公开(公告)号：US12192695B1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-07

申请号：US17708607

申请日：2022-03-30

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Andrew Jackson Stockton X ,  Mihir Dhananjay Shetye ,  Wontak Kim ,  Zhen Sun

IPC: H04R1/10 ,  G10K11/178

Abstract: A wearable audio output device (e.g., headphones) having an open design that allows ambient noise to pass to a listener without physically isolating the listener from a surrounding environment. The device may include an open earcup design that may partially or completely surround the listener's ear, and in some examples a portion of the listener's head may be uncovered by the open earcup. To improve comfort, the device includes a floating audio component configured to generate output audio in a direction of the listener's ear without contacting the listener's ear. To reduce an amount of ambient noise, the device may be configured to perform active noise cancellation (ANC) processing using feedforward and/or feedback microphones. The device may include an acoustic structure configured to direct the output audio in the direction of the listener's ear and/or position the feedback microphone(s) closer to the listener's ear.

公开(公告)号：US12249311B1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-11

申请号：US17945563

申请日：2022-09-15

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Andrew Jackson Stockton X ,  Ali Abdollahzadeh Milani

IPC: G10K11/178 ,  G10L25/78 ,  H04R1/10

Abstract: A system configured to perform adaptive active noise cancellation (ANC) processing. Specifically, the system may adaptively determine a feed-forward ANC filter by maximizing a ratio of A:B, where A corresponds to microphone-ear coherence and B corresponds to microphone-microphone coherence between the feed-forward microphones. By maximizing this ratio, the system may determine weighted gain values used to combine the feed-forward microphone signals. In addition, the system may (i) apply a fixed feed-forward ANC filter profile selected based on a geometry of the device and a generalized ear response, (ii) monitor a secondary path to select from a plurality of feed-forward ANC filter profiles based on an individual user's ear response, or (iii) adaptively update the feed-forward ANC filter based on a feedback microphone signal.

公开(公告)号：US12112737B1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-08

申请号：US17954815

申请日：2022-09-28

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Wan-Chieh Pai ,  Harsha Inna Kedage Rao ,  Andrew Jackson Stockton X

IPC: G10K11/178 ,  H04R3/02

CPC classification number: G10K11/17854 ,  H04R3/02

Abstract: A system configured to perform acoustic feedback control to enable a device to perform hearing enhancement while suppressing acoustic feedback. During hearing enhancement, the device may amplify environmental noise based on a unique hearing profile associated with the user, personalizing equalization settings, a dynamic range, and/or other characteristics to optimize playback audio for the user. The acoustic feedback control may include an acoustic feedback cancellation (AFC) component that uses an adaptive filter to estimate and cancel a feedback signal. In addition, the AFC component may perform entrainment prevention by detecting periodic signals and adjusting an adaptation rate of the adaptive filter accordingly. Separately, the device may selectively suppress acoustic feedback by detecting frequency bands representing acoustic feedback (e.g., squeal detection) and applying one or more notch filter(s) to suppress the selected frequency bands (e.g., squeal suppression).