Andrew C Allen

Address:

PO Box 1524, Logandale, NV 89021

VIN:

3TMLU4EN7AM044590

Make:

TOYOTA

Model:

TACOMA

Year:

2010

US Patent:

20110185284, Jul 28, 2011

Filed:

Jan 26, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/693870

Inventors:

Andrew T. Allen - Phoenix AZ, US
Ken R. Myers - Gilbert AZ, US
John M. Chan - Chandler AZ, US
Michelle N. Bomer - Queen Creek AZ, US
Catherine Yackshaw - Chandler AZ, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/27
G06F 3/01

US Classification:

715751, 704 9

Abstract:

Techniques are provided for composing and testing grammar rules that are configured to provide feedback on violations of target grammar guidelines in the text of documents. Tests may be performed to determine whether a new grammar rule produces false positives, is redundant or conflicts with other rules, or is expensive to apply to a document. A user may test the rule, in isolation or with other rules, on a batch of documents. A display of a summary of feedback that is generated in the batch of documents by the rules is provided. The user may also apply a rule to documents submitted for feedback as a hidden rule. Any violations of a hidden rule are recorded, but feedback on the violations is not provided in submitted documents. Furthermore, a user may indicate a level for a rule, which may control the set of documents to which the rule is applied.

US Patent:

20210160643, May 27, 2021

Filed:

Jun 8, 2020

Appl. No.:

16/946148

Inventors:

- Mountain View CA, US
Andrew Allen - San Jose CA, US

International Classification:

H04S 7/00
G06F 3/01
G06F 3/038

Abstract:

Techniques of rendering sound for a listener involve determining, at a first position, a set of directions from which some specified fraction of the sound field energy originates and reconstruct the sound field at a second position based on the set of directions. Along these lines, a sound rendering computer may receive sound data representing sound emanating from positions on a sphere centered on a microphone. Nevertheless, only a small fraction of these points on the sphere contribute much of the sound field energy directed at the listener. The sound rendering computer determines such directions using a directional decomposition in which those directions having the highest fraction of the sound energy are identified. When the listener moves away from the microphone's position, the sound rendering computer, after identifying such directions, applies an amplitude and phase factor to the sound fields corresponding to those directions.

US Patent:

20190373392, Dec 5, 2019

Filed:

Nov 13, 2018

Appl. No.:

16/189400

Inventors:

- Mountain View CA, US
Andrew Allen - San Jose CA, US

International Classification:

H04S 7/00
G06F 3/01
G06F 3/038

Abstract:

Techniques of rendering sound for a listener involve determining, at a first position, a set of directions from which some specified fraction of the sound field energy originates and reconstruct the sound field at a second position based on the set of directions. Along these lines, a sound rendering computer may receive sound data representing sound emanating from positions on a sphere centered on a microphone. Nevertheless, only a small fraction of these points on the sphere contribute much of the sound field energy directed at the listener. The sound rendering computer determines such directions using a directional decomposition in which those directions having the highest fraction of the sound energy are identified. When the listener moves away from the microphone's position, the sound rendering computer, after identifying such directions, applies an amplitude and phase factor to the sound fields corresponding to those directions.

US Patent:

20190341060, Nov 7, 2019

Filed:

May 7, 2018

Appl. No.:

15/973287

Inventors:

- Mountain View CA, US
Jan Skoglund - San Francisco CA, US
Andrew Allen - San Jose CA, US
Miroslaw Narbutt - Dublin, IE

International Classification:

G10L 19/008
G10L 19/16
G10L 19/022

Abstract:

A computing device includes a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to generate spectrograms, for example, using short-time Fourier transform, for a plurality of channels of reference and test ambisonic signals. In some implementations, the test ambisonic signal may be generated by decoding an encoded version of the reference ambisonic signal. The processor is further configured to compare, for each of the plurality of channels of a reference ambisonic signal, at least a patch associated with a channel of the reference ambisonic signal with at least a corresponding patch of a corresponding channel of the test ambisonic signal and determine a localization accuracy of the test ambisonic signal based on the comparison. In some implementations, the comparing may be based on phaseograms of the reference and test ambisonic signals.

