US Patent Issued to Synaptics on Oct. 28 for "Audio source separation for multi-channel beamforming based on face detection" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,477, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Audio source separation for multi-channel beamforming based on face detection" was invented by Saeed Mosayyebpour Kaskari (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for speech enhancement. The present implementations more specifically relate to utilizing multiple modalities to suppress audio originating from a distractor audio source without distorting audio originating from a target audio source. In some aspects, a speech enhancement system may receive a multi-channel audio signal via a microphone ar...