Can we partner with these guys just as we have done with Sensory Inc?
Samsung Licenses Valencell’s Ear-Based Biometrics Tech
Posted on July 20, 2016 by Alex Perala
“…Valencell has been keen to emphasize the applications of its technology in products such as earbuds, with a recently granted patent pertaining to ‘earbud covers’.”
Samsung has licensed Valencell patents related to the latter’s ear-based biometric wearable technology. The non-exclusive patent licensing deal provides Samsung access to Valencell’s technology concepts, but not to its products and support.
In a statement announcing the deal, Valencell emphasized the importance of licensing and its patent portfolio to its business, noting that it currently has 35 granted patents and over 70 others pending. CEO Dr. Steven LeBoeuf also highlighted the applications of the technology entailed in the licensing agreement, stating,“We’re pleased to work with Samsung Electronics to provide a patent license for our inventions that are critical for accurate heart rate monitoring in hearables.”
By “hearables”, Dr. LeBoeuf uses his company’s terminology for ear-based biometric devices. Blood flow signals detectable through a user’s ears can be used to monitor a number of cardiac measures, and Valencell has been keen to emphasize the applications of its technology in products such as earbuds, with a recently granted patent pertaining to ‘earbud covers’.
With a major consumer electronics company like Samsung now licensing its technology, it could soon reach an even wider swath of end users in the mass market, further popularizing biometrics in consumer electronics.
this snip of text up from the archives to reread....
third-party algorithm folks to deploy their algorithms on our platform and we do see activities in this area
For the casual reader. Looking back SPI is a fine example of a third party algo company.
Biometrics has very specialized algos, and Valencell, like Sensory, has TOP Notch stuff.
They are a third party algo group of folks.
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
this helped me the most...
Changes to Executive Comp
Changes to Executive Comp
| jfieb, if I have this whole thing down correctly, Quik is opening up their locked store room that has Quik stock certificate bundles on it. Quik has told each one of the aforementioned executives that only they can stop in on September 8 or later to reach up on that shelf and pull off as many stock certificates as their allotted dollar amount allows. In Brian Faith's example it would be $500,000 worth. And the amount of stock that BF could buy would be determined by the price of Quik on the open market on the purchase date (September 8 or later). I am not sure how all the laws work for insider knowledge/buying but from a market perspective I assume it would be better to buy directly from Quik's store room than to go into the market and try to buy $500,000 worth of stock and keep the price at or below where the strike price was when you began. As to the laws, could this be a safe way to load up on Quik stock while knowing important information that has yet to be disclosed publicly due to NDA's etc. |
Sunday, July 24, 2016
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commentary of the deal...
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Raleigh wearables upstart scores Samsung deal
Jul 20, 2016, 2:15pm EDT Updated Jul 22, 2016, 9:49am EDT
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A small Raleigh wearable technology firm has inked what could be a very big deal with consumer electronics giant Samsung Electronics.
The deal allows Samsung to access Raleigh-based Valencell’s patent portfolio for use in hearable devices, such as the upcoming Samsung Gear IconX cord-free fitness earbuds.
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Unlike other Valencell announcements – such as product licensing deals that put its technology in headphones from brands such as LG Electronics and Scosche – this deal is about the intellectual property.
“It’s a really big deal,” Valencell co-founder and president Steve LeBoeuf said Wednesday in an interview. “You can easily argue that Samsung is the most sophisticated consumer electronics brand when it comes to IP.”
He says the fact that they’re licensing patents and not a module designed for a specific product is a testament to Valencell’s innovation. And it’s innovation the firm has been increasingly bullish about protecting, having filed two recent patent infringement lawsuits against electronics mammoths Fitbit and Apple.
Read: Why Valencell's patent fight against Fitbit and Apple could last 'years'
As LeBoeuf has been talking to Samsung for “several years” about a partnership, it’s likely that the deal was in the works before those suits were filed, though LeBoeuf wouldn’t comment on that Wednesday.
Valencell’s patent portfolio, which includes patent protections that give hearable devices the ability to measure blood flow signals that can be translated into biometric data such as heart rate, includes 35 patents granted and more than 70 additional patents pending. The deal with Samsung does not include access to Valencell products, its support personnel or its North Hills wearables testing lab.
