Samsung patents wearable that uses two mics to detect if you are speaking
Samsung has filed a patent for a wearable device equipped with two microphones placed at different positions. The device compares the volume and energy levels from both microphones to identify which one is picking up your voice.
In the filing’s own words
A wearable device includes: a first microphone disposed at a first position; a second microphone disposed at a second position different from the first position; at least one processor and memory storing instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the wearable device to: obtain a magnitude feature of a first audio signal obtained by the first microphone, obtain an energy ratio of the first audio signal to a second audio signal obtained by the second microphone, and determine, using a trained artificial neural network, whether the first audio signal or the second audio signal includes a voice based on the magnitude feature and the energy ratio.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A wearable device comprising: a first microphone disposed at a first position; a second microphone disposed at a second position different from the first position; at least one processor and memory storing instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the wearable device to: obtain a magnitude feature of a first audio signal obtained by the first microphone, obtain an energy ratio of the first audio signal to a second audio signal obtained by the second microphone, and determine, using a trained artificial neural network, whether the first audio signal or the second audio signal includes a voice based on the magnitude feature and the energy ratio.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- WEARABLE DEVICE FOR DETECTING SPEECH, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR
- Publication number
- US20260321280A1
- Application number
- 19699780
- Filed
- Jun 5, 2026
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 8
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G10L 25/84 Physics & computingG10L 25/18 Physics & computingG10L 25/30 Physics & computingH04R 29/005 Electricity & electronicsH04R 2420/07 Electricity & electronicsMore from Samsung in Wearables
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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