3734results about "Intra aural earpieces" patented technology

Introduced here is a wearable audio system including modular ear-cup and ear-bud that can be attached and detached to the user together, or independently of each other. Further, the modular ear-cup and ear-bud can operate together, or independently of each other. The wearable audio system can perform active noise cancellation by measuring noise inside the ear-cup and / or the ear-bud, computing the noise canceling sound, and forwarding the noise canceling sound to a speaker inside the ear-cup and / or the ear-bud. The wearable audio system can be wirelessly charged while operating, thus allowing the user to continuously listen to music more than previously possible. The wearable audio system can optimize power consumption by redistributing power intensive tasks to power sources with the highest amount of power. Further, the ambient sound outside the ear-cup can be measured and played by the speakers in the earbud allowing the user to hear the surrounding environment.

A system for monitoring auditory health of a user can include an auricular device that can comprise a microphone configured to generate OAE audio data responsive to detecting one or more otoacoustic emissions originating from the inner ear of the user. One or more hardware processors associated with the auricular device can access the OAE audio data from the microphone; access physiological data of the user originating from a physiological sensor; determine a feature of the physiological data in a time-domain, the feature comprising a value of the physiological data exceeding a threshold; adjust a portion of the OAE audio data based on the feature of the physiological data, the portion of the OAE audio data corresponding to the feature of the physiological data in the time-domain; and determine one or more physiological characteristics of the user based on the OAE audio data.

A loudspeaker device includes a speaker component, a first microphone element, and a second microphone element. The speaker component includes an earphone core and a core housing. The first microphone element is disposed on a first branch circuit board of a circuit board. The second microphone element is disposed on a second branch circuit board of the circuit board. The circuit board is configured to electrically connect to an audio signal wire, a first auxiliary signal wire, and a second auxiliary signal wire of an external control circuit. The audio signal wire, the first auxiliary signal wire, and the second auxiliary signal wire are electrically and respectively connected to the earphone core, the first microphone element, and the second microphone element through the circuit board. A board surface of the second branch circuit board is tilt with respect to a board surface of the first branch circuit board.

A headphone includes a housing including a bottom wall portion and a side wall portion connected with the bottom wall portion which cooperate to form an accommodation space, a sealing ring, a microphone assembly including a sound guiding member configured to hold the sealing ring against a microphone and a support surface provided on a side of the side wall portion facing the accommodation space, and a positioning member inserted between the housing and the sound guiding member to enable the sound guiding member to remain the sealing ring in a press-hold condition. The sealing ring encircling the sound guiding hole provided on the support surface for connecting the accommodation space and an exterior of the housing is provided on a support surface. A sound guiding channel is provided on the sound guiding member for guiding a sound input from the sound guiding hole to the microphone.

Disclosed is an earphone comprising two speaker assemblies and a connection member. The connection member is used to connect the two speaker assemblies. The connection member provides a clamping force for placing the two speaker assemblies at a user's head through a bending deformation. The connection member includes a housing with an accommodation cavity, a capacitance sensor is disposed in the accommodation cavity, and the capacitance sensor is configured to identify a bending state of the connection member. The capacitance sensor includes a shielding structure that has a constant potential and is used to reduce an effect of an external electric field on the capacitance sensor.

A loudspeaker device includes a speaker component, a first microphone element, and a second microphone element. The speaker component includes an earphone core and a core housing. The first microphone element is disposed on a first branch circuit board of a circuit board. The second microphone element is disposed on a second branch circuit board of the circuit board. The circuit board is configured to electrically connect to an audio signal wire, a first auxiliary signal wire, and a second auxiliary signal wire of an external control circuit. The audio signal wire, the first auxiliary signal wire, and the second auxiliary signal wire are electrically and respectively connected to the earphone core, the first microphone element, and the second microphone element through the circuit board. A board surface of the second branch circuit board is tilt with respect to a board surface of the first branch circuit board.

A system, including: an ear worn device configured to provide audio to a user's ear; a switch configured to receive physical contact from the user and, in response, alter an activation state of the switch; and a case configured to receive the ear worn device when not in use, wherein the case includes an electromagnet configured to magnetically attract the ear worn device, wherein changing the activation state of the switch causes the electromagnet to reduce attraction to the ear worn device to allow the user to more easily remove the ear worn device from the case.