Financial terms were not disclosed. LeBoeuf says that, to his knowledge, it's the first patent portfolio licensing announcement in the health and fitness sensor space.
In the coming months, LeBoeuf says to expect additional announcements about the Raleigh technology’s presence in other name-brand electronic devices, including new products coming directly from the sensor-maker.
The Samsung deal is among Valencell’s more high-profile partnerships, but it’s the second collaboration announced this summer. In June, Valencell announced it had partnered with Gieseck & Devrient, a technology provider for the financial sector, and Z-Smart, a wearable device firm in China. The deal puts Valencell’s sensor technology in a new payments-focused smart watch targeting the banking industry.
Valencell execs say the company has more partnerships than what’s listed on its website. Non-disclosure agreements prevent them from publicizing every relationship – and from talking about every product that utilizes its biometric sensors.
WHen I read about these guys I wanted to buy a part of their biz. Its not possible.
In the big pic this is good for sensor hub people as these algos are more complex and would tax an AP and the MCUs> THe Eos is made for stuff like this.
I wonder what the SoC is for the Samsung IconX?
this snip is the one to reread...
QUIK said this a while ago...
This snip was interesting…verrry interesting?
And I will actually give a plug for the fact that we have this nice integrated development environment now that software people are accustomed to. They can actually enablethird-party algorithm folks to deploy their algorithms on our platform and we do see activities in this area. So, it’s a long way of saying that we are pushing in all those areas. The end product may be some combination of us and third-parties to do that, particularly in some of these highly specialized areas.
Hope we read about something for Valencel IP and the Eos?
So far any company with something to offer in the adjacent possible of sensor fusion has shown that the coral reef is rich, aware, hungry, .....nice job Valencel!
For the casual reader, note that digressive threads get more interesting as time goes by. It IS a CORAL reef after all. Only 2% of the ocean floor, but 25% of the life resides there.
here is a LOT of good stuff on this thread so if you have time spend a few minutes here..........
If SEC is a matchmaker for hardware and IP it will be something to track along....it is said that these 2 (V & S) have been in talks for a looooong time.
SEC should just take them out? As far as patent wars go... the patents of Sensory and of Valencel are of great significance going forward......
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
The world is less with him gone...
When asked what advice he would give to the younger generation, Elie Wiesel,the Nobel-Prize winning writer, teacher and activist stated,“Think higher, feel deeper. Don’t treat other people as adversaries. Respect them. When you are out in your community, think higher, and when you are face to face with another human being, feel deeper. Be more of whatever you are. We are here for a very brief time. Do something remarkable with every moment.”
The book , Night.........never forgot it.
So my project with any free time I have is this thread.
Are there any ways to measure the Sensory/Samsung relationship?
March3 2015...MWC in Barcelona.
http://www.sensory.com/blog/page/3/
- I’d be remiss without mentioning the Galaxy S6. Samsung invited us to the launch and of course they continue to use Sensory in a relationship that has grown quite strong over the years. Samsung continues to innovate with the Edge, and other products that everyone is talking about. It’s amazing how far Apple took the mantle in the first iPhone and how companies like Samsung and the Android system seem to now be leading the charge on innovation!
Samsung should just take them out?
QUIK learns and the SPI lesson is fairly fresh, so its in the contract.
............ if you talk to QUIK...my fear is that Sensory is just SOOOOO good, that they will be GOOONE?
The other consideration is that its too late, too late to take them out, they are HOT, HOT, HOT right now and IPO is their future for the BIG $$?
And when I first read of the Eos and read about Sensory. I wanted to own a part of Sensory's business, but its not possible and if they IPO it might be too rich.
QUIK's implementation of Sensory is just so good that 10% or more of my QUIK holding is Sensory inc........diversification happened for me and I just stayed right where I was.
The S4 can it be the same? I think so.
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"Hello Blue Genie"
That is the phrase that Sensory uses in its demos, that a customer can swap out for one of their choosing...
demo is excellent use of less than a minute of your time
http://www.sensory.com/products/technologies/trulyhandsfree/
you have to scroll down just a little on the web page. I liked the phrase spotting short video also.
