Patents Examined by Andrew L. Sniezek
  • Patent number: 11438681
    Abstract: A method for producing a plastic-coated loudspeaker housing comprises the putting together of a loudspeaker housing from a plurality of housing wall elements. The put-together loudspeaker housing is placed in a mold. This is followed by a surface coating of the put-together loudspeaker housing by introducing a liquid, curable plastic into the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: d&b audiotechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Albrecht Mildenberger
  • Patent number: 11438694
    Abstract: An integrated circuit for digital signal routing. Signal routing is achieved with a multiply-accumulate block, which takes data from one or more data sources and, after any required scaling, generates output data for a data destination. Data from a data source is buffered for an entire period of a data sample clock so that the multiply-accumulate block can retrieve the data at any point in the period, and output data of the multiply-accumulate block is buffered for an entire period of the data sample clock so that the data destination can retrieve the data at any point in the period. The multiply-accumulate block operates on a time division multiplexed basis, so that multiple signal paths can be processed within one period of the sample clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
    Inventors: Graeme Gordon Mackay, Jonathan Timothy Wigner, Gordon Richard McLeod
  • Patent number: 11432088
    Abstract: An apparatus, comprising: a manikin with at least a head portion and an ear portion; wherein the head portion has an inner side and an outer side and accommodates a mouth simulator including an electro-acoustic transducer. Further, the apparatus comprises an electrodynamic vibrator with a vibrating rod wherein the vibrating rod is coupled to the manikin to exert a vibrating force at the head portion; and wherein the vibrating force induces vibration of the manikin at least at the ear portion. Thereby more realistic electroacoustic tests on devices under test such as such as headsets, headphones, earphones, hearing instruments and active hearing protectors can be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: GN Audio A/S
    Inventor: Helge Lykke Hansen
  • Patent number: 11432075
    Abstract: For selecting audio input, a processor calculates audio scores for device audio from a plurality of electronic devices. The processor further selects a first device audio based on the audio scores. The processor presents present the first device audio at a listening electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Nathan J. Peterson, Mark Patrick Delaney, John Carl Mese, Russell Speight VanBlon, Arnold S. Weksler
  • Patent number: 11432087
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, there may be provided an electronic device comprising: a housing comprising a first space connected to the outside of the electronic device; a speaker device arranged inside the housing; a speaker housing comprising a second space formed to be spatially separated from the inner space of the electronic device by the speaker device inside the housing, the second space being arranged to be connected to the first space; a first atmospheric pressure sensor which is exposed to the first space and has a waterproofing function; a second atmospheric pressure sensor arranged in the inner space; and a processor, wherein the electronic device is configured to detect immersion of the electronic device in water or removal thereof from the immersion on the basis of the amount of atmospheric pressure change confirmed through the first atmospheric pressure sensor, and is configured to control the water-repellent operation through the speaker device on the basis of a difference value between f
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Inventors: Hongki Kim, Seonho Han, Jin Kim, Taegyun Kim, Dongheon Jang
  • Patent number: 11416206
    Abstract: A touch input device includes a touch input part that is installed on a vehicle and includes a tabular panel to be touch-operated and an actuator causing a vibration of the panel; and a control unit that performs at least one of a first control and a second control, the first control driving the actuator such that the panel vibrates in response to touch operations, and the second control driving the actuator such that the panel vibrates at an audible band. The touch input device is positioned such that a directivity of a sound emitted from the panel is increased toward an ear of an occupant of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Tatsushi Katsuyama, Takashi Nagao, Tetsuya Egawa, Takeyoshi Mori
  • Patent number: 11418870
    Abstract: A volume adjustment device includes a microphone, a speaker, and a signal processing unit. The at least one signal processing unit includes at least one processor and at least one memory. The signal processing unit is configured to output a measurement sound from the speaker. The signal processing unit is also configured to measure a first impulse response with the microphone. The signal processing unit is also configured to adjust a volume of the measurement sound output from the speaker based on a direct sound component of the first impulse response and an indirect sound component of the first impulse response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Yusuke Ono
  • Patent number: 11418881
    Abstract: A system and method for digital processing including a gain element to process an input audio signal, a high pass filter to then filter the signal and create a high pass signal, a first filter module to filter the high pass signal and create a first filtered signal and a splitter to split the high pass signal into two high pass signals. The first filter module filters one high pass signals before a first compressor modulates the signal or a high pass signal to create a modulated signal. A second filter module filters the modulated signal to create a second filtered signal that is processed by a first processing module including a band splitter that splits the signal into low and high band signals that are then modulated by compressors. A second processing module processes the modulated low and high band signals to create an output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: BONGIOVI ACOUSTICS LLC
    Inventors: Anthony Bongiovi, Philip Fuller, Glenn Zelniker
  • Patent number: 11412319
    Abstract: An earbud and a method for implementing a wearing detection and a touch operation are provided. The earbud includes: at least two capacitive wearing sensors arranged at different positions where a head of the earbud is in contact with skin tissues in an ear, and the earbud being determined whether to be in a worn state according to the detection values of the at least two capacitive wearing sensors; a capacitive touch sensor arranged on the head or a stem of the earbud away from the ear and being configured to detect a touch operation; and a detection processing circuit being configured to detect and process capacitance signals detected by the wearing sensors and touch sensor, and the wearing sensors and touch sensor being electrically connected with the detection processing circuit and sharing the detection processing circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Yang, Shuqing Cheng
  • Patent number: 11399230
    Abstract: A electroacoustic transducer includes a housing, a piezoelectric element, a partition wall, a first tube, and a second tube. The piezoelectric element is disposed in the housing and includes a porous film and a pair of electrodes that sandwich the porous film therebetween. The partition wall divides an inner space of the housing into a first space closer to one of the pair of electrodes, and a second space closer to another of the pair of electrodes. The first tube establishes communication between a sound wave emission opening that is open to an outer space of the housing and the first space. The second tube establishes communication between the sound wave emission opening and the second space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Tsuchihashi, Tomoya Miyata
