161results about "Intra aural earpieces" patented technology

Provided is an earphone. The earphone includes a core module and a hook-like structure connected to the core module. The core module has a connecting end connected to the hook-like structure and a free end not connected to the hook-like structure. The core module is located on a front side of an ear in a wearing state and the free end extends into a cavum conchae of the ear. At least a portion of the hook-like structure is located on a rear side of the ear in the wearing state, and the core module and the hook-like structure jointly clamp an ear region corresponding to the cavum conchae from a front side and a rear side of the ear region, which increases the resistance against the earphone falling off the ear, thereby improving the stability of the earphone during wear.

A method for audio processing performed by an electronic device is provided. The method includes detecting at least one of a first voice activity near a first device and a second voice activity near a second device using a voice recognition module associated with the first device, comparing the first voice activity and the second voice activity to determine whether the first voice activity and the second voice activity exceed a predetermined threshold, and outputting the at least one of the first voice activity or the second voice activity through the second device in response to determining that the first voice activity and the second voice activity exceed the predetermined threshold.

Techniques and apparatuses are described that perform gesture-based control using active acoustic sensing. By transmitting and receiving acoustic signals, a hearable can recognize changes in an acoustic circuit to perform gesture recognition. Gesture recognition involves recognizing a muscle-based gesture and / or an object-based gesture. With gesture recognition, the hearable can support a voice-free and / or hands-free user interface that enables the user to control an operation of the hearable or a computing device that is coupled to the hearable. This voice-free and / or hands-free user interface can provide a discreet and socially acceptable means of controlling an electronic device in a variety of different environments. It can also provide additional accessibility for people with various disabilities or physical restrictions.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first portable audio device may receive battery information that indicates a second battery status of a second portable audio device. The first portable audio device may scan for access points (APs) based at least in part on: a strength of an audio signal from a user equipment (UE) not satisfying a signal threshold, and one or more of a first battery status of the first portable audio device or the second battery status. The first portable audio device may select an AP based at least in part on a result of the scanning. The first portable audio device may transmit first AP information for the AP to the second portable audio device. The first portable audio device may receive the audio signal from the UE via the AP. Numerous other aspects are described.

A wearing detection method, a wearable device, and a storage medium are provided. When the wearable device does not play audio and obtains a first audio signal captured by the microphone, the wearable device outputs a second audio signal by using the speaker, obtains a third audio signal captured by the microphone, obtains a signal feature of the third audio signal, and determines a wearing status of the wearable device based on the signal feature of the third audio signal. In this way, the wearing status of the wearable device can be determined by outputting the second audio signal and performing feature analysis on the corresponding input third audio signal, without a need of an additional sensor, thereby reducing sensor stacking.

An in-ear hearing protection device is provided. The in-ear hearing protection device includes a microphone (410) configured to receive an ambient sound. The in-ear hearing protection device also includes a processor (420) configured to perform an attenuation function on the received ambient sound to provide an attenuated sound. The in-ear hearing protection device also includes a speaker (440) configured to broadcast the attenuated sound. The in-ear hearing protection device also includes a communication module (430) configured to receive a second attenuation function detail from a second in-ear protection device. The processor is configured to calculate a first attenuation function detail and compare the first and second attenuation function details. The performed attenuation function is based on one of the first and second attenuation function details.

An ear tip assembly structure includes a housing, a sound guide tube, and an elastic support. The sound guide tube is disposed inside the housing and extends out of the housing. The elastic support is disposed inside the sound guide tube and includes a snap fastener and an elastic arm. The elastic arm is connected to the snap fastener and is bent in a horizontal direction. The snap fastener extends out of the sound guide tube to engage with an ear tip.

