Disney patents system that turns machine sounds into words to spot faults
Disney has secured a patent for a system that listens to the sounds made by a machine or device. It uses a machine learning model to translate those sounds into descriptive words, then compares them to a known 'healthy' profile to detect if something is wrong.
In the filing’s own words
A system includes a processor and a memory storing software code and a machine learning (ML) model. The processor executes the software code to receive data including a sequence of acoustic signals or a corresponding spectrogram and an identifier of a source of the acoustic signals, translate, using the ML model, the acoustic signals or the spectrogram to one or more words each describing a respective acoustic signal pattern included in the sequence of acoustic signals or represented in the spectrogram, and obtain, using the identifier of the source, a predetermined word-based description of an acoustic signature of the source. The software code is further executed to determine, using the translated one or more words and the word-based description, whether an anomaly of the source is indicated, and output, when an anomaly is indicated, an alert.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A system comprising: a hardware processor and a system memory storing a software code and a machine learning (ML) model; the hardware processor configured to execute the software code to: receive data including a sequence of acoustic signals or a spectrogram corresponding to the sequence of acoustic signals, and an identifier of a source of the sequence of acoustic signals; translate, using the ML model, the sequence of acoustic signals or the spectrogram to one or more words each describing a respective acoustic signal pattern included in the sequence of acoustic signals or represented in the spectrogram; obtain, using the identifier of the source, a predetermined word-based description of an acoustic signature of the source; determine, using the translated one or more words and the word-based description, whether an anomaly of the source is indicated; and output, when the anomaly is indicated, an alert.
Facts
- Company
- Disney (Disney Enterprises, Inc.)
- Official title
- Machine learning model-based acoustic signal-to-text translation
- Patent number
- US12742704B2
- Application number
- 18916528
- Filed
- Oct 15, 2024
- Granted
- Sep 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 22
Classified under
G01M 99/005 Physics & computingG01H 17/00 Physics & computingG06F 40/58 Physics & computingMore from Disney in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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