  • Patent number: 11395053
    Abstract: A speaker housing includes: a front wall to which a speaker unit is to be attached; at least one first wall; at least one second wall; and a plurality of ribs attached to the first wall, wherein an internal space is formed by the front wall, the first wall, and the second wall, a plurality of meshes that segment the first wall are defined, and shapes of the ribs are determined based on directions of a maximum principal stress generated in the meshes due to vibrations when the vibrations occur in a state where the ribs are not provided in the first wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu Tsuchihashi, Akira Miki
  • Patent number: 11388543
    Abstract: Presented herein are systems, methods and devices for reconfiguring and routing a multichannel audio file to an external audio system. One method includes, in any logical combination and order: identifying, by an input configuration module of a dedicated software application running on a computing device, a plurality of input channels in the multichannel audio file; identifying, by an output configuration module of the dedicated software application, a desired output configuration having a plurality of output channels; assigning, by the output configuration module, each of the input channels to one or more of the output channels such that each of the input channels corresponds to one or more assigned output channels; and routing, by a routing module of the dedicated software application, each of the input channels to the corresponding one or more assigned output channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Inventor: Ryan Ingebritsen
  • Patent number: 11388508
    Abstract: A coaxial loudspeaker includes a cone of a woofer; a waveguide of a tweeter, located at a front end towards the outside/large profile of the cone; and a first cavity. The first cavity includes a resonator and a cavity formed in the cone, and the resonator communicates with the cavity at the large profile of the cone. A side opposite to a position where the resonator communicates with the cavity is constructed as an orifice plate. The orifice plate is adjacent to the resonator and an orifice portion of the orifice plate communicates with the resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: TYMPHANY ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: George Albert Bullimore, Gavin Jones, Stuart Martin Hancock
  • Patent number: 11388503
    Abstract: An earphone charging system and a charging control device are provided. The earphone charging system includes a wireless earphone device and the charging control device. The wireless earphone device is communicatively connected to an audio providing device. The charging control device is electrically connected to the audio providing device through a first cable. The charging control device is electrically connected to the wireless earphone device through a second cable. The audio providing device provides a power and an audio signal to the wireless earphone device through the charging control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: DEXIN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ho-Lung Lu
  • Patent number: 11363369
    Abstract: An audio loudspeaker system for reproducing frequencies between 16 Hz and 700 Hz, comprising a loudspeaker housing defining an inner resonance chamber and at least two loudspeaker drivers arranged in the housing and having front faces arranged facing each other in an opposed manner. The housing comprises vertical wall elements arranged with a distance approximately defining a width of the resonance chamber, where each wall element comprises first and second side surfaces and a circumferential edge surface. A first side surface of the wall elements constitutes and inner surface of the housing and partly defines an enclosure of the resonance chamber, and a second side surface of the wall elements constitutes exterior side surfaces of the audio loudspeaker system. The loudspeaker drivers are arranged within substantially hemispherical cups arranged on the second side surfaces of the wall elements and enclosing the loudspeaker drivers in a close manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Ellegaarden R&D ApS
    Inventor: Ole Siig
  • Patent number: 11363380
    Abstract: A stereophonic device includes a first speaker to output audio associated with the visual presentation. The output of the first speaker is directed in a direction opposite the visual output of a display device. The stereophonic device includes a servomechanism to adjust an angular direction of an output of a first speaker based on a visual presentation presented on a display device associated with the audio signal to coordinate the output of the first speaker with expected spatial sounds perceived in the visual presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Chieh-Hao Chen
  • Patent number: 11363400
    Abstract: A method for influencing an auditory direction perception of a listener, and to an arrangement for it the method is disclosed, to provide a solution, by means of which the improvement of the suppression of the auditory localization of a direction of one or more real sources S1 of a sound projecting audio playback system is achieved in that a localization-masking additionally generated sound entity is provided and is radiated by the real source S1 with a directional effect in a defined direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Technische Universität Dresden
    Inventors: Tom Wühle, Sebastian Merchel, Ercan M. Altinsoy
  • Patent number: 11356787
    Abstract: An audio object including audio content and object metadata is received. The object metadata indicates an object spatial position of the audio object to be rendered by audio speakers in a playback environment. Based on the object spatial position and source spatial positions of the audio speakers, initial gain values for the audio speakers are determined. The initial gain values can be used to select a set of audio speakers from among the audio speakers. Based on the object spatial position and a set of source spatial positions at which the set of audio speakers are respectively located in the playback environment, a set of non-negative optimized gain values for the set of audio speakers is determined. The audio object at the object spatial position is rendered with the set of optimized gain values for the set of audio speakers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignees: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Jun Wang, Giulio Cengarle, Juan Felix Torres, Daniel Arteaga
  • Patent number: 11356797
    Abstract: An electronic device displays a graphical representation with a first appearance when sound from the graphical representation plays as mono sound or stereo sound. The electronic device displays the graphical representation with a second appearance when the sound from the graphical representation plays as binaural sound. The second appearance includes an indication that informs a user of the electronic device that the sound plays as the binaural sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Inventor: Philip Scott Lyren
  • Patent number: 11356760
    Abstract: An audio device includes a thin film material having a capacitive property, the thin film material including an acoustic sheet having a curved shape, in which the acoustic sheet includes a first region that is actively driven by an input signal and a second region that is not actively driven by the input signal and the first region is formed in at least a part of an outside of the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Yoshio Ohashi