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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2021
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Tomlinson Holman, Palm Springs, CA (US);
Christopher T. Eubank, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Joshua D. Atkins, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Soenke Pelzer, San Jose, CA (US);
Dirk Schroeder, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc, Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 19/16 (2013.01); G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); G10L 21/0216 (2013.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01); H04R 3/04 (2006.01); H04R 5/027 (2006.01); H04R 5/033 (2006.01); H04R 5/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 5/027 (2013.01); G10L 19/167 (2013.01); G10L 21/0216 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01); H04R 3/04 (2013.01); H04R 5/033 (2013.01); H04R 5/04 (2013.01); G10L 2021/02082 (2013.01); G10L 2021/02166 (2013.01); H04R 2420/07 (2013.01);
Abstract
An audio device can sense sound in a physical environment using a plurality of microphones to generate a plurality of microphone signals. Clean speech can be extracted from microphone signals. Ambience can be extracted from the microphone signals. The clean speech can be encoded at a first compression level. The ambience can be encoded at a second compression level that is higher than the first compression level. Other aspects are also described and claimed.