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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:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2022
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Robert D. Silvfast, Belmont, CA (US);
Nicholas C. Soldner, Mountain View, CA (US);
Siddharth S. Hazra, Hayward, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 19/02 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G10L 19/008 (2013.01); G10L 19/16 (2013.01); G10L 19/20 (2013.01); H04R 1/10 (2026.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 19/0204 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G10L 19/008 (2013.01); G10L 19/167 (2013.01); G10L 19/20 (2013.01); H04R 1/1041 (2013.01); H04R 1/1091 (2013.01);
Abstract
An integrated circuit package having integrated therein an array of acoustic to electrical transducers that produce analog audio sub-band signals, an analog detector circuit to produce for each sub-band a number of analog property signals, an analog to digital conversion circuit to digitize each of the analog property signals, and an encoder to produce for each sub-band a feature set that contains one or more features of a respective sub-band. Other aspects are also described and claimed.