Meta received 1 granted patent this quarter in Audio.
The patent covers spatial Audio technology designed to enhance speech clarity in virtual and augmented reality environments. The system uses perceptual cues to help users focus on target speakers while filtering out background noise.
Meta's single Audio patent tackles the challenge of understanding speech in crowded virtual environments where multiple people talk simultaneously. The system goes beyond traditional signal-to-noise ratio improvements by modeling how humans naturally perceive and separate sounds, analyzing factors like pitch similarity and spatial positioning of Audio sources. It calculates differences in sound levels between ears and tracks the range of timing differences to build a perceptual model of the acoustic scene. This approach allows the system to selectively amplify the speech users want to hear while suppressing competing voices and ambient noise in XR settings.
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