Patents Issued in April 14, 2022
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Publication number: 20220116686Abstract: In some embodiments, a method receives a list of ranked entities for video playback for a first interface in a first layout. The list of ranked entities being ranked based on personalized information for a user account. The list of ranked entities is used to determine an ordering of entities in slots of an electronic programming guide. The slots of the electronic programming guide display the entities in a second layout based on a time dimension. The method outputs information to display at least a portion of the entities in the electronic programming guide based on the ordering of entities.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2020Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Joshua Cook, Christopher Russell Kehler, Lacey Anne Donohue, Charles Francis Moran
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Publication number: 20220116687Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission device, a reception device, a transmission system, and a transmission method capable of improving transmission efficiency of subdata added to main data. A transmission device includes a frame sequence number setting unit that, on the basis of a frame number indicating an order of a subframe in a main frame, assigns to the subframe a frame sequence number indicating an order of the subframe in a frame sequence including a plurality of the subframes, and a multiplexing unit that arranges a data packet at a predetermined position in the subframe on the basis of the frame sequence number. The present technology can be applied to a CCU, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2019Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Mikio ISHII, Tomoyuki ENDO, Hideaki MURAYAMA
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Publication number: 20220116688Abstract: A video content type seamless switching system and method for synchronizing and displaying multiple types of video content in a single platform, such as a single video player, application, or other content player. Illustrative video content type switching may be between 2D and interactive Artificial Intelligence formats coordinated by a switching controller. The switching controller may be configured to operate with television displays and associated control components, such as cable boxes, through implementation of the video content switching methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: Aether Media, Inc.Inventors: Nikola Todorovic, Tye Sheridan
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Publication number: 20220116689Abstract: To efficiently evaluate exchange of advertisement frames. A frame exchange evaluation system according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a control unit configured to decide a plurality of campaigns that are advertisement frame exchange targets; and an acquisition unit configured to acquire current frame information about each of the campaigns and setting information for frame exchange including information about an allowable predicted audience rating of at least one of the campaigns after the frame exchange; wherein the control unit decides candidates for the frame exchange based on the current frame information and the setting information.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2020Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: DENTSU INC.Inventor: Wataru KISHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20220116690Abstract: System and methods are described for generating one or more viewable highlight playbacks, such as, for example, a viewable highlight playback including highlights of a sporting event that may be viewed essentially on demand. The system and methods transform raw digital media data associated with the event to a playback instruction signal including key highlights of the event to be viewed over a predetermined time period while capturing an essence of the event. The system and methods allow control of a viewing of the viewable highlight playback utilizing, at least in part, the playback instruction signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventor: Ryan Niro
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Publication number: 20220116691Abstract: An example device for processing media data is configured to parse a bitstream including the media data, the bitstream being formatted according to Common Media Application Format (CMAF), detect, during the parsing, a file type (FTYP) value for a CMAF track file of the bitstream, determine that a CMAF header of the CMAF track file starts with the FTYP value, and process one or more CMAF fragments following the CMAF header of the CMAF track file. The device may additionally be configured to detect one or more segment type (STYP) values in the bitstream, determine that each of the one or more STYP values corresponds to a start of a respective one of the CMAF fragments, and process each of the CMAF fragments starting from the corresponding STYP value.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventor: Thomas Stockhammer
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Publication number: 20220116692Abstract: The present disclosure describes a network including two levels of switching: a first level including wavelength selective switching via a first type of switching module, and a second level including fiber level switching via a second type of switching module. The two levels of switching allow for maintaining wavelength selective switching between transmission directions while introducing fiber selective switching between network degrees of the same transmission direction. The first type of switching module is configured to transmit and receive optical signals having a first set of wavelengths at a first network degree at a first direction in a node of a network. The second type of switching module is configured to transmit and receive the optical signals from the first type of switching module and route the optical signals at the first network degree to a second network degree in a second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2020Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Rene Schmogrow, Massimiliano Salsi, Matthew Eldred Newland, Mattia Cantono
