Patents Examined by James K Mooney
  • Patent number: 12380874
    Abstract: A method implemented in an audio synthesis device for synthesizing an audio signal is provided. The method includes determining a first plurality of harmonics based on a sinusoidal oscillator, at least two of the first plurality of harmonics being calculated in parallel, scaling the first plurality of harmonics according to a scaling parameter, determining a first sum of the first plurality of scaled harmonics to generate a first sample of the plurality of samples, determining a second plurality of harmonics based on the sinusoidal oscillator, at least two of the second plurality of harmonics being calculated in parallel, scaling the second plurality of harmonics according to the scaling parameter, determining a second sum of the second plurality of scaled harmonics to generate a second sample of the plurality of samples, and causing playback, on the speaker, of at least the first sample and the second sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: The ADT Security Corporation
    Inventor: Michael A. Arnao
  • Patent number: 12377347
    Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a gaming system that cooperates with a graphical user interface to enable user modification and enhancement of one or more audio streams associated with the gaming system. In embodiments, the audio streams may include a game audio stream, a chat audio stream of conversation among players of a video game, and a microphone audio stream of a player of the video game. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: STEELSERIES ApS
    Inventors: Raphaël Greff, Vincenzo Giamundo, Timothée Pourbaix
  • Patent number: 12375858
    Abstract: Disclosed is an application device, comprising an elastic member group comprising a plurality of elastic members each comprises first and second connecting portions and a deformation portion therebetween, the first and second connecting portions are respectively connected to different members in the application device, the different members are movable or fixed relative to each other, the deformation portion is formed by extending from a first end to a second end in a straight line and/or a curve in same or different directions, forming manner and/or a cross-sectional size and/or material of at least one elastic member are different from other elastic members. The elastic members can be adaptively changed according to different internal environments of the application device, have good compatibility and are simple and convenient to manufacture, facilitate the thinning of products, maintain good compliance, provide sufficient displacement and do not affect the vibration of a vibration unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: GOERTEK INC.
    Inventors: Chunfa Liu, Jianbin Yang, Jianxin Wang, Shousong Qiang
  • Patent number: 12375849
    Abstract: Example techniques relate to audio generation in a media playback system. Based on one or more first functions and first characteristics of an area, the system may generate first audio that includes a first audio signal and a second audio signal. The system provides the first audio signal to at least one first audio driver and the second audio signal to at least one second audio driver, thereby causing a first playback device and a second playback device to play back the first audio synchronously. The system receives second characteristics of the area and based on one or more second functions and the second characteristics, generates second audio comprising a third audio signal and a fourth audio signal. The system provides the third audio signal to the at least one first audio driver and the fourth audio signal to the at least one second audio driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Mike Chamness, Aurelio Rafael Ramos, Timothy Sheen, Hilmar Lehnert
  • Patent number: 12368422
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system and method for optimizing audio equalization settings based on the type of music being broadcast, comprising: receiving audio at a processing device; performing a frequency analysis of the received audio, to determine a plurality of frequency components and associated amplitudes of the frequency components of the received audio; generating a spectral plot of the received audio based on the performed frequency analysis of the received audio, wherein the spectral plot comprises an x axis that represents relative amplitude and a y axis that represents frequency components of the received audio; comparing the spectral plot of the received audio to each of a plurality of different predetermined spectral plots; matching the spectral plot of the received audio to at least one of a plurality of different predetermined spectral plots; retrieving a predetermined equalizer settings file that corresponds to the at least one of the matched predetermined spectral plots, wherein the predetermine
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Ekin Binal
  • Patent number: 12368996
    Abstract: A method of converting an audio signal into signals for a number of loudspeaker transducers, where the audio signal is divided up into audio sub signals each representing a particular frequency interval, and where the signal for each loudspeaker transducer comprises a portion of each audio sub signal which varies over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: CLANG
    Inventor: Lars Graugaard
  • Patent number: 12361921
    Abstract: The present embodiments relate to audio effect processing, and more particularly to a method for creating reverberation impulse responses from prerecorded or live source materials forms the basis of a family of reverberation effects. In one embodiment, segments of audio are selected and processed to form an evolving sequence of reverberation impulse responses that are applied to the original source material—that is, an audio stream reverberating itself. In another embodiment, impulse responses derived from one audio track are applied to another audio track. In a further embodiment, reverberation impulse responses are formed by summing randomly selected segments of the source audio, and imposing reverberation characteristics, including reverberation time, wet equalization, wet-dry mix, and predelay. By controlling the number and timing of the selected source audio segments, the method produces a collection of impulse responses that represent a trajectory through the source material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Inventors: Eoin Francis Callery, Jonathan Stuart Abel, Kyle Swenson Spatt
