Patents by Inventor Chao-Ling Hsu
Chao-Ling Hsu 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).
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Patent number: 12154536Abstract: An active noise control (ANC) circuit is used for generating an anti-noise signal, and has a plurality of filters including at least one first filter and at least one second filter. The at least one first filter generates at least one first filter output, wherein each of the at least one first filter has a first filter type. The at least one second filter generates at least one second filter output, wherein each of the at least one second filter has a second filter type different from the first filter type. The anti-noise signal is jointly controlled by the at least one first filter output and the at least one second filter output. The at least one first filter and the at least one second filter are connected in a parallel fashion.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2022Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Airoha Technology Corp.Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Li-Wen Chi, Shih-Kai He
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Publication number: 20240313886Abstract: A signal loss compensation method, for compensating an input signal comprising (K+Y) lost signal units and normal signal units. The signal loss compensation method comprises: compensating 1st to (K?1)th lost signal units by a first signal loss concealment algorithm to generate a first compensation signal and accordingly generating a first synthetic signal; compensating (K+X+1)th to (K+Y) th lost signal units by a second signal loss concealment algorithm to generate a second compensation signal and accordingly generating a second synthetic signal; compensating K th to (K+X)th lost signal units by the first signal loss concealment algorithm or the second signal loss concealment algorithm to generate a third synthetic signal; generating an output signal according to the first synthetic signal, the second synthetic signal, the third synthetic signal and the normal signal units. K and Y are positive integers, X is a natural number, and Y is larger than X.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2023Publication date: September 19, 2024Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.Inventors: Shao-Wei Fan Jiang, Chao-Ling Hsu, Yiou-Wen Cheng
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Patent number: 11955108Abstract: The invention relates to an adaptive active noise cancellation apparatus and an audio playback system using the same. The adaptive active noise cancellation apparatus shapes an error signal and a noise signal according to a shape of an ideal noise. After that, the shaped noise signal and the shaped error signal are sent into a parameter adjusting unit to perform an adaptive parameter adjustment. Thus, the adaptive noise filter unit is not only can adaptively suppress noise and minimize the error signal, but also can suppress specific frequencies that are sensitive to the human ear.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Airoha Technology Corp.Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Li-Wen Chi
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Publication number: 20240112665Abstract: An active noise control (ANC) circuit is used for generating an anti-noise signal, and has a plurality of filters including at least one first filter and at least one second filter. The at least one first filter generates at least one first filter output, wherein each of the at least one first filter has at least one non-static filter and at least one static filter connected in a series fashion. The at least one second filter generates at least one second filter output, wherein each of the at least one second filter has at least one adaptive filter. The anti-noise signal is jointly controlled by the at least one first filter output and the at least one second filter output. The at least one first filter and the at least one second filter are connected in a parallel fashion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Airoha Technology Corp.Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Li-Wen Chi, Shih-Kai He
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Patent number: 11942068Abstract: An adaptive active noise control (ANC) system includes an ANC circuit and a control circuit. The ANC circuit generates an anti-noise signal for noise reduction, wherein the ANC circuit includes at least one adaptive filter. The control circuit receives a first input signal derived from a reference signal output by a reference microphone that picks up ambient noise, receives a second input signal derived from an error signal output by an error microphone that picks up remnant noise resulting from the noise reduction, and performs a transfer function variation detection based on the first input signal and the second input signal to control the at least one adaptive filter.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Airoha Technology Corp.Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Li-Wen Chi
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Patent number: 11875772Abstract: An adaptive active noise control (ANC) system includes an ANC circuit and a control circuit. The ANC circuit generates an anti-noise signal, and includes at least one adaptive filter. The control circuit receives a first input signal derived from a reference signal output by a reference microphone that picks up ambient noise, receives a second input signal derived from an error signal output by an error microphone that picks up remnant noise resulting from noise reduction, and performs a comparison operation based on a first characteristic value of the first input signal and a second characteristic value of the second input signal to control the at least one adaptive filter.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Airoha Technology Corp.Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Li-Wen Chi
