G10K 11/17837
By retaining part of the ambient acoustic environment
Official title: {by retaining part of the ambient acoustic environment, e.g. speech or alarm signals that the user needs to hear}
G10K11/17837 (By retaining part of the ambient acoustic environment) appears on 252 US grants and 307 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Adaptive implementation of aware mode audio11 Aug 2026US 12,705,014 B2Bose Corporation
- Selective disablement of noise cancelation for conversations23 Jun 2026US 12,664,968 B2Sony Group Corporation
- Earphone with ANC automatically blocking function and method for controlling the same9 Jun 2026US 12,651,588 B2Pukyong National University Industry-University Cooperation Foundation
- Headphone speech listening based on ambient noise9 Jun 2026US 12,651,590 B2Apple Inc.
- Methods and systems for active noise control in an audio playback device16 Jul 2026US 2026/0204247 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- In-vehicle acoustic device and in-vehicle acoustic control method9 Jul 2026US 2026/0197584 A1Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
- Speech enhancement with active masking control25 Jun 2026US 2026/0181340 A1Lizn Aps
- Adaptive implementation of aware mode audio18 Jun 2026US 2026/0169676 A1Bose Corporation
- Vehicle sound processing device and method18 Jun 2026US 2026/0171063 A1Hyundai Motor Company
Most cited
By later US patents
- Active plus selective headset162US 5,815,582 ANoise Cancellation Technologies, Inc. · 1998
- Snoring suppression system139US 5,444,786 ASNAP Laboratories, L.L.C. · 1995
- Active electronic noise suppression system and method for reducing snoring noise121US 5,844,996 ASleep Solutions Inc. · 1998
- Noise suppression system109US 5,133,017 AActive Noise and Vibration Technologies, Inc. · 1992
- Earphone device102US 5,276,740 ASony Corporation · 1994