US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Dec. 2 for "Method and device for efficient open vocabulary keyword spotting" (Canadian, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,789, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device for efficient open vocabulary keyword spotting" was invented by Jinmiao Huang (Toronto), Waseem Gharbieh (Grimsby, Canada) and Qianhui Wan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes receiving enrollment audio from a user comprising a wake word to be enrolled for the device, preprocessing the enrollment audio to obtain a vector representation along at least a feature dimension and a temporal dimension, inputting the extracted vector representation to a trained encoding model to generate an embedding r...