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Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2022

Filed:

Jun. 26, 2020
Applicant:

Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);

Inventors:

Michael Asfaw, Playa Del Rey, CA (US);

Russell Douglas Patton, Marina Del Rey, CA (US);

Patrick Timothy McSweeney Simons, Downey, CA (US);

Assignee:

Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); H04R 1/40 (2006.01); H04R 1/10 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); H04R 1/406 (2013.01); H04R 2410/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

Method to perform dynamic beamforming to reduce SNR in signals captured by head-wearable apparatus starts with microphones generating acoustic signals. Microphones are coupled to first stem of the apparatus and to second stem of the apparatus. First and second beamformers generate first and second beamformer signals, respectively. Noise suppressor attenuates noise content from the first beamformer signal and the second beamformer signal. Noise content from first beamformer signal are acoustic signals not collocated in second beamformer signal and noise content from second beamformer signal are acoustic signals not collocated in first beamformer signal. Speech enhancer generates clean signal comprising speech content from first noise-suppressed signal and second noise-suppressed signal. Speech content are acoustic signals collocated in first beamformer signal and second beamformer signal.


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