Patents by Inventor Michael Enenkl
Michael Enenkl 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).
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Patent number: 11968518Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to an apparatus comprising circuitry configured to: determine a loudspeaker dependent spread factor for at least one individual loudspeaker of a loudspeaker arrangement, wherein the loudspeaker dependent spread factor depends on a specification of the at least one individual loudspeaker; and 5 control the outputs of the loudspeakers of the loudspeaker arrangement based on the loudspeaker dependent spread factor for the at least one individual loudspeaker to generate at least one virtual sound source.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Franck Giron, Michael Enenkl
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Patent number: 11966660Abstract: It is disclosed a method comprising obtaining a target spectrum, obtaining a set of non-target spectra, the set of non-target spectra comprising one or more non-target spectra, summing the target spectrum and the set of non-target spectra to obtain a mixture spectrum, and training an artificial neural network by using the mixture spectrum as input of the neural network and by using a spectrum which is based on the target spectrum as desired output of the artificial neural network.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Fabien Cardinaux, Michael Enenkl, Franck Giron, Thomas Kemp, Stefan Uhlich
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Patent number: 11935552Abstract: An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to perform (402; 702; 1204) source separation (201) based on a received audio input to obtain a separated source, to perform onset detection (202) on the separated source to obtain an onset detection signal and to mix (405; 706; 1207) the audio signal with the separated source based on the onset detection signal to obtain an enhanced separated source.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Stefan Uhlich, Michael Enenkl
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Publication number: 20230269552Abstract: An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to receive an audio mixture signal and side information related to sources present in the audio mixture signal, perform audio source separation on the audio mixture to obtain separated sources, and generate respective virtual audio objects based on the separated sources and the side information.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2023Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Michael ENENKL, Stefan UHLICH, Giorgio FABBRO
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Publication number: 20230057082Abstract: An electronic device having circuitry configured to perform source separation on an audio signal to obtain a separated source and a residual signal, to perform feature extraction on the separated source to obtain one or more processing parameters, and to perform audio processing on a captured audio signal based on the one or more processing parameters to obtain an adjusted separated source.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Giorgio FABBRO, Stefan UHLICH, Michael ENENKL, Thomas KEMP
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Publication number: 20220408212Abstract: An electronic device for a vehicle comprising circuitry configured to obtain information about a planned maneuver of the vehicle; and circuitry configured to determine the position and/or orientation of a sound field based on the information about the planned maneuver of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2022Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Franck GIRON, Fabien CARDINAUX, Thomas KEMP, Stefan UHLICH, Marc FERRAS FONT, Andreas SCHWAGER, Patrick PUTZOLU, Michael ENENKL
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Patent number: 11457328Abstract: An electronic device for a vehicle comprising circuitry configured to obtain information about a planned maneuver of the vehicle; and circuitry configured to determine the position and/or orientation of a sound field based on the information about the planned maneuver of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2019Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Franck Giron, Fabien Cardinaux, Thomas Kemp, Stefan Uhlich, Marc Ferras Font, Andreas Schwager, Patrick Putzolu, Michael Enenkl
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Publication number: 20220182776Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to an apparatus comprising circuitry configured to: determine a loudspeaker dependent spread factor for at least one individual loudspeaker of a loudspeaker arrangement, wherein the loudspeaker dependent spread factor depends on a specification of the at least one individual loudspeaker; and 5 control the outputs of the loudspeakers of the loudspeaker arrangement based on the loudspeaker dependent spread factor for the at least one individual loudspeaker to generate at least one virtual sound source.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2020Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Franck GIRON, Michael ENENKL
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Publication number: 20220101821Abstract: An electronic device comprising a circuitry configured to perform (402; 602; 902; 1002) blind source separation (201) based on a received input signal (1) to obtain separated sources; to perform (403; 605; 906; 1005) time-domain filtering (202) on at least one of the separated sources to obtain at least one filtered separated source; and to perform (404; 606; 907; 1006) remixing or upmixing (203) based on the at least one filtered separated source.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Stefan UHLICH, Michael ENENKL
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Publication number: 20220076687Abstract: An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to perform (402; 702; 1204) source separation (201) based on a received audio input to obtain a separated source, to perform onset detection (202) on the separated source to obtain an onset detection signal and to mix (405; 706; 1207) the audio signal with the separated source based on the onset detection signal to obtain an enhanced separated source.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2020Publication date: March 10, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Stefan UHLICH, Michael ENENKL
