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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2018
Michael Callahan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Thomas Coleman, Champaign, IL (US);
Michael Callahan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Thomas Coleman, Champaign, IL (US);
Other;
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for processing a set of communicated signals associated with a set of muscles, such as the muscles near the larynx of the person, or any other muscles the person use to achieve a desired response. The method includes the steps of attaching a single integrated sensor, for example, near the throat of the person proximate to the larynx and detecting an electrical signal through the sensor. The method further includes the steps of extracting features from the detected electrical signal and continuously transforming them into speech sounds without the need for further modulation. The method also includes comparing the extracted features to a set of prototype features and selecting a prototype feature of the set of prototype features providing a smallest relative difference.