Patents by Inventor Oliver Hautier

Oliver Hautier 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).

  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEPARATION OF A USER'S VOICE FROM AMBIENT SOUND
    Publication number: 20070160243
    Abstract: A system for separation of a user's voice from ambient sound, comprising a device to be worn at the user's ear or at least partly in the user's ear canal comprising a first microphone oriented acoustically outwardly towards the environment and a second microphone oriented acoustically inwardly towards the user's ear canal, and an audio signal processing unit for processing audio signals from the first and second microphone by a blind source separation algorithm adapted to separate the user's voice from ambient sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: PHONAK AG
    Inventors: Evert Dijkstra, Oliver Hautier, Nicolas Destrez, Rainer Platz