Patents by Inventor Xiangru BI

Xiangru BI 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: 11783848
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides method and system for voice separation based on DUET algorithm, and the method comprises receiving signals from microphones; performing a Fourier transform on the received signals; calculating a relative attenuation parameter and a relative delay parameter for each data point; selecting a clustering range for the relative delay parameters based on a distance between the microphones and a sampling frequency of the microphones, clustering the data points within the clustering range for the relative delay parameters into subsets, and performing an inverse Fourier transform on each subsets. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to provide an efficient and intelligent solution to deploy DUET on the software and/or hardware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiangru Bi, Guoxia Zhang, Youye Xie, Qingshan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11785383
    Abstract: A method and system for compensating a frequency response of a microphone array are provided. The method includes: multiple microphones in a microphone array respectively receiving a compensation signal sent from a calibration speaker and outputting multiple output signals respectively; determining a uniform frequency response of the multiple microphones based on the multiple output signals; calculating a compensation gain for each of the multiple microphones according to the uniform frequency response; and storing the calculated compensation gain of each microphone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Xueli Fan, Xiangru Bi
  • Publication number: 20230088989
    Abstract: Aspects disclosed herein generally relate to a method and a system for improving voice separation by eliminating overlaps or overlapping points. The time-frequency points from the two recorded mixtures are separated by using a Degenerate unmixing estimation technique (DUET) algorithm. The method or system further eliminates the overlapping time-frequency points which belongs to neither of the original resources of sounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Xiangru BI, Zhilei LIU, Guoxia ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11557306
    Abstract: A method and a system for speech enhancement including a time synchronization unit configured to synchronize microphone signals sent from at least two microphones; a source separation unit configured to separate the synchronized microphone signals and output a separated speech signal, which corresponds to a speech source; and a noise reduction unit including a feature extraction unit configured to extract a speech feature of the separated speech signal and a neural network configured to receive the speech feature and output a clean speech feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Guoxia Zhang, Xiangru Bi
  • Patent number: 11532302
    Abstract: Methods and devices for conducting, based on a clock difference, a synchronization process on voice information collected by a plurality of voice collection devices. Then, after the synchronization process is performed on the voice information collected by the plurality of voice collection devices, conducting a voice separation and recognition process on voice information that was collected by the plurality of voice collection devices and synchronized based on the clock difference among the plurality of voice collection devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiangru Bi, Guoxia Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220345818
    Abstract: A method and system for compensating a frequency response of a microphone array are provided. The method includes: multiple microphones in a microphone array respectively receiving a compensation signal sent from a calibration speaker and outputting multiple output signals respectively; determining a uniform frequency response of the multiple microphones based on the multiple output signals; calculating a compensation gain for each of the multiple microphones according to the uniform frequency response; and storing the calculated compensation gain of each microphone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Xueli FAN, Xiangru BI
  • Publication number: 20220172735
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a speech separation method and system using a sliding window. The method comprises: acquiring at least one speech from at least one user by at least one microphone and storing the at least one speech as a speech signal in a sound recording module; extracting the speech signal from the sound recording module and processing the extracted speech signal through a sliding window; and transmitting the processed speech signal to a Degenerate Unmixing Estimation Technique (DUET) module for speech separation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Xiangru BI, Qingshan ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20220139415
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides method and system for voice separation based on DUET algorithm, and the method comprises receiving signals from microphones; performing a Fourier transform on the received signals; calculating a relative attenuation parameter and a relative delay parameter for each data point; selecting a clustering range for the relative delay parameters based on a distance between the microphones and a sampling frequency of the microphones, clustering the data points within the clustering range for the relative delay parameters into subsets, and performing an inverse Fourier transform on each subsets. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to provide an efficient and intelligent solution to deploy DUET on the software and/or hardware.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Xiangru BI, Guoxia ZHANG, Youye XIE, Qingshan ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20220007110
    Abstract: A method and system for compensating a frequency response of a microphone array are provided. The method includes: multiple microphones in a microphone array respectively receiving a compensation signal sent from a calibration speaker and outputting multiple output signals respectively; determining a uniform frequency response of the multiple microphones based on the multiple output signals; calculating a compensation gain for each of the multiple microphones according to the uniform frequency response; and storing the calculated compensation gain of each microphone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Xueli FAN, Xiangru BI
  • Publication number: 20200294522
    Abstract: A method and a system for speech enhancement including a time synchronization unit configured to synchronize microphone signals sent from at least two microphones; a source separation unit configured to separate the synchronized microphone signals and output a separated speech signal, which corresponds to a speech source; and a noise reduction unit including a feature extraction unit configured to extract a speech feature of the separated speech signal and a neural network configured to receive the speech feature and output a clean speech feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2017
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Guoxia Zhang, Xiangru Bi
  • Publication number: 20200234703
    Abstract: A method and device for voice recognition are provided. The method for voice recognition includes: receiving voice information collected by a plurality of voice collection devices configured on a plurality of devices connected together, wherein the plurality of devices comprises at least one mobile device; and conducting a voice separation and recognition process on the voice information collected by the plurality of voice collection devices. The device for voice recognition includes: a processor, configured to: obtain a clock difference among a plurality of devices connected together, where each of the plurality of devices is configured with a voice collection device; obtain voice information collected by the voice collection device configured on the each of the plurality of voice collection devices; and conduct a voice separation and recognition process on voice information collected by the voice collection device based on the clock difference among the among a plurality of devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Xiangru BI, Guoxia ZHANG