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公开(公告)号：US10362403B2
公开(公告)日：2019-07-23
申请号：US15510678
申请日：2015-10-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Matthew A. Donarski , Daniel K. Boothe , Justin D. Crosby , Mitchell R. Lerner
Abstract: An electronic device whose enclosure or housing panel is used as part of an acoustic system is described. The panel is divided into several sub-panels. For each sub-panel, the device includes one or more actuators attached to vibrate the sub-panel. The actuator and its attached sub-panel convert an audio signal to acoustic output. Each actuator and sub-panel combination may receive a separate audio signal. The device includes a digital signal processor for controlling each of the sub-panel driving audio signals. The device may further include one or more backing frames that are attached to the panel to provide boundary conditions to the sub-panels. The boundary conditions define a resonance frequency for each sub-panel.
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22.发明授权公开(公告)号：US10063984B2
公开(公告)日：2018-08-28
申请号：US15514813
申请日：2015-09-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Martin E. Johnson , Sylvain J. Choisel , Daniel K. Boothe , Mitchell R. Lerner
CPC classification number: H04S1/002 , H04S1/00 , H04S7/30 , H04S7/307 , H04S2400/09 , H04S2400/11 , H04S2400/13 , H04S2420/01
Abstract: A system and method are described for transforming stereo signals into mid and side components xm and xs to apply processing to only the side-component xs and avoid processing the mid-component. By avoiding alteration to the mid-component XM, the system and method may reduce the effects of ill-conditioning, such as coloration that may be caused by processing a problematic mid-component xM while still performing crosstalk cancellation and/or generating virtual sound sources. Additional processing may be separately applied to the mid and side components xM and xs and/or particular frequency bands of the original stereo signals to further reduce ill-conditioning.
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公开(公告)号：US09397387B1
公开(公告)日：2016-07-19
申请号：US14733839
申请日：2015-06-08
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Jerzy Guterman , Edward T. Sweet , Huan-Chu Huang , Daniel K. Boothe
CPC classification number: H01Q1/2266 , G06F1/1698 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q5/10 , H01Q5/20 , H01Q5/357 , H01Q9/42 , H01Q13/18
Abstract: An electronic device may have a metal housing. The metal housing may have an upper housing in which a component such as a display is mounted and a lower housing in which a component such as a keyboard is mounted. Hinges may be used to mount the upper housing to the lower housing for rotation about a rotational axis. A slot-shaped opening may separate the upper and lower housing. A flexible printed circuit with ground traces may bisect the slot-shaped opening to form first and second slots. Cavity antennas may be aligned with the slots. Each cavity antenna may include a hollow carrier with a pair of speakers. The speakers may have ports that emit sound through aligned openings in the lower housing. Conductive gaskets surrounding the ports may acoustically seal the speaker ports while shorting the cavity antenna to the lower housing.
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公开(公告)号：US20160150318A1
公开(公告)日：2016-05-26
申请号：US14551631
申请日：2014-11-24
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Matthew A. Donarski , Daniel K. Boothe , Justin D. Crosby , Mitchell R. Lerner
CPC classification number: H04R7/045 , H04R1/24 , H04R1/2811 , H04R3/14 , H04R7/04 , H04R2430/03 , H04R2440/00 , H04R2440/05
Abstract: An electronic device whose enclosure or housing panel is used as part of an acoustic system is described. The panel is divided into several sub-panels. For each sub-panel, the device includes one or more actuators attached to vibrate the sub-panel. The actuator and its attached sub-panel convert an audio signal to acoustic output. Each actuator and sub-panel combination may receive a separate audio signal. The device includes a digital signal processor for controlling each of the sub-panel driving audio signals. The device may further include one or more backing frames that are attached to the panel to provide boundary conditions to the sub-panels. The boundary conditions define a resonance frequency for each sub-panel.
Abstract translation: 描述了其外壳或外壳面板用作声学系统的一部分的电子设备。 面板分为几个子面板。 对于每个子面板，该装置包括一个或多个致动器，其连接以振动子面板。 致动器及其附接的子面板将音频信号转换为声输出。 每个执行器和子面板组合可以接收单独的音频信号。 该装置包括用于控制每个子面板驱动音频信号的数字信号处理器。 该装置还可以包括一个或多个背衬框架，其附接到面板以向子面板提供边界条件。 边界条件定义每个子面板的共振频率。
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公开(公告)号：US20250080933A1
公开(公告)日：2025-03-06
申请号：US18949726
申请日：2024-11-15
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Sean A. Ramprashad , Peter D. Callaway , Jae Woo Chang , Martin E. Johnson , Daniel K. Boothe , Kostyantyn Komarov , Patrick Miauton , Christopher M. Garrido , Austin W. Shyu , Karthick Santhanam
IPC: H04S3/00 , G06F3/0487 , H04R3/00 , H04S5/00 , H04S7/00
Abstract: A method performed a local device that is communicatively coupled with several remote devices, the method includes: receiving, from each remote device with which the local device is engaged in a communication session, an input audio stream; receiving, for each remote device, a set parameters; determining, for each input audio stream, whether the input audio stream is to be 1) rendered individually or 2) rendered as a mix of input audio streams based on the set of parameters; for each input audio stream that is determined to be rendered individually, spatially rendering the input audio stream as an individual virtual sound source that contains only that input audio stream; and for input audio streams that are determined to be rendered as the mix of input audio streams, spatially rendering the mix of input audio streams as a single virtual sound source that contains the mix of input audio streams.
