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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:
Nov. 07, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 31, 2022
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Carlos M. Avendano, Campbell, CA (US);

John Woodruff, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Jonathan Huang, Pleasanton, CA (US);

Mehrez Souden, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Andreas Koutrouvelis, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 29/00 (2006.01); G10L 21/028 (2013.01); H04R 1/10 (2006.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G10L 21/0232 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/028 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G10L 21/0232 (2013.01); H04R 1/1016 (2013.01); H04R 1/1041 (2013.01); H04R 1/1083 (2013.01); H04R 2420/07 (2013.01);
Abstract

Implementations of the subject technology provide systems and methods for providing audio source separation for audio input, such as for audio devices having limited power and/or computing resources. The subject technology may allow an audio device to leverage processing and/or power resources of a companion device that is communicatively coupled to the audio device. The companion device may identify a noise condition of the audio device, select a source separation model based on the noise condition, and provide the source separation model to the audio device. In this way, the audio device can provide audio source separation functionality using a relatively small footprint source separation model that is specific to the noise condition in which the audio device is operated.


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