Apple Inc.

Sennheiser Communications A/s

Esge Brandt Andersen

Yacine Azmi

Jonathan Sarjeant Aase

Michael B Howes

Baptiste Pierre Paquier

Kurt R Stiehl

Jahan C Minoo

Robert D Watson

Edward Siahaan

Jerzy S Guterman

Arun Dhyaneshwar Chawan

Augustin Prats

Sorin V Dusan

David John Shaw

Zachary C Rich

Axel Dominique Berny

Benjamin W Cook

Aarti Kumar

Miikka Olavi Tikander

Vladan Bajic

Benjamin A Cousins

Yang Lu

Tom-Davy W Saux

Eugene Antony Whang

Aram M Lindahl

Daniel Ray Bloom

Scott Charles Grinker

Onur I Ilkorur

Phillip Qian

Erik L Wang

Jared Mitchell Kole

Ethan Larry Huwe

Andrew P Bright

Svend Feldt

Benjamin Andrew Shaffer

Matthew Emanuel Last

Christopher R Wilk

Derek William Wright

Craig Matthew Stanley

Henry Hung Yang

Sean Anthony Ramprashad

Joshua D Atkins

Lee M Panecki

Hao Zhu

Jason C Della Rosa

Vasu Iyengar

Sean Thomas McIntosh

Tarun Pruthi

Brian R Twehues

Peter C Hrudey

Qigen Ji

Hanchi Chen

Cedrik Bacon

Sarthak Khanal

Andrew E Greenwood

Benjamin Adair Cousins

Thanh Phong Hua

Andre L Goldstein

Raghavendra S Prabhu

Jarrett B Lagler

Timon A Wright

Torben Christiansen

Edwin J Corona Aparicio

Christian Wang

Claus Benjaminsen

Brian Brorsbøl

Samuel G Parker

Gokhan Hatipoglu

Alexander Kanaris

Lalin S Theverapperuma

Michael B Minerbi

Rajesh Anantharaman

Christopher S Erickson

Wesley Scott Smith

Mei Zhang

Meiting Wu

Ethan W Juhnke

Haochuan Sang

Mohammad Soroush Ghahri Sarabi

Daniel S Phillips

Jacob A Pfitsch

Trang Fisher

Ben Shaffer

Kitty Yung

Tyler A Green

Krithika Elangovan

Sarah Gysbers

Michael Burello

Matthew Zaverl

Christopher A Sandieson

Casey L Baran

Mike B Minerbi

Sean T Mcintosh

Jason J Leblanc

Zhu Hao

A portable electronic device comprising: an enclosure having an enclosure wall that defines a first chamber, a second chamber and an acoustic opening from the first chamber or the second chamber; and an electroosmotic flow valve operable to open and close the acoustic opening.

Electroosmotic flow valve for an electronic device

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.

Wireless earphone

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.

Acoustic detection of in-ear headphone fit

A headphone comprising: two headphone earcups each comprising: an earcup housing defining an active chamber that acoustically couples a sound output side of a speaker to an ear of a user, and an inactive chamber that surrounds the active chamber; and a passive valve assembly configured to open in response to a positive pressure and a negative pressure within the active chamber to fluidly couple the active chamber to the inactive chamber and equalize a pressure between the active chamber and the inactive chamber.

Pressure relief valve for headphones

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.

Point-to-point ad hoc voice communication

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.

Headphone with multiple reference microphones ANC and transparency

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.

Mass loaded earbud with vent chamber

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.

Headphones with increased back volume

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Campbell, CA, United States of America

Esge Brandt Andersen