Patents by Inventor Gavin KEARNEY

Gavin KEARNEY 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).

  • Patent number: 11910180
    Abstract: An audio processing method includes processing, by M first virtual speakers, a to-be-processed audio signal to obtain M first audio signals; processing, by N second virtual speakers, the to-be-processed audio signal to obtain N second audio signals; obtain M first head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) centered at a left ear position and N second HRTFs centered at a right ear position; obtain a first target audio signal based on the M first audio signals and the M first HRTFs; and obtain a second target audio signal based on the N second audio signals and the N second HRTFs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cal Armstrong, Gavin Kearney, Bin Wang, Zexin Liu
  • Publication number: 20240007819
    Abstract: An apparatus provides personalized binaural audio rendering of an input signal. The apparatus has a left ear transducer configured to generate a left ear audio signal and a right ear transducer configured to generate a right ear audio signal. Moreover, the apparatus has processing circuitry configured to determine, based on a current target direction of the input signal, an adjusted current target direction using a personalized adjustment function that describes a functional relationship between a plurality of reference target directions of a reference sound signal and a plurality of perceived reference target directions of the reference sound signal as perceived by a user. The processing circuitry is further configured to implement a target direction renderer configured to generate based on the input signal and the adjusted target direction a first driving signal for driving the left ear transducer and a second driving signal for driving the right ear transducer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Liyun Pang, Martin Pollow, Lauren Ward, Gavin Kearney, Thomas McKenzie, Calum Armstrong
  • Patent number: 11863964
    Abstract: M audio signals are obtained by processing an audio signal by M virtual speakers; M first HRTFs and M second HRTFs are obtained, where the M first HRTFs corresponding to a left ear position, and the M second HRTFs corresponding to a right ear position; high-band impulse responses of some of the M first HRTFs are modified to obtain modified first target HRTFs, and high-band impulse responses of some of the M second HRTFs are modified to obtain modified second target HRTFs; a first target audio signal corresponding to the left ear position is obtained based on the modified first target HRTFs and un-modified first HRTFs, and the M audio signals; and a second target audio signal corresponding to the right ear position is obtained based on the modified second HRTFs, un-modified second target HRTFs, and the M audio signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gavin Kearney, Cal Armstrong, Bin Wang, Zexin Liu
  • Publication number: 20230199424
    Abstract: An audio processing method includes processing, by M first virtual speakers, a to-be-processed audio signal to obtain M first audio signals; processing, by N second virtual speakers, the to-be-processed audio signal to obtain N second audio signals; obtain M first head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) centered at a left ear position and N second HRTFs centered at a right ear position; obtain a first target audio signal based on the M first audio signals and the M first HRTFs; and obtain a second target audio signal based on the N second audio signals and the N second HRTFs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Cal Armstrong, Gavin Kearney, Bin Wang, Zexin Liu
  • Publication number: 20230179941
    Abstract: An audio signal rendering method includes obtaining a to-be-rendered audio signal by decoding a received bitstream, obtaining control information, where the control information indicates at least one of content description metadata, rendering format flag information, loudspeaker configuration information, application scene information, tracking information, posture information, or location information, and rendering the to-be-rendered audio signal based on the control information to obtain a rendered audio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Bin Wang, Gavin Kearney, Cal Armstrong, Jiance Ding, Zhe Wang
  • Publication number: 20230089225
    Abstract: This application discloses an audio rendering method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining a to-be-rendered audio signal; determining K first combined HRTFS based on K first HRTFs and K second HRTFs; determining K second combined HRTFs based on K third HRTFs and K fourth HRTFs; determining a first target rendered signal based on the K first combined HRTFs and the to-be-rendered audio signal, where the first target rendered signal is a rendered signal output to the left ear of a listener; and determining a second target rendered signal based on the K second combined HRTFs and the to-be-rendered audio signal, where the second target rendered signal is a rendered signal output to the right ear of the listener.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Bin WANG, Cal ARMSTRONG, Gavin KEARNEY, Yuan GAO
  • Patent number: 11611841
    Abstract: An audio processing method includes: M first audio signals are obtained by processing a to-be-processed audio signal by M first virtual speakers; N second audio signals are obtained by processing the to-be-processed audio signal by N second virtual speakers; M first head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) centered at a left ear position and N second HRTFs centered at a right ear position are obtained; a first target audio signal is obtained based on the M first audio signals and the M first HRTFs; and a second target audio signal is obtained based on the N second audio signals and the N second HRTFs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cal Armstrong, Gavin Kearney, Bin Wang, Zexin Liu
  • Publication number: 20230007420
