Patents by Inventor Lingsong ZHOU

Lingsong ZHOU 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: 12126954
    Abstract: A method for controlling headphones. The headphones include a feedback microphone and a speaker. The method includes: obtaining an ear canal audio signal by collecting an audio signal in an ear canal by the feedback microphone; obtaining an audio signal feature parameter by conducting feature extraction on the ear canal audio signal; determining a tightness level of the headphones in a current wearing status; generating an audio feature to be identified according to the audio signal feature parameter and the tightness level; inputting the audio feature to be identified into a preset interactive operation identification model, and outputting an identification result, where the identification result includes an interactive operation identifier; determining a control instruction corresponding to the interactive operation identifier; and controlling a playback status of the speaker according to the control instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd., Beijing Xiaomi Pinecone Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Lingsong Zhou
  • Publication number: 20230300511
    Abstract: A method for controlling headphones. The headphones include a feedback microphone and a speaker. The method includes: obtaining an ear canal audio signal by collecting an audio signal in an ear canal by the feedback microphone; obtaining an audio signal feature parameter by conducting feature extraction on the ear canal audio signal; determining a tightness level of the headphones in a current wearing status; generating an audio feature to be identified according to the audio signal feature parameter and the tightness level; inputting the audio feature to be identified into a preset interactive operation identification model, and outputting an identification result, where the identification result includes an interactive operation identifier; determining a control instruction corresponding to the interactive operation identifier; and controlling a playback status of the speaker according to the control instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicants: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD., BEIJING XIAOMI PINECONE ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lingsong ZHOU
  • Patent number: 11727928
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a responding method and device, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method is applied to a first electronic device including an audio acquisition component and an audio output component. The method can include acquiring a voice signal through the audio acquisition component, determining whether to respond to the voice signal, and responsive to determining to respond to the voice signal, outputting a first sound signal by the audio output component, the first sound signal being configured to notify at least one second electronic device that the first electronic device responds to the voice signal. In such a manner, an electronic device, responsive to determining to respond to a voice signal, outputs a sound signal to prevent other electronic device(s) from responding to the voice signal, so that competitions between electronic devices are reduced and a user experience is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Pinecone Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lingsong Zhou, Fei Xiang
  • Patent number: 11696064
    Abstract: A whistling sound suppression method includes: obtaining an ambient audio signal, the ambient audio signal being a sound signal in a surrounding environment of an earphone; filtering the ambient audio signal according to a preset first filter group to obtain a first audio signal; obtaining an ear canal audio signal, the ear canal audio signal being a sound signal when the first audio signal propagates in an ear canal; and filtering a subsequently obtained ambient audio signal according to a preset second filter group to obtain a second audio signal in response to the ear canal audio signal meets a whistling condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignees: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd., Beijing Xiaomi Pinecone Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Lingsong Zhou
  • Patent number: 11689690
    Abstract: A method for audio and video synchronization, includes: receiving audio data sent by the video player, wherein the audio data includes more than one audio sampling points; obtaining a network delay change between the audio player and the video player, wherein the network delay change refers to a time difference between the network delay monitored for the first time and the network delay monitored for the last time; determining a total amount of audio data to be adjusted according to the network delay change; and adding audio sampling points to the received audio data or deleting audio sampling points from the received audio data according to the total amount of audio data to be adjusted and a preset adjustment strategy, so that the audio player is synchronized with the video player, and playing the added or deleted audio data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD., BEIJING XIAOMI PINECONE ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lingsong Zhou, Xiaoming Li
  • Publication number: 20230043525
    Abstract: A whistling sound suppression method includes: obtaining an ambient audio signal, the ambient audio signal being a sound signal in a surrounding environment of an earphone; filtering the ambient audio signal according to a preset first filter group to obtain a first audio signal; obtaining an ear canal audio signal, the ear canal audio signal being a sound signal when the first audio signal propagates in an ear canal; and filtering a subsequently obtained ambient audio signal according to a preset second filter group to obtain a second audio signal in response to the ear canal audio signal meets a whistling condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventor: Lingsong ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20220311967
    Abstract: A method for audio and video synchronization, includes: receiving audio data sent by the video player, wherein the audio data includes more than one audio sampling points; obtaining a network delay change between the audio player and the video player, wherein the network delay change refers to a time difference between the network delay monitored for the first time and the network delay monitored for the last time; determining a total amount of audio data to be adjusted according to the network delay change; and adding audio sampling points to the received audio data or deleting audio sampling points from the received audio data according to the total amount of audio data to be adjusted and a preset adjustment strategy, so that the audio player is synchronized with the video player, and playing the added or deleted audio data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Lingsong ZHOU, Xiaoming LI
  • Patent number: 11264039
    Abstract: A space division method includes: receiving a first sound signal that is a medium-high frequency sound signal; decoding the first sound signal by specified decoding to obtain device information of a sound source device that emits the first sound signal; and generating space division information when the device information of the sound source device is successfully obtained, wherein the space division information is configured to indicate that the sound source device and the sound collection device are located in the same spatial region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Lingsong Zhou
  • Publication number: 20210225372
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a responding method and device, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method is applied to a first electronic device including an audio acquisition component and an audio output component. The method can include acquiring a voice signal through the audio acquisition component, determining whether to respond to the voice signal, and responsive to determining to respond to the voice signal, outputting a first sound signal by the audio output component, the first sound signal being configured to notify at least one second electronic device that the first electronic device responds to the voice signal. In such a manner, an electronic device, responsive to determining to respond to a voice signal, outputs a sound signal to prevent other electronic device(s) from responding to the voice signal, so that competitions between electronic devices are reduced and a user experience is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: Beijing Xiaomi Pinecone Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lingsong ZHOU, Fei XIANG
  • Publication number: 20210151059
    Abstract: A space division method includes: receiving a first sound signal that is a medium-high frequency sound signal; decoding the first sound signal by specified decoding to obtain device information of a sound source device that emits the first sound signal; and generating space division information when the device information of the sound source device is successfully obtained, wherein the space division information is configured to indicate that the sound source device and the sound collection device are located in the same spatial region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: Beijing Xiaomi Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Lingsong ZHOU
  • Patent number: 10930304
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for processing voice are provided. The method is applied to a decision-making device in communication with a distributed microphone array and the distributed microphone array comprises a plurality of sub-arrays. The method comprises: obtaining, for each sub-array, an awakening voice signal received by each microphone of the sub-array; determining, for each sub-array, a frequency domain signal corresponding to each awakening voice signal of the sub-array, and a first cross-correlation function between every two frequency domain signals; determining an awakened sub-array based on each first cross-correlation function for each sub-array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhao Wang, Lingsong Zhou
  • Publication number: 20190295569
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for processing voice are provided. The method is applied to a decision-making device in communication with a distributed microphone array and the distributed microphone array comprises a plurality of sub-arrays. The method comprises: obtaining, for each sub-array, an awakening voice signal received by each microphone of the sub-array; determining, for each sub-array, a frequency domain signal corresponding to each awakening voice signal of the sub-array, and a first cross-correlation function between every two frequency domain signals; determining an awakened sub-array based on each first cross-correlation function for each sub-array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhao WANG, Lingsong ZHOU