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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:
Dec. 15, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 30, 2019
Applicant:

Avnera Corporation, Beaverton, OR (US);

Inventor:

Christopher James O'Connor, Beaverton, OR (US);

Assignee:

AVNERA CORPORATION, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G06N 3/04 (2006.01); G06F 17/16 (2006.01); G10L 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 17/14 (2006.01); H04R 1/10 (2006.01); G10L 15/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G06F 17/142 (2013.01); G06F 17/16 (2013.01); G06N 3/04 (2013.01); G10L 15/16 (2013.01); H04R 1/105 (2013.01); H04R 1/1008 (2013.01); H04R 1/1016 (2013.01); H04R 1/1041 (2013.01); H04R 1/1091 (2013.01); G10L 2015/088 (2013.01); G10L 2015/223 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system for operating an earbud can include a primary processor to control the earbud and operate in a low-power state, a microphone to receive an input, a casing having a speaker configured to provide audio output from the primary processor to a user's ear, the casing being configured to maintain a position in a user's ear canal to maintain a position of the speaker within the user's ear, a listening sub-system to convert the input into an output signal, and a neural net processor to receive the output signal from the listening sub-system and determine whether to generate a wake signal based on the received output signal.


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