Patents by Inventor Se-Yun UM

Se-Yun UM 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).

  • Publication number: 20210090551
    Abstract: An emotional speech generating method and apparatus capable of adjusting an emotional intensity is disclosed. The emotional speech generating method includes generating emotion groups by grouping weight vectors representing a same emotion into a same emotion group, determining an internal distance between weight vectors included in a same emotion group, determining an external distance between weight vectors included in a same emotion group and weight vectors included in another emotion group, determining a representative weight vector of each of the emotion groups based on the internal distance and the external distance, generating a style embedding by applying the representative weight vector of each of the emotion groups to a style token including prosodic information for expressing an emotion, and generating an emotional speech expressing the emotion using the style embedding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicants: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University
    Inventors: Inseon JANG, Hong-Goo KANG, Chung Hyun AHN, Se-Yun UM, Sangshin OH, Tae Jin LEE