Patents by Inventor Shuwan Xue

Shuwan Xue 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).

  • Publication number: 20250142250
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for processing audio data. For example, a process can include determining audio context information corresponding to a multi-band bone conduction microphone (BCM), wherein the audio context information is indicative of at least one of noise information or voice information. A process can include generating a control signal indicative of a resonance configuration for one or more resonators of a plurality of resonators included in the multi-band BCM, wherein the resonance configuration is based on the audio context information and corresponds to one or more frequency response adjustments. A process can include transmitting the control signal to the multi-band BCM, wherein the control signal is configured to cause the multi-band BCM to generate a BCM output signal using the resonance configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Chun Kun KIM, Ramji SRINIVASAN, Shuwan XUE, Robert John LITTRELL
  • Publication number: 20250097630
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for detecting bone-conducted sound. A voice accelerometer can include a substrate and a plurality of sensing elements associated with a plurality of frequency bands. Each frequency band can be associated with one or more sensing elements of the plurality of sensing elements having a respective resonance frequency within the frequency band. The voice accelerometer can include a back cavity enclosed by the plurality of sensing elements and the substrate. Each respective sensing element of the plurality of sensing elements can be configured to vibrate in response to a first force corresponding to a bone-conducted sound wave coupled into the voice accelerometer, and a second force corresponding to a back cavity pressure coupling between the plurality of sensing elements, the back cavity pressure coupling based on respective vibration of each sensing element of the plurality of sensing elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Shuwan XUE, Jong Soo CHOI, Robert John LITTRELL
  • Patent number: 11930334
    Abstract: A device that includes an adaptive acoustic detection circuit and an acoustic sensor device such as a microphone is described. The device includes in addition to the sensor a circuit configured to detect when an input stimulus to the sensor satisfies an adaptive threshold, and further configured to produce a signal upon detection that causes adjustment of performance of the device, wherein the adaptive threshold is a threshold value that varies over time in accordance with detected changes to sound of an environment in which the device is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Littrell, Michael Carfore, Shuwan Xue
  • Publication number: 20220394384
    Abstract: A device that includes an adaptive acoustic detection circuit and an acoustic sensor device such as a microphone is described. The device includes in addition to the sensor a circuit configured to detect when an input stimulus to the sensor satisfies an adaptive threshold, and further configured to produce a signal upon detection that causes adjustment of performance of the device, wherein the adaptive threshold is a threshold value that varies over time in accordance with detected changes to sound of an environment in which the device is located.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Robert J. Littrell, Michael Carfore, Shuwan Xue
  • Patent number: 11418882
    Abstract: A device that includes an adaptive acoustic detection circuit and an acoustic sensor device such as a microphone is described. The device includes in addition to the sensor a circuit configured to detect when an input stimulus to the sensor satisfies an adaptive threshold, and further configured to produce a signal upon detection that causes adjustment of performance of the device, wherein the adaptive threshold is a threshold value that varies over time in accordance with detected changes to sound of an environment in which the device is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Vesper Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Littrell, Michael Carfore, Shuwan Xue
  • Publication number: 20200296513
    Abstract: A device that includes an adaptive acoustic detection circuit and an acoustic sensor device such as a microphone is described. The device includes in addition to the sensor a circuit configured to detect when an input stimulus to the sensor satisfies an adaptive threshold, and further configured to produce a signal upon detection that causes adjustment of performance of the device, wherein the adaptive threshold is a threshold value that varies over time in accordance with detected changes to sound of an environment in which the device is located.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Robert J. Littrell, Michael Carfore, Shuwan Xue