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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2015
Applicant:
Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Inventor:
John Jenkins, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Honeywell International Inc., Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 11/06 (2006.01); A61F 11/14 (2006.01); G10K 11/178 (2006.01); H04R 1/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 11/14 (2013.01); G10K 11/178 (2013.01); A61F 2011/145 (2013.01); G10K 2210/1081 (2013.01); G10K 2210/3014 (2013.01); G10K 2210/3039 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of the disclosure include hearing protection earmuffs, which generally might have two earcups providing passive noise reduction (e.g. an effective NRR to protect a user from a damaging external noise environment). Disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for transmitting external sounds to a speaker within the earcup, blocking transmission of sounds that are higher than a hearing protection threshold, amplifying sounds that are below the hearing protection threshold, and reducing or filtering undesirable background sounds by determining the frequency of the transmitted sounds.