The ear cap and the earphone are disclosed. The ear cap is applied to the earphone. The earphone has an earphone body. The earphone body has a sound outlet pipe. The sound outlet pipe has a sound passage. An end of the sound outlet pipe is provided with a sound outlet hole in communication with the sound passage. The ear cap comprises a main body and a noise reduction part. The main body has a containing cavity and a sound outlet passage in communication with the containing cavity. The sound outlet passage is used for communicating with the sound outlet hole of the sound outlet pipe. At least part of the noise reduction part is located in the containing cavity. The outer diameter of the noise reduction part is arranged to be reduced along the sound outlet direction. A noise reduction cavity is formed between the outer side wall of the noise reduction part and the inner side wall of the main body. The ear cap adopts the double sealing structure of the main body combined with the noise reduction part. The thickness of the ear cap can be greatly improved. The ear cap has good noise reduction performance. The noise from the outside can be effectively prevented from penetrating into the ear canal through the ear cap.

An in-ear device (IED) of a wearable system captures audio data from within the ear canal of a user indicative of the user's heartbeat. The IED when worn occludes the user's ear canal, causing amplification of low frequency sounds due to the occlusion effect, and improving the ability of the acoustic sensor to detect the user's heartbeat sounds. The wearable system classifies the audio data to identify portions of the audio data corresponding to a first heart sound and a second heart sound, which correspond to different portions of the heartbeat of the user. The wearable system estimates a blood pressure level of the user based upon the identified heart sounds.

Disclosed is an antenna apparatus including a radio frequency (RF) antenna, a magnetic induction (MI) antenna disposed within the RF antenna, and electronic circuitry to receive and process audio received from at least one of the RF antenna and MI antenna.

A housing including an arrangement space therein and in which an insertion hole communicating with the arrangement space is formed; a control circuit board arranged in the arrangement space; an operation button including a pressed portion having a front surface formed as a pressed surface to be pressed when the operation button is operated and an engagement protrusion protruding from the pressed portion and inserted into the insertion hole; and a flexible printed wiring board on which an antenna pattern is formed are provided, and the flexible printed wiring board is attached to a back surface of the pressed portion.

To provide earphones with superior noise cancellation accuracy compared to conventional models. [Solution] The earphone comprises an earphone body having a housing in which a speaker unit is incorporated, and an earpiece attached to a roughly cylindrical sound conduit protruding from the housing. The sound conduit has, as separate spaces from each other, sound emission holes for releasing sound emitted from the speaker unit to the earpiece, and a microphone housing for housing a noise-canceling microphone.

The present disclosure discloses an earphone including a sound production component and a suspension structure. A first sound guiding hole and a second sound guiding hole are disposed on the sound production component, wherein the first sound guiding hole is configured to guide a first sound transmitted to an inside of an ear canal of a user; the second sound guiding hole is configured to communicate an inside of the sound production component with an outside of the sound production component and guide a second sound transmitted to a spatial position outside the sound production component. The suspension structure is configured to place the sound production component on an ear of the user and provide an opening between the sound production component and an opening of the ear canal of the user for acoustic communication with the spatial position outside the sound production component.

Embodiments herein relate to ear-wearable devices. In an embodiment, an ear-wearable device is included having a housing is included having an aperture end; and an ear canal end defining an acoustic outlet; a receiver within the housing; an acoustic tube between the receiver and the acoustic outlet; a foreign material barrier disposed over a portion of the acoustic tube; and a tip portion disposed at the ear canal end, wherein the tip portion is configured to move between a first position and a second position; wherein a movement of the tip portion from the first position to the second position is configured to move foreign material in a direction away from the acoustic tube. Other embodiments are also included herein.

The present disclosure relates to an acoustic device, including a sound output unit and a suspension structure. In a wearing state, a sound outlet hole is provided on an inner side surface of a housing of the sound output unit, and one or more pressure relief holes are provided on other side surfaces. On a reference plane parallel or tangent to a side surface where an effective vent port of each of the one or more pressure relief hole is located, the effective vent port o has a first projection, and the sound outlet hole has a second projection. The first projection defines a plurality of first feature line segments that are perpendicular to the inner side surface, two endpoints of each of the plurality of first feature line segments are located on a contour of the first projection, and the plurality of first feature line segments are parallel to each other. For each of the plurality of first feature line segments, an endpoint of the two endpoints that is farther from the second projection is defined as a reference point. The plurality of reference points of the plurality of first feature line segments include a first reference point and a second reference point, a distance from the first reference point to the second projection is less than a distance from the second reference point to the second projection, the plurality of first feature line segments include a first sub-line segment and a second sub-line segment, the first sub-line segment passes through the first reference point, the second sub-line segment passes through the second reference point, the first sub-line segment has a first length, the second sub-line segment has a second length, and the first length is less than the second length.

