Patents by Inventor William Berardi
William Berardi 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: 11253747Abstract: A method is provided for detecting at least one fitness related activity is provided. Data is obtained from at least one sensor of a wearable device, wherein the at least one sensor detects the data based on at least one body movement of a user wearing the wearable device. Based on the obtained data, the at least one fitness related activity is detected from a set of fitness related activities, wherein the detection is performed without pre-training by the user for the detecting.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: BOSE CORPORATIONInventors: Naganagouda Patil, Mark Sydorenko, John Gordon, Bruce C. Levens, Ryan K. Burns, Jeremy Kemmerer, Juan Carlos Rodero Sales, William Berardi
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Publication number: 20210149483Abstract: Methods and systems for selective image capture based on multi-modal sensor input for a wearable device. Systems comprise a first sensor, a second sensor, and a wearable device. The first sensor is configured to capture a first image, and the second sensor is configured to collect motion data, the motion data corresponding to a relative motion between the user and the wearable device, the relative motion of the wearable device in the environment, or the motion of a body part of the user. The wearable device comprises: a communication module configured to wirelessly transmit the first image to a receiving device; and a processor configured to detect a trigger event based on the motion data collected by the second sensor, the processor further configured to initiate capture of the first image by the first sensor or transmit the first image to the receiving device by the communication module upon detection of the trigger event.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2019Publication date: May 20, 2021Applicant: Bose CorporationInventors: William Berardi, Nathan A. Blagrove, Craig Desrosiers, Paul Franzosa, Francois Laberge, Naganagouda B. Patil
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Publication number: 20200282261Abstract: A method is provided for detecting at least one fitness related activity is provided. Data is obtained from at least one sensor of a wearable device, wherein the at least one sensor detects the data based on at least one body movement of a user wearing the wearable device. Based on the obtained data, the at least one fitness related activity is detected from a set of fitness related activities, wherein the detection is performed without pre-training by the user for the detecting.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2019Publication date: September 10, 2020Inventors: Naganagouda PATIL, Mark SYDORENKO, John GORDON, Bruce C. LEVENS, Ryan K. BURNS, Jeremy KEMMERER, Juan Carlos Rodero SALES, William BERARDI
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Patent number: 10149049Abstract: A system with a plurality of microphones positioned at different locations, and a modification system in communication with the microphones. The modification system is configured to derive a plurality of audio signals from the plurality of microphones, compute a confidence score for each derived audio signal, and based on the computed confidence scores, use one derived audio signal to modify another audio signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Amir Moghimi, David Crist, William Berardi
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Publication number: 20180218747Abstract: An audio device with a number of microphones that are configured into a microphone array. An audio signal processing system in communication with the microphone array is configured to derive a plurality of audio signals from the plurality of microphones, use prior audio data to operate a filter topology that processes audio signals so as to make the array more sensitive to desired sounds than to undesired sounds, categorize received sounds as one of desired sounds or undesired sounds, and use the categorized received sounds and the categories of the received sounds to modify the filter topology.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2017Publication date: August 2, 2018Inventors: Amir Moghimi, William Berardi, David Crist
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Publication number: 20170330564Abstract: A plurality of microphones positioned at different locations. A dispatch system in communication with the microphones derives a plurality of audio signals from the plurality of microphones, computes a confidence score for each derived audio signal, and compares the computed confidence scores. Based on the comparison, the dispatch system selects at least two of the derived audio signals for further handling. Comparing the computed confidence scores includes determining that at least the two selected audio signals appear to contain utterances from at least two different users.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2017Publication date: November 16, 2017Applicant: Bose CorporationInventors: Michael J. Daley, David Rolland Crist, William Berardi
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Publication number: 20170330563Abstract: A system includes a plurality of microphones positioned at different microphone locations, a plurality of loudspeakers positioned at different loudspeaker locations, and a dispatch system in communication with the microphones and loudspeakers. The dispatch system derives a plurality of voice signals from the plurality of microphones, computes a confidence score about the inclusion of a wakeup word for each derived voice signal, compares the computed confidence scores, and based on the comparison, selects at least one of the derived voice signals and transmits at least a portion of the selected signal or signals to a speech processing system.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2017Publication date: November 16, 2017Applicant: Bose CorporationInventors: Michael J. Daley, David Rolland Crist, William Berardi