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Publication number: 20230335100Abstract: An active noise control (ANC) circuit is used for generating an anti-noise signal, and has a plurality of filters including at least one first filter and at least one second filter. The at least one first filter generates at least one first filter output, wherein each of the at least one first filter has a first filter type. The at least one second filter generates at least one second filter output, wherein each of the at least one second filter has a second filter type different from the first filter type. The anti-noise signal is jointly controlled by the at least one first filter output and the at least one second filter output. The at least one first filter and the at least one second filter are connected in a parallel fashion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2022Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: Airoha Technology Corp.Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Li-Wen Chi, Shih-Kai He
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Publication number: 20230335104Abstract: The present invention relates to an active noise cancellation integrated circuit for stacking at least one anti-noise signal and at least one non-anti-noise signal, an associated method, and an active noise cancellation headphone using the same. The method is applicable to an audio playback device with at least one ANC filtering unit and at least one non-ANC filtering unit. The method includes: acquiring a non-anti-noise signal from a non-ANC filtering unit; generating a decoupled signal by processing the non-anti-noise signal with the transfer function of a physical channel and operations of an ANC filtering unit; performing a signal superposition, wherein an anti-noise signal from the 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: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: Airoha Technology Corp.Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Li-Wen Chi, Kai-Sheng Chen
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Publication number: 20230298559Abstract: An adaptive active noise control (ANC) system includes an ANC circuit and a control circuit. The ANC circuit generates an anti-noise signal for noise reduction, wherein the ANC circuit includes at least one adaptive filter. The control circuit receives a first input signal derived from a reference signal output by a reference microphone that picks up ambient noise, receives a second input signal derived from an error signal output by an error microphone that picks up remnant noise resulting from the noise reduction, and performs a transfer function variation detection based on the first input signal and the second input signal to control the at least one adaptive filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2022Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: Airoha Technology Corp.Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Li-Wen Chi
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Publication number: 20230298560Abstract: An adaptive active noise control (ANC) system includes an ANC circuit and a control circuit. The ANC circuit generates an anti-noise signal, and includes at least one adaptive filter. The control circuit receives a first input signal derived from a reference signal output by a reference microphone that picks up ambient noise, receives a second input signal derived from an error signal output by an error microphone that picks up remnant noise resulting from noise reduction, and performs a comparison operation based on a first characteristic value of the first input signal and a second characteristic value of the second input signal to control the at least one adaptive filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2022Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: Airoha Technology Corp.Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Li-Wen Chi
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Patent number: 11721315Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 21, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: AIROHA TECHNOLOGY CORP.Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Li-Wen Chi, Kai-Sheng Chen
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Publication number: 20230206924Abstract: A voice wakeup method is applied to wake up an electronic apparatus. The voice wakeup method includes executing a speaker identification function to analyze user voice and acquire a predefined identification of the user voice, executing a voiceprint extraction function to acquire a voiceprint segment of the user voice, executing an on-device training function via the voiceprint segment to generate an updated parameter, and utilizing the updated parameter to calibrate a speaker verification model, so that the speaker verification model is used to analyze a wakeup sentence and decide whether to wake up the electronic apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Yiou-Wen Cheng, Cheng-Kuan Wei
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Publication number: 20230131573Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: AIROHA TECHNOLOGY CORP.Inventors: Chao-Ling HSU, Li-Wen CHI, Kai-Sheng CHEN
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Publication number: 20230054927Abstract: The invention relates to an adaptive active noise cancellation apparatus and an audio playback system using the same. The adaptive active noise cancellation apparatus shapes an error signal and a noise signal according to a shape of an ideal noise. After that, the shaped noise signal and the shaped error signal are sent into a parameter adjusting unit to perform an adaptive parameter adjustment. Thus, the adaptive noise filter unit is not only can adaptively suppress noise and minimize the error signal, but also can suppress specific frequencies that are sensitive to the human ear.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: Airoha Technology Corp.Inventors: Chao-Ling HSU, Li-Wen CHI
