Goertek Inc.

Shasha Lou

Bo Li

Song Liu

Na Li

Yongqiang Feng

Xiaojie Wu

Jian Zhao

Hui Qi

Fupo Wang

Liu Song

Qiuchen Huang

Song Li

A wearing state detection method for a wearable device and a device. The detection method comprises: providing in the wearable device a sensor in an area capable of contacting the skin of a user, wherein the sensor outputs different measurement values when the user wears or takes off the wearable device; acquiring a base value indicating whether the wearable device is being worn; after wearing detection has been started up, collecting measurement values from the sensor at a preset sampling frequency; judging whether the wearable device is currently in a wearing state according to the measurement values and the base value; and controlling the wearable device to turn off a corresponding function that is running when the wearable device is in a non-wearing state. The method and the device can reduce the power consumption and simplify user operation.

Wearing state detection method for wearable device, and wearable device

A method and a system for achieving a self-adaptive surround sound. The method comprises: recognizing specific positions of a room and a user in the room by using an object recognition technology, capturing focusing images of recognized objects by controlling a camera using a focusing control technology, and recording corresponding focusing parameters (S); calculating position information of the room relative to the camera and position information of the user relative to the camera according to the images and the parameters (S); calculating sound beams that can achieve the surround sound at the position of the user in said room according to aforesaid calculated position information of the room and the user (S); obtaining parameters of a filter group according to the calculated sound beams, and adjusting the filter group of a loudspeaker array according to the parameters (S); and playing an audio signal via the loudspeaker array after the audio signal is filtered by the filter group that has been adjusted according to the parameters to form surround sound at the position of the user in the room (S).

Method and system for achieving self-adaptive surround sound

A tactile vibration control system and method for a smart terminal. The system includes: a command generator, a tactile driver, a linear resonant actuator, a sensing module, a feedback unit and a comparator; by arranging a plurality of sensors that monitor or sense the vibrating status of the linear resonant actuator, channels of the sensor signals are generated when the actuator vibrates; the feedback unit sends the sensing signals characterizing the physical quantities related to the vibration modes output by the plurality of sensors to the comparator as the feedback signal; and the comparator generates an error signal according to the feedback signal and a desired signal in the input signal and sends the error signal to the command generator so that the command generator adjusts the generated initial commanding signal according to the error signal and achieves the close-loop control of the linear resonant actuator.

Tactile vibration control system and method for smart terminal

A tactile vibration control system and method for a smart terminal. The system includes a command generator, a filter, a tactile driver and a linear resonant actuator; the command generator generates an initial commanding signal according to an input signal; the filter filters the initial commanding signal so that amplitudes of a predetermined number of initial pulses of the filtered commanding signal are larger than a set threshold and phases of a predetermined number of ending pulses reverse; and the tactile driver generates a driving signal according to the filtered commanding signal for driving the actuator to vibrate. The initial commanding signal generated by the command generator is filtered so that when the actuator is driven to vibrate by the driving signal generated subsequently, the actuator has a quick starting response and a quick braking response.

An earphone control method, an earphone control system and an earphone. The earphone control method includes: selecting a motion state judgement parameter of a wearer for controlling an earphone and setting an alert condition according to the selected motion state judgement parameter; real-timely monitoring and acquiring behavior data of the earphone wearer; calculating the motion state judgement parameter by using the acquired behavior data to obtain a motion state judgement parameter value; and judging whether or not the motion state judgement parameter value satisfies the alert condition; if the motion state judgement parameter value satisfies the alert condition, determining to enter an earphone alert state and controlling to perform corresponding alert operation on the earphone.