An auditory operating system designed to facilitate context-aware, audio-based user interactions, particularly with artificial intelligence agents or applications. An auditory operating system shell serves as the primary interface, managing and coordinating multiple specialized agents that handle specific domains like music streaming, scheduling, or home automation. Using natural language processing, the auditory operating system shell identifies the appropriate agent or application for a user's command or query and ensures task execution and context preservation across interactions. The auditory operating system shell enforces privacy and stability by controlling agents' and applications' access to data and system privileges. The auditory operating system shell also supports dynamic context management, enabling seamless handoffs between agents when user requests span multiple domains. This auditory operating system shell may reduce the need for users to memorize specific wake words or commands, as the auditory operating system shell may determine the user's intent from speech or contextual cues.

Embodiments herein relate to a hearing assistance system including a multi-function charging case for one or more ear-worn devices. The case can be placed in a streaming mode, in which first input audio is received by the case and streamed from the case to the ear-worn device. The case can be switched between different modes, including the streaming mode and a charging mode, using a user input device. Other embodiments are also included herein.

A speaker device is provided. The speaker device may include a circuit housing, an ear hook, a rear hook, and a speaker assembly. The circuit housing may be configured to accommodate a control circuit or a battery. The ear hook may be connected to one end of the circuit housing and at least a part of the ear hook being covered by a first housing sheath. The rear hook may be connected to the other end of the circuit housing and at least a part of the rear hook being covered by a second housing sheath. The first housing sheath and the second housing sheath may cover at least a part of a periphery of the circuit housing from two ends of the circuit housing, respectively. The speaker assembly may include an earphone core and a core housing for accommodating the earphone core.

The present disclosure relates to a speaker device. The speaker device may include an ear hook, a core housing for accommodating an earphone core, and a circuit housing for accommodating a control circuit or a battery. The ear hook may include a first plug end and a second plug end. The ear hook may be surrounded by a protective sleeve which may be made of an elastic waterproof material. The ear hook may be elastic, and a position of the core housing relative to the ear hook may be changed according to an elastic deformation of the ear hook, thereby the core housing may fit a user in front of or behind an ear of the user. The circuit housing may be fixed to the second plug end. The control circuit or the battery may drive the earphone core to vibrate to generate a sound.

A system may include a storage device, configured to store computer-executable instructions. A system may include an ear-bud configured to be positioned within an ear canal of a user, the ear-bud comprising: a speaker, a microphone; and one or more processors in communication with the storage device, wherein the computer-executable instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: obtain a user hearing profile, obtain an equal-loudness hearing profile, receive audio data from the microphone, and generate a second audio data based on a first sound-pressure level, a second sound-pressure level, a first frequency; and cause the speaker to emit the second audio data within the ear canal of the user, such that the user perceives the audio data as if the user has normal hearing.

The invention provides an earphone control method and wearable equipment, the method is applied to the wearable equipment, the wearable equipment comprises a first earphone, and the first earphone comprises a first inertia detector; the first earphone obtains first gravity data collected by the first inertia detector; when the first gravity data meets a first condition, the first earphone recognizes that the first earphone is worn on the left ear, and a control event corresponding to the attribute of the left earphone is executed; and when the first gravity data meets a second condition, the first earphone recognizes that the first earphone is worn on the right ear, and a control event corresponding to the attribute of the right earphone is executed. Through the method, the wearable device can identify whether the wearable device is worn on the left ear or the right ear, and execute different control events based on the left ear wearing or the right ear wearing, so that the flexibility of using the wearable device by a user is improved, and the use experience of wearing the wearable device by the user is improved.

The present disclosure provides an acoustic output device. The acoustic output device may comprise a bone conduction speaker configured to generate bone conduction acoustic waves. The acoustic output device may also comprise an air conduction speaker configured to generate air conduction acoustic waves, the air conduction speaker being independent of the bone conduction speaker. The acoustic output device may further comprise at least one housing configured to accommodate the bone conduction speaker and the air conduction speaker.

