Patents by Inventor Ron Wein

Ron Wein 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: 11696700
    Abstract: K-space data obtained from a magnetic resonance imaging scan where motion was detected is split into two parts in accordance with the timing of the motion to produce first and second sets of k-space data corresponding to different poses. Sub-images are reconstructed from the k first and second sets of k-space data, which are used as inputs to a deep neural network which transforms them into a motion-corrected image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Michael Rotman, Rafael Shmuel Brada, Sangtae Ahn, Christopher Judson Hardy, Itzik Malkiel, Ron Wein
  • Patent number: 11670325
    Abstract: Voice activity detection (VAD) is an enabling technology for a variety of speech based applications. Herein disclosed is a robust VAD algorithm that is also language independent. Rather than classifying short segments of the audio as either “speech” or “silence”, the VAD as disclosed herein employees a soft-decision mechanism. The VAD outputs a speech-presence probability, which is based on a variety of characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Verint Systems Ltd.
    Inventor: Ron Wein
  • Patent number: 11663411
    Abstract: A method for expanding an initial ontology via processing of communication data, wherein the initial ontology is a structural representation of language elements comprising a set of entities, a set of terms, a set of term-entity associations, a set of entity-association rules, a set of abstract relations, and a set of relation instances. A method for extracting a set of significant phrases and a set of significant phrase co-occurrences from an input set of documents further includes utilizing the terms to identify relations within the training set of communication data, wherein a relation is a pair of terms that appear in proximity to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Verint Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Daniel Mark Baum, Uri Segal, Ron Wein, Oana Sidi
  • Patent number: 11636860
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods of diarizing audio data using first-pass blind diarization and second-pass blind diarization that generate speaker statistical models, wherein the first pass-blind diarization is on a per-frame basis and the second pass-blind diarization is on a per-word basis, and methods of creating acoustic signatures for a common speaker based only on the statistical models of the speakers in each audio session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Verint Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Alex Gorodetski, Oana Sidi, Ron Wein, Ido Shapira
  • Patent number: 11545139
    Abstract: Systems and methods of script identification in audio data obtained from audio data. The audio data is segmented into a plurality of utterances. A script model representative of a script text is obtained. The plurality of utterances are decoded with the script model. A determination is made if the script text occurred in the audio data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: VERINT SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Michael Iannone, Ron Wein, Omer Ziv
  • Patent number: 11527236
    Abstract: Systems and methods of script identification in audio data obtained from audio data. The audio data is segmented into a plurality of utterances. A script model representative of a script text is obtained. The plurality of utterances are decoded with the script model. A determination is made if the script text occurred in the audio data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Verint Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Michael Iannone, Ron Wein, Omer Ziv
  • Patent number: 11430430
    Abstract: Systems and methods of script identification in audio data obtained from audio data. The audio data is segmented into a plurality of utterances. A script model representative of a script text is obtained. The plurality of utterances are decoded with the script model. A determination is made if the script text occurred in the audio data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Verint Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Michael Iannone, Ron Wein, Omer Ziv
  • Patent number: 11227584
    Abstract: Systems and methods of script identification in audio data obtained from audio data. The audio data is segmented into a plurality of utterances. A script model representative of a script text is obtained. The plurality of utterances are decoded with the script model. A determination is made if the script text occurred in the audio data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Verint Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeffery Michael Iannone, Ron Wein, Omer Ziv
  • Publication number: 20210224483
    Abstract: A method for expanding an initial ontology via processing of communication data, wherein the initial ontology is a structural representation of language elements comprising a set of entities, a set of terms, a set of term-entity associations, a set of entity-association rules, a set of abstract relations, and a set of relation instances. A method for extracting a set of significant phrases and a set of significant phrase co-occurrences from an input set of documents further includes utilizing the terms to identify relations within the training set of communication data, wherein a relation is a pair of terms that appear in proximity to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Daniel Baum, Uri Segal, Ron Wein, Oana Sidi
  • Patent number: 11030406
    Abstract: A method for expanding an initial ontology via processing of communication data, wherein the initial ontology is a structural representation of language elements comprising a set of entities, a set of terms, a set of term-entity associations, a set of entity-association rules, a set of abstract relations, and a set of relation instances. A method for extracting a set of significant phrases and a set of significant phrase co-occurrences from an input set of documents further includes utilizing the terms to identify relations within the training set of communication data, wherein a relation is a pair of terms that appear in proximity to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: VERINT SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventors: Daniel Baum, Uri Segal, Ron Wein, Oana Sidi
  • Patent number: 10996306
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes control and analysis circuitry having programming to acquire magnetic resonance (MR) data using coil elements of the MRI system, analyze the MR data, and reconstruct the MR data into MR sub-images. The system also includes a trained neural network associated with the control and analysis circuitry to transform the MR sub-images into a prediction relating to a presence and extent of motion corruption in the MR sub-images. The programming of the control and analysis circuitry includes instructions to control operations of the MRI system based at least in part on the prediction of the trained neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Isabelle Heukensfeldt Jansen, Sangtae Ahn, Christopher Judson Hardy, Itzik Malkiel, Rafael Shmuel Brada, Ron Wein, Michael Rotman