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Patent number: 10394518Abstract: An audio synchronization method includes: receiving a first audio signal from a first recording device; receiving a second audio signal from a second recording device; performing a correlation operation upon the first audio signal and the second audio signal to align a first pattern of the first audio signal and the first pattern of the second audio signal; after the first patterns of the first audio signal and the second audio signal are aligned, calculating a difference between a second pattern of the first audio signal and the second pattern of the second audio signal; and obtaining a starting-time difference between the first audio signal and the second audio signal for audio synchronization according to the difference between the second pattern of the first audio signal and the second pattern of the second audio signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.Inventors: Xin-Wei Shih, Chia-Ying Li, Chao-Ling Hsu, Yiou-Wen Cheng, Shen-Kai Chang
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Patent number: 10199029Abstract: An earpiece of a headset uses a first signal and a second signal received from an in-ear microphone and an outside microphone, respectively, to enhance microphone signals. The in-ear microphone is positioned at a proximal side of the earpiece with respect to an ear canal of a user, and the outside microphone is positioned at a distal side of the earpiece with respect to the ear canal. A processing unit includes a filter, which digitally filters out in-ear noise from the first signal using the second signal as a reference to produce a de-noised signal to thereby enhance the microphone signals.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: MediaTek, Inc.Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Yiou-Wen Cheng, Chih-Ping Lin, Chieh-Cheng Cheng
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Patent number: 10176793Abstract: A method for performing active noise control upon a target zone includes: using an adaptive filtering circuit to receive at least one microphone signal obtained from a microphone; and, dynamically compensating at least one coefficient of the adaptive filtering circuit to adjust a frequency response of the adaptive filtering circuit according to an energy distribution of the at least one microphone signal, so as to make the adaptive filtering circuit receive the at least one microphone signal to generate a resultant anti-noise signal to the target zone based on the dynamically adjusted frequency response.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Yiou-Wen Cheng
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Publication number: 20180233122Abstract: A method for performing active noise control upon a target zone includes: using an adaptive filtering circuit to receive at least one microphone signal obtained from a microphone; and, dynamically compensating at least one coefficient of the adaptive filtering circuit to adjust a frequency response of the adaptive filtering circuit according to an energy distribution of the at least one microphone signal, so as to make the adaptive filtering circuit receive the at least one microphone signal to generate a resultant anti-noise signal to the target zone based on the dynamically adjusted frequency response.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2017Publication date: August 16, 2018Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Yiou-Wen Cheng
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Publication number: 20170372691Abstract: An earpiece of a headset uses a first signal and a second signal received from an in-ear microphone and an outside microphone, respectively, to enhance microphone signals. The in-ear microphone is positioned at a proximal side of the earpiece with respect to an ear canal of a user, and the outside microphone is positioned at a distal side of the earpiece with respect to the ear canal. A processing unit includes a filter, which digitally filters out in-ear noise from the first signal using the second signal as a reference to produce a de-noised signal to thereby enhance the microphone signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2016Publication date: December 28, 2017Inventors: Chao-Ling Hsu, Yiou-Wen Cheng, Chih-Ping Lin, Chieh-Cheng Cheng
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Publication number: 20170262255Abstract: An audio synchronization method includes: receiving a first audio signal from a first recording device; receiving a second audio signal from a second recording device; performing a correlation operation upon the first audio signal and the second audio signal to align a first pattern of the first audio signal and the first pattern of the second audio signal; after the first patterns of the first audio signal and the second audio signal are aligned, calculating a difference between a second pattern of the first audio signal and the second pattern of the second audio signal; and obtaining a starting-time difference between the first audio signal and the second audio signal for audio synchronization according to the difference between the second pattern of the first audio signal and the second pattern of the second audio signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2017Publication date: September 14, 2017Inventors: Xin-Wei Shih, Chia-Ying Li, Chao-Ling Hsu, Yiou-Wen Cheng, Shen-Kai Chang