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Publication number: 20220116693Abstract: A shield for reducing forward projection of airborne particles ejected from a performer singing into a microphone is provided and includes a material form having an overall length, an overall height, and a uniform material thickness, the material form including at least one through opening and at least one annular microphone collar having an overall length, an overall outside diameter, and an overall inside diameter, the microphone collar affixed to or formed of the material form, the microphone collar accepting a microphone placed therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2020Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventor: Sierra N. White
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Publication number: 20220116694Abstract: Disclosed is an earphone, which includes a housing defined with a first sound hole, a second sound hole, and a resonant cavity communicating the first sound hole and the second sound hole inside the housing; and a loudspeaker in the resonant cavity, having a first sound emitting surface corresponding to the first sound hole, and a second sound emitting surface facing the first sound emitting surface, where sound emitted from the second sound emitting surface pass to the second sound hole through the resonant cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Jie ZHANG, Zhongxu Zhao, Zaikang Guo
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Publication number: 20220116695Abstract: A system is provided for automated configuration of a connection interface between a headset device (e.g., a headset base) and a telephone (e.g., desktop phone). The system includes configuration circuitry designed to automatically perform a sequential analysis of multiple interface configuration options for the connection interface between the headset device and telephone. The analysis of each respective interface configuration option includes (a) accessing stored configuration information defining predefined switch positions for an array of controllable switches (e.g., optical switches) corresponding with the respective interface configuration option, (b) set the array of switches to the predefined switch positions specified by the accessed configuration information, and (c) performing a signal analysis to analyze electrical signals on the connection interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2020Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: Plantronics, Inc.Inventors: Dennis S. Fish, Ching Shyu, Andrew Ward
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Publication number: 20220116696Abstract: Disclosed in the present disclosure are a wireless playback device, a playback control method thereof, and a head-mounted wireless headset system. The device includes: a housing, a headband detection device, a processor, a power amplifier (PA) operational amplification device, and a speaker. The headband detection device collects connection condition data of a headband device and the housing. The processor is connected to the headband detection device and controls the PA operational amplification device to adjust an operation power mode of the speaker according to the connection condition data. The PA operational amplification device is connected to the processor and the speaker, respectively, and adjusts the operation power mode of the speaker according to control of the processor. Therefore, the function automatically switching the headphone function and a small speaker function is realized, and the user experience is improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2018Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Zongxu YANG, Tao SUI, Haizhu XU, Feixiang LIU
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Publication number: 20220116697Abstract: A personal audio device (e.g., headphones, earphones) can have an earpiece (e.g., an ear cup or earbud) with a removable cushioning member (e.g., headphone cushions or ear tips for earbuds). The cushioning member can include an identification tag that encodes identification data for the cushioning member. When the cushioning member is attached to the earpiece, the identification tag is brought into proximity with a tag sensor in the earpiece and the earpiece can read the identification tag to determine identification data for the cushioning member. The identification data can be used to modify a behavior of the earpiece and/or of a host device communicably coupled to the earpiece.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Kathleen A. Bergeron, Ali N. Ergun, Dustin A. Hatfield, Ethan L. Huwe, Todd P. Marco, Jason Joseph LeBlanc, Robert D. Zupke, Michael B. Minerbi, Prathamesh R. Bhagwat, Daniel R. Bloom
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Publication number: 20220116698Abstract: A sound transmission holder transmits a sound signal output by a sound generating unit of an. The sound transmission holder includes a frame body, a first bridging portion, a second bridging portion and an accommodating portion. The frame body has a hollow portion. The frame body includes a first section, a second section and a third section. The first bridging portion and the second bridging portion are respectively disposed on the first section and the second section and abut against a casing of the electronic device to position the frame body. The accommodating portion is disposed on the third section and accommodates the sound generating unit. The sound signal is guided to the first bridging portion and the second bridging portion via the hollow portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Ji-Cheng Liao, Hung-Sen Yang, Chang-Feng Lan
