Modification Of At Least One Characteristic Of Speech Waves (epo) Patents (Class 704/E21.001)
  • Patent number: 12142283
    Abstract: Audio communication apparatus comprises a set of two or more audio communication nodes; each audio communication node comprising: an audio encoder controlled by encoding parameters to generate encoded audio data to represent a vocal input generated by a user of that audio communication node, the encoded data being agnostic to which user who generated the vocal input; and an audio decoder controlled by decoding parameters to generate a decoded audio signal as a reproduction of a vocal signal generated by a user of another of the audio communication nodes, the decoding parameters being specific to the user of that other of the audio communication nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Fabio Cappello, Oliver Hume, Marina Villanueva Barreiro
  • Patent number: 12131745
    Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to methods, accent conversion systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for real-time accent conversion. In some examples, a set of phonetic embedding vectors is obtained for phonetic content representing a source accent and obtained from input audio data. A trained machine learning model is applied to the set of phonetic embedding vectors to generate a set of transformed phonetic embedding vectors corresponding to phonetic characteristics of speech data in a target accent. An alignment is determined by maximizing a cosine distance between the set of phonetic embedding vectors and the set of transformed phonetic embedding vectors. The speech data is then aligned to the phonetic content based on the determined alignment to generate output audio data representing the target accent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: SANAS.AI INC.
    Inventors: Lukas Pfeifenberger, Shawn Zhang
  • Patent number: 12112763
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for signal identification using a low power watermark. Example apparatus for media identification based on watermarks includes a first processor to determine, in response to receiving a signal, if a first watermark is present in the signal using a first processing technique. The example first processor is further to provoke, in response to the first watermark being present in the signal, a second processing technique on a signal processor. The signal processor is to extract a second watermark in the signal using the second processing technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Christian, Javon Lee
  • Patent number: 12112530
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system of a user, a user input comprising a plurality of n-grams, parsing the user input to identify one or more overall intents, hidden intents, and slots associated with the one or more n-grams, wherein at least one of the hidden intents is non-resolvable for being associated with partial slot information corresponding to an n-gram that has not been resolved to a particular entity identifier, wherein the partial slot information is associated with two more entity identifiers of two or more entities, respectively, sending, to the client system, instructions for prompting the user to select one of the entities to be associated with the non-resolvable hidden intent, resolving the non-resolvable hidden intent based on the entity identifier of the entity selected by the user, and generating a response to the user input based on the resolved hidden intent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Vivek Natarajan, Baiyang Liu, Shubham Gupta, Krishna Mittal, Scott Martin
  • Patent number: 12112766
    Abstract: A method (600) for decoding an encoded audio signal (102) is described. The encoded audio signal (102) comprises a sequence of frames. Furthermore, the encoded audio signal (102) is indicative of a plurality of different dynamic range control (DRC) profiles for a corresponding plurality of different rendering modes. Different subsets of DRC profiles from the plurality of DRC profiles are comprised within different frames of the sequence of frames, such that two or more frames of the sequence of frames jointly comprise the plurality of DRC profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB
    Inventors: Holger Hoerich, Jeroen Koppens
  • Patent number: 12105483
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for controlling an intelligent device and an intelligent device. The method comprises: receiving a voice input; determining a service instruction based on the received voice input; determining a target serviced object for which the service instruction is intended; determining a target execution element of the service instruction based on the target serviced object; and controlling the intelligent device to perform an action corresponding to the service instruction based on the target execution element. In addition, the process of determining the target serviced object for which the service instruction is intended may be performed based on an artificial intelligence model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jianhua Zhang
  • Patent number: 12086541
    Abstract: A morphing interface system updates, that is, morphs a display on a client device as a user provides portions of input and additionally provides suggested selections for a user based on the received user input. The system receives a first portion of user input and generates intent suggestions for the user based on the user input. The intent suggestions, which represent predicted likely intents of the user, are provided to the user for selection. The user may select an intent suggestion or may provide additional user input. Based on the user response, the system determines whether an intent is selected or if additional information is needed. When an intent is selected, the interface morphs into an interface to provide predicted entity suggestions for the user to select entity values as inputs to execution of the intent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Brain Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sheng Yue, Soham Pranav Shah, Mathew Hock-Zian Teoh
  • Patent number: 12080276
