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Robert J. Popovics

Examiner (ID: 16720, Phone: (571)272-1164 , Office: P/1776 )

Most Active Art Unit
1776
Art Unit(s)
1778, 1779, 1306, 1723, 1308, 1724, 1776, 1797, 1777
Total Applications
2350
Issued Applications
1566
Pending Applications
178
Abandoned Applications
626

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/378847
ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR CHANGING AUDIO SIGNAL BASED ON INFORMATION RELATED TO VISUAL OBJECT AND METHOD THEREOF Oct 10, 2023 Pending
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18/484538
Voice synthesis from diffusion generated spectrograms for accessibility Oct 10, 2023 Issued
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18/484282
Synthetically generating inner speech training data Oct 9, 2023 Issued
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18/483492
Evaluation-based speaker change detection evaluation metrics Oct 8, 2023 Issued
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18/483506
ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE DEVICE ADAPTIVELY PROCESSING AUDIO BITSTREAM Oct 8, 2023 Pending
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18/483129
Removal of audio noise Oct 8, 2023 Issued
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18/377402
Detection of attachment problem of apparatus being worn by user Oct 5, 2023 Issued
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18/377477
Detection of attachment problem of apparatus being worn by user Oct 5, 2023 Issued
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18/482245
Detection of attachment problem of apparatus being worn by user Oct 5, 2023 Issued
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18/376486
Apparatus, Methods and Computer Programs for Audio Signal Enhancement Using a Dataset Oct 3, 2023 Pending
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18/473791
Audio signal encoding/decoding method controlling extraction and reconstruction of sub-band signals and apparatus for performing the same Sep 24, 2023 Issued
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18/464986
Context-based entropy coding of sample values of a spectral envelope Sep 10, 2023 Issued
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18/456670
Apparatus and method for encoding or decoding directional audio coding parameters using different time/frequency resolutions Aug 27, 2023 Issued
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18/451736
Methods and systems for computer-generated visualization of speech Aug 16, 2023 Issued
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18/449581
Systems, devices, and methods for synchronizing audio signals to correct for spatial and processing delays Aug 13, 2023 Issued
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18/446280
Lecturer speech signal processing Aug 7, 2023 Issued
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18/446420
Adapting hotword recognition based on personalized negatives Aug 7, 2023 Issued
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18/228349
AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION FOR INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE SYSTEMS Jul 30, 2023 Pending
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18/226045
Implementations for voice assistant on devices Jul 24, 2023 Issued
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18/220677
Audio encoder, audio decoder and related methods using two-channel processing within an intelligent gap filling framework Jul 10, 2023 Issued
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