Patent ID: 11871198
Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. An audio system comprising:
an array of acoustic sensors configured to detect sounds within a local area with a specific noise level;
an imaging device configured to capture image data associated with the local area; and
a controller configured to:
determine that a sound source in the local area that generates at least a portion of the detected sounds is a particular person, based at least in part on gestures data and one or more facial features in the captured image data comprising a separation between eye pupils for the particular person,
upon the particular person explicitly allowing an identification at a social network via facial recognition for the local area for a specific duration, identify a social network profile on the social network for the particular person using at least the separation between eye pupils in the captured image data,
retrieve a voice profile associated with the specific voice level from the identified social network profile,
enhance at least the portion of the detected sounds from the particular person based on the retrieved voice profile to obtain an enhanced audio, and
present the enhanced audio to a user wearing a headset that includes the audio system.