EBay Inc. (20250087228). PERSONALIZED, REAL-TIME AUDIO PROCESSING

PERSONALIZED, REAL-TIME AUDIO PROCESSING

Organization Name

eBay Inc.

Inventor(s)

Dane Glasgow of Los Altos CA (US)

David A. Ramadge of San Jose CA (US)

Matthew Bret Maclaurin of Santa Cruz CA (US)

Justin Van Winkle of Los Gatos CA (US)

Corinne Elizabeth Sherman of San Jose CA (US)

PERSONALIZED, REAL-TIME AUDIO PROCESSING

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250087228 titled 'PERSONALIZED, REAL-TIME AUDIO PROCESSING

Original Abstract Submitted

an apparatus and method for real-time audio processing employs a gaze detection sensor to detect a direction of a user's gaze and output a gaze signal corresponding to the detected direction of the user's gaze. a digital signal processing unit responds to a plurality of signals corresponding to a plurality of sounds received at the apparatus, and the determined direction of gaze to identify a signal of interest from the plurality of signals using the gaze signal. the signal of interest is processed for output to the user. in embodiments, a microphone array provides the plurality of signals. an imaging sensor may work with either the microphone array or the gaze detection sensor to identify the signal of interest.