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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:
Apr. 11, 2023

Filed:

May. 04, 2020
Applicant:

Signify Holding B.v., Eindhoven, NL;

Inventors:

Peter Jens Fuhrmann, Aachen, DE;

Peter Deixler, Arlington, MA (US);

Assignee:

SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven, NL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 29/00 (2006.01); H05B 47/12 (2020.01); G08B 5/36 (2006.01); G10L 25/60 (2013.01); H04R 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 29/008 (2013.01); G08B 5/36 (2013.01); G10L 25/60 (2013.01); H04R 1/326 (2013.01); H05B 47/12 (2020.01);
Abstract

The invention provides a lighting device for determining and conveying an intelligibility of an audio signal, wherein the audio signal comprises a plurality of occurrences of a repeating audio feature, wherein each occurrence of the repeating audio feature comprises a respective value of an acoustic characteristic, wherein the lighting device comprises: a light source; a microphone for detecting the audio signal; a processor configured to: receive the audio signal from the microphone, determine a baseline value based on said audio signal, determine a positive intelligibility of the audio signal if the last occurrence of the repeating audio feature comprises a respective value of the acoustic characteristic being at least equal to the baseline value, or determine a negative intelligibility of the audio signal if the last occurrence of the repeating audio feature comprises a respective value of the acoustic characteristic being less than the baseline value, and control the light source to convey the determined positive and/or negative intelligibility of the audio signal via a lighting characteristic.


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