Patents by Inventor Lae Hoon Kim

Lae Hoon Kim 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: 12069425
    Abstract: A wearable device may include a processor configured to detect a self-voice signal, based on one or more transducers. The processor may be configured to separate the self-voice signal from a background signal in an external audio signal based on using a multi-microphone speech generative network. The processor may also be configured to apply a first filter to an external audio signal, detected by at least one external microphone on the wearable device, during a listen through operation based on an activation of the audio zoom feature to generate a first listen-through signal that includes the external audio signal. The processor may be configured to produce an output audio signal that is based on at least the first listen-through signal that includes the external signal, and is based on the detected self-voice signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Lae-Hoon Kim, Dongmei Wang, Fatemeh Saki, Taher Shahbazi Mirzahasanloo, Erik Visser, Rogerio Guedes Alves
  • Patent number: 12063490
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for signal processing are described. Generally, as provided for by the described techniques, a wearable device to receive an input audio signal from one or more outer microphones, an input audio signal from one or more inner microphones, and a bone conduction signal from a bone conduction sensor based on the input audio signals. The wearable device may filter the bone conduction signal based on a set of frequencies of the input audio signals, such as a low frequency portion of the input audio signals. For example, the wearable device may apply a filter to the bone conduction signal that accounts for an error in the input audio signals. The wearable device may add a gain to the filtered bone conduction signal and may equalize the filtered bone conduction signal based on the gain. The wearable device may output an audio signal to a speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Lae-Hoon Kim, Rogerio Guedes Alves, Jacob Jon Bean, Erik Visser
  • Patent number: 12051429
    Abstract: A device includes a memory configured to store untransformed ambisonic coefficients at different time segments. The device includes one or more processors configured to obtain the untransformed ambisonic coefficients at the different time segments, where the untransformed ambisonic coefficients at the different time segments represent a soundfield at the different time segments. The one or more processors are configured to apply one adaptive network, based on a constraint that includes preservation of a spatial direction of one or more audio sources in the soundfield at the different time segments, to the untransformed ambisonic coefficients at the different time segments to generate transformed ambisonic coefficients at the different time segments, wherein the transformed ambisonic coefficients at the different time segments represent a modified soundfield at the different time segments, that was modified based on the constraint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Lae-Hoon Kim, Shankar Thagadur Shivappa, S M Akramus Salehin, Shuhua Zhang, Erik Visser
  • Publication number: 20240221752
    Abstract: In an aspect, a user equipment receives, via a microphone, an utterance from a user and determines, using radio frequency sensing, that the user performed a gesture while making the utterance. The user equipment determines an object associated with the gesture and transmits an enhanced directive to an application programming interface (API) of a smart assistance device. The enhanced directive is determined based on the object, the gesture, and the utterance. The enhanced directive causes the smart assistant device to perform an action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Jason FILOS, Xiaoxin ZHANG, Lae-Hoon KIM, Erik VISSER
  • Patent number: 12002455
    Abstract: A device includes a memory configured to store instructions. The device also includes one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to provide context and one or more items of interest corresponding to the context to a dependency network encoder to generate a semantic-based representation of the context. The one or more processors are also configured to provide the context to a data dependent encoder to generate a context-based representation. The one or more processors are further configured to combine the semantic-based representation and the context-based representation to generate a semantically-augmented representation of the context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Arvind Krishna Sridhar, Ravi Choudhary, Lae-Hoon Kim, Erik Visser
  • Publication number: 20240155303
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and techniques for detecting audio sources and configuring acoustic device settings. For instance, a wireless device can obtain a first set of radio frequency (RF) sensing data associated with a first plurality of received waveforms corresponding to a first transmitted waveform reflected off of a plurality of reflectors. Based on the first set of RF sensing data, the wireless device can determine a classification of a first reflector from the plurality of reflectors. The wireless device can determine at least one acoustic setting based on the classification of the at least one reflector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Erik VISSER, Lae-Hoon KIM, Jason FILOS, Xiaoxin ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240046948
    Abstract: A device for removing wind noise is provided. The device includes: processors configured to execute more instructions to control: a correlation maximizing filter to output a third sound signal to a first channel based on a first sound signal, a second sound signal and a first weight vector, and output a fourth sound signal to a second channel based on the first sound signal, the second sound signal and a second weight vector; a sound source separator to receive the third and fourth sound signals through the first and second channels, and perform a sound source separation to output a fifth and sixth sound signals to the first and second channels; a residual wind noise remover to receive the fifth and sixth sound signals, and perform a residual wind noise removal based on the fifth and sixth sound signals to generate an output signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keunsang LEE, Lae Hoon KIM
