US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on Jan. 20 for "Systems and methods for enhancing speech audio signals" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,080, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for enhancing speech audio signals" was invented by Ning Xu (Irvine, Calif.) and Zhiyun Li (Kenmore, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for enhancing speech audio signals of an individual in a noisy environment based on a user's gaze and a captured image of the user's environment. A direction of a user's gaze is determined using image sensors configured to capture an orientation of a user's eyes and an image of the user environment is captures. Spatial audio is captured and analyzed along with the direction of gaze...