  • Patent number: 10991101
    Abstract: The example embodiments are directed to refinement process for generating an accurate image segmentation map. A refinement network may enhance an initially generated segmentation map using a model that is trained using synthetic images. In one example, the method may include storing an image of content which includes a plurality of categories of data, receiving an initial segmentation map of the image, the initial segmentation map comprising pixel probability values with respect to the plurality of categories, executing a refinement predictive model on the initial segmentation map and the image to generate a refined segmentation map, wherein the predictive model is trained using synthetic images of the plurality of categories of data, and generating a segmented image based on the refined segmentation map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Rafi Shmuel Brada, Ron Wein, Gregory Wilson, Alberto Santamaria-Pang, Leonid Gugel
  • Publication number: 20200357427
    Abstract: Voice activity detection (VAD) is an enabling technology for a variety of speech based applications. Herein disclosed is a robust VAD algorithm that is also language independent. Rather than classifying short segments of the audio as either “speech” or “silence”, the VAD as disclosed herein employees a soft-decision mechanism. The VAD outputs a speech-presence probability, which is based on a variety of characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventor: Ron Wein
  • Publication number: 20200349956
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods of diarizing audio data using first-pass blind diarization and second-pass blind diarization that generate speaker statistical models, wherein the first pass-blind diarization is on a per-frame basis and the second pass-blind diarization is on a per-word basis, and methods of creating acoustic signatures for a common speaker based only on the statistical models of the speakers in each audio session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Alex Gorodetski, Oana Sidi, Ron Wein, Ido Shapira
  • Publication number: 20200337591
    Abstract: K-space data obtained from a magnetic resonance imaging scan where motion was detected is split into two parts in accordance with the timing of the motion to produce first and second sets of k-space data corresponding to different poses. Sub-images are reconstructed from the k first and second sets of k-space data, which are used as inputs to a deep neural network which transforms them into a motion-corrected image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Rotman, Rafael Shmuel Brada, Sangtae Ahn, Christopher Judson Hardy, Itzik Malkiel, Ron Wein
  • Publication number: 20200341100
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes control and analysis circuitry having programming to acquire magnetic resonance (MR) data using coil elements of the MRI system, analyze the MR data, and reconstruct the MR data into MR sub-images. The system also includes a trained neural network associated with the control and analysis circuitry to transform the MR sub-images into a prediction relating to a presence and extent of motion corruption in the MR sub-images. The programming of the control and analysis circuitry includes instructions to control operations of the MRI system based at least in part on the prediction of the trained neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Isabelle Heukensfeldt Jansen, Sangtae Ahn, Christopher Judson Hardy, Itzik Malkiel, Rafael Shmuel Brada, Ron Wein, Michael Rotman
  • Publication number: 20200337592
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting, timing, and adapting to patient motion during an MR scan includes using the inconsistencies between calculated images from different coil-array elements to detect the presence of patient motion and, together with the k-space scan-order information, determine the timing of the motion during the scan. Once the timing is known, various actions may be taken, including restarting the scan, reacquiring those portions of k-space acquired before the movement, or correcting for the motion using the existing data and reconstructing a motion-corrected image from the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Rafael Shmuel Brada, Christopher Judson Hardy, Sangtae Ahn, Isabelle Heukensfeldt Jansen, Itzik Malkiel, Michael Rotman, Ron Wein
  • Patent number: 10806370
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting, timing, and adapting to patient motion during an MR scan includes using the inconsistencies between calculated images from different coil-array elements to detect the presence of patient motion and, together with the k-space scan-order information, determine the timing of the motion during the scan. Once the timing is known, various actions may be taken, including restarting the scan, reacquiring those portions of k-space acquired before the movement, or correcting for the motion using the existing data and reconstructing a motion-corrected image from the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Rafael Shmuel Brada, Christopher Judson Hardy, Sangtae Ahn, Isabelle Heukensfeldt Jansen, Itzik Malkiel, Michael Rotman, Ron Wein
  • Publication number: 20200294239
    Abstract: The example embodiments are directed to refinement process for generating an accurate image segmentation map. A refinement network may enhance an initially generated segmentation map using a model that is trained using synthetic images. In one example, the method may include storing an image of content which includes a plurality of categories of data, receiving an initial segmentation map of the image, the initial segmentation map comprising pixel probability values with respect to the plurality of categories, executing a refinement predictive model on the initial segmentation map and the image to generate a refined segmentation map, wherein the predictive model is trained using synthetic images of the plurality of categories of data, and generating a segmented image based on the refined segmentation map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Rafi Shmuel BRADA, Ron WEIN, Gregory WILSON, Alberto SANTAMARIA-PANG, Leonid GUGEL
  • Publication number: 20200251094
    Abstract: Systems and methods of script identification in audio data obtained from audio data. The audio data is segmented into a plurality of utterances. A script model representative of a script text is obtained. The plurality of utterances are decoded with the script model. A determination is made if the script text occurred in the audio data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: Verint Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Michael Iannone, Ron Wein, Omer Ziv