Patents Examined by Jason R Kurr
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Patent number: 11968518Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to an apparatus comprising circuitry configured to: determine a loudspeaker dependent spread factor for at least one individual loudspeaker of a loudspeaker arrangement, wherein the loudspeaker dependent spread factor depends on a specification of the at least one individual loudspeaker; and 5 control the outputs of the loudspeakers of the loudspeaker arrangement based on the loudspeaker dependent spread factor for the at least one individual loudspeaker to generate at least one virtual sound source.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Franck Giron, Michael Enenkl
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Patent number: 11962991Abstract: Systems and methods discussed herein can change a frame of reference for a first spatial audio signal. The first spatial audio signal can include signal components representing audio information from different depths or directions relative to an audio capture location associated with an audio capture source device with a first frame of reference relative to an environment Changing the frame of reference can include receiving a component of the first spatial audio signal, receiving information about a second frame of reference relative to the same environment, determining a difference between the first and second frames of reference, and, using the determined difference between the first and second frames of reference, determining a first filter to use to generate at least one component of a second spatial audio signal that is based on the first spatial audio signal and is referenced to the second frame of reference.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: DTS, Inc.Inventors: Edward Stein, Martin Walsh
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Patent number: 11956604Abstract: A right seat processing unit includes, assuming that a voice of a user in a right front seat is a right front seat voice, a filter HR that converts the right front seat voice being output from a left front seat microphone disposed on a headrest of a left front seat into the right front seat voice collected by a right seat virtual microphone that is a virtual microphone located on a left side of a headrest of the right front seat, a delay unit Z-TR that delays and outputs an output from a right front seat microphone located on a right side of the headrest of the right front seat, a filter WRA that extracts the right front seat voice being output from the filter HR, a filter WRB that extracts the right front seat voice being output from the delay unit Z-TR, and a right adder that adds outputs of the filter WRA and the filter WRB and outputs an added output as a right front seat speech voice signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryosuke Tachi, Hiroyuki Taguchi
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Patent number: 11950039Abstract: A wearable device includes a ring-shaped housing having a central opening and defining an annular interior volume. The housing is configured to be worn within an ear of a subject such that the subjects ear canal is exposed by the central opening. At least one optical emitter and at least one optical detector are supported within the housing. The housing includes at least one window through which light can be delivered from the at least one optical emitter to the ear, and through which light from the ear can be delivered to the at least one optical detector.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: YUKKA MAGIC LLCInventors: Steven Francis LeBoeuf, Shawn M. Stephenson, Macintosh E. Perry
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Patent number: 11943600Abstract: An apparatus and method of rendering audio objects with multiple types of renderers. The weighting between the selected renderers depends upon the position information in each audio object. As each type of renderer has a different output coverage, the combination of their weighted outputs results in the audio being perceived at the position according to the position information.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: François G. Germain, Alan J. Seefeldt
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Patent number: 11922916Abstract: A signal e(z) obtained by subtracting echo-canceling sound from an output of a second microphone is used as an error of an echo cancellation adaptive filter and a noise cancellation adaptive filter, and an output of a first sound source device is added to the signal e(z) and output from a first speaker. The echo cancellation adaptive filter generates echo-canceling sound from an addition signal of the output of the second sound source device and the output of the first microphone such that the signal e(z) is minimized. The noise cancellation adaptive filter generates the noise-canceling sound from the output of the first sound source device such that the signal e(z) is minimized, and outputs the noise-canceling sound from the second speaker.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Alps Alpine Co., LTD.Inventor: Ryosuke Tachi
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Patent number: 11924597Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a flexible display configured to move relative to at least a portion of the housing, and at least one noise detection circuitry disposed in the housing. The at least one noise detection circuitry may include a substrate, a microphone circuitry disposed on the substrate, a vibration detection sensor disposed on the substrate, a shielding member disposed on the substrate and surrounding at least a portion of the vibration detection sensor, and a waterproofing member disposed on the shielding member and covering the vibration detection sensor.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyoungtak Cho, Kiwook Han, Hyunggwang Kang, Myunghoon Kwak, Moonsun Kim, Junhyuk Kim, Changryong Heo
