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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2023

Filed:

Apr. 19, 2021
Applicant:

GM Global Technology Operations Llc, Detroit, MI (US);

Inventors:

Alaa M. Khamis, Courtice, CA;

Gaurav Talwar, Novi, MI (US);

Romeo D. Garcia, Jr., Waterford, MI (US);

Carmine F. D'agostino, Canton, MI (US);

Neeraj R. Gautama, Whitby, CA;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G10L 21/02 (2013.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01); G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); G10L 21/0272 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G10L 21/02 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01); G10L 2015/225 (2013.01); H04R 2499/13 (2013.01);
Abstract

A vehicle includes a plurality of microphones to obtain speech from a person outside the vehicle as an input signal and a sensor system to determine a location and orientation of the person relative to the vehicle. The vehicle also includes a controller to determine characteristics of the input signal and to determine whether to perform speech enhancement on the input signal based on one or more of the characteristics and the location and orientation of the person.


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