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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2008
Jacobus Cornelis Haartsen, Hardenberg, NL;
Gerrit Sampimon, Erm, NL;
Jacobus Cornelis Haartsen, Hardenberg, NL;
Gerrit Sampimon, Erm, NL;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Mobile Communications AB, Lund, SE;
Abstract
An apparatus is disclosed, comprising a speaker suitable to be applied at a user's ear and enabled to be supplied with an audio signal for rendering; a microphone arranged in vicinity of the speaker to acquire a sound signal from sounds present in the ear of the user; and a signal processor, wherein the signal processor is arranged to subtract the audio signal from the sound signal to provide a physiological sound signal, and the signal processor is further arranged to detect a physiological measurement from the physiological sound signal. A method and a computer program are also disclosed.