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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:
Dec. 26, 2023

Filed:

Sep. 16, 2021
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Eran Tal, Petach Tikva, IL;

Ariel Lipson, Tel Aviv, IL;

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/0232 (2013.01); G01S 15/89 (2006.01); G01S 7/52 (2006.01); H04R 1/22 (2006.01); G01H 9/00 (2006.01); G10L 25/84 (2013.01); H04R 23/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/0232 (2013.01); G01H 9/00 (2013.01); G01S 7/52046 (2013.01); G01S 15/8993 (2013.01); G10L 25/84 (2013.01); H04R 1/222 (2013.01); H04R 23/008 (2013.01);
Abstract

An electronic device includes a microphone, an array of coherent optical emitters, an array of balanced coherent optical vibration sensors, and a processor. Each balanced coherent optical vibration sensor in the array of balanced coherent optical vibration sensors is paired with a coherent optical emitter in the array of coherent optical emitters. The processor is configured to analyze a set of waveforms acquired by the array of balanced coherent optical vibration sensors; identify, using the analysis of the set of waveforms, a set of one or more voices in a field of view; and adjust an output of the microphone to accentuate a particular voice in the set of one or more voices.


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