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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120082324 | VIBRATION EARPHONE The present invention relates to a vibration earphone that improves the efficiency of sound output from the earphone by outputting vibrations for the high sound frequency range through a mastoid and by simultaneously outputting vibrations for the low frequency range thr... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120020501 | DUAL EARPHONE USING BOTH BONE CONDUCTION AND AIR CONDUCTION Disclosed is an earphone set using both bone conduction and air conduction. The earphone set includes: a dual earphone which allows a user to selectively hear sounds from the front or rear side of the earphone set; a case cover provided at an end of the dual earphone; a... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20110319021 | INTRA-ORAL TISSUE CONDUCTION MICROPHONE Intra-oral tissue conduction microphone apparatus and methods are described for internal, but non-surgically installed microphones located in the oral cavity. An intra-oral tissue conduction microphone may be attached, adhered or integrated with a removable dental appli... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110301729 | SOUND SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR PROVIDING SOUND A sound system, the sound system including: (a) a signal processor that is adapted to generate a first sound signal and a second sound signal, to provide the first sound signal to a loudspeaker; and to provide the second sound signal to a bone conduction speaker; and (b... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110293105 | EARPIECE AND A METHOD FOR PLAYING A STEREO AND A MONO SIGNAL An earpiece for providing an audio signal to two ears of a user, includes an audio interface for providing the audio signal, a bone conduction speaker coupled to the audio interface for outputting an output signal, an adaptive filter with an adjustable impulse response ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110280416 | DENTAL BONE CONDUCTION HEARING APPLIANCE An intra-oral hearing appliance includes an actuator to provide bone conduction sound transmission; a transceiver coupled to the actuator to cause the actuator to generate sound; and a first chamber containing the actuator and the transceiver, said first chamber adapted... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110268303 | BONE CONDUCTION DEVICE HAVING LIMITED RANGE OF TRAVEL A bone conduction device configured to couple to an abutment of an anchor system anchored to a recipient's skull. The bone conduction device includes a housing and a vibrating actuator movably suspended in the housing and configured to vibrate in response to sound signa... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110249833 | PRENATAL SOUND DELIVERY SYSTEM A flexible band may be worn around the stomach of a pregnant woman. The band may have speakers safely and comfortably integrated therein to provide sound to prenatal babies. The speakers may connect to a mp3 player that may be stored in a pocket in the band.... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110207990 | Methods and Apparatus for Aligning Antennas of Low-Powered Intra - and Extra - Oral Electronic Wireless Devices The present invention relates generally to the design and optimal placement of transmitting and receiving directional antennas, a priori, as used in intra-oral to extra-oral (or visa versa) wireless electronic systems regardless of the type and purpose of the data trans... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110182447 | HUMAN BODY SOUND TRANSMISSION APPARATUS A provided a human body sound transmission apparatus includes: a processing unit processing an audio signal of an audio frequency band including data desired to be transmitted, an audio high frequency signal obtained by combining the audio signal and a first high freque... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110170718 | EAR-MUFF TYPE HEADSET FOR TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION It is an object of the invention to provide a headset for performing simultaneous two-way communication or alternate two-way communication, which has excellent sound insulating properties such that external noise is not possibly mixed even when used under high noise con... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110135106 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING SIGNALS A system for processing sound, the system including: (a) a processor, configured to process a first input signal that is detected by a first microphone at a detection moment, a second input signal that is detected by a second microphone at the detection moment, and a th... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110135120 | CUSTOM IN-EAR HEADSET A custom in-ear headset. The headset includes a housing having a proximate housing portion and a distant housing portion. The distant housing portion is shaped and sized to fit inside an ear canal of a user. The headset includes a miniature speaker that is acoustically ... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110123032 | SINGLE SOUND TRANSMISSION APPARATUS USING HUMAN BODY COMMUNICATON Provided is a single sound transmission apparatus using human body communication. The single sound transmission apparatus includes a sound signal generator generating a sound signal of an audio frequency band, a high frequency signal generator generating a high frequenc... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110116659 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AUDIO SIGNALS Various methods and apparatus for processing audio signals are disclosed herein. The assembly may be attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a removable oral appliance to form a hearing aid assembly. Such an oral appliance may be a custom-made device which... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110081031 | INTRAORAL APPLIANCE FOR SOUND TRANSMISSION VIA BONE CONDUCTION An intra-oral appliance for transmitting sound via bone conduction and optimized for comfort, safety, speech intelligibility, eating and drinking and extended wear by the user including an actuator to provide bone conduction sound transmission; a transceiver coupled to ... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110051960 | ACOUSTIC HEADSET This acoustic headset (2) comprises:
| 03/03/2011 |
| 20110033068 | HUMAN BODY SOUND TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MINIMIZING SIGNAL LOSS A human body sound transmission apparatus and method for minimizing a signal loss are disclosed. The human body sound transmission apparatus includes: an audio signal transmission unit modulating an audio signal desired to be transmitted, and transmitting the modulated ... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110026741 | HUMAN BODY SOUND TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING A PLURALITY OF SIGNALS There are provided a human body sound transmission system and a method. The human body sound transmission system according to an aspect of the present invention directly or indirectly contacts a human body to apply coupled signals of high frequency sound signals with hi... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026740 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AUDIO SIGNALS Various methods and apparatus for processing audio signals are disclosed herein. The assembly may be attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a removable oral appliance to form a hearing aid assembly. Such an oral appliance may be a custom-made device which... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20100329485 | BONE CONDUCTION SPEAKER AND HEARING DEVICE USING THE SAME To provide a bone conduction speaker that enables a wearer to hear a bone-conducted sound and an air-conducted sound caused by the bone-conducted sound to improve the quality and depth of the sound and allows the wearer to hear external sounds to improve the safety in o... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100322449 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AUDIO SIGNALS Various methods and apparatus for processing audio signals are disclosed herein. The assembly may be attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a removable oral appliance to form a hearing aid assembly. Such an oral appliance may be a custom-made device which... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100316235 | BONE CONDUCTION SPEAKER WITH VIBRATION PREVENTION FUNCTION A bone conduction speaker having a vibration prevention structure is disclosed. In the speaker structure that a magnet and a voice coil are installed in the interior of a housing disposed in an inner side of an external casing of a bone conduction speaker and are engage... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100290647 | HEADSET SYSTEMS AND METHODS A digital audio player device can be attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a removable oral appliance or other oral device to form an intraoral MP3 player. In another embodiment, the device provides an electronic and transducer device that can be attache... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100278362 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO INTERCHANGE BETWEEN BONE CONDUCTIVE AND NORMAL MODE IN RECEIVER An integrated, switchable receiver module configured for acoustic transmission in an electronic device having an outer surface is provided. The integrated, switchable receiver includes an audio receiver (AR) and a bone conductive receiver (BCR), which is disposed in a s... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100246860 | BONE CONDUCTION ASSEMBLY FOR COMMUNICATION HEADSET A bone conduction assembly can include at least a microphone, an assembly stem, an ear cushion, and a microphone channel. The microphone can include an acoustic-to-electric transducer. The assembly stem can house the microphone and can be shaped for insertion into an ea... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100246861 | SMALL-SIZED SOUND RECEIVER FOR PRODUCING BODY-SENSING VIBRATION Disclosed is a small-sized sound receiver for producing body-sensible vibration, and more particularly to a small-sized sound receiver for producing body-sensible vibration, which has a structure for bone-conduction so that the receiver can implement not only a function... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100239108 | METHOD OF IMPROVING SOUND REPRODUCTION AND LISTENING ENJOYMENT A method of using an audio device (2) for improving a user's (1) listening experience. The audio device has a transducer (12) for producing output sound and the method comprises the steps of driving the transducer to produce an output sound and plac... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100223706 | WELDING HELMET AUDIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH BONE CONDUCTION TRANSDUCERS A system for welding communication that includes a welding headgear and a bone conduction transducer (BCT) disposed in or on the welding headgear is provided. The BCT facilitates communication of signals to a welding operator via bone conduction. The bone conduction fac... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100189288 | ACTUATOR SYSTEMS FOR ORAL-BASED APPLIANCES Actuator systems for oral-based appliances utilizing transducers which are attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a dental or oral appliance to form a hearing aid assembly. Such oral appliances may be a custom-made device which receives incoming sounds an... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100183173 | DYNAMIC SOUND TRANSDUCER AND RECEIVER There is provided a dynamic sound transducer having a diaphragm system (10) which has at least a first and second metallized surface (11) which are separated from each other by an insulating surface (12). The dynamic sound transducer further has a m... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100172519 | BONE-CONDUCTION MICROPHONE BUILT-IN HEADSET A bone-conduction microphone built-in headset comprises: an ear pad; an ear cup capable of covering an ear; a piezoelectric element composing a bone-conduction microphone; a buffer material forming the ear pad; a baffle board provided between the ear pad and the ear cup... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100119080 | HUMAN BODY SOUND TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND METHOD USING SINGLE SOUND SOURCE Provided are a human body sound transmission system and a method using single sound source. The human body sound transmission system includes a first transmission block for transmitting a combined signal of a first high frequency signal and a sound signal through a huma... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100119086 | VIBRATION PICKUP MICROPHONE [Problem to be Solved] To provide a high-sensitive compact vibration pickup microphone, suitably used as a talking microphone in high ambient noise environments or as a speech recognition input microphone, with high microphone sensitivity, resistance to sliding noise, a... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100098270 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROVIDE COMMUNICATION, POSITIONING AND MONITORING OF USER STATUS A communication apparatus includes a bone conduction communication apparatus with a housing having a shape which is conformable to at least a portion of at least one tooth of a user; a transceiver mounted in the housing; and a transducer disposed within or upon the hous... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100098269 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROVIDE COMMUNICATION, POSITIONING AND MONITORING OF USER STATUS A communication apparatus includes a bone conduction communication apparatus with a housing having a shape which is conformable to at least a portion of at least one tooth of a user; a transceiver mounted in the housing; and a transducer disposed within or upon the hous... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100054501 | FACE PLATE, VIBRATION SPEAKER HAVING FACE PLATE, AND PORTABLE TERMINAL INCLUDING THE SAME A vibration speaker with facial plate has developed for delivering sound in a form of vibrational movement to a user's skin. The vibration speaker includes a voice coil to generate a magnetic force in response to application of a sound signal from an exterior, a magnet ... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100014689 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTRA-ORAL BASED COMMUNICATIONS Systems and methods are disclosed for capturing sound for communication by mounting one or more intra-oral microphones to capture sound; and mounting a mouth wearable communicator in the oral cavity to communicate sound with a remote unit.... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090323989 | System and method for calibrating an audiometer signal A system and method for providing a translated or calibrated signal to a bone conduction transducer. The frequency of an audiometer output signal is detected and attenuation and amplification calibration values may be determined from a lookup table as a function of this... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090326952 | SPEECH PROCESSING METHOD, SPEECH PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND SPEECH PROCESSING DEVICE [Problems] To convert a signal of non-audible murmur obtained through an in-vivo conduction microphone into a signal of a speech that is recognizable for (hardly misrecognized by) a receiving person with maximum accuracy. [Means for Solving... | 12/31/2009 |
