Patents by Inventor Timothy M. Shea

Timothy M. Shea 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: 20240096313
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for recognizing speech using a spiking neural network acoustic model implemented on a neuromorphic processor are described. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, a trained acoustic model implemented as a spiking neural network (SNN) on a neuromorphic processor of a client device, a set of feature coefficients that represent acoustic energy of input audio received from a microphone communicably coupled to the client device. The acoustic model is trained to predict speech sounds based on input feature coefficients. The acoustic model generates output data indicating predicted speech sounds corresponding to the set of feature coefficients that represent the input audio received from the microphone. The neuromorphic processor updates one or more parameters of the acoustic model using one or more learning rules and the predicted speech sounds of the output data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Lavinia Andreea Danielescu, Timothy M. Shea, Kenneth Michael Stewart, Noah Gideon Pacik-Nelson, Eric Michael Gallo
  • Publication number: 20230290340
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for converting audio to spikes for input to a spiking neural network configured to recognize speech based on the spikes are described. In some aspects, a method includes obtaining audio data and generating frequency domain audio signals that represent the audio data by converting the audio data into a frequency domain. The frequency domain audio signals are mapped into a set of Mel-frequency bands to obtain Mel-scale frequency audio signals. A log transformation is performed on the Mel-scale frequency audio signals to obtain log-Mel signals. Spike input is generated for input to a spiking neural network (SNN) model by converting the log-Mel signals to the series of spikes. The spike input is provided as an input to the SNN model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Lavinia Andreea Danielescu, Kenneth Michael Stewart, Noah Gideon Pacik-Nelson, Timothy M. Shea
  • Patent number: 11625621
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for clustering data are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving feature vectors. The actions further include accessing rules that each relate one or more values of the feature vectors to a respective label of a plurality of labels. The actions further include, based on the rules, generating heuristics that each identify related values of the feature vectors. The actions further include, for each of the heuristics, generating a matrix that reflects a similarity of the feature vectors. The actions further include, based on the matrices that each reflects a respective similarity of the feature vectors, generating clusters that each include a subset of the feature vectors. The actions further include, for each cluster, determining a label of the plurality of labels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Maziyar Baran Pouyan, Yao A. Yang, Saeideh Shahrokh Esfahani, Andrew E. Fano, David William Vinson, Timothy M. Shea
  • Patent number: 11544491
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for clustering data are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving feature vectors. The actions further include, for a subset of the feature vectors, accessing a first label. The actions further include generating a classifier that is configured to associate a given feature vector with a feature vector of the subset of the feature vectors. The actions further include applying the feature vectors that are not included in the subset of the feature vectors to the classifier. The actions further include generating a dissimilarity matrix. The actions further include, based on the dissimilarity matrix, generating a graph. The actions further include, for each node of the graph, determining a second label. The actions further include, based on the second labels and the first labels, determining a training label for each feature vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Maziyar Baran Pouyan, Yao A. Yang, Saeideh Shahrokh Esfahani, Andrew E. Fano, David William Vinson, Timothy M. Shea, Jesus Sanchez-Macias
  • Publication number: 20210224584
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for clustering data are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving feature vectors. The actions further include accessing rules that each relate one or more values of the feature vectors to a respective label of a plurality of labels. The actions further include, based on the rules, generating heuristics that each identify related values of the feature vectors. The actions further include, for each of the heuristics, generating a matrix that reflects a similarity of the feature vectors. The actions further include, based on the matrices that each reflects a respective similarity of the feature vectors, generating clusters that each include a subset of the feature vectors. The actions further include, for each cluster, determining a label of the plurality of labels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Maziyar Baran Pouyan, Yao A. Yang, Saeideh Shahrokh Esfahani, Andrew E. Fano, David William Vinson, Timothy M. Shea
  • Publication number: 20210216813
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for clustering data are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving feature vectors. The actions further include, for a subset of the feature vectors, accessing a first label. The actions further include generating a classifier that is configured to associate a given feature vector with a feature vector of the subset of the feature vectors. The actions further include applying the feature vectors that are not included in the subset of the feature vectors to the classifier. The actions further include generating a dissimilarity matrix. The actions further include, based on the dissimilarity matrix, generating a graph. The actions further include, for each node of the graph, determining a second label. The actions further include, based on the second labels and the first labels, determining a training label for each feature vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Maziyar Baran Pouyan, Yao A. Yang, Saeideh Shahrokh Esfahani, Andrew E. Fano, David William Vinson, Timothy M. Shea, Jesus Sanchez-Macias
  • Patent number: 9166390
    Abstract: An overhead-mounted cable tray and busway support system is provided for supporting communication cables and power busways that are connected to computer equipment housed within a data center. The system includes a plurality of brackets, and a roof mounting assembly. Each of the brackets is formed by a vertical member, a horizontal mounting member having a central portion affixed to a top end of the vertical member that is mountable directly or indirectly to a building roof, two cable tray supports connected to the vertical member at different points, and a busway support. The tray supports and the busway support are cantilevered from a same side of the vertical member so that all of the cables and busways may be conveniently installed from the front side of the cabinets housing the computer equipment. The horizontal mounting member is parallel to the tray supports to resist the torque applied to the brackets from the one-sided weight load of the cables and busways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: M.C. DEAN INC.
    Inventors: William H. Dean, Timothy M. Shea
  • Publication number: 20150255971
    Abstract: An overhead-mounted cable tray and busway support system is provided for supporting communication cables and power busways that are connected to computer equipment housed within a data center. The system includes a plurality of brackets, and a roof mounting assembly. Each of the brackets is formed by a vertical member, a horizontal mounting member having a central portion affixed to a top end of the vertical member that is mountable directly or indirectly to a building roof, two cable tray supports connected to the vertical member at different points, and a busway support. The tray supports and the busway support are cantilevered from a same side of the vertical member so that all of the cables and busways may be conveniently installed from the front side of the cabinets housing the computer equipment. The horizontal mounting member is parallel to the tray supports to resist the torque applied to the brackets from the one-sided weight load of the cables and busways.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: M.C. Dean Inc.
    Inventors: William H. Dean, Timothy M. Shea