Ivan Tashev - Publications
PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ARCHITECT
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Books and book chapters
- Ivan Tashev, Sound Capture and Processing: Practical Approaches, pp. 388, Wiley, July 2009
- Ivan Tashev, Signals and data processing – distance learning handbook, Technical University of Sofia Publishing House, Sofia, Bulgaria, January 1998
- Ratcho Ivanov, Ivan Tashev, and Boyko Petrov, Methods, devices and systems for data processing. Laboratory work guide, Technical University of Sofia Publishing House, Sofia, Bulgaria, January 1993
- Ratcho Ivanov, Georgi Mihov, Emil Dimitrov, Mitio Mitev, Hristo Penev, and Ivan Tashev, Digital electronic devices and systems. Laboratory work guide, Technika Publishing House, Sofia, Bulgaria, January 1988
Journal articles
- Ivan Tashev, Recent Advances in Human-Machine Interfaces for Gaming and Entertainment, in International Journal on Information Technology and Security, vol. III, no. 3, pp. 69-76, Union of Scientists in Bulgaria, September 2011
- Michael L. Seltzer, Yun-Cheng Ju, Ivan Tashev, Ye-Yi Wang, and Dong Yu, In Car Media Search, in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE SPS, June 2011
- Sven Nordholm, Thushara Abhayapala, Simon Doclo, Sharon Gannot, Patrick Naylor, and Ivan Tashev, Microphone Array Speech Processing, in EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, HINDAWI, 16 September 2010
- Dong Yu, Li Deng, Jasha Droppo, Jian Wu, Yifan Gong, and Alex Acero, Robust speech recognition using cepstral minimum-mean-square-error noise suppressor, in IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 16, no. 5, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., July 2008
- Georgi Mihov, Ivan Tashev, Venceslav Manoev, and Doycho Doychev, Digital electronic system for operative control of telephone information, in Electronics and Electrothechnics Journal, no. 3/4, pp. 25-28, Sofia, Bulgaria, April 2002
- Ivan Dotsinsky, Augusto Dos Santos, and Ivan Tashev, Artifact cancellation in motorsensory evoked potentials: two approaches using adaptive filtration and exponential approximation, in Medical And Biological Engineering And Computing Journal, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 87-92, Springer Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany, January 1999
Conference publications
2012
- Ivan J. Tashev, Audio for Kinect: pushing it to the limit (invited talk), in CREST Symposium on Human-Harmonized Information Technology, University of Kyoto, 2 April 2012
- Ivan J. Tashev, Coherence Based Double Talk Detector with Soft Decision, IEEE International Confrence on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 27 March 2012
- Ivan J. Tashev, Optimizing Kinect: Audio and Acoustics, in Inormation Technologies and Applications Workshop, University of California - San Diego, 8 February 2012
- Ivan J. Tashev, Audio for Kinect: Nearly Impossible (invited talk), in IEEE International Conference on Emerging Signal Processing Applications, IEEE SPS, 14 January 2012
2011
- George Nychis, Ranveer Chandra, Thomas Moscibroda, Ivan Tashev, and Peter Steenkiste, Reclaiming the White Spaces: Spectrum Efficient Coexistence with Primary Users, in ACM CoNEXT (selected as one of top 3 papers), ACM, December 2011
- Ivan Tashev, Coherence Based Double Talk Detector with Adaptive Threshold, in XX Scientific Conference ELECTRONICS ET2011, Technical University of Sofia Publishing House, 15 September 2011
- Hoang Do, Ivan Tashev, and Alex Acero, A New Speaker Identification Algorithm for Gaming Scenarios, in ICASSP, IEEE, May 2011
2010
- Ivan Tashev and Alex Acero, Statistical Modeling of the Speech Signal, in International Workshop on Acoustic, Echo, and Noise Control (IWAENC), Tel Aviv, Israel, 1 September 2010
- Ivan Tashev, Andrew Lovitt, and Alex Acero, Dual stage probabilistic voice activity detector, in NOISE-CON 2010 and 159th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Acoustical Society of America, 20 April 2010
