IP Library Granted Patent US 10,504,541
Granted Patent B1
US 10,504,541 · App. 16/444,890 · Granted Dec 10, 2019

Desired signal spotting in noisy, flawed environments

Inventors: Sean Michael Storlie (Santa Barbara, CA); Victor Jara Borda (Santa Barbara, CA); Michael Kingsley McCourt, Jr. (Santa Barbara, CA); Leland W. Kirchhoff (Santa Barbara, CA); Colin Denison Kelley (Santa Barbara, CA); Nicholas James Burwell (Santa Barbara, CA)
Assignee: Invoca, Inc.
G10L25/84G10L15/08H04M3/18H04M3/22H04M3/54G10L2015/088
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Patent No.
US 10,504,541
App. No.
16/444,890
Granted
Dec 10, 2019
Kind
B1
Abstract

There are disclosed devices, system and methods for desired signal spotting in noisy, flawed environments by identifying a signal to be spotted, identifying a target confidence level, and then passing a pool of cabined arrays through a comparator to detect the identified signal, wherein the cabined arrays are derived from respective distinct environments. The arrays may include plural converted samples, each converted sample include a product of a conversion of a respective original sample, the conversion including filtering noise and transforming the original sample from a first form to a second form. Detecting may include measuring a confidence of the presence of the identified signal in each of plural converted samples using correlation of the identified signal to bodies of known matching samples. If the confidence for a given converted sample satisfies the target confidence level, the given sample is flagged.

Claims (41)

1. A method of desired signal spotting in noisy, flawed environments comprising:

identifying the desired signal to be spotted and a pool of call samples, wherein the signal is one or more spoken terms;

identifying a target confidence level;

passing the pool of call samples through a comparator to spot the desired signal, wherein the call samples are derived from respective distinct environments, wherein spotting the desired signal comprises measuring a confidence of a presence of the desired signal in each of the call samples using correlation of the desired signal to bodies of known matching samples that are machine created reference signals, and wherein the correlation includes the comparator comprises a predictive model for performing a weighting analysis comparison of the desired signal to the bodies of known matching samples that are selected by the comparator during measuring of each of the call samples;

if the confidence for a given call sample satisfies the target confidence level, flagging the given call sample as having the desired signal; and

using the flagged sample as a reference signal of the bodies of known matching samples during a subsequent spotting of the desired signal in the pool of call samples.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the bodies of known matching samples are artificial intelligence (AI) created reference signals created by the comparator during use of the comparator to spot the desired signal in the given call sample.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the pool of call samples are a collection of various stored converted call samples from one of various advertisers or marketing campaigns.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the bodies of known matching samples are derived from original samples selected by the comparator.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein each call sample is a given converted sample that comprises a product of a conversion of a respective original sample, the conversion including filtering noise and transforming the original sample from a first form to a second form.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the conversion further includes anonymization.

7. The method of claim 5 wherein:

the respective distinctive environments comprise electronic waveforms of the respective original samples;

the noisy, flawed environments comprise at least one of noise in a call signal of the pool of call samples or an erroneous sample of the bodies of known matching samples;

and

the first form is an audio electronic waveform and the second form is text.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

pooling plural call samples derived from the distinct environments with the desired signal to be spotted, the call samples comprising plural call samples; and

converting each respective original sample to a given converted sample.

9. An apparatus for desired signal spotting in noisy, flawed environments comprising:

a first identifier unit to identify the desired signal to be spotted and a pool of call samples, wherein the signal is one or more spoken terms;

a second identifier unit to identify a target confidence level;

a synchronizer coupled to the first and second identifier units to synchronize the pool of call samples with the desired signal and the identified confidence level; and

a tester coupled to the synchronizer to pass the pool of calls samples through a comparator;

the comparator to spot the desired signal, wherein the call samples are derived from respective distinct environments, wherein spotting the desired signal comprises measuring a confidence of a presence of the desired signal in each of the call samples using correlation of the desired signal to bodies of known matching samples that are machine created reference signals, and wherein the correlation includes the comparator comprises a predictive model for performing a weighting analysis comparison of the desired signal to the bodies of known matching samples that are selected by the comparator during measuring of each of the call samples;

a flagger to flag a given call sample as having the desired signal if the confidence for the given call sample satisfies the target confidence level; and

the comparator to use the flagged sample as a reference signal of the bodies of known matching samples during a subsequent spotting of the desired signal in the pool of call samples.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the bodies of known matching samples are artificial intelligence (AI) created reference signals created by the comparator during use of the comparator to spot the desired signal in the given call sample.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the pool of call samples are a collection of various stored converted call samples from one of various advertisers or marketing campaigns.

12. The apparatus of claim 9 further comprising a deriver to derive the bodies of known matching samples from original samples selected by the comparator.

13. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein each call sample is a given converted sample that comprises a product of a conversion of a respective original sample, the conversion including filtering noise and transforming the original sample from a first form to a second form.

14. The apparatus of claim 13 further comprising an anonymizer to anonymize the converted sample.

15. The apparatus of claim 13 wherein:

the respective distinctive environments comprise electronic waveforms of the respective original samples;

the noisy, flawed environments comprise at least one of noise in a call signal of the pool of call samples or an erroneous sample of the bodies of known matching samples;

and

the first form is an audio electronic waveform and the second form is text.

16. The apparatus of claim 9 further comprising:

a pooler to pool the plural call samples derived from the distinct environments with the desired signal to be spotted, the call samples comprising plural call samples; and

a converter to convert each respective original sample to a given converted sample.

17. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein the first and second identifier units further comprise a user input device.

Assignments (5)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Aug 6, 2024
From: INVOCA, INC.
To: BANC OF CALIFORNIA (FORMERLY KNOWN AS PACIFIC WESTERN BANK)
Reel/Frame 068200/0412 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jan 24, 2023
From: ORIX GROWTH CAPITAL, LLC
To: INVOCA, INC.
Reel/Frame 062463/0390 →
REAFFIRMATION OF AND SUPPLEMENT TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Jan 28, 2022
From: INVOCA, INC.
To: ORIX GROWTH CAPITAL, LLC
Reel/Frame 058892/0404 →
REAFFIRMATION OF AND SUPPLEMENT TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Oct 21, 2021
From: INVOCA, INC.
To: ORIX GROWTH CAPITAL, LLC
Reel/Frame 057884/0947 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 19, 2019
From: STORLIE, SEAN MICHAEL; BORDA, VICTOR JARA; MCCOURT, MICHAEL KINGSLEY, JR.; KIRCHHOFF, LELAND W.; KELLEY, COLIN DENISON; BURWELL, NICHOLAS JAMES
To: INVOCA, INC.
Reel/Frame 049517/0546 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation 16362105 · Mar 22, 2019
Continuation 16022370 · Jun 28, 2018