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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:
Dec. 06, 2016

Filed:

Aug. 13, 2013
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Andre L. Goldstein, San Jose, CA (US);

Yacine Azmi, San Francisco, CA (US);

Esge B. Andersen, Campbell, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/00 (2006.01); H04R 3/02 (2006.01); G10K 11/16 (2006.01); H03B 29/00 (2006.01); A61F 11/06 (2006.01); H04R 1/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/002 (2013.01); H04R 1/1083 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01); H04R 3/02 (2013.01); H04R 2410/05 (2013.01); H04R 2420/07 (2013.01);
Abstract

A personal listening system has an active noise control (ANC) controller that produces an anti-noise signal. A head worn audio device for a user has a speaker to convert the anti-noise signal into anti-noise, an error microphone, and a reference microphone. The controller uses signals from the error and reference microphones to produce the anti-noise signal in accordance with an adaptive filter algorithm that has an adjustable parameter which changes so as to move the point at which acoustic cancellation occurs from the error microphone and closer to the user's eardrum. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.


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