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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2012
Applicant:
Kenichi Oide, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Kenichi Oide, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10K 11/178 (2006.01); H04R 1/10 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10K 11/178 (2013.01); G10K 2210/1081 (2013.01); G10K 2210/3026 (2013.01); H04R 1/1083 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is provided a headphone device including a first housing and a second housing; a headband connected to the first and second housings; a first headphone unit and a second headphone unit disposed in the first and second housings, respectively; a first microphone and a second microphone arranged in the vicinity of the first and second headphone units; and a signal processing unit disposed in the first housing for processing input audio signals from the outside and microphone signals detected by the first and second microphones, and generating first and second noise-canceled audio signals to be supplied to the first and second headphone units.