Earphone control method, earphone control system and earphone

A photoelectric type pulse signal measuring method includes, obtaining a main-path light signal transmitted by a photoelectric transmitter and reflected back from a surface of skin having an artery underneath, obtaining at least one auxiliary-path light signal receiving an ambient light signal, and based on the at least one auxiliary-path light signal, adaptively filtering an ambient light interference from the main-path light signal and obtaining an adaptive filtration result; or obtaining at least one auxiliary-path light signal transmitted by the same photoelectric transmitter and reflected back from a surface of skin without any artery underneath, and based on the auxiliary-path light signal, adaptively filtering a motion interference from the main-path light signal; then extracting a pulse signal from the adaptive filtration result. The present invention can simply and effectively eliminate the ambient light interference or motion interference upon photoelectric pulse signal measurement. Photoelectric type pulse signal measuring devices are also disclosed.

Photoelectric type pulse signal measuring method and apparatus

The present invention discloses a howling suppression method and device applied to an ANR earphone. The method comprises: collecting signals by using a first microphone and a second microphone; wherein the first microphone is arranged in a position outside an auditory meatus when said ANR earphone is worn, and the second microphone is arranged in a position inside the auditory meatus when the ANR earphone is worn; according to a relation between signals collected by the first microphone and the second microphone, judging whether the current state of said ANR earphone is a state unable to produce a howling or a state able to produce a howling; and when the current state of said ANR earphone is a state able to produce a howling, starting processing for preventing howling production. The technical scheme can achieve that the ANR earphone does not produce a howling all the time.

Howling suppression method and device applied to an ANR earphone

The present invention discloses a method and a device for suppressing residual echoes. The method comprises: performing adaptive filtering on M transmitter signals respectively to obtain M adaptive filtered signals; performing array-filtering 5 on the M&#x2212;1 adaptive filtered signals other than the first adaptive filtered signal to obtain M&#x2212;1 array-filter output signals by considering relative positions of the receiver and each of the transmitters and the time delay attributed to distances between the transmitters and the receiver; subtracting each of the M&#x2212;1 array-filter output signals from the first adaptive filtered signal respectively to obtain M&#x2212;1 difference signals, performing time-domain/frequency-domain conversion on the M&#x2212;1 difference signals respectively and selecting one of the frequency-domain signals that has the least energy; performing time-domain/frequency-domain conversion on the first adaptive filtered signal and the Madaptive filtered signal and then performing speech probability filtering on the converted first adaptive filtered signal and the converted Madaptive filtered signal to obtain one frequency-domain speech probability signal; and multiplying the frequency-domain speech probability signal with the selected signal that has the least energy, and performing frequency-domain/time-domain conversion on the multiplication result to obtain a signal as a transmitter output signal. The technical solutions of the present invention can suppress the residual echoes effectively without impairing near end speech.

Method and device for suppressing residual echoes based on inverse transmitter receiver distance and delay for speech signals directly incident on a transmitter array

The present invention discloses a heart rate detection method used in an earphone and an earphone capable of detecting heart rate. The method comprises: providing a cavity inside the earphone and installing a microphone in the cavity; a shell of the earphone is provided with a hole at a position where an opening of the cavity clings to, and when the earphone is worn, the cavity and the auricle which the hole clings to form an enclosed space; collecting signals generated by pressure change in the cavity by the microphone when the earphone is worn; and detecting heart rate according to the signals collected by the microphone. According to the technical scheme of the invention, the microphone is placed in the enclosed cavity formed by the cavity in the earphone and the shell of the earphone, which reduces interference of external noises, and reinforces signal information collected by the microphone.

Heart rate detection method used in earphone and earphone capable of detecting heart rate

The present invention discloses a speech enhancement method and device for mobile phones. By the method and device provided by the present invention, the mobile phone holding state of a user is detected when the user is talking on the phone, so that different denoising solutions will be employed according to the state of the user in holding the mobile phone. When the user holds the mobile phone normally, a solution integrating multi-microphone denoising and single-microphone denoising will be employed to effectively suppress both the steady noise and the non-steady noise; and when the user holds the mobile phone abnormally, a solution of single-microphone denoising will be employed only to suppress the steady noise. The distortion of speech by multi-microphone denoising is avoided, and the speech quality is ensured.

