Method and device for in-ear echo suppression

    公开(公告)号:US11856375B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-26

    申请号:US17215760

    申请日:2021-03-29

    IPC分类号: H04R3/00 H04R25/02 H04R1/10

    摘要: An earpiece (100) and acoustic management module (300) for in-ear canal echo suppression control suitable is provided. The earpiece can include an Ambient Sound Microphone (111) to capture ambient sound, an Ear Canal Receiver (125) to deliver audio content to an ear canal, an Ear Canal Microphone (123) configured to capture internal sound, and a processor (121) to generate a voice activity level (622) and suppress an echo of spoken voice in the electronic internal signal, and mix an electronic ambient signal with an electronic internal signal in a ratio dependent on the voice activity level and a background noise level to produce a mixed signal (323) that is delivered to the ear canal (131).

    METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SPECTRAL EXPANSION FOR AN AUDIO SIGNAL

    公开(公告)号:US20230386499A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-30

    申请号:US18219077

    申请日:2023-07-06

    发明人: John Usher Dan Ellis

    IPC分类号: G10L21/038

    CPC分类号: G10L21/038

    摘要: A method and device for automatically increasing the spectral bandwidth of an audio signal including generating a “mapping” (or “prediction”) matrix based on the analysis of a reference wideband signal and a reference narrowband signal, the mapping matrix being a transformation matrix to predict high frequency energy from a low frequency energy envelope, generating an energy envelope analysis of an input narrowband audio signal, generating a resynthesized noise signal by processing a random noise signal with the mapping matrix and the envelope analysis, high-pass filtering the resynthesized noise signal, and summing the high-pass filtered resynthesized noise signal with the original an input narrowband audio signal. Other embodiments are disclosed.

    ROBUST VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTOR SYSTEM FOR USE WITH AN EARPHONE

    公开(公告)号:US20230280965A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-07

    申请号:US18111671

    申请日:2023-02-20

    发明人: John Usher

    摘要: An electronic device or method for adjusting a gain on a voice operated control system can include one or more processors and a memory having computer instructions. The instructions, when executed by the one or more processors causes the one or more processors to perform the operations of receiving a first microphone signal, receiving a second microphone signal, updating a slow time weighted ratio of the filtered first and second signals, and updating a fast time weighted ratio of the filtered first and second signals. The one or more processors can further perform the operations of calculating an absolute difference between the fast time weighted ratio and the slow time weighted ratio, comparing the absolute difference with a threshold, and increasing the gain when the absolute difference is greater than the threshold. Other embodiments are disclosed.

    Acoustic sealing analysis system
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    公开(公告)号:US11665493B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-30

    申请号:US17182570

    申请日:2021-02-23

    IPC分类号: H04R29/00 H04R1/10 H04R25/00

    摘要: A device or a method using the device includes a balloon configured to seal a user's orifice, where the balloon is configured to produce an acoustic seal between a first side and a second side of the balloon in an ear canal. At least a second side of the balloon is fitted into the ear canal. Audio processing circuitry produces an audio signal for driving a speaker in the device and to measure sound level using output from the microphone in the device while the speaker is being driven by the audio signal. The device or method further includes control circuitry to evaluate a seal quality of the device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

    Method and device for spectral expansion of an audio signal

    公开(公告)号:US11605395B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-14

    申请号:US16783624

    申请日:2020-02-06

    发明人: John Usher Dan Ellis

    摘要: A method and device for automatically increasing the spectral bandwidth of an audio signal including generating a “mapping” (or “prediction”) matrix based on the analysis of a reference wideband signal and a reference narrowband signal, the mapping matrix being a transformation matrix to predict high frequency energy from a low frequency energy envelope, generating an energy envelope analysis of an input narrowband audio signal, generating a resynthesized noise signal by processing a random noise signal with the mapping matrix and the envelope analysis, high-pass filtering the resynthesized noise signal, and summing the high-pass filtered resynthesized noise signal with the input narrowband audio signal. Other embodiments are disclosed.