US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Oct. 7 for "Noise detection for skip back of audio" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,731, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Noise detection for skip back of audio" was invented by Brant Candelore (Poway, Calif.) and Mahyar Nejat (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A noise detecting playback system is provided to facilitate adaptive output of audio content by an audio player in response to detecting noise interferences such as external noise outside of the playback. The detection playback system assesses microphone signals and sensor data of the playback system for signs of attention requiring features to trigger playback of the audio content. Microphone signals may provide volum...