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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 21, 2012
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kexi Liu, San Diego, CA (US);

Pei Xiang, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/00 (2013.01); G10L 17/00 (2013.01); H04R 29/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01); H04S 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/0485 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 17/00 (2013.01); G06F 3/167 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01); H04R 29/002 (2013.01); H04S 7/303 (2013.01); H04S 7/40 (2013.01); G06F 3/0485 (2013.01); G10H 2210/301 (2013.01); G10H 2220/096 (2013.01); G10H 2220/355 (2013.01);
Abstract

Some implementations provide a method for identifying a speaker. The method determines position and orientation of a second device based on data from a first device that is for capturing the position and orientation of the second device. The second device includes several microphones for capturing sound. The second device has movable position and movable orientation. The method assigns an object as a representation of a known user. The object has a moveable position. The method receives a position of the object. The position of the object corresponds to a position of the known user. The method processes the captured sound to identify a sound originating from the direction of the object. The direction of the object is relative to the position and the orientation of the second device. The method identifies the sound originating from the direction of the object as belonging to the known user.


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