Patents by Inventor Robert Noel Blanchard
Robert Noel Blanchard 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: 10916159Abstract: An application on a mobile phone or tablet computer or eyeglasses listens to the speech of a profoundly deaf person and interprets it in real time. It can then repeat it in a “normal voice”. The voice recognition is trained to the voice of the profoundly deaf person.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Peter Shintani, Brant Candelore, Mahyar Nejat, Robert Noel Blanchard, Hoda Sayyadinejad
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Patent number: 10916250Abstract: An application on a mobile phone or tablet computer or eyeglasses listens to the speech of a profoundly deaf person and interprets it in real time. The voice recognition can be trained to the voice of the profoundly deaf person. A display such as a small tablet display which can be hung around the speaker's neck can present text output by the voice recognition module to allow someone to read the text. The application can then detect speech from the listener and display text converted from the speech to the deaf person through glasses or to a cell phone that is being held by hand or to the tablet, or to a different tablet that the previous listener has hung around his or her neck. In case of the same tablet the text from the listener's speech can be shown upside down so that the deaf person can look down and read the text.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Peter Shintani, Brant Candelore, Mahyar Nejat, Robert Noel Blanchard
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Patent number: 10868624Abstract: An active optical cable (AOC) signals to a source that it needs power above a standard voltage, e.g., above five volts, by sending a signal such as a voltage step from one non-zero voltage to a second non-zero voltage or other voltage pattern on a hot plug detect (HPD) pin of a display data channel (DDC). While a legacy source device may not be able to detect this and consequently will operate as usual, a source device programmed according to present principles detects the request for more power represented by the voltage pattern established by the AOC, and in response increases the power (voltage and/or current) on DDC 5V line to the requested level, e.g., 10V at 500 mA.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2017Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Peter Shintani, Robert Noel Blanchard
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Publication number: 20190371202Abstract: An application on a mobile phone or tablet computer or eyeglasses listens to the speech of a profoundly deaf person and interprets it in real time. It can then repeat it in a “normal voice”. The voice recognition is trained to the voice of the profoundly deaf person.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2018Publication date: December 5, 2019Inventors: Peter Shintani, Brant Candelore, Mahyar Nejat, Robert Noel Blanchard, Hoda Sayyadinejad
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Publication number: 20190371338Abstract: An application on a mobile phone or tablet computer or eyeglasses listens to the speech of a profoundly deaf person and interprets it in real time. The voice recognition can be trained to the voice of the profoundly deaf person. A display such as a small tablet display which can be hung around the speaker's neck can present text output by the voice recognition module to allow someone to read the text. The application can then detect speech from the listener and display text converted from the speech to the deaf person through glasses or to a cell phone that is being held by hand or to the tablet, or to a different tablet that the previous listener has hung around his or her neck. In case of the same tablet the text from the listener's speech can be shown upside down so that the deaf person can look down and read the text.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2018Publication date: December 5, 2019Inventors: Peter Shintani, Brant Candelore, Mahyar Nejat, Robert Noel Blanchard
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Patent number: 10349122Abstract: An audio video display device executes a voice assistant that recognizes a spoken name associated with a hearing-impaired person and in response reduces the audio volume for the content being decoded, on the assumption that someone is speaking to the hearing-impaired person, and/or pauses the content being decoded, and/or determines the location of the source of the command and steers a microphone array to that location, and/or allows for independent volume/mute controls via an assistive listening device such as a neck loop to control the volume or mute the audio played on hearing aids independently of the volume of the display device.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2017Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Peter Shintani, Brant Candelore, Mahyar Nejat, Robert Noel Blanchard
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Publication number: 20190182536Abstract: An audio video display device executes a voice assistant that recognizes a spoken name associated with a hearing-impaired person and in response reduces the audio volume for the content being decoded, on the assumption that someone is speaking to the hearing-impaired person, and/or pauses the content being decoded, and/or determines the location of the source of the command and steers a microphone array to that location, and/or allows for independent volume/mute controls via an assistive listening device such as a neck loop to control the volume or mute the audio played on hearing aids independently of the volume of the display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2017Publication date: June 13, 2019Inventors: Peter Shintani, Brant Candelore, Mahyar Nejat, Robert Noel Blanchard
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Patent number: 10264330Abstract: To improve cognitive comprehension of plots in videos and thus assist not only people with cognitive issues but also inattentive people that have trouble following along with the plot, information is sent about each scene in a video. Image recognition or speech recognition may be implemented on a video to recognize where in the video the viewer currently is at, and ancillary information pertaining to that spot in the video presented immediately or at a convenient scene break.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2018Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Brant Candelore, Mahyar Nejat, Peter Shintani, Robert Noel Blanchard
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Publication number: 20190013889Abstract: An active optical cable (AOC) signals to a source that it needs power above a standard voltage, e.g., above five volts, by sending a signal such as a voltage step from one non-zero voltage to a second non-zero voltage or other voltage pattern on a hot plug detect (HPD) pin of a display data channel (DDC). While a legacy source device may not be able to detect this and consequently will operate as usual, a source device programmed according to present principles detects the request for more power represented by the voltage pattern established by the AOC, and in response increases the power (voltage and/or current) on DDC 5V line to the requested level, e.g., 10V at 500 mA.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2017Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: Peter Shintani, Robert Noel Blanchard
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Patent number: 10051227Abstract: A channel change detection feature is incorporated into future ATSC 1.0 receivers, future ATSC 3.0 receivers, and through a modification, to legacy ATSC 1.0 receivers that can detect new Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP) signaling. A TV or other digital video receiver occasionally performs an automatic channel programming scan. If it detects that a channel has disappeared, then the receiver re-scans the spectrum to update the channel map. If any changes in the channel map occurs, an indication is implied that some ATSC 1.0 and ATSC 3.0 stations have been shuffled.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Peter Shintani, Robert Noel Blanchard
