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Patent No.:

US 9918157 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2018

Filed:

Jun. 24, 2014

Headphone type acoustic apparatus and control method therefor

Applicant:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Jo Kamada, Tokyo, JP;

Atsuto Ohashi, Tokyo, JP;

Asako Kawamura, Tokyo, JP;

Yasuhiro Onogi, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:

Chip Law Group

Primary Examiner:

Akelaw Teshale

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/10 (2006.01); H04R 29/00 (2006.01); H04R 3/12 (2006.01); H04R 5/033 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/1041 (2013.01); H04R 29/001 (2013.01); H04R 1/1008 (2013.01); H04R 1/1066 (2013.01); H04R 1/1075 (2013.01); H04R 3/12 (2013.01); H04R 5/033 (2013.01); H04R 2420/03 (2013.01); H04R 2430/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

This headphone type acoustic apparatus includes a pair of housing blocks each including a headphone unit, a headband section that supports the housing blocks at both ends and includes a pair of speaker units, one or more sensors that obtain information for estimating a mounted state achieved by a user, and a control unit that estimates the mounted state based on outputs of the one or more sensors and controls, based on the estimated mounted state, outputs of the pair of headphone units and the pair of speaker units.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Kamada, Jo. (2018). Headphone type acoustic apparatus and control method therefor (U.S. Patent No. 9918157). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9918157

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