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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120128185 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING UNIVERSAL EARPHONE JACK A portable electronic device includes an earphone jack circuit for receiving an earphone plug, a control circuit and a switch circuit. The control circuit sends audio to or receives audio from the earphone plug by the earphone jack. The switch circuit is set between the... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120082328 | AUDIO REPRODUCTION DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR USING THE AFOREMENTIONED DEVICE There is provided an audio reproduction device capable of providing audio output through at least one output member and a corresponding method for using the audio reproduction device. The audio reproduction device includes a left output member for transmission of audio,... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120039495 | AUDIO PROCESSING APPARATUS, AUDIO PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM An audio processing apparatus is disclosed which includes: a first signal generation portion configured to generate an audio signal of which the frequency is varied over time; an operation portion; a storage portion configured to store characteristic information in acco... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20110317857 | SELF POWERED AUDIO COMPRESSOR CIRCUIT The application relates to a compressor circuit for a listening device, the compressor circuit comprising a pair of input terminals and a pair of output terminals, the compressor circuit being adapted for receiving an electric input signal representing an audio signal w... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110268300 | TACTILE-BASED GUIDANCE SYSTEM A tactile-based guidance system incorporating tactors in headgear, such as a hat, helmet, or hood. Tactors may provide tactile sensations at different places about the head to convey information to a person such as direction, bearing, movement, orientation, and the like... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110170721 | BINAURAL FILTERS FOR MONOPHONIC COMPATIBILITY AND LOUDSPEAKER COMPATIBILITY A method of processing at least one input signal by a set of binaural filters such that the outputs are playable over headphones to provide a sense of listening to sound in a listening room via one or more virtual speakers, with the further property that a monophonic mi... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110158440 | 3D Stereo earphone with multiple speakers An earphone produces a three-dimensional stereo sound effect. The earphone has an ear cup with a front portion, a back portion, a front sound effect unit disposed in the front portion, a front sound resonator disposed in the front portion, a back sound resonator dispose... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110150248 | AUTOMATIC ENVIRONMENTAL ACOUSTICS IDENTIFICATION A headphone system includes sound processor which calculates properties of the environment from signals from an internal microphone and an external microphone. The impulse response of the environment may be calculated from the signals received from the internal and exte... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110135098 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR REPRODUCING SURROUND AUDIO SIGNALS Method and devices for providing surround audio signals are provided. Surround audio signals are received and are binaurally filtered by at least one filter unit. In some embodiments, the input surround audio signals are also processed by at least one equalizing unit. I... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110110543 | Headphone and stereo headphone A headphone housing has a first and a second summit in cross section. A sound emitter protrudes from the housing in side section. In the cross section, the first summit protrudes as being away from a point of intersection of an axis line of the sound emitter, that is ho... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110085685 | Sound Amp Ear Device with Ear Phone Jack A sound amplification system which has a sound application ear device operating a programmable control board. The control board provides a low pitched signal and a high pitch signal. It also provides a mono audio signal and a stereo audio signal and a recharging current... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110058696 | ADVANCED LOW-POWER TALK-THROUGH SYSTEM AND METHOD A low-power consumption, talk-through system comprising: a headset worn by a user on his head, the headset further comprising: an array of at least 2 sets of 2 ambient sound microphones, each set positionable on each side of the head; a signal processing subsystem adapt... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110038496 | HEARING ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM AND COMPONENTS THEREOF A circuit includes a microphone circuit, an audio processing module, a digital audio processing module, and an active noise reduction (ANR) circuit. The microphone circuit receives acoustic vibrations and generates an audio signal therefrom. The audio processing module ... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110026745 | DISTRIBUTED SIGNAL PROCESSING OF IMMERSIVE THREE-DIMENSIONAL SOUND FOR AUDIO CONFERENCES Embodiments of the present invention are directed to audio-conference communication systems that enable audio-conference participants to identify which of the participants are speaking. In one embodiment, an audio-communication system comprises at least one communicatio... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20100328419 | Method and apparatus for improved matching of auditory space to visual space in video viewing applications A method and apparatus for enabling an improved experience by better matching of the auditory space to the visual space in video viewing applications such as those that may be used in video teleconferencing systems and in the viewing of videos with associated audio (e.g... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100310101 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DIRECTIONAL ACOUSTIC FITTING OF HEARING AIDS A method of acoustically fitting a hearing aid comprises providing a plurality of audible tones, each having a predetermined frequency through stereo headphones. The tones are provided at specific sound pressure in each ear. The patient changes the relative sound pressu... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100266150 | Sound capturing and guiding system from stereo speakers that packed together in one closed box, to be heard as stereo sound that comes from various directions A stereo speaker sound capturing and guiding system. The system includes devices that connected on each one of the stereo speakers as a cap. The device covers the speaker cones in hermetic way that captures the sound of the specific speaker and don't let the sound mixed... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100260362 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND EXTERNAL EQUIPMENT WITH CONFIGURABLE AUDIO PATH CIRCUITRY Electronic devices and accessories such as headsets are provided. An accessory may include speakers and active noise cancellation circuitry. Microphones may be used to pick up ambient noise signals for implementing noise cancellation for the speakers. The accessory may ... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100260361 | REVERSIBLE PERSONAL AUDIO DEVICE CABLE COUPLING A apparatus and method for enabling signals representing a first audio channel and a second audio channel to be conveyed to a first earpiece and a second earpiece, respectively, regardless of which of the first and second earpieces a cable providing both the signals rep... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100215198 | HEADSET ASSEMBLY WITH AMBIENT SOUND CONTROL An ambient sound control headset includes an external microphone and an earpiece with an internal speaker. A circuit acts upon a signal output by the external microphone to form a signal representative of a user's environment that is input to the internal speaker. Compo... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100202635 | Single supply headphone driver/charge pump combination A headphone driver amplifier operative from a single DC voltage supply, coupled directly to the headphone speakers without the need for DC coupling capacitors used for preventing DC reaching the headphones. An onboard power supply generates a negative voltage rail which... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100201793 | PORTABLE READING DEVICE WITH MODE PROCESSING A reading device includes a computing device and an image input device coupled to the computing device for capturing low resolution images and high resolution images. The reading machine also includes a computer program product residing on a computer readable medium. Th... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100195852 | Menu navigation method for user of audio headphones A method of operating an audio system having first and second sources includes outputting a first audio signal from the first source on first and second speakers. In response to a listener input, the first audio signal and a second audio signal from the second source ar... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100189290 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO EVALUATE QUALITY OF AUDIO SIGNAL A method and apparatus to evaluate a quality of an audio signal, in which the number of effective channels is determined for each of a reference signal of a current frame and a test signal indicative of the reference signal that has passed through an audio codec, and an... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100183175 | Audio Player with Monophonic Mode Control An audio player includes an audio headset having two earpieces. A playback circuit provides one of a stereophonic program and a monaural program to the audio headset. The monaural program may be created by mixing channels of the stereophonic program. A mode control is c... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100166237 | Single earphone for stereo and monaural audio devices Our earphone employs a standard three-conductor stereo headphone plug, inserted into an ordinary stereo jack, enabling the listener to hear the combined left and right channels of stereo audio in a single ear without the need for any kind of adapter. The single earphone... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100111337 | HEADPHONE ACCESSORY A headphone accessory for use with a portable audio device and headphones. The headphone accessory includes an audio source input for receiving audio signals from an audio device. An audio sound transducer receives external sounds and converts the external sound to exte... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100104119 | AUDIO OUTPUT DEVICE An exemplary audio output device includes a microprocessor, a voltage divider, an analog switch and an audio amplifier, which forming a loop circuit, and an audio jack. The audio jack is connected to the microprocessor and the analog switch. The microprocessor is furthe... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100104118 | EARPIECE BASED BINAURAL SOUND CAPTURING AND PLAYBACK Methods and systems of earpiece based binaural sound capturing and playback are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for recording and playback of a binaural sound includes receiving a record command for a binaural sound, and recording electrical data which correspond... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20090285421 | RADIO HEADSET DEVICE FOR HIGH NOISE ENVIRONMENT A radio headset device provided for receiving and reproducing a radio broadcast from a radio device in a high noise environment. The radio headset device comprises left and right earcups, a speaker mounted to each of the earcups, and a microphone mounted to each of the ... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090268931 | HEADSET WITH INTEGRATED STEREO ARRAY MICROPHONE The invention relates to a noise canceling audio transmitting/receiving device; a stereo headset with an integrated array of microphones utilizing an adaptive beam forming algorithm. The invention also relates to a method of using an adaptive beam forming algorithm that... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090252355 | TARGETED SOUND DETECTION AND GENERATION FOR AUDIO HEADSET In an audio headset having one or more far-field microphones mounted to the headset; and one or more speakers mounted to the headset environmental sound may be recorded using the one or more far-field microphones and mixed with source media sound to produce a mixed soun... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090245550 | MEDIA PLAYER SYSTEM, MEDIA PLAYER, AND EARPHONE An exemplary media player system includes a media player and an earphone. The earphone includes a first earpiece, a second earpiece, a primary volume control unit, and a secondary volume control unit. The first earpiece and the second earpiece are configured for receivi... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090245549 | IDENTIFICATION OF EARBUDS USED WITH PERSONAL MEDIA PLAYERS An arrangement for identifying the left and right earphones in an earphone set is provided in which the acoustically transparent grills positioned over the transducers in the earphones are configured to provide a visual effect that identifies the correct orientation of ... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090226013 | Automated Audio Source Control Based on Audio Output Device Placement Detection An apparatus and method for automatically remotely controlling an audio source providing the apparatus with audio for being audibly output to a user of the apparatus entails monitoring various sensors to determine whether or not one or more ear couplings of the apparatu... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090220113 | MULTIPLE RECEIVER VENTING SYSTEM An earphone housing has a sound output port to be inserted into an ear. Multiple drivers are located in the housing. Each driver has a respective motor and a respective diaphragm. The diaphragm of one of the drivers is vented but that another is not. Other embodiments a... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090195479 | OUTPUT DEVICE AND WEARABLE DISPLAY A headphone (3) includes a pad (31) which is brought into contact with a human head, an enclosure (32) which outputs an audio, and a dome (33) as means for adjusting quality of the audio output by resonating or absorbing the sound wave emitte... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090175473 | EARPHONE SET WITH DETACHABLE SPEAKERS OR SUBWOOFERS An apparatus is provided including a first speaker which emits sound, a second speaker which emits sound, and a device which connects the first speaker and the second speaker. The device may connect the first speaker or front speaker, and the second speaker or rear spea... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090169037 | METHOD OF SIMULTANEOUSLY ESTABLISHING THE CALL CONNECTION AMONG MULTI-USERS USING VIRTUAL SOUND FIELD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME Disclosed herein is a method of simultaneously establishing the call connection among multi-users using a virtual sound field, in which when a plurality of users simultaneously make a video-telephone call to each other they can feel as if they conversed with each other ... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090161895 | SOUND PROVIDER ADAPTED TO CANCEL OUT NOISE A sound provider for providing sound to a person's ear includes one or more terminals for receiving a first electrical signal and a first sound emitter operatively connected to the one or more terminals for outputting a sound corresponding to the first electrical signal... | 06/25/2009 |
