Patents by Inventor Andreas KOUTROUVELIS

Andreas KOUTROUVELIS has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240029754
    Abstract: Implementations of the subject technology provide systems and methods for providing audio source separation for audio input, such as for audio devices having limited power and/or computing resources. The subject technology may allow an audio device to leverage processing and/or power resources of a companion device that is communicatively coupled to the audio device. The companion device may identify a noise condition of the audio device, select a source separation model based on the noise condition, and provide the source separation model to the audio device. In this way, the audio device can provide audio source separation functionality using a relatively small footprint source separation model that is specific to the noise condition in which the audio device is operated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Carlos M. AVENDANO, John WOODRUFF, Jonathan HUANG, Mehrez SOUDEN, Andreas KOUTROUVELIS
  • Publication number: 20240005902
    Abstract: Microphone signals of a primary headphone are processed and either a first transparency mode of operation is activated or a second transparency mode of operation. In another aspect, a processor enters different configurations in response to estimated ambient acoustic noise being lower or higher than a threshold, wherein in a first configuration a transparency audio signal is adapted via target voice and wearer voice processing (TVWVP) of a microphone signal to boost detected speech frequencies in the transparency audio signal, and in a second configuration the TVWVP is controlled to, as the estimated ambient acoustic noise increases, reduce boosting of, or not boost at all, the detected speech frequencies in the transparency audio signal. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: John Woodruff, Andreas Koutrouvelis, Fatemeh Pishdadian, Jonathan D. Sheaffer, Yang Lu, Carlos M. Avendano, Nasim Radmanesh
  • Patent number: 11810588
    Abstract: Implementations of the subject technology provide systems and methods for providing audio source separation for audio input, such as for audio devices having limited power and/or computing resources. The subject technology may allow an audio device to leverage processing and/or power resources of a companion device that is communicatively coupled to the audio device. The companion device may identify a noise condition of the audio device, select a source separation model based on the noise condition, and provide the source separation model to the audio device. In this way, the audio device can provide audio source separation functionality using a relatively small footprint source separation model that is specific to the noise condition in which the audio device is operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Carlos M. Avendano, John Woodruff, Jonathan Huang, Mehrez Souden, Andreas Koutrouvelis
  • Publication number: 20220270629
    Abstract: Implementations of the subject technology provide systems and methods for providing audio source separation for audio input, such as for audio devices having limited power and/or computing resources. The subject technology may allow an audio device to leverage processing and/or power resources of a companion device that is communicatively coupled to the audio device. The companion device may identify a noise condition of the audio device, select a source separation model based on the noise condition, and provide the source separation model to the audio device. In this way, the audio device can provide audio source separation functionality using a relatively small footprint source separation model that is specific to the noise condition in which the audio device is operated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Carlos M. AVENDANO, John WOODRUFF, Jonathan HUANG, Mehrez SOUDEN, Andreas KOUTROUVELIS