Abstract: Technology described in this document can be embodied in an earpiece of an active noise reduction (ANR) device. The earpiece includes a plurality of microphones, wherein each of the plurality of microphones is usable for capturing ambient audio to generate input signals for both an ANR mode of operation and a hear-through mode of operation of the ANR device. The earpiece further includes a controller configured to: process a first subset of microphones from the plurality of microphones to generate input signals for the ANR mode of operation and process a second subset of microphones from the plurality of microphones to generate input signals for the hear-through mode of operation. The second subset of microphones excludes a first microphone from the plurality of microphones located closest to a noise pathway of the earpiece.

Abstract: Provided is a meeting speaker box for a mobile terminal. One end of a flip assembly is connected to a casing. A connector is disposed at another end of the flip assembly, and is configured to be plugged in and communicatively connected to the mobile terminal. The flip assembly is configured to enable the casing to rotate between a first position where the casing fits the screen of the mobile terminal and a second position where the casing fits the back of the mobile terminal. A first speaker is disposed in the casing and is configured to amplify the sound of the mobile terminal. A detection assembly is disposed in the casing and is configured to detect the position of the casing. A control unit is communicatively connected to the detection assembly and the first speaker.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a speaker device. The speaker device may include an ear hook, a core housing for accommodating an earphone core, and a circuit housing for accommodating a control circuit or a battery. The ear hook may include a first plug end and a second plug end. The ear hook may be surrounded by a protective sleeve which may be made of an elastic waterproof material. The ear hook may be elastic, and a position of the core housing relative to the ear hook may be changed according to an elastic deformation of the ear hook, thereby the core housing may fit a user in front of or behind an ear of the user. The circuit housing may be fixed to the second plug end. The control circuit or the battery may drive the earphone core to vibrate to generate a sound.

Abstract: A method is performed by an endpoint device that includes a loudspeaker, a microphone, and a controller. The method includes: by the loudspeaker, playing a loudspeaker signal into a space; by the microphone, detecting audio in the space, to produce a feedback audio signal; estimating acoustic parameters for the space including a reverberation time and an ambient noise power based on the feedback audio signal and the loudspeaker signal; receiving an incoming audio signal that is not detected by the microphone; using the acoustic parameters, generating an acoustic watermark signal that, when played into the space through the loudspeaker, would be inaudible to a listener; adding the acoustic watermark signal to the incoming audio signal to produce a watermarked audio signal; and playing the watermarked audio signal into the space through the loudspeaker.

Abstract: An integrated audio-visual system is disclosed for delivering an event to one or more spectators. The integrated audio-visual system includes one or more loudspeakers that are positioned behind one or more visual displays to be effectively behind the one or more visual displays to be shielded from the field of view of the one or more spectators. The one or more visual displays are specially designed and manufactured to allow sound associated with the event to propagate from the one or more loudspeakers with minimal acoustical distortion and/or minimum acoustical vibration while presenting a visual representation of the event to the one or more spectators. Moreover, the one or more loudspeakers and the one or more visual displays are situated to be a predetermined displacement from each other to further minimize acoustical distortion.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for detecting presence of an object in proximity to a playback device and responsively performing one or more operations. In an example implementation, a playback device detects, via a proximity detector of the playback device, presence of an object in proximity to the playback device. In response to detecting the presence of the object, the playback device performs one or more operations.

Abstract: A 3D neural radiance field (NeRF) is used to generate an impulse response (IR) characterization, which can then be input to a convolutional reverberation engine to create an audio experience that reflects the in-game world on a 2.0 stereo speaker system. The NeRF recreates a background geometry and the impulse response of a virtual 3D space generated using NeRF is input to the convolutional reverberation engine to transform game sounds/music to appear as though they are occurring inside the 3D space of the game. The same may be done for the player's real-world space in which the virtual IR and real IR are blended together in real-time, and the real-life player tracked as he moves around the room to create audio as it would sound were the player moving through the virtual space while adjusting for the acoustics of the real space.

Abstract: A multimedia device having a housing that includes a display screen, two tweeters, two mid-range drivers, and two woofers, which are integrated into the housing. Both woofers are disposed at a first distance from a center vertical axis of the housing in opposite horizontal directions, both tweeters are disposed at a second distance from the center vertical axis in the opposite horizontal directions, and both mid-range drivers are disposed at a third distance from the center vertical axis in opposite horizontal directions. In addition, both the first and second distances are greater than the third distance.

Abstract: Wireless audio systems and methods for wirelessly communicating audio information are provided. The wireless audio system includes a first wireless transceiver and a second wireless transceiver. The first wireless transceiver includes a first communication module, a first codec, and a second communication module. The first communication module is configured to receive, from an audio source, first audio information. The first codec includes a first decoder configured to obtain second audio information by decoding the first audio information, and a first encoder configured to obtain third audio information by encoding the second audio information. The second communication module is configured to send the third audio information out. The second wireless transceiver includes a third communication module configured to receive the third audio information from the first wireless transceiver.

Abstract: An apparatus for combining three or more audio signals is described. The apparatus includes a segmentation block for segmenting each audio signal into segments, a weight determination block, which is configured to determine a weight value for each of the temporally weighted audio signal segments, a combination block for combining the temporally weighted audio signal segments of each audio signal, and a synthesis block for generating an output audio signal. A method for combining three or more audio signals and a computer program product are also described.

