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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2023
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Hassan Taherian, Columbus, OH (US);
Jonathan Huang, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Carlos M. Avendano, Campbell, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/00 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/302 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01); H04S 2400/11 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method performed by an electronic device in a room. The method performs an enrollment process in which a spatial profile of a location of an artificial sound source is created and performs an identification process that determines whether a sound event within the room is produced by the artificial sound source by 1) capturing the sound event using a microphone array and 2) determining a likelihood that the sound event occurred at the location of the artificial sound source.