    Abstract: A method for determining subject specific digital audio data can comprise providing at least one respective audio signal input to each of a plurality of loudspeaker elements supported in a predetermined spatial relationship, in which respective locations of an effective point source of each loudspeaker element all lie in an imaginary surface that at least partially contains a spatial region where at least one aural cavity of a subject is located, thereby providing a distance between each respective location and each aural cavity of less than 1.5 meters. Responsive to at least one audio signal output from at least one of the loudspeaker elements, via at least one microphone element located at or within an aural cavity of the subject, respective subject specific audio data output is provided and is processed via an audio processing system, the subject specific audio data output, thereby providing subject specific digital audio data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Gavin Kearney, Calum Armstrong
  • Publication number: 20220386064
    Abstract: M audio signals are obtained by processing an audio signal by M virtual speakers; M first HRTFs and M second HRTFs are obtained, where the M first HRTFs corresponding to a left ear position, and the M second HRTFs corresponding to a right ear position; high-band impulse responses of some of the M first HRTFs are modified to obtain modified first target HRTFs, and high-band impulse responses of some of the M second HRTFs are modified to obtain modified second target HRTFs; a first target audio signal corresponding to the left ear position is obtained based on the modified first target HRTFs and un-modified first HRTFs, and the M audio signals; and a second target audio signal corresponding to the right ear position is obtained based on the modified second HRTFs, un-modified second target HRTFs, and the M audio signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Gavin KEARNEY, Cal ARMSTRONG, Bin WANG, Zexin LIU
  • Patent number: 11451921
    Abstract: An audio processing method includes: M audio signals are obtained by processing an audio signal by M virtual speakers; M first HRTFs and M second HRTFs are obtained, where the M first HRTFs corresponding to a left ear position, and the M second HRTFs corresponding to a right ear position; high-band impulse responses of some of the M first HRTFs are modified to obtain modified first target HRTFs, and high-band impulse responses of some of the M second HRTFs are modified to obtain modified second target HRTFs; a first target audio signal corresponding to the left ear position is obtained based on the modified first target HRTFs and un-modified first HRTFs, and the M audio signals; and a second target audio signal corresponding to the right ear position is obtained based on the modified second HRTFs, un-modified second target HRTFs, and the M audio signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gavin Kearney, Cal Armstrong, Bin Wang, Zexin Liu
  • Publication number: 20210176584
    Abstract: An audio processing method includes: M first audio signals are obtained by processing a to-be-processed audio signal by M first virtual speakers; N second audio signals are obtained by processing the to-be-processed audio signal by N second virtual speakers; M first head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) centered at a left ear position and N second HRTFs centered at a right ear position are obtained; a first target audio signal is obtained based on the M first audio signals and the M first HRTFs; and a second target audio signal is obtained based on the N second audio signals and the N second HRTFs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Cal Armstrong, Gavin Kearney, Bin Wang, Zexin Liu
  • Publication number: 20210176583
    Abstract: An audio processing method includes: M audio signals are obtained by processing an audio signal by M virtual speakers; M first HRTFs and M second HRTFs are obtained, where the M first HRTFs corresponding to a left ear position, and the M second HRTFs corresponding to a right ear position; high-band impulse responses of some of the M first HRTFs are modified to obtain modified first target HRTFs, and high-band impulse responses of some of the M second HRTFs are modified to obtain modified second target HRTFs; a first target audio signal corresponding to the left ear position is obtained based on the modified first target HRTFs and un-modified first HRTFs, and the M audio signals; and a second target audio signal corresponding to the right ear position is obtained based on the modified second HRTFs, un-modified second target HRTFs, and the M audio signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Gavin KEARNEY, Cal ARMSTRONG, Bin WANG, Zexin LIU
  • Patent number: 10521608
    Abstract: A device may obtain information included in a corpus of documents relating to an organization. The device may identify a set of values indicating personal information for one or more individuals by using a set of natural language processing (NLP) techniques to analyze the information included in the corpus. The device may determine a set of relationships between one or more values, of the set of values indicating the personal information using one or more additional NLP techniques and/or one or more rules. The device may generate a set of user profiles for the one or more individuals based on the set of relationships between the one or more values indicating the personal information. The device may perform one or more actions associated with using the set of user profiles to service a request for information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Urvesh Bhowan, Bogdan Eugen Sacaleanu, Navdeep Sharma, Gavin Kearney, Laura O'Malley, Aoife Whelan, Qurrat Ul Ain, Anthony McCoy
  • Publication number: 20190213354
    Abstract: A device may obtain information included in a corpus of documents relating to an organization. The device may identify a set of values indicating personal information for one or more individuals by using a set of natural language processing (NLP) techniques to analyze the information included in the corpus. The device may determine a set of relationships between one or more values, of the set of values indicating the personal information using one or more additional NLP techniques and/or one or more rules. The device may generate a set of user profiles for the one or more individuals based on the set of relationships between the one or more values indicating the personal information. The device may perform one or more actions associated with using the set of user profiles to service a request for information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Urvesh BHOWAN, Bogdan Eugen SACALEANU, Navdeep SHARMA, Gavin KEARNEY, Laura O'MALLEY, Aoife WHELAN, Qurrat UL AIN, Anthony McCOY