  • Patent number: 12363478
    Abstract: A method and a system for improving the low-frequency sound reproduction of an audio signal, the sound reproduction being performed by an audio system comprising at least one loudspeaker. The system includes a low-frequency sound enhancement module with filters for separating an input audio signal into a high-frequency signal and a low-frequency signal. The system is configured to implement a first audio processing of the low-frequency signal to obtain a low-frequency output signal and a second audio processing of the high-frequency signal to obtain a high-frequency output signal. The low-frequency sound enhancement module includes, for the first processing of the low-frequency signal, a module for increasing the dynamic range of the low-frequency signal, which is parameterised as a function of at least one transient part of the low-frequency signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Europe
    Inventors: Nicolas Lopez Zuleta, Jérôme Noirot, Jacquemin Vidal
  • Patent number: 12363468
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a computing apparatus including the same are disclosed. A display apparatus includes: a display module including a display panel configured to display an image; a vibration plate at a rear surface of the display module, the vibration plate including a communication part; and a vibration module connected to the vibration plate and configured to vibrate the display module to generate sound. The communication part may include a plurality of first holes at a periphery of the vibration plate and a plurality of second holes adjacent to the vibration module. A shape of the plurality of first holes may be same as or different from a shape of the plurality of second holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: JaeMin Shin, ChanHeon Lee, Minji Kim, Wangeon Sim, HyunWook Jang
  • Patent number: 12335678
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques, including devices and system implementing the techniques, to dynamically adjust an audio limiter in an ANR audio output device. The audio limiter adaptively adjusts how much and when to limit incoming audio based on a determined state of the device relative to a user wearing the device. The state of the device is determined based on the quality of the seal or fit between the earcup and the user's ear or head. When the fit is poor or leaky, the audio limiter limits the lower frequency portions of the incoming audio signal in an effort to mitigate distortion. Advantageously, when the fit is good, the audio limiter does not limit or reduce the amount of limiting of the low frequency portion of the audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Bose Corporation
    Inventors: Michael S. D'Agostino, Harold Arthur Cheyne
  • Patent number: 12335698
    Abstract: In an audio denoising method and system provided in the present disclosure, a gain coefficient corresponding to each frequency unit may be generated based on a parameter related to a frequency by using a frequency of an audio signal as a unit, and gain processing is performed on each frequency unit separately by using the gain coefficient. The gain coefficient corresponding to a frequency unit including more valid audio signals may be larger, and a gain coefficient corresponding to a frequency unit including fewer valid audio signals may be smaller, so that more audio signals corresponding to frequency parts including more valid audio signals are preserved, while less audio signals corresponding to frequency parts including fewer valid audio signals are preserved. In this way, fidelity and intelligibility of an audio signal are improved while quality of the audio signal is improved and noise is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinbo Zheng, Meilin Zhou, Fengyun Liao, Xin Qi
  • Patent number: 12328549
    Abstract: Provided in the present disclosure are an integrated bone conduction sound generating device and method. The device includes a controller, a sound generating structure and a functional structure, and the three components are integrated together. The functional structure can touch the oral cavity and/or the teeth of the human body, and after the controller drives the sound generating structure to generate a vibration signal, the functional structure can transmit the vibration signal to the auditory system of the human body through the oral cavity and/or the teeth of the human body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: THUNDER BLAST TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
    Inventors: Lei Ma, Jiahong Ma, Mile Zhang, Yauming Chiu
  • Patent number: 12294843
    Abstract: An audio apparatus and method employ a first renderer circuit, wherein the first renderer circuit is arranged to render audio elements by generating a first plurality of audio signals for a plurality of loudspeakers; and a second renderer circuit, wherein the second renderer circuit is arranged to render audio elements by generating a second plurality of audio signals for headphones. The audio apparatus and method perform an analysis of the first audio element to determine an audio property of the first audio element, and select between rendering of at least a first part of the first audio element via the plurality of loudspeakers and rendering of at least the first part of the first audio element via the headphones, based on a result of the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Werner Paulus Josephus De Bruijn, Nathan Souviraa-Labastie