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Publication number: 20220116699Abstract: An ultrasonic speaker comprises a case that has an opened top surface and includes a plurality of protrusions protruding inward on an inner side surface of the case, a piezoelectric element fixed to a bottom surface in the case, and a substrate that is inserted in the case and placed on upper surfaces of the plurality of protrusions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: HOSIDEN CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro TANAKA, Ryo INOUE
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Publication number: 20220116700Abstract: A method for directional sound capture. The method includes capturing, using a camera device, a sequence of images of a scene comprising a light source attached to a sound source object, detecting, by a hardware processor based on a pattern of local light change across the sequence of images, the light source in the scene, determining a direction of the sound source object by at least determining a location of the light source in at least one image of the sequence of images, transmitting, to a direction control device coupled to a microphone, a control signal to direct a sensitivity direction of the microphone towards the sound source object, and capturing, using the microphone and in response to directing the sensitivity direction of the microphone towards the sound source object, the sound emitted from the sound source object.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2019Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: HANGZHOU TARO POSITIONING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Hao Qian
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Publication number: 20220116701Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for directing the audio output of a wearable device having a plurality of speakers. In one implementation, the system may include an image sensor configured to capture one or more images from an environment of the user of the wearable apparatus, a plurality of speakers, and at least one processing device. The at least one processing device may be configured to analyze the one or more images to determine at least one indicator of head orientation of the user of the wearable apparatus, select at least one of the plurality of speakers based on the at least one indicator of head orientation, and output the audio to the user of the wearable apparatus via the selected at least one of the plurality of speakers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Yonatan Wexler, Amnon Shashua
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Publication number: 20220116702Abstract: Method, apparatus, and computer-readable media focusing sound signals from plural microphones in a 3D space, to determine audio signal processing profiles to optimize sound source(s) in the space. At least one processor determines plural virtual microphone bubbles in the space, and defines one or more bubble object profiles which comprise(s) specific attributes and functions of audio processing functions for each bubble, each bubble object profile including: (a) an individual bubble object profile when the bubble has been configured for an individual bubble; (b) a region object profile when the bubble has been configured for a region of one or more bubbles; and (c) a group object profile when the bubble has been configured for a group having one or more bubbles. The audio signal processing functions are used for the at least one bubble, for any combination of (a), (b), and (c).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: ERICA PATRICIA YORGA, RICHARD DALE FERGUSON, KAEL BLAIS, MAHDI JAVER, NICHOLAS NORRIE
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Publication number: 20220116703Abstract: An audio signal processing method includes receiving an audio signal corresponding to a voice of a talker, obtaining an image of the talker, estimating posture information of the talker using the image of the talker, generating a correction filter according to the estimated posture information, performing filter processing on the audio signal using the generated correction filter, and outputting the audio signal on which the filter processing has been performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Satoshi UKAI, Ryo TANAKA
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Publication number: 20220116704Abstract: Systems and methods utilize a modified genetic algorithm for adapting an off-the-shelf audio system, such as in a high-end television, to a given, particular room or other physical location presenting a specific or unique auditory environment with a set of acoustic properties. An audio system is adapted to a given room by determining an IIR based EQ solution via iterative techniques, including an iterative technique based upon a genetic algorithm adapted for an audio frequency response equalization application. In a variant, an audio system is adapted to a particular room, adjust the EQ across a microphone's bandwidth while preserving the factory-calibrated EQ response across the remaining bandwidth.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: THAT CorporationInventor: Matthew S. Barnhill
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Publication number: 20220116705Abstract: A system for presenting audio content to a user. The system comprises one or more microphones coupled to a frame of a headset. The one or more microphones capture sound from a local area. The system further comprises an audio controller integrated into the headset and communicatively coupled to an in-ear device worn by a user. The audio controller identifies one or more sound sources in the local area based on the captured sound. The audio controller further determines a target sound source of the one or more sound sources and determines one or more filters to apply to a sound signal associated with the target sound source in the captured sound. The audio controller further generates an augmented sound signal by applying the one or more filters to the sound signal and provides the augmented sound signal to the in-ear device for presentation to a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: William Owen Brimijoin, II, Nils Thomas Fritiof Lunner, Philip Robinson, Ravish Mehra