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Publication number: 20170332168Abstract: A system with a plurality of microphones positioned at different locations, and a modification system in communication with the microphones. The modification system is configured to derive a plurality of audio signals from the plurality of microphones, compute a confidence score for each derived audio signal, and based on the computed confidence scores, use one derived audio signal to modify another audio signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2016Publication date: November 16, 2017Inventors: Amir Moghimi, David Crist, William Berardi
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Publication number: 20170330565Abstract: A plurality of microphones are positioned at different locations. A dispatch system in communication with the microphones derives a plurality of audio signals from the plurality of microphones, computes a confidence score for each derived audio signal, compares the computed confidence scores. Based on the comparison, the dispatch system selects at least one of the derived audio signals for further handling, receives a response to the further processing, and outputs the response using an output device. The output device does not correspond to the microphone that captured the selected audio signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2017Publication date: November 16, 2017Applicant: Bose CorporationInventors: Michael J. Daley, David Rolland Crist, William Berardi
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Patent number: 9749735Abstract: A waveguide for conducting sound that is generated by a loudspeaker that is acoustically coupled to the waveguide. There is a duct with an external wall, an interior opening circumscribed by the wall, and an outlet, and an air-adsorbent structure coupled to an inside of the external wall of the duct such that the air adsorbent structure lines at least a portion of the wall. The apparent volume ratio of the air adsorbent structure is at least about 1.5.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2016Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Jason Silver, Lifun Lin, William Berardi
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Patent number: 9578436Abstract: An audio system for manipulating audio material for playback based on the content of the material includes an input for receiving input audio signals, an output for providing output audio signals to loudspeakers, and an audio processor that processes the input audio signals to produce the output audio signals. The audio processor determines a type of content represented by the input audio signals, selects a set of processing instructions to control the spatial presentation of the audio material based on the determined type, and applies the selected set of processing instructions to the input audio signals.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2014Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Eric D. Scheirer, William Berardi, Mike Arthur Derrenberger, Clark Don Woolstenhulme
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Patent number: 9560451Abstract: A conversation assistance system with a bi-lateral array of microphones arranged externally of a space that does not include any array microphones, where the space has a left side, a right side, a front and a back, the array comprising a left side sub-array of multiple microphones and a right side sub-array of multiple microphones, where each microphone has a microphone output signal, and a processor that creates from the microphone output signals a left-ear audio signal and a right-ear audio signal. The left-ear audio signal is created based on the microphone output signals from one or more of the microphones of the left-side sub-array and one or more of the microphones of the right-side sub-array and the right-ear audio signal is created based on the microphone output signals from one or more of the microphones of the left-side sub-array and one or more of the microphones of the right-side sub-array.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2015Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Jahn Dmitri Eichfeld, William M. Rabinowitz, William Berardi, John Trotter, Michael Shay
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Publication number: 20150237454Abstract: An audio system for manipulating audio material for playback based on the content of the material includes an input for receiving input audio signals, an output for providing output audio signals to loudspeakers, and an audio processor that processes the input audio signals to produce the output audio signals. The audio processor determines a type of content represented by the input audio signals, selects a set of processing instructions to control the spatial presentation of the audio material based on the determined type, and applies the selected set of processing instructions to the input audio signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2014Publication date: August 20, 2015Applicant: Bose CorporationInventors: Eric D. Scheirer, William Berardi, Mike Arthur Derrenberger, Clark Don Woolstenhulme
