US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Jan. 28 for "Method and apparatus with utterance time estimation" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,496, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus with utterance time estimation" was invented by Min-Joong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-implemented utterance time estimation method includes: determining a plurality of attention weight matrices using an attention-based sequence-to-sequence model; selecting an attention weight matrix from the plurality of attention weight matrices; and estimating an utterance time corresponding to an output sequence based on the selected attention weight matrix."

The patent was filed on Oct. 7, ...