US Patent Issued to Synaptics on March 18 for "Dynamic range compression combined with active noise cancellation to remove artifacts caused by transient noises" (Taiwanese, American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,860, issued on March 18, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic range compression combined with active noise cancellation to remove artifacts caused by transient noises" was invented by Pei-Wen Hsieh (New Taipei, Taiwan), Saeed Mosayyebpour Kaskari (Irvine, Calif.), Hong Qiu (Shanghai) and Chuan-Yau Chan (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for active noise cancellation (ANC). The present implementations more specifically relate to the use of dynamic range compression (DRC) for ANC. In some aspects, an ANC system receives an input audio signal ...