We want to have a feel for the range of their technologies.
the fuction in NOISE is one of their selling points and they have some Philips technology they have added to try to improve on noise even more...
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This one is very important....
Their are a LOT of characters in their language....keyboard for input never worked so well for them....Lets read what a BIG dog over there has to say...
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/...g-system-rivals-people-at-speech-recognition/
Baidu’s Deep-Learning System Rivals People at Speech Recognition
China’s dominant Internet company, Baidu, is developing powerful speech recognition for its voice interfaces.
- by Will Knight
- December 16, 2015
China’s leading Internet-search company, Baidu, has developed a voice system that can recognize English and Mandarin speech better than people, in some cases.
The new system, called Deep Speech 2, is especially significant in how it relies entirely on machine learning for translation. Whereas older voice-recognition systems include many handcrafted components to aid audio processing and transcription, the Baidu system learned to recognize words from scratch, simply by listening to thousands of hours of transcribed audio.
The technology relies on a powerful technique known as deep learning, which involves training a very large multilayered virtual network of neurons to recognize patterns in vast quantities of data. The Baidu app for smartphones lets users search by voice, and also includes a voice-controlled personal assistant called Duer (see “Baidu’s Duer Joins the Personal Assistant Party”). Voice queries are more popular in China because it is more time-consuming to input text, and because some people do not know how to use Pinyin, the phonetic system for transcribing Mandarin using Latin characters.
“Historically, people viewed Chinese and English as two vastly different languages, and so there was a need to design very different features,” says Andrew Ng, a former Stanford professor and Google researcher, and now chief scientist for the Chinese company. “The learning algorithms are now so general that you can just learn.”
Deep learning has its roots in ideas first developed more than 50 years ago, but in the past few years new mathematical techniques, combined with greater computer power and huge quantities of training data, have led to remarkable progress, especially in tasks that require some sort of visual or auditory perception. The technique has already improved the performance of voice recognition and image processing, and large companies including Google, Facebook, and Baidu are applying it to the massive data sets they own.
Deep learning is also being adopted for ever-more tasks. Facebook, for example, uses deep learning to find faces in the images that its users upload. And more recently it has made progress in using deep learning to parse written text (see “Teaching Machines to Understand Us”). Google now uses deep learning in more than 100 different projects, from search to self-driving cars.
In 2013, Baidu opened its own effort to harness this new technology, theDeep Learning Institute, co-located at the company’s Beijing headquarters and in Silicon Valley. Deep Speech 2 was primarily developed by a team in California.
In developing Deep Speech 2, Baidu also created new hardware architecture for deep learning that runs seven times faster than the previous version. Deep learning usually relies on graphics processors, because these are good for the intensive parallel computations involved.
The speed achieved “allowed us to do experimentation on a much larger scale than people had achieved previously,” says Jesse Engel, a research scientist at Baidu and one of more than 30 researchers named on a paper describing Deep Speech 2. “We were able to search over a lot of [neural network] architectures, and reduce the word error rate by 40 percent.”
Ng adds that this has recently produced some impressive results. “For short phrases, out of context, we seem to be surpassing human levels of recognition,” he says.
He adds: “In Mandarin, there are a lot of regional dialects that are spoken by much smaller populations, so there’s much less data. This could help us recognize the dialects better.”
The huge USA is just 10% of the whole smartphone TAM now.
ZTE has been very focused on Voice as a UI for some yrs now, I wondered why?
There is a reason for it and its this............
Voice queries are more popular in China because it is more time-consuming to input text, and because some people do not know how to use Pinyin, the phonetic system for transcribing Mandarin using Latin characters.
The China Smartphone makers will just have to have this on their devices?.......
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Want to reread this one...
Sensory Inc. Speech Recognition Solutions for Consumer Products Support Language Capabilities Across the Globe
Santa Clara, CA – July 16, 2014 …World’s Most Highly Spoken Language Mandarin Chinese Among Languages Also Supported by Sensory’s Speaker Verification Technology.
Sensory Inc., the industry leader in speech and vision technologies for consumer products, is pleased to announce that it supports a wide range of languages across 41 countries all over the world with its innovative speech recognition solutions.