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Publication number: 20220116706Abstract: Aspects provide a wearable audio output device that provides an audio indication regarding a user's status with respect to a teleconference. The user is connected to at least one remote participant of a teleconference via the wearable audio output device. The wearable audio output device alters an audio stream to provide an indication of the user's status. Absent a visual indication, the user is intuitively aware of whether the microphone on the wearable audio output device is muted.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2020Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventor: Santiago CARVAJAL
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Publication number: 20220116707Abstract: Methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable storage media for activity detection of a user of a computing device, using multi-modal sensing. A device can be configured to receive sensor data corresponding to multiple modalities and process the sensor data to predict an activity performed by a user of a computing device. The device in response to the detected activity can perform a response action, such as muting or pausing audio playback from the computing device. Different modalities can be combined, such as body vibration data, air vibration data, and image data, which can be processed to distinguish user activity, e.g., speaking versus not speaking, to allow the computing device to perform the correct corresponding action.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2020Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Jamie Alexander Zyskowski, Karolis Misiunas, Thomás William Inskip, VI, Mohamad Hassan bin Mohamad Rom
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Publication number: 20220116708Abstract: Systems and methods for securing a headphone ear cushion to a headphone earcup on a headphone are described. One embodiment includes orienting an ear cushion proximate to, but not touching, an earcup of a headphone, where the ear cushion includes an attachment ring, the earcup including an attachment receiving interface, aligning a first slot in the attachment ring with a first inward-facing hook on the attachment receiving interface, aligning a first notch with a first outward-facing hook and a second notch with a second outward-facing hook, pressing the attachment ring against the attachment receiving interface such that the first inward-facing hook passes through the first slot, the first outward-facing hook passes through the first notch, and the second outward-facing hook passes through the second notch, and sliding the first elliptical ring relative to the second elliptical ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: Sonos, Inc.Inventors: Ronald W. Roberts, JR., Patrice Billaudet, Dieter Rapitsch
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METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING THREE-DIMENSIONAL STEREO SOUND
Publication number: 20220116709Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium for providing three-dimensional stereo sound to a vehicle to promote active safety and awareness to hazards. For instance, the present disclosure describes a method for providing three-dimensional stereo sound comprising receiving data signals from sensors positioned around an exterior of a vehicle, detecting a hazard based on the received data signals, determining characteristics of the detected hazard, generating an alert based on the determined characteristics of the detected hazard, and outputting the generated alert as the three-dimensional stereo sound via speakers arranged around an interior of the vehicle, the outputted alert communicating to a driver of the vehicle the determined characteristics of the detected hazard.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2020Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: Valeo North America, Inc.Inventor: Brandon HOOK -
Publication number: 20220116710Abstract: The present invention relates to audio recording, and in particular to a method for audio recording and conversion of smart headset. The smart headset establishes communication with the mobile terminal, and the mobile terminal sends an instruction to the smart headset to start recording. The smart headset splits audio data into two channels, wherein one is sent to the SPEAK end of the smart headset and played, the other is sent to the mobile terminal after being compressed and packaged. The smart headset uses its cache memory to cache the audio data packets, and determines whether it has received the confirmation signals from the mobile terminal within the response time limit. If the smart headset has received the confirmation signals from the mobile terminal within the response time limit, it will clear the corresponding audio data packets from the cache memory, otherwise re-send the audio data packet cached.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Danny Wang, Andy Chen, Xiansheng Ma
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Publication number: 20220116711Abstract: Logic to cause transmission of an audio protocol data unit (PDU) during each of the one or more subevents. Logic to generate a feedback request frame as a feedback request PDU. Logic to cause transmission of the feedback request PDU on a feedback channel. Logic to scan the feedback channel for one or more feedback response PDUs transmitted in response to transmission of the feedback request PDU. Logic to modify the one or more parameters of transmission of the audio PDUs in a subsequent broadcast isochronous group (BIG) event based on the one or more feedback response PDUs. Logic to receive of an audio PDU during each of the one or more subevents. Logic to receive the feedback request PDU on a feedback channel. Logic to generate a feedback response PDU in response. And logic to cause transmission of the feedback response PDU on the feedback channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Oren Haggai, Balvinder pal Singh, Noam Ginsburg, Arnaud Pierres, Robert D. Hughes, Harish Balasubramaniam
