Inventor
ATKINS JOSHUA D
US40 patents
Patents
40 patentsUS9736578B2Aug 15, 2017
Microphone-based orientation sensors and related techniques
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US10034092B1Jul 24, 2018
Spatial headphone transparency
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US10524080B1Dec 31, 2019
System to move a virtual sound away from a listener using a crosstalk canceler
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US10482899B2Nov 19, 2019
Coordination of beamformers for noise estimation and noise suppression
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US11532306B2Dec 20, 2022
Detecting a trigger of a digital assistant
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US12141347B1Nov 12, 2024
Machine learning and user driven selective hearing
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US11818561B1Nov 14, 2023
Spatial headphone transparency
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US11508388B1Nov 22, 2022
Microphone array based deep learning for time-domain speech signal extraction
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US10951990B2Mar 16, 2021
Spatial headphone transparency
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US10798511B1Oct 6, 2020
Processing of audio signals for spatial audio
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US10178490B1Jan 8, 2019
Intelligent audio rendering for video recording
APPLE INC12 citations84
US11341988B1May 24, 2022
Hybrid learning-based and statistical processing techniques for voice activity detection
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US10074380B2Sep 11, 2018
System and method for performing speech enhancement using a deep neural network-based signal
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US10403299B2Sep 3, 2019
Multi-channel speech signal enhancement for robust voice trigger detection and automatic speech recognition
APPLE INC8 citations82
US10848889B2Nov 24, 2020
Intelligent audio rendering for video recording
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US11930337B2Mar 12, 2024
Audio encoding with compressed ambience
APPLE INC2 citations72
US11503409B1Nov 15, 2022
Spatial headphone transparency
APPLE INC2 citations71
US10978086B2Apr 13, 2021
Echo cancellation using a subset of multiple microphones as reference channels
APPLE INC2 citations71
US10652687B2May 12, 2020
Methods and devices for user detection based spatial audio playback
APPLE INC2 citations71
US10546593B2Jan 28, 2020
Deep learning driven multi-channel filtering for speech enhancement
APPLE INC6 citations71
US10334357B2Jun 25, 2019
Machine learning based sound field analysis
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US10609485B2Mar 31, 2020
System and method for performing panning for an arbitrary loudspeaker setup
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US12375853B2Jul 29, 2025
Audio encoding with compressed ambience
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US12348953B2Jul 1, 2025
Processing sound in an enhanced reality environment
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US11956623B2Apr 9, 2024
Processing sound in an enhanced reality environment
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US10764684B1Sep 1, 2020
Binaural audio using an arbitrarily shaped microphone array
APPLE INC1 citations62
US12543004B1Feb 3, 2026
Spatial headphone transparency
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US12200458B1Jan 14, 2025
Spatial headphone transparency
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US11841899B2Dec 12, 2023
Spatial audio file format for storing capture metadata
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US11514928B2Nov 29, 2022
Spatially informed audio signal processing for user speech
APPLE INC1 citations61
US11012774B2May 18, 2021
Spatially biased sound pickup for binaural video recording
APPLE INC1 citations61
US12556878B2Feb 17, 2026
Determining a virtual listening environment
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US11996114B2May 28, 2024
End-to-end time-domain multitask learning for ML-based speech enhancement
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US12563359B2Feb 24, 2026
Spatial capture with noise mitigation
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US12283289B2Apr 22, 2025
Separating and rendering voice and ambience signals by offsetting impact of device movements
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US11937063B2Mar 19, 2024
Method and system for maintaining track length for pre-rendered spatial audio
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US11222652B2Jan 11, 2022
Learning-based distance estimation
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US11849291B2Dec 19, 2023
Spatially informed acoustic echo cancelation
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US12549897B2Feb 10, 2026
Device-independent audio for electronic devices
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US10390131B2Aug 20, 2019
Recording musical instruments using a microphone array in a device
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