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公开(公告)号：US20200280794A1
公开(公告)日：2020-09-03
申请号：US16878561
申请日：2020-05-19
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Mike B. Minerbi , Edward Siahaan , Benjamin A. Shaffer , Eugene A. Whang , Miikka O. Tikander , Derek W. Wright , Jared M. Kole , Esge B. Andersen , Daniel R. Bloom , Edwin J. Corona Aparicio
Abstract: This disclosure includes several different features suitable for use in circumaural and supra-aural headphones designs. Designs that include earpad assemblies that improve acoustic isolation are discussed. User convenience features that include automatically detecting the orientation of the headphones on a user's head are also discussed. Various power-saving features, design features, sensor configurations and user comfort features are also discussed.
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公开(公告)号：US20200260173A1
公开(公告)日：2020-08-13
申请号：US16790661
申请日：2020-02-13
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Zachary C. Rich , Kurt R. Stiehl , Arun D. Chawan , Michael B. Howes , Jonathan S. Aase , Esge B. Andersen , Yacine Azmi , Jahan C. Minoo , David J. Shaw , Aarti Kumar , Augustin Prats , Robert D. Watson , Baptiste P. Paquier , Axel D. Berny , Benjamin W. Cook , Jerzy S. Guterman , Benjamin Adair Cousins
IPC: H04R1/10
Abstract: A housing has a bud portion abutting an elongated stem portion. The bud portion is to fit within an ear. The bud portion has a primary sound outlet at its far end that is to be inserted into an outer ear canal, and abuts the stem portion at its near end. A speaker driver is inside the bud portion. Electronic circuitry inside the housing includes a wireless communications interface to receive audio content over-the-air and in response provides an audio signal to the speaker driver. A rechargeable battery as a power source for the electronic circuitry is located inside a cavity of the stem portion. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
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公开(公告)号：US20190007763A1
公开(公告)日：2019-01-03
申请号：US16125178
申请日：2018-09-07
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Zachary C. Rich , Kurt R. Stiehl , Arun D. Chawan , Michael B. Howes , Jonathan S. Aase , Esge B. Andersen , Yacine Azmi , Jahan C. Minoo , David J. Shaw , Aarti Kumar , Augustin Prats , Robert D. Watson , Baptiste P. Paquier , Axel D. Berny , Benjamin W. Cook , Jerzy S. Guterman , Benjamin Adair Cousins
IPC: H04R1/10
Abstract: A housing has a bud portion abutting an elongated stem portion. The bud portion is to fit within an ear. The bud portion has a primary sound outlet at its far end that is to be inserted into an outer ear canal, and abuts the stem portion at its near end. A speaker driver is inside the bud portion. Electronic circuitry inside the housing includes a wireless communications interface to receive audio content over-the-air and in response provides an audio signal to the speaker driver. A rechargeable battery as a power source for the electronic circuitry is located inside a cavity of the stem portion. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
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公开(公告)号：US10110984B2
公开(公告)日：2018-10-23
申请号：US15302163
申请日：2015-04-20
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Zachary C. Rich , Kurt R. Stiehl , Arun D. Chawan , Michael B. Howes , Jonathan S. Aase , Esge B. Andersen , Yacine Azmi , Jahan C. Minoo , David J. Shaw , Aarti Kumar , Augustin Prats , Robert D. Watson , Baptiste P. Paquier , Axel D. Berny , Benjamin W. Cook , Jerzy S. Guterman , Benjamin Adair Cousins
IPC: H04R1/10
Abstract: The wireless earphone (1) comprises a housing (2) having a bud portion abutting an elongated stem portion. The bud portion is to fit within an ear. The bud portion has a primary sound outlet (5) at its far end that is to be inserted into an outer ear canal, and abuts the stem portion at its near end. A speaker driver (6) is inside the bud portion. Electronic circuitry (7,24) inside the housing (2) includes a wireless communications interface (4) to receive audio content over-the-air and in response provides an audio signal to the speaker driver. A rechargeable battery (3) as a power source for the electronic circuitry is located inside a cavity of the stem portion.
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公开(公告)号：US09973838B2
公开(公告)日：2018-05-15
申请号：US15621802
申请日：2017-06-13
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Phillip Qian , Edward Siahaan , Erik L. Wang , Esge B. Andersen
CPC classification number: H04R1/086
Abstract: An acoustic device such as a microphone or speaker is positioned with and coupled to a housing to connect an acoustic port of the acoustic device with an external opening of the housing. A reservoir is connected to the external opening via a bleed channel. The bleed channel may be less resistive to liquid ingress than the acoustic port. As such, the reservoir and bleed channel may redirect liquid from the external opening away from the acoustic port. In some implementations, the reservoir and/or the bleed channel may be defined by one or more acoustically permeable barriers such as meshes that cover the acoustic port, compressible materials such as foams that form a perimeter around the acoustic port, and/or adhesive layers that couple the acoustic device, the housing, and/or one or more other components.
