Bose Corporation

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Rep Investment Limited Liability Company

Hal P Greenberger

Roman N Litovsky

George Nichols

Christopher P Ludwig

Michael W Stark

Daniel M Gauger, Jr

Christopher B Ickler

Benjamin Douglass Burge

Michael D Rosen

Douglas J Holmi

Geoffrey C Chick

Roger Mark

Hiroshi Miyazaki

Robert Preston Parker

Tobe Zetelmo Barksdale

Santiago Carvajal

Wontak Kim

Davis Pan

Amar G Bose

Guy A Torio

Damian Howard

William M Rabinowitz

William Berardi

Abhijit Kulkarni

Andrew D Munro

Edwin C Johnson, Jr

Brandon B Westley

Timothy Holl

Matthew Ryan Hicks

Dewey L Potter

Lee Prager

Jerome E Ruzicka

Christopher J Link

Seiji Kawakami

Richard Warren Little

Mitch A Markow

Dale O Moody

William F Clack

Marc L Mansell

William L Givens

Davis Y Pan

Amar Bose Corporation The Mountain Bose

George Bose Corporation The Mountain Nichols

Lee A Prager

George c/o Bose Corporation Nichols

The use of reusable containers is coupled to merchant loyalty programs. Use of a reusable container by a customer in a transaction with a merchant earns benefits in the merchant's loyalty program to incentivize use of the reusable container. Each reusable container incorporates unique identity information. The unique identity information is associated with a customer. Used reusable containers can be exchanged for reprocessed or new reusable containers, and customer associations updated when containers are exchanged. Merchants associated with different corporate entities can participate together where reusable containers can be exchanged between different corporate entities.

Reusable container use incentivizing

A removable cooling apparatus for a hat spaces a headband of the hat away from a wearer's head, creating an air gap that allows air flow over the wearer's head. A removable cooling apparatus uses coupling structures to hold the removable cooling apparatus in place against the headband. The removable cooling apparatus can be removed completely from the hat when not needed or for cleaning, leaving the hat in an unaltered state. A removable cooling apparatus may use a thin flexible strip to keep the headband of the hat from falling open into the air gap created by the removable cooling apparatus. The removable cooling apparatus use compressible pads to space the headband away from the wearer's head. The contact location of the compressible pads with the wearer's head can be easily adjusted by the wearer.

Removable cooling apparatus for a hat

Scrapers for removing adhered material from surfaces employ continuous and discontinuous material removal edges to remove different types of material. Continuous and sometimes discontinuous material removal edges are constructed and arranged to conform to the curvature of a surface from which material is to be removed, when a user forces the scraper against the surface. Some scrapers include multiple material removal edges designed to simultaneously contact the surface. The use of multiple points of contact combined with locations of handles provide stable designs that reduce hand and wrist strain.

Material removal from surfaces

Material moving devices include ergonomic improvements that reduce extraneous work required and lessen strain experienced by users. Material moving devices include a head for receiving material to be moved and a first elongated handle with a grip at the far end for gripping by a first hand of a user. A second handle is coupled to the head for gripping by a second hand of the user. The second handle can be pivotably coupled to the head in a location or locations generally longitudinally aligned with the expected location of the center of mass of the head when loaded with material to be moved.

Ergonomic material moving

Ice scraper

A system and a method of indicating the reception of voice in a hearing assistance system that is constructed and arranged to assist a user to better hear the voice of another person. The hearing assistance system includes a detector that is capable of determining whether or not speech has been received by the hearing assistance system. In response to detecting the reception of the voice of another person by the hearing assistance system, the reception of the voice of another person by the hearing assistance system is visually indicated.

Hearing assistance

A method of virtually tuning an audio system that incorporates an acoustic compensation system, where the audio system is adapted to play audio signals in a listening environment over one or more sound transducers. The acoustic compensation system has an audio sensor located at a sensor location in the listening environment. The transfer functions from each sound transducer to the audio sensor location are inherent. The method contemplates recording noise at the sensor location, and creating virtual transfer functions from each sound transducer to the sensor location based on the inherent transfer functions from each sound transducer to the sensor location. Audio signals are processed through the virtual sound transducer to sensor location transfer functions. A virtual sensor signal is created by combining the audio signals processed through the virtual sound transducer to sensor location transfer functions with the noise recorded at the sensor location.

Virtual audio system tuning

An audio system includes a passive radiator that is attached to one end of a lever arm. The other end of the lever arm is attached to a mass that serves to move out of phase of the passive radiator to cancel mechanical vibrations of the passive radiator, but without significantly affecting audio output. The lever arm is attached to a mechanical ground, which may be the enclosure on which the passive radiator is mounted. A system may use multiple lever arms to reduce rocking of the passive radiator.

Vibration-reducing passive radiators

Apparatus and method for determining an operating state of an earpiece of a personal acoustic device and/or the entirety of the personal acoustic device through tests to determine the current operating state, wherein the tests differ depending on a current power mode of the personal acoustic device, and wherein at least one lower power test is employed during at least one lower power mode.

Personal acoustic device position determination

An audio device has passive radiators that are driven by acoustic drivers. The passive radiators are arranged so that the net mechanical vibration is minimized.

Passive acoustical radiating

A detecting circuit measures at least one response characteristic of an output channel in an electro-acoustic transducer system. A memory stores a plurality of equalizations, each equalization corresponding to a known electro-acoustic transducer system associated with at least one response characteristic stored in the memory. A processor in communication with the detecting circuit and the memory selects one of the stored response characteristics matching the response characteristic measured by the detecting circuit. In some cases, an appropriate equalization is loaded based on the selected response characteristic.

Detecting a loudspeaker configuration

User occupancy is monitored within a space in which a video display of a content rendering system is viewable. The user occupancy can be monitored based on physical user attributes. At least one of audio rendering and video rendering by the content rendering system is adjusted based on the monitored user occupancy.

Adjusting a content rendering system based on user occupancy

A apparatus and method for determining an operating state of an earpiece of a personal acoustic device and/or the entirety of the personal acoustic device by analyzing signals output by at least an inner microphone disposed within a cavity of a casing of the earpiece and an outer microphone disposed on the personal acoustic device in a manner acoustically coupling it to the environment outside the casing of the earpiece.

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Natick, MA, United States of America

Hal P Greenberger