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Patent number: 11910147Abstract: Examples described herein relate to a charging system for wireless earbuds involving charging adapters that are attachable to the wireless earbuds. In some implementations, the charging adapter is attachable to an external surface of an earbud using a magnetic or mechanical interface that align electrodes of the charging adapter with electrodes on the wireless headset, allowing an internal battery of the earbud to draw current and charge from the charging adapter while the earbud is in-ear. Then, when the internal battery is and recharged using a charging case or wall charger, the charging adapter can be detached from the earbud.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Sonos, Inc.Inventor: Hilmar Lehnert
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Patent number: 11902763Abstract: An apparatus includes, among other things, a support configured to be connected to a power source and at least one rigid panel attached to the support. The at least one rigid panel is moveable between a deployed position and a stowed position. At least one exciter is supported on the at least one rigid panel and is configured to selectively generate sound when powered by the power source.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Stuart C. Salter, Hussein Berry, Ryan O'Gorman, Gabriella Jacobsen, Paul Kenneth Dellock, Annette Lynn Huebner
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Patent number: 11902761Abstract: The present disclosure provides a sound producing device, a method for driving the sound producing device, a display panel and a display apparatus. The sound producing device includes a recognition element, a directional sound production element and a control element, where the recognition element is connected with the control element and is configured to acquire information relating to a person in a preset range and transmit the acquired information relating to the person to the control element; the control element is connected with the directional sound production element and is configured to acquire a corresponding audio signal according to the acquired information relating to the person and control the directional sound production element to send out a sound wave according to the acquired audio signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Yanling Han, Yingming Liu, Yuzhen Guo, Chenyang Zhang, Peixiao Li, Xiufeng Li, Yaqian Ji, Yue Gou, Wei Sun, Wenchao Han, Lianghao Zhang
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Patent number: 11882424Abstract: Disclosed is a speaker driver from which surrounding (suspension) has been omitted, including a magnet unit disposed in a set form, a vibration unit disposed adjacent to the magnet unit and generating a sound through vibration, and a winding unit disposed between the magnet unit and the vibration unit in a winding shape, generating magnetism in a first direction or a second direction which is a direction opposite to the first direction when power is applied to the winding unit, and vibrating the vibration unit by applying, to the vibration unit, a force generated in association with magnetism of the magnet unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: GOOD NETWORKS CO., LTD.Inventor: Jung Soo Ha
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Patent number: 11882397Abstract: Disclosed are a noise reduction method for a microphone array of an earphone, an apparatus, and an earphone comprising: acquiring, when an earphone wearer speaks, a first sound signal collected by a bone conduction microphone arranged on the earphone and second sound signals collected respectively by a preset number of microphones arranged on the earphone; determining, according to the first sound signal and the second sound signal, a delay time from a time when the voice signal arrives at each microphone to a time when the voice signal arrives at the bone conduction microphone; computing, according to the delay time, a pointing angle of the microphone array formed by the microphones relative to the wearer's mouth; and adjusting a beam pointing angle of the microphone array according to the pointing angle, such that the microphone array forms a beam by an adjusted beam pointing angle.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Weifang Goertek Microelectronics Co. Ltd.Inventor: Guangpeng Tie
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Patent number: 11875769Abstract: A baby monitor system with white noise filtering comprises a camera unit and a monitor unit, wherein the camera unit is predefined soothing sounds and play at least one of the predefined soothing sounds for baby; the camera unit records the mixture sound of baby, ambient noises and white noises and transforms the mixture sound to sound features, wherein the white noises at least include the soothing sounds and stationary noise; the recorded sound features are compared to local audio features of the predefined soothing sounds; if there are matching features between the recorded sound features and the local audio features, removing the matching features from the recorded sound features; the stationary noise features are extracted and removed from the recorded sound features; the camera unit outputs the recorded mixture sound without the white noise to the monitor unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Inventor: Kelvin Ka Fai Chan