- Lae-Hoon Kim, Ivan Tashev, and Alex Acero, Reverberated Speech Signal Separation Based on Regularized Subband Feedforward ICA and Instantaneous Direction of Arrival, in International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE, 16 March 2010
2009
- Ivan Tashev, Michael L. Seltzer, and Yun-Cheng Ju, Speech and sound for in-car infotainment systems, in Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI 2009), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., Essen, Germany, 22 September 2009
- Ivan Tashev, Michael Seltzer, Yun-Cheng Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, and Alex Acero, Commute UX: Voice Enabled In-car Infotainment System, in Mobile HCI '09: Workshop on Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments (SiMPE), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., Bonn, Germany, 15 September 2009
- Yun-Cheng Ju, Michael Seltzer, and Ivan Tashev, Improving Perceived Accuracy for In-Car Media Search, International Speech Communication Association, September 2009
- Ivan Tashev, Andrew Lovitt, and Alex Acero, Unified Framework for Single Channel Speech Enhancement, in 2009 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, IEEE, Victoria B.C., Canada, 24 August 2009
- Young-In Song, Ye-Yi Wang, Yun-Cheng Ju, Mike Seltzer, Ivan Tashev, and Alex Acero, Voice Search of Structured Media Data, in International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electornic Engineers, Inc., Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009
2008
- Ivan Tashev and Michael Seltzer, Data Driven Beamformer Design for Binaural Headset, in Proceedings of International Workshop on Acoustic, Echo and Noise Control IWAENC 2008, Seattle, USA, September 2008
- Michael Seltzer and Ivan Tashev, A Log-MMSE Adaptive Filter Using a non-Linear Spatial Filter, in Proceedings of International Workshop on Acoustic, Echo and Noise Control IWAENC 2008, Seattle, USA, September 2008
- Ivan Tashev, Slavy Mihov, Tyler Gleghorn, and Alex Acero, Sound Capture System and Spatial Filter for Small Devices, in Proceedings of Interspeech 2008, International Speech Communication Association, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008
- Slavy Mihov, Tyler Gleghorn, and Ivan Tashev, Enhanced Sound Capture System for Small Devices, in Proceedings of XLIII International Scientific Conference on Information, Communication, and Energy Systems and Technologies ICEST 2008, Nis, Serbia, June 2008
- Nilesh Madhu, Ivan Tashev, and Alex Acero, An EM-based Probabilistic Approach for Acoustic Echo Suppression, in Proceedings of International Conference on Audio, Speech and Signal Processing ICASSP 2008, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Las Vegas, USA, April 2008
- Luis Buera, Jasha Droppo, and Alex Acero, Speech Enhancement using a Pitch Predictive Model, in Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., April 2008
- Ivan Tashev, Jasha Droppo, Michael Seltzer, and Alex Acero, Robust Design of Wideband Loudspeaker Arrays, in Proc. of International Conference on Audio, Speech and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Las Vegas, USA, April 2008
2007
- Ivan Tashev, Michael Seltzer, Y. C. Ju, Dong Yu, and Alex Acero, Commute UX: Telephone Dialog System for Location-based Services, in Proceedings of SIGdial Workshop on Disclosure and Dialogue 2007, Antwerp, Belgium, September 2007
- Michael Seltzer, Y. C. Ju, Ivan Tashev, and Alex Acero, Robust Location Understanding in Spoken Dialog Systems Using Intersections, in Proceedings of Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007
- Michael Seltzer, Ivan Tashev, and Alex Acero, Microphone Array Post-Filter Using Incremental Bayes Learning to Track the Spatial Distribution of Speech and Noise, in Proceedings of International Conference on Audio, Speech and Signal Processing ICASSP 2007, Honolulu, USA, April 2007
- Ivan Tashev and Henrique Malvar, Stationary-Tones Interference Cancellation Using Adaptive Tracking, in International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Honolulu, USA, April 2007