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Publication number: 20220116712Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sound production device, a display device, and a terminal. The sound production device includes a first electrode layer arranged on a display substrate; an insulating layer arranged on a side of the first electrode layer away from the display substrate; an electromagnetic coil arranged on a side of the insulating layer away from the first electrode layer; a magnetic diaphragm arranged on a side of the electromagnetic coil away from the insulating layer and configured to vibrate and produce sounds in response to a magnetic field generated by the electromagnetic coil, wherein a vertical projection of the electromagnetic coil on the display substrate and a vertical projection of the magnetic diaphragm on the display substrate falls on a non-opening area, the insulating layer defines a via, and the electromagnetic coil and the first electrode layer are electrically connected through the via.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Zehua Fan, Zhijia Cui, Le Yang
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Publication number: 20220116713Abstract: A method for controlling a loudspeaker having an electromechanical force transducer and a diaphragm by: Providing a non-linear electromechanical model configured to apply one or more desired conditions to a loudspeaker input digital audio signal, i.e. to an analogic input signal converted in a digital input signal; Providing an inverse non-linear electromechanical model of the transducer configured to receive a signal processed by the non-linear model and to linearize at least one mechanical and/or electrical and/or electromechanical non-linearity of the transducer; Converting the digital output signal of the electromechanical model into an analog signal for the transducer, So that the output signal comprises an input voltage signal for the transducer and at least the second non-linear model is a digital wave filter (hereinafter referred to as Wave Digital Filters, WDF) to provide a directly computable function in the discrete-time domain to get the input voltage signal for the transducer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicants: Elettromedia s.r.l., Politecnico di MilanoInventors: Alberto Bernardini, Lucio Bianchi, Pietro Pantaleone, Augusto Sarti
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Publication number: 20220116714Abstract: Provided are a polymer-based piezoelectric composite material and a piezoelectric film having piezoelectric conversion characteristics stabilized by suppressing a change in piezoelectric conversion efficiency in various humidity environments. The polymer-based piezoelectric composite material is a polymer-based piezoelectric composite material including piezoelectric particles in a matrix containing a polymer material, in which a pore volume per unit area is in a range of 0.01 ?L/mm2 to 1.7 ?L/mm2, which is acquired in a manner that a mercury penetration amount of a sample obtained by cutting a polymer-based piezoelectric composite material in a thickness direction and cutting out the polymer-based piezoelectric particle into a size of 12.5 mm×25 mm is measured by a mercury penetration method, and the penetration amount is divided by an area of a cross-section of the sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Masayuki HAGA
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Publication number: 20220116715Abstract: A MEMS acoustic sensor includes a substrate, a back plate, a diaphragm, a dielectric layer and a connecting portion. The diaphragm is disposed between the substrate and the back plate and includes a vibration portion. The dielectric layer is formed between the substrate and the diaphragm and has a cavity corresponding to the vibrating portion. The connecting portion is located in the cavity and connects the vibrating portion and the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventor: Hsien-Lung HO
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Publication number: 20220116716Abstract: A method for transmitting information relating to a hearing device, in particular a hearing aid, to an external device. The hearing device is thereby placed in an immediate environment of the external device and the hearing device broadcasts a generally receivable, unencrypted first information item containing metadata about the hearing device and/or access data. The unencrypted first information item is received by the external device. The external device changes its operating mode directly or indirectly as a result of the first information item and continues to be operated with the modified operating mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: NIKLAS HARLANDER, CHRISTOPH LUEKEN, RICHARD SCHULTZ-AMLING, CHRISTOPH KUKLA
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Publication number: 20220116717Abstract: A device comprising a first printed circuit board (PCB); a second printed circuit board (PCB); a first flex board coupled to the first PCB and the second PCB; a first integrated device coupled to the first PCB; a speaker configured to be coupled to the first integrated device; a microphone configured to be coupled to the first integrated device; a second integrated device coupled to the second PCB, wherein the second integrated device is configured to be coupled to the first integrated device through the second PCB, the first flex board and the first PCB; and a power source configured to provide power to the first integrated device and the second integrated device. The first PCB is located between the power source and the first integrated device. The second PCB is located between the power source and the second integrated device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Ravindra SHENOY, Rohit SAUHTA, Elbert MCLAREN, Sidney SITACHITT, Donald William KIDWELL, JR.
