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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2020
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Tom-Davy W. Saux, Los Altos, CA (US);
Brian D. Clark, San Jose, CA (US);
Thomas M. Jensen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Vladan Bajic, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10K 11/178 (2006.01); H04R 1/10 (2006.01); H04R 1/40 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10K 11/17854 (2018.01); G10K 11/17881 (2018.01); H04R 1/1016 (2013.01); H04R 1/406 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01); G10K 2210/1081 (2013.01); G10K 2210/3026 (2013.01); G10K 2210/3027 (2013.01); G10K 2210/3028 (2013.01); G10K 2210/3044 (2013.01);
Abstract
An audio system has an ambient sound enhancement (ASE) function, in which an against-the-ear audio device having a speaker converts a digitally processed version of an input audio signal into amplified sound. The amplification may be in accordance with a stored hearing profile of the user. The audio system also has an acoustic noise cancellation (ANC) function that may be combined in various ways with the ASE function, and that may be responsive to voice activity detection. Other aspects are also described and claimed.