Patents by Inventor Terry KONG

Terry KONG 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: 20230353826
    Abstract: Various approaches relate to user defined content filtering in media playing devices of undesirable content represented in stored and real-time content from content providers. For example, video, image, and/or audio data can be analyzed to identify and classify content included in the data using various classification models and object and text recognition approaches. Thereafter, the identification and classification can be used to control presentation and/or access to the content and/or portions of the content. For example, based on the classification, portions of the content can be modified (e.g., replaced, removed, degraded, etc.) using one or more techniques (e.g., media replacement, media removal, media degradation, etc.) and then presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: SoundHound, Inc.
    Inventors: Thor S. KHOV, Terry KONG
  • Patent number: 11736769
    Abstract: Various approaches relate to user defined content filtering in media playing devices of undesirable content represented in stored and real-time content from content providers. For example, video, image, and/or audio data can be analyzed to identify and classify content included in the data using various classification models and object and text recognition approaches. Thereafter, the identification and classification can be used to control presentation and/or access to the content and/or portions of the content. For example, based on the classification, portions of the content can be modified (e.g., replaced, removed, degraded, etc.) using one or more techniques (e.g., media replacement, media removal, media degradation, etc.) and then presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: SoundHound, Inc
    Inventors: Thor S. Khov, Terry Kong
  • Patent number: 11295732
    Abstract: In order to improve the accuracy of ASR, an utterance is transcribed using a plurality of language models, such as for example, an N-gram language model and a neural language model. The language models are trained separately. They each output a probability score or other figure of merit for a partial transcription hypothesis. Model scores are interpolated to determine a hybrid score. While recognizing an utterance, interpolation weights are chosen or updated dynamically, in the specific context of processing. The weights are based on dynamic variables associated with the utterance, the partial transcription hypothesis, or other aspects of context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SoundHound, Inc.
    Inventors: Steffen Holm, Terry Kong, Kiran Garaga Lokeswarappa
  • Publication number: 20210329338
    Abstract: Various approaches relate to user defined content filtering in media playing devices of undesirable content represented in stored and real-time content from content providers. For example, video, image, and/or audio data can be analyzed to identify and classify content included in the data using various classification models and object and text recognition approaches. Thereafter, the identification and classification can be used to control presentation and/or access to the content and/or portions of the content. For example, based on the classification, portions of the content can be modified (e.g., replaced, removed, degraded, etc.) using one or more techniques (e.g., media replacement, media removal, media degradation, etc.) and then presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: SoundHound, Inc.
    Inventors: Thor S. KHOV, Terry KONG
  • Publication number: 20210035569
    Abstract: In order to improve the accuracy of ASR, an utterance is transcribed using a plurality of language models, such as for example, an N-gram language model and a neural language model. The language models are trained separately. They each output a probability score or other figure of merit for a partial transcription hypothesis. Model scores are interpolated to determine a hybrid score. While recognizing an utterance, interpolation weights are chosen or updated dynamically, in the specific context of processing. The weights are based on dynamic variables associated with the utterance, the partial transcription hypothesis, or other aspects of context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: SoundHound, Inc.
    Inventors: Steffen Holm, Terry Kong, Kiran Garaga Lokeswarappa
  • Patent number: 10796107
    Abstract: A method of training word embeddings is provided. The method includes determining anchors, each comprising a first word in a first domain and a second word in a second domain, training word embeddings for the first and second domains, and training a transform for transforming word embedding vectors in the first domain to word embedding vectors in the second domain, wherein the training minimizes a loss function that includes an anchor loss for each anchor, such that for each anchor, the anchor loss is based on a distance between the anchor's second word's embedding vector and the transform of the anchor's first word's embedding vector, and for each anchor, the anchor loss for the respective anchor is zero when the distance between the respective anchor's second word's embedding vector and the transform of the respective anchor's first word's embedding vector is less than a specific tolerance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: SoundHound, Inc.
    Inventor: Terry Kong
  • Publication number: 20200210529
    Abstract: A method of training word embeddings is provided. The method includes determining anchors, each comprising a first word in a first domain and a second word in a second domain, training word embeddings for the first and second domains, and training a transform for transforming word embedding vectors in the first domain to word embedding vectors in the second domain, wherein the training minimizes a loss function that includes an anchor loss for each anchor, such that for each anchor, the anchor loss is based on a distance between the anchor's second word's embedding vector and the transform of the anchor's first word's embedding vector, and for each anchor, the anchor loss for the respective anchor is zero when the distance between the respective anchor's second word's embedding vector and the transform of the respective anchor's first word's embedding vector is less than a specific tolerance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: SoundHound, Inc.
    Inventor: Terry KONG