    Abstract: A method for optimizing speech recognition includes receiving a first acoustic segment characterizing a hotword detected by a hotword detector in streaming audio captured by a user device, extracting one or more hotword attributes from the first acoustic segment, and adjusting, based on the one or more hotword attributes extracted from the first acoustic segment, one or more speech recognition parameters of an automated speech recognition (ASR) model. After adjusting the speech recognition parameters of the ASR model, the method also includes processing, using the ASR model, a second acoustic segment to generate a speech recognition result. The second acoustic segment characterizes a spoken query/command that follows the first acoustic segment in the streaming audio captured by the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Aleksandar Kracun
  • Patent number: 12080274
    Abstract: A system and method for concurrent multi-path processing of audio signals for automatic speech recognition is presented. Audio information defining a set of audio signals may be obtained (502). The audio signals may convey mixed audio content produced by multiple audio sources. A set of source-specific audio signals may be determined by demixing the mixed audio content produced by the multiple audio sources. Determining the set of source-specific audio signals may comprises providing the set of audio signals to both a first signal processing path and a second signal processing path (504). The first signal processing path may determine a value of a demixing parameter for demixing the mixed audio content (506). The second signal processing path may apply the value of the demixing parameter to the individual audio signals of the set of audio signals (508) to generate the individual source-specific audio signals (510).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Beijing DiDi Infinity Technology and Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi Zhang, Hui Song, Yongtao Sha, Chengyun Deng
  • Patent number: 12080286
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining importance and urgency of a task based on acoustic features of audio input associated with the task. The determining includes classifying the task into one or more classes associated with importance, urgency, and priority of the task. The classification may use a trained machine learning model of acoustic features and embedding for a neural network. The task classifier uses feature acoustics of either or both the foreground and background audio. The feature acoustics include a pitch, a tone, and a volume over a time duration of the audio input. A combination of the acoustic features determines a class associated with the task. The machine learning model includes a regression model of acoustic features over time and a model with embedding for a neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Elnaz Nouri
  • Patent number: 12073830
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes an interface configured to receive a first audio signal from a first microphone set and receive a second audio signal from a second microphone set provided at a position different from that of the first microphone set; a processor configured to: obtain a plurality of first sound-source components based on the first audio signal and a plurality of second sound-source components based on the second audio signal; identify a first sound-source component, from among the plurality of first sound-source components, and a second sound-source component, from among the plurality of second sound-source components, that correspond to each other; identify a user command based on the first sound-source component and the second sound-source component; and control an operation corresponding to the user command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoyeon Kim, Minkyu Park, Hyungsun Lee
  • Patent number: 12057131
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer readable medium for decomposing an audio signal into different isolated sources. The techniques and mechanisms convert an audio signal into K input spectrogram fragments. The fragments are sent into a deep neural network to isolate for different sources. The isolated fragments are then combined to form full isolated source audio signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: AUDIOSHAKE, INC.
    Inventor: Luke Miner
  • Patent number: 12050107
    Abstract: A guide sentence generation device includes an acquisition unit that acquires, from a storage unit, staircase information about a staircase existing on a path on which a user moves; and a generation unit that generates a guide sentence for walking on the staircase and a guide sentence for walking after going up or down the staircase based on the staircase information and the path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Asuka Miyake
  • Patent number: 12014727
    Abstract: A method for a soft acceptance of a hotword receives audio data characterizing a soft hotword event detected by a hotword detector in streaming audio captured by a user device. The method also processes the audio data to determine that the audio data corresponds to a query specifying an action to perform on the user device. Without triggering performance of the action on the user device or the other device, the method provides a notification for output from the user device where the notification prompts a user associated with the user device to provide an affirmative input indication in order to trigger performance of the action on the user device or the other device and, when the user fails to provide the affirmative input indication, instructs the user device or the other device to not perform the action specified by the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Brett Aladdin Barros, James Flynn, Theo Goguely
  • Patent number: 12008802
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system of a user, a user input comprising a plurality of n-grams, parsing the user input to identify one or more overall intents, hidden intents, and slots associated with the one or more n-grams, wherein at least one of the hidden intents is non-resolvable for being associated with partial slot information corresponding to an n-gram that has not been resolved to a particular entity identifier, wherein the partial slot information is associated with two more entity identifiers of two or more entities, respectively, sending, to the client system, instructions for prompting the user to select one of the entities to be associated with the non-resolvable hidden intent, resolving the non-resolvable hidden intent based on the entity identifier of the entity selected by the user, and generating a response to the user input based on the resolved hidden intent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Vivek Natarajan, Baiyang Liu, Shubham Gupta, Krishna Mittal, Scott Martin
  • Patent number: 11996112