- Byung-Jun Yoon, Ivan Tashev, and Alex Acero, Robust Adaptive Beamforming Algorithm Using Instantaneous Direction of Arrival with Enhanced Noise Suppression Capability, in Proceedings of International Conference on Audio, Speech and Signal Processing ICASSP 2007, Honolulu, USA, April 2007
2006
- Ivan Tashev and Alex Acero, Microphone Array Post-Processor Using Instantaneous Direction of Arrival, in Proceedings of International Workshop on Acoustic, Echo and Noise Control IWAENC 2006, Paris, France, September 2006
- Yong Rui, Eric Rudolph, Li-wei He, Rico Malvar, Michael Cohen, and Ivan Tashev, PING: A Group-to-Individual Distributed Meeting System, in Proceedings of International Conference Multimedia and Expo, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Toronto, Canada, July 2006
- Ivan Tashev, Jasha Droppo, and Alex Acero, Suppression Rule for Speech Recognition Friendly Noise Suppressors, in Proceedings of Eight International Conference Digital Signal Processing and Applications DSPA’06, Moscow, Russia, March 2006
2005
- Zicheng Liu, Michael Seltzer, Alex Acero, Ivan Tashev, Zhengyou Zhang, and Mike Sinclair, A Compact Multi-Sensor Headset for Hands-Free Communication, in Proceedings of Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, New Paltz, USA, October 2005
- Ivan Tashev, Beamformer Sensitivity to Microphone Manufacturing Tolerances, in Proceedings of Nineteenth International Conference Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research SAER 2005, St. Konstantin Resort, Bulgaria, September 2005
- Ivan Tashev, Michael Seltzer, and Alex Acero, Microphone Array for Headset with Spatial Noise Suppressor, in Proceedings of Ninth International Workshop on Acoustic, Echo and Noise Control IWAENC 2005, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, September 2005
- Ivan Tashev and Daniel Allred, Reverberation reduction for improved speech recognition, in Proceedings of Hands-Free Communication and Microphone Arrays, Piscataway, USA, March 2005
- Ivan Tashev and Henrique Malvar, A New Beamformer Design Algorithm for Microphone Arrays, in International Conference of Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Philadelphia, USA, March 2005
2004
- Ivan Tashev, Gain Self-Calibration Procedure for Microphone Arrays, in Proceedings of International Conference for Multimedia and Expo ICME 2004, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2004
2003
- Ivan Tashev, Improving Meetings with Microphone Array Algorithms, in Machine Learning Meets the User Interface Workshop, Neural Information Processing Systems NIPS 2003, Whistler, Canada, December 2003
2002
- Ross Cutler, Yong Rui, Anoop Gupta, JJ Cadiz, Ivan Tashev, Li-wei He, Alex Colburn, Zhengyou Zhang, Zicheng Liu, and Steve Silverberg, Distributed Meetings: A Meeting Capture and Broadcasting System, in Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2002, Nice, France, December 2002
2001
- Emil Dimitrov, Georgi Mihov, Ivan Tashev, and Mitio Mitev, Local Area Network for Industrial Controllers, in Proceedings of International Scientific Conference ENERGY AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES, Bitola, Macedonia, June 2001
1997
- Georgi Mihov and Ivan Tashev, Hardware Realization of Common Memory Sharing in Multiprocessor System, in Proceedings of 11th International Conference "Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research", Varna, Bulgaria, September 1997
- Augusto Dos Santos, Ivan Tashev, and Ivan Dotsinsky, Artifact Suppression in Nerve Evoked Signals Using Adaptive Filtering, in Proceedings of National Scientific Conference "Electronics '97", Sozopol, Bulgaria, September 1997
- Ivan Tashev and Georgi Mihov, An Algorithm for Common Memory Sharing in Multiprocessor Systems, in Proceedings of 11th International Conference "Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research", Varna, Bulgaria, September 1997
1996
- Ivan Tashev, Passive filters design using optimization methods, in Proceedings of Tenth International Conference "Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research", Varna, Bulgaria, October 1996
