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PLANTRONICS, INC.
PLANTRONICS, INC. exhibits a surprising shift in its patent strategy, with significant declines across nearly all categories in 2024 compared to 2023, including a -95.7% YoY drop in Loudspeakers & Microphones (23.3% of portfolio) and a -100.0% YoY decline in Wireless Networks and Machine Learning & AI, indicating a substantial re-evaluation or divestment of R&D efforts in these areas, especially given that 2024 data is partial so far.
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Yearly patent publications since 2023
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103 US filings (since 2023) · 11 categories · 22 themes
Methods and systems for improving the quality of video streams, generating intermediate frames, or continuously locating and following objects within a sequence of images, even under occlusion.
Methods and apparatus for improving the visual fidelity, resolution, or compression efficiency of video signals, often through advanced processing, up-scaling, or neural network-based filters.
Integration of advanced functionalities into headphones, earphones, or hearing aids, such as multi-device connectivity, health monitoring sensors, custom fitting mechanisms, and intelligent audio switching or control.
Techniques for enhancing, encoding, decoding, or separating speech and audio signals, often involving multi-microphone arrays, acoustic echo cancellation, beamforming, or advanced audio compression for improved clarity and quality.
Technologies enabling synchronous, interactive multimedia communication sessions, including user interfaces, content sharing, and underlying session management for multiple participants.
Signal processing techniques for multi-microphone systems to enhance desired audio signals and suppress noise or interference by spatially filtering sound sources, improving signal-to-noise ratio and channel separation.
Systems that combine data from multiple camera sensors or capture multiple images from different perspectives or qualities, often involving image processing techniques like synthesis to create enhanced or comprehensive views.
Design and functionality of external components, peripherals, and mounting solutions that enhance, protect, or integrate with mobile electronic devices, such as modular cases, docking stations, and specialized mounts.
Application of neural networks and AI/ML models within hearing devices or audio systems to enhance, filter, or process audio signals for improved user experience, such as speech understanding or noise reduction.
Techniques for improving the perceived quality, synchronization, and moderation of audio and voice streams, often involving codec management, transcoding, and content analysis.
Methods and apparatus for detecting objects and determining their three-dimensional position and orientation (pose) using imagery or point cloud data, often for navigation, surveying, or environmental understanding.
Design and manufacturing techniques for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) microphones, focusing on physical components like diaphragms, movable masses, and housing for improved performance, heat management, or fluid interaction.
Designing user interfaces and interaction methods specifically for mobile or wearable devices, enabling control of external systems, monitoring user states, or facilitating real-world transactions.
Techniques for combining data from disparate sensor types (e.g., cameras, radar, mobile device signals) to achieve a more robust and comprehensive understanding of an environment or subject, often leveraging machine learning for interpretation and correlation.
Systems and methods for establishing, maintaining, modifying, and terminating communication sessions across various network architectures, including service discovery, resource allocation, and resilience mechanisms.
Systems and methods for automatically managing telephone calls, including intelligent routing based on various criteria, scheduling callbacks, and processing emergency calls.
Methods and systems for identifying synthetic or manipulated speech (deepfake audio) using forensic analysis of audio features, such as breath patterns, vocoder signatures, or machine learning models to determine authenticity.
Techniques and hardware architectures for optimizing the radio frequency (RF) front-end, antenna systems, and beamforming strategies in wireless networks to improve signal quality, capacity, and interference mitigation.
Techniques for rendering, interacting with, and managing content within augmented or virtual reality environments, including spatial tracking, gaze interaction, and dynamic multi-application display management.
Specialized hardware, architectural designs, and computational methods to improve the speed, efficiency, and security of artificial intelligence and machine learning model execution, particularly for inference and data processing.
Methods for training machine learning models across multiple decentralized devices or servers while keeping data localized, often involving aggregation of model parameters and secure communication.
Developing and applying machine learning algorithms that leverage quantum computing principles, such as quantum circuits or autoencoders, for tasks like simulation or data processing.
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