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a voice conversion method. The method includes: obtaining a to-be-converted voice, and extracting acoustic features of the to-be-converted voice; obtaining a source vector corresponding to the to-be-converted voice from a source vector pool, and selecting a target vector corresponding to the target voice from the target vector pool; obtaining acoustic features of the target voice output by the voice conversion model by using the acoustic features of the to-be-converted voice, the source vector corresponding to the to-be-converted voice, and the target vector corresponding to the target voice as an input of the voice conversion model; and obtaining the target voice by converting the acoustic features of the target voice using a vocoder. In addition, a voice conversion apparatus and a storage medium are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD
    Inventors: Ruotong Wang, Zhichao Tang, Dongyan Huang, Jiebin Xie, Zhiyuan Zhao, Yang Liu, Youjun Xiong
  • Patent number: 11985179
    Abstract: A system configured to improve a voice quality during a communication session by performing bandwidth extension on a narrowband speech signal to generate a wideband speech signal with higher audio quality. For example, a system can extend a speech bandwidth from a narrowband signal having a first bandwidth (e.g., 4 kHz) to a wideband signal having a second bandwidth (e.g., 8 kHz or higher). To perform bandwidth extension, the system may include cascaded neural networks, such as two or more sub-pixel convolutional neural networks (CNNs) connected in series. In some examples, a first sub-pixel CNN may extend the speech bandwidth from 4 kHz to 6 kHz and a second sub-pixel CNN may extend the speech bandwidth from 6 kHz to 8 kHz. Alternatively, the system may use three or more cascaded neural networks and/or may extend the speech bandwidth above 8 kHz without departing from the disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Berkant Tacer, Nikhil Shankar
  • Patent number: 11983257
    Abstract: Systems and methods for voice authentication are disclosed. In an embodiment, a computer system may determine that a user is eligible for establishing a voice authentication capability for a user account during a real-time audio communication between a user device corresponding to the user and a communication system associated with an electronic service provider. The computer system may enhance a recording quality of a portion of the real-time audio communication and record a voice sample for the portion of the real-time audio communication at the enhanced recording quality. The computer system may generate a voiceprint based on the voice sample and enable the voice authentication capability such that the user can be authenticated by voice in future audio communications with the communication system in a minimally intrusive fashion where normal conversation can be used to capture voice samples which can be compared to the voiceprint to authenticate the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Rahul Nair, Elizabeth Therese Wilson
  • Patent number: 11979360
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for responding in a voice conversation by an electronic conversational agent. A voice input may be received in an audio upstream. In response to the voice input, a primary response and at least one supplementary response may be generated. A primary voice output may be generated based on the primary response. At least one supplementary voice output may be generated based on the at least one supplementary response. The primary voice output and the at least one supplementary voice output may be provided in an audio downstream, wherein the at least one supplementary voice output is provided during a time period adjacent to the primary voice output in the audio downstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Li Zhou
  • Patent number: 11971513
    Abstract: Methods of and systems for forming an image of a subterranean region of interest are disclosed. The method includes obtaining an observed seismic dataset and a seismic velocity model for the subterranean region of interest and generating a simulated seismic dataset based on the seismic velocity model and the source and receiver geometry of the observed seismic dataset. The method also includes forming a plurality of time-windowed trace pairs from the simulated and the observed seismic datasets, and forming an objective function based on a penalty function and a cross-correlation between the members of each pair. The method further includes determining a seismic velocity increment based on the extremum of the objective function and forming an updated seismic velocity model by combining the seismic velocity increment and the seismic velocity model, and forming the image of the subterranean region of interest based on the updated seismic velocity model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Weiguang He, Yubing Li, Lu Liu, Yi Luo
  • Patent number: 11960514
    Abstract: A method of generating content in association with an information search and retrieval system. It begins by receiving a query from a user. The query is semantically-searched to identify a context. A conversation history between the user and the system is identified. An enriched query is then generated by associating to the query both the context and at least a portion of the conversation history. The enriched query is then evaluated/processed by a generative-AI. In response, information associated with the enriched query is received from the generative-AI. A response to the query is then generated using the information, e.g., by passing the information back to the user, by modifying (e.g., editing or supplementing) the information to generate modified information and passing the modified information back to the user, or by dismissing the information. If sensitive information is identified in the utterance, it is masked prior to generating the enriched query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Drift.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Matt Taylert, Bernard Ngombi Kiyanda, Maria C. Moya, Joseph S. Demple, Matthew Pierce
  • Patent number: 11960648
    Abstract: A method for determining a current viewing direction of a user of a pair of data glasses having a virtual retina scan display. The method includes at least the method steps: projecting at least substantially parallel infrared laser beams onto an eye of a user of the data glasses, acquiring two-dimensional images from the infrared laser beams reflected back by the eye of the user, and determining pupil contours in the acquired two-dimensional images. The instantaneous viewing direction of the user of the data glasses is ascertained from a comparison of an instantaneous elliptical shape of the pupil contour with an elliptical shape of a reference pupil contour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Johannes Meyer