- Georgi Mihov and Ivan Tashev, Industrial Controller for Discrete Manufacturing, in Proceedings of National Scientific Conference "Electronics '96", Sozopol, Bulgaria, September 1996
- Ivan Tashev and Ivo Iliev, An intelligent system for equilibrium examinations, in Proceedings of Second International Symposium “INTELS’96”, Sankt Petersburg, Russia, July 1996
1995
- Ivan Tashev, Ivo Iliev, and Radosveta Tasheva, System for registration of the brain bioelectric activity of small laboratory animals, in Proceedings of Ninth International Conference "Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research", Varna, Bulgaria, October 1995
1994
- Ivan Tashev and Mitio Mitev, Microwave meter of Distance with Synchronized ADC - Errors and Problems, in Proceedings of Eight International Conference "Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research", Varna, Bulgaria, October 1994
1993
- Ivan Tashev, Mitio Mitev, and Todor Peev, Control system of the Universal satellite tracking and laser ranging system ULIS-M, in Proceedings of International conference DECSYM’93 of DECUS At-Large and Seventh International Conference "Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research", Varna, Bulgaria, October 1993
- Ivan Tashev and Radosveta Tasheva, Automatic estimation the range of object during identification in time domain, in Proceedings of Proceedings of National conference “Automatica ’93”, Sofia, Bulgaria, October 1993
- Radosveta Tasheva and Ivan Tashev, One criterion for regulator design with optimization methods, in International conference DECSYM’93 of DECUS At-Large and Seventh International Conference "Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research", Varna, Bulgaria, October 1993
- Georgi Mihov and Ivan Tashev, Voice recording system - hardware architecture, in Proceedings of National conference "Electronics '93", Sozopol, Bulgaria, September 1993
- Mitio Mitev, Ivan Tashev, and Hristo Troianski, Microwave level gauge, in Proceedings of National conference "Electronics '93", Sozopol, Bulgaria, September 1993
- Ivan Tashev and Georgi Mihov, Voice recording system - software architecture, in Proceedings of National conference "Electronics '93", Sozopol, Bulgaria, September 1993
1992
- Ivan Tashev and Mitio Mitev, Phone calls information system, in Proceedings of Sixth International Conference "Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research" and DECUS NUG Seminar, Varna, Bulgaria, October 1992
- Ivan Tashev, Design of voltage-frequency converters for maximum wide spectrum of the input signal, in Proceedings of Sixth International Conference "Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research" and DECUS NUG Seminar, Varna, Bulgaria, October 1992
1991
- Ivan Tashev, Movement corrections in Universal satellite tracking and laser ranging system ULIS-M, in Proceedings of Fifth International Conference "Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research", Varna, Bulgaria, September 1991
- Todor Peev, Mitio Mitev, Ivan Tashev, and Ratcho Ivanov, Multipurpose station for astrophysics research - control system, in Proceedings of National conference "Electronics '90", Duni, Bulgaria, September 1991
1990
- Ivan Tashev, Trip computer software for cars, in Proceedings of Fourth International Conference "Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research", Varna, Bulgaria, October 1990
- Alexander Stojkov, Todor Peev, Ivan Tashev, and Mitio Mitev, Universal satellite tracking and laser ranging system ULIS-630 - state and future, in Proceedings of International Scientific Seminar "Space Physics" - "Use of Satellite Laser Ranging for Geodesy" section, Riga, Latvia, May 1990
1989
- Ivan Tashev, Mitio Mitev, and Todor Peev, Improving the accuracy characteristics of a laser distance meter using better mathematical models, in Proceedings of International Scientific Conference "Modern Problems in Informatics, Control, Radioelectronics and Laser Engineering", Moscow, Russia, November 1989
- Ivan Tashev and Darina Mihova, Movement control system using Terminal control algorithms, in Proceedings of Third International Conference "Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research", Varna, Bulgaria, October 1989
