Patents by Inventor Bojan Rip
Bojan Rip has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10785551Abstract: A loudspeaker includes a first electro-acoustic driver that creates sound waves when operated, and a housing. A first baffle is coupled to the housing and the first electro-acoustic driver. A first speaker grille covers the first electro-acoustic driver. A first gasket is disposed between the first baffle and the first speaker grille. The first gasket comprises a first set of energy directors to reduce buzzing between the first gasket and the first baffle.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2018Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Allen T. Graff, Roman N. Litovsky, Bojan Rip, Jason D. Silver, Donna Marie Sullivan, Chester Smith Williams, Zhen Xu
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Patent number: 10708653Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide an entry presence detection mechanism for audio-video devices. According to aspects, devices are activated based on detecting presence of a subject in the vicinity of a device. Further, subject-specific content is output based on preconfigured preferences and/or historical usage. As described herein, the device is activated and subject-specific content or prompts are displayed without use of a remote control. This reduces the wait time to activate a device and connected devices. When a subject is determined to have left the vicinity for a configurable amount of time, the devices enter a low-power state. In aspects, the devices enter a low-power state in response to determining that no subjects remain in the vicinity of the device for a configurable amount of time.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: BOSE CORPORATIONInventors: Scott Gerald Stinson, Bojan Rip
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Patent number: 10390129Abstract: An acoustic device that has a neck loop that is constructed and arranged to be worn around the neck. The neck loop includes a housing with a first acoustic waveguide having a first sound outlet opening, and a second acoustic waveguide having a second sound outlet opening. There is a first open-backed acoustic driver acoustically coupled to the first waveguide and a second open-backed acoustic driver acoustically coupled to the second waveguide.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2017Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Base CorporationInventors: Roman N. Litovsky, Bojan Rip, Joseph M. Geiger, Chester Smith Williams, Pelham Norville, Brandon Westley
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Patent number: 10225647Abstract: An acoustic device that has a neck loop that is constructed and arranged to be worn around the neck. The neck loop includes a housing with a first acoustic waveguide having a first sound outlet opening, and a second acoustic waveguide having a second sound outlet opening. There is a first open-backed acoustic driver acoustically coupled to the first waveguide and a second open-backed acoustic driver acoustically coupled to the second waveguide.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Roman N. Litovsky, Bojan Rip, Joseph M. Geiger, Chester S. Williams, Pelham Norville
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Patent number: 10110982Abstract: A cover for a wearable personal acoustic device includes a fabric cover shaped to receive and enclose a wearable personal acoustic device, and an identification tag, such as an RFID tag or optical tag, secured to the fabric cover. The fabric cover includes a stretchable material that is acoustically transparent. The fabric cover may include a closure mechanism that can provide an opening through which the wearable personal acoustic device is received or removed and a closed state in which the wearable personal acoustic device is enclosed by the fabric cover. The identification tag stores an identifier associated with the fabric cover and communicates with the wearable personal acoustic device through an identification reader. The identifier may be associated with a physical property of the fabric cover or an operational parameter of the wearable personal acoustic device. The operational parameter optionally is definable by a user.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2017Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: BOSE CORPORATIONInventors: Joel H. Miller, Marcey Ann Mankosa, Michael Andrew Zalisk, Daniel Winchell Tellier, Bojan Rip
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Publication number: 20180213314Abstract: A cover for a wearable personal acoustic device includes a fabric cover shaped to receive and enclose a wearable personal acoustic device, and an identification tag, such as an RFID tag or optical tag, secured to the fabric cover. The fabric cover includes a stretchable material that is acoustically transparent. The fabric cover may include a closure mechanism that can provide an opening through which the wearable personal acoustic device is received or removed and a closed state in which the wearable personal acoustic device is enclosed by the fabric cover. The identification tag stores an identifier associated with the fabric cover and communicates with the wearable personal acoustic device through an identification reader. The identifier may be associated with a physical property of the fabric cover or an operational parameter of the wearable personal acoustic device. The operational parameter optionally is definable by a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2017Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Joel H. Miller, Marcey Ann Mankosa, Michael Andrew Zalisk, Daniel Winchell Tellier, Bojan Rip
