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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:
Aug. 02, 2016

Filed:

Oct. 17, 2014
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Zachary C. Rich, San Francisco, CA (US);

Baptiste P. Paquier, Saratoga, CA (US);

Joseph A. Sarlo, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Jahan C. Minoo, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 25/00 (2006.01); H04R 1/10 (2006.01); H04B 1/3827 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/10 (2013.01); H04B 1/385 (2013.01); H04B 2001/3872 (2013.01); H04R 25/43 (2013.01); H04R 25/50 (2013.01); H04R 25/55 (2013.01);
Abstract

A headphone is disclosed herein. The headphone includes a wireless transceiver, a wired communication module, a power storage device, a speaker, and control circuitry. The wireless transceiver and the wired communication module and the wireless transceiver are connected to the speaker via the control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to determine whether to control the speaker according to data received via the wired communication module and the wireless transceiver and to seamlessly transition control of the speaker from data received from one of the wired communication module and the wireless transceiver to the other of the wired communication module and the wireless transceiver.


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