Languages currently supported by Sensory’s speaker recognition technologies include the world’s three most highly spoken-Mandarin (2 billion speakers) Spanish (406 million speakers) and English (335 million speakers). Other languages developed for Sensory’s platforms include: French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, Swedish, and Portuguese. Nearly all of the languages available in Sensory’s speech recognition solutions are also supported in its speaker verification technologies, including Mandarin Chinese.
Among its products in multiple languages is Sensory’s landmark TrulyHandsfree™, the leading always-on, always-listening voice control solution for consumer electronics. The introduction of the TrulyHandsfree™Voice Control technology revolutionized the speech technology industry for a wide variety of hands-free consumer applications. With an extremely noise robust and accurate solution that responds quickly and at ultra-low power consumption, theTrulyHandsfree™ trigger technology has become the most widely adopted keyword spotting technology in the speech industry.
Sensory’s staff of world-renowned speech experts and linguists is continuing to expand the company’s language and country support. Languages currently in development include Indian English, Polish, Greek, and Cantonese, with others soon to be added.
“We are committed to providing the most innovative global speech and speaker solutions for deployment in consumer electronic applications,” stated Sensory CEO Todd Mozer. “The term ‘world-class’ truly defines our technology for the diversity of languages and international regions that it supports, and our continued investment in resources to develop and expand these language offerings.”
So a smartphone that might use the Eos would have a list of language settings where you could pick the one you want and off you go.
- New
It helps to put some snips on this one page...
"QuickLogic's new EOS sensor platform is groundbreaking, and we are excited to have enhanced its capabilities by providing our TrulyHandsfree voice control technology complemented by our ultra-low power sound detector in the form of an embedded block," said Bernard Brafman, vice president of business development at Sensory.
"Sensory is the industry leader in voice processing systems for mobile applications," said Dr. Frank A. Shemansky, Jr., senior director of product management at QuickLogic Corporation. "Integration of Sensory's TrulyHandsfree and LPSD technologies with the QuickLogic EOS sensor processing system provides unprecedented always-on voice capability, and will facilitate a new generation of voice-driven applications."
and
the Galaxy S6. Samsung invited us to the launch and of course they continue to use Sensory in a relationship that has grown quite strong over the years. Samsung continues to innovate with the Edge, and other products that everyone is talking about. It’s amazing how far Apple took the mantle in the first iPhone and how companies like Samsung and the Android system seem to now be leading the charge on innovation!
- New
one more and then I will stop for a short time to let this really sink in.....
Sensory’s New TrulyHandsfree SDK Simplifies the Development of Voice Activated Products
Santa Clara, Calif., – June 23, 2016 – TrulyHandsfree allows speech triggers and commands to be built into apps with under 20 lines of code
Sensory Inc., a Silicon Valley-based company focused on improving the user experience and security of consumer electronics through state-of-the-art embedded voice and vision technologies, today announced the availability of its new TrulyHandsfree SDK, the next evolution of the company’s embedded small-footprint voice user interface platform. Designed with software developers in mind, TrulyHandsfree significantly simplifies the development of speech recognition applications, greatly reducing the amount of time necessary to implement a speech-controlled user experience.
Summary of TrulyHandsfree SDK Improvements:
- SDK supports fixed triggers, user enrolled triggers and commands – phrase spotting technology makes TrulyHandsfree highly robust to noise
- Speech trigger and commands can be added to an application with less than 20 lines of code
- Tasks’ details are managed with streamlined modular speech recognition functions
- Documentation for TrulyHandsfree 5.0 is easier to digest
- All speech recognition models and task configurations are passed as one file, further simplify the API
- Available JAVA API for Android – seamless integration with Android Studio (no JNI programming needed)
Sensory’s TrulyHandsfree trigger technology has quickly become the most widely adopted keyword voice wakeup technology in the speech industry, with more platforms supported than any other voice recognition technology. Over a billion products utilizing TrulyHandsfree have shipped over the past several years from the world’s largest CE manufacturers. The TrulyHandsfree trigger is an extremely noise robust, low power, and highly accurate, embedded phrase recognition technology that listens for a special “wake up” phrase, yet ignores other conversations.TrulyHandsfree can be utilized a variety of different ways, supporting an assortment of wakeup voice triggers including fixed triggers, user-enrolled fixed triggers, user-defined triggers and speaker verification passphrases. TrulyHandsfree also supports high accuracy noise immune command sets and works seamlessly with the applications processors of devices and cloud-based speech recognition technologies, enabling seamless trigger-to-search or trigger-to-cloud speech recognition functionality. The technology can also be combined with Sensory’s TrulySecure speaker verification security technology, allowing for trigger-to-speaker-verification applications. TrulyHandsfree runs embedded on device so no cloud connection is necessary, making it secure from shared personal data being stolen from the cloud.
