ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,175, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Multi-channel noise reduction for headphones" was invented by Saeed Mosayyebpour Kaskari (Irvine, Calif.) and Alireza Masnadi-Shirazi (Irvine, Calif.).
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 can adapt to varying signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) conditions. In some aspects, a speech enhancement system may include a low SNR detector and a spatial filter. The spatial filter receives a multi-channel audio ...