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Publication number: 20220116718Abstract: A hearing instrument includes: a microphone for providing a first audio signal; a signal processor for processing the first audio signal into a second audio signal compensating a hearing loss of a user of the hearing instrument; a speaker connected to an output of the signal processor for converting the second audio signal into an output sound signal; a wireless communication unit configured for wireless data communication; and an antenna for electromagnetic field emission and/or reception, the antenna having a first antenna element and additional antenna elements, the first antenna element having a first branch and a second branch being connected with the wireless communication unit, the first branch having a first connecting region and the second branch having a second connecting region; wherein one or each of the additional antenna elements interconnects the first connecting region and the second connecting region.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: GN Hearing A/SInventor: Søren KVIST
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Publication number: 20220116719Abstract: The application relates to a portable electronic device comprising a) a folded substrate carrying components of the device, and b) another, separate component having a fixed outer contour, and c) a housing for enclosing said folded substrate and said separate component, said housing having an inner contour, wherein said folded substrate is folded from a planar substrate along a folding line, said folded substrate exhibiting outer edges comprising a folded edge following said folding line. The application further relates to a method of manufacturing a folded substrate. The object of the present application is to facilitate miniaturization of a portable electronic device, such as a hearing aid. The problem is solved in that the folded substrate is shaped to provide that at least one of said outer edges follow(s) the fixed outer contour of the separate component and/or the inner contour of said housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: OTICON A/SInventors: Kenneth Rueskov MOLLER, Jan T.L. LARSEN
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Publication number: 20220116720Abstract: A method for adjusting a hearing device comprises: generating an audio stream with a microphone of the hearing device; processing the audio stream with a sound processor of the hearing device thus providing a processed audio stream and outputting the processed audio stream to a user of the hearing device; detecting a hearing situation with a hearing situation detector, wherein the hearing situation is associated with a configurable sound processing parameter adjustable by the user of the hearing device; when the hearing situation is detected, providing a user interface to the user of the hearing device for adjusting the configurable sound processing parameter; and, when the user has adjusted the configurable sound processing parameter, applying the configurable sound processing parameter to the sound processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventor: Martina Schuepbach-Wolf
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Publication number: 20220116721Abstract: A game headset receives a game audio during play of a particular game, monitors the game audio and detects an occurrence of one or more particular sounds in the game audio during the monitoring of the one or more of the plurality of audio channels. In response to the detecting, the game headset triggers playback of one or more of a plurality of voice commands that corresponds to the one or more particular sounds. The voice commands may be predefined and associated with the one or more particular sounds in a data structure. The voice commands may instruct the listener of the game headset to perform an action in the particular game. The characteristics of the one or more sounds may include direction, intensity, and/or frequency of the particular one or more sounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Richard Kulavik, Michael A. Jessup, Kevin Arthur Robertson
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Publication number: 20220116722Abstract: The installation and calibration of a sound system can be difficult or time-consuming for a user as a user typically cannot easily discern the optimal positioning or setting for sound system speaker. A sound system configuration device can receive one or more sound samples associated with one or more sound system speakers, such as from one or more microphones positioned at or about the sound system. These sound samples can be used to determine a calibration for the sound system. A calibration instruction based on the determined calibration can be provided, for example, via a notification to the user. The calibration instruction can include, for example, a suggested location for a sound system speaker, a suggested calibration setting for a component of the sound system, or both. The calibration instruction can also automatically update or modify a calibration setting for a component of the sound system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Virendra SINGH, Vinod JATTI
