Patents by Inventor Uwe Helmut Jost

Uwe Helmut Jost 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: 11950081
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for generating a plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions for a plurality of audio acquisition devices of an audio recording system deployed in an acoustic environment. The plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions may be encoded into a first embedding of acoustic relative transfer functions and at least a second embedding of acoustic relative transfer functions. Information may be extracted from at least the first embedding of acoustic relative transfer functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor, Uwe Helmut Jost
  • Publication number: 20240087593
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for determining a plurality of transfer functions for a plurality of corresponding segments from a reference recording and a suspect recording. A delta transfer function between the plurality of transfer functions of a pair of corresponding segments of the plurality of corresponding segments is determined. A recording comparison confidence score is generated for the pair of corresponding segments based upon, at least in part, the delta transfer function. The suspect recording is verified based upon, at least in part, the plurality of recording comparison confidence scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Uwe Helmut JOST, Patrick Aubrey NAYLOR, Ljubomir MILANOVIC, William Francis GANONG, III
  • Publication number: 20240086759
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for identifying a target output token associated with an output of a machine learning model. A portion of training data corresponding to the target output token is modified with a watermark feature, thus defining watermarked training data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Ljubomir MILANOVIC, Patrick Aubrey NAYLOR, Uwe Helmut JOST, William Francis GANONG, III
  • Patent number: 11924624
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for selecting a reference audio acquisition device from a plurality of audio acquisition devices of an audio recording system. Audio encounter information of the reference microphone may be encoded, thus defining encoded reference audio encounter information. A plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions between the reference microphone and the plurality of audio acquisition devices of the audio recording system may be generated. The encoded reference audio encounter information and a representation of the plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions may be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor, Uwe Helmut Jost
  • Publication number: 20240071396
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for processing audio information associated with a speech processing system and encoding a watermark in a non-disruptive portion of the audio information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Patrick Aubrey Naylor, Dushyant SHARMA, William Francis GANONG, III, Uwe Helmut JOST, Ljubomir MILANOVIC
  • Publication number: 20240070239
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving, from a requesting party, a request to access data from a storage device. Identity information associated with the requesting party is determined. A bespoke identity-based watermark is generated for the requesting party. The bespoke identity-based watermark is encoded into the data. The watermarked data is provided to the requesting party.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: William Francis Ganong, III, Ljubomir MILANOVIC, Dushyant SHARMA, Uwe Helmut JOST, Patrick Aubrey Naylor
  • Patent number: 11853691
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for synchronizing machine vision and audio is executed on a computing device and includes obtaining encounter information of a patient encounter, wherein the encounter information includes machine vision encounter information and audio encounter information. The machine vision encounter information and the audio encounter information are temporally-aligned to produce a temporarily-aligned encounter recording.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald E. Owen, Uwe Helmut Jost, Daniel Paulino Almendro Barreda, Dushyant Sharma
  • Publication number: 20230395063
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving an input speech signal. A transcription of the input speech signal may be generated via an automated speech recognition (ASR) system. One or more splitting points between one or more sensitive content portions and one or more non-sensitive content portions from the transcription may be identified. The input speech signal maybe split into the one or more sensitive content portions and the one or more non-sensitive content portions based upon, at least in part, the one or more splitting points, thus defining one or more sensitive content signals and one or more non-sensitive content signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: William F. Ganong, III, Uwe Helmut Jost, Dushyant Sharma
  • Publication number: 20230394169
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving an input speech signal. A transcription of the input speech signal may be received. One or more sensitive content portions may be identified from the transcription of the input speech signal. The one or more sensitive content portions from the transcription of the input speech signal may be obscured, thus defining an obscured transcription of the input speech signal. An obscured speech signal may be generated based upon, at least in part, the input speech signal, the transcription of the input speech signal, and the obscured transcription of the input speech signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: William F. Ganong, III, Uwe Helmut Jost
  • Patent number: 11783826
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving one or more inputs indicative of at least one of: a relative location of a speaker and a microphone array, and a relative orientation of the speaker and the microphone array. One or more reference signals may be received. A speech processing system may be trained using the one or more inputs and the one or more reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick A. Naylor, Dushyant Sharma, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III
  • Patent number: 11769486
