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Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 28, 2014
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);

Inventors:

Jeffrey Cornelius O'Neill, Somerville, MA (US);

Amit Singh Chhetri, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Philip Ryan Hilmes, San Jose, CA (US);

Ramya Gopalan, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/005 (2013.01);
Abstract

A wearable computer is configured to use beamforming techniques to isolate a user's speech from extraneous audio signals occurring within a physical environment. A microphone array of the wearable computer may generate audio signal data from an utterance from a user's mouth. A motion sensor(s) of the wearable computer may generate motion data from movement of the wearable computer. This motion data may be used to determine a direction vector pointing from the wearable computer to the user's mouth, and a beampattern may be defined that has a beampattern direction in substantial alignment with the determined direction vector to focus the microphone array on the user's mouth for speech isolation.


Find Patent Forward Citations

O'Neill, Jeffrey. (2016). Beam forming for a wearable computer (U.S. Patent No. 9432768). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9432768

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