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Publication number: 20220116723Abstract: Various embodiments relate generally to electrical and electronic hardware, computer software, wired and wireless network communications, and audio and speaker systems. More specifically, disclosed are an apparatus and a method for processing signals for optimizing audio, such as 3D audio, by adjusting the filtering for cross-talk cancellation based on listener position and/or orientation. In one embodiment, an apparatus is configured to include a plurality of transducers, a memory, and a processor configured to execute instructions to determine a physical characteristic of a listener relative to the origination of the multiple channels of audio, to cancel crosstalk in a spatial region coincident with the listener at a first location, to detect a change in the physical characteristic of the listener, and to adjust the cancellation of crosstalk responsive to detecting the change in the physical characteristic to establish another spatial region at a second location.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: James Hall, Thomas Alan Donaldson
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Publication number: 20220116724Abstract: A system including circuitry communicably coupled to a plurality of sensors and a plurality of audio output devices are provided. The circuitry receives a plurality of signals from the plurality of sensors. The circuitry further detects a type of a first object and a position of the first object with respect to a first vehicle based on the received plurality of signals. The circuitry further generates metadata associated with the first object based on the detected type of the first object and the position of the first object. The metadata comprises a first three-dimensional (3D) audio object. The circuitry further controls a first set of audio output devices of the plurality of audio output devices to output the first 3D audio object in a 3D space of the first vehicle at a first time instant.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: TED YAMAZAKI, TONNI LARSEN, LEIGH ANDERSON
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Publication number: 20220116725Abstract: A system in a first vehicle includes a plurality of sensors, a plurality of audio output devices and circuitry. The circuitry receives a plurality of signals from the plurality of sensors. The circuitry determines a relative position between a first device and the first vehicle based on the received plurality of signals or a geo-location of the first vehicle. The circuitry receives first information from the first device based on the determined relative position between the first device and the first vehicle, and at least one selection criterion. The circuitry generates a first three-dimensional (3D) audio object corresponding to the received first information. The circuitry controls, based on the determined relative position, a first set of audio output devices of the plurality of audio output devices to output the generated first 3D audio object, in a 3D space of the first vehicle at a first time instant.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: TONNI LARSEN, TED YAMAZAKI, LEIGH ANDERSON
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Publication number: 20220116726Abstract: A technique for producing audio includes providing multiple audio tracks of respective sound sources of an audio performance and rendering a sound production of the audio performance at a listening venue by playing back the audio tracks on respective playback units.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventor: Raj Alur
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Publication number: 20220116727Abstract: A method for generating loudspeaker signals associated with a target screen size is disclosed. The method includes receiving a bit stream containing encoded higher order ambisonics signals, the encoded higher order ambisonics signals describing a sound field associated with a production screen size. The method further includes decoding the encoded higher order ambisonics signals to obtain a first set of decoded higher order ambisonics signals representing dominant components of the sound field and a second set of decoded higher order ambisonics signals representing ambient components of the sound field. The method also includes combining the first set of decoded higher order ambisonics signals and the second set of decoded higher order ambisonics signals to produce a combined set of decoded higher order ambisonics signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATIONInventors: Peter JAX, Johannes BOEHM, William REDMANN
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Publication number: 20220116728Abstract: A method includes providing, for each respective audio channel of a plurality of audio channels provided by an operating system of a computing device, a set of successive audio processing stages to apply to the respective audio channel. The method also includes providing, by the operating system, an application programming interface (API) configured to set a plurality of parameters for adjusting the set of successive audio processing stages for each respective audio channel. The method additionally includes receiving, via the API and from an application running on the computing device, one or more values for one or more parameters of the plurality of parameters. The method further includes adjusting, by the operating system, the plurality of audio channels based on the received one or more values for the one or more parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Ricardo Antonio Garcia, Brian Kemler, Justin Wooyoung Lee, Richard Francis Lyon, Malcolm Graham Slaney
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Publication number: 20220116729Abstract: An audio signal processing method includes receiving an audio signal corresponding to a voice of a talker, obtaining an image of the talker, estimating position information of the talker using the image of the talker, generating, according to the estimated position information, a correction filter configured to compensate for an attenuation of the voice of the talker, performing filter processing on the audio signal using the generated correction filter, and outputting the audio signal on which the filter processing has been performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Satoshi UKAI, Ryo TANAKA
