Bose Corporation

Josue Malaver

David R Minich

Michelle Gelberger

Alexia Delhoume

Miriam Israelowitz

According to an aspect of the disclosure, an audio device is provided comprising a communications interface configured to be communicatively coupled to an audio source, at least one sensor, and a controller configured to control the audio device to be in a low-power mode, receive, from the sensor(s), information indicative of a presence of a user's body, initiate, via the communications interface responsive to receiving the information, a wireless communication pairing process to establish a wireless communication bond with the audio source prior to determining that the audio device is fully engaged with the user's body, determine, subsequent to initiating the wireless communication pairing process and based on information received from the sensor(s), that the audio device is fully engaged with the user's body, and control, responsive to determining that the audio device is fully engaged with the user's body, the audio device to be in an active mode.

Multi-stage body engagement detection

A wearable audio device with an electro-acoustic transducer for creating audio output, the electro-acoustic transducer comprising a transducer magnet that produces a transducer magnetic field, a magnetic field sensor spaced from the electro-acoustic transducer and constructed and arranged to sense the Earth's magnetic field, and a magnetic shield comprising a material with high magnetic permeability. The shield is configured to intercept at least some of the transducer magnetic field before it reaches the magnetic field sensor.

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Millbury, MA, United States of America

Josue Malaver