US Patent Issued to Sonos on May 12 for "Linear filtering for noise-suppressed speech detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,717, issued on May 12, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Linear filtering for noise-suppressed speech detection" was invented by Saeed Bagheri Sereshki (Goleta, Calif.) and Daniele Giacobello (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for suppressing noise and detecting voice input in a multi-channel audio signal captured by a plurality of microphones include (i) capturing a first audio signal via a first microphone and a second audio signal via a second microphone, wherein the first and second audio signals respectively comprises first and second noise content from a noise source; (ii) identifying the...