Patents by Inventor Marco Veneri

Marco Veneri 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: 11716579
    Abstract: Described herein is a MEMS acoustic transducer device provided with a micromechanical detection structure that detects acoustic-pressure waves and supplies a transduced electrical quantity, and with an integrated circuit operatively coupled to the micromechanical detection structure and having a reading module that generates at output an audio signal as a function of the transduced electrical quantity. The integrated circuit is further provided with a recognition module, which recognizes a of sound activity event associated to the transduced electrical quantity. The MEMS acoustic transducer has an output that supplies at output a data signal that carries information regarding recognition of the sound activity event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
    Inventors: Marco Veneri, Alessandro Morcelli
  • Publication number: 20220337958
    Abstract: Described herein is a MEMS acoustic transducer device provided with a micromechanical detection structure that detects acoustic-pressure waves and supplies a transduced electrical quantity, and with an integrated circuit operatively coupled to the micromechanical detection structure and having a reading module that generates at output an audio signal as a function of the transduced electrical quantity. The integrated circuit is further provided with a recognition module, which recognizes a of sound activity event associated to the transduced electrical quantity. The MEMS acoustic transducer has an output that supplies at output a data signal that carries information regarding recognition of the sound activity event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
    Inventors: Marco VENERI, Alessandro MORCELLI
  • Patent number: 11350222
    Abstract: Described herein is a MEMS acoustic transducer device provided with a micromechanical detection structure that detects acoustic-pressure waves and supplies a transduced electrical quantity, and with an integrated circuit operatively coupled to the micromechanical detection structure and having a reading module that generates at output an audio signal as a function of the transduced electrical quantity. The integrated circuit is further provided with a recognition module, which recognizes a of sound activity event associated to the transduced electrical quantity. The MEMS acoustic transducer has an output that supplies at output a data signal that carries information regarding recognition of the sound activity event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
    Inventors: Marco Veneri, Alessandro Morcelli
  • Publication number: 20200314559
    Abstract: Described herein is a MEMS acoustic transducer device provided with a micromechanical detection structure that detects acoustic-pressure waves and supplies a transduced electrical quantity, and with an integrated circuit operatively coupled to the micromechanical detection structure and having a reading module that generates at output an audio signal as a function of the transduced electrical quantity. The integrated circuit is further provided with a recognition module, which recognizes a of sound activity event associated to the transduced electrical quantity. The MEMS acoustic transducer has an output that supplies at output a data signal that carries information regarding recognition of the sound activity event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Marco VENERI, Alessandro MORCELLI
  • Patent number: 10715929
    Abstract: Described herein is a MEMS acoustic transducer device provided with a micromechanical detection structure that detects acoustic-pressure waves and supplies a transduced electrical quantity, and with an integrated circuit operatively coupled to the micromechanical detection structure and having a reading module that generates at output an audio signal as a function of the transduced electrical quantity. The integrated circuit is further provided with a recognition module, which recognizes a of sound activity event associated to the transduced electrical quantity. The MEMS acoustic transducer has an output that supplies at output a data signal that carries information regarding recognition of the sound activity event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
    Inventors: Marco Veneri, Alessandro Morcelli
  • Publication number: 20180103326
    Abstract: Described herein is a MEMS acoustic transducer device provided with a micromechanical detection structure that detects acoustic-pressure waves and supplies a transduced electrical quantity, and with an integrated circuit operatively coupled to the micromechanical detection structure and having a reading module that generates at output an audio signal as a function of the transduced electrical quantity. The integrated circuit is further provided with a recognition module, which recognizes a of sound activity event associated to the transduced electrical quantity. The MEMS acoustic transducer has an output that supplies at output a data signal that carries information regarding recognition of the sound activity event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Marco VENERI, Alessandro Morcelli
  • Patent number: 9866972
    Abstract: Described herein is a MEMS acoustic transducer device provided with a micromechanical detection structure that detects acoustic-pressure waves and supplies a transduced electrical quantity, and with an integrated circuit operatively coupled to the micromechanical detection structure and having a reading module that generates at output an audio signal as a function of the transduced electrical quantity. The integrated circuit is further provided with a recognition module, which recognizes a sound activity event associated to the transduced electrical quantity. The MEMS acoustic transducer has an output that supplies at output a data signal that carries information regarding recognition of the sound activity event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Marco Veneri, Alessandro Morcelli
  • Patent number: 9565506
    Abstract: An interface for expanding a signal starting from a first sensing signal and a second sensing signal, wherein a receiving intensity measuring element generates an intensity signal; and a selector is controlled to select each time the first sensing signal, the second sensing signal, or a combined signal deriving from a weighted combination of these signals. The selector uses a plurality of thresholds variable as a function of the intensity signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Marco Veneri, Alessandro Morcelli
  • Publication number: 20160117015
