Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Using an auxiliary device sensor to facilitate disambiguation of detected acoustic environment changes
- Patent Title (中): 使用辅助设备传感器来促进检测到的声环境变化的消歧
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Application No.: US13656298Application Date: 2012-10-19
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Publication No.: US09131041B2Publication Date: 2015-09-08
- Inventor: Brady Nicholas Laska , Chris Forrester , Malay Gupta , Sylvain Angrignon , Michael Tetelbaum , James David Gordy
- Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
- Applicant Address: CA Waterloo, Ontario
- Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
- Current Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
- Current Assignee Address: CA Waterloo, Ontario
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: H04R3/00
- IPC: H04R3/00 ; H04M9/08 ; H04R1/40

Abstract:
Audio input may be received at one or more microphones of a mobile device. Based on the audio input, a change in an acoustic environment of the device, such as a change in a direction of arrival of the audio input or a degradation in a quality of acoustic echo cancellation being performed upon the audio input, may be detected. A determination may be made that the detected change coincides with a non-acoustic physical event detected using an auxiliary sensor at the mobile device. The event may for example be device motion, a new proximate object, a change in a proximity of an object, a new heat source or a change in a heat level from a known heat source. Based on the determining, a signal processor, possibly comprising an audio beamformer or echo canceller, may be recalibrated, e.g. the audio beamformer or echo canceller may be caused to reconverge.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140112487A1 USING AN AUXILIARY DEVICE SENSOR TO FACILITATE DISAMBIGUATION OF DETECTED ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT CHANGES Public/Granted day:2014-04-24
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