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Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2022

Filed:

Feb. 05, 2020
Applicant:

Motorola Mobility Llc, Chicago, IL (US);

Inventors:

Malay Gupta, South Elgin, IL (US);

Joel Clark, Woodridge, IL (US);

Assignee:

Motorola Mobility LLC, Chicago, IL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/00 (2006.01); H04R 1/40 (2006.01); G10L 17/00 (2013.01); G10K 11/175 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10K 11/175 (2013.01); G10L 17/00 (2013.01); H04R 1/406 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods of providing improved directional noise suppression in an electronic device implement a technique that specifies a direction or speaker of interest, determines the directions corresponding to speakers not lying in the direction of interest, beam forms the reception pattern of the device microphone array to focus in the direction of interest and suppresses signals from the other directions, creating beam formed reception data. A spatial mask is generated as a function of direction relative to the direction of interest. The spatial mask emphasizes audio reception in the direction of interest and attenuates audio reception in the other directions. The beam formed reception data is then multiplied by the spatial mask to generate an audio signal with directional noise suppression.


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