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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2022

Filed:

Jul. 14, 2017
Applicant:

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

David H. Hanes, Fort Collins, CO (US);

Jon R. Dory, Fort Collins, CO (US);

John Michael Main, Fort Collins, CO (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/1041 (2013.01); H04R 1/1008 (2013.01); H04R 1/1075 (2013.01); H04R 1/1091 (2013.01); H04R 2460/11 (2013.01);
Abstract

Headphones include a pair of cups, each housing a speaker to be positioned over an ear of a user, a processor, a cooling mechanism disposed within each of the cups to regulate environmental conditions inside of the cups to match environmental thresholds provided by a virtual reality device displaying a virtual reality environment to the user, a temperature sensor and at least one additional environmental sensor disposed within each of the cups to monitor the environmental conditions inside the cups, the processor to subsequently analyze data associated with the sensors and compare the data to the environmental thresholds and the processor to selectively activate the cooling mechanism based on the comparison.


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