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Jason Flaks, Redmond, WA US
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| 20110178798 | ADAPTIVE AMBIENT SOUND SUPPRESSION AND SPEECH TRACKING - A device for suppressing ambient sounds from speech received by a microphone array is provided. One embodiment of the device comprises a microphone array, a processor, an analog-to-digital converter, and memory comprising instructions stored therein that are executable by the processor. The instructions stored in the memory are configured to receive a plurality of digital sound signals, each digital sound signal based on an analog sound signal originating at the microphone array, receive a multi-channel speaker signal, generate a monophonic approximation signal of the multi-channel speaker signal, apply a linear acoustic echo canceller to suppress a first ambient sound portion of each digital sound signal, generate a combined directionally-adaptive sound signal from a combination of each digital sound signal by a combination of time-invariant and adaptive beamforming techniques, and apply one or more nonlinear noise suppression techniques to suppress a second ambient sound portion of the combined directionally-adaptive sound signal. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110184735 | SPEECH RECOGNITION ANALYSIS VIA IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION - Embodiments are disclosed that relate to the use of identity information to help avoid the occurrence of false positive speech recognition events in a speech recognition system. One embodiment provides a method comprising receiving speech recognition data comprising a recognized speech segment, acoustic locational data related to a location of origin of the recognized speech segment as determined via signals from the microphone array, and confidence data comprising a recognition confidence value, and also receiving image data comprising visual locational information related to a location of each person in an image. The acoustic locational data is compared to the visual locational data to determine whether the recognized speech segment originated from a person in the field of view of the image sensor, and the confidence data is adjusted depending on this determination. | 07-28-2011 |
Jason S. Flaks, Redmond, WA US
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| 20080320027 | Strongly typed tags - In one or more embodiments, a tag is provided and includes a property that associates a strongly typed variable with the tag. Strongly typed variables can include any suitable types. For example, in at least some embodiments, the strongly typed variable is a people type that allows the tag to be associated with an individual person or group of people by virtue of a unique identification that is associated with the person or group. Strongly typed tags can then serve as a foundation upon which various other types of information and services can be provided to enhance the user experience. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20110131254 | STRONGLY TYPED TAGS - In one or more embodiments, a tag is provided and includes a property that associates a strongly typed variable with the tag. Strongly typed variables can include any suitable types. For example, in at least some embodiments, the strongly typed variable is a people type that allows the tag to be associated with an individual person or group of people by virtue of a unique identification that is associated with the person or group. Strongly typed tags can then serve as a foundation upon which various other types of information and services can be provided to enhance the user experience. | 06-02-2011 |
Jason S. Flaks, Bellevue, WA US
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| 20110313768 | COMPOUND GESTURE-SPEECH COMMANDS - A multimedia entertainment system combines both gestures and voice commands to provide an enhanced control scheme. A user's body position or motion may be recognized as a gesture, and may be used to provide context to recognize user generated sounds, such as speech input. Likewise, speech input may be recognized as a voice command, and may be used to provide context to recognize a body position or motion as a gesture. Weights may be assigned to the inputs to facilitate processing. When a gesture is recognized, a limited set of voice commands associated with the recognized gesture are loaded for use. Further, additional sets of voice commands may be structured in a hierarchical manner such that speaking a voice command from one set of voice commands leads to the system loading a next set of voice commands. | 12-22-2011 |
Jason Scott Flaks, Redmond, WA US
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| 20080313703 | Integrating Security by Obscurity with Access Control Lists - Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to providing and restricting access to content. In aspects, information (e.g., a URL) that identifies content and a user is provided to a user. In conjunction with providing the information to a user, a data structure (e.g., an access control list) is updated to indicate that the user has access to the content. The user may use the information to access the content and/or may send this information to other users. The other users may use the information (e.g., by pasting it into a browser) to access the content and may be added to the data structure so that they may subsequently access the content without the use of the information. Access to the content via using the information may be subsequently revoked. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20110247083 | INTEGRATING SECURITY BY OBSCURITY WITH ACCESS CONTROL LISTS - Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to providing and restricting access to content. In aspects, information (e.g., a URL) that identifies content and a user is provided to a user. In conjunction with providing the information to a user, a data structure (e.g., an access control list) is updated to indicate that the user has access to the content. The user may use the information to access the content and/or may send this information to other users. The other users may use the information (e.g., by pasting it into a browser) to access the content and may be added to the data structure so that they may subsequently access the content without the use of the information. Access to the content via using the information may be subsequently revoked. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110307251 | Sound Source Separation Using Spatial Filtering and Regularization Phases - Described is a multiple phase process/system that combines spatial filtering with regularization to separate sound from different sources such as the speech of two different speakers. In a first phase, frequency domain signals corresponding to the sensed sounds are processed into separated spatially filtered signals including by inputting the signals into a plurality of beamformers (which may include nullformers) followed by nonlinear spatial filters. In a regularization phase, the separated spatially filtered signals are input into an independent component analysis mechanism that is configured with multi-tap filters, followed by secondary nonlinear spatial filters. Separated audio signals are the provided via an inverse-transform. | 12-15-2011 |
Solomon Flaks, Jerusalem IL
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| 20110033350 | PROCESS FOR RECOVERING SUBSTANCES FROM HIGH SALINITY LIQUIDS - The present disclosure provides a process for recovering from high salinity liquid a substance comprising a selected alkaline earth carbonate salt, the process comprises (i) adding to said high salinity liquid a reagent comprising a solution of an alkali metal carbonate in an amount sufficient to allow precipitation of said substance in said liquid, while continuously introducing into the liquid a gas whereby a high degree of precipitate is formed in the liquid; and (ii) isolating said precipitate from the liquid, wherein said precipitate comprising the alkaline earth carbonate comprising substance in an essentially purified form (at least 95% w/w degree of purity). Also provided are a unit and a system constructed and operative for performing the process, preferably continuously. | 02-10-2011 |