Patents by Inventor Xuehong Mao

Xuehong Mao 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: 20220392478
    Abstract: An endpoint selectively enhances a captured audio signal based on an operating mode. The endpoint obtains an audio input signal of multiple users in a physical location. The audio input signal is captured by a microphone. The endpoint separates voice signals from the audio input signal and determines an operating mode for an audio output signal. The endpoint selectively adjusts each of the voice signals based on the operating mode to generate the audio output signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Samer Lutfi Hijazi, Christopher Rowen, Xuehong Mao, Ivana M. Balic, Raul Alejandro Casas, Savita Kini
  • Patent number: 11132619
    Abstract: Some embodiments perform, in a multi-layer neural network in a computing device, a convolution operation on input feature maps with multiple convolutional filters. The convolutional filters have multiple filter precisions. In other embodiments, electronic design automation (EDA) systems, methods, and computer-readable media are presented for adding such a multi-layer neural network into an integrated circuit (IC) design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Raúl Alejandro Casas, Samer Lutfi Hijazi, Piyush Kaul, Rishi Kumar, Xuehong Mao, Christopher Rowen
  • Publication number: 20210217436
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for audio enhancement. For example, methods may include accessing audio data; determining a window of audio samples based on the audio data; inputting the window of audio samples to a classifier to obtain a classification, in which the classifier includes a neural network and the classification takes a value from a set of multiple classes of audio; selecting, based on the classification, an audio enhancement network from a set of multiple audio enhancement networks; applying the selected audio enhancement network to the window of audio samples to obtain an enhanced audio segment, in which the selected audio enhancement network includes a neural network that has been trained using audio signals of a type associated with the classification; and storing, playing, or transmitting an enhanced audio signal based on the enhanced audio segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Samer Hijazi, Xuehong Mao, Raul Alejandro Casas, Kamil Krzysztof Wojcicki, Dror Maydan, Christopher Rowen
  • Patent number: 10997502
    Abstract: Some embodiments perform, in a multi-layer neural network in a computing device, optimization of the multi-layer neural network, for example by making a convolutional change with a first plurality of convolutional filters, or by making a connection change of a first plurality of convolutional filters. In other embodiments, electronic design automation (EDA) systems, methods, and computer-readable media are presented for adding such a multi-layer neural network into an integrated circuit (IC) design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Raúl Alejandro Casas, Samer Lutfi Hijazi, Piyush Kaul, Rishi Kumar, Xuehong Mao, Christopher Rowen
  • Patent number: 10991379
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for audio enhancement. For example, methods may include accessing audio data; determining a window of audio samples based on the audio data; inputting the window of audio samples to a classifier to obtain a classification, in which the classifier includes a neural network and the classification takes a value from a set of multiple classes of audio; selecting, based on the classification, an audio enhancement network from a set of multiple audio enhancement networks; applying the selected audio enhancement network to the window of audio samples to obtain an enhanced audio segment, in which the selected audio enhancement network includes a neural network that has been trained using audio signals of a type associated with the classification; and storing, playing, or transmitting an enhanced audio signal based on the enhanced audio segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: BabbleLabs LLC
    Inventors: Samer Hijazi, Xuehong Mao, Raul Alejandro Casas, Kamil Krzysztof Wojcicki, Dror Maydan, Christopher Rowen
  • Patent number: 10534994
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for analyzing one or more hyper-parameters for a multi-layer computational structure. The method may include accessing, using at least one processor, input data for recognition. The input data may include at least one of an image, a pattern, a speech input, a natural language input, a video input, and a complex data set. The method may further include processing the input data using one or more layers of the multi-layer computational structure and performing matrix factorization of the one or more layers. The method may also include analyzing one or more hyper-parameters for the one or more layers based upon, at least in part, the matrix factorization of the one or more layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Piyush Kaul, Samer Lutfi Hijazi, Raul Alejandro Casas, Rishi Kumar, Xuehong Mao, Christopher Rowen
  • Publication number: 20190392852
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for audio enhancement. For example, methods may include accessing audio data; determining a window of audio samples based on the audio data; inputting the window of audio samples to a classifier to obtain a classification, in which the classifier includes a neural network and the classification takes a value from a set of multiple classes of audio; selecting, based on the classification, an audio enhancement network from a set of multiple audio enhancement networks; applying the selected audio enhancement network to the window of audio samples to obtain an enhanced audio segment, in which the selected audio enhancement network includes a neural network that has been trained using audio signals of a type associated with the classification; and storing, playing, or transmitting an enhanced audio signal based on the enhanced audio segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Samer Hijazi, Xuehong Mao, Raul Alejandro Casas, Kamil Krzysztof Wojcicki, Dror Maydan, Christopher Rowen
  • Patent number: 10290107
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a transform domain regression convolutional neural network for image segmentation. Example embodiments include a system comprising a machine-readable storage medium storing instructions and computer-implemented methods for classifying one or more pixels in an image. The method may include analyzing the image to estimate one or more transform domain coefficients using a multi-layered function such as a convolutional neural network. The method may further include generating a segmented image by applying a change of basis transformation to the estimated one or more transform domain coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Raúl Alejandro Casas, Samer Lutfi Hijazi, Rishi Kumar, Piyush Kaul, Xuehong Mao, Christopher Rowen, Himanshu Charaya
  • Patent number: 8165098
    Abstract: A method allocates bandwidth from a radio frequency spectrum in a cellular network including a set of cells. Each cell includes a base station for serving a set of mobile stations in the cell. An area around each base station is partitioned into a center region and an edge region. In each base station, cell-center bandwidth for use by the mobile stations in the center region is reserved according to an inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC) protocol, and cell-edge bandwidth for use by the mobile stations in the edge region is reserved according to the ICIC protocol. The bandwidth can be fixed or adaptive to reduce the signaling overhead. The adaptive bandwidth can be further partitioned into reserved and the free bands. Mobile stations are classified as primary and secondary users, depending on whether they use or are assigned the fixed or adaptive band radio resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Koon Hoo Teo, Zhifeng Tao, Xuehong Mao, Amine Maaref
  • Publication number: 20100081441
    Abstract: A method allocates bandwidth from a radio frequency spectrum in a cellular network including a set of cells. Each cell includes a base station for serving a set of mobile stations in the cell. An area around each base station is partitioned into a center region and a boundary region. In each base station, bandwidth for use in the center region is reserved according to an inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC) protocol, and bandwidth for use in the boundary region is reserved according to the ICIC protocol and a base station cooperation (BSC) protocol. Then, the bandwidth is allocated to mobile stations as the mobile stations communicate with the base station in the center regions and the boundary regions according to the bandwidth reservations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Inventors: Zhifeng Tao, Koon Hoo Teo, Yu-Jung Chang, Xuehong Mao
  • Publication number: 20090201867
    Abstract: A method allocates bandwidth from a radio frequency spectrum in a cellular network including a set of cells. Each cell includes a base station for serving a set of mobile stations in the cell. An area around each base station is partitioned into a center region and an edge region. In each base station, cell-center bandwidth for use by the mobile stations in the center region is reserved according to an inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC) protocol, and cell-edge bandwidth for use by the mobile stations in the edge region is reserved according to the ICIC protocol. The bandwidth can be fixed or adaptive to reduce the signaling overhead. The adaptive bandwidth can be further partitioned into reserved and the free bands. Mobile stations are classified as primary and secondary users, depending on whether they use or are assigned the fixed or adaptive band radio resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Inventors: Koon Hoo Teo, Zhifeng Tao, Xuehong Mao, Amine Maaref