5531results about "Microphones" patented technology

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.

Systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for generating a common record based on differing source inputs. Generating a common record based on differing source inputs may include receiving via at least one sensor first non-audible signals indicative of verbalization of an individual; interpreting first words of the individual at least in part using the first non-audible signals received from the at least one sensor; receiving second signals generated by a source other than the individual; performing speech recognition on the second signals to interpret second words from the source; and using the first words and the second words to generate a record.

The present disclosure provides an earphone comprising a housing assembly, a speaker, and an ear hook assembly. The housing assembly includes a first accommodating cavity and a connecting portion that is provided with a socket extending along a first direction. The first accommodating cavity and a first channel and a second channel included in the socket are sequentially connected. A first abutment surface is disposed at transition between the first and second channels. The first abutment surface is inclined to the first direction. The ear hook assembly includes a first connecting end that includes a plug portion. The plug portion is inserted into the socket and includes a second abutment surface and an annular surface. The second abutment surface is inclined to the first direction and faces the first abutment surface. The annular surface extends from an inner edge of the second abutment surface toward the first abutment surface.

An acoustic output device is provided. The acoustic output device includes a housing; a bone conduction vibrator configured to generate bone conduction sound waves and transmit the bone conduction sound waves to a cochlea through the housing to produce sound; an air conduction vibrator configured to generate air conduction sound waves, the air conduction sound waves being transmitted to an ear through sound guiding holes in the housing; and a processing module configured to provide the bone conduction vibrator and the air conduction vibrator with a first audio signal and a second audio signal, respectively, the first audio signal and the second audio signal having a frequency division point, the first audio signal and the second audio signal including components with frequencies above and below the frequency division point, respectively. The frequency division point is not less than 600 Hz.

A computer-implemented system and method for pupil-directed retinal projection in near-eye displays are disclosed. The computer-implemented system provides smart glasses with directed physical pixels that project light beams / signals directly onto a user's retina based on pupil position and size. The glasses comprise a frame, lenses with directed pixel layers, and sensors for tracking pupil movement. Each directed pixel may generate multiple virtual pixels by rapidly changing its emission angle. The glasses function as prescription lenses, virtual reality displays, and augmented reality devices without traditional optical systems. Additional features include depth sensors, cameras, and connectivity to peripheral devices. The glasses enable a seamless blend of virtual and real-world experiences, creating an immersive “Mixverse” environment. Various input methods, including gesture recognition and brain-computer interfaces, allow for intuitive control and interaction.

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.

A headphone apparatus and methods of operation for bone conduction headphones with push-to-talk operation is disclosed. The headphone apparatus is capable of wireless communication and can be communicatively coupled to one or more machines. The push-to-talk feature of the headphone apparatus enables transmissions / messages from the headphone apparatus to the one or more communicatively coupled machines. The push-to-talk feature of the headphone apparatus can also enable push-to-talk operation of the one or more communicatively coupled machines. The headphone apparatus is configured to be received by a charging case. The charging case is configured to enable wireless charging and / or wired charging of the headphone. The charging case is configured to be received by a charging cradle.

An air-pulse generating device includes a film structure including a first flap and a second flap opposite to each other. The film structure is actuated to operate at an ultrasonic frequency, and the air-pulse generating device produces a plurality of air pulses at an ultrasonic pulse rate. The first flap and the second flap are actuated to perform a differential movement to form an opening or a virtual valve. A slit is formed between the first flap and the second flap, and the opening or the virtual valve is formed because of the slit. The slit is formed as a zigzagging pattern on the film structure.

A device capable of using image data for purposes of determining a location of a user and audio beam selection to isolate audio in the direction of the user. The beamforming / beam-steering may occur after determining the user's location in order to conserve computing resources that would otherwise have been spent determining beams for non-desired directions. The beamformed audio may be used for speech processing, a communication session involving the device, or other purposes.

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 controller configured to control a sound producing module includes a volume controlling unit configured to determine a demodulation amplitude and a modulation amplitude corresponding to a target volume. The sound producing module comprises a driving circuit and an air-pulse generating device. The driving circuit generates a demodulation driving signal according to the demodulation amplitude and generates a modulation driving signal according to the modulation amplitude, so as to drive the air-pulse generating device. The air-pulse generating device produces sound via generating a plurality of air pulses at an ultrasonic pulse rate.

