Headphone with Multiple Reference Microphones ANC and Transparency

    公开(公告)号:US20250104688A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-03-27

    申请号:US18905827

    申请日:2024-10-03

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: An ear cup housing has several reference microphones, an error microphone and a speaker. A processor drives the speaker for acoustic noise cancellation and transparency, by processing the microphone signals, and performs an oversight process by adjusting the reference microphone signals in response to detecting wind noise events and scratch events. In another aspect, the ear cup housing has an outside face that is joined to an inside face by a perimeter and the reference microphones are on the perimeter. Other aspects are also described and claimed.

    METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTEXTUAL VOLUME CONTROL BASED ON USER INPUT

    公开(公告)号:US20240365064A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-31

    申请号:US18605470

    申请日:2024-03-14

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: H04R5/04 H04R5/033 H04R2430/01

    Abstract: A method that includes receiving audio content; playing back the audio content through a speaker at a first volume setting of a volume control of the electronic device, wherein the volume control comprises a plurality of sequential volume settings; determining a noise level within an ambient environment captured by a microphone; receiving a single adjustment to the volume control to change the first volume setting by one volume setting; responsive to receiving the single adjustment, determining a second volume setting based on at least one of the noise level, a content level of the audio content, and historical data indicating past adjustments to the volume control by a user, wherein the second volume setting is either greater than or less than the first volume setting by more than one volume setting; and changing the first volume setting of the electronic device to the second volume setting.

    Point-to-Point Ad Hoc Voice Communication
    3.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240137998A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-25

    申请号:US18385461

    申请日:2023-10-30

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A wireless communication device establishes voice communication between a supported user and a selected remote device supporting another user via a point-to-point wireless ad hoc network link. The device selects a particular remote device, establishes an ad hoc network link with the selected remote device, and communicates voice communication signals with the selected remote device. Selection can be based upon a user interaction with the device which specifies the particular remote device. The user interaction can include interaction with a graphical representation of the particular remote device presented in a graphical user interface. The user interaction can include an audio command received via an audio interface of the device. The device can include one or more headset devices, including a pair of headset devices which can be switched between providing audio signals to a single user to supporting communication between separate users via an ad hoc network link.

    ACOUSTIC DETECTION OF IN-EAR HEADPHONE FIT

    公开(公告)号:US20230015418A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-19

    申请号:US17823011

    申请日:2022-08-29

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A method performed by an in-ear headphone. Coupled to the in-ear headphone is a first ear tip that is inserted into an ear canal of a user. The method obtains an audio signal from an audio source device paired with the in-ear headphone and uses the signal to drive a speaker of the headphone to output a sound into the ear canal. The method obtains a microphone signal that is responsive to the outputted sound. The method notifies the user to replace the first ear tip with a second ear tip in response to a parameter associated with the microphone signal being less than a threshold.

    Method and system for adaptive audio filters for different headset cushions

    公开(公告)号:US11303258B1

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-12

    申请号:US17023275

    申请日:2020-09-16

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A method performed by an audio system that includes a headset. The method identifies a cushion that is coupled to a headset housing of the headset in which a speaker is integrated therein, produces a reference microphone signal from a reference microphone of the headset, selects an active noise cancellation (ANC) filter based on the identified cushion, filters the reference microphone signal with the ANC filter to produce an anti-noise signal, drives the speaker with the anti-noise signal, in response to driving the speaker, produces an error microphone signal from an error microphone of the headset, and performs an adaptive ANC function to adapt the ANC filter based on the reference microphone signal and the error microphone signal.

    Mass loaded earbud with vent chamber

    公开(公告)号:US10805713B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-13

    申请号:US15924049

    申请日:2018-03-16

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    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.

    POINT-TO-POINT AD HOC VOICE COMMUNICATION
    10.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20170295604A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-10-12

    申请号:US15633468

    申请日:2017-06-26

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A wireless communication device establishes voice communication between a supported user and a selected remote device supporting another user via a point-to-point wireless ad hoc network link. The device selects a particular remote device, establishes an ad hoc network link with the selected remote device, and communicates voice communication signals with the selected remote device. Selection can be based upon a user interaction with the device which specifies the particular remote device. The user interaction can include interaction with a graphical representation of the particular remote device presented in a graphical user interface. The user interaction can include an audio command received via an audio interface of the device. The device can include one or more headset devices, including a pair of headset devices which can be switched between providing audio signals to a single user to supporting communication between separate users via an ad hoc network link.

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