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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2022
Applicant:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Inventor:
Takeshi Takahashi, Fukuoka, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/28 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01); H04R 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/28 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01); H04R 29/00 (2013.01); H04R 2499/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
A measurement system includes earphones configured to be worn on left and right ears of a user respectively and a wireless terminal. The earphones measure and accumulate usage time during the earphones are used by a user, and transmit accumulated usage time to the wireless terminal. The wireless terminal acquires the accumulated usage time from the earphones, determines whether the accumulated usage time exceeds predetermined time, and generates a notification for urging the user to clean the earphones when it is determined that the accumulated usage time exceeds the predetermined time.