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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2016
Plantronics, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Iain McNeill, Aptos, CA (US);
Kwangsee Allen Woo, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
John S Graham, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Plantronics, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses for user sound exposure limiting are disclosed. In one example, an accumulated sound dose exposure from a headset speaker is determined for a plurality of sequentially monitored time intervals during a current listening session, wherein the current listening session comprises a total session time. It is determined whether a predicted sound dose exposure for the total session time exceeds or falls below a permitted sound dose exposure limit, the predicted sound dose exposure determined from the accumulated sound dose exposure. A threshold intervention level at which a time-weighted-average limiter at a headset applies attenuation to an audio signal output at a headset speaker is adjusted.