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Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2021

Filed:

Feb. 25, 2020
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Xiaoxue Li, Mountain View, CA (US);

Trausti Thor Kristjansson, San Jose, CA (US);

Philip R. Hilmes, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 29/00 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01); H04R 1/40 (2006.01); G10L 25/51 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 29/005 (2013.01); G10L 25/51 (2013.01); H04R 1/406 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for microphone degradation detection and compensation are disclosed. For example, microphones of an electronic device may capture audio and generate corresponding audio data, such as during a period of time where only ambient noise is present. Sound intensity level value differences between audio data from the various microphones may be determined and when one or more of the sound intensity level value differences satisfies a threshold amount, the microphone associated with the variant sound intensity level value may be determined to be degraded. The sound intensity level value difference may be compensated for, such as by utilizing sound boosting techniques and/or modifying parameters of a beamforming component.


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