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Patent number: 11869477Abstract: A noise-cancellation system includes a noise-cancellation filter in communication with at least one speaker, the noise-cancellation filter generating a noise-cancellation signal that, when actuated by the at least one speaker, cancels noise within at least one cancellation zone; and an amplifier disposed between the noise-cancellation filter and the speaker, the amplifier applying a first scaling gain to the noise-cancellation signal and outputting an scaled noise-cancellation signal, the scaled noise-cancellation signal being a linear reduction of the noise-cancellation signal when the first scaling gain is less than unity, wherein the first scaling gain is set to less than unity in response to a signal representative of the noise-cancellation signal exceeding a threshold.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Elie Bou Daher, Cristian Marius Hera, Siamak Farahbakhsh
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Patent number: 11871169Abstract: A display apparatus and a vehicle including the same are provided. A display apparatus includes: a display panel configured to display an image, a driving circuit including: a flexible circuit film connected to the display panel, and a printed circuit board connected to the flexible circuit film, a first supporting member at a rear surface of the display panel, the first supporting member having a hole therein, and a vibration apparatus supported by the first supporting member, the vibration apparatus including a first vibration apparatus disposed at the rear surface of the display panel, wherein the flexible circuit film extends through the hole, and wherein the printed circuit board is disposed at a rear surface of the first supporting member.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: SeulKi Nam, Taehyung Kim, Jeonggoo Kang, SunBok Song, Seunghyeon Kim
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Patent number: 11871179Abstract: Innovative apparatus and methods that improve the articulate amplification and reproduction of performed and recorded audio material including loudspeaker crossover and loudspeaker enclosure tuning methods, dual chamber reflex loudspeaker enclosure configurations, loudspeaker enclosures stiffened by trusses, loudspeaker chambers each filled with a monolithic block of acoustical damping material, loudspeaker grille acoustic filters, preamplifier and amplifier features, and signal transmission cables and connectors configured and sized for optimum acoustic articulation and reliability. Also included is a method for advantageously positioning handles, straps, and support stand receptacles.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Inventor: John Patrick Van Den Abeele
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Patent number: 11863929Abstract: Aspects relate to systems and methods for dynamic active noise reduction including at least a sensor configured to sense a physiological characteristic of a user and transmit a physiological signal correlated to the sensed physiological characteristic, at least an environmental microphone configured to transduce an environmental noise to an environmental noise signal, a processor configured to receive the environmental noise signal, generate a noise-reducing sound signal as a function of the environmental noise signal, and, modify the noise-reducing sound signal as a function of the physiological signal, and a speaker configured to transduce a noise-reducing sound from the modified noise-reducing sound signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2023Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: GMECI, LLCInventors: Bradford R. Everman, Brian Scott Bradke
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Patent number: 11863141Abstract: There is provided audio equipment that enables power supply and signal connection to a rotary operation unit in a non-contact manner. The audio equipment includes: the rotary operation unit rotatably supported in relation to an equipment body; an operation detecting section provided for the rotary operation unit and in which an electric load changes in response to a pressing operation; a power supplying section provided for the equipment body and configured to supply power to the operation detecting section in a non-contact manner; and a monitoring section configured to monitor the power supplied by the power supplying section to detect the user's operation from a change in the power.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: ALPHATHETA CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Minokami, Naomi Amemiya, Eiji Kojima, Tadashi China
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Patent number: 11856363Abstract: An acoustic apparatus includes the peripheral wall which is provided so as to surround the seat and in which the upper portion is opened, and the speakers which are provided inside the peripheral wall so as to face the seat and can output the reproduced sound from the sound source. The speakers are disposed in front of the ears of a person sitting on the seat.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryota Miyanaka, Daiki Cho
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Patent number: 11856356Abstract: A flexible arm that is configured to be located between and physically and electrically connect an acoustic module of an open-ear headphone to a battery housing of the open-ear headphone. The flexible arm defines an original resting length and position between the acoustic module and the battery housing. The flexible arm includes a flexible printed circuit that extends through the entire original resting length of the flexible arm and comprises a conductor that is configured to carry electrical energy between the acoustic module and the battery housing, and a flexible material that encases at least some of the flexible printed circuit. The length of the flexible printed circuit within the flexible arm is greater than the original resting length of the flexible arm. The flexible printed circuit can thus better accommodate tension or compression on the flexible arm as the flexible arm is bent from its original resting position.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: BOSE CORPORATIONInventors: Thomas Chambers, Caitlin Hanson