The invention discloses a tumble detection method, wearable equipment and a storage medium, relates to the technical field of tumble detection, and discloses a tumble detection method applied to the wearable equipment, the wearable equipment comprises an acceleration sensor and at least one other sensor except the acceleration sensor, the tumble detection method comprises the following steps: acquiring acceleration data acquired by an acceleration sensor based on a time sequence; if the acceleration data accord with the free falling acceleration performance in the first time period and accord with the impact rebound acceleration performance in the second time period, it is judged that a falling impact event is detected; in response to the falling impact event, obtaining a falling detection result determined based on detection data collected by other sensors; and if the tumble detection result is that the tumble event exists, triggering a tumble event response process. On the basis, when falling impact is detected, detection and identification are carried out based on other sensor parameters, so that the falling detection accuracy of impact caused by falling is improved.

Disclosed are systems and methods for adaptive noise cancellation (ANC) at a virtual microphone located at the eardrum of a wearer of an earphone. The techniques estimate the level of leakiness of ambient noise in the earphone from the magnitude of the gain of the transfer function of the feed forward loop filter of the ANC. Based on the estimated leakiness, the techniques estimate the transfer function of the feed forward loop filter to compensate for the difference in the effect of noise cancellation at the virtual microphone and error microphone. A bias term that represents the difference in the frequency response of the attenuated noise at the virtual and error microphone may be added to the adaptive feed forward algorithm. The ANC operation may apply the bias term to the adaptive feed forward loop filter to reduce the ambient noise at the eardrum rather than at the error microphone.

The present disclosure provides an earphone comprising a sound production component and an ear hook. In a wearing state, the ear hook is configured to place the sound production component at a position near an ear canal but not blocking the ear canal. An inner contour of the ear hook's projection on a user's sagittal plane includes a first curve having an extremum point in a first direction. The first direction is perpendicular to a long-axis direction of a projection of the sound production component on the sagittal plane. The extremum point is located behind a projection point of an upper vertex of the ear hook on the sagittal plane, and the upper vertex is a highest point of an inner contour of the ear hook along the user's vertical axis. An inclination angle of the long-axis direction relative to a horizontal direction is within a range of 13°-21°.

An electronic device includes a first housing connected to a second housing having a protrusion configured to be seated on an ear. The electronic device also includes a printed circuit board, a wireless communication circuit, an antenna carrier disposed in internal space defined by the first housing and the second housing. The electronic device also includes a conductive pattern formed over the first surface and the second surface through a first through hole and electrically connected to the wireless communication circuit. The antenna carrier includes a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and through holes passing through the antenna carrier. The antenna carrier also includes a groove structure including a portion in contact with a second through hole and formed on the second surface of the antenna carrier. The wireless communication circuit transmits and / or receives a wireless signal by providing power to the conductive pattern.

An acoustic device is provided, including a housing, and a sound source disposed in the housing, where the housing is provided with a sound outlet hole and a reverse-phase sound hole in different surfaces of the housing, and sounds emitted from the sound outlet hole and from the reverse-phase sound hole are opposite in phase and identical in amplitude; a first sound cavity is formed between a front end of the sound source and the sound outlet hole, and a second sound cavity is formed between a rear end of the sound source and the reverse-phase sound hole; and the first sound cavity is communicated with the second sound cavity through an acoustic dipole tube.

A system for presenting audio content to a user. The system comprises one or more microphones coupled to a frame of a headset. The one or more microphones capture sound from a local area. The system further comprises an audio controller integrated into the headset and communicatively coupled to an in-ear device worn by a user. The audio controller identifies one or more sound sources in the local area based on the captured sound. The audio controller further determines a target sound source of the one or more sound sources and determines one or more filters to apply to a sound signal associated with the target sound source in the captured sound. The audio controller further generates an augmented sound signal by applying the one or more filters to the sound signal and provides the augmented sound signal to the in-ear device for presentation to a user.