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Publication number: 20150230026Abstract: A conversation assistance system with a bi-lateral array of microphones arranged externally of a space that does not include any array microphones, where the space has a left side, a right side, a front and a back, the array comprising a left side sub-array of multiple microphones and a right side sub-array of multiple microphones, where each microphone has a microphone output signal, and a processor that creates from the microphone output signals a left-ear audio signal and a right-ear audio signal. The left-ear audio signal is created based on the microphone output signals from one or more of the microphones of the left-side sub-array and one or more of the microphones of the right-side sub-array and the right-ear audio signal is created based on the microphone output signals from one or more of the microphones of the left-side sub-array and one or more of the microphones of the right-side sub-array.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2015Publication date: August 13, 2015Inventors: Jahn Dmitri Eichfeld, William M. Rabinowitz, William Berardi, John Trotter, Michael Shay
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Publication number: 20140161288Abstract: Electroacoustical apparatus includes at least first and second acoustically coupled electroacoustical drivers. An electrical network couples their inputs so that an electrical drive signal applied to one reduces the effect of acoustic coupling from that one to the other.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2013Publication date: June 12, 2014Inventors: Eric J. Freeman, Michael W. Stark, William Berardi, Klaus Hartung
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Patent number: 8620006Abstract: An audio system including a rendering processor for separately rendering a dialogue channel and a center music channel. The audio system may include circuitry for extracting one or both of the dialogue channel or the center music channel from program material that does not include both a dialogue channel and a center music channel. The dialogue channel and the center music channel may be radiated with different radiation patterns.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2009Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: William Berardi, Hilmar Lehnert, Guy Torio
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Patent number: 8553894Abstract: An three-way audio system that uses directional arrays for radiating mid-frequency acoustic energy and passive directional devices to radiate the high frequencies. the system includes a left channel, a right channel, and a center channel. A crossover network separates the left channel and the right channel into low frequency content, midrange frequency content, and high frequency content. An omnidirectional acoustical device radiates acoustic energy corresponding to the low frequency content of the combined left channel, right channel and center channel. A first directional array, comprising signal processing circuitry and more than one acoustic driver, radiates acoustic energy corresponding to the midrange content of one of the left channel and right channel signal so that more acoustic energy corresponding to the midrange content of one of the left channel signal and the right channel signal is radiated laterally than in other directions.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2010Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: William Berardi, Michael Dublin, Eric S. Johanson, Joseph Jankovsky, Hilmar Lehnert, Michael W. Stark, Guy Torio
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Patent number: 8265310Abstract: An audio system that may be implemented in a television, that includes a plurality of directional arrays. The arrays may include a common acoustic driver and may be spaces non-uniformly.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2010Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: William Berardi, Hilmar Lehnert
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Patent number: 8139774Abstract: An audio system including a left input channel signal, a right input channel signal, and a discrete center input channel. Circuitry removes correlated content from the left input channel signal and the right input channel signal and inserts the correlated content into the center input channel signal to provide a modified left input channel signal, a modified right input channel signal, and a modified center input channel signal. The modified left input channel signal is radiated by a directional loudspeaker so that radiation in a direction toward a listening area is less than radiation in other directions. The modified right channel input channel signal is radiated by a directional loudspeaker so that radiation in a direction toward a listening area is less than radiation in other directions.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2010Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: William Berardi, Michael Dublin, Hilmar Lehnert, Michael W. Stark, Guy Torio
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Publication number: 20120039475Abstract: An three-way audio system that uses directional arrays for radiating mid-frequency acoustic energy and passive directional devices to radiate the high frequencies. the system includes a left channel, a right channel, and a center channel. A crossover network separates the left channel and the right channel into low frequency content, midrange frequency content, and high frequency content. An omnidirectional acoustical device radiates acoustic energy corresponding to the low frequency content of the combined left channel, right channel and center channel. A first directional array, comprising signal processing circuitry and more than one acoustic driver, radiates acoustic energy corresponding to the midrange content of one of the left channel and right channel signal so that more acoustic energy corresponding to the midrange content of one of the left channel signal and the right channel signal is radiated laterally than in other directions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2010Publication date: February 16, 2012Inventors: William Berardi, Michael Dublin, Eric S. Johanson, Joseph Jankovsky, Hilmar Lehnert, Michael W. Stark, Guy Torio