Patents by Inventor Karim Younes

Karim Younes 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: 9437180
    Abstract: A system utilizing two pairs of microphones for noise suppression. Primary and secondary microphones may be positioned closely spaced to each other to provide acoustic signals used to achieve noise cancellation/suppression. An additional, tertiary microphone may be spaced with respect to either the primary microphone or the secondary microphone in a spread-microphone configuration for deriving level cues from audio signals provided by the tertiary and the primary or secondary microphone. The level cues are expressed via a level difference used to determine one or more cluster tracking control signal(s). The level difference-based cluster tracking signals are used to control adaptation of noise suppression. A noise cancelled primary acoustic signal and level difference-based cluster tracking control signals are used during post filtering to adaptively generate a mask to be applied to a speech estimate signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Knowles Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Carlo Murgia, Carlos Avendano, Karim Younes, Mark Every, Ye Jiang
  • Publication number: 20140205107
    Abstract: A system utilizing two pairs of microphones for noise suppression. Primary and secondary microphones may be positioned closely spaced to each other to provide acoustic signals used to achieve noise cancellation/suppression. An additional, tertiary microphone may be spaced with respect to either the primary microphone or the secondary microphone in a spread-microphone configuration for deriving level cues from audio signals provided by the tertiary and the primary or secondary microphone. The level cues are expressed via a level difference used to determine one or more cluster tracking control signal(s). The level difference-based cluster tracking signals are used to control adaptation of noise suppression. A noise cancelled primary acoustic signal and level difference-based cluster tracking control signals are used during post filtering to adaptively generate a mask to be applied to a speech estimate signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Inventors: Carlo Murgia, Carlos Avendano, Karim Younes, Mark Every, Ye Jiang
  • Patent number: 8718290
    Abstract: An audio device having two pairs of microphones for noise suppression. Primary and secondary microphones of the three microphones may be positioned closely spaced to each other to provide acoustic signals used to achieve noise cancellation/suppression. A tertiary microphone may be spaced with respect to either the primary microphone or the secondary microphone in a spread-microphone configuration for deriving level cues from audio signals provided by the tertiary and the primary or secondary microphone. Signals from two microphones may be used rather than three microphones. The level cues are expressed via an inter-microphone level difference (ILD) used to determine one or more cluster tracking control signal(s). The ILD based cluster tracking signals are used to control adaptation of null-processing noise suppression modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Audience, Inc.
    Inventors: Carlo Murgia, Carlos Avendano, Karim Younes, Mark Every, Ye Jiang
  • Patent number: 8320366
    Abstract: Disclosed are various systems and methods for controlling a voice activity detector. In one example approach, a method is provided in which a voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) session is initiated in a first gateway with a second gateway. A plurality of jitter adaptation packets are transmitted from the first gateway to the second gateway. Also, the voice activity detector is disabled in the first gateway during the transmission of the jitter adaptation packets. The voice activity detector is enabled in the first gateway after the transmission of the jitter adaptation packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Mindspeed Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel D. Peshkin, Karim Younes, James W. Johnston
  • Publication number: 20110182436
    Abstract: An array of microphones utilizes two sets of two microphones for noise suppression. A primary microphone and secondary microphone of the three microphones may be positioned closely spaced to each other to provide acoustic signals used to achieve noise cancellation. A tertiary microphone may be spaced with respect to either the primary microphone or the secondary microphone in a spread-microphone configuration for deriving level cues from audio signals provided by tertiary and the primary or secondary microphone. Signals from two microphones may be used rather than three microphones. The level cues are expressed via an inter-microphone level difference (ILD) which is used to determine one or more cluster tracking control signals. The ILD based cluster tracking signals are used to control the adaptation of null-processing noise cancellation modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Inventors: Carlo Murgia, Carlo Avendano, Karim Younes, Mark Every, Ye Jiang
  • Publication number: 20110051740
    Abstract: Disclosed are various systems and methods for controlling a voice activity detector. In one example approach, a method is provided in which a voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) session is initiated in a first gateway with a second gateway. A plurality of jitter adaptation packets are transmitted from the first gateway to the second gateway. Also, the voice activity detector is disabled in the first gateway during the transmission of the jitter adaptation packets. The voice activity detector is enabled in the first gateway after the transmission of the jitter adaptation packets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: MINDSPEED TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Joel D. Peshkin, Karim Younes, James W. Johnston
  • Patent number: 7804817
    Abstract: Disclosed are various systems and methods for controlling a voice activity detector. In one example approach, a method is provided in which a voice over internet protocol (VOIP) session is initiated in a first gateway with a second gateway. A plurality of jitter adaptation packets are transmitted from the first gateway to the second gateway. Also, the voice activity detector is disabled in the first gateway during the transmission of the jitter adaptation packets. The voice activity detector is enabled in the first gateway after the transmission of the jitter adaptation packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Mindspeed Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel D. Peshkin, Karim Younes, James W. Johnston
  • Patent number: 7047185
    Abstract: A power management system for a mobile unit wherein the mobile unit detects the quality of the signals received from the base station. Based on this signal quality, the mobile unit determines if the voice data could be adequately transmitted using a secondary speech coder. If the transmission quality is adequate, the mobile unit switches from a primary speech coder to a secondary speech coder. The secondary speech coder is compatible with the primary speech coder, but consumes significantly less battery power when coding and decoding the voice data. The mobile unit may alternatively monitor the amount of processor usage. If the processor usage exceeds a threshold level, the mobile unit switches from the primary speech coder to the secondary speech coder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Karim Younes, David O. Anderton