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Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016

Filed:

May. 16, 2013
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Andre L. Goldstein, San Jose, CA (US);

Vladan Bajic, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 11/06 (2006.01); H03G 5/16 (2006.01); H04R 1/10 (2006.01); H04R 3/04 (2006.01); G10K 11/178 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03G 5/165 (2013.01); G10K 11/1786 (2013.01); H04R 1/1083 (2013.01); H04R 3/04 (2013.01); G10K 2210/1081 (2013.01); G10K 2210/3028 (2013.01); G10K 2210/3055 (2013.01); G10K 2210/51 (2013.01); H04R 2410/05 (2013.01); H04R 2499/11 (2013.01);
Abstract

An audio processor has an active noise cancellation (ANC) processor to compute an S-filter, which estimates a transfer function from an earpiece speaker, that is to be worn by a user, to an error microphone. The ANC processor adaptively produces an anti noise signal for reducing ambient noise that can be heard by the user. An adaptive equalization (EQ) processor has an EQ filter controller that adjusts an EQ filter, while audio user content is being filtered in accordance with the EQ filter before being fed to the speaker and then heard by the user. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.


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