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Patent number: 11265669Abstract: An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to obtain an audio signal of a first passenger of a vehicle and to control a loudspeaker array to generate at least one virtual sound source that reproduces the audio signal obtained from the first passenger, the virtual sound source being provided for a second passenger.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Fabien Cardinaux, Michael Enenkl, Marc Ferras Font, Franck Giron, Thomas Kemp, Patrick Putzolu, Andreas Schwager, Stefan Uhlich
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Patent number: 11082792Abstract: An apparatus comprising circuitry configured to generate one or more focused sound sources as virtual loudspeakers of an announcement system.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Fabien Cardinaux, Michael Enenkl, Marc Ferras Font, Franck Giron, Thomas Kemp, Patrick Putzolu, Andreas Schwager, Stefan Uhlich
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Patent number: 11044292Abstract: An apparatus is provided which has a receiver configured to receive a media stream from a broadcast source and a circuitry. The circuitry is configured to obtain a specific media content included in the received media stream from a second source.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2017Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Michael Enenkl, Thomas Kemp
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Patent number: 11012788Abstract: A loudspeaker system comprising a diaphragm (101) and an electrostatic foil (108) mounted on top of the diaphragm (101).Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Michael Enenkl, Thomas Kemp, Patrick Putzolu, Stefan Uhlich
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Patent number: 10924849Abstract: Provided is a sound source separation device that includes a combining unit that combines a first sound source separation signal of a predetermined sound source, the first sound source separation signal being separated from a mixed sound signal by a first sound source separation system, with a second sound source separation signal of the sound source, the second sound source separation signal being separated from the mixed sound signal by a second sound source separation system that differs in separation performance from the first sound source separation system in predetermined units of time, and that outputs a sound source separation signal obtained by the combination.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2017Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Naoya Takahashi, Yuhki Mitsufuji, Stefan Uhlich, Michael Enenkl, Thomas Kemp
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Publication number: 20210006926Abstract: An electronic device for a vehicle comprising circuitry configured to obtain information about a planned maneuver of the vehicle; and circuitry configured to determine the position and/or orientation of a sound field based on the information about the planned maneuver of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2019Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Franck GIRON, Fabien CARDINAUX, Thomas KEMP, Stefan UHLICH, Marc FERRAS FONT, Andreas SCHWAGER, Patrick PUTZOLU, Michael ENENKL
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Publication number: 20200404443Abstract: An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to obtain an audio signal of a first passenger of a vehicle and to control a loudspeaker array to generate at least one virtual sound source that reproduces the audio signal obtained from the first passenger, the virtual sound source being provided for a second passenger.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2019Publication date: December 24, 2020Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Fabien CARDINAUX, Michael ENENKL, Marc FERRAS FONT, Franck GIRON, Thomas KEMP, Patrick PUTZOLU, Andreas SCHWAGER, Stefan UHLICH
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Patent number: 10701477Abstract: A loudspeaker comprising an acoustic waveguide (210), the acoustic waveguide (210) being configured to change its shape in order to change the directivity of sound emitted by the loudspeakerType: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Michael Enenkl, Thomas Kemp, Patrick Putzolu, Andreas Schwager
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Publication number: 20200159490Abstract: It is disclosed a method comprising obtaining a target spectrum, obtaining a set of non-target spectra, the set of non-target spectra comprising one or more non-target spectra, summing the target spectrum and the set of non-target spectra to obtain a mixture spectrum, and training an artificial neural network by using the mixture spectrum as input of the neural network and by using a spectrum which is based on the target spectrum as desired output of the artificial neural network.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2020Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Fabien CARDINAUX, Michael ENENKL, Franck GIRON, Thomas KEMP, Stefan UHLICH
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Patent number: 10650798Abstract: A device for active noise control inside a vehicle, the device comprising a processor (7610) configured to determine a noise wavefield within the vehicle based on noise signals captured by a microphone array (M1-M10); determine the position of the ears of a passenger (P1) based on information obtained from a head tracking sensor (HTU1); capture a noise field inside the vehicle based on information obtained by the microphone array; obtain a noise level at the ears of the passenger (P1) from the noise field; and determine an anti-noise field based on the noise level at the position of the ears of the passenger.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Fabien Cardinaux, Michael Enenkl, Marc Ferras Font, Thomas Kemp, Patrick Putzolu, Stefan Uhlich