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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2020
Facebook Technologies, Llc, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Alok Kumar Mathur, Cupertino, CA (US);
Facebook Technologies, LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure describes techniques that include aligning processing of audio samples collected by multiple audio sensors or microphones. In one example, this disclosure describes a method comprising enabling a first microphone; processing, by an audio processor and using a first processing pipeline, audio data samples collected by the first microphone; enabling a second microphone a period of time after enabling the first microphone; processing, by the audio processor and using a second processing pipeline, a sample of audio data collected by the second microphone by synchronizing starting times for the first and second processing pipelines.