Broadcom Corporation

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation

Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited

Avago Technologies General IP (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Robert W Zopf

Juin-Hwey Chen

Jes Thyssen

Ashutosh Pandey

Victor Simileysky

James F Dougherty

Kelly Coffey

Gianluca Filippini

Bengt J Borgstrom

Vivek Kumar

Kelly H Hale

Elias Nemer

Patrick Cruise

Ashish Kumar Malot

Krishna Kishore Avadhanam

Hongwei Kong

Prasanna Desai

Kamesh Medapalli

Siukai Mak

Yan Li

James Wihardja

Hong-Goo Kang

Laurent Pilati

Norbert Grunert

Yanbing Zhang

Michael S Gustafson

Rodolfo Gondim Lossio

Systems, methods, and devices detect audio signals. Methods may include receiving an audio input at an audio front end circuit, starting, using a low power circuit, one or more buffers in response to receiving the audio input, and identifying, using the low power circuit, speech included in the audio input. Methods may also include identifying, using the low power circuit and a high performance circuit, a wake word based, at least in part, on the identified speech, the high performance circuit being configured to verify the wake word identified by the low power circuit.

Systems, methods, and devices for staged wakeup word detection

Implementations disclosed describe techniques and systems that improve wireless connectivity between devices that support multiple operation modes, by monitoring a quality of the established wireless connection and performing a change of the operation mode in response to changing conditions. The disclosed techniques include obtaining metrics characterizing quality of the wireless connection, identifying a utility function that is specific to an application supported by the wireless connection, computing multiple values of the utility function for various operation modes, based on the obtained metrics, and initiating a change of the operation mode based on a comparison of the computed utility values.

Adaptive wireless connections in multi-mode devices

Disclosed are methods and systems for using softbit decoding techniques in retransmission-based networks for error concealment of packets corrupted by bit-errors. The softbit decoding techniques derive softbit information from multiple corrupted hardbits of the retransmitted packet to aid a softbit decoder in decoding the packet. The approach realizes improved error concealment capability while maintaining a simple system architecture. A retransmission softbit module is inserted between a channel decoder used for channel-decoding and demodulating a compressed packet and the softbit decoder. The retransmission softbit module may derive an accumulated softbit packet from multiple corrupted copies of the packet received from the channel decoder, make bit decisions based on the accumulated softbit packet, and derive reliability information for the bit decisions. The bit decisions may be a majority decision packet (MDP) created using a majority voting scheme. The reliability information and the MDP may be provided to the softbit decoder for decoding.

Retransmission softbit decoding

Systems, methods, and devices seamlessly playback data files using one or more wireless connections. Methods include establishing a first wireless connection and a second wireless connection between a first device and a second device, the first wireless connection using a first communication protocol. Methods further include transmitting audio data via the first wireless connection and determining a switch should be initiated based on one or more signal quality metrics representing an estimate of a quality of the first wireless connection. Methods also include operating the second wireless connection in an active mode and switching to the second wireless connection using a second communication protocol, and the switching comprising beginning encapsulation of the audio data in Bluetooth packets for transmission in accordance with the second communication protocol, wherein the Bluetooth packets are encapsulated in one or more data packets of the second communication protocol.

Seamless playback and switching for wireless communications devices

Disclosed are methods and systems for a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) receiver to reduce the number of retransmission of packets needed to receive an error free packet so as to improve channel throughput. Techniques to reduce the number of retransmissions include a combination of processing of the header of the received packets to increase the number of corrupted packets available for reconstructing the original payload and bit error correction (BEC) of the payload of the corrupted packets. Header processing may include making available for payload reconstruction a packet whose received access address differs by no more than 1-bit from an assigned address of the receiver provided at least one of the corrupted packets used in the reconstruction contains an error-free access address. Header processing may also include using a prior error-free decoded length of the packet to aid in the determination of the length field of a current packet.

Bit error correction for Bluetooth low energy

Described herein are devices, methods, and systems for detecting a phrase from uttered speech. A processing device may determine a first model for phrase recognition based on a likelihood ratio using a set of training utterances. The set of utterances may be analyzed by the first model to determine a second model, the second model comprising a training state sequence for each of the set of training utterances, and wherein each training state sequence indicates a likely state for each time interval of a corresponding training utterance. A determination of whether a detected utterance corresponds to the phrase may be based on a concatenation of the first model and the second model.

Two stage user customizable wake word detection

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.

Advanced packet-based sample audio concealment

Systems, methods, and devices seamlessly playback data files using one or more wireless connections. Methods include establishing a first wireless connection between a source device and a sink device, the first wireless connection using a first transmission protocol and transmitting audio data via the first wireless connection. Methods further include determining a switch should be initiated based on one or more signal quality metrics, the one or more signal quality metrics representing, at least in part, an estimate of a quality of the first wireless connection. Methods also include switching to a second wireless connection between the source device and the sink device, the second wireless connection using a second transmission protocol, and the second wireless connection using data packets encapsulated for transmission in accordance with the second transmission protocol.

Systems, methods, and apparatus receive a corrupted packet of an original packet and at least one corrupted retransmitted packet of the original packet and generate a decision packet for the original packet based on identical bits of the original packet received through the corrupted packet and the at least one corrupted retransmitted packet. Embodiments verify the decision packet to determine whether the decision packet is correct based on a last one of the at least one corrupted retransmitted packet and a one or more cyclic redundancy check (CRC) operations.

Bit error correction for wireless retransmission communications systems

Systems and methods provide a first sample of audio data and detect speech onset in the first sample of the audio data. Responsive to detecting the speech onset, systems and methods switch from capturing second samples of the audio data at first intervals, to capturing the second samples of the audio data at second intervals. Systems and methods provide contiguous audio data using the second samples of the audio data captured at the first intervals and at least one captured portion of the second samples of the audio data captured at the second intervals.

Systems and methods for capturing noise for pattern recognition processing

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.

A phrase detection device includes a high latency pipeline to transmit a first portion of audio data from an audio data source to a processing unit, where the high latency pipeline includes a history buffer to store the first portion of the audio data, and a low latency pipeline to transmit a second portion of the audio data from the audio data source to the processing unit with a lower latency than the high latency pipeline. A sound onset detector coupled with the audio data source detects a sound onset event based on the audio data. A synchronization circuit coupled with the high latency pipeline and the low latency pipeline, in response to the sound onset event, synchronizes output to the processing unit of the first portion of the audio data stored in the history buffer and the second portion of the audio data via the low latency pipeline.

Dual pipeline architecture for wakeup phrase detection with speech onset detection

A system includes a transmitter configured to transmit an original packet. The system also includes a receiver comprising a processing device. The processing device is configured to receive a corrupted Bluetooth&#xae; packet of the original packet and at least one retransmitted packet of the original packet. The processing device is also configured to generate an accumulated packet based on the corrupted packet and the at least one retransmitted packet, and generate a decision packet for the original packet based on the accumulated packet. The processing device is further configured to verify the decision packet to determine whether the decision packet is correct.

Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for isolated word training and detection. Isolated word training devices and systems are provided in which a user may provide a wake-up phrase from 1 to 3 times to train the device or system. A concatenated phoneme model of the user-provided wake-up phrase may be generated based on the provided wake-up phrase and a pre-trained phoneme model database. A word model of the wake-up phrase may be subsequently generated from the concatenated phoneme model and the provided wake-up phrase. Once trained, the user-provided wake-up phrase may be used to unlock the device or system and/or to wake up the device or system from a standby mode of operation. The word model of the user-provided wake-up phrase may be further adapted based on additional provisioning of the wake-up phrase.

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