With its dual biometric factors, AppLock comes closer to the security-and-convenience ideal than I've ever seen.
Mike Feibus, usatoday- Huawei also created this cool feature to help you find your phone more quickly. It’s called voice wake up, and you can ask your phone “Where are you?” or some other phrase, and your phone will respond, saying, “I’m here,” and play music until you find it.
Malarie Gokey, digitaltrends.com - So if the cloud’s not private, how can your TV respond to voice commands? Simple. Use speech-recognition services that are baked right into the TV – no cloud required.
Ted Kritsonis, Digital Trends
- Of particular interest is the fact that TrulySecure is an on-device biometric identification system that does not rely on a connection to the cloud. Many users prefer this approach because they do not wish for their biometric data to be replicated and stored outside of their personal devices.
Max Maxfield, EE Times - TrulySecure works by watching and listening as you repeat a passphrase a couple times. The system tracks the way your lips move and registers the unique attributes of your voice.
Josh Ong, The Next Web - Given Qualcomm’s prominence as a mobile technology developer and the technological advancement on display in its latest offerings, the partnership reflects very well on the confidence the company has in Sensory’s technology.
Alex Perala, Mobile ID World - With touchless control, Motorola and Google upped the ante.
Eric Mack, CNET - Speech recognition company Sensory is expanding into the computer vision space with a new smartphone security client that uses both voice and face recognition to lock down your phone.
Kevin Fitchard, Gigaom - MotoX is a fantastic phone with many great features. My favorite is Touchless Control… Ask it the weather, to call a friend or do a Google search, and it'll just do it, and you never have to touch the phone.
Pete Pachal, Mashable - Sensory is continuing to exhibit leadership in handsfree control by allowing a secure multimodal biometric that doesn’t require touching devices to make them work.
Dan Miller, Opus Research - Touchless mode...is the most useful feature [on Moto X].
David Pogue, NY Times - The defining feature of the Moto X is it’s a virtual ear, always straining to hear its owner’s voice say three magic words that will rouse it to action: "Okay, Google Now."
Steven Levy, WIRED - The phone [Moto X] has all the standard features expected of today’s top smartphone, with a twist: the ability to control the phone by talking to it, without lifting a finger.
The New York Times - The voice-response system, called BlueGenie is surprisingly accurate for such a small device. It's better than the voice system in my Blackberry phone.
US News and World Report - [BlueGenie is] an intuitive voice control system...the finest voice recognition user interface we've seen.
Good Gear Guide - Sensory is trying to revolutionize voice and speech recognition by creating TrulyHandsfree, which looks to evolve our interactions with our smart devices.
Talk Android - It may not seem like much, but that little detail of getting the phone to wake up via a voice command - which Sensory calls ‘TrulyHandsfree’ - is one of the trickiest.
Mashable - With its dual biometric factors, AppLock comes closer to the security-and-convenience ideal than I've ever seen.
Mike Feibus, usatoday - Huawei also created this cool feature to help you find your phone more quickly. It’s called voice wake up, and you can ask your phone “Where are you?” or some other phrase, and your phone will respond, saying, “I’m here,” and play music until you find it.
Malarie Gokey, digitaltrends.com
What Sensory has is just so HOT, HOT, HOT. A LOT of IP. Complex algos. A lot of patents.
What are they worth today?
A better UI for China......
they deserve all the attention they are getting.
QUIK's implementation of their technology...
The first algo that starts to tax MCUs that the devices HAVE to HAVE.
QUIK has it and did it so darn well.
As a part owner of their business they did really well.
Something to be very proud of.
I am more diversified now and I just sat still. Hope the S4 is the same deal?
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