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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:
Jan. 12, 2021

Filed:

Sep. 26, 2019
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sylvain J. Choisel, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Dane R. Bush, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/04 (2006.01); H04R 29/00 (2006.01); H04S 7/00 (2006.01); H04R 3/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/04 (2013.01); H04R 3/12 (2013.01); H04R 29/002 (2013.01); H04S 7/301 (2013.01); H04S 7/307 (2013.01); H04R 2430/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

An impulse response is computed between i) an audio signal that is being output as sound by a loudspeaker that is integrated in a loudspeaker enclosure, and ii) a microphone signal from a microphone that is recording the output by the loudspeaker and that is also integrated in the loudspeaker enclosure. A reverberation spectrum is extracted from the impulse response. Sound power spectrum at the listening distance is computed, based on the reverberation spectrum, and an equalization filter is determined based on i) the estimated sound power spectrum and ii) a desired frequency response at the listening distance. Other aspects are also described and claimed.


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