Abstract: Methods and systems for airport noise management, which are based on integrating virtual noise monitoring with actual noise recordings via mobile application system, are disclosed. An example method of improving airport noise management includes receiving information associated with a flight segment, generating a virtual noise map for the flight segment that includes a virtual noise metric generated for each of a multiple user-defined locations that span a projection of the flight path on the Earth. The method includes receiving, from a mobile application at a user location, an audio recording that was recorded in a recording interval, generating, based on the virtual noise map for the flight segment, a virtual noise metric associated with the user location, and determining a validity of the audio recording by comparing the virtual noise metric associated with the user location to a recorded noise metric that is calculated based on the audio recording.

Abstract: A vehicle system includes a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon. The instructions, upon execution by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to store a plurality of passenger profiles regarding passengers of a vehicle, acquire passenger identifying data regarding a present passenger in the vehicle, identify a respective passenger profile associated with the present passenger from the plurality of passenger profiles based on the passenger identifying data, and control a speaker positioned within the vehicle based at least in part on a pre-stored physical characteristic included with the respective passenger profile to emit noise-canceling sound waves to generate a noise suppression zone to suppress sound waves perceived by the present passenger. Each of the plurality of passenger profiles includes the pre-stored physical characteristic of a respective passenger associated therewith.

Abstract: An example method of operation may include applying a set of initial power and gain parameters for a speaker, playing a stimulus signal via the speaker, determining a sound level at a microphone location and a sound level at a predefined distance from the speakers, determining a gain at the microphone location based on a difference of the sound level at the microphone location and the sound level at the predefined distance from the speaker, and applying the gain to the speaker output.

Abstract: An example method of operation may include receiving audio data at one or more microphones disposed in a corresponding plurality of network devices, identifying amplitude values of the audio data at each of the plurality of network devices, and each of the amplitude values identified at each of the plurality of network devices are different from each other of the amplitude values, determining at each of the plurality of network devices a location of the audio data based on a direction and amplitude of the received audio data, modifying the audio data for output via a plurality of loudspeakers disposed in each of the plurality of network device, and outputting, via the plurality of loudspeakers, the modified audio data, and each loudspeaker outputs different versions of the modified audio data.

Abstract: A process may include detecting, via a controller, one or more microphones and one or more speakers in an area, measuring audio performance levels of the one or more microphones and the one or more speakers to identify one or more of a noise floor and a reverberation level, identifying an initial room performance rating based on the audio performance levels, applying optimized speaker tuning levels to the one or more speakers and the one or more microphones, measuring, via the one or more microphones, optimized audio performance levels of the one or more speakers based on the applied optimized speaker tuning levels, and generating a report to identify an optimized room performance rating based on the applied optimized speaker tuning.

Abstract: An audio customization system operates to enhance a user's audio environment. A user may wear headphones and specify what portion the ambient audio and/or source audio will be transmitted to the headphones or the personal speaker system. The audio signal may be enhanced by application of a spatialized transformation using a spatialization engine such as head-related transfer functions so that at least a portion of the audio presented to the personal speaker system will appear to originate from a particular direction. The direction may be modified in response to movement of the personal speaker system.

Abstract: A method includes wirelessly receiving audio content via a first transceiver included in a housing of a first device and producing a first audible signal from the audio content via a speaker included in the housing of the first device. The audio content is wirelessly transmitted via the first transceiver to a second transceiver integrated within a first remote speaker. A second audible signal is produced from the audio content via the first remote speaker. The method also includes wirelessly relaying the audio content via the second transceiver to a third transceiver integrated within a second remote speaker and producing a third audible signal from the audio content via the second remote speaker. The second remote speaker is located outside of the transmission range of the first transceiver.

Abstract: Disclosed in embodiments of the present disclosure are a communication terminal, a communication system and an audio information processing method, the communication terminal includes a sound reception assembly and a basic communication module, wherein the basic communication module of the communication terminal receives second pickup audio information in a wireless manner, such that the communication terminal acquires returned audio information according to first pickup audio information generated by the communication terminal and the received second pickup audio information, and transmits outwards the returned audio information. Therefore, the technical solution in the embodiments of the present disclosure may realize synchronous sound reception of a plurality of wireless sound reception apparatuses or wireless sound reception components, and may satisfy a requirement for multiple people to use, thereby achieving a good sound reception effect.

Abstract: A method and system directed to controlling audio devices with active noise reduction. The system detects a first instability condition in a first headphone based on one or more parameters; alters a parameter of the one or more parameters; and detects a second audio instability condition in the first headphone based on the altered parameter of the one or more parameters. The first and second audio instability conditions are related to audio feedback.

Abstract: A loudspeaker comprising: a mounting frame; an acoustic radiator; a drive unit. The drive unit includes: a magnet assembly including a magnet unit configured to provide a magnetic field in an air gap, wherein the air gap extends around a movement axis of the inertial exciter; a coil assembly, and a drive unit suspension. The coil assembly includes: an attachment portion which provides an attachment between the coil assembly and the acoustic radiator; a voice coil; a voice coil former which extends from the attachment portion into the air gap, wherein the voice coil is mounted to the voice coil former so the voice coil sits in the air gap when the drive unit is at rest; a tubular member, which is positioned radially outwardly of the voice coil former with respect to the movement axis, and which overlaps the voice coil former along a portion of the movement axis.