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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018

Filed:

Jun. 27, 2014
Applicant:

Kopin Corporation, Westborough, MA (US);

Inventors:

Dashen Fan, Seattle, WA (US);

Jang Ho Kim, San Jose, CA (US);

Yong Seok Seo, Palo Alto, CA (US);

John C. C. Fan, Brookline, MA (US);

Assignee:

KOPIN CORPORATION, Westborough, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/06 (2006.01); G10L 99/00 (2013.01); H04R 1/08 (2006.01); H04R 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/08 (2013.01); G10L 99/00 (2013.01); H04R 1/005 (2013.01); H04R 2201/003 (2013.01);
Abstract

The invention is a multi-microphone voice processing SoC primarily for head worn applications. It bypasses the use of conventional pre-amp voice CODEC (ADC/DAC) chips all together by replacing their functionality with digital MEMS microphone(s) and digital speaker driver (DSD). Functionality necessary for speech recognition such as noise/echo cancellation, speech compression, speech feature extraction and lossless speech transmission are also integrated into the SoC. One embodiment is a noise cancellation chip for wired, battery powered headsets and earphones, as smart-phone accessory. Another embodiment is as a wireless Bluetooth noise cancellation companion chip. The invention can be used in headwear, eyewear glass, mobile wearable computing, heavy duty military, aviation and industrial headsets and other speech recognition applications in noisy environments.


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