MUMBAI, India, June 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517050584 A) filed by Lizn Aps, Risskov, Denmark, on May 26, for 'speech enhancement with active masking control.'
Inventor(s) include Farver, Niels.
The application for the patent was published on June 13, under issue no. 24/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Disclosed is a speech intelligibility enhancing system comprising at least one in-ear headphone device arranged with an ear canal facing portion and an environment facing portion. The device comprises an acoustic path comprising a vent, the acoustic path coupling the environment facing portion with the ear canal facing portion, and an electroacoustic path comprising a microphone at the environment facing portion, a filter and a loudspeaker at the ear canal facing portion. The acoustic path is arranged to convey acoustic sound in a vowel dominated frequency range, and the electroacoustic path is arranged to acoustically reproduce sound signals in a consonant dominated frequency range and in the vowel dominated frequency range, and the electroacoustic path is arranged such that a signal-to-masking ratio is improved by said electroacoustic path compensating contributions from said acoustic path in said vowel dominated frequency range. A method for enhancing speech intelligibility is furthermore disclosed."
The patent application was internationally filed on Oct. 30, 2023, under International application No.PCT/DK2023/050256.
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