  • Patent number: 11894009
    Abstract: An audio processing method applied to a first terminal is described, and includes: in response to receiving of audio data input by a user at the first terminal, and determination that a voice change function is turned on, determining change parameters; and based on the change parameters, performing change processing on the audio data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liujun Zhang, Yuqing Hua, Zhen Yang, Zuojing Li
  • Patent number: 11885632
    Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to pre-emptively initializing an automated assistant in a vehicle according to certain indications, in order to reduce latency while also seeking to preserve computational resources. In some implementations, data for effectuating one or more features of an automated assistant can be loaded into memory of a computing device based on vehicle interaction data. For example, the vehicle interaction data can characterize instances in which the user, from within their vehicle, invoked the automated assistant within a threshold period of time of an application completing an operation. Based on the vehicle interaction data, subsequent instances of the operation being completed while the user is in the vehicle can cause data to be loaded into memory in order to pre-emptively prepare the automated assistant to be utilized by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Vikram Aggarwal, Steven B. Huang
  • Patent number: 11887497
    Abstract: A method includes, while displaying a first set of text content via a display device, determining an engagement value that characterizes a level of user engagement with respect to the first set of text content. The method includes, in accordance with a determination that the engagement value satisfies a threshold, replacing the first set of text content with a second set of text content via the display device. The first set of text content is different from the second set of text content. The method includes in accordance with a determination that the engagement value does not satisfy the threshold, maintaining display of the first set of text content via the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Barry-John Theobald, Russell Y. Webb, Nicholas Elia Apostoloff
  • Patent number: 11880365
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for multimodal and distributed database system structured for dynamic latency reduction. In this regard, the invention comprises a unified data layer structured to map a plurality of data storage mechanisms to a common abstraction and a query engine structured for heterogenous domain based data extraction without requiring input of schema-based queries. In some embodiments, the invention comprises determining (i) one or more data components and (ii) one or more associated data domains associated with the first domain-based query by parsing the user input based on derived metadata from data dictionaries associated with a unified data layer system component. Moreover, the invention is configured to extract stored data from each of a plurality of databases based on the associated one or more data domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satish Raghavan, Anirudh Kumar Sharma
  • Patent number: 11875786
    Abstract: A Natural Language Command system, which receives Natural Language Commands either over a voice system or over a text system. The commands are associated with the session, and thus can be modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventor: Scott C Harris
  • Patent number: 11875165
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for providing context specific schema files that allow an automated assistant to broker human-to-computer dialogs between a user and an application that is separate from the automated assistant. The context specific schema file can provide the automated assistant with sufficient data to be responsive to user queries without necessarily communicating with a remote device, such as a server. Multiple different context specific schema files can be made available to the automated assistant according to a context in which a user is interacting with the automated assistant. In this way, latency otherwise exhibited by the automated assistant can be mitigated by providing the automated assistant with the information needed to respond to a user without continually retrieving the information over a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Justin Lewis, Scott Davies
  • Patent number: 11875485
    Abstract: An image processing method determines a geometric transform of a suspect image by efficiently evaluating a large number of geometric transform candidates in environments with limited processing resources. Processing resources are conserved by using complementary methods for determining a geometric transform of an embedded signal. One method excels at higher geometric distortion, and specifically, distortion caused by greater tilt angle of a camera. Another method excels at lower geometric distortion, for weaker signals. Together, the methods provide a more reliable detector of an embedded data signal in image across a larger range of distortion while making efficient use of limited processing resources in mobile devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Digimarc Corporation
    Inventor: Vojtech Holub
  • Patent number: 11869497
    Abstract: A virtual assistant system comprising an interface configured to receive user input and provide a response to the user and a processor configured to run machine executable code. A memory storing non-transitory machine executable code configured to process the user input to generate two or more primary interpretations and one or more secondary interpretations based on one or more of the two or more primary interpretations. The code is also configured to process the primary interpretations and alternative interpretations to generate results which lead to two or more terminal states and then score the two or more terminal states to rank the two or more terminal states such that a top ranked terminal state is the top result, which is presented to the user. A transceiver may communicate over a network to a second device configured to assist the virtual assistant system in generating the top result for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: MeetKai, Inc.
