Abstract: An electronic interconnection apparatus adapted for interconnecting a plurality of audio equipment including several communication ports, each configured for being connected to a respective audio equipment, at least one selector configured for selecting a value of an operating parameter according to a manipulation by an operator, at least one push-to-talk button configured for authorizing the transmission of an audio signal following an operator action, and an electronic processing device connected to each selector and each push-to-talk button, configured for acquiring an input audio signal via a communication port and for delivering an output audio signal to another communication port, each communication port being according to a digital communication standard.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 15, 2023
Date of Patent:
January 27, 2026
Assignee:
ELNO
Inventors:
Khaled Ben Hellal, Guillaume Baron, Thierry Gaiffe
Abstract: The electronic processing device for an acoustic apparatus including a first air conduction microphone and a second bone conduction microphone, configured for being connected to the first and second microphones, for receiving as inputs the first and respectively second analog signals from the first, and respectively second microphones and for delivering as output a corrected signal. The processing device comprises: a hybridization module configured for calculating a hybrid signal from the first and second analog signals; an estimation module configured for estimating noise in the hybrid signal; a noise reduction module configured for calculating the corrected signal by applying a generalized spectral subtraction algorithm to the hybrid signal and according to the estimated noise.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 25, 2023
Date of Patent:
July 22, 2025
Assignee:
ELNO
Inventors:
Arthur Henri Lacroix, Clément Jean-Baptiste Albert, Mathieu Clément Nicolas Dexheimer, Thierry Pierre François Gaiffe
Abstract: The invention relates to an acoustic device capable of producing active noise reduction, which may be positioned on the head of a user, comprising at least one microphone capable of sensing a sound signal representative of ambient noise, including at least one active noise reduction acoustic module comprising an osteophonic transducer, capable of being positioned on a side flank of the head of the user and of transmitting a vibratory signal transformed by bone conduction into an acoustic signal which may be perceived by the user, connected to said microphone, while said at least one acoustic module includes an electronic circuit capable of generating a vibratory signal giving the possibility of attenuating perception of said ambient noise by the user.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 23, 2014
Date of Patent:
September 5, 2017
Assignee:
ELNO
Inventors:
Thierry Pierre François Gaiffe, Patrick Jean François Robuchon, Julie Marie Anne Rosier, Eric Bernard Jacques Clowez
Abstract: The invention relates to an acoustic device capable of producing active noise reduction, which may be positioned on the head of a user, comprising at least one microphone capable of sensing a sound signal representative of ambient noise, including at least one active noise reduction acoustic module comprising an osteophonic transducer, capable of being positioned on a side flank of the head of the user and of transmitting a vibratory signal transformed by bone conduction into an acoustic signal which may be perceived by the user, connected to said microphone, while said at least one acoustic module includes an electronic circuit capable of generating a vibratory signal giving the possibility of attenuating perception of said ambient noise by the user.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 23, 2014
Publication date:
July 14, 2016
Applicant:
ELNO
Inventors:
Thierry Pierre François GAIFFE, Patrick Jean François ROBUCHON, Julie Marie Anne ROSIER, Eric Bernard Jacques CLOWEZ
Abstract: The present invention relates to a microphone comprising a transducer for converting acoustic or vibratory oscillations into an electric signal; a preamplifier for amplifying the electric signal; and a controllable switch arranged electrically between the transducer and the preamplifier, the switch being adapted to be controlled by a control signal, the preamplifier including an input terminal connected directly to a terminal of the transducer, the microphone being adapted to transmit the amplified electric signal to a power and transmission device. The invention further relates to a mask comprising such a microphone.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 14, 2014
Publication date:
March 31, 2016
Applicant:
ELNO
Inventors:
Patrick Jean François ROBUCHON, Julie Marie Anne ROSIER, Laurent Edouard Roland HUMEN