Patent №
US 9,763,016
Granted
2017-09-12
Filed 2015
Owner
STARKEY LABORATORIES, INC.
Lab
—
AI components
2
speech · planning
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
14808486
Described herein is a technique by which a hearing may automatically switch between a directional microphone mode and an omnidirectional microphone mode base upon an estimate of the noise floor as derived from the input signal. A minimum statistics estimator may be used to estimate the noise floor.
AI classification
Speech1.00
Planning1.00
Machine learning0.48
Vision0.05
Evolutionary computation0.00
Natural language0.00
AI hardware0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Ownership
STARKEY LABORATORIES, INC.
assignment · 412720974
Assignors
MERKS, IVO, ELLISON, JOHN
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.
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