Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Jaekwon Yoo

Ruxin Chen

Takeo Matsukawa

Xiaoyu Liu

Min-Hung Chen

Michael G Taylor

Sergey Bashkirov

Michael Taylor

Javier Fernandez-Rico

An audio converter system is provided. The system comprises an audio input configured to receive a source audio, an audio output configured to couple to a hybrid speaker comprising at least two nondirectional speakers and a directional speaker, and a processor configured to generate an output audio for the hybrid speaker based on the source audio by: identifying a specific sound in the source audio, isolating the specific sound from the source audio, generating a directional speaker output for the directional speaker of the hybrid speaker based on the specific sound, and generating at least two channels of nondirectional speaker output for the at least two nondirectional speakers of the hybrid speaker.

Hybrid speaker and converter

A domain adaptation module is used to optimize a first domain derived from a second domain using respective outputs from respective parallel hidden layers of the domains.

Systems and methods for domain adaptation in neural networks using cross-domain batch normalization

An autonomous personal companion executing a method including capturing data related to user behavior. Patterns of user behavior are identified in the data and classified using predefined patterns associated with corresponding predefined tags to generate a collected set of one or more tags. The collected set is compared to sets of predefined tags of a plurality of scenarios, each to one or more predefined patterns of user behavior and a corresponding set of predefined tags. A weight is assigned to each of the sets of predefined tags, wherein each weight defines a corresponding match quality between the collected set of tags and a corresponding set of predefined tags. The sets of predefined tags are sorted by weight in descending order. A matched scenario is selected for the collected set of tags that is associated with a matched set of predefined tags having a corresponding weight having the highest match quality.

Continual selection of scenarios based on identified tags describing contextual environment of a user for execution by an artificial intelligence model of the user by an autonomous personal companion

Systems and methods for domain adaptation in neural networks using domain classifier

Methods and apparatus for signal processing are disclosed. Source separation can be performed to extract moving source signals from mixtures of source signals by way of independent component analysis. Source motion is modeled by direct to reverberant ratio in the separation process, and independent component analysis techniques described herein use multivariate probability density functions to preserve the alignment of frequency bins in the source separation process.

Source separation by independent component analysis with moving constraint

Methods and apparatus for signal processing are disclosed. Source separation can be performed to extract source signals from mixtures of source signals by way of independent component analysis. Source separation described herein involves mixed multivariate probability density functions that are mixtures of component density functions having different parameters corresponding to frequency components of different sources, different time segments, or some combination thereof.

Source separation using independent component analysis with mixed multi-variate probability density function

Methods and apparatus for signal processing are disclosed. Source separation can be performed to extract source signals from mixtures of source signals by way of independent component analysis. Source direction information is utilized in the separation process, and independent component analysis techniques described herein use multivariate probability density functions to preserve the alignment of frequency bins in the source separation process. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.

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Foster City, CA, United States of America

Jaekwon Yoo