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公开(公告)号：US09942648B2
公开(公告)日：2018-04-10
申请号：US15403392
申请日：2017-01-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yacine Azmi , Esge B. Andersen , Jonathan S. Aase , Michael B. Howes
CPC classification number: H04R1/1091 , H04R1/1016 , H04R1/2811 , H04R1/2823 , H04R1/2826 , H04R1/2849
Abstract: Intra-concha earphones are disclosed. In an embodiment, an intra-concha earphone includes a housing having a rear space divided into a back volume, a bass duct, and a vent chamber between a driver and a rear wall. The vent chamber may be acoustically coupled with the back volume through both an acoustic port and the bass duct. Furthermore, the vent chamber may be acoustically coupled with a surrounding environment through a vent port, which may be a sole acoustic opening in the rear wall. Thus, sound emitted by the driver may propagate through the acoustic port and the bass duct to meet in the vent chamber before being discharged through the vent port to the surrounding environment. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
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公开(公告)号：US20180033447A1
公开(公告)日：2018-02-01
申请号：US15225707
申请日：2016-08-01
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Sean A. Ramprashad , Esge B. Andersen , Joshua D. Atkins , Sorin V. Dusan , Vasu Iyengar , Tarun Pruthi , Lalin S. Theverapperuma
IPC: G10L21/028 , G10L25/21 , G10L21/0232
Abstract: An audio system has a housing in which are integrated a number of microphones. A programmed processor accesses the microphone signals and produces a number of acoustic pick up beams based groups of microphones, an estimation of voice activity and an estimation of noise characteristics on each beam. Two or more beams including a voice beam that is used to pick up a desired voice and a noise beam that is used to provide information to estimate ambient noise are adaptively selected from among the plurality of beams, based on thresholds for voice separation and thresholds for noise-matching. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
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公开(公告)号：US09716937B2
公开(公告)日：2017-07-25
申请号：US14856402
申请日：2015-09-16
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Phillip Qian , Esge B. Andersen
CPC classification number: H04R1/1091 , A61B5/01 , A61B5/02416 , A61B5/14552 , A61B5/14557 , A61B5/6817 , H04R1/1016 , H04R1/1041 , H04R1/105 , H04R1/1083 , H04R1/406 , H04R3/005 , H04R5/033 , H04R5/04 , H04R2201/109 , H04R2420/03 , H04R2420/07 , H04R2460/03
Abstract: This application relates to earbuds configured with one or more biometric sensors. At least one of the biometric sensors is configured to be pressed up against a portion of the tragus for making biometric measurements. In some embodiments, the housing of the earbud can be symmetric so that the earbud can be worn interchangeably in either a left or a right ear of a user. In such an embodiment, the earbud can include a sensor and circuitry configured to determine and alter operation of the earbud in accordance to which ear the earbud is determined to be sitting in.
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公开(公告)号：US09716934B2
公开(公告)日：2017-07-25
申请号：US14695357
申请日：2015-04-24
Applicant: APPLE INC.
Inventor： Phillip Qian , Edward Siahaan , Erik L. Wang , Esge B. Andersen
CPC classification number: H04R1/086
Abstract: An acoustic device such as a microphone or speaker is positioned with and coupled to a housing to connect an acoustic port of the acoustic device with an external opening of the housing. A reservoir is connected to the external opening via a bleed channel. The bleed channel may be less resistive to liquid ingress than the acoustic port. As such, the reservoir and bleed channel may redirect liquid from the external opening away from the acoustic port. In some implementations, the reservoir and/or the bleed channel may be defined by one or more acoustically permeable barriers such as meshes that cover the acoustic port, compressible materials such as foams that form a perimeter around the acoustic port, and/or adhesive layers that couple the acoustic device, the housing, and/or one or more other components.
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60.发明授权公开(公告)号：US09516407B2
公开(公告)日：2016-12-06
申请号：US13965767
申请日：2013-08-13
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Andre L. Goldstein , Yacine Azmi , Esge B. Andersen
CPC classification number: H04R3/002 , H04R1/1083 , H04R3/005 , H04R3/02 , H04R2410/05 , H04R2420/07
Abstract: A personal listening system has an active noise control (ANC) controller that produces an anti-noise signal. A head worn audio device for a user has a speaker to convert the anti-noise signal into anti-noise, an error microphone, and a reference microphone. The controller uses signals from the error and reference microphones to produce the anti-noise signal in accordance with an adaptive filter algorithm that has an adjustable parameter which changes so as to move the point at which acoustic cancellation occurs from the error microphone and closer to the user's eardrum. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
Abstract translation: 个人聆听系统具有产生抗噪声信号的主动噪声控制（ANC）控制器。 用于用户的头戴式音频设备具有扬声器，用于将抗噪声信号转换为抗噪声，误差麦克风和参考麦克风。 控制器使用来自误差和参考麦克风的信号根据自适应滤波器算法产生抗噪声信号，该自适应滤波器算法具有可调整的参数，该参数发生变化，以便使误差麦克风发生声学消除的点移动到更接近于 用户耳膜 还描述和要求保护其他实施例。
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