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Publication number: 20160078442Abstract: To eliminate the need for a user to laboriously enter device setup parameters into each of plural devices, a user ID is provided with a secure part, having the user's login credentials, and an unsecure device parameter part which defines device parameters desired by the user to be set in computing devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2014Publication date: March 17, 2016Inventors: Peter Shintani, Robert Noel Blanchard
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Publication number: 20150046943Abstract: An audio video display device (AVDD) includes a display, a processor controlling the display and a computer readable storage medium that is accessible to the processor. The computer readable storage medium bears instructions which when executed by the processor cause the processor to present, on the AVDD, AV content that is not associated with information pertaining to an emergency. The instructions cause the processor to receive, at the AVDD, data associated with an emergency alert and, responsive to receiving the data associated with the emergency alert, change audio presented on the AVDD from first audio presented on the AVDD and associated with the AV content to second audio associated the data to present the second audio. The second audio is presented on the AVDD automatically without receiving user input to change from the first audio to the second audio subsequent to receiving the data associated with the emergency alert.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2013Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Peter Shintani, Robert Noel Blanchard
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Patent number: 8918828Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention includes a technique for extracting private user data. A data sequence in a packetized transport stream is parsed to obtain a user data identifier (UDI) associated with a pre-defined data structure. The UDI is registered with a registration authority and is different from a standard identifier that is defined by a standard organization in a published standard document. The UDI is recognized. The private user data is extracted from the data sequence according to the pre-defined data structure corresponding to the recognized UDI.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2013Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.Inventors: Mark Kenneth Eyer, Robert Noel Blanchard
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Publication number: 20140020041Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention includes a technique for extracting private user data. A data sequence in a packetized transport stream is parsed to obtain a user data identifier (UDI) associated with a pre-defined data structure. The UDI is registered with a registration authority and is different from a standard identifier that is defined by a standard organization in a published standard document. The UDI is recognized. The private user data is extracted from the data sequence according to the pre-defined data structure corresponding to the recognized UDI.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2013Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicants: Sony Electronics Inc., Sony CorporationInventors: Mark Kenneth Eyer, Robert Noel Blanchard
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Patent number: 8607265Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention includes a technique for inserting private user data. A user data identifier (UDI) associated with a pre-defined data structure is inserted into a data sequence within a content stream. The UDI is registered with a registration authority and is different from a standard identifier that is defined by a standard organization in a published standard document. The data is inserted into the data sequence according to the pre-defined data structure. The data sequence has the UDI and the private user data and is packetized into a transport stream. Another embodiment of the present invention includes a technique for extracting private user data. A data sequence in a packetized transport stream is parsed to obtain a user data identifier (UDI) associated with a pre-defined data structure. The UDI is registered with a registration authority and is different from a standard identifier that is defined by a standard organization in a published standard document. The UDI is recognized.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2007Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony ElectronicsInventors: Mark Kenneth Eyer, Robert Noel Blanchard
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Patent number: 8528017Abstract: Closed caption (CC) data is carried across a digital interface such as HDMI by a source such as a set top box arrange CC data into a HDMI packet that is then transmitted, along with video packets, across the interface to a sink such as a TV. The CC data is kept in the same format that it was received and the TV's decoder processor processes the packets and renders CC text as if the CC data had been received by the tuner of the TV.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2010Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Robert Noel Blanchard
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Patent number: 8302134Abstract: A system and method for controlling a television antenna includes an amplifier circuit mounted with the television antenna. The amplifier circuit is connected to the television antenna and a control line. The control line is used for controlling the gain of the amplifier circuit.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2004Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Peter Rae Shintani, Robert Noel Blanchard
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Publication number: 20120155552Abstract: System and method for embedding and concealing data within a video signal such that the embedded data is displayed within an unused portion of a video display area such that the embedded data is not visually offensive. In one embodiment the encoding of metadata may be executed by translating or adjusting pixel values of the video signal within the secondary image area, such that the pixel values are repurposed to contain the metadata and wherein the metadata is visually imperceptible.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2012Publication date: June 21, 2012Inventor: ROBERT NOEL BLANCHARD
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Patent number: 8150097Abstract: System and method for embedding and concealing data within a video signal such that the embedded data is displayed within an unused portion of a video display area such that the embedded data is not visually offensive. In one embodiment the encoding of metadata may be executed by translating or adjusting pixel values of the video signal within the secondary image area, such that the pixel values are repurposed to contain the metadata and wherein the metadata is visually imperceptible.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2007Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.Inventor: Robert Noel Blanchard
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Publication number: 20120019716Abstract: Closed caption (CC) data is carried across a digital interface such as HDMI by a source such as a set top box arrange CC data into a HDMI packet that is then transmitted, along with video packets, across the interface to a sink such as a TV. The CC data is kept in the same format that it was received and the TV's decoder processor processes the packets and renders CC text as if the CC data had been received by the tuner of the TV.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2010Publication date: January 26, 2012Inventor: Robert Noel Blanchard