An example wearable device for placement relative to an ear includes a housing; a first extending structure; a second extending structure, the first and second extending structures are separated by an adjustable distance; a carriage coupled to the second extending structure and being at least partially disposed within the housing, the carriage being configured to move longitudinally along the housing and an adjustment mechanism configured to impart a force to cause longitudinal movement of the carriage to adjust the adjustable distance.

A clip-on earphone includes a cavum conchae wearing portion which is adapted to be worn at a cavum conchae of an ear of a user, a connecting portion which is adapted to surround the user's helix, and a clamping portion which is adapted to fit on a rear ear side of the user's ear, wherein the cavum conchae wearing portion is connected to the clamping portion through the connecting portion and forms a wearing space, and at least a portion of the user's helix is adapted to be clamped in the wearing space.

According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a processing device of an in-ear device, an audio signal from one or more microphones of the in-ear device. The method further includes extracting, by the processing device, one or more features of the audio signal and generating, by the processing device, an in-ear data object based on the one or more features. The method also includes publishing, by the processing device, the in-ear data object to an external system via a network.

In aspects of ending active noise cancellation based on a detected audio source, a mobile device implements an audio playback manager that detects a headset employing active noise cancellation (ANC) of audio in communication with a mobile device in an environment of the mobile device. The audio playback manager receives a selection of at least one audio source that triggers adjustment of the ANC and detects sound originating from the at least one audio source that triggers adjustment of the ANC. Based on detecting the sound originating from the at least one audio source, the audio playback manager adjusts the ANC.

This application discloses a charging case and an earphone assembly. The charging case has two earphone slots that are disposed at an interval, and the earphone slot is configured to accommodate an earphone. The charging case includes a case body and a case cover, and the case cover is rotatably connected to the case body. The earphone slot includes a top slot and a bottom slot that are located in the case body. The top slot is configured to accommodate an earbud of the earphone. The bottom slot is configured to accommodate a stem of the earphone. The case body includes a top surface disposed to face the case cover. Both an opening of the top slot and an opening of the bottom slot are located on the top surface of the case body, and the opening of the bottom slot is lower than the opening of the top slot.

This application provides an earphone and a temperature measurement method for the earphone. The earphone may include an earbud and a first temperature sensor. The earbud includes an earbud housing and a sound outlet hole, first accommodating space is formed by enclosing the earbud housing, the sound outlet hole may be disposed on the earbud housing, and the sound outlet hole connects the first accommodating space and external space of the earphone, so that the earphone can emit sound through the sound outlet hole. Therefore, in this application, the first temperature sensor may be located in the first accommodating space, and may be disposed on an outer side of a hole channel of the sound outlet hole, to avoid impact of the first temperature sensor on sound outlet effect of the sound outlet hole. In addition, the sound outlet hole may be disposed directly opposite to a periosteum of a human ear. Therefore, a temperature of the periosteum can be transferred to the sound outlet hole. In addition, the temperature of the periosteum of the human ear is close to a core temperature of a human body. Based on this, the first temperature sensor can be in thermally conductive contact with the sound outlet hole, so that the temperature of the periosteum can be transferred to the first temperature sensor through the sound outlet hole, and the first temperature sensor can obtain a more accurate human body temperature through measurement.

A wearable device may be worn in an ear of a user. The wearable device may include a biometric sensor that collects biometric information from the ear, and an environmental sensor that collects environmental information from the ear. The wearable device may receive the biometric information from the biometric sensor, and the environmental information from the environmental sensor, and send biofeedback determined from the biometric information, and an environmental condition determined from the environmental information, wirelessly to a communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

The present disclosure provides a core module and an earphone. The core module comprises a housing, a battery assembly, and a driving assembly. The housing is provided with a first accommodation space and a second accommodation space. The battery assembly is accommodated in the first accommodation space along a first preset assembly direction. The driving assembly is accommodated in the second accommodation space along a second preset assembly direction. The first preset assembly direction and the second preset assembly direction are provided at an acute angle. A first limiting portion is disposed in the first accommodation space. A projection of the first limiting portion on a cross section perpendicular to the first preset assembly direction does not overlap with a projection of the battery assembly on the cross section perpendicular to the first preset assembly direction. The first limiting portion is configured to limit a position of the battery assembly.