Reconfigurale fixed beam former using given microphone array

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9966059
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15697088

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An acoustic interference cancellation system that performs beamforming using a subset of microphones from a microphone array. For example, a first group of microphones from an array can be used to generate target signals that focus on the direction of the desired speech in the audio and a second group of microphones from the array can be used to generate reference signals that include the environmental noise, audio from a loudspeaker, etc. The reference signals of the second group of microphones can then be used to isolate the actual speech from the target signals of the first group of microphones. The microphone array can be three dimensional, allowing a device to simplify beamforming calculations by selecting subsets of microphones along different planes. In addition, directional microphones and remote microphones may be used to improve a quality of the reference signals.

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AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INCWASHINGTON STATE WASHINGTON

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Ayrapetian, Robert Morgan Hill, US 41 1442
Hilmes, Philip Ryan Sunnyvale, US 45 2206
Murgia, Carlo Santa Clara, US 83 1796

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