Inventor
Frank Kao-Ping Soong
Inventor
Beijing, CN
Overview
Patents· 35 as inventor
Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.
G10Lprimary
G10LSpeech analysis techniques or speech synthesis54%
G06FElectric digital data processing17%
G06VImage or video recognition or understanding13%
G06TImage data processing or generation, in general4%
H04MTelephonic communication4%
G06NComputing arrangements based on specific computational models2%
G10HElectrophonic musical instruments2%
H03MCoding2%
PatentTitleYear
10,319,363Audio human interactive proof based on text-to-speech and semantics20199,728,203'Photo-realistic synthesis of image sequences with lip movements synchronized with speech'20179,613,450'Photo-realistic synthesis of three dimensional animation with facial features synchronized with speech'20178,751,228'Minimum converted trajectory error (MCTE) audio-to-video engine'20148,719,027'Name synthesis'20148,594,993'Frame mapping approach for cross-lingual voice transformation'20138,583,438'Unnatural prosody detection in speech synthesis'20138,542,927'Character auto-completion for online east asian handwriting input'20138,355,917'Position-dependent phonetic models for reliable pronunciation identification'20138,340,965'Rich context modeling for text-to-speech engines'20128,244,534'HMM-based bilingual (Mandarin-English) TTS techniques'20128,239,332'Constrained line search optimization for discriminative training of HMMS'20128,224,652'Speech and text driven HMM-based body animation synthesis'20128,135,590'Position-dependent phonetic models for reliable pronunciation identification'20128,077,975'Handwriting symbol recognition accuracy using speech input'20117,983,478'Hidden markov model based handwriting/calligraphy generation'20117,977,562'Synthesized singing voice waveform generator'20117,903,877'Radical-based HMM modeling for handwritten East Asian characters'20117,890,325'Subword unit posterior probability for measuring confidence'20117,885,456'Symbol graph generation in handwritten mathematical expression recognition'20117,860,716'Speech model refinement with transcription error detection'20107,848,917'Common word graph based multimodal input'20107,844,457'Unsupervised labeling of sentence level accent'20107,805,004'Radical set determination for HMM based east asian character recognition'20107,805,301'Covariance estimation for pattern recognition'20107,689,408'Identifying language of origin for words using estimates of normalized appearance frequency'20107,689,421'Voice persona service for embedding text-to-speech features into software programs'20107,496,513'Combined input processing for a computing device'20096,701,291'Automatic speech recognition with psychoacoustically-based feature extraction, using easily-tunable single-shape filters along logarithmic-frequency axis'20046,138,095'Speech recognition'20006,009,390'Technique for selective use of Gaussian kernels and mixture component weights of tied-mixture hidden Markov models for speech recognition'19995,995,926'Technique for effectively recognizing sequence of digits in voice dialing'19995,680,506'Apparatus and method for speech signal analysis'19975,675,704'Speaker verification with cohort normalized scoring'19975,377,301'Technique for modifying reference vector quantized speech feature signals'1994Career & activity timeline
Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.
1994Based in Fanwood, NJ, US· patent location history
1997–2004Patents assigned to LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC (6)· patent assignee history
1997–2013Based in Warren, NJ, US· patent location history
2009–2014Patents assigned to MICROSOFT CORP (25)· patent assignee history
2010–2019Based in Beijing, CN· patent location history
2011–2014Patents assigned to SOONG FRANK KAO-PING (10)· patent assignee history
2012–2017Patents assigned to WANG LIJUAN (5)· patent assignee history
2012–2013Patents assigned to LIU PENG (4)· patent assignee history
Inventor activity
Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.
Assignees
| Assignee | Patents | Span |
|---|---|---|
| MICROSOFT CORP | 25 | 2009–2014 |
| SOONG FRANK KAO-PINGself | 10 | 2011–2014 |
| LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC | 6 | 1997–2004 |
| WANG LIJUAN | 5 | 2012–2017 |
| LIU PENG | 4 | 2012–2013 |
Locations
| Location | Patents | Span |
|---|---|---|
| Beijing, CN | 21 | 2010–2019 |
| Warren, New Jersey, US | 13 | 1997–2013 |
| Fanwood, New Jersey, US | 1 | 1994 |