542 results about "Human ear" patented technology

An apparatus for enabling a user to control a machine, perform a procedure, interface with a predetermined object and monitor conditions. The apparatus includes a device which is fastened to at least one of the ear and the portion of skin adjacent the ear of the user. The device includes a sensing mechanism engageable with at least one of a human ear and a portion of skin adjacent the ear for at least one of identifying characteristics of a user and detecting removal of the sensing mechanism from the user. A control assembly is provided with a first portion mounted within the device and with the second portion mounted in a remote location. A transmitting mechanism is connected to the sensing mechanism for sending at least one signal to the predetermined object at least one of periodically, sporadically and continuously containing data gathered by the sensing mechanism.

A finite element model of an ear stored on a computer readable medium having logic representing a three-dimensional geometric model of the ear; logic for meshing individual anatomical structures of the ear accounting for whether the anatomical structures include at least one of air, liquid material and solid material; logic for assigning material properties for each anatomical structure based on at least one physical property of each anatomical structure; logic for assigning boundary conditions for some of the anatomical structures indicative of interaction between such anatomical structures; and logic for employing acoustic-structural coupled analysis to the anatomical structures of the ear to generate data indicative of the acoustic effect on mechanical vibration transmission in the ear. Various embodiments of “one-chamber” and “two-chamber” analyses and models are described.

A cabin communication system for improving clarity of a voice spoken within an interior cabin having ambient noise includes a microphone for receiving the spoken voice and the ambient noise and for converting the spoken voice and the ambient noise into an audio signal, the audio signal having a first component corresponding to the spoken voice and a second component corresponding to the ambient noise, a speech enhancement filter for removing the second component from the audio signal to provide a filtered audio signal, the speech enhancement filter removing the second component by processing the audio signal by a method taking into account elements of psycho-acoustics of a human ear, and a loudspeaker for outputting a clarified voice in response to the filtered audio signal.

Integrated processing of multimedia signals can eliminate unnecessary signal processors and converters without losing the functionality of typical home entertainment system components. The integrated multimedia system includes a main player that captures and processes signals digitally. The main player may adjust the audio signal to provide audio output of equal loudness across all frequencies by accounting for sensitivity of the human ear for sounds of varying frequencies. The main player can also account for perceived differences in loudness based on the angle of a listener to a speaker by detecting the position of a user and making an adjustment accordingly. The invention further provides a speaker that has embedded performance characteristics or an identifier that allows the system to provide an optimal speaker driving current for a particular system or determine how that speaker would be best implemented in the integrated system.

An implantable joint prosthesis configured such that it does not squeak during movements of a subject. The joint prosthesis includes a means to modify the dynamic response of parts of the prosthesis such the response is not audible to the human ear.

The present invention teaches a wireless ear-piece headset forming an antenna with the interior of a human ear, especially the ear canal. An antenna in operative connection with such interior of such human ear greatly improves reception and transmission of the device. The antenna may be comprised of a conductive plastic forming the lower body of the ear-piece headset, a sound tube projecting from the body or only a part thereof. The antenna may form an efficient capacitive connection with the body or may form a direct electrical connection. The wireless ear-piece headset comprises a headset body; a microphone, a transceiver, a receiver and a battery within the headset body, and a sound tube projecting from the headset body. A mini-speaker disposed within the headset body passes sound from the mini-speaker out and into the interior of a human ear.

Techniques have been developed for transmitting and receiving information conveyed through the air from one portable device to another as a generally unperceivable coding within an otherwise recognizable acoustic signal. For example, in some embodiments in accordance with the present invention(s), information is acoustically communicated from a first handheld device toward a second by encoding the information in a signal that, when converted into acoustic energy at an acoustic transducer of the first handheld device, is characterized in that the acoustic energy is discernable to a human ear yet the encoding of the information therein is generally not perceivable by the human. The acoustic energy is transmitted from the acoustic transducer of the first handheld device toward the second handheld device across an air gap that constitutes a substantially entirety of the distance between the devices. Acoustic energy received at the second handheld device may then be processed using signal processing techniques tailored to detection of the particular information encodings employed.

A soft-solid ear piece is formed to fit the typical human ear canal and will self form to fill the ear cavity by having an internal structure, endoskeleton, or bladder to expand to precisely fit the ear piece securely and comfortably in the ear canal. This self forming ear piece will enable ready-ware and custom molded hearing aids, hearing protectors, audio ear pieces, cell phone ear pieces and assistive listening devices to fit comfortably, securely, and free of acoustic feedback in the external ear canal. It creates an acoustic seal to optimally reduce peripheral leakage and intermodulation distortion delivering excellent acoustic performance while keeping environmental sounds blocked out.

