Patents Examined by Kile O Blair
  • Patent number: 11776524
    Abstract: An embodiment electromyography signal detection device includes a noise signal obtaining device configured to obtain a noise signal of an unknown reference frequency at a periphery of a user, an electromyography signal acquisition device configured to measure an electromyography signal from the user, and a controller configured to remove a noise signal included in the electromyography signal of the user based on the obtained noise signal of the unknown reference frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Muhammad Zahak Jamal, Dong Jin Hyun, Dong Hyun Lee
  • Patent number: 11778411
    Abstract: Examples of the disclosure describe systems and methods for presenting an audio signal to a user of a wearable head device. According to an example method, a source location corresponding to the audio signal is identified. For each of the respective left and right ear of the user, a virtual speaker position, of a virtual speaker array, is determined, the virtual speaker position collinear with the source location and with a position of the respective ear. For each of the respective left and right ear of the user, a head-related transfer function (HRTF) corresponding to the virtual speaker position and to the respective ear is determined; and the output audio signal is presented to the respective ear of the user via one or more speakers associated with the wearable head device. Processing the audio signal includes applying the HRTF to the audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Remi Samuel Audfray, Jean-Marc Jot, Samuel Charles Dicker, Mark Brandon Hertensteiner, Justin Dan Mathew, Anastasia Andreyevna Tajik, Nicholas John LaMartina
  • Patent number: 11778365
    Abstract: An earphone includes a main body and a movable component. The main body accommodates a first built-in microphone and a second built-in microphone therein. The movable component accommodates a third built-in microphone therein. The movable component is movably disposed on the main body and has a stored position and a sticking out position. When the movable component is in the stored position, the main body activates the first built-in microphone and the second built-in microphone and deactivates the third built-in microphone. When the movable component is in the at least one sticking out position, the third built-in microphone is located relatively away from the main body, and the main body deactivates one of the first built-in microphone and the second built-in microphone and activates the third built-in microphone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: DEXIN CORP.
    Inventors: Ho Lung Lu, Ya-Hsiu Tsai
  • Patent number: 11778406
    Abstract: An input unit receives input of an assumed listening position of sound of an object, which is a sound source, and outputs assumed listening position information indicating the assumed listening position. A position information correction unit corrects position information of each object on the basis of the assumed listening position information to obtain corrected position information. A gain/frequency characteristic correction unit performs gain correction and frequency characteristic correction on a waveform signal of an object on the basis of the position information and the corrected position information. A spatial acoustic characteristic addition unit further adds a spatial acoustic characteristic to the waveform signal resulting from the gain correction and the frequency characteristic correction on the basis of the position information of the object and the assumed listening position information. The present technology is applicable to an audio processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Tsuji, Toru Chinen
  • Patent number: 11778372
    Abstract: A voice reception device includes a casing and at least two voice reception units. The casing includes a peripheral side wall, a bottom wall, a containing space formed in an inside of the peripheral side wall and the bottom wall, and a first opening end located at an end of the containing space. The voice reception units are disposed in the containing space. Each of the voice reception units includes a main body, a diaphragm, and a voice guiding channel. The main body has a chamber, and an end of the chamber has a second opening end. The diaphragm is connected to the second opening end of the main body. The voice guiding channel includes an importing end acoustically connected to the chamber and an exporting end opposite to the importing end and acoustically connected to a microphone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Merry Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chen Mao Yang, Cheng-Lung Chu, Ping Hung Chu
  • Patent number: 11765492
    Abstract: A display apparatus may include: a display panel configured to display an image, a supporting member configured to support the display panel, a coupling member in the supporting member, and at least one sound-generating device coupled to the display panel by the coupling member, the at least one sound-generating device being configured to vibrate the display panel to generate sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kwangho Kim
  • Patent number: 11763792
    Abstract: Circuitry for noise cancellation in a headset worn by a user, the circuitry comprising: an input for receiving one or more heartbeat signals representative of a heartbeat of the user; a processor for generating a heartbeat noise cancellation signal based on the one or more heartbeat signal, the heartbeat noise cancellation signal to cancel a noise associated with the heartbeat in the user's ear; an output for outputting the heartbeat noise cancellation signal to a transducer of the headset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic Inc.
