US 11,842,121 B2
Apparatus, system and method of sound control
Tzvi Fridman, Nes Tziona (IL); Ziv Hermon, Maccabim (IL); Yoel Naor, Kibbutz Naan (IL); and Yuval Serfaty, Tel Aviv (IL)
Assigned to SILENTIUM LTD., Nes Ziona (IL)
Filed by SILENTIUM LTD., Nes Ziona (IL)
Filed on May 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/734,092.
Application 17/734,092 is a continuation of application No. 16/734,338, filed on Jan. 5, 2020, granted, now 11,385,859.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/788,868, filed on Jan. 6, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0261214 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/16 (2006.01); H04R 29/00 (2006.01); G10L 25/51 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 3/165 (2013.01) [G10L 25/51 (2013.01); H04R 29/001 (2013.01); H04R 2430/01 (2013.01); H04R 2499/13 (2013.01)] 33 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
an input to receive a first audio input for a first personal sound zone, a second audio input for a second personal sound zone, environment information, and monitoring information, wherein the environment information comprises information corresponding to an environment including the first personal sound zone and the second personal sound zone, wherein the monitoring information comprises a first plurality of monitoring inputs representing sound at a first plurality of monitoring locations, which are defined within the first personal sound zone, and a second plurality of monitoring inputs representing sound at a second plurality of monitoring locations, which are defined within the second personal sound zone;
a controller configured to determine a sound control pattern based on the first audio input, the second audio input, the environment information, the first plurality of monitoring inputs, and the second plurality of monitoring inputs, wherein the sound control pattern comprises a plurality of sound control signals configured to drive a respective plurality of acoustic transducers such that the first audio input is to be heard in the first personal sound zone; and
an output to output the plurality of sound control signals to the plurality of acoustic transducers.