ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,153, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Semi-adaptive beamformer" was invented by Saeed Mosayyebpour Kaskari (Irvine, Calif.) and Alireza Masnadi-Shirazi (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for beamforming. The present implementations more specifically relate to semi-adaptive beamforming techniques. In some aspects, a semi-adaptive beamformer may determine an RTF vector based on an audio signal received via a microphone array (also referred to as an "instantaneous" RTF vector) and may further determine an MVDR beamforming filter for ...