    Inventor: Calum J. Tait
  • Patent number: 11750958
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a first surface facing in a first direction, a second surface facing in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a side surface member enclosing the first surface and the second surface, a display visible through at least a portion of the first surface, an opening formed on a portion of the first surface, a speaker positioned within the housing, a sensor positioned within the housing, and a first path configured to guide a sound of the speaker to the opening, and a second path configured to guide the sound of the speaker to the opening and to avoid overlapping the first path, and at least a portion of the sensor is positioned between the first path and the second path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sungsoo Jun, Namjun Kim, Sejin Kim, Youngmoon Park, Youngkyu Kim, Jongchun Wee, Hwanseok Choi, Byounguk Yoon
  • Patent number: 11743625
    Abstract: A portable electronic assembly and an adherable earphone structure thereof are provided. The adherable earphone structure includes a carrier substrate, an audio signal receiver, an audio signal processor, an audio signal player, a protective layer, and an adhesive layer. The audio signal receiver is configured for receiving an audio signal provided by a portable electronic device. The audio signal processor and the audio signal player are disposed on the carrier substrate and electrically connected to the audio signal processor. The protective layer is configured for covering the audio signal receiver, the audio signal processor and the audio signal player. The adhesive layer is disposed on the carrier substrate or the protective layer. When the adhesive layer is disposed on a face and near an ear of a user, the adherable earphone structure is disposed outside the ear of the user without touching the ear by the adhesive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: ASTI GLOBAL INC., TAIWAN
    Inventor: Chien-Shou Liao
  • Patent number: 11741935
    Abstract: A host device configured to be wirelessly coupled to an accessory device, the host device comprising noise reduction circuitry, wherein, in use of the host device: a signal generated by a microphone of the accessory device in response to ambient noise is supplied to the noise reduction circuitry; the noise reduction circuitry applies a noise reduction transfer function to the signal supplied thereto to generate a noise cancellation signal; and the noise cancellation signal is supplied to at least one loudspeaker of the accessory device; and wherein the noise reduction transfer function applied by the noise reduction circuitry is user selectable or user adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
    Inventor: Alastair Sibbald
  • Patent number: 11727912
    Abstract: A system configured to perform deep adaptive acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) to improve audio processing. Due to mechanical noise and continuous echo path changes caused by movement of a device, echo signals are nonlinear and time-varying and not fully canceled by linear AEC processing alone. To improve echo cancellation, deep adaptive AEC processing integrates a deep neural network (DNN) and linear adaptive filtering to perform echo and/or noise removal. The DNN is configured to generate a nonlinear reference signal and step-size data, which the linear adaptive filtering uses to generate output audio data representing local speech. The DNN may generate the nonlinear reference signal by generating mask data that is applied to a microphone signal, such that the reference signal corresponds to a portion of the microphone signal that does not include near-end speech.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Harsha Inna Kedage Rao, Srivatsan Kandadai, Minje Kim, Tarun Pruthi, Trausti Thor Kristjansson
  • Patent number: 11721315
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an active noise cancellation integrated circuit for stacking multiple anti-noise signals, an associated method, and an active noise cancellation headphone using the same. The method is applicable to an audio playback device with multiple ANC filtering units. The method includes: acquiring an anti-noise signal from an ANC filtering unit; generating a decoupled signal by processing the anti-noise signal with the transfer function of a physical channel and operations of other ANC filtering units; performing a signal superposition, wherein an anti-noise signal from another ANC filtering unit is superposed with the decoupled signal; and performing an audio playback based on the superposed signal and an audio signal such that noise is eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: AIROHA TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Li-Wen Chi, Kai-Sheng Chen
  • Patent number: 11721316
    Abstract: A low-delay hybrid noise reduction system includes a reference audio receiving device, an error audio receiving device, an audio output device, and an audio processing device. The audio processing device includes a feedforward noise reduction filter module, a feedback noise reduction filter module, and a mixer. The feedforward noise reduction filter module includes a feedforward least mean squares (LMS) filter, a low-stage finite impulse response (FIR) filter, and 1st to Nth-stage biquad filters. The 1st to Nth-stage biquad filters is set on the input end of the low-stage finite impulse response filter to perform low-delay filtering on the reference source audio signal received and outputs to the low-stage FIR filter so as to output the feedforward noise reduction signal through the low-stage FIR filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: STEADYBEAT TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Hao Ming Chen, Ju Chieh Liu
  • Patent number: 11716563
