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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2022
Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd., Edinburgh, GB;
William E. Sherwood, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Cirrus Logic Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A system, comprising: a plurality of distributed smart devices comprising: a first smart device having a first microphone; a second smart device having a second microphone; and processing circuitry, configured to: receive, from the first microphone, a first microphone signal comprising speech of a user; receive, from the second microphone, a second microphone signal comprising the speech of the user; determine an orientation of the user's head relative to the first smart device and the second smart device based on the first microphone signal and the second microphone signal, wherein determining the orientation of the user's head comprises comparing first power levels in a plurality of frequency bands of the first microphone signal; and controlling one or more of the plurality of distributed smart devices based on the determined orientation.