Patents by Inventor Yi-Rou Chen

Yi-Rou Chen 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: 12658169
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for active noise control (ANC). The present implementations more specifically relate to filter adaptation techniques for recursively training an infinite impulse response (IIR) filter to convert a reference audio signal to an anti-noise signal. In some aspects, an ANC system may record, via a feedforward microphone, a reference audio signal representing external noise, and may further record, via a feedback microphone, an error signal representing residual noise resulting from passive attenuation of the external noise via a primary path between the microphones. The ANC system may further estimate an IIR filter that converts the reference audio signal to the error signal based on a secondary path. In some implementations, the ANC system may recursively update the IIR filter coefficients based, at least in part, on the coefficients associated with previous frames of the reference audio signal and the error signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi-Yang Lo, Yi-Rou Chen, Saeed Mosayyebpour Kaskari, Hong Qiu
  • Publication number: 20250266028
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for active noise control (ANC). The present implementations more specifically relate to filter adaptation techniques for recursively training an infinite impulse response (IIR) filter to convert a reference audio signal to an anti-noise signal. In some aspects, an ANC system may record, via a feedforward microphone, a reference audio signal representing external noise, and may further record, via a feedback microphone, an error signal representing residual noise resulting from passive attenuation of the external noise via a primary path between the microphones. The ANC system may further estimate an IIR filter that converts the reference audio signal to the error signal based on a secondary path. In some implementations, the ANC system may recursively update the IIR filter coefficients based, at least in part, on the coefficients associated with previous frames of the reference audio signal and the error signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2024
    Publication date: August 21, 2025
    Applicant: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi-Yang Lo, Yi-Rou Chen, Saeed Mosayyebpour Kaskari, Hong Qiu