    Inventor: James Kaplan
  • Patent number: 11843565
    Abstract: Techniques that facilitate a dialogue system based on contextual information are provided. In one example, a system includes a contextual information component and a dialogue routing component. The contextual information component determines contextual information associated with a user identity based on a statement related to communication information received by a computing device associated with the user identity. The dialogue routing component generates a path traversal for a dialogue system based on the contextual information to facilitate generation of a response to the statement by the dialogue system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Inventors: Sunhwan Lee, Saurabh Mishra
  • Patent number: 11837244
    Abstract: An analysis filter bank corresponding to multiple sub-bands, which performs frequency-division filtering on an input signal to generate multiple sub-band signals, the analysis filter bank comprising: a sub-band response pre-compensator which performs a linear filtering on the input signal to generate a response pre-compensated signal, multiple sub-filters with different central frequencies, which perform complex-type first-order infinite impulse response filtering respectively on the response pre-compensated signal to generate multiple sub-filter signals, and multiple binomially-combining and rotating devices based on a set of binomial weights, each of which performs a weighted summation on at least two of the sub-filter signals with the set of binomial weights, and rotates a weighted-summation result with a rotating phase according to a corresponding sub-band central frequency to generate one of the sub-band signals, wherein the at least two of the sub-filter signals are generated by at least two of the sub-
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Invictumtech Inc.
    Inventor: Ming-Luen Liou
  • Patent number: 11837245
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer readable medium for decomposing an audio signal into different isolated sources. The techniques and mechanisms convert an audio signal into K input spectrogram fragments. The fragments are sent into a deep neural network to isolate for different sources. The isolated fragments are then combined to form full isolated source audio signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: AUDIOSHAKE, INC.
    Inventor: Luke Miner
  • Patent number: 11823689
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a receiver and a decoder. The receiver is configured to receive a bitstream that includes a first frame and a second frame. The first frame includes a first portion of a mid channel and a first quantized stereo parameter. The second frame includes a second portion of the mid channel and a second quantized stereo parameter. The decoder is configured to generate a first portion of a channel based on the first portion of the mid channel and the first quantized stereo parameter. The decoder is configured to, in response to the second frame being unavailable for decoding operations, estimate the second quantized stereo parameter based on stereo parameters of one or more preceding frames and generate a second portion of the channel based on the estimated second quantized stereo parameter. The second portion of the channel corresponds to a decoded version of the second frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Venkata Subrahmanyam Chandra Sekhar Chebiyyam, Venkatraman Atti
  • Patent number: 11815687
    Abstract: A method performed by a head-mounted device can include, based on a front-facing camera included in the head-mounted device capturing an image of a wearable device, configuring the head-mounted device to receive input via the wearable device, determining that a gesture received by the wearable device includes a request to launch an application, and, in response to determining that the gesture includes the request to launch the application, launching the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Dongeek Shin, Isaac Allen Fehr, Sean Kyungmok Bae, Ding Xu
  • Patent number: 11798555
    Abstract: A system of reducing transmissions of packetized data in a voice activated data packet based computer network environment is provided. A natural language processor component can parse an input audio signal to identify a request and a trigger keyword. Based on the input audio signal, a direct action application programming interface can generate a first action data structure, and a content selector component can select a content item. An interface management component can identify candidate interfaces and determine if prior instances of the packetized data was transmitted to the candidate interfaces. The interface management component can prevent the transmission of the packetized data if determined to be redundant, such as having previously received the data, and instead transmit it to a separate client device of a different device type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Gaurav Bhaya, Tarun Jain, Anshul Kothari
  • Patent number: 11790891
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for custom wake word selection assistance. A method can include receiving, at a device, data indicating a custom wake word provided by a user, determining one or more characteristics of the custom wake word, determining that use of the custom wake word will cause more than a threshold rate of false detections based on the characteristics, rejecting the custom wake word as the wake word for accessing a personal assistant in response to determining that use of the custom wake word will cause more than a threshold rate of false detections, and setting the custom wake word as the wake word in response to determining that use of the custom wake word will not cause more than the threshold rate of false detections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Emilian Stoimenov, Khuram Shahid, Guoli Ye, Hosam Adel Khalil, Yifan Gong
  • Patent number: 11756532
    Abstract: An intelligence-driven virtual assistant for automated documentation of new ideas is provided. During a brainstorming session, one or more user participants may discuss and identify one or more ideas. Such ideas may be tracked, catalogued, analyzed, developed, and further expanded upon through use of an intelligence-driven virtual assistant. Such virtual assistant may capture user input data embodying one or more new ideas and intelligently process the same in accordance with creativity tool workflows. Such workflows may further guide development and expansion upon a given idea, while continuing to document, analyze, and identify further aspects to develop and expand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: BRIGHT MARBLES, INC.
