Patents Examined by P. Tran
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Patent number: 11689839Abstract: A wireless earphone comprises a battery, a speaker and a chamber/space. The battery has a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a third surface extended between the first surface and the second surface. The battery is disconnected from any protecting circuits. The speaker is disposed adjacent to the first surface of the battery. The chamber/space is defined by the battery and the speaker. The chamber/space is devoid of any electronic component.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING, INC.Inventor: Ming-Tau Huang
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Patent number: 11681492Abstract: An audio system presented herein includes a transducer array, sensor array, and a controller. The controller control tactile content imparted to a user via actuation of at least one transducer in the transducer array while presenting audio content to the user. The transducer array presents the audio content with the tactile content to the user. The audio system can be part of a headset.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Cesare Valerio Parise, Morteza Khaleghimeybodi, Philip Robinson, Peter Gottlieb
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Patent number: 11678117Abstract: A method of processing an audio signal is disclosed. According to embodiments of the method, magnitude response information of a prototype filter is determined. The magnitude response information includes a plurality of gain values, at least one of which includes a first gain corresponding to a first frequency. The magnitude response information of the prototype filter is stored. The magnitude response information of the prototype filter at the first frequency is retrieved. Gains are computed for a plurality of control frequencies based on the retrieved magnitude response information of the prototype filter at the first frequency, and the computed gains are applied to the audio signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2020Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Remi Samuel Audfray, Jean-Marc Jot, Samuel Charles Dicker
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Patent number: 11678115Abstract: A playback device includes a speaker, a controller, a first switch circuit, and a second switch circuit. The speaker has a first terminal and a second terminal. The controller is configured to output a first audio signal and a second audio signal. The controller is coupled to the first terminal of the speaker, and is configured to transmit the first audio signal to the speaker. The second switch circuit is coupled between the second terminal of the speaker and the controller, and is coupled to the first switch circuit. The second switch circuit is configured to transmit the second audio signal from the controller to the speaker when the first switch circuit is turned on.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: MERRY ELECTRONICS (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.Inventor: Hung-Yuan Li
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Patent number: 11665461Abstract: Fibers may be intertwined to form structures for electronic devices and other parts. Fibers may be intertwined using computer-controlled braiding, weaving, and knitting equipment. Binder materials may be selectively incorporated into the intertwined fibers. By controlling the properties of the intertwined fibers and the patterns of incorporated binder, structures can be formed that include antenna windows, sound-transparent and sound-blocking structures, structures that have integral rigid and flexible portions, and tubes with seamless forked portions. Fiber-based structures such as these may be used to form cables and other parts of headphones or other electronic device accessories, housings for electronic devices such as housings for portable computers, and other structures.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: David Bibi, Matthew Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke
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Patent number: 11659316Abstract: An acoustic device according to the present technology includes an operating portion and a control unit. The operating portion generates information for determining whether a state of an earphone portion is a wearing state in which the earphone portion is worn by the user, or a non-wearing state in which the earphone portion is not worn by the user. The control unit determines whether the earphone portion is in the wearing state or in the non-wearing state on the basis of output from the operating portion, and implements a function based on a result of the determination.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuhiro Akaike
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Patent number: 11632086Abstract: Example embodiments provide a process that includes one or more of receiving an audio signal at a feedback compressor circuit, receiving an auxiliary attenuation signal from an auxiliary attenuation source, determining a threshold power level based on a value of the auxiliary attenuation signal, determining an output power level of the audio signal exceeds the threshold power level, combining the audio signal with the auxiliary attenuation signal from the auxiliary attenuation source and a compressed attenuation signal from the feedback compressor circuit to create a combination signal, and generating an audio output signal of the feedback compressor circuit based on the combination signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Biamp Systems, LLCInventor: Aaron Faulstich
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Patent number: 11579275Abstract: A method for estimating an acoustic influence of walls of a room, comprising emitting a known excitation sound signal, receiving a set of measurement signals, each measurement signal being received by one microphone in a microphone array and each measurement signal including a set of echoes caused by reflections by the walls, solving a linear system of equations to identify locations of image source and estimating the acoustic influence based these image sources. The signal model includes a convolution of: the excitation signal, a multichannel filter (M) representing the relative delays of the microphones in the microphone array, the relative delays determined based on a known geometry of the microphone array, and a directivity model ?(n, p) of the driver(s) in the form of an anechoic far-field impulse response as a function of transmit angle.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Bang & Olufsen A/SInventor: Vincenzo Zaccá
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Patent number: 11558706Abstract: This application relates an activity detector (100) for detecting signal activity in an input audio signal (SIN), such as may be used for always-on speech detection. The activity detector has a first time-encoding modulator (TEM) 101 including a first hysteretic comparator (201) for generating a PWM (pulse-width modulation) signal based on the input audio signal. A second TEM (103) having a second hysteretic comparator (401) is arranged to receive a reference voltage (VMID) and generate a clock signal (SCLK). A time-decoding converter (102) receives the clock signal and generates count values of a number of cycles of the clock signal in periods defined by the PWM signal. An activity monitor (104) is responsive to a count signal (SCT) from the TDC 102 to determine whether the input audio signal comprises signal activity above a defined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.Inventor: John Paul Lesso
