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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2020
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Raghuveer Prasad Nagar, Kota, IN;
Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Kolkata, IN;
Manjit Singh Sodhi, Bangalore, IN;
Satyam Jakkula, Bengaluru, IN;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 25/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 25/407 (2013.01); G06F 3/013 (2013.01); H04R 25/405 (2013.01); H04R 25/505 (2013.01); H04R 25/558 (2013.01); H04R 25/606 (2013.01); H04R 2225/43 (2013.01); H04R 2225/55 (2013.01); H04R 2460/13 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method includes providing a smart contact lens including an array of beamforming microphones, wherein the smart contact lens is worn by a user and the array of beamforming microphones receive sound from different directions, determining a gaze direction of the user, filter the sound received by the array of beamforming microphones based on the gaze direction of the user to determine filtered sound, and output the filtered sound via a bone conduction hearing device.