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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:
Oct. 10, 2023

Filed:

Oct. 04, 2022
Applicant:

Bose Corporation, Framingham, MA (US);

Inventors:

Michael P. O'Connell, Northborough, MA (US);

Joseph H. Cattell, Somerville, MA (US);

Dale Ian McElhone, Marlborough, MA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/02 (2006.01); H04R 1/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/02 (2013.01); H04R 1/1016 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various aspects include active noise reduction (ANR) devices and approaches, one approach including: receiving an input signal representing audio captured by a feedforward microphone of an ANR headphone; receiving an error signal representing audio captured by an error measurement sensor; generating an anti-noise signal configured to reduce a noise signal over a frequency range; and applying a gain to at least one of the input signal or the anti-noise signal over the frequency range based on the error signal, wherein the applied gain is configured to enhance noise reduction for a plurality of users having distinct fits for the ANR headphone.


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