Luca Zanolin, Marcus A. Foster, Richard Z. Cohen
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Patent number: 8290772Abstract: A method for providing suggestions includes capturing audio that includes speech and receiving textual content from a speech recognition engine. The speech recognition engine performs speech recognition on the audio signal to obtain the textual content, which includes one or more passages. The method also includes receiving a selection of a portion of a first word in a passage in the textual content, wherein the passage includes multiple words, and retrieving a set of suggestions that can potentially replace the first word. At least one suggestion from the set of suggestions provides a multi-word suggestion for potentially replacing the first word. The method further includes displaying, on a display device, the set of suggestions, and highlighting a portion of the textual content, as displayed on the display device, for potentially changing to one of the suggestions from the set of suggestions.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2011Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Richard Z. Cohen, Marcus A. Foster, Luca Zanolin