Patents by Inventor KUO-WEI KAO

KUO-WEI KAO has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20200169803
    Abstract: A method of controlling a headset includes: obtaining a first sound received by a first microphone and obtaining a second sound received by a second microphone; via a control module, determining if a sound energy intensity difference between the first sound and the second sound is greater than an energy threshold; executing a command according to the first sound or the second sound, and a requirement of executing the command includes that the sound energy intensity difference between the first sound and the second sound is greater than the energy threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Kuo-Wei KAO, Po-Jui WU, Kai-Yuan HSIAO, Kuo-Ping YANG
  • Publication number: 20200145748
    Abstract: A method of decreasing the effect of an interference sound is disclosed and includes the following the steps: receiving an input sound by a first microphone and a second microphone to respectively acquire a first sound signal and a second sound signal; determining and acquiring a plurality of sound source position data according to a phase difference between a plurality of sound frames of at least one position low-frequency sound signal of the first sound signal and a plurality of sound frames of at least one position low-frequency sound signal of the second sound signal; determining a probability that a main direction of the input sound is in accordance with a target orientation according to each of the sound source position data; and adjusting, according to the probability, the sound volume of low-frequency sound signals of the first sound signal and the second sound signal being outputted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Kuo-Wei KAO, Yu-Chieh HUANG, Po-Jui WU, Kuo-Ping YANG
  • Patent number: 10607591
    Abstract: A sound playback device and a method for masking interference sound through a noise masking signal thereof are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: playing an audio signal as a noise masking signal; receiving an ambient sound; analyzing whether the ambient sound has an interference sound in N different frequency bands; if so, finding at least one interference sound frequency band and a time period, and the interference sound conforms to the condition that an instant sound entropy value is greater than a dynamic sound average entropy value, wherein the instant sound entropy value is the calculated sound entropy value in a current sampling time; the dynamic sound average entropy value is an average entropy value of the sum of the previous instant sound entropy values; and increasing an energy of the noise masking signal in the interference sound frequency band and the time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: UNLIMITER MFA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuo-Wei Kao, Cheng-Te Wang, Yu-Chieh Huang, Wei-Lin Chang, I-Ting Lee, Kuo-Ping Yang
  • Publication number: 20200098382
    Abstract: A method for eliminating sound is disclosed. The method is applied to an electronic device capable of connecting with a sound playback device and includes a microphone. The method includes the following steps of: receiving a first input sound via the microphone to acquire a first input sound signal; recording the first input sound signal and transmitting the first input sound signal to the sound playback device; receiving a second input sound from the sound playback device to acquire a second input sound signal, wherein the second input sound is generated by the sound playback device according to the first input sound signal; determining a difference in generation times between the first input sound signal and the second input sound signal; and filtering the second input sound signal according to the difference in generation times and the first input sound signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Kuo-Wei KAO, Cheng-Te WANG, Po-Jui WU, Jian-Ying LI, Kuo-Ping YANG
  • Publication number: 20200007994
    Abstract: A method of reducing a noise generated by touching a hearing aid includes: obtaining a left ear sound received by a left ear hearing aid and a right ear sound received by a right ear hearing aid; determining if a sound energy intensity difference between the left ear sound and the right ear sound is greater than an energy threshold; if so, determining a larger energy intensity between the left ear sound and the right ear sound; if the energy intensity of the left ear sound is larger, replacing the left ear sound with the right ear sound such that the left and right ear hearing aids both output the right ear sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Kuo-Wei KAO, Kuan-Li CHAO, Po-Jui WU, Jian-Ying LI, Cheng-Te WANG, Kuo-Ping YANG
  • Publication number: 20140021801
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a proximity sensing structure, which is disposed in an article for detecting whether an object approaches the article. The article can be an electronic device. The proximity sensing structure comprises a first sensing electrode, a wire, a second sensing electrode, and a proximity sensor. Both ends of the wire are coupled electrically to the first and second sensing electrodes, respectively. The proximity sensor is coupled electrically to the wire, the first sensing electrode, and the second sensing electrode, and detects whether the object approaches the article according to an electrical status of the wire, the first sensing electrode, and the second sensing electrode. Thereby, the proximity sensing structure according to the present invention uses the wire to increase the sensing area. In addition, the wire design makes the disposal of the proximity sensing structure more flexible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: WISTRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: KUO-WEI KAO, CHUNG-WEN CHEN