US Patent Issued to Synaptics on Nov. 3 for "Cascade audio spotting system" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,767, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Cascade audio spotting system" was invented by Saeed Mosayyebpour Kaskari (Irvine, Calif.), Hong Qiu (Shanghai) and Atabak Pouya (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for identifying audio events in one or more audio streams include the use of a cascade audio spotting system (such as a cascade keyword spotting system (KWS)) to reduce power consumption while maintaining a desired performance. An example cascade audio spotting system may include a first module and a high-power subsystem. The first module is to receive an audio stream ...