Signal Adjustments in User Equipment-Coordination Set Joint Transmissions
Granted: April 25, 2024
Application Number:
20240137073
Techniques described herein describe aspects of signal adjustments in user equipment-coordination set, UECS, joint transmissions. A base station analyzes a first joint transmission from multiple user equipments, UEs, participating in a UECS, where the multiple UEs include a coordinating UE of the UECS and at least one non-coordinating UE participating in the UECS. The base station determines that the first joint transmission fails to meet a performance metric and directs the multiple UEs…
EVALUATION-BASED SPEAKER CHANGE DETECTION EVALUATION METRICS
Granted: April 25, 2024
Application Number:
20240135934
A method includes obtaining a multi-utterance training sample that includes audio data characterizing utterances spoken by two or more different speakers and obtaining ground-truth speaker change intervals indicating time intervals in the audio data where speaker changes among the two or more different speakers occur. The method also includes processing the audio data to generate a sequence of predicted speaker change tokens using a sequence transduction model. For each corresponding…
Universal Monolingual Output Layer for Multilingual Speech Recognition
Granted: April 25, 2024
Application Number:
20240135923
A method includes receiving a sequence of acoustic frames as input to a multilingual automated speech recognition (ASR) model configured to recognize speech in a plurality of different supported languages and generating, by an audio encoder of the multilingual ASR, a higher order feature representation for a corresponding acoustic frame in the sequence of acoustic frames. The method also includes generating, by a language identification (LID) predictor of the multilingual ASR, a language…
RESIDUAL ADAPTERS FOR FEW-SHOT TEXT-TO-SPEECH SPEAKER ADAPTATION
Granted: April 25, 2024
Application Number:
20240135915
A method for residual adapters for few-shot text-to-speech speaker adaptation includes obtaining a text-to-speech (TTS) model configured to convert text into representations of synthetic speech, the TTS model pre-trained on an initial training data set. The method further includes augmenting the TTS model with a stack of residual adapters. The method includes receiving an adaption training data set including one or more spoken utterances spoken by a target speaker, each spoken utterance…
CONVERSATION-AWARE PROACTIVE NOTIFICATIONS FOR A VOICE INTERFACE DEVICE
Granted: April 25, 2024
Application Number:
20240135914
A method for proactive notifications in a voice interface device includes: receiving a first user voice request for an action with an future performance time; assigning the first user voice request to a voice assistant service for performance; subsequent to the receiving, receiving a second user voice request and in response to the second user voice request initiating a conversation with the user; and during the conversation: receiving a notification from the voice assistant service of…
METHOD FOR SPEECH-TO-SPEECH CONVERSION
Granted: April 25, 2024
Application Number:
20240135117
The present disclosure relates to a streaming speech-to-speech conversion model, where an encoder runs in real time while a user is speaking, then after the speaking stops, a decoder generates output audio in real time. A streaming-based approach produces an acceptable delay with minimal loss in conversion quality when compared to other non-streaming server-based models. A hybrid model approach for combines look-ahead in the encoder and a non-causal stacker with non-causal…
Using Memory Protection Data
Granted: April 25, 2024
Application Number:
20240135042
The present disclosure describes techniques and apparatuses that are directed to using memory protection data within a computing device. Techniques include allocating regions of a memory for storing application data and protection data. Techniques also include creating a bitmap having bit values corresponding to memory blocks within the allocated regions. The one or more bit values can be indicative of whether application data and/or protection data are present in a memory block. The…
CONFIDENCE-BASED APPLICATION-SPECIFIC USER INTERACTIONS
Granted: April 25, 2024
Application Number:
20240134462
This application is directed to a method for controlling user experience (UX) operations on an electronic device that executes an application. A touchless UX operation associated with the application has an initiation condition including at least detection of a presence and a gesture in a required proximity range with a required confidence level. The electronic device then determines from a first sensor signal the proximity of the presence with respect to the electronic device. In…
DUAL BAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS FOR MULTIPLE CONCURRENT AUDIO STREAMS
Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number:
20240129658
Various arrangements for performing wireless device-to-device communication are presented. An audio output device, such as an earbud or pair of earbuds, can establish a connection with an audio source via a first Bluetooth interface that communicates using a Bluetooth communication protocol on a 2.4 GHz Bluetooth frequency band. The audio output device can negotiate that Bluetooth frequency-shifted communication, such as on a 5 or 6 GHz frequency band, is available for use with the audio…
PHYSICAL LAYER IMPROVEMENTS FOR SHORT RANGE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number:
20240129699
Various arrangements are presented that provide improvements of short-range wireless communications, such as Bluetooth LE Audio communication. An audio source device may determine that unidirectional audio is to be output. In response to determining that unidirectional audio is to be output, a first physical layer (PHY) configuration can be set for a first communication link in the downlink direction from the audio source device to the audio output device. A second PHY configuration can…