1988
- Todor Peev, Mitio Mitev, and Ivan Tashev, Microprocessor controlled subnanosecond time interval meter, in Proceedings of XIII International Symposium on Nuclear Electronics, Varna, Bulgaria, September 1988
- Georgi Mihov, Ivan Tashev, and Ratcho Ivanov, On-board microcomputer for robocars, in Proceedings of XXIII scientific conference "Day of the radio '88", Sofia, Bulgaria, May 1988
- Ratcho Ivanov, Mitio Mitev, and Ivan Tashev, Improvement of the control system of the Universal satellite tracking and laser ranging system ULIS-630, in Proceedings of XXIII scientific conference "Day of the radio '88", Sofia, Bulgaria, May 1988
1987
- Ratcho Ivanov and Ivan Tashev, Optimization of the mathematical model parameters of a complex sensor, in Proceedings of XXII scientific conference "Day of the radio '87", Sofia, Bulgaria, May 1987
1986
- Ratcho Ivanov, Mitio Mitev, Ivan Tashev, Todor Peev, Veselin Tashev, and Konstantin Dimov, Universal satellite tracking and laser ranging system ULIS-630 – control system, in Proceedings of International Conference on Outlooks of the Use of Laser Ranging Stations of Second and Third Generation under the "Intercosmos" Program, Sofia, Bulgaria, May 1986
1985
- Ratcho Ivanov, Dimitar Alexiev, and Ivan Tashev, Information system for data collection and processing from textile looms, in Proceedings of National scientific conference with international participation "Modern capability of electronics and computer science for automation in textile, hosiery and sewing industry", Kazanlak, Bulgaria, November 1985
1984
- Ratcho Ivanov, Mitio Mitev, and Ivan Tashev, Multipurpose floppy disk controller – hardware and software, in Proceedings of XIX scientific conference "Day of the radio '84", Sofia, Bulgaria, May 1984
U.S. Patents and patent applications
- US Pat. 8107642 "Spatial noise suppression for a microphone array". Inventors: Alejandro Acero, Ivan Tashev, Michael Seltzer. Filling date: May 12, 2009. Issue date: January 31, 2012.
- US Pat. 8090532 "Pedestrian route production". Inventors: Ivan Tashev, Jeffrey Couckuyt, Neil Black, John Krumm, Ruston Panabaker, Michael Seltzer. Filling date: December 14, 2007. Issue date: January 3, 2012.
- US Pat. 8065078 "Conveying locations in spoken dialog systems". Inventors: Ivan Tashev, Michael Seltzer, Yun-Cheng Ju, Alex Acero. Filling date: August 10, 2007. Issue date: November 22, 2011.
- US Pat. 8060297 "Route transfer between devices". Inventors: Jeffrey Couckuyt, Neil Black, John Krumm, Ruston Panabaker, Ivan Tashev, Michael Seltzer. Filling date: December 14, 2007. Issue date: November 15, 2011.
- US Pat. 8005238 "Robust adaptive beamforming with enhanced noise suppression". Inventors: Ivan Tashev, Alejandro Acero, Byung-Jun Yoon. Filling date: March 22, 2007. Issue date: August 23, 2011.
- US Pat. 8005237 "Sensor array beamformer post-processor". Inventors: Ivan Tashev, Alejandro Acero. Filling date: May 17, 2007. Issue date: August 23, 2011.
- US Pat. 7983913 "Understanding spoken location information based on intersections". Inventors: Michael Seltzer, Yun-Cheng Ju, Ivan Tashev. Filling date: July 31, 2007. Issue date: July 19. 2011.
- US Pat. 7852369 "Integrated design for omni-directional camera and microphone array". Inventors: Ross Cutler, Ivan Tashev, Yong Rui, Anoop Gupta. Filling date: June 27, 2002. Issue date: December 14, 2010.
- US Pat. 7844059 "Dereverberation of multi-channel audio streams". Inventors: Ivan Tashev, Daniel Allred. Filling date: June 24, 2005. Issue date: November 30, 2010.
- US Pat. 7752040 "Stationary-tines interference cancellation". Inventors Henrique Malvar, Ivan Tashev. Filling date: March 28, 2007. Issue date: July 6, 2010.
- US Pat. 7634533 "Systems and methods for real-time audio-visual communication and data collaboration in a network conference environment". Inventors: Eric Rudolph, Young Rui, Henrique Malvar, Li-Wei He, Michael Cohen, Ivan Tashev. Filling date: April 30, 2004. Issue date: December 15, 2009.
