Bose Corporation

Andrew D Dominijanni

Yang Liu

Eric Matthew Wallace

Shawn J Prevoir

David W Beverly

Christopher A Pare

Christopher R Paetsch

Paul Thomas Bender

Daniel M Gauger, Jr

Harsh Anilkant Mankodi

Nathan A Jeffery

Ryan C Struzik

Lei Cheng

Liam Robert Kelly

George Chute

Lifun Lin

Agota F Fehervari

George E P Chute

Michael J Daley

Jack E Read

Mikhail Ioffe

Romain Kirszenblat

Tegan M Ayers

Christian A Trott

Ryan Joseph Wexler

Christopher Borradaile

Thomas J Peters, Jr

Jason Robinson

Michael J Monahan

Naganagouda B Patil

Christopher B Ickler

Andrew Todd Sabin

John Allen Rule

David J Fustino

Brian J Fligor

Wit Bushko

Binu K Oommen

Daniel Winchell Tellier

Han Zhang

Ilissa Brooke Bruser

Eric E Dolecki

Andrew Jackson Stockton, X

Brian J Maguire

Maya Antara Mukhopadhaya

Kyle James DeCubellis

Shaun Fisher

Richard Lionel Lanoue, Iii

Harsh A Mankodi

Erich Andrew Wiernasz

Robert Heinz Haslinger

Andrew Porter Hlynsky

Christine Dobie

Ninad Ravindra Gadre

Keith Robert Santarelli

Thomas Peters

Zarif Farhana Mohd Aris

Corey Ann Le

Lindsey Turner

Carrie Ann Olson

Maura Elston Cass

John Gerard Grenier

Peter Mcphillips Moriarty

Matthew M Mckee

Jr Daniel M Gauger

Jack Read

A hearing aid () includes an earpiece (), a casing (), and coupling member (). The earpiece () is configured to sit at least partially within the user's ear canal when worn. The casing () supports a sound processor () and a microphone () and is configured to sit behind a users ear and in contact with the user's pinna when worn. The coupling member () couples the casing () to the earpiece (). The coupling member () has an effective length that is adjustable to accommodate users with different ear geometries.

Adjustable fit hearing aids

Techniques for user authentication via in-ear acoustic measurements are disclosed. An in-ear device emits an acoustic signal and detects an otic response to the acoustic signal. A user signature is generated based at least on the otic response to the acoustic signal. The user signature is compared with a reference signature, to determine whether the in-ear device has changed users.

User authentication via in-ear acoustic measurements

An audio device with a body configured to be worn on or abutting an outer ear of a user, wherein the body is configured to contact at least one of the outer ear and the portion of the head that abuts the outer ear, at two separate spaced contact locations, and wherein the body is compliant at a body portion that defines one of the contact locations. The device also has an acoustic module carried by the body and configured to locate a sound-emitting opening anteriorly of and proximate the user's ear canal opening when the body is worn on or abutting the ear of the user.

Audio device

An eartip includes a compliant portion that forms at least a portion of a sound channel, and a wax guard that is supported in the compliant portion and is disposed within the sound channel. The wax guard includes a porous, planar body that permits the passage of acoustic energy but inhibits the passage of cerumen therethrough, and a retention member. The retention member is arranged along an outer edge of the planar body and in direct contact with the compliant portion. The retention member includes a plurality of openings. A compliant material that forms the compliant portion permeates the openings in the retention member to assist in retaining the wax guard in the compliant portion.

Ear tip with wax guard

An in-ear wearable that can include an electro-acoustic transducer; a housing supporting the electro-acoustic transducer such that the housing and the electro-acoustic transducer together defining an acoustic volume, a feedback microphone disposed within the acoustic volume to receive the acoustic energy, the feedback microphone including a microphone port, the feedback microphone transducing acoustic energy received at the microphone port into a feedback microphone signal; and a port defined within the housing, the port extending from a first opening to a second opening, wherein the port acoustically couples the acoustic volume to a space outside the housing such that outside acoustic energy from the space outside the housing enters the first acoustic volume through a path that does not pass through the second acoustic volume, wherein the first opening does not extend beyond a first plane tangent to a point of the microphone port nearest to acoustic exit port and orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of the housing.

Port placement for in-ear wearable with active noise cancellation

An earphone includes a loudspeaker, a microphone, a housing supporting the loudspeaker and microphone, and ear tip surrounding the housing and configured to acoustically couple both the loudspeaker and the microphone to an ear canal of a user, and to acoustically close the entrance to the user's ear canal. A processor provides output audio signals to the loudspeaker, receives input audio signals from the microphone, extracts a rate of respiration from the input audio signals, adjusts the output audio signals based on the extracted rate of respiration, and provides the adjusted output audio signals to the loudspeaker.

Earphones for measuring and entraining respiration

Various implementations include audio devices and related earpieces. In certain implementations, an earpiece includes an electro-acoustic transducer and an acoustic back volume configured to provide a desirable fit along with desirable acoustic performance. In some particular aspects, an earpiece includes: an electro-acoustic transducer; a housing supporting the electro-acoustic transducer such that the housing and the electro-acoustic transducer together define a first acoustic volume and a second acoustic volume, the electro-acoustic transducer being arranged such that a first radiating surface of the transducer radiates acoustic energy into the first acoustic volume coupled to an outlet and such that a second radiating surface of the transducer radiates acoustic energy into the second acoustic volume, where at least a portion of the second acoustic volume is located between the first radiating surface and the outlet.

Earpiece with moving coil transducer and acoustic back volume

Ear tip

An earpiece includes an acoustic mass element, and an acoustic resistance element that is arranged acoustically in parallel with the acoustic mass element. The acoustic mass element and the acoustic resistance element are arranged to couple a user's ear canal to an external environment when worn.

Earpieces and related articles and devices

Headset

The technology described in this document can be embodied in a method that includes receiving one or more electronic files comprising information on structural features of a portion of an ear of a user, generating an electronic representation of the eartip or a cast based on a portion of the information on the structural features of the portion of the ear, and producing the eartip based on the electronic representation. The eartip includes an outlet, and a sealing structure disposed around an exterior of the outlet, wherein a first end of the sealing structure is attached to the outlet, and a second, opposite end of the sealing structure is physically separated from the exterior of the outlet. Generating the electronic representation includes configuring one or more structural parameters of the outlet or the sealing structure in accordance with the structural features of the portion of the ear.

Customized ear tips

Various implementations include wearable audio devices and related methods for controlling such devices. In some particular implementations, a computer-implemented method of controlling a wearable audio device configured to provide an audio output includes: receiving data indicating the wearable audio device is proximate a geographic location associated with a localized audio message; providing a prompt to initiate playback of the localized audio message to a user of the wearable audio device; and initiating playback of the localized audio message at the wearable audio device in response to actuation of the prompt by the user.

Location-based personal audio

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Newton, MA, United States of America

Andrew D Dominijanni