US Patent Issued to Apple on April 22 for "Separating and rendering voice and ambience signals by offsetting impact of device movements" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,289, issued on April 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Separating and rendering voice and ambience signals by offsetting impact of device movements" was invented by Jonathan D. Sheaffer (Santa Clara, Calif.), Joshua D. Atkins (Los Angeles), Mehrez Souden (Los Angeles), Symeon Delikaris Manias (Los Angeles) and Sean A. Ramprashad (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing of ambience and speech can include extracting from audio signals, ambience and speech signals. One or more spatial parameters can be generated that define spatial characteristics of ambience sound in the one or more ambience audio ...