Binaural And Stereophonic Patents (Class 381/1)
  • Patent number: 11929087
    Abstract: Systems and methods for amplifying and/or attenuating audio signals are disclosed. In one implementation, a system for selectively amplifying audio signals may include at least one microphone for capturing sounds from an environment of the user and a processor. The processor may be programmed to receive an audio signal representative of sounds captured by the at least one microphone; determine whether the audio signal comprises speech by a user of the system; subject to the audio signal comprising speech by the user, modify the audio signal by attenuating a first part of the audio signal comprising the speech by the user; subject to the audio signal comprising audio other than speech by the user, modify the audio signal by amplifying a second part of the audio signal comprising audio other than the speech by the user; and transmit the modified audio signal to a hearing interface device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: ORCAM TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventors: Tal Rosenwein, Roi Nathan, Ronen Katsir, Yonatan Wexler, Amnon Shashua
  • Patent number: 11930347
    Abstract: A method of processing audio content including a plurality of audio elements comprises: clustering the plurality of audio elements into a plurality of clusters of audio elements; and for a cluster among the plurality of clusters: for each audio element in the cluster, determining a measure of energy that the audio element contributes to the cluster; for at least one audio element in the cluster, determining a compensation gain based at least in part on the measures of energy for the audio elements in the cluster; and applying the compensation gain to the at least one audio element in the cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Lianwu Chen, Lie Lu
  • Patent number: 11929083
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes: a processor; and a memory having instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the signal processing device to perform operations. The operations include performing a modulation processing of modulating a sound signal by using a modulation parameter based on an interaural phase difference at a listening position of the sound signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Tao, Kanro Oyama
  • Patent number: 11924623
    Abstract: A 3D sound spatializer provides delay-compensated HRTF interpolation techniques and efficient cross-fading between current and delayed HRTF filter results to mitigate artifacts caused by interpolation between HRTF filters and the use of time-varying HRTF filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jeff Thompson
  • Patent number: 11917385
    Abstract: An audio headset receives one or more audio signals carrying one or more audio channels and processes the audio channels to generate stereo signals for output to a left and a right speaker of the audio headset. The processing determines a number of the audio channels carried in the received audio signal(s), adjusts level(s) of the audio channels based on the determined number of audio channels and/or adjusts gain and/or phase of the audio channels to control a perceived location of a listener wearing the headset relative to a source of sounds carried in the stereo signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Kulavik, Shobha Devi Kuruba Buchannagari
  • Patent number: 11900008
    Abstract: An audio processing system may include at least one memory configured to maintain a plurality of audio signal processing algorithms and audio components, and a server having a processor. The processor may be configured to present an interface displaying at least a portion of the signal processing algorithms and audio components, receive user selection of at least one of the audio components, present the at least one selected audio component via the interface, receive user selection of at least one of signal processing algorithms to apply to the at least one selected audio component, apply the at least one selected algorithm to the at least one selected audio component, and provide a measurement of the at least one selected algorithm and the at least one selected audio component via the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Philipp Maximilian Krejci, Kadagattur Gopinatha Srinidhi, Darby Hadley, Tobias Muench
  • Patent number: 11899713
    Abstract: A system and method for making categorized music tracks available to end user applications. The tracks may be categorized based on computer-derived rhythm, texture and pitch (RTP) scores for tracks derived from high-level acoustic attributes, which is based on low level data extracted from the tracks. RTP scores are stored in a universal database common to all of the music publishers so that the same track, once RTP scored, does not need to be re-RTP scored by other music publishers. End user applications access an API server to import collections of tracks published by publishers, to create playlists and initiate music streaming. Each end user application is sponsored by a single music publisher so that only tracks capable of being streamed by the music publisher are available to the sponsored end user application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: APERTURE INVESTMENTS, LLC
    Inventors: Jacquelyn Fuzell-Casey, Skyler Fuzell-Casey
  • Patent number: 11882419
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless speaker chair, and more particularly, to a wireless speaker chair capable of providing a sense of space and a three-dimensional effect to a user who sits in the chair through sounds output from a plurality of speaker channels and allowing the plurality of speaker channels to wirelessly receive sound signals and power which are received to output sounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: TROUND INC.
    Inventor: Jea Bum Park
  • Patent number: 11877141
    Abstract: A method for mapping a plurality of input channels of an input channel configuration to output channels of an output channel configuration includes providing a set of rules associated with each input channel of the plurality of input channels, wherein the rules define different mappings between the associated input channel and a set of output channels. For each input channel of the plurality of input channels, a rule associated with the input channel is accessed, determination is made whether the set of output channels defined in the accessed rule is present in the output channel configuration, and the accessed rule is selected if the set of output channels defined in the accessed rule is present in the output channel configuration. The input channels are mapped to the output channels according to the selected rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Juergen Herre, Fabian Kuech, Michael Kratschmer, Achim Kuntz, Christoph Faller
  • Patent number: 11875815
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a device for processing an audio signal. The device may include a first acoustic-electric transducer and a second acoustic-electric transducer. The first acoustic-electric transducer may have a first frequency response, and may be configured to detect the audio signal and generate a first sub-band signal according to the detected audio signal. The second acoustic-electric transducer may have a second frequency response, the second frequency response being different from the first frequency response. The second acoustic-electric transducer may be configured to detect the audio signal and generate a second sub-band signal according to the detected audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xin Qi, Lei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11869518
    Abstract: A method for increasing stability of an inter-channel time difference (ICTD) parameter in parametric audio coding, wherein a multi-channel audio input signal comprising at least two channels is received. The method comprises obtaining an ICTD estimate, ICTDest(m), for an audio frame m and a stability estimate of said ICTD estimate, and determining whether the obtained ICTD estimate, ICTDest(m), is valid. If the ICTDest(m) is not found valid, and a determined sufficient number of valid ICTD estimates have been found in preceding frames, a hang-over time is determined using the stability estimate and a previously obtained valid ICTD parameter, ICTD(m?1), is selected as an output parameter, ICTD(m), during the hang-over time. The output parameter, ICTD(m), is set to zero if valid ICTDest(m) is not found during the hang-over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON
    Inventors: Erik Norvell, Tomas Jansson Toftgård
  • Patent number: 11862199
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide for advanced video editing techniques using sampling patterns. In one example, a computing device can receive a selection of a clip of a video and a sampling pattern. The computing device can determine a respective number of frames to sample from the clip for each interval of time over a length of time for a new clip. For example, the computing device can determine a function corresponding the pattern that relates time and the number of frames to sample, a histogram corresponding to the pattern, or a definite integral corresponding to the pattern, among other approaches. The computing device can extract these numbers of frames from the clip and generate the new clip from the extracted frames. The computing device can present the new clip as a preview and send the new clip to other computing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Devin Doty
  • Patent number: 11853641
    Abstract: A system and method for audio combination and playback which replicates the sounds made by a crowd gathered together in one place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: HEARMECHEER, INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas Andersen, Thomas Andersen, Elias Andersen, Jason Rubenstein
  • Patent number: 11838740
    Abstract: A signal processing method and Automotive Audio System 290 comprising a tripolar loudspeaker configuration housed in at least one automotive head-rest assembly 200 or 500, whose radiation pattern, in conjunction with inter-element delays and other design features, is such that that passengers are afforded temporal and amplitude cues for achieving the desired soundfield appropriate for a variety of audio program material. Optionally, some or all of the headrest assembly transducers are aligned and configured with a Floating Waveguide member 470.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Sound United, LLC
    Inventors: George Digby Fryer, Matthew Lyons, Bradley M. Starobin
  • Patent number: 11838829
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a media guidance application that adjusts output parameters of media assets delivered to output devices based on user preferences of users near the output devices. For example, the media guidance application may adjust the volume to be higher at a speaker near a first user who enjoys a particular media asset and lower at a speaker near a second user who dislikes the media asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: ROVI GUIDES, INC.
    Inventor: Ti-Shiang Wang
  • Patent number: 11832077
    Abstract: A method performed a local device that is communicatively coupled with several remote devices, the method includes: receiving, from each remote device with which the local device is engaged in a communication session, an input audio stream; receiving, for each remote device, a set parameters; determining, for each input audio stream, whether the input audio stream is to be 1) rendered individually or 2) rendered as a mix of input audio streams based on the set of parameters; for each input audio stream that is determined to be rendered individually, spatial rendering the input audio stream as an individual virtual sound source that contains only that input audio stream; and for input audio streams that are determined to be rendered as the mix of input audio streams, spatial rendering the mix of input audio streams as a single virtual sound source that contains the mix of input audio streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sean A. Ramprashad, Peter D. Callaway, Jae Woo Chang, Martin E. Johnson, Daniel K. Boothe, Kostyantyn Komarov, Patrick Miauton, Christopher M. Garrido, Austin W. Shyu, Karthick Santhanam
  • Patent number: 11804237
    Abstract: A conference terminal and an echo cancellation method for a conference are provided. In the echo cancellation method, a synthetic speech signal is received. The synthetic speech signal includes a user speech signal of a speaking party corresponding to a first conference terminal of multiple conference terminals and an audio watermark signal corresponding to the first conference terminal. One or more delay times corresponding to the audio watermark signal are detected in a received audio signal. The received audio signal is recorded through a sound receiver of a second conference terminal of the conference terminals. An echo in the received audio signal is canceled according to the delay time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Po-Jen Tu, Jia-Ren Chang, Kai-Meng Tzeng
  • Patent number: 11783844
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods of encoding and decoding an audio signal using side information, and an encoder and a decoder for performing the methods. The method of encoding an audio signal using side information includes identifying an input signal, the input signal being an original audio signal, extracting side information from the input signal using a learning model trained to extract side information from a feature vector of the input signal, encoding the input signal, and generating a bitstream by combining the encoded input signal and the side information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignees: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, GWANGJU INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Woo-taek Lim, Seung Kwon Beack, Jongmo Sung, Tae Jin Lee, Inseon Jang, Jong Won Shin, Soojoong Hwang, Youngju Cheon, Sangwook Han
  • Patent number: 11778408
    Abstract: A system comprises a sound source to output an audio signal to a plurality of speakers arranged in a plurality of locations in a vehicle. A laser device is disposed on an object representing a human head placed in a seat of the vehicle to scan the locations of the speakers. A microphone is disposed in each ear of the object. A controller routes the audio signal to the speakers one speaker at a time, receives audio signals received via the microphones, and compiles binaural acoustic data for the vehicle based on the audio signals received via the microphones. The controller receives scan data from the laser device and generates geometric data for the vehicle based on the scan data. The controller generates head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) for the object based on the binaural acoustic data and the geometric data for the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: EMBODYVR, INC.
    Inventors: Kaushik Sunder, Marielle Venita Jakobsons, Kapil Jain
  • Patent number: 11778383
    Abstract: A device for reducing crosstalk in an audio system that has first and second pairs of loudspeakers and first and second audio sources. The device is connected to each audio source and to at least the first pair of loudspeakers. The device includes a module for acquiring first audio signals from the first source and second audio signals from the second source, a module for determining crosstalk reduction filters resulting from a loudspeaker of the second pair, a module for calculating corrective signals, by applying the reduction filters to the second audio signals, and a module for generating corrected audio signals for the first pair, obtained from the first audio signals and corrective signals. Each reduction filter is obtained from transfer functions, each representing an acoustic path between a loudspeaker and a user's ear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Europe
    Inventors: Nicolas Lopez Zuleta, Mounira Rigaud-Maazaoui, Camille Georges
  • Patent number: 11778403
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of generating personalized HRTFs. The system is prepared by calculating a model for HRTFs described as the relationship between a finite example set of input data, namely anthropometric measures and demographic information for a set of individuals, and a corresponding set of output data, namely HRTFs numerically simulated using a high-resolution database of 3D scans of the same set of individuals. At the time of use, the system queries the user for their demographic information, and then from a series of images of the user, the system detects and measures various anthropometric characteristics. The system then applies the prepared model to the anthropometric and demographic data as part of generating a personalized HRTF. In this manner, the personalized HRTF can be generated with more convenience than by performing a high-resolution scan or an acoustic measurement of the user, and with less computational complexity than by numerically simulating their HRTF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: McGregor Steele Joyner, Alex Brandmeyer, Scott Daly, Jeffrey Ross Baker, Andrea Fanelli, Poppy Anne Carrie Crum
  • Patent number: 11769516
    Abstract: An encoding system encodes an N-channel audio signal (X), wherein N?3, as a single-channel downmix signal (Y) together with dry and wet upmix parameters ({tilde over (C)}, {tilde over (P)}). In a decoding system, a decorrelating section outputs, based on the downmix signal, an (N?1)-channel decorrelated signal (Z); a dry upmix section maps the downmix signal linearly in accordance with dry upmix coefficients (C) determined based on the dry upmix parameters; a wet upmix section populates an intermediate matrix based on the wet upmix parameters and knowing that the intermediate matrix belongs to a predefined matrix class, obtains wet upmix coefficients (P) by multiplying the intermediate matrix by a predefined matrix, and maps the decorrelated signal linearly in accordance with the wet upmix coefficients; and a combining section combines outputs from the upmix sections to obtain a reconstructed signal ({circumflex over (X)}) corresponding to the signal to be reconstructed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Lars Villemoes, Heidi-Maria Lehtonen, Heiko Purnhagen, Toni Hirvonen
  • Patent number: 11750999
    Abstract: A method (900) for rendering audio in a virtual reality rendering environment (180) is described. The method (900) comprises rendering (901) an origin audio signal of an origin audio source (113) of an origin audio scene (111) from an origin source position on a sphere (114) around a listening position (201) of a listener (181). Furthermore, the method (900) comprises determining (902) that the listener (181) moves from the listening position (201) within the origin audio scene (111) to a listening position (202) within a different destination audio scene (112). In addition, the method (900) comprises applying (903) a fade-out gain to the origin audio signal to determine a modified origin audio signal, and rendering (903) the modified origin audio signal of the origin audio source (113) from the origin source position on the sphere (114) around the listening position (201, 202).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB
    Inventors: Leon Terentiv, Christof Fersch, Daniel Fischer
  • Patent number: 11736884
    Abstract: A method for supporting a multi-conversation mode for a vehicle of the present disclosure may include: receiving user information of the multi-conversation mode and at least one of a message or speech from a conversation partner participating in the multi-conversation mode; allocating sound spaces on the basis of the user information; and assigning directivity to speech generated on the basis of at least one of the message or the speech and outputting the speech to an allocated space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Woo Sok Yang
  • Patent number: 11727949
    Abstract: A feedback system may play back, to a user, an altered version of the user's voice in real time, in order to reduce stuttering by the user. The system may operate in different feedback modes at different times. For instance, the system may detect when the severity of a user's stuttering increases, which is indicative of the user habituating to the current feedback mode. The system may then switch to a different feedback mode. In some cases, the feedback modes include at least a Whisper mode, a Reverb mode, and a Harmony mode. In Whisper mode, the user's voice may be transformed to sound as if it were whispering in the user's ears. In Harmony mode, the user's voice may be altered as if the user were harmonizing with himself or herself. In Reverb mode, the user's voice may be altered so that it reverberates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Rebecca Kleinberger, Michael Erkkinen, George Stefanakis, Akito van Troyer, Satrajit Ghosh, Janet Baker, Tod Machover
  • Patent number: 11729574
    Abstract: A method including: obtaining at least one spatial audio signal including at least one audio signal, wherein the at least one spatial audio signal at least partially defines an audio scene; obtaining at least one augmentation audio signal; determining at least two audio objects based upon the at least one augmentation audio signal; determining audio-object dependency information for the determined at least two audio objects; and augmenting the audio scene based, at least partially, on both the determined at least two audio objects and the determined audio-object dependency information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Lasse Laaksonen
  • Patent number: 11724179
    Abstract: A gaming unit and producing a game-audio output of a varying volume level and a chat-voice output is connected to headphones adapted to be worn by a player of the unit and connected to the gaming unit for making the chat-voice output and the game-audio output audible to the player. A circuit or software associated with the headphones can increase the chat-voice volume level generally proportionately to the game-audio volume level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc.
    Inventor: Carmine J. Bonanno
  • Patent number: 11694698
    Abstract: In a reliable multi-cast, a concealment scheme may be applied to recover or conceal lost or otherwise corrupted packets of audio information for one channel based on the audio information of other channels in the reliable multi-cast. The concealment scheme may employ correction factors for channels derived from the channel relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: Robert Zopf
  • Patent number: 11681419
    Abstract: A method for securing a computer system comprising a step of: disguising a password entry screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: NOWWW.US Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Mark Rodney Anson, Lance Roman-Miller
  • Patent number: 11659347
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus that carries out a process of deriving a head related transfer function. The information processing apparatus includes a detection unit that detects a position of a head of a user, a storage unit that stores a head related transfer function of the user, a determination unit that determines a position of a sound source for measuring the head related transfer function of the user based on the position of the head detected by the detection unit and information stored in the storage unit, a control unit that controls the sound source to output measurement signal sound from the position determined by the determination unit, and a calculation unit that calculates the head related transfer function of the user based on collected sound data obtained by collecting, at the position of the head, the measurement signal sound output from the sound source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Go Igarashi, Naoki Shinmen, Kohei Asada, Chisata Numaoka, Yoshiyuki Kuroda
  • Patent number: 11631422
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed, configured to receive, from first and second spatial audio capture apparatuses, respective first and second composite audio signals comprising components derived from one or more sound sources in a capture space. The apparatus is further configured to identify a position of a user device corresponding to one of first and second areas respectively associated with the positions of the first and second spatial audio capture apparatuses, and to render audio representing the one or more sound sources to the user device, the rendering being performed differently dependent on, for the spatial audio capture apparatus associated with the identified first or second area, whether or not individual audio signals from each of the one or more sound sources can be successfully separated from its composite signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate, Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppänen
  • Patent number: 11617052
    Abstract: An apparatus for optimizing a binaural beat according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a binaural beat generator that generates a binaural beat; and a binaural beat controller that optimizes the binaural beat in consideration of a hearing state of left and right ears of a listener. A method for optimizing a binaural beat according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: generating a binaural beat; and optimizing the binaural beat in consideration of a hearing state of left and right ears of a listener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Inventor: Min Joo Choi
  • Patent number: 11614914
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an audio data processing circuit and an audio data processing method. The audio data processing circuit includes a word select interface, a clock signal interface and an audio data interface. The word select interface is configured to receive a word select signal. The clock signal interface is configured to receive a clock signal, and generating an audio data interface signal according to a number of clocks of the clock signal in one period of the word select signal. The audio data interface is configured to transmit the audio data to a processing unit through a first transmission protocol or a second transmission protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SILICON INTEGRATED SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventor: Han-Ning Chen
  • Patent number: 11610587
    Abstract: A personalized sound management system for an acoustic space includes at least one transducer, a data communication system, one or more processors operatively coupled to the data communication system and the at least one transducer, and a medium coupled to the one or more processors. The processors access a database of sonic signatures and display a plurality of personalized sound management applications that perform at least one or more tasks among identifying a sonic signature, calculating a sound pressure level, storing metadata related to a sonic signature, monitoring sound pressure level dosage levels, switching to an ear canal microphone in a noisy environment, recording a user's voice, storing the user's voice in a memory of an earpiece device, or storing the user's voice in a memory of a server system, or converting received text received in texts or emails to voice using text to speech conversion. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Staton Techiya LLC
    Inventors: Steven Goldstein, John P. Keady
  • Patent number: 11601105
    Abstract: Environmental sound is recorded using one or more microphones. A source of the recorded environmental sound is classified. The recorded environmental sound is weighted based on the classification of the source and the source media sound using a weighting mode to determine whether to mix the recorded environmental. The recorded environmental sound is mixed with source media sound to produce a mixed sound based on the determination. The mixed sound is played over one or more speakers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Takeo Matsukawa
  • Patent number: 11601776
    Abstract: An example device for processing one or more audio streams includes a memory configured to store the one or more audio streams and one or more processors implemented in circuitry coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to determine a listener position. The one or more processors are also configured to determine one or more clusters of the one or more audio streams. The one or more processors are also configured to determine a rendering mode based on the listener position and the one or more clusters. The device also includes a renderer configured to render at least one of the one or more clusters of audio streams based on the rendering mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Siddhartha Goutham Swaminathan, S M Akramus Salehin, Nils Günther Peters, Isaac Garcia Munoz
  • Patent number: 11582572
    Abstract: A computer program product having a non-transitory computer-readable medium including computer program logic encoded thereon that, when performed on a surround sound audio system that is configured to render left front, right front, and center front audio signals, and also render left and right near-field binaurally-encoded audio signals, causes the surround sound audio system to develop the left and right near-field binaurally-encoded audio signals, and provide the left near-field binaurally-encoded audio signal to a left non-occluding near-field driver and provide the right near-field binaurally-encoded audio signal to a right non-occluding near-field driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: BOSE CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Tracey, Guy Torio
  • Patent number: 11573678
    Abstract: A content sharing system and method are disclosed. According to certain embodiments, the system may be used in a vehicle. The system may include a user interface and a controller coupled with the user interface. The controller may be configured to display a map of the vehicle on the user interface. The map may show at least a plurality of user devices in the vehicle, and an icon representing content presented by a first user device. The controller may also be configured to detect a user operation moving the icon on the user interface. The controller may further be configured to control, based on the user operation, sharing of the content between the first user device and at least a second user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Faraday & Future Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas William Dazé, Claude P. Meyers, Jennifer Anne Lin, Matthew Joseph Coburn
  • Patent number: 11570571
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing binaural rendering of an audio signal are provided. The method includes identifying an input signal that is based on an object, and metadata that includes distance information indicating a distance to the object, generating a binaural filter that is based on the metadata, using a binaural room impulse response, obtaining a binaural filter to which a low-pass filter (LPF) is applied, using a frequency response control that is based on the distance information, and generating a binaural-rendered output signal by performing a convolution of the input signal and the binaural filter to which the LPF is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Yong Ju Lee, Jae-hyoun Yoo, Mi Suk Lee, Kyeongok Kang, Dae Young Jang
  • Patent number: 11564051
    Abstract: Multiple virtual source locations may be defined for a volume within which audio objects can move. A set-up process for rendering audio data may involve receiving reproduction speaker location data and pre-computing gain values for each of the virtual sources according to the reproduction speaker location data and each virtual source location. The gain values may be stored and used during “run time,” during which audio reproduction data are rendered for the speakers of the reproduction environment. During run time, for each audio object, contributions from virtual source locations within an area or volume defined by the audio object position data and the audio object size data may be computed. A set of gain values for each output channel of the reproduction environment may be computed based, at least in part, on the computed contributions. Each output channel may correspond to at least one reproduction speaker of the reproduction environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignees: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Antonio Mateos Sole, Nicolas R. Tsingos
  • Patent number: 11546689
    Abstract: The disclosure describes systems and methods for processing audio signals in a vehicle to perform sound source separation. The sound source separation is performed using transfer functions and involves separation of the speech of multiple occupants. The separated speech can be used to isolate and correctly respond to a command to control vehicle systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ranjani Rangarajan, Leah Busch
  • Patent number: 11545129
    Abstract: Synthesizing engine sound in a cabin of a vehicle includes generating a synthesized engine noise audio signal including a plurality of engine order outputs; mixing the engine order outputs in accordance with a first set of gain levels to provide a first channel output; mixing the engine order outputs in accordance with a second set of gain levels to provide a second channel output; using a first localization filter set to provide a first localized output to localize the first channel output as a first sound image at a first location within the cabin, and a second localization filter set to provide a second localized output to localize the second channel output as a second sound image at a second location within the cabin; and mixing the first and second localized outputs into loudspeaker outputs to be applied to the loudspeakers in the cabin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Geon-Seok Kim, David Paul Trumpy
  • Patent number: 11526273
    Abstract: User-input obfuscating techniques involving displaying multiple targets on a display device. A visual indication of the current user target moves to a first target at a first time in response to user input, and a first presentation of a visual or audio feedback signal confirming actuation of a target occurs at a second time, without a user input for actuation of a target received while the current user target has remained at the first target from the first time to the second time. The visual indication moves to a second target at a third time in response to user input. The second target is actuated in response to receiving user input for actuation of the current user target after the third time. Then, with the current user target having remained at the second target since the third time, a second presentation of the visual or audio feedback signal is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Ross Garrett Cutler
  • Patent number: 11516614
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for generating output filters to a plurality of loudspeakers at respective positions for playback of a plurality of different input signals in respective spatially different sound zones by means of a processor system. The method comprising computing spatio-temporal correlation matrices in response to spatial information, e.g. measured transfer functions, and in response to desired sound pressures in the plurality of sound zones. Joint eigenvalue decomposition of the spatial correlation matrices are then computed, or at least an approximation thereof, to arrive at eigenvectors accordingly. Next, variable span filters a reformed from a linear combination of the eigenvectors in response to a desired trade-off between acoustic contrast and acoustic errors in the sound zones. Finally, output filter for each of the plurality of loudspeakers, for each of the plurality of input signals, in accordance with the variable span filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taewoong Lee, Jesper Kjaer Nielsen, Jesper Rindom Jensen, Mads Graesbøll Christensen
  • Patent number: 11503419
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a multi-channel audio signal (101) including multiple input audio channels (102, 104, 106, 108) that are configured to play audio from multiple respective locations relative to a listener. One or more spectral components that undergo a panning effect (1001, 1002, 1003) are identified in the multi-channel audio signal among at least some of the input audio channels. One or more virtual channels (1100, 1200, 1300) are generated, which together with the input audio channels form an extended set (111) of audio channels that retain the identified panning effect. A reduced set (222) of output audio signals, fewer in number than the input audio signals, is generated from the extended set, including recreating the panning effect in the output audio signals. The reduced set of output audio signals is outputted to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: SPHEREO SOUND LTD.
    Inventors: Yoav Mor, David Mimouni, Alon Rosenberg, Hagay Konyo
  • Patent number: 11503424
    Abstract: An audio processing apparatus comprises a receiver (705) which receives audio data including audio components and render configuration data including audio transducer position data for a set of audio transducers (703). A renderer (707) generating audio transducer signals for the set of audio transducers from the audio data. The renderer (7010) is capable of rendering audio components in accordance with a plurality of rendering modes. A render controller (709) selects the rendering modes for the renderer (707) from the plurality of rendering modes based on the audio transducer position data. The renderer (707) can employ different rendering modes for different subsets of the set of audio transducers the render controller (709) can independently select rendering modes for each of the different subsets of the set of audio transducers (703).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Werner Paulus Josephus De Bruijn, Aki Sakari Harma, Arnoldus Werner Johannes Oomen
  • Patent number: 11494160
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method of changing an audio property of an object is performed at a device including one or more processors coupled to non-transitory memory. The method includes displaying, using a display, a representation of a scene including a representation of an object associated with an audio property. The method includes displaying, using the display, in association with the representation of the object, a manipulator indicating a value of the audio property. The method includes receiving, using one or more input devices, a user input interacting with the manipulator. The method includes, in response to receiving the user input, changing the value of the audio property based on the user input and displaying, using the display, the manipulator indicating the changed value of the audio property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Karen Natalie Wong, Adam James Bolton
  • Patent number: 11477595
    Abstract: An audio processing device, including: a trans-aural processing unit configured to perform trans-aural processing with respect to a predetermined audio signal; and a correction processing unit configured to perform correction processing in accordance with a change in a listening position with respect to the audio signal having been subjected to the trans-aural processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Nakano
  • Patent number: 11463832
    Abstract: A system and method of adjusting an audio output in one location so that its propagation into another location is reduced. As a first device in a first location generates sound, a second device in a second location detects the propagated sound. The first device then adjusts its output based on the detected sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: C. Phillip Brown, Michael Smithers, Remi Audfray, Patrick Saunders
  • Patent number: 11451916
    Abstract: A sound adjustment method is disclosed. The sound adjustment method includes the following the steps: receiving a sound adjustment command; receiving a right channel sound signal and a left channel sound signal; selecting a corresponding adjustment mode according to the sound adjustment command and processing the right channel sound signal and the left channel sound signal based on the adjustment mode to generate a right channel first sound signal and a left channel first sound signal, wherein different adjustment modes have different intensity adjustment levels; shifting the frequency of the right channel first sound signal by X Hz to generate a right channel second sound signal and shifting the frequency of the left channel first sound signal by Y Hz to generate a left channel second sound signal, wherein 0.5?|X?Y|?100; outputting the right channel second sound signal and the left channel second sound signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: AIROHA TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Kuo-Wei Kao, Po-Jui Wu, Yu-Chieh Huang, Wei-Lin Chang, Kai-Yuan Hsiao, Cheng-Te Wang, I-Ting Lee, Kuo-Ping Yang