Patent ID: 11972750
Assignee: NEC PLATFORMS, LTD.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A voice output apparatus comprising:
a first speaker that outputs voice to an ear canal of a user based on an output voice signal;
a first microphone that is arranged to face outward from a body of the user and that captures a mixed voice to output a mixed voice signal, the mixed voice including leaked voice output by the first speaker and leaking to outside the user and first external noise arriving from outside the user; and
a processor that:
cancels influence, on the first external noise, of the leaked voice;
generates a first external noise signal corresponding to the first external noise; and
processes, using the first external noise signal, an input voice signal input from outside the user to generate the output voice signal.