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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2022
Applicant:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Inventor:
Shinichiro Kurihara, Hyogo, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 11/08 (2006.01); G10K 11/178 (2006.01); G10L 25/84 (2013.01); H04R 25/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 11/08 (2013.01); G10K 11/178 (2013.01); G10L 25/84 (2013.01); H04R 25/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
An ear-worn device includes: a microphone that obtains a sound and outputs a first sound signal of the sound obtained; a DSP that outputs a second sound signal based on the first sound signal, when determining that the sound satisfies a predetermined requirement relating to a noise component contained in the sound and the sound contains human voice; a loudspeaker that outputs a reproduced sound based on the second sound signal output; and a housing that contains the microphone, the DSP, and the loudspeaker.