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for defining model representative of a plurality of acoustic variations to a speech signal, thus defining a plurality of time-varying spectral modifications. The plurality of time-varying spectral modifications may be applied to a plurality of feature coefficients of a target domain of a reference signal, thus generating a plurality of time-varying spectrally-augmented feature coefficients of the reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick A. Naylor, Dushyant Sharma, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III
  • Patent number: 11482308
    Abstract: A modular ACD system is configured to automate clinical documentation and includes a machine vision system configured to obtain machine vision encounter information concerning a patient encounter. An audio recording system is configured to obtain audio encounter information concerning the patient encounter. A compute system is configured to receive the machine vision encounter information and the audio encounter information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Donald E. Owen, Uwe Helmut Jost, Daniel Paulino Almendro Barreda, Dushyant Sharma
  • Patent number: 11482241
    Abstract: A system for and method of characterizing a target application acoustic domain analyzes one or more speech data samples from the target application acoustic domain to determine one or more target acoustic characteristics, including a CODEC type and bit-rate associated with the speech data samples. The determined target acoustic characteristics may also include other aspects of the target speech data samples such as sampling frequency, active bandwidth, noise level, reverberation level, clipping level, and speaking rate. The determined target acoustic characteristics are stored in a memory as a target acoustic data profile. The data profile may be used to select and/or modify one or more out of domain speech samples based on the one or more target acoustic characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick Naylor, Uwe Helmut Jost
  • Publication number: 20220262342
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for defining a model representative of a plurality of acoustic variations to a speech signal, thus defining a plurality of time-varying spectral modifications. The plurality of time-varying spectral modifications may be applied to a reference signal using a filtering operation, thus generating a time-varying spectrally-augmented signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Patrick A. Naylor, Dushyant Sharma, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III
  • Publication number: 20220262357
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving one or more inputs indicative of at least one of: a relative location of a speaker and a microphone array, and a relative orientation of the speaker and the microphone array. One or more reference signals may be received. A speech processing system may be trained using the one or more inputs and the one or more reference signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Patrick A. Naylor, Dushyant Sharma, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III
  • Publication number: 20220262343
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for defining model representative of a plurality of acoustic variations to a speech signal, thus defining a plurality of time-varying spectral modifications. The plurality of time-varying spectral modifications may be applied to a plurality of feature coefficients of a target domain of a reference signal, thus generating a plurality of time-varying spectrally-augmented feature coefficients of the reference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Patrick A. Naylor, Dushyant Sharma, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III
  • Publication number: 20220254358
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for generating a plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions between a plurality of audio acquisition devices of an audio recording system based upon, at least in part, one or more of a predefined speech processing application and a predefined acoustic environment. An acoustic relative transfer function codebook may be generated using the plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions. One or more channels from the plurality of audio acquisition devices of the audio recording system may be encoded using the acoustic relative transfer function codebook.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor, Uwe Helmut Jost
  • Publication number: 20220256303
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for generating a plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions associated with a plurality of audio acquisition devices of an audio recording system deployed in an acoustic environment. At least a pair of the plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions from time frames may be compared. A change in the acoustic environment may be detected based upon, at least in part, the comparison of the plurality of acoustic relative transfer functions from at least the pair of time frames.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Dushyant Sharma, Patrick A. Naylor, Uwe Helmut Jost
  • Publication number: 20220254496
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for: monitoring a meeting between a patient and a medical entity during a medical encounter; gathering information during the medical encounter, thus generating gathered encounter information, wherein the gathered encounter information includes audio-based content of the patient; generating audio-based content information via artificial intelligence, wherein the audio-based content information is based at least in part upon the audio-based content and/or the gathered encounter information and is configured to provide guidance to the medical entity concerning the audio-based content; and providing the audio-based content information to the medical entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Jeremy Martin Jancsary, Joel Praveen Pinto, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III
  • Publication number: 20220254514
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for: monitoring a meeting between a patient and a medical entity during a telehealth medical encounter; gathering information during the telehealth medical encounter, thus generating gathered encounter information; and rendering an informational window concerning the telehealth medical encounter for review by the patient and/or the medical entity, wherein the informational window is configured to provide supplemental information based, at least in part, upon the gathered encounter information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Jeremy Martin Jancsary, Joel Praveen Pinto, Uwe Helmut Jost, William F. Ganong, III