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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2020
Nuance Hearing Ltd., Tel Aviv, IL;
Yehonatan Hertzberg, Shoham, IL;
Yaniv Zonis, Rishon Le'zion, IL;
Stanislav Berlin, Kiryat Ono, IL;
Ori Goren, Shoham, IL;
NUANCE HEARING LTD., Tel Aviv, IL;
Abstract
A system () includes a plurality of microphones (), configured to generate different respective signals in response to acoustic waves () arriving at the microphones, and a processor (). The processor is configured to receive the signals, to combine the signals into multiple channels, which correspond to different respective directions relative to the microphones by virtue of each channel representing any portion of the acoustic waves arriving from the corresponding direction with greater weight, relative to others of the directions, to calculate respective energy measures of the channels, to select one of the directions, in response to the energy measure for the channel corresponding to the selected direction passing one or more energy thresholds, and to output a combined signal representing the selected direction with greater weight, relative to others of the directions. Other embodiments are also described.