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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:

Aug. 25, 2021
Applicant:

Bose Corporation, Framingham, MA (US);

Inventor:

Dale McElhone, Marlborough, MA (US);

Assignee:

Bose Corporation, Framingham, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 25/78 (2013.01); G10K 11/178 (2006.01); G10L 21/0216 (2013.01); H04R 1/10 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01); H04R 3/04 (2006.01); H04R 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 25/78 (2013.01); G10K 11/17823 (2018.01); G10L 21/0216 (2013.01); H04R 1/1083 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01); H04R 3/04 (2013.01); H04R 29/004 (2013.01); G10K 2210/1081 (2013.01); G10L 2021/02165 (2013.01); H04R 2410/05 (2013.01);
Abstract

A headset that can detect the voice activity of a user includes an inner microphone generating an inner microphone signal; an outer microphone generating an outer microphone signal, wherein the inner microphone and outer microphone are positioned such that, when the headset is worn by a user, the inner microphone is disposed nearer to the user's head; and a voice-activity detector determining a sign of a phase difference between the inner microphone signal and the outer microphone signal and generating a voice activity detection signal representing a user's voice activity when the sign of the phase difference indicates that the outer microphone received an audio signal after the inner microphone received the audio signal.


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