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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2020
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Taylor G. Carrigan, San Francisco, CA (US);
David C. Graham, San Jose, CA (US);
Thomas S. Hulbert, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Dustin A. Hatfield, Campbell, CA (US);
Gemma A. Roper, San Francisco, CA (US);
Karlin Y. Bark, Menlo Park, CA (US);
David H. Bloom, San Francisco, CA (US);
Benjamin G. Jackson, Belmont, CA (US);
Brenton A. Baugh, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Shota Aoyagi, San Francisco, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A wearable audio output device in a physical environment includes an input device and one or more microphones. While ambient sound from the physical environment is being detected by the microphone(s), the wearable audio output device: while in a first mode, provides a first audio output including one or more pass-through audio components selected so as to increase audio pass-through of the ambient sound; detects an input via the input device; in response to detecting the input, and in accordance with a determination that the input is a first type of gesture, transitions from the first mode to a second mode; and, while in the second mode, provides a second audio output including one or more cancellation audio components selected so as to increase audio cancellation of the ambient sound.