ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,828, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Audio source classification for handsfree communications" was invented by John Usher (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for audio signal processing. The present implementations more specifically relate to speech enhancement techniques that utilize multi-channel audio signals for audio source classification. In some aspects, a speech enhancement system may include an adaptive filter, a feature extractor, and a feature classifier. The adaptive filter is configured to receive a multi-channel audio signal...