  • Patent number: 12294342
    Abstract: An example method of operation may include determining a frequency response to a measured chirp signal detected from one or more speakers, determining an average value of the frequency response based on a high limit value and a low limit value, subtracting a measured response from a target response, and the target response is based on one or more filter frequencies; determining a frequency limited target filter with audible parameters based on the subtraction, and applying an infinite impulse response (IIR) biquad filter based on an area defined by the frequency limited target filter to equalize the frequency response of the one or more speakers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Biamp Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Eugene Goff, Ray Dippert, Matthew V. Kotvis, Samarth Behura
  • Patent number: 12294852
    Abstract: Systems and methods of presenting an output audio signal to a listener located at a first location in a virtual environment are disclosed. According to embodiments of a method, an input audio signal is received. For each sound source of a plurality of sound sources in the virtual environment, a respective first intermediate audio signal corresponding to the input audio signal is determined, based on a location of the respective sound source in the virtual environment, and the respective first intermediate audio signal is associated with a first bus. For each of the sound sources of the plurality of sound sources in the virtual environment, a respective second intermediate audio signal is determined. The respective second intermediate audio signal corresponds to a reflection of the input audio signal in a surface of the virtual environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Jot, Samuel Charles Dicker, Brian Lloyd Schmidt, Remi Samuel Audfray
  • Patent number: 12289584
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for networked audio automixing using array microphones and an aggregator unit that participate in making a common gating decision to determine which channels to gate on and off. Through the use of such a network of array microphones having the capability to generate submix audio signals and reduced bandwidth metrics, as well as AEC processing capability, array microphone lobe selection can be enhanced while maximizing signal-to-noise ratio, increasing intelligibility, and increasing user satisfaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory H. Canfield
  • Patent number: 12289572
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device with a sounding function, including a shell structural member and a speaker. The speaker includes a first sounding unit used to emit low-frequency sounds and a second sounding unit used to emit high-frequency sounds that are coaxially arranged. The first sounding unit surrounds the second sounding unit. The shell structural member is provided with a first channel for transmitting the low-frequency sounds, a second channel separated from the first channel for transmitting the high-frequency sounds, and a common channel for communicating both the first and second channels with the outside of the electronic device. The second channel includes a front cavity of the second sounding unit and a connecting channel for communicating the front cavity with the common channel. The connecting channel is in a horn shape. The effect of the high-frequency sounds of the electronic device with a sounding function is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhang Ren, Qi Wang, Zhiwei Zhong
  • Patent number: 12284474
    Abstract: An information handling system neck speaker rests on an end user's shoulders to direct ultrasonic audio at the end user that resolves on impact to audible sound. The audible sound reflects to microphones on the neck speaker that monitor for doppler effects to determine head motion that is available for use as an input at the information handling system. Ultrasonic energy that does not impact the end user dissipates so that the end user can hear audio without wearing headphones yet avoid others nearby from hearing the audio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Peng Lip Goh, Deeder M. Aurongzeb
  • Patent number: 12284483
    Abstract: Disclosed in embodiments of the present disclosure are a capacitive MEMS microphone, a microphone unit and an electronic device. The capacitive MEMS microphone includes: a back electrode plate; a diaphragm; and a spacer for separating the back electrode plate from the diaphragm, wherein in a state where an operating bias is applied, a ratio of a static effective displacement of the diaphragm relative to a flat position to a thickness of the diaphragm is greater than or equal to 0.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: GoertekMicroelectronics Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Quanbo Zou, Maoqiang Dang, Dexin Wang
  • Patent number: 12283933
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a communication circuit, a display, at least one sensor, and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to obtain sound data regarding a surrounding environment from a wearable electronic device through the communication circuit, obtain sensor data through the at least one sensor, identify whether the surrounding environment matches one of a plurality of preset contexts, based on the sound data and the sensor data, and perform at least one of transmitting, to the wearable electronic device, a signal for controlling the wearable electronic device through the communication circuit or displaying a notification message on the display, based on the matching context, a state of the display, or whether the wearable electronic device is outputting a sound, in response to identifying that the surrounding environment matches one of the plurality of preset contexts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soonki Min, Nathan Robert Folkman, Sean Ryan Bornheimer, Areum Ko, Younguk Do, Jooil Sung, Sihak Jang