A wind noise reduction system is provided, including a beamformer, a comparator, and an audio mixer. The beamformer may be an MVDR beamformer and generates a beamformed signal based on a first microphone signal and a second microphone signal. The comparator generates a comparison signal based on the beamformed signal and the wind microphone signal. The comparison signal may be further based on a beamformed energy level of the beamformed signal and a wind energy level of the wind microphone signal. The audio mixer generates an output audio signal based on the beamformed signal, the wind microphone signal, and the comparison signal. The wind noise reduction system may further include a wind microphone corresponding to the wind microphone signal. The wind microphone may be located in a portion of a wearable audio device configured to sit on the wearer's concha.

Techniques described herein generally relate to generating an audio signal with a speaker. In some examples, a speaker device is described that includes a membrane and a shutter and driver device is configured to receive an audio signal, modulate it and generate electric signals to operate the speaker and generate an acoustic audio signal.

The present disclosure provides an earphone. The earphone includes a sound generation portion including a first housing, a second housing, and a speaker assembly. The speaker assembly includes an annular support assembly and two sets of vibration assemblies. The two sets of vibration assemblies respectively include protrusion portions protruding beyond the annular support assembly along an axial direction and arranged opposite to each other. The speaker assembly cooperates with the first housing and the second housing to form two first acoustic cavities around two protrusion portions. The annular support assembly has a middle dividing plane perpendicular to the axial direction, and the first housing is provided with two pressure relief holes spaced apart from each other on two sides of the middle dividing plane and respectively connect the corresponding first acoustic cavities with an external environment.

A controller for providing inputs to an interactive application includes a first surface with a pair of slots to store earbuds, a plurality of control buttons and touch input surfaces defined on one or more surfaces including the first surface. A processor is configured to pair the controller to a computing device executing the interactive application and is coupled to each of the slots so as to pair the earbuds received therein to the controller and to share the pairing between the controller and the computing device with the earbuds received in the pair of slots.

To provide earphones that more effectively prevent foreign objects from entering the housing and extend the maintenance cycle. [Solution] The earphone comprises an earphone body and an earpiece attached to the earphone body. The earphone body has a housing in which a speaker unit is incorporated, and a substantially cylindrical sound conduit protruding from the housing and having a sound-emitting hole for releasing sound emitted from the speaker unit to the earpiece. An annular recess is provided at the protruding end of the sound conduit, formed by expanding the inner diameter of the sound conduit, and a dustproof sheet is provided in the annular recess, having a first opening that communicates with the sound-emitting hole.

Embodiments disclosed herein include headphone devices with spatially diverse antennas employing multiple operational modes and antenna switching policies. The headphone device may identify a current mode of operation and wirelessly communicate with at least one external device based at least in part on the current mode of operation. Further, operating in a first mode of operation, the headphone device may cause switching circuitry to selectively couple a first antenna to the common port in accordance with a first antenna switching policy. While operating in the second mode of operation, the headphone device may cause circuitry to selectively couple a second antenna to the common port in accordance with a second antenna switching policy that is different from the first antenna switching policy.

An earbud includes a speaker, a communication circuit, multiple microphones, an acceleration sensor, and at least one processor. The earbud is configured to receive, from an external electronic device, a first data signal for identifying at least one filter among multiple filters for audio data output from the multiple microphones. The earbud is configured to identify at least one microphone for mono recording among the multiple microphones based on reception of the first data signal. The earbud is configured to obtain voice data by applying a filter for the mono recording among the multiple filters to a voice signal received from the at least one microphone. The earbud is configured to transmit a second data signal indicating the voice data to the external electronic device.

