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EP About this file: EP3948848

EP3948848 - SPEAKER DIARIZATION WITH EARLY-STOP CLUSTERING [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  24.05.2024
Database last updated on 24.08.2024
FormerThe patent has been granted
Status updated on  16.06.2023
FormerGrant of patent is intended
Status updated on  21.03.2023
FormerRequest for examination was made
Status updated on  07.01.2022
FormerThe international publication has been made
Status updated on  09.10.2020
Most recent event   Tooltip02.08.2024Lapse of the patent in a contracting state
New state(s): SI		published on 04.09.2024 [2024/36]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052-6399 / US
[2022/06]
Inventor(s)01 / CHEN, Liping
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, Washington 98052 / US
02 / SOONG, Kao-Ping
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, Washington 98052 / US
 [2023/29]
Former [2022/06]01 / CHEN, Liping
Redmond, Washington 98052 / US
02 / SOONG, Kao-Ping
Redmond, Washington 98052 / US
Representative(s)CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London EC4N 6AF / GB
[2022/06]
Application number, filing date19923397.429.03.2019
[2022/06]
WO2019CN80617
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report
No.:WO2020199013
Date:08.10.2020
Language:EN
[2020/41]
Type: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP3948848
Date:09.02.2022
Language:EN
The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 08.10.2020 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
[2022/06]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP3948848
Date:19.07.2023
Language:EN
[2023/29]
Search report(s)International search report - published on:CN08.10.2020
(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP17.10.2022
ClassificationIPC:G10L15/00, G10L17/06, // G10L17/02, G10L17/18
[2022/46]
CPC:
G10L17/06 (EP,US); G10L17/16 (US); G10L17/02 (EP,US);
G10L17/18 (EP,US); G10L21/028 (US)
Former IPC [2022/06]G10L15/00
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 [2022/06]
Extension statesBANot yet paid
MENot yet paid
Validation statesKHNot yet paid
MANot yet paid
MDNot yet paid
TNNot yet paid
TitleGerman:SPRECHERDIARISIERUNG MIT FRÜH-STOPP-CLUSTERING[2022/06]
English:SPEAKER DIARIZATION WITH EARLY-STOP CLUSTERING[2022/06]
French:SEGMENTATION ET REGROUPEMENT EN LOCUTEURS AVEC REGROUPEMENT D'ARRÊT PRÉCOCE[2022/06]
Entry into regional phase19.08.2021National basic fee paid 
19.08.2021Search fee paid 
19.08.2021Designation fee(s) paid 
19.08.2021Examination fee paid 
Examination procedure19.08.2021Examination requested  [2022/06]
22.11.2021Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
22.03.2023Communication of intention to grant the patent
06.06.2023Fee for grant paid
06.06.2023Fee for publishing/printing paid
06.06.2023Receipt of the translation of the claim(s)
Opposition(s)22.04.2024No opposition filed within time limit [2024/26]
Fees paidRenewal fee
19.08.2021Renewal fee patent year 03
18.02.2022Renewal fee patent year 04
14.02.2023Renewal fee patent year 05
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipAT19.07.2023
CZ19.07.2023
DK19.07.2023
EE19.07.2023
ES19.07.2023
FI19.07.2023
HR19.07.2023
IT19.07.2023
LT19.07.2023
LV19.07.2023
NL19.07.2023
PL19.07.2023
RO19.07.2023
RS19.07.2023
SE19.07.2023
SI19.07.2023
SK19.07.2023
SM19.07.2023
NO19.10.2023
GR20.10.2023
IS19.11.2023
PT20.11.2023
[2024/36]
Former [2024/26]AT19.07.2023
CZ19.07.2023
DK19.07.2023
EE19.07.2023
ES19.07.2023
FI19.07.2023
HR19.07.2023
IT19.07.2023
LT19.07.2023
LV19.07.2023
NL19.07.2023
PL19.07.2023
RO19.07.2023
RS19.07.2023
SE19.07.2023
SK19.07.2023
SM19.07.2023
NO19.10.2023
GR20.10.2023
IS19.11.2023
PT20.11.2023
Former [2024/23]AT19.07.2023
CZ19.07.2023
DK19.07.2023
EE19.07.2023
ES19.07.2023
FI19.07.2023
HR19.07.2023
LT19.07.2023
LV19.07.2023
NL19.07.2023
PL19.07.2023
RO19.07.2023
RS19.07.2023
SE19.07.2023
SK19.07.2023
SM19.07.2023
NO19.10.2023
GR20.10.2023
IS19.11.2023
PT20.11.2023
Former [2024/22]AT19.07.2023
CZ19.07.2023
DK19.07.2023
FI19.07.2023
HR19.07.2023
LT19.07.2023
LV19.07.2023
NL19.07.2023
PL19.07.2023
RO19.07.2023
RS19.07.2023
SE19.07.2023
SM19.07.2023
NO19.10.2023
GR20.10.2023
IS19.11.2023
PT20.11.2023
Former [2024/20]AT19.07.2023
FI19.07.2023
HR19.07.2023
LT19.07.2023
LV19.07.2023
NL19.07.2023
PL19.07.2023
RS19.07.2023
SE19.07.2023
SM19.07.2023
NO19.10.2023
GR20.10.2023
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PT20.11.2023
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FI19.07.2023
HR19.07.2023
LT19.07.2023
LV19.07.2023
NL19.07.2023
PL19.07.2023
RS19.07.2023
SE19.07.2023
NO19.10.2023
GR20.10.2023
IS19.11.2023
PT20.11.2023
Former [2024/09]AT19.07.2023
FI19.07.2023
LT19.07.2023
NL19.07.2023
SE19.07.2023
NO19.10.2023
GR20.10.2023
IS19.11.2023
Former [2024/08]LT19.07.2023
NL19.07.2023
NO19.10.2023
GR20.10.2023
Former [2024/05]NL19.07.2023
Documents cited:Search[A]  - LOPEZ-OTERO PAULA ET AL, "A novel method for selecting the number of clusters in a speaker diarization system", 2014 22ND EUROPEAN SIGNAL PROCESSING CONFERENCE (EUSIPCO), EURASIP, (20140901), pages 656 - 660, XP032681818 [A] 1-15 * abstract *
 [A]  - ANGUERA X ET AL, "Purity Algorithms for Speaker Diarization of Meetings Data", ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, 2006. ICASSP 2006 PROCEEDINGS . 2006 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TOULOUSE, FRANCE 14-19 MAY 2006, PISCATAWAY, NJ, USA,IEEE, PISCATAWAY, NJ, USA, (20060514), ISBN 978-1-4244-0469-8, page I, XP031330986 [A] 1-15 * paragraphs [0002] , [0003] *
 [A]  - GARCIA-ROMERO DANIEL ET AL, "Speaker diarization using deep neural network embeddings", 2017 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (ICASSP), IEEE, (20170305), doi:10.1109/ICASSP.2017.7953094, pages 4930 - 4934, XP033259348 [A] 1-15 * paragraph [03.3]; figure 1 *

DOI:   http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2017.7953094
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 [A]CN107358945  (XIE BING, et al) [A] 1-20* the whole document *
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