ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,975, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Method to remove talker interference to noise estimator" was invented by Jae Lee (Palo Alto, Calif.), Priya Kasirajan (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Leng Ooi (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and method for determining a background noise level. The device may receive audio from two or more microphones. The audio may include a first signal and a second signal, such that each microphone receives its own signal. The time, loudness, frequency of the first and second signals may be compared to determine the source o...