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EP3752964 - SPEECH STYLE TRANSFER [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  03.05.2024
Database last updated on 06.11.2024
FormerThe patent has been granted
Status updated on  26.05.2023
FormerGrant of patent is intended
Status updated on  31.01.2023
FormerExamination is in progress
Status updated on  16.07.2021
FormerRequest for examination was made
Status updated on  20.11.2020
FormerThe international publication has been made
Status updated on  24.08.2019
Formerunknown
Status updated on  19.04.2019
Most recent event   Tooltip25.10.2024Lapse of the patent in a contracting state
New state(s): CH		published on 27.11.2024 [2024/48]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
1275 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94103 / US
[2023/26]
Former [2020/52]For all designated states
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
1275 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94103 / US
Inventor(s)01 / ZHOU, Cong
c/o Dolby Laboratories, Inc. 1275 Market Street
San Francisco, California 94103 / US
02 / HORGAN, Michael Getty
c/o Dolby Laboratories, Inc. 1275 Market Street
San Francisco, California 94103 / US
03 / KUMAR, Vivek
c/o Dolby Laboratories, Inc. 1275 Market Street
San Francisco, California 94103 / US
04 / MORALES, Jaime H.
5020 Elrod Drive
Castro Valley, California 94546 / US
05 / VASCO, Cristina Michel
3975 Mission Street, Apt 1
San Francisco, California 94112 / US
 [2023/26]
Former [2020/52]01 / ZHOU, Cong
c/o Dolby Laboratories, Inc. 1275 Market Street
San Francisco, California 94103 / US
02 / HORGAN, Michael Getty
c/o Dolby Laboratories, Inc. 1275 Market Street
San Francisco, California 94103 / US
03 / KUMAR, Vivek
c/o Dolby Laboratories, Inc. 1275 Market Street
San Francisco, California 94103 / US
04 / MORALES, Jaime H.
339 Broadway Unit 205
Alameda, California 94501 / US
05 / VASCO, Cristina Michel
3975 Mission Street, Apt 1
San Francisco, California 94112 / US
Representative(s)Lind Edlund Kenamets Intellectual Property AB
Kungsportsavenyn 25
411 36 Göteborg / SE
[N/P]
Former [2023/26]Lind Edlund Kenamets Intellectual Property AB
Östra Hamngatan 17
411 10 Göteborg / SE
Former [2020/52]Dolby International AB Patent Group Europe
Apollo Building, 3E
Herikerbergweg 1-35
1101 CN Amsterdam Zuidoost / NL
Application number, filing date19716599.614.02.2019
[2020/52]
WO2019US17941
Priority number, dateEP2018015708016.02.2018         Original published format: EP 18157080
US201862710501P16.02.2018         Original published format: US 201862710501 P
US201962797864P28.01.2019         Original published format: US 201962797864 P
[2020/52]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report
No.:WO2019161011
Date:22.08.2019
Language:EN
[2019/34]
Type: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP3752964
Date:23.12.2020
Language:EN
The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 22.08.2019 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
[2020/52]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP3752964
Date:28.06.2023
Language:EN
[2023/26]
Search report(s)International search report - published on:EP22.08.2019
ClassificationIPC:G06N3/04, G06N3/08, G10L13/033
[2020/52]
CPC:
G06N3/08 (EP); G10L13/02 (US); G06F40/42 (US);
G06N3/044 (EP); G06N3/045 (EP,US); G06N3/048 (US);
G06N3/084 (US); G10L13/033 (EP); G10L25/30 (US) (-)
Designated contracting statesAL,   AT,   BE,   BG,   CH,   CY,   CZ,   DE,   DK,   EE,   ES,   FI,   FR,   GB,   GR,   HR,   HU,   IE,   IS,   IT,   LI,   LT,   LU,   LV,   MC,   MK,   MT,   NL,   NO,   PL,   PT,   RO,   RS,   SE,   SI,   SK,   SM,   TR [2020/52]
Extension statesBANot yet paid
MENot yet paid
Validation statesKHNot yet paid
MANot yet paid
MDNot yet paid
TNNot yet paid
TitleGerman:REDESTILÜBERTRAGUNG[2020/52]
English:SPEECH STYLE TRANSFER[2020/52]
French:TRANSFERT DE STYLE DE DISCOURS[2023/06]
Former [2020/52]TRANSFERT DE STYLE DE PAROLE
Entry into regional phase16.09.2020National basic fee paid 
16.09.2020Designation fee(s) paid 
16.09.2020Examination fee paid 
Examination procedure16.09.2020Examination requested  [2020/52]
16.09.2020Date on which the examining division has become responsible
11.03.2021Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
15.07.2021Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M02)
09.09.2021Reply to a communication from the examining division
01.02.2023Communication of intention to grant the patent
23.05.2023Fee for grant paid
23.05.2023Fee for publishing/printing paid
23.05.2023Receipt of the translation of the claim(s)
Opposition(s)02.04.2024No opposition filed within time limit [2024/23]
Fees paidRenewal fee
19.02.2021Renewal fee patent year 03
17.02.2022Renewal fee patent year 04
22.02.2023Renewal fee patent year 05
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Cited inInternational search[A]US8527276  (SENIOR ANDREW WILLIAM [US], et al) [A] 1-27* figure 5 *;
 [A]  - SUN LIFA ET AL, "Voice conversion using deep Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory based Recurrent Neural Networks", 2015 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (ICASSP), IEEE, (20150419), doi:10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178896, pages 4869 - 4873, XP033187686 [A] 1-27 * the whole document *

DOI:   http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178896
 [A]  - Sercan Arik ET AL, "Deep Voice 2: Multi-Speaker Neural Text-to-Speech", (20170524), URL: http://papers.nips.cc/paper/6889-deep-voice-2-multi-speaker-neural-text-to-speech.pdf, XP055491751 [A] 1-27 * the whole document *
ExaminationUS2009281815
    - Soroush Mehri ET AL, "SampleRNN: An Unconditional End-to-End Neural Audio Generation Model", (20161222), URL: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jose_Sotelo7/publication/311900821_SampleRNN_An_Unconditional_End-to-End_Neural_Audio_Generation_Model/links/5864833b08ae329d6203aadc/SampleRNN-An-Unconditional-End-to-End-Neural-Audio-Generation-Model.pdf, XP055491777
by applicant   - "Voice Conversion Using Deep Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Based Recurrent Neural Networks", LIFA SUN, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP, IEEE, (20150419), pages 4869 - 4873
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