Invention Application
- Patent Title: DYNAMIC BEAMFORMING TO IMPROVE SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO OF SIGNALS CAPTURED USING A HEAD-WEARABLE APPARATUS
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Application No.: US17839236Application Date: 2022-06-13
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Publication No.: US20220366926A1Publication Date: 2022-11-17
- Inventor: Michael Asfaw , Russell Douglas Patton , Patrick Timothy McSweeney Simons
- Applicant: Snap Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Monica
- Assignee: Snap Inc.
- Current Assignee: Snap Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Monica
- Main IPC: G10L21/0208
- IPC: G10L21/0208 ; H04R1/40

Abstract:
Method to perform dynamic beamforming to reduce SNR in signals captured by head-wearable apparatus starts with microphones generating acoustic signals. Microphones are coupled to first stem of the apparatus and to second stem of the apparatus. First and second beamformers generate first and second beamformer signals, respectively. Noise suppressor attenuates noise content from the first beamformer signal and the second beamformer signal. Noise content from first beamformer signal are acoustic signals not collocated in second beamformer signal and noise content from second beamformer signal are acoustic signals not collocated in first beamformer signal. Speech enhancer generates clean signal comprising speech content from first noise-suppressed signal and second noise-suppressed signal. Speech content are acoustic signals collocated in first beamformer signal and second beamformer signal.
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