    Inventors: John Cronin, Burt Cummings, Charles Root, Michael D′Andrea, Jeffrey Goodwin, Nagesh Kadaba
  • Patent number: 11748722
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for online ordering using conversational interfaces. In an embodiment of the invention, the method includes storing customer information corresponding to a customer and responsive to receiving a message with text or speech and an image from the customer, identifying an intent type from the text or speech using Natural Language Understanding, identifying a product or service from the image using image classification techniques and transmitting a product detail message to the customer with the product or service and corresponding pricing using Natural Language Generation. The method further includes responsive to receiving an affirmative message from the customer in response to the product detail message identified as affirmative using Natural Language Understanding, automatically completing a purchase of the product or service with the customer information and transmitting a receipt message to the customer with an order receipt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: WIZARD COMMERCE, INC.
    Inventor: Melissa Bridgeford
  • Patent number: 11741985
    Abstract: A method and device for automatically increasing the spectral bandwidth of an audio signal including generating a “mapping”(or “prediction”) matrix based on the analysis of a reference wideband signal and a reference narrowband signal, the mapping matrix being a transformation matrix to predict high frequency energy from a low frequency energy envelope, generating an energy envelope analysis of an input narrowband audio signal, generating a resynthesized noise signal by processing a random noise signal with the mapping matrix and the envelope analysis, high-pass filtering the resynthesized noise signal, and summing the high-pass filtered resynthesized noise signal with the original an input narrowband audio signal. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Staton Techiya LLC
    Inventors: John Usher, Dan Ellis
  • Patent number: 11740861
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for editing navigation of a content item is disclosed. The method may include presenting, via a user interface at a client computing device, time-synchronized text pertaining to the content item; receiving an input of a tag for the time-synchronized text of the content item, wherein the tag corresponds to a performer that performs at least a portion of the content item at a timestamp in the time-synchronized text; storing the tag associated with the portion of the content item at the timestamp in the time-synchronized text of the content item; and responsive to receiving a request to play the content item: playing the content item via a media player presented in the user interface, and concurrently presenting the time-synchronized text and the tag in the user interface, wherein the tag is presented as a graphical user element in the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Musixmatch S.P.A.