    Abstract: A loudspeaker system includes a subwoofer. The subwoofer includes a housing having a plurality of walls which together define an acoustic cavity. The plurality of walls includes a front wall, a rear wall, a top wall, a bottom wall, and a plurality of sidewalls extending between the top and bottom walls and between the front and rear walls. A first transducer mounted to the front wall of the housing. The first transducer includes a diaphragm having a major axis and a minor axis. The major axis has a fist end proximate the bottom wall and an opposite, second end proximate the top wall, such that the major axis is arranged vertical, relative to ground when the subwoofer is rested on its bottom wall. The top wall has a handle such that the loudspeaker can be carried with the major axis arranged vertical to ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Bose Corporation
    Inventors: Greg J. Zastoupil, Peter P. Premo, Peter C. Santoro, Craig Small, Joseph J. Kutil, David Edwards Blore
  • Patent number: 11711265
    Abstract: Methods of managing audio data transmissions over a network disclosed herein may include the step of selecting a client device from a plurality of client devices as a participating device, each client device of the plurality of client devices being in data communication with a network. The methods may include the step of signaling the participating device over said network thereby initiating transmitting of audio data from the participating device at least in part over said network for live broadcasting, the audio data being indicative of a speaking voice being input into a participating device microphone of the participating device. The methods may include the step of minimizing latency in transmitting of the audio data by throttling data being communicated over said network by one or more client devices of the plurality of client devices only while the participating device is transmitting audio data over said network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Inventors: William W. Sloan, Jr., Kenneth Nathaniel Sherman
  • Patent number: 11699424
    Abstract: The present invention provides an improved noise separation hybrid type ANC system, which includes a reference audio receiving device, an error audio receiving device, an audio output device, and an audio processing device. The audio processing device includes a feed-forward noise cancellation filter module, a feedback noise cancellation filter module, a mixer, a noise shaper, a first infinite impulse response filter, and a second infinite impulse response filter. When the noise bandwidth detector detects irregular noise, it adjusts the coefficient of the first infinite impulse response filter to set it as a low-pass filter; when regular noise is detected, the coefficient of the second infinite impulse response filter is adjusted to set it as a band-pass filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: STEADYBEAT TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventor: Hao-Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 11700498
    Abstract: The present invention provides for an analog audio patchbay comprising a first plurality of connectors capable of receiving a plurality analog electronic signals, a second plurality of connectors capable of transmitting a plurality of analog electronic signals, and a circuit board extending from the first plurality to the second plurality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: FLOCK AUDIO INC.
    Inventors: Darren Nakonechny, Curtis Figley, Andrei Chichak
  • Patent number: 11689837
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an open binaural earphone including a housing, at least one low-frequency speaker, and at least one high-frequency speaker. The housing may be placed on at least one of a head or an ear of a user and not blocking a user's ear canal, and configured to accommodate the at least one low-frequency speaker and the at least one high-frequency speaker. The at least one low-frequency speaker may be configured to output sounds within a first frequency range from at least two first sound guiding holes through at least two first guiding tubes. The at least one high-frequency speaker may be configured to output sounds within a second frequency range from at least two second sound guiding holes through at least two second guiding tubes. The second frequency range may include one or more frequencies higher than one or more frequencies in the first frequency range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Junjiang Fu, Bingyan Yan, Fengyun Liao, Xin Qi
  • Patent number: 11683640
    Abstract: A speaker system including an enclosure, a first acoustic driver engaged with the enclosure, and two or more horns configured to output a sound from the first acoustic driver to a front plane of the enclosure. In one embodiment, the two or more horns may be folded and planar. In one embodiment, the speaker system may include a second acoustic driver, which may be installed above or below the first acoustic driver. The second acoustic driver may be larger or smaller or the same size when compared to the first acoustic driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: LOW COUNTRY HORNS, LLC
    Inventor: Mark Menendez
  • Patent number: 11678110
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a housing having a sound receiving hole that guides a sound outside the housing into the housing, a substrate that is disposed in the housing and on which a microphone is mounted, an elastic member that is disposed so as to fill a gap between the substrate and an inner wall of the housing excluding a portion of the inner wall that is located around the sound receiving hole and so as to form a space between the substrate and the portion of the inner wall of the housing, which is located around the sound receiving hole, and a first member that is disposed so as to partially occupy the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keita Morishita, Mitsunori Tanaka, Harutaka Uno, Daisuke Kuroda