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公开(公告)号：US20230409278A1
公开(公告)日：2023-12-21
申请号：US18211515
申请日：2023-06-19
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Brett D. Miller , Daniel K. Boothe , Martin E. Johnson
Abstract: In one implementation, a method of playing audio data is performed at a device including a frame configured for insertion into an outer ear, a speaker coupled to the frame, an image sensor coupled to the frame, one or more processors, and non-transitory memory. The method includes capturing, using the image sensor, one or more images of a physical environment. The method includes generating audio data based on the one or more images of the physical environment. The method includes playing, via the speaker, the audio data.
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公开(公告)号：US20230409122A1
公开(公告)日：2023-12-21
申请号：US18211507
申请日：2023-06-19
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Brett D. Miller , Daniel K. Boothe , Martin E. Johnson
Abstract: In one implementation, a method of performing an action is performed at a device including an image sensor, one or more processors, and non-transitory memory. The method includes receiving, from the image sensor, one or more images of a physical environment. The method includes detecting, in the one or more images of the physical environment, one or more actionable items respectively associated with one or more actions. The method includes detecting, in the one or more images of the physical environment, a hand gesture indicating a particular actionable item. The method includes in response to detecting the hand gesture, performing an action associated with the particular actionable item.
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公开(公告)号：US11832082B2
公开(公告)日：2023-11-28
申请号：US17514881
申请日：2021-10-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Jonathan D. Sheaffer , Daniel K. Boothe , Martin E. Johnson , Neal D. Evans , Nikolas T. Vitt , Christopher T. Eubank , Peter V. Jupin , Symeon Delikaris Manias , Shai Messingher Lang
CPC classification number: H04S7/301 , H04R1/1008 , H04R1/403 , H04R1/406 , H04R29/005 , H04S2400/01 , H04S2420/01
Abstract: A method for self-calibrating a sound pickup process that uses a microphone array in a wearable device that also includes a loudspeaker, where the microphone array being in a physical arrangement with respect to the loudspeaker. The method obtains, for each of several microphones of the microphone array, one or more transfer functions that each represent a response of the microphone to sound from a position in an acoustic space. The method determines whether a physical arrangement of the microphone array with respect to the loudspeaker has changed and adjusts the transfer function, for at least one of the microphones of the several microphones, in response to determining that the current physical arrangement of the microphone array with respect to the loudspeaker has changed.
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公开(公告)号：US20230077689A1
公开(公告)日：2023-03-16
申请号：US17819897
申请日：2022-08-15
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Daniel K. Boothe , Martin E. Johnson , Ismael H. Nawfal , Timothy J. Valentine , Stuart M. Nevill , Chanjuan Feng
Abstract: A multimedia device having a housing that includes a display screen, two tweeters, two mid-range drivers, and two woofers, which are integrated into the housing. Both woofers are disposed at a first distance from a center vertical axis of the housing in opposite horizontal directions, both tweeters are disposed at a second distance from the center vertical axis in the opposite horizontal directions, and both mid-range drivers are disposed at a third distance from the center vertical axis in opposite horizontal directions. In addition, both the first and second distances are greater than the third distance.
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公开(公告)号：US11606633B2
公开(公告)日：2023-03-14
申请号：US17021879
申请日：2020-09-15
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Paul X. Wang , Chanjuan Feng , Christopher Wilk , Dinesh C. Mathew , Keith J. Hendren , Stuart M. Nevill , Daniel K. Boothe , Nicholas A. Rundle , Simon S. Lee , Xiang Zhang , Thomas H. Tsang , Rebecca J. Mikolajczyk
Abstract: An electronic device can include a housing defining an aperture and a display positioned in the aperture. The display and the housing can define an internal volume in which a speaker assembly is positioned. The speaker assembly can include a speaker module and a speaker enclosure in fluid communication, with the speaker enclosure at least partially defining a speaker volume.
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