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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2023
Synaptics Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Saeed Mosayyebpour Kaskari, Irvine, CA (US);
Synaptics Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for speech enhancement. The present implementations more specifically relate to utilizing multiple modalities to suppress audio originating from a distractor audio source without distorting audio originating from a target audio source. In some aspects, a speech enhancement system may receive a multi-channel audio signal via a microphone array and may further receive an image associated with a respective frame of the audio signal. The speech enhancement system detects one or more target faces in the image and determines whether the audio frame originates from a target audio source. For example, the speech enhancement system may compare a respective direction of each target face with a direction-of-arrival (DOA) of the audio frame. The speech enhancement system may selectively steer a beam associated with a multi-channel beamformer toward the DOA of the audio frame based on whether the audio frame originates from a target face.