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Voice activity detection in audio signal
21 Nov 23
A method of detecting human voice activity includes determining a presence of human voice in a frame of audio signal using a plurality of features extracted from the frame of audio signal.
Jun Yang, Joshua Bingham
Filed: 14 Oct 19
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Hardware module for determining a clock value based on multiple timing references
21 Nov 23
A hardware module includes a high stability oscillator, a satellite signal receiver, a processor, and electrical contacts.
Ahmad Byagowi
Filed: 7 Apr 21
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Programmable pixel array having multiple power domains
21 Nov 23
In some examples, an apparatus comprises an array of pixel cells, and processing circuits associated with blocks of pixel cells of the array of pixel cells and associated with first hierarchical power domains.
Andrew Samuel Berkovich, Shlomo Alkalay, Hans Reyserhove
Filed: 19 May 21
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Discrete binaural spatialization of sound sources on two audio channels
21 Nov 23
Embodiments relate to binaural spatialization of more than two sound sources on two audio channels of an audio system.
Philip Robinson, Sebastian Elliot Chafe
Filed: 25 Jan 23
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Systems and methods for wireless device modes
21 Nov 23
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for facilitating wireless communication of a wearable device.
Srinivasa Prasad Vangaru, Qi Qu, Ping Wang, Dong Zheng, Insoo Hwang, Jiansong Wang, Gahima Stephen Mbonye, Swaminathan Balakrishnan
Filed: 9 Jul 21
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Lightguide based illuminator for reflective display panel
21 Nov 23
A see-through illuminator for a reflective display panel provides a better image contrast when the illuminator is configured to direct a leakage light beam exiting the lightguide from a side opposing the display panel to propagate non-parallel to an image light formed by reflection of an illuminating light beam from the display panel.
Sihui He, Wanli Chi, Ying Geng, Jacques Gollier
Filed: 8 Feb 22
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Optical system and method for providing expanded field of view
14 Nov 23
A device includes a waveguide.
Giuseppe Calafiore, Oleg Yaroshchuk, Barry David Silverstein
Filed: 31 Aug 22
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Dimming shutter combining guest-host liquid crystal and photochromic materials for augmented reality applications
14 Nov 23
A headset for augmented reality applications is provided.
Jasmine Soria Sears, Afsoon Jamali
Filed: 15 Apr 22
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Apparatus, system, and method for blocking light from eyecups
14 Nov 23
A light-blocker apparatus may include a support element dimensioned to fit a contour of an eyecup of a head-mounted display.
David Michael Pickett, Joseph Patrick Sullivan
Filed: 19 Oct 20
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System and method for interference fringe stabilization
14 Nov 23
A system includes a diffractive optical element configured to receive a first beam and a second beam interfering with one another to generate a first interference pattern.
Yun-Han Lee, Stephen Choi, Mengfei Wang, Junren Wang, Lu Lu, Kyle Justin Curts
Filed: 13 Apr 21
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PVH in-band chromatic correction using metasurface
14 Nov 23
An optical device includes an optical component (e.g., a polarization volume hologram, a geometric phase device, or a polarization-insensitive diffractive optical element) having a uniform thickness and configured to modify a wavefront of a light beam that includes light in two or more wavelengths visible to human eyes, where the optical component has a chromatic aberration between the two or more wavelengths.
Hao Yu, Dianmin Lin, Lu Lu, Xiayu Feng, Mengfei Wang, Barry David Silverstein
Filed: 17 May 21
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Device-side capture of data representative of an artificial reality environment
14 Nov 23
The disclosure describes artificial reality systems and techniques for saving and exporting artificial reality data.
Melissa Erin Summers, Lindsay Young, Arthur Bodolec, Adam Hupp, Bryan Alger, Peter Aubrey Bartholomew Griess, Nataraja Kumar Koduri, Carl Taylor, Bryan Justice, Andrea Zeller, Ayfer Gokalp
Filed: 11 Dec 19
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Apparatus, system, and method for machine perception
14 Nov 23
A system may include a wearable apparatus dimensioned to be worn by a user about an axial region of the user’s body such that, when the wearable apparatus is worn by the user, the user’s field of view into a local environment is substantially free of a view of the wearable apparatus.
Richard Andrew Newcombe, Renzo De Nardi
Filed: 28 Jun 18
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Correcting artifacts in tiled display assemblies for artificial reality headsets
14 Nov 23
A method for correcting artifacts in artificial reality headsets is provided.
Nicholas Daniel Trail, Byron Taylor, Yufeng Zhu, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Hee Yoon Lee, Sharvil Shailesh Talati, Behnam Bastani, Pasi Saarikko
Filed: 14 Oct 22
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Sparse RGB cameras for image capture
14 Nov 23
In one embodiment, a computing system may receive sensor data from an image sensor having a pixel array including color pixel sensors and panchromatic pixel sensors in a first pattern.
Alex Locher, Naveen Makineni, Oskar Linde, John Enders Robertson, Anthony Aslan Tenggoro
Filed: 25 Aug 22
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Generating digital floorplans from sparse digital video utilizing an audio-visual floorplan reconstruction machine learning model
7 Nov 23
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for utilizing multiple modalities to generate accurate two-dimensional floorplans based on sparse digital videos depicting three-dimensional space.
Kristen Lorraine Grauman, Senthil Purushwalkam Shiva Prakash, Sebastia Vicenc Amengual Gari, Vamsi Krishna Ithapu, Carl Schissler, Philip Robinson, Abhinav Gupta
Filed: 12 Apr 21
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Wafer-level 3D integration of high voltage optical transformer
7 Nov 23
A method of forming a high voltage optical transformer includes forming a via through a transparent carrier wafer, forming a conductive layer within the via, bonding a solid state lighting (SSL) package to a first side of the carrier wafer, and bonding a photovoltaic (PV) wafer to a second side of the carrier wafer opposite to the first side.
Christopher Yuan Ting Liao, Maik Andre Scheller, Jonathan Robert Peterson, Ehsan Vadiee, John Goward, Anurag Tyagi, Andrew John Ouderkirk
Filed: 21 May 21
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Electroactive polymer devices, systems, and methods
7 Nov 23
A method for forming an electroactive device may include (i) depositing a curable material onto a primary electrode, (ii) curing the deposited curable material to form an electroactive polymer element comprising a cured elastomer material, and (iii) depositing an electrically conductive material onto a surface of the electroactive polymer element opposite the primary electrode to form a secondary electrode.
Andrew John Ouderkirk, Katherine Marie Smyth
Filed: 19 Mar 21
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Assemblies of anisotropic optical elements and methods of making
7 Nov 23
An optical assembly includes a first flexible membrane and a first optical element coupled with at least a first portion of the first flexible membrane.
Babak Amirsolaimani, Scott Charles McEldowney, Andrew John Ouderkirk
Filed: 30 Apr 21
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Eye data and operation of head mounted device
7 Nov 23
A method of operating a head mounted device includes capturing eye data with one or more sensors of the head mounted device.
Sebastian Sztuk, Salvael Ortega Estrada
Filed: 7 Sep 21