- US Pat. 7626889 "Sensor array post-filter for tracking spatial distributions of signals and noise". Inventors: Michael Seltzer, Ivan Tashev. Filling date: May 06, 2007. Issue date: December 1, 2009.
- US Pat. 7565288 "Spatial noise suppression for a microphone array". Inventors: Alex Acero, Ivan Tashev, Michael Seltzer. Filling date: Dec. 22, 2005. Issue date: July 21, 2009.
- US Pat. 7515721 "Self-descriptive microphone array". Inventors: Ivan Tashev, Ross Cutler, Henrique Malvar, Daniel Sisolak, John Unverferth. Filling date: Feb. 09, 2004. Issue date: Apr. 7, 2009.
- US Pat. 7487056 "Precision of localization estimates". Inventor: Ivan Tashev. Filling date: Aug. 22, 2005. Issue date: Feb. 3, 2009.
- US Pat. 7428309 "Analog preamplifier measurement for a microphone array". Inventors: Ivan Tashev, Henrique Malvar. Filling date: Feb. 04, 2004. Issue date: Aug. 04, 2005.
- US Pat. 7415117 "System and method for beamforming using a microphone array". Inventors: Ivan Tashev, Henrique Malvar. Filling date: Mar. 02, 2004. Issue date: Sep. 08, 2005.
- US Pat. 7394907 "System and process for sound source localization using microphone array beamsteering". Inventor: Ivan Tashev. Filling date: Jun. 16, 2003. Issue date: Dec. 16, 2004.
- US Pat. 7203323 "System and process for calibrating a microphone array". Inventor: Ivan Tashev. Filing date: Jul 25, 2003. Issue date: Apr 10, 2007.
- US Pat. 6970796 "System and method for improving the precision of localization estimates". Inventor: Ivan Tashev. Filing date: Mar 1, 2004. Issue date: Nov 29, 2005.
- US Pat. App. 20110307251 "Sound Source Separation Using Spatial Filtering and Regularization Phases". Inventors: Ivan Tashev, Lae-Hoon Kim, Alejandro Acero, Jason Flacks. Filling date December 15 20122.
- US Pat. App. 20110238414 "Telephony Service Interaction Management". Inventors: Yun-Cheng Ju, Stefanie Tomko, Wei-Ting Frank Liu, Ivan Tashev. Filling date: September 29, 2011.
- US Pat. App. 20110178798 "Adaptive Ambient Sound Suppression and Speech Tracking". Inventors: Jason Flacks, Ivan Tashev, Duncan McKay, Xudong Ni, Robert Heitkamp, Wei Gup, John Tardif, Leo Shing, Michael Baseflug. Filling date: Julay 21, 2011.
- US Pat. App. 20100177908 "Adaptive Beamformer Using a Log domain Optimization Criterion". Inventors: Michael Seltzer, Ivan Tashev. Filling date: July 15, 2010.
- US Pat. App. 20090323924 "Acoustic Echo Suppression". Inventors: Ivan Tashev, Alejandro Acero, Nilesh Madhu. Filling date: December 31, 2009.
- US Pat. App. 20090316929 "Sound Capture System for Device with Two Microphones". Inventors: Ivan Tashev, Tyler Gleghorn, Slavi Mihov. Filling date: December 24, 2009.
- US Pat. App. 20090316923 "Multichannel Acoustic Echo Reduction". Inventors: Ivan Tashev, Alejandro Acero, Nilesh Madhu. Filling date: December 24, 2009.
- US Pat. App. 20090304211 "Loudspeaker Array Design". Inventors: Ivan Tashev, James Droppo, Michael Seltzer, Alex Acero. Filling date: Dec. 10, 2009.