US Patent:

20190208422, Jul 4, 2019

Filed:

Jan 3, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/239019

Inventors:

- San Francisco CA, US
Andrew Thompson - San Francisco CA, US
Andrew Allen - San Francisco CA, US
Marc Nijdam - San Francisco CA, US
Jay Kickliter - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

H04W 12/10
H04W 64/00
G06F 16/182
H04L 9/06
H04L 9/08
H04W 88/16

Abstract:

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for facilitating data transmission using a decentralized consensus network. The system comprising: a verified and decentralized consensus network comprising a plurality of node, wherein at least one of the nodes is configured to: (a) determine a target node from the plurality of nodes to be verified; verify the target node by validating a geographic location of the target node or a time of the target node; and (c) receive a token for verifying and validating the target node.

US Patent:

20190020967, Jan 17, 2019

Filed:

Jul 12, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/647741

Inventors:

- Mountain View CA, US
Andrew Allen - San Jose CA, US

International Classification:

H04S 7/00
G06F 3/01
G06F 3/038

Abstract:

Techniques of rendering sound for a listener involve determining, at a first position, a set of directions from which some specified fraction of the sound field energy originates and reconstruct the sound field at a second position based on the set of directions. Along these lines, a sound rendering computer may receive sound data representing sound emanating from positions on a sphere centered on a microphone. Nevertheless, only a small fraction of these points on the sphere contribute much of the sound field energy directed at the listener. The sound rendering computer determines such directions using a directional decomposition in which those directions having the highest fraction of the sound energy are identified. When the listener moves away from the microphone's position, the sound rendering computer, after identifying such directions, applies an amplitude and phase factor to the sound fields corresponding to those directions.

US Patent:

20180220251, Aug 2, 2018

Filed:

Jan 30, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/419312

Inventors:

- Mountain View CA, US
Andrew ALLEN - San Jose CA, US

International Classification:

H04S 7/00
H04S 3/00
G06F 3/01
H04R 5/04

Abstract:

Techniques of performing involve providing interactive audio in addition to ambisonic audio in stereo tracks selected according to the occurrence of events in a media delivery system. For example, a user of a VR system observes a virtual environment that contains many virtual objects. The user may experience binaurally rendered audio played over N ambisonic channels from any number of virtual loudspeakers. In addition, the user may also activate another audio source by positioning his/her head at a certain angle, e.g., to look at a particular virtual object. As a specific example, when the user looks at a picture of a person, an audio track may play over a pair of stereo channels N+1 and N+2. Because they are stereo channels, there is no need to perform convolutions with HRTFs. In this way, audio may be provided for all virtual objects in the virtual environment with a small computational overhead.

US Patent:

20180212690, Jul 26, 2018

Filed:

Mar 20, 2018

Appl. No.:

15/926808

Inventors:

- Mountain View CA, US
Andrew Allen - San Jose CA, US

International Classification:

H04B 15/00
G10L 21/0364

Abstract:

Provided are methods and systems for improving the intelligibility of speech in a noisy environment. A communication model is developed that includes noise inherent in the message production and message interpretation processes, and considers that these noises have fixed signal-to-noise ratios. The communication model forms the basis of an algorithm designed to optimize the intelligibility of speech in a noisy environment. The intelligibility optimization algorithm only does something (e.g., manipulates the audio signal) when needed, and thus if no noise is present the algorithm does not alter or otherwise interfere with the audio signals, thereby preventing any speech distortion. The algorithm is also very fast and efficient in comparison to most existing approaches for speech intelligibility enhancement, and therefore the algorithm lends itself to easy implementation in an appropriate device (e.g., cellular phone or smartphone).