An earset communication device capable of reliably suppressing transmission of microvibration to a microphone part. The earset communication device of the present invention is an earset communication device 1 attached to a human ear, which has a main body 2, a sound guide part 3 where a sound guide housing 3a protruding from the main body 2 is attached to the cavum conchae 61, and a microphone part 4 where a microphone housing 4a protruding from the main body 2 in continuously to the sound guide housing 3a in a fork shape is inserted into the cavum conchae in contact therewith. The main body 2 has a speaker 11. The sound guide part 3 has a sound guide tube 12 for guiding the sound output from the speaker 11 to the cavum conchae 61 in the sound guide housing 3a. The microphone part 4 has a bone conduction microphone 30 in the microphone housing 4a.

The invention discloses a voice enhancing method based on a multiresolution auditory cepstrum system and a deep convolutional neural network. The voice enhancing method comprises the following steps:firstly, establishing new characteristic parameters, namely multiresolution auditory cepstrum coefficient (MR-GFCC), capable of distinguishing voice from noise; secondly, establishing a self-adaptivemasking threshold on based on ideal soft masking (IRM) and ideal binary masking (IBM) according to noise variations; further training an established seven-layer neural network by using new extracted characteristic parameters and first/second derivatives thereof and the self-adaptive masking threshold as input and output of the deep convolutional neural network (DCNN); and finally enhancing noise-containing voice by using the self-adaptive masking threshold estimated by the DCNN. By adopting the method, the working mechanism of human ears is sufficiently utilized, voice characteristic parameters simulating a human ear auditory physiological model are disposed, and not only is a relatively great deal of voice information maintained, but also the extraction process is simple and feasible.

A method of converting electrical signals into mechanical vibration by means of a transducer in the human ear, an ear canal transducer and a headset wherein a sensation of hearing is achieved by exciting the tissue of the ear canal directly with said transducer, whereby the vibrations propagate to the tympanic membrane and into the human sound sensing organs.

The invention provides a screen sounding system which comprises a screen and exciters glued to the screen and used for driving the screen to sound. The screen sounding system further comprises a control device and a detection sensing device which is used for detecting the noise amplitude of an external environment and the positions of human ears and is electrically connected with the control device. At least two exciters are coupled to the screen, and the at least two exciters are electrically connected with the control device. According to the screen sounding system of the invention, at least two exciters are glued to the screen, and the control device decides whether the exciters work or simultaneously work according to the noise amplitude of external environment and the positions of the human ears, detected by the detection sensing device, which enables higher call loudness and higher call quality to be obtained no matter where the human ears are located.

The invention relates to a robust ear detection method which improves an AdaBoost arithmetic and belongs to the technical field of image mode identifying. The invention is characterized by proposing an ear detection method with excellent performances under a complex underground. The invention proposes four anisomerous Haar-like corner characteristics which are used for describing the grayscale changes on the partial areas of the ears; a policy of subsection selection is adopted for selecting the best sorting threshold of the Haar-like characteristics, thus reducing the sample training time; the weight of a weak sorter is modified for reducing the mistaken detection rate of the sorter; the threshold HW is set and eliminated according to the distribution change of the sample weight in the training, thereby preventing an over-studying phenomenon from being generated and leading the miss-detection rate and the mistaken direction rate of the ear detection to be reduced; besides, the invention also provides a single-ear detection policy for leading both the defection efficiency and the detection effect to be improved. The excellent performances of the robust ear detection method are shown on a PC machine and a DSP.

At least one exemplary embodiment is directed toward an earpiece with a sealing section for acoustically sealing the meatus of a human ear, which includes an inner ear canal speaker; an inner ear canal microphone; connected to a logic circuit which can include a digital signal processor (DSP), where the sealing section touches a portion of the ear canal to substantially acoustically seal the meatus of a human ear canal.

An earphone adapted to fit within a human ear that generates sound via the propagation of one or more diaphragms aligned to fit the structure and shape of the earphone. The earphone allows ambient sound to pass through the device in order to be heard by the user. The earphone includes a variety of sensors adapted to characterize the surrounding acoustic environment and actively negate undesired sounds by generating a cancelling signal specific to the undesired sound or sounds. The earphone allows users to select particular sounds to cancel or to negate all of the surrounding noise. The earphone itself can be used to characterize repetitive environmental sounds that are predictable by the system. Additionally, the earphone can be used in conjunction with a buffering device in communication with a source of non-repetitive, unpredictable sounds in order to characterize and negate those sounds.