The earphone includes a sound generation component including a transducer; at least a portion of the sound generation component extending into a concha cavity of a user; and an ear hook including a first portion and a second portion, the second portion being connected to the first portion, and being connected to the sound generation component to place the sound generation component at a position near an ear canal without blocking an opening of the ear canal. The sound generation component has a first projection on a sagittal plane, and the auricle has a second projection on the sagittal plane. A centroid of the first projection may have a first distance from a highest point of the second projection in a vertical axis direction. A ratio of the first distance to a height of the second projection in the vertical axis direction may be in a range of 0.35-0.6.

The present disclosure relates to an acoustic output apparatus. The acoustic output apparatus may include an earphone core including at least one acoustic driver for outputting sound though one or more sound guiding holes set on the acoustic output apparatus, a controller configured to cause the at least one acoustic driver to output sound, a power source assembly configured to provide electrical power to the earphone core, the one or more sensors, and the controller, and an interactive control component configured to allow an interaction between a user and the acoustic output apparatus.

Techniques and apparatuses are described for receiving multiple audio streams from multiple audio sources. In an example aspect, a hearable (102-1) receives different audio streams (108), which are respectively transmitted by different audio sources (118). Due to bandwidth limitations, the hearable (102) receives at least two of the multiple audio streams (108) using at least two different wireless communication channels (404). With a first wireless communication channel (404-1), the hearable (102-1) receives a first audio stream (108-1) directly from a first audio source (118-1). With a second wireless communication channel (404-2), the hearable (102-1) receives a second audio stream (108-2), which is forwarded by another device (402) from a second audio source (118-2). To further free up bandwidth or temporal resources on the first wireless communication channel (404-1), the hearable (102-1) can perform general overhead operations with a second hearable (102-2) using the wireless second communication channel (404‑2).

The present disclosure relates to an in-the-ear (ITE) part (1) configured for placement at least partially within an ear canal of the user, the ITE part (1) comprising: a connector (21) configured for coupling to a BTE part configured to be worn behind a pinna of a user, and a hollow earmould (3) comprising: a front end (5), a rear end (7), and a hollow cavity (23), the earmould being configured for the front end (5) to be positioned facing a tympanic membrane of the user during use, the front end (5) comprising a front opening (9), the front opening (9) comprising a front filter (15), and the rear end (7) comprising a rear opening (10), the ITE part (1) further comprising: a receiver (11) arranged in the hollow cavity (23), a sound passage extending between the front opening (9) and the rear end (7), and configured to allow for fluid connection between the front opening (9) and an exterior of the hollow earmould (3), an active vent (13) comprising a valve, the valve being positioned at the front end (5) and the active vent being configured to have an open state and a closed state, wherein the valve, in the open state, provides a fluid connection through the sound passage, wherein the valve, in the closed state, hinders fluid connection through the sound passage, and a rear filter (17) arranged at the rear opening, or in the hollow cavity and in-between the rear opening and the valve of the active vent.

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for automatic correction of real ear measurements (REMs). A sound signal is produced through a receiver of a hearing device, and a sound pressure signal is sensed using a microphone placed inside the ear canal. The sound pressure signal is transformed to obtain a frequency response signal, a local minimum of the frequency response signal is detected above a programmable frequency level, and a spectral flatness of the frequency response signal is calculated in a selected frequency band surrounding the local minimum. If the spectral flatness is greater than a selected threshold value, acoustic correction is applied to the frequency response in the selected frequency band using an estimated transfer function to obtain a corrected sound pressure frequency response. The corrected sound pressure frequency response is used to modify, or make a recommendation to modify, a physical or operational characteristic of the hearing device.

An earpiece-type electrode (1) to be inserted into an external auditory canal (2) includes a first truncated-cone wall portion (11) and a second truncated-cone wall portion (12) each formed of electrically conductive rubber and each having a substantially truncated-cone shape. The first truncated-cone wall portion (11) includes a first axial end portion (11a), and a second axial end portion (11b) larger in diameter than the first axial end portion (11a). The second truncated-cone wall portion (12) is larger in size than the first truncated-cone wall portion (11), and is arranged coaxially with the first truncated-cone wall portion (11). The second truncated-cone wall portion (12) includes a third axial end portion (12a) connected to the second axial end portion, and a fourth axial end portion (12b) larger in diameter than the third axial end portion (12a).