US Pat. App. 20090210302 "Route Reward Augmentation". Inventors: Ivan Tashev, Jeffrey Couckuyt, John Krumm, Ruston Panabaker, Michael Seltzer, Neil Black. Filling date: Aug. 20, 2009. - US Pat. App. 20090210302 "Route Reward Augmentation". Inventors: Ivan Tashev, , Jeffrey Couckuyt, John Krumm, Ruston Panabaker, Michael Seltzer, Neil Black. Filling date: Aug. 20, 2009.
- US Pat. App. 20090210276 "Ad-hoc and Opportunistic Transportation Services". Inventors: John Krumm, Eric Horvitz, Ruston Panabaker, Michael Seltzer, Neil Black, Jeffrey Couckuyt, Ivan Tashev. Filling date: Aug. 20, 2009.
- US Pat. App. 20090210242 "Load Balance Payment". Inventors: Michael Seltzer, Neil Black, Jeffrey Couckuyt, Ivan Tashev, John Krumm, Ruston Panabaker. Filling date: Aug. 20, 2009.
- US Pat App. 20090210242 "Load Balance Payment". Inventors: Neil Black, Jeffrey Couckuyt, Ivan Tashev, John Krumm, Ruston Panabaker, Michael Seltzer. Filling date: Aug. 20, 2009.
- US Pat. App. 20090210143 "Route-based Activity Planner". Inventors: Michael Seltzer, Neil Black, Jeffrey Couckuyt, Ivan Tashev, John Krumm, Ruston Panabaker. Filling date: Aug. 20, 2009.
- US Pat. App. 20090210142 "Safe Route Configuration". Inventors: Jeffrey Couckuyt, Ivan Tashev, Neil Black, John Krumm, Ruston Panabaker, Michael Seltzer. Filling date: Aug. 20, 2009.
- US Pat. App. 20090157540 "Destination Auctioned Trough Business of Interest". Inventors: Neil Black, Ruston Panabaker, John Krumm, Jeffrey Couckuyt, Ivan Tashev, Michael Seltzer. Filling date: June 18, 2009.
- US Pat. App. 20090157499 "Automatic Splices for Targeted Advertisements". Inventors: Ruston Panabaker, John Krumm, Jeffrey Couckuyt, Ivan Tashev, Michael Seltzer, Neil Black. Filling date: June 18, 2009.
- US Pat. App. 20090157498 "Generational Intelligent Navigation Synchronization or Update". Inventors: Michael Seltzer, John Krumm, Jeffrey Couckuyt, Ivan Tashev, Ruston Panabaker, Neil Black. Filling date: June 18, 2009.
- US Pat. App. 20090157312 "Social Network Based Routes". Inventors: Neil Black, John Krumm, Ruston Panabaker, Jeffrey Couckuyt, Ivan Tashev, Michael Seltzer. Filling date: June 18, 2009.
- US Pat. App. 20090157311 "Federated Route Production". Inventors: Michael Seltzer, John Krumm, Jeffrey Couckuyt, Ivan Tashev, Ruston Panabaker, Neil Black. Filling date: June 18, 2009.
- US Pat. App. 20090157307 "Additional Content Based on Intended Travel Destination". Inventors: John Krumm, Ruston Panabaker, Jeffrey Couckuyt, Ivan Tashev, Michael Seltzer, Neil Black. Filling date: June 18, 2009.
- US Pat. App. 20090043497 "Personal Points of Interests in Location-Based Applications". Inventors: Yun-Cheng Ju, Michael Seltzer, Ivan Tashev. Filling date: Sep. 24, 2007.
- US Pat. App. 20080114593 "Noise suppressor for speech recognition". Inventors: Ivan Tashev, Alex Acero, James Droppo. Filling date: Nov. 15, 2006.
- US Pat. App. 20080097688 "Route generation based upon activity criteria". Inventors: Ivan Tashev, Jeffrey Couckuyt, Neil Black, John Krumm, Ruston Panabaker, Michael Seltzer. Filling date: Dec. 14, 2007.
- US Pat. App. 20080091341 "Route monetization". Inventors: Ruston Panabaker, John Krumm, Jeffrey Couckuyt, Ivan Tashev, Michael Seltzer, Neil Black. Filling date: Dec. 14, 2007.