The invention discloses a method and a device for realizing on-site mobile payment by using an audio signal. The device comprises a collection client unit, a payment service unit and a payment client unit, wherein the collection client unit is arranged on a cashier terminal of a collection party; the payment service unit is arranged in a payment service system of a payment server; and the payment client unit is arranged on a mobile phone of a payment party. The mobile phone of the payment party is connected with the payment server through the Internet or the mobile Internet, and when data is transmitted, the safety of a channel is ensured by an asymmetrical encryption method. The cashier terminal of the collection party is connected with the payment server through the Internet or the mobile Internet, and when the data is transmitted, the safety of a channel is ensured by the asymmetrical encryption method. The cashier terminal of the collection party transmits the audio signal through a loudspeaker, and transmits transaction information to the mobile phone of the payment party, wherein the audio signal within the frequency range of 16 to 22kHz cannot be perceived by human ears, but can be processed by the loudspeakers and microphones of the mobile terminal and the cashier terminal.

The invention provides a decoding method of an audio signal. The encoding method includes the following steps: when the audio signal corresponding to the received coding stream switched from the relatively wide bandwidth to the relatively narrow bandwidth, low band signal component of the audio signal is obtained and high band information is extended; the time-varying fade-out treatment is carried out to extended high band information to obtain processed high band information component; the processed high band information component and the low band signal component are combined. By the method provided by the embodiment of the invention, when the audio signal switches from the wide band to narrow band, a series of treatments, such as bandwidth detection, manual band spreading, time-varying fade-out treatment and bandwidth combination are available to realize smoothing switch from a wide band signal to a narrow band signal, thus achieving a more comfortable auditory feeling of human ears.

A system for audio content delivery to an in-the-ear device from a local computing device. Also, a system for audio content delivery to an in-the-ear device from a content delivery network. The in-the-ear device is sized and shaped such that it universally and ergonomically fits into the human ear without slipping out and provides the user with a comfortable fit. The in-the-ear device is secured in the user's ear taking advantage of the natural curvature of the human to provide support and shift the center of gravity from outside the ear to further inside the pinna to prevent the device from slipping out while retaining a high level of comfort.

A multisound-channel device of bone conduction is prepared as using multisound-path oscillator or delay module to make stereo sound-channel effect, enabling to place said device at any position of human head to let said device contact closely with bone skin for transmitting acoustic wave signal to human ear from different orientations separately to form stereo function with multi-sound channel or convert voice to be voice signal by utilizing bone conduction principle through bone skin at different positions.

The invention discloses a method for intelligently controlling multimedia playing, which is characterized in that: an earphone is provided with a pulse-detecting sensor, which generates a signal every time one pulse is detected and then transmits the signal to a mobile terminal; and an option for a sleep mode is set at the mobile terminal, when the sleep mode is selected, the mobile terminal acquires real-time heart rate of the user based on the pulse times detected by the sensor within unit time and controls own multimedia playing after determining that the user falls asleep according to the change of the heart rates prior to and subsequent to the sleep of the user. The invention simultaneously discloses a system and an earphone for intelligently controlling multimedia playing; according to the proposal of the invention, multimedia playing can be precisely and intelligently stopped once the user falls asleep, thus the harm of the multimedia playing earphone to human ears during sleep is reduced, the sleeping quality of the user is enhanced, the standby time of the mobile terminal is prolonged, and simultaneously, health information can also be provided for the user in real-time.

The invention discloses a device and a method for eliminating environmental noise. The method comprises the following steps: respectively mounting two paths of microphones in different positions of amobile communication terminal and respectively receiving uplink signals; when an uplink voice signal is transmitted, effectively eliminating the uplink environmental noise signal by an uplink noise inhibiting module so that the counterpart can hear a local part clearly; when a downlink voice signal is transmitted, converting the extracted environmental noise signal into a reverse environmental noise signal; overlying the reverse environmental noise signal and the downlink signal and then outputting; in the process of outputting an output signal to the human ears, mutually canceling the environmental noise signal at the periphery of the human ears and the reverse environmental noise signal in the output signal so that the human ears only receive the downlink signal; and effectively eliminating the influence of the environmental noise on the hearing effect of the local part, thereby ensuring that the local part can hear the counterpart clearly.