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Publication number: 20180192173Abstract: A loudspeaker includes a first electro-acoustic driver that creates sound waves when operated, and a housing. A first baffle is coupled to the housing and the first electro-acoustic driver. A first speaker grille covers the first electro-acoustic driver. A first gasket is disposed between the first baffle and the first speaker grille. The first gasket comprises a first set of energy directors to reduce buzzing between the first gasket and the first baffle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2018Publication date: July 5, 2018Applicant: Bose CorporationInventors: Allen T. Graff, Roman N. Litovsky, Bojan Rip, Jason D. Silver, Donna Marie Sullivan, Chester Smith Williams, Zhen Xu
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Publication number: 20180103314Abstract: An acoustic device that has a neck loop that is constructed and arranged to be worn around the neck. The neck loop includes a housing with a first acoustic waveguide having a first sound outlet opening, and a second acoustic waveguide having a second sound outlet opening. There is a first open-backed acoustic driver acoustically coupled to the first waveguide and a second open-backed acoustic driver acoustically coupled to the second waveguide.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2017Publication date: April 12, 2018Applicant: Bose CorporationInventors: Roman N. Litovsky, Bojan Rip, Joseph M. Geiger, Chester Smith Williams, Pelham Norville, Brandon Westley
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Patent number: 9877103Abstract: An acoustic device that has a neck loop that is constructed and arranged to be worn around the neck. The neck loop includes a housing with a first acoustic waveguide having a first sound outlet opening, and a second acoustic waveguide having a second sound outlet opening. There is a first open-backed acoustic driver acoustically coupled to the first waveguide and a second open-backed acoustic driver acoustically coupled to the second waveguide.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2016Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Roman N. Litovsky, Bojan Rip, Joseph M. Geiger, Chester Smith Williams, Pelham Norville, Brandon Westley
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Patent number: 9654867Abstract: An acoustic device having a neck loop that is constructed and arranged to be worn around the neck. The neck loop includes housing that defines an acoustic volume, a first acoustic driver located at a first distal end of the housing and acoustically coupled to the housing, and a second acoustic driver located at a second distal end of the housing, opposite the first distal end and acoustically coupled to the housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2015Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Roman N. Litovsky, Bojan Rip, Joseph M. Geiger, Chester Smith Williams, Pelham Norville
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Publication number: 20170111733Abstract: An acoustic device that has a neck loop that is constructed and arranged to be worn around the neck. The neck loop includes a housing with a first acoustic waveguide having a first sound outlet opening, and a second acoustic waveguide having a second sound outlet opening. There is a first open-backed acoustic driver acoustically coupled to the first waveguide and a second open-backed acoustic driver acoustically coupled to the second waveguide.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2016Publication date: April 20, 2017Inventors: Roman N. Litovsky, Bojan Rip, Joseph M. Geiger, Chester S. Williams, Pelham Norville
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Patent number: 9571917Abstract: An acoustic device that has a neck loop that is constructed and arranged to be worn around the neck. The neck loop includes a housing with a first acoustic waveguide having a first sound outlet opening, and a second acoustic waveguide having a second sound outlet opening. There is a first open-backed acoustic driver acoustically coupled to the first waveguide and a second open-backed acoustic driver acoustically coupled to the second waveguide.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2015Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Roman N. Litovsky, Bojan Rip, Joseph M. Geiger, Chester S. Williams, Pelham Norville
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Patent number: 9554201Abstract: An audio device includes a housing having first and second support surfaces for supporting the device at different orientations relative to the surface on which the device is placed, a driver to output sound in a radiating pattern associated with a first axis of the driver, and an orientation sensor to detect a direction of a force of gravity. A control circuit coupled to the driver and the orientation sensor determines the direction of the force of gravity relative to the first axis and whether the first axis is oriented to one of a first angle of elevation associated with physically supporting the device by the first surface and a second angle of elevation associated with physically supporting the device by the second surface. The circuit can alters the output by the driver based on the first axis being oriented to the first or second angles of elevation.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Chester Smith Williams, Roman N. Litovsky, Bