Sorenson IP Holdings, LLC

3com Corporation

Captioncall, LLC

Jeffrey Charles Bullough

Brian Chevrier

Shane Roylance

D Mark Parry

An electronic device may include a housing and a directional microphone. The housing may include a front surface, a rear surface positioned opposite the front surface, and a hollow cavity positioned between the front surface and the rear surface. The hollow cavity may include a front opening defined in the front surface and a rear opening defined in the rear surface. The directional microphone may include a front port and a rear port. The directional microphone may be mounted in the hollow cavity of the housing with the front port oriented toward the front opening and with the rear port oriented toward the rear opening.

Electronic device including a directional microphone

Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for automatic volume control of an audio stream reproduced by a captioning communication service for use by a call assistant in generating a text transcription of a communication session between a hearing-impaired user and a far-end user. The automatic volume control automatically adjusts a volume of the audio stream reproduced by the captioning communication service responsive to a volume control command identifying which of the far-end voice signal and the near-end voice signal is active at a given time. The system further includes an echo modifier configured to add distortion to an echo portion of the far-end voice signal when generating the audio stream.

Automatic volume control of a voice signal provided to a captioning communication service

A computer-implemented method to detect and reduce feedback in an audio signal is disclosed. The method may include obtaining an audio signal. The method may further include separating the audio signal into a plurality of frequency bands. The method may also include, for each frequency band of the plurality of frequency bands, determining whether the frequency band includes feedback. The method may further include, for each frequency band determined to include feedback, attenuating the frequency band. The method may also include combining each frequency band of the plurality of frequency bands to produce an output audio signal.

Detecting and reducing feedback

A computer-implemented method to reduce noise in an audio signal is disclosed. The method may include obtaining an audio signal and separating the audio signal into frequency components in each of multiple frequency bands. The method may include obtaining a first magnitude threshold for a first frequency band of the plurality of frequency bands. The method may include calculating a first envelope of first frequency components in the first frequency band during a first time frame and a second envelope of the first frequency components during a second time frame after the first time frame. The method may include, in response to a difference between the first envelope and the second envelope of the first frequency band being less than the first magnitude threshold, attenuating the first frequency components. The method may include combining the frequency components, including the attenuated first frequency components, to produce an output audio signal.

Noise reduction by application of two thresholds in each frequency band in audio signals

According to one or more aspects of the present disclosure, operations may include activating testing software of a digital signal processing system instead of activating operating software of the digital signal processing system. The testing software may be configured to, while activated, perform linear operations with respect to signals that traverse the signal path. The operating software may be configured to, while activated, perform non-linear operations with respect to signals that traverse the signal path. The testing software may be activated during testing of one or more hardware elements of the signal path that are configured to perform analog operations on signals that traverse the signal path.

Testing systems that include digital signal processing systems

According to one or more aspects of the present disclosure, operations may include obtaining multiple microphone signals derived from a microphone array that includes a multiple omnidirectional microphones. Each of the microphone signals may be derived from a different microphone of the microphone array. The operations may further include determining whether the microphone signals include noise, such as wind noise, based on two or more of the plurality of microphone signals. In addition, the operations may include generating an output signal based on a beamformed signal or a reduced-noise signal based on whether the microphone signals are determined to include noise.

Noise reduction in an audio system

A method may include determining that values of a plurality of samples of a digital audio signal that are stored in an input buffer exceed a clipping threshold value. The method may further include identifying the plurality of samples that exceed the clipping threshold value as potentially clipped samples of the digital audio signal. In addition, the method may include generating, based on identification of the potentially clipped samples, attenuated samples by uniformly applying a fixed attenuation factor to the potentially clipped samples and to every sample of the digital audio signal included in the input buffer that follows the potentially clipped samples. Further, the method may include generating a plurality of modified attenuated samples by applying interpolation to the attenuated samples that correspond to the potentially clipped samples. The method may also include outputting the attenuated samples and the modified attenuated samples as a modified digital audio signal.

Signal clipping compensation

Methods and devices for automatic volume control of a far-end voice signal provided to a captioning communication service

In an operating system for facilitating the execution of a communication application typically comprised of a single port interface, a method for facilitating the interaction of the single port interface of the communication application with a plurality of hardware devices through the selection of corresponding and compatible port drivers is presented. A device driver router is designated as the port driver for the specific communication application. The port driver router functions as an intermediate device driver for evaluating conditions that exist among the possible target hardware devices. The device driver router initiates the loading of the determined port driver and hooks the responding port handle from the device driver. The device driver router modifies the port information structure of the device driver to enable the device driver router to perform the closing and unloading of the port driver. The port driver router substitutes its information structure with that of the determined port driver for use in communicating through the open port.

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South Jordan, UT, United States of America

Jeffrey Charles Bullough