A method of making an acoustic sensor includes forming or providing a mold having one or more grooves extending in a direction of the length of the mold to a distal end of the mold. The method also includes forming or depositing a structure having one or more piezoelectric layers over the top surface of the mold to define a beam with a proximal portion and a distal portion, the distal portion having a corrugated section including one or more grooves that correspond to the one or more grooves of the mold. The method also includes forming or applying an electrode to the proximal portion of the structure and releasing the structure from the mold to form one or more cantilever beams. The corrugated section inhibits bending of the corrugated section along the length of the distal portion of the structure when the acoustic sensor is subjected to sound pressure.

A logarithmic amplifier includes programmable gain amplifiers each having a different gain, wherein an input of each of the programmable gain amplifiers is coupled to an input of the logarithmic amplifier; and a summing circuit having inputs coupled to a corresponding output of each of the programmable gain amplifiers and an output coupled to an output of the logarithmic amplifier, wherein the summing circuit generates a logarithmic transfer function having piecewise linear segments.

Various embodiments of an ear-wearable electronic device are disclosed. The device includes a housing having a top shell and a bottom shell, a microphone disposed within the housing, and an acoustic path disposed at least partially within the housing and extending between an acoustic port disposed at an outer surface of the housing and an outlet disposed within the housing that acoustically couples the acoustic path to an inlet of the microphone. The device further includes an acoustic filter disposed at least partially within an inner surface of the top shell and includes a neck and a resonance cavity acoustically coupled to the neck. The acoustic filter is acoustically coupled to the acoustic path via the neck. Further, the acoustic filter is configured to reduce an intensity of acoustic waves sensed by the microphone in a first frequency range.

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.

The air-pulse generating device comprises a film structure, operating at an ultrasonic operating frequency, and a resonant chamber, formed on a side of the film structure. A resonance is formed within the resonance chamber. Due to the resonant chamber, the APG device has a peak on a frequency response of an acoustic property of the APG device at the ultrasonic operating frequency.

The invention relates to the technical field of earphone noise reduction processing, and discloses a motorcycle riding earphone noise reduction method combining different noise reduction algorithms, comprising the following steps: acquiring an original audio signal, and distributing the original audio signal to each processing module; a preprocessing signal is generated, voice activity information is determined, and environmental noise energy information is calculated; according to the environmental noise energy or the auxiliary information, adaptively adjusting a high-low noise energy threshold value; the original signals are input into the traditional and AI noise reduction module in parallel to generate two paths of noise reduction signals; based on the environment noise, the voice information and the threshold value, performing weighted fusion to generate an output signal; and carrying out equalization and compression processing on the output signal, and driving the loudspeaker to output. According to the invention, comprehensive judgment on environmental noise energy information, voice activity information and riding speed is introduced, an output signal of a traditional noise reduction module is set to be zero in a high-speed voice-free environment, and AI noise reduction is combined, so that tone quality distortion of a traditional noise reduction algorithm in a noise environment is effectively avoided.

A method of operating a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) includes, in a first operational mode, converting an analog output of the MEMS into a first internal data stream and a first external data stream having a first sampling rate; transitioning from the first operational mode to a second operation mode without restarting the MEMS; and in the second operational mode, converting the analog output of the MEMS into a second internal data stream having a second sampling rate different from the first sampling rate, and performing a sampling rate conversion of the second internal data stream to generate a second external data stream.

A wall-mounted audio device is provided, including: a display component; a wall-mounted box body, wherein a front panel is provided with a rim region and a display region; the display component is arranged in the display region; a rear panel of the wall-mounted box body is provided with a wall connector; a speaker module, arranged inside the wall-mounted box body a sound output end of the speaker module faces the sound outlet hole; and an mesh. The mesh is detachably connected to the front panel of the wall-mounted box body. The display component is a liquid crystal display screen. The speaker module includes a speaker module housing and one or more transducers designed on the speaker module housing. The speaker module housing is provided with a bass enhancement port. The rear panel of the wall-mounted box body is provided with a wire receiving slot.

