US 12,495,241 B2
Apparatus and method for treating misophonia
Elijah Robertson, Oklahoma City, OK (US)
Assigned to The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (US)
Filed by The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (US)
Filed on Jun. 1, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/204,496.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/347,878, filed on Jun. 1, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0396917 A1, Dec. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. A61F 11/06 (2006.01); G10K 11/16 (2006.01); H03B 29/00 (2006.01); H04R 1/10 (2006.01)
CPC H04R 1/1083 (2013.01) 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for removing unwanted trigger sounds from ambient sounds while allowing non-trigger sounds to be heard by a user, the method comprising the steps of:
providing an automated audio exclusion device that includes a headset, one or more microphones and one or more speakers;
recording the ambient sounds with the one or more microphones;
digitizing the recorded ambient sounds into digital signals;
creating spectrographic data for the digital signals;
comparing the spectrographic data against a signature library that comprises preprogrammed spectrographic data for the unwanted trigger sounds;
identifying the spectrographic data that corresponds to the unwanted trigger sounds;
removing the unwanted trigger sounds from the spectrographic data to provide filtered spectrographic data;
converting the filtered spectrographic data into a filtered digital signal;
converting the filtered digital signal into a filtered audio signal that does not include the unwanted trigger sounds; and
playing the filtered audio signal to the user through the one or more speakers on the headset.