Speech enhancement method and device for mobile phones

The invention discloses a method and a device for reducing voice reverberation based on double microphones. The method comprises the steps of calculating a transfer function h(t) from a secondary microphone to a primary microphone according to an input signal x(t) of the primary microphone and an input signal x(t) of the secondary microphone; judging the strength of reverberation according to h(t) and calculating a regulatory factor &#x3b2; of a gain function by taking a tail section h(t) of the h(t); obtaining a late reverberation estimation signal {circumflex over (r)}(t) of x(t) with the convolution of x(t) and h(t); calculating the gain function according to the frequency spectrum of x(t), &#x3b2; and frequency spectrum of {circumflex over (r)}(t); obtaining the reverberation removed frequency spectrum of x(t) by multiplying the frequency spectrum of x(t) by the gain function; and obtaining a late reverberation removed time-domain signal of x(t) by frequency-time conversion. Thus, the late reverberation can be removed from the input signal of the primary microphone, early reverberation can be preserved, processed voice is not caused to be thin, and the voice quality is improved. Meanwhile, spectral subtraction intensity is adjusted according to the strength of the reverberation so as to ensure that the voice is not damaged on the condition that the reverberation is weak and the voice intelligibility is originally high. Accurate estimation of DOA of direct sound is not needed, and therefore the microphones are not required to have high consistency.

Method and device for reducing voice reverberation based on double microphones

The present invention discloses a noise canceling system and method, a smart control method and device and a communication equipment. Said smart control method includes: when it is detected there is no voice signal output at a receiving end of a communication equipment, receiving an outside noise signal from a reference microphone away from ears and a detection signal from a monitoring microphone near ears; implementing performance analysis on said received outside noise signal and said detection signal to estimate a noise reduction performance curve after said feed-forward active noise cancellation; and regulating parameters of the control circuit in said feed-forward active noise cancellation according to said estimated noise reduction performance curve and the preset noise reduction performance curve to make a difference between said estimated noise reduction performance curve and said preset noise reduction performance curve within a preset range.

Noise canceling system and method, smart control method and device and communication equipment

The present invention discloses an echo elimination device and method for a miniature hands-free voice communication system. The system comprises a receiver, a primary transmitter and an auxiliary transmitter, a distance from the primary transmitter to the receiver being greater than that from the auxiliary transmitter to the receiver. The device comprises an array echo elimination unit, a self-adaptive echo elimination unit and a residual echo elimination unit, which are structurally cascaded in turn. The array echo elimination unit, with inputs being a signal of the primary transmitter and a signal of the auxiliary transmitter, performs array filtering to obtain one path of output signals; the self-adaptive echo elimination unit, with the input signals being a signal of the receiver, the output signal of the array echo elimination unit and a signal of the auxiliary transmitter, performs self-adaptive filtering to obtain two paths of output signals; the residual echo elimination unit, with the input signals being the two paths of output signals of the self-adaptive echo elimination unit, performs voice probability estimation and echo matching to obtain an echo-eliminated voice signal. Thus, the duplex performance can be enhanced, and the phase consistency of the transmitters is not strictly required.

Echo elimination device and method for miniature hands-free voice communication system

The present invention relates to a method and device for dereverberation of single-channel speech. The method includes the following steps of framing an input single channel speech signal, and processing the frame signals as follows according to a time sequence: performing short-time Fourier transform on a current frame to obtain a power spectrum and a phase spectrum of the current frame; selecting several frames previous to the current frame and having a distance from the current frame within a set duration range, and performing linear superposition on the power spectra of these frames to estimate the power spectrum of a late reflection sound of the current frame; removing the estimated power spectrum of the late reflection sound of the current frame from the power spectrum of the current frame by a spectral subtraction method to obtain the power spectra of a direct sound and an early reflection sound of the current frame; and performing inverse short-time Fourier transform on the power spectra of the direct sound and the early reflection sound of the current frame and the phase spectrum of the current frame together to obtain a signal of the current frame after dereverberation. The dereverberation method and device can solve the problem that the estimation of a transfer function of a reverberation environment or the estimation of reverberation time is difficult in the dereverberation of single-channel speech.

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Shasha Lou