    Inventors: Marco Paglia, Paolo Spazzini, Pierpaolo Di Panfilo, Niche Chathong, Daria Babeo
  • Patent number: 11721093
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes, by a client system, receiving, by an assistant xbot of the client system, a request from a first user for a summary of user content from a first content source, retrieving, from the first content source, a plurality of content items corresponding to the request, generating a personalized summary of the retrieved content items, wherein the personalization of the summary is based on a user profile of the first user, and presenting, by the assistant xbot, the personalized summary responsive to the request within a separate communication interface between the assistant xbot and the first user, wherein the personalized summary is interactable by the first user to react to one or more of the plurality of content items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaohu Liu, Baiyang Liu, Rajen Subba, Benoit F. Dumoulin
  • Patent number: 11693903
    Abstract: An information processing device according to embodiments includes a reception unit that receives sensor data related to a user's action, a storage unit that stores a condition indicated by a threshold based on a psychological burden for information that is associated with the user's action and is to be presented to the user and for presentation of the information associated with the action related to the user or a threshold indicated by a psychological burden function, and a determination unit that determines content and a presentation timing of the information that is associated with the action indicated by the sensor data and is to be presented to the user from information stored in the storage unit when the action indicated by the sensor data received by the reception unit satisfies the condition related to the user and stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Reiko Aruga, Tadashi Nunobiki
  • Patent number: 11681364
    Abstract: An image processing system may receive image data from a camera of a user device and perform gaze prediction processing of the image data to predict one or more gaze patterns. The gaze prediction processing may include processing the image data using a neural network to detect faces and/or objects and generate an image feature map. The gaze prediction processing may include performing gaze direction prediction operations using the feature map and detected faces and/or objects to determine gaze direction probability data. The gaze prediction processing may include predicting a gaze pattern based on the gaze direction probability data and the image feature map. The gaze pattern may be short-term (e.g., atomic-level) or long-term (e.g., event-level).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Xu Zhang, Yue Wu, Varsha Hedau, Shih-Fu Chang, Pradeep Natarajan
  • Patent number: 11669860
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for automated compliance determination of content items are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Henry Scott-Green, Michael de Ridder, T. J. Gaffney, Brian Mulford, Amund Tveit, Antoine Delaite, Preethi Puducheri Sundar
  • Patent number: 11657408
    Abstract: Arrangements for synchronously tracking and controlling events across multiple computer systems are provided. In some examples, a user may register with a system and user data may be received. In some arrangements, historical data associated with the user may also be received. Machine learning may be used to analyze the historical data and/or user data and a first recommendation for an item may be generated and transmitted to the user. Upon receiving acceptance of the recommendation, the system may request data from one or more entities. For instance, entity data associated with current inventory, availability of items, layout of locations, and the like, may be received. Based on the received data, a list of items for capture and/or an item capture route may be generated. In some examples, the item capture route may include step-by-step or map-based instructions to capture the items on the list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Manu Kurian, Matthew E. Carroll
  • Patent number: 11658928
    Abstract: A virtual content creation method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes, by a server, receiving a model content including at least one of a text, an SMS, a voice-recorded MP3 file, a picture, and a video of a model; by the server, extracting a model feature including at least one of a text feature, a voice feature, an image feature, and a video feature from the model content; and when a user wants to communicate with the model, by the server, being operated based on deep learning or artificial intelligence to allow the user to input a user content to the server, determine a user state by detecting an emotional state of the user from the user content, and transform the model content into the virtual content using the model feature or the user state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Inventor: Kab Cheon Choe
  • Patent number: 11580999
    Abstract: An audio signal encoding method performed by an encoder includes identifying an audio signal of a time domain in units of a block, generating a combined block by combining i) a current original block of the audio signal and ii) a previous original block chronologically adjacent to the current original block, extracting a first residual signal of a frequency domain from the combined block using linear predictive coding of a time domain, overlapping chronologically adjacent first residual signals among first residual signals converted into a time domain, and quantizing a second residual signal of a time domain extracted from the overlapped first residual signal by converting the second residual signal of the time domain into a frequency domain using linear predictive coding of a frequency domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Seung Kwon Beack, Jongmo Sung, Mi Suk Lee, Tae Jin Lee, Woo-taek Lim, Inseon Jang
  • Patent number: 11540003
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed for synchronizing streaming media content. An example apparatus includes a storage device, and a processor to execute instructions to identify a first source streaming broadcast media to a first computing device based on an audio fingerprint of audio associated with the broadcast media, identify sources broadcasting the broadcast media streaming to the first computing device, the sources available to a second computing device including the processor, select a second source of the identified sources for streaming the broadcast media to the second computing device, the second source different than the first source, detect termination of the streaming of the broadcast media on the first computing device, the termination corresponding to a termination time of the broadcast media, and automatically start, by using the selected second source, streaming of the broadcast media to the second computing device at the termination time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Gracenote, Inc.
    Inventors: Suresh Jeyachandran, Roger Tsai, Paul Emmanuel Quinn, Markus K. Cremer
  • Patent number: 11514332
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and system for a cognitive dialoguing avatar, the method including identifying a user, a target entity, and a user goal, initiating communication with the target entity, evaluating cognitively a question from a dialog with the target entity, determining cognitively an answer to the question by evaluating stored user information to progress to the user goal, communicating the determined answer to the target entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Adam T. Clark, Nathaniel D. Lee, Daniel J. Strauss