To provide headphones with an improved noise canceling function and the like.Headphones include a headband, a housing, an ear pad attached to the housing, a hanger that supports the housing, and a slider that connects the hanger to an end portion of the headband. The headphones further include a microphone arranged at a place of the housing outside a movable range of the hanger. The housing includes a case that covers a movable range of the hanger. The hanger and the microphone are arranged in the same space formed in the housing on an outer peripheral side of the hanger.

An example MR headset is provided. The example MR headset comprises (i) a set of imaging sensors and (ii) a set of floodlight-emitting diodes (flood LEDs), the sets of imaging sensors and flood LEDs disposed along a front-facing portion of the MR headset. The MR headset includes one or more processors configured to, while the MR headset is being caused to present MR content, and in accordance with a determination that imaging data obtained from the set of imaging sensors has an insufficient level of detail to identify hand gestures, cause illumination, using one or more flood LEDs of the set of flood LEDs, of a volume of physical space that includes the hand of the user.

A loudspeaker system and method can measure a specific user's hearing and implement compensatory or corrective processing to address the user's hearing deficiencies. The user's hearing acuity may be determined by (i) headphone techniques in which frequency-based hearing thresholds are determined; (ii) a loudspeaker system set up as intended for use in an acoustic space to emit tonal stimuli; or (iii) inducing, acquiring, and interpreting otoacoustic emissions. Once the hearing profile is determined, appropriate signal processing parameters can be used to generate a corrected audio output signal adjustment. The administered hearing test results can include a plurality of hearing loudness threshold levels at respective test frequencies. The hearing correction system's corrected audio output can be generated from corrected loudness values at selected correction frequency sub-bands.

A lamp module including a housing including a light holder portion and a shaft portion, the light holder portion configured to tilt relative to the shaft portion; an LED lamp board positioned within the light holder portion; a power supply driving module connected in electrical communication with the LED lamp board; and a first concentric terminal positioned at least partially within the shaft portion, the first concentric terminal connected in electrical communication with the power supply driving module, the first concentric terminal configured to rotatably connect in electrical communication with a second concentric terminal to supply power to the power supply driving module.

An audio processing method implemented by an electronic device includes entering a multi-channel video recording mode, detecting a shooting operation of a user, simultaneously recording, after detecting the shooting operation, a first video image and a second video image using a first camera and a second camera, and recording audio of a plurality of sound channels, where the audio includes panoramic audio, first audio corresponding to the first video image, and second audio corresponding to the second video image. The electronic device further records the first audio based on a feature value such as a zoom magnification corresponding to the first display area.

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.

The present disclosure discloses a loudspeaker apparatus. The loudspeaker apparatus may include a support connection member configured to contact with a user's head. The loudspeaker apparatus may include at least one loudspeaker assembly. The loudspeaker assembly may include an earphone core and a core housing configured to accommodate the earphone core. The core housing may be fixedly connected to the support connection member. At least one button module may be arranged on the core housing. The interior of the core housing may further include at least two microphones, and the at least two microphones may be arranged at a position different from a user's mouth. The loudspeaker apparatus may further include a control circuit or a battery accommodated in the support connection member. The control circuit or the battery may drive the earphone core to vibrate to generate sound.

The invention relates to the field of aviation voice signal processing, and discloses a voice recognition compensation pilot earphone hearing protection method and system, and the method comprises the following steps: collecting multi-modal data, and separating a sound source through tensor decomposition; inferring a pilot state by using a dynamic network; performing context recognition and semantic evaluation on the attention target voice; and finally, dynamically modulating the sound field based on deep reinforcement learning, enhancing the voice in a personalized manner, and outputting after noise suppression. The system comprises a multi-mode perception data acquisition module, a sound source decoupling module, a pilot state inference module, a voice processing and semantic evaluation module and a sound field modulation and output module. According to the invention, high-fidelity speech extraction is realized through multi-modal perception and tensor decomposition; evaluating priority key information in combination with attention and semantics; and deep reinforcement learning and model prediction control are adopted to dynamically optimize the sound field, so that the voice recognition accuracy and the pilot information acquisition efficiency are improved.