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Patent number: 11558692Abstract: A first device includes one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs configured to be executed by the one or more processors. The one or more programs include instructions for receiving, from a second device, audio mix information for a first audio item and receiving, from the second device, an indication that the first audio item is to be mixed with a second audio item distinct from the first audio item. In response to the indication, the one or more programs include instructions for transmitting to the second device an audio stream including the first audio item and the second audio item mixed in accordance with the audio mix information.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Spotify ABInventors: Par Mikael Bohrarper, Sten Garmark, Niklas Martin Gustavsson, John Fredrik Wilhelm Noren, Gustav Söderström, Babar Zafar
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Patent number: 11545127Abstract: Embodiments include a method and noise cancelling system for cancelling noise in a vehicle by operating at least one noise cancelling means in a first mode of operation to output a noise cancelling signal; receiving at least one input indicative of a state of the vehicle; determining if noise cancelling error conditions are present based on the at least one received input indicative of a state of the vehicle; and operating at least one noise cancelling means in a second mode of operation if noise cancelling error conditions are determined as present.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2018Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Jaguar Land Rover LimitedInventors: Xavier Vinamata, Mark Willis, Sean True
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Patent number: 11516605Abstract: An audio device includes a network interface, an amplifier that amplifies an audio signal received through the network interface, and a processor configure to obtain an output value of a signal from the amplifier and sends the output value of the signal through the network interface.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventor: Mitsutaka Goto
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Patent number: 11503420Abstract: An audio headset may receive a plurality of audio signals corresponding to plurality of surround sound channels. The headset may determine, via its audio processing circuitry, context and/or content of the audio signals. The audio processing circuitry may process the audio signals to generate stereo signals carrying one or more virtual surround channels, wherein the processing comprises automatically controlling, based on the context and the content of the audio signals, a simulated acoustic environment of the virtual surround channels.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc.Inventor: Richard Kulavik
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Patent number: 11489966Abstract: A method and system of conferencing can include the steps of initiating a conference call at a communication device with two or more communication devices and selecting to suppress a voice communication of at least one communication device on the conference call where a modified electronic signal is generated with the selected at least one communication device so that the voice communication from the selected at least one communication device is inaudible. The method or system further includes sending the modified electronic signal to at least one other communication device on the conference call. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Staton Techiya, LLCInventors: Jason McIntosh, Marc Boillot, John Usher, Steven Goldstein
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Patent number: 11483653Abstract: A noise reduction device reduces noise occurring in a space inside a mobile apparatus. The noise reduction device includes: a status signal receiver to which a status signal indicating a status of a movable component provided for the mobile apparatus is inputted; and a controller that, when the status signal inputted indicates that the movable component is not in a predetermined base status, performs control over the output of the cancelling sound differently in each case, depending on whether or not the status signal includes information indicating a shift amount of the movable component.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Hayashi, Atsuhiro Hara
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Patent number: 11477589Abstract: An audio signal reproduction apparatus includes a temperature detection unit detecting a temperature of a battery pack, a voltage detection unit detecting a voltage of the battery pack, and a control unit performing an output control on a basis of temperature information detected by the temperature detection unit and voltage information detected by the voltage detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2017Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yousuke Takahashi, Hidehiko Chaki, Tomoki Kurasawa
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Patent number: 11477559Abstract: A semiconductor device package comprises a first substrate, a first electronic component, an encapsulant, and a feeding structure. The first substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The first electronic component is disposed on the first surface of the first substrate. The encapsulant encapsulates the first electronic component on the first surface of the first substrate. The feeding structure is disposed on the second surface of the first substrate without covering.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING, INC.Inventors: Ming-Tau Huang, Kuei-Hao Tseng, Hung-I Lin
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Patent number: 11432070Abstract: According to an embodiment of the disclosure, disclosed is an electronic device that includes a first connector electrically connectable to an external electronic device, a second connector electrically connectable to an external audio plug, a wireless communication circuit, and at least one processor. When the electronic device is connected to the external electronic device through the first connector, the at least one processor may receive a first digital audio signal from the external electronic device through the first connector, convert the received first digital audio signal into a first analog audio signal, and output the converted first analog audio signal through the second connector.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Youngsoo Chun, Jungsik Park
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Patent number: 11424723Abstract: Example embodiments provide a process that includes one or more of receiving an audio signal from a feedback path of a feedback compressor circuit, determining whether an auxiliary attenuation value applied to the feedback compressor circuit has changed since a last audio signal was received, responsive to determining the auxiliary value has changed, determining a current operational state value of the LPF needs to be modified based on the changed auxiliary attenuation value, modifying the operational state value of the LPF, and applying the audio signal to the modified LPF.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Biamp Systems, LLCInventor: Aaron Faulstich
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Patent number: 11418876Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting and acknowledging audio transmissions containing data. In one embodiment, a method is presented that includes receiving multiple audio signals that are detected by multiple receivers from within a service area. A first audio transmission may be detected in a first subset of the audio signal that are received by a first subset of the receivers. The first subset of the receivers may be positioned to receive audio transmissions from computing devices located within a first portion of the service area. At least one transmitter may be identified that is positioned to transmit audio transmissions to computing devices located within at least a subset of the first portion of the service area. A second audio transmission may be transmitted using the at least one first transmitter.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: LISNRInventors: Oz Mendel, William Knauer