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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:
Mar. 23, 2021

Filed:

May. 16, 2019
Applicant:

Synaptics Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Francesco Nesta, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);

Saeed Mosayyebpour Kaskari, Irvine, CA (US);

Dror Givon, Irvine, CA (US);

Assignee:

SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/028 (2013.01); H04S 7/00 (2006.01); G10L 25/84 (2013.01); H04R 1/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/028 (2013.01); G10L 25/84 (2013.01); H04R 1/406 (2013.01); H04S 7/303 (2013.01); H04S 2400/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

Audio processing systems and methods comprise an audio sensor array configured to receive a multichannel audio input and generate a corresponding multichannel audio signal and a target activity detector configured to identify audio target sources in the multichannel audio signal. The target activity detector includes a VAD, an instantaneous locations component configured to detect a location of a plurality of audio sources, a dominant locations component configured to selectively buffer a subset of the plurality of audio sources comprising dominant audio sources, a source tracker configured to track locations of the dominant audio sources over time, and a dominance selection component configured to select the dominant target sources for further audio processing. The instantaneous location component computes a discrete spatial map comprising the location of the plurality of audio sources, and the dominant location component selects N of the dominant sources from the discrete spatial map for source tracking.


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