Patents by Inventor Thomas E. Bagby

Thomas E. Bagby 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: 11069344
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech recognition using complex evolution recurrent neural networks. In some implementations, audio data indicating acoustic characteristics of an utterance is received. A first vector sequence comprising audio features determined from the audio data is generated. A second vector sequence is generated, as output of a first recurrent neural network in response to receiving the first vector sequence as input, where the first recurrent neural network has a transition matrix that implements a cascade of linear operators comprising (i) first linear operators that are complex-valued and unitary, and (ii) one or more second linear operators that are non-unitary. An output vector sequence of a second recurrent neural network is generated. A transcription for the utterance is generated based on the output vector sequence generated by the second recurrent neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Izhak Shafran, Thomas E. Bagby, Russell John Wyatt Skerry-Ryan
  • Publication number: 20200111483
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech recognition using complex evolution recurrent neural networks. In some implementations, audio data indicating acoustic characteristics of an utterance is received. A first vector sequence comprising audio features determined from the audio data is generated. A second vector sequence is generated, as output of a first recurrent neural network in response to receiving the first vector sequence as input, where the first recurrent neural network has a transition matrix that implements a cascade of linear operators comprising (i) first linear operators that are complex-valued and unitary, and (ii) one or more second linear operators that are non-unitary. An output vector sequence of a second recurrent neural network is generated. A transcription for the utterance is generated based on the output vector sequence generated by the second recurrent neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Izhak Shafran, Thomas E. Bagby, Russell John Wyatt Skerry-Ryan
  • Patent number: 10529320
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech recognition using complex evolution recurrent neural networks. In some implementations, audio data indicating acoustic characteristics of an utterance is received. A first vector sequence comprising audio features determined from the audio data is generated. A second vector sequence is generated, as output of a first recurrent neural network in response to receiving the first vector sequence as input, where the first recurrent neural network has a transition matrix that implements a cascade of linear operators comprising (i) first linear operators that are complex-valued and unitary, and (ii) one or more second linear operators that are non-unitary. An output vector sequence of a second recurrent neural network is generated. A transcription for the utterance is generated based on the output vector sequence generated by the second recurrent neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Izhak Shafran, Thomas E. Bagby, Russell John Wyatt Skerry-Ryan
  • Publication number: 20190156819
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech recognition using complex evolution recurrent neural networks. In some implementations, audio data indicating acoustic characteristics of an utterance is received. A first vector sequence comprising audio features determined from the audio data is generated. A second vector sequence is generated, as output of a first recurrent neural network in response to receiving the first vector sequence as input, where the first recurrent neural network has a transition matrix that implements a cascade of linear operators comprising (i) first linear operators that are complex-valued and unitary, and (ii) one or more second linear operators that are non-unitary. An output vector sequence of a second recurrent neural network is generated. A transcription for the utterance is generated based on the output vector sequence generated by the second recurrent neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Izhak Shafran, Thomas E. Bagby, Russell John Wyatt Skerry-Ryan
  • Patent number: 10133788
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for determining resource quality based on resource competition. In an aspect, a method comprises: for each of a plurality of resource locators: generating first value for the resource locator that indicates, for a plurality of first sets of search results that each include the resource locator, a number of occurrences of other resource locators that were impressed and not selected when the resource locator was selected; generating a second value for the resource locator that indicates, for a plurality of second sets of search results that each include the resource locator, a number of occurrences of other resource locators that were selected when the resource locator was impressed and not selected; and generating, based on a difference between the first value and the second value, an adjustment factor for the resource locator for adjusting a score associated with the resource locator during a search operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Moustafa A. Hammad, Hyung-Jin Kim, Rajan Patel, Thomas E. Bagby
  • Patent number: 9020927
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for determining resource quality based on resource competition. In an aspect, a method comprises: for each of a plurality of resource locators: generating first value for the resource locator that indicates, for a plurality of first sets of search results that each include the resource locator, a number of occurrences of other resource locators that were impressed and not selected when the resource locator was selected; generating a second value for the resource locator that indicates, for a plurality of second sets of search results that each include the resource locator, a number of occurrences of other resource locators that were selected when the resource locator was impressed and not selected; and generating, based on a difference between the first value and the second value, an adjustment factor for the resource locator for adjusting a score associated with the resource locator during a search operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Moustafa A. Hammad, Hyung-Jin Kim, Rajan Patel, Thomas E. Bagby