    Abstract: A microelectromechanical vibration sensor includes: a first chamber; a second chamber; a semiconductor membrane between the first chamber and the second chamber; a reference electrode, capacitively coupled to the membrane; and a package structure, which encapsulates and insulates acoustically from the outside world the first chamber, the second chamber, and the membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Marco Veneri, Stefano Bosco, Alessandro Morcelli
  • Patent number: 9286382
    Abstract: A method for simultaneous playback of audio tracks from digital transceiver devices, which are adapted to define a communication network. The digital devices store audio tracks to be played. One of the digital devices is actuated as a Master device (M) and the remaining N digital devices as Slave devices. The master device generates a pilot signal by selecting a pilot audio track to be played from among stored audio tracks and by adding a synchronization frequency (fS) to the pilot audio track, having an assigned value that falls out of the sound wave frequency range. The Slave devices receive a pilot portion of the pilot signal and extract the synchronization frequency and the received part of the pilot audio track. The slave devices use the pilot to identify a stored track to be played using the synchronization frequency as a sampling frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Alessandro Morcelli, Marco Veneri
  • Patent number: 9253567
    Abstract: Embodiments described in the present disclosure relate to an array microphone apparatus for generating a beam forming signal. The apparatus includes first, second, and third omni-directional microphones, each converting an audible signal into a corresponding electrical signal. The three microphones are arranged in a horizontal coplanar alignment, and the second microphone is disposed between the other two microphones. The apparatus includes a first directional microphone forming device to jointly output a first directional microphone signal with a first bi-directional pattern, and a magnitude and phase response handler device to output a second directional microphone signal with an omni-directional pattern shifted by a prefixed value with respect to first directional microphone signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Alessandro Morcelli, Marco Veneri
  • Patent number: 9088841
    Abstract: A signal processor including an equalizer responsive to an input signal and to a parameter signal, said equalizer configured to provide an output signal to an electro-acoustical transducer for compensating a frequency response of said electro-acoustical transducer; a transducer element for monitoring at least a physical parameter of said electro-acoustical transducer, said transducer element configured to provide a transducer signal, a processor block responsive to said transducer signal, configured to provide said parameter signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Marco Veneri, Francesco Bianchi
  • Publication number: 20150131820
    Abstract: Described herein is a MEMS acoustic transducer device provided with a micromechanical detection structure that detects acoustic-pressure waves and supplies a transduced electrical quantity, and with an integrated circuit operatively coupled to the micromechanical detection structure and having a reading module that generates at output an audio signal as a function of the transduced electrical quantity. The integrated circuit is further provided with a recognition module, which recognizes a of sound activity event associated to the transduced electrical quantity. The MEMS acoustic transducer has an output that supplies at output a data signal that carries information regarding recognition of the sound activity event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Marco Veneri, Alessandro Morcelli
  • Publication number: 20150124981
    Abstract: An interface for expanding a signal starting from a first sensing signal and a second sensing signal, wherein a receiving intensity measuring element generates an intensity signal; and a selector is controlled to select each time the first sensing signal, the second sensing signal, or a combined signal deriving from a weighted combination of these signals. The selector uses a plurality of thresholds variable as a function of the intensity signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Marco Veneri, Alessandro Morcelli
  • Publication number: 20140094944
    Abstract: A method for simultaneous playback of audio tracks from digital transceiver devices, which are adapted to define a communication network. The digital devices store audio tracks to be played. One of the digital devices is actuated as a Master device (M) and the remaining N digital devices as Slave devices. The master device generates a pilot signal by selecting a pilot audio track to be played from among stored audio tracks and by adding a synchronization frequency (fS) to the pilot audio track, having an assigned value that falls out of the sound wave frequency range. The Slave devices receive a pilot portion of the pilot signal and extract the synchronization frequency and the received part of the pilot audio track. The slave devices use the pilot to identify a stored track to be played using the synchronization frequency as a sampling frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.r.I.
    Inventors: Alessandro Morcelli, Marco Veneri
  • Publication number: 20130051577
    Abstract: Embodiments described in the present disclosure relate to an array microphone apparatus for generating a beam forming signal. The apparatus includes first, second, and third omni-directional microphones, each converting an audible signal into a corresponding electrical signal. The second omni-directional microphone is disposed between the other two omni-directional microphones. The apparatus includes a first directional microphone forming device to jointly output a first directional microphone signal with a first bi-directional pattern, and a magnitude and phase response handler device to output a second directional microphone signal with an omni-directional pattern shifted by a prefixed value with respect to first directional microphone signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Alessandro Morcelli, Marco Veneri
  • Publication number: 20120177224
    Abstract: A signal processor including an equalizer responsive to an input signal and to a parameter signal, said equalizer configured to provide an output signal to an electro-acoustical transducer for compensating a frequency response of said electro-acoustical transducer; a transducer element for monitoring at least a physical parameter of said electro-acoustical transducer, said transducer element configured to provide a transducer signal, a processor block responsive to said transducer signal, configured to provide said parameter signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Marco Veneri, Francesco Bianchi