ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,777, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Method and apparatus for target sound detection" was invented by Prajakt Kulkarni (San Diego), Yinyi Guo (San Diego) and Erik Visser (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device to perform target sound detection includes a memory including a buffer configured to store audio data. The device includes one or more processors coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to receive the audio data from the buffer. The one or more processors are configured to detect the presence or absence of one or more target non-speech sounds in the audio data. Th...