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Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020

Filed:

Dec. 11, 2018
Applicant:

Bose Corporation, Framingham, MA (US);

Inventors:

Zukui Song, Wellesley, MA (US);

Shiufun Cheung, Lexington, MA (US);

Assignee:

BOSE CORPORATION, Framingham, MA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/04 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/04 (2013.01); H04R 3/00 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01); H04R 2430/03 (2013.01); H04R 2499/13 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system that performs noise estimation for an audio adjustment application comprises a coherence calculator that determines at least one coherence value between microphone signals generated by at least two microphones that each independently senses acoustic energy in a listening space. A first microphone of the at least two microphones generates a first microphone signal from the acoustic energy and a second microphone of the at least two microphones generates a second microphone signal from the acoustic energy. The acoustic energy comprises a combination of an audio signal transduced by one or more speakers and environmental noise of the acoustic energy that is local to the listening space. A noise estimate computation processor determines an estimate of a level of the environmental noise based on the at least one coherence value.


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