LANGUAGE MODELS USING DOMAIN-SPECIFIC MODEL COMPONENTS
Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number:
20240127807
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for language models using domain-specific model components. In some implementations, context data for an utterance is obtained. A domain-specific model component is selected from among multiple domain-specific model components of a language model based on the non-linguistic context of the utterance. A score for a candidate transcription for the utterance is generated using the selected…
PUPPETEERING A REMOTE AVATAR BY FACIAL EXPRESSIONS
Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number:
20240127523
A method includes receiving a first facial framework and a first captured image of a face. The first facial framework corresponds to the face at a first frame and includes a first facial mesh of facial information. The method also includes projecting the first captured image onto the first facial framework and determining a facial texture corresponding to the face based on the projected first captured image. The method also includes receiving a second facial framework at a second frame…
NETWORK ANOMALY DETECTION
Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number:
20240127055
A method for detecting network anomalies includes receiving a control message from a cellular network and extracting one or more features from the control message. The method also includes predicting a potential label for the control message using a predictive model configured to receive the one or more extracted features from the control message as feature inputs. Here, the predictive model is trained on a set of training control messages where each training control message includes one…
Trusted Computing for Digital Devices
Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number:
20240126886
This document describes techniques and systems for providing trusted computing for digital devices. The techniques and systems may use cryptographic algorithms to provide trusted computing and processing. By doing so, the techniques help ensure authentic computation and prevent nefarious acts. For example, a method is described that receives a signature associated with a designee and validates the signature. The signature may be associated with a designee of a host computing device, and…
Computerized Methods and Apparatus for Data Cloning
Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number:
20240126656
Methods for creating a live copy of a data object from a production system for use by third party applications include receiving at least one request for a copy of production data from an application; creating a live backup copy; creating a flash copy of the live backup copy, and a flash copy bitmap; creating a modified version of the live backup copy by changing a subset of data in the live backup copy; recording the changed subset of data using the flash copy bitmap; mounting, the…
Mitigating Display Diffraction Flares for Under-Display Sensing
Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number:
20240118772
This document describes systems and techniques directed at mitigating display diffraction flares for under-display sensing. In aspects, an equation may be derived that models the effects of a display in producing a diffraction phenomenon at an image plane of a sensing region for an under-display light-sensing device. The equation may be used to determine an arrangement (e.g., an optimized arrangement) of components (e.g., sub-pixels) within the display that minimizes a diffraction…
EARBUD-TO-EARBUD CROSS-ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND COMMUNICATION RELAY
Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number:
20240121549
Various arrangements for short-range wireless communication between audio output devices, such as true wireless earbuds, are presented herein. A first earbud of a pair of earbuds may determine that a first audio packet addressed to the first earbud from an audio source was not properly received. However, a second earbud of the pair of earbuds may properly receive the first audio packet addressed to the first earbud. The second earbud can then, directly to the first earbud, transmit a…
JOINT CONNECTED ISOCHRONOUS STREAM COMMUNICATION WITH CROSS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number:
20240121064
Various arrangements for short-range wireless communication are presented herein. An earbud of a pair of true wireless earbuds can receive an audio packet addressed to the other earbud of the pair. A single connected isochronous stream (CIS) within a connected isochronous group (CIG) may be present between the pair of true wireless earbuds and an audio source which transmitted the audio packet. The earbud can transmit a cross-acknowledgement indicating receipt of the audio packet to the…
CREATING DYNAMIC DATA-BOUND CONTAINER HOSTED VIEWS AND EDITABLE FORMS
Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number:
20240119222
A method for using a user-fillable form in a host container includes receiving, at a host container, a user-fillable form bound to dynamic data from an underlying data source where the user-fillable form has a data structure generated by prepopulated coding. The method further includes translating the user-fillable form into a hostable format for the host container. The method also includes rendering, using the hostable format for the host container, the user-fillable form in a user…
Handling Contradictory Queries on a Shared Device
Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number:
20240119088
A method for handling contradictory queries on a shared device includes receiving a first query issued by a first user, the first query specifying a first long-standing operation for a digital assistant to perform, and while the digital assistant is performing the first long-standing operation, receiving a second query, the second query specifying a second long-standing operation for the digital assistant to perform. The method also includes determining that the second query was issued…