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Publication number: 20220116730Abstract: Embodiments of wireless audio systems and methods for wirelessly communicating audio are disclosed herein. In one example, a method for generating a 3D audio representation of an audio is disclosed. The method includes collecting, by a first wireless headphone, a first audio signal at a first audio clock and generating, by the first wireless headphone, a first counting signal by counting cycles according to a first local clock of the first wireless headphone. The method also includes generating, by the first wireless headphone, a second synchronizing signal based on recording a value of the first counting signal and retrieving, by the first wireless headphone, a portion of the first audio signal by direct memory access (DMA).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: BESTECHNIC (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.Inventors: Weifeng Tong, Liang Zhang, Mingliang Xu
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Publication number: 20220116731Abstract: An audio signal output system including a first audio signal path, a second audio signal path and control electronics that provide a mixed sound from sound sources to the first and second audio signal paths, and control the mixed sound in accordance with a position at which a sound image associated with at least one of the sound sources is localized relative to an orientation of a user's head. The control electronics provide one or more signals corresponding to the mixed sound to the first and second audio signal paths based on one or more transfer functions associated with one or more values corresponding to at least one of a distance from the user to the at least one sound source, an angle of the user with respect to the at least one sound source, and a size of a space in which the user is located.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: Roland CorporationInventor: Masato UENO
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Publication number: 20220116732Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, a method, and a program that enable easy production of 3D Audio content. The information processing device includes a determination unit that determines one or more parameters constituting the metadata of an object on the basis of one or more pieces of attribute information of the object. The present technology can be applied to information processing devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2019Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Yuki Yamamoto, Toru CHINEN, Minoru TSUJI
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Publication number: 20220116733Abstract: Acoustic echo cancellation for a video conference system is described. A location of a person in a room can be determined. An audio signal received from the location of the person can be captured using beamforming. An acoustic echo cancellation parameter can be determined based in part on the audio signal captured from the location of the person. Acoustic echo cancellation can be performed on the audio signal using the acoustic echo cancellation parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2019Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Srikanth Kuthuru, Sunil Bharitkar, Madhu Sudan Athreya
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Publication number: 20220116734Abstract: Systems and methods for social networking using augmented reality are disclosed. A network may receive, from a plurality of client devices, a request to connect to a server. The server may be associated with an object, such as a landmark or a product. The server may serialize an AR world including the object and content associated with the object and send, to the plurality of client devices, data indicative of the AR world. The server via network may receive, from a first client device among the plurality of client devices, an indication of user input associated with the AR world. The indication of user input may comprise text data, digital image data, or user feedback. The indication of user input may be broadcast to the plurality of client devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2020Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Yunjiu LI, Siyao YANG, Xin YE, Wenjing FAN, Yiheng ZHU
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Publication number: 20220116735Abstract: The disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods to minimize false alerts in a geofence system. In an example embodiment, a controller may receive location information of a vehicle traveling on a road that is substantially aligned with a segment of a geofence. The controller may identify a margin of error present in the location information and redefine the segment of the geofence based on the margin of error. The controller may then detect geofence violations with respect to the redefined segment of the geofence. In another example embodiment, a controller may receive location information of a vehicle. The controller may evaluate the location information and determine that the vehicle is crisscrossing a segment of a geofence while traveling on a road. The controller minimizes nuisance geofence exit alerts by redefining the geofence so as to include a geofence buffer zone that encompasses the crisscrossing travel path of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Hussam Makkiya, Elena Ilieva, Luis Chaboya, Colin Drummond, Candice Villanueva