  • Publication number: 20230353929
    Abstract: A wearable device may include a processor configured to detect a self-voice signal, based on one or more transducers. The processor may be configured to separate the self-voice signal from a background signal in an external audio signal based on using a multi-microphone speech generative network. The processor may also be configured to apply a first filter to an external audio signal, detected by at least one external microphone on the wearable device, during a listen through operation based on an activation of the audio zoom feature to generate a first listen-through signal that includes the external audio signal. The processor may be configured to produce an output audio signal that is based on at least the first listen-through signal that includes the external signal, and is based on the detected self-voice signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Lae-Hoon KIM, Dongmei WANG, Fatemeh SAKI, Taher SHAHBAZI MIRZAHASANLOO, Erik VISSER, Rogerio Guedes ALVES
  • Patent number: 11804233
    Abstract: A device includes one or more processors configured to perform signal processing including a linear transformation and a non-linear transformation of an input signal to generate a reference target signal. The reference target signal has a linear component associated with the linear transformation and a non-linear component associated with the non-linear transformation. The one or more processors are also configured to perform linear filtering of the input signal by controlling adaptation of the linear filtering to generate an output signal that substantially matches the linear component of the reference target signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Lae-Hoon Kim, Dongmei Wang, Cheng-Yu Hung, Erik Visser
  • Patent number: 11805380
    Abstract: A device includes one or more processors configured to determine, based on data descriptive of two or more audio environments, a geometry of a mutual audio environment. The one or more processors are also configured to process audio data, based on the geometry of the mutual audio environment, for output at an audio device disposed in a first audio environment of the two or more audio environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: S M Akramus Salehin, Lae-Hoon Kim, Xiaoxin Zhang, Erik Visser
  • Patent number: 11805360
    Abstract: A device includes a memory configured to store instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions. The one or more processors are configured to execute the instructions to receive audio data including a first audio frame corresponding to a first output of a first microphone and a second audio frame corresponding to a second output of a second microphone. The one or more processors are also configured to execute the instructions to provide the audio data to a first noise-suppression network and a second noise-suppression network. The first noise-suppression network is configured to generate a first noise-suppressed audio frame and the second noise-suppression network is configured to generate a second noise-suppressed audio frame. The one or more processors are further configured to execute the instructions to provide the noise-suppressed audio frames to an attention-pooling network. The attention-pooling network is configured to generate an output noise-suppressed audio frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vahid Montazeri, Van Nguyen, Hannes Pessentheiner, Lae-Hoon Kim, Erik Visser, Rogerio Guedes Alves
  • Publication number: 20230326477
    Abstract: A device to perform speech enhancement includes one or more processors configured to process image data to detect at least one of an emotion, a speaker characteristic, or a noise type. The one or more processors are also configured to generate context data based at least in part on the at least one of the emotion, the speaker characteristic, or the noise type. The one or more processors are further configured to obtain input spectral data based on an input signal. The input signal represents sound that includes speech. The one or more processors are also configured to process, using a multi-encoder transformer, the input spectral data and the context data to generate output spectral data that represents a speech enhanced version of the input signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Kyungguen BYUN, Shuhua ZHANG, Lae-Hoon KIM, Erik VISSER, Sunkuk MOON, Vahid MONTAZERI
  • Patent number: 11783809
    Abstract: A device includes a memory configured to store instructions and one or more processors configured execute the instructions. The one or more processors are configured execute the instructions to receive audio data including first audio data corresponding to a first output of a first microphone and second audio data corresponding to a second output of a second microphone. The one or more processors are also configured to execute the instructions to provide the audio data to a dynamic classifier. The dynamic classifier is configured to generate a classification output corresponding to the audio data. The one or more processors are further configured to execute the instructions to determine, at least partially based on the classification output, whether the audio data corresponds to user voice activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Taher Shahbazi Mirzahasanloo, Rogerio Guedes Alves, Erik Visser, Lae-Hoon Kim
  • Publication number: 20230300527
    Abstract: A device to process speech includes a speech processing network that includes an input configured to receive audio data. The speech processing network also includes one or more network layers configured to process the audio data to generate a network output. The speech processing network includes an output configured to be coupled to multiple speech application modules to enable the network output to be provided as a common input to each of the multiple speech application modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Lae-Hoon KIM, Sunkuk MOON, Erik VISSER, Prajakt KULKARNI
  • Publication number: 20230276173
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for signal processing are described. Generally, as provided for by the described techniques, a wearable device to receive an input audio signal from one or more outer microphones, an input audio signal from one or more inner microphones, and a bone conduction signal from a bone conduction sensor based on the input audio signals. The wearable device may filter the bone conduction signal based on a set of frequencies of the input audio signals, such as a low frequency portion of the input audio signals. For example, the wearable device may apply a filter to the bone conduction signal that accounts for an error in the input audio signals. The wearable device may add a gain to the filtered bone conduction signal and may equalize the filtered bone conduction signal based on the gain. The wearable device may output an audio signal to a speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Lae-Hoon KIM, Rogerio Guedes ALVES, Jacob Jon BEAN, Erik VISSER
  • Patent number: 11743631
    Abstract: A wearable device may include a processor configured to perform active noise cancelation (ANC) applied to an input audio signal received by at least one microphone, and detect a self-voice signal, based on one or more transducers. The processor may also be configured to apply a first filter to an external audio signal, detected by at least one external microphone on the wearable device, during a listen through operation based on an activation of the audio zoom feature to generate a first listen-through signal that includes the external audio signal. The processor may also be configured to after the activation of the audio zoom feature terminate a second filter that provides low frequency compensation. The processor may be configured to produce an output audio signal that is based on at least the first listen-through signal that includes the external signal, and is based on the detected self-voice signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporation
    Inventors: Lae-Hoon Kim, Dongmei Wang, Fatemeh Saki, Taher Shahbazi Mirzahasanloo, Erik Visser, Rogerio Guedes Alves
  • Publication number: 20230260525
    Abstract: A device includes a memory configured to store untransformed ambisonic coefficients at different time segments. The device includes one or more processors configured to obtain the untransformed ambisonic coefficients at the different time segments, where the untransformed ambisonic coefficients at the different time segments represent a soundfield at the different time segments. The one or more processors are configured to apply one adaptive network, based on a constraint that includes preservation of a spatial direction of one or more audio sources in the soundfield at the different time segments, to the untransformed ambisonic coefficients at the different time segments to generate transformed ambisonic coefficients at the different time segments, wherein the transformed ambisonic coefficients at the different time segments represent a modified soundfield at the different time segments, that was modified based on the constraint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Lae-Hoon KIM, Shankar THAGADUR SHIVAPPA, S M Akramus SALEHIN, Shuhua ZHANG, Erik VISSER
  • Patent number: 11721353
    Abstract: A device includes one or more processors configured to obtain audio signals representing sound captured by at least three microphones and determine spatial audio data based on the audio signals. The one or more processors are further configured to determine a metric indicative of wind noise in the audio signals. The metric is based on a comparison of a first value and a second value. The first value corresponds to an aggregate signal based on the spatial audio data, and the second value corresponds to a differential signal based on the spatial audio data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: S M Akramus Salehin, Lae-Hoon Kim, Hannes Pessentheiner, Shuhua Zhang, Sanghyun Chi, Erik Visser, Shankar Thagadur Shivappa
  • Patent number: 11715480
    Abstract: A device to perform speech enhancement includes one or more processors configured to obtain input spectral data based on an input signal. The input signal represents sound that includes speech. The one or more processors are also configured to process, using a multi-encoder transformer, the input spectral data and context data to generate output spectral data that represents a speech enhanced version of the input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kyungguen Byun, Shuhua Zhang, Lae-Hoon Kim, Erik Visser, Sunkuk Moon, Vahid Montazeri
  • Patent number: 11705147
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer-readable media are provided for speech enhancement using a hybrid neural network. An example process can include receiving, by a first neural network portion of the hybrid neural network, audio data and reference data, the audio data including speech data, noise data, and echo data; filtering, by the first neural network portion, a portion of the audio data based on adapted coefficients of the first neural network portion, the portion of the audio data including the noise data and/or echo data; based on the filtering, generating, by the first neural network portion, filtered audio data including the speech data and an unfiltered portion of the noise data and/or echo data; and based on the filtered audio data and the reference data, extracting, by a second neural network portion of the hybrid neural network, the speech data from the filtered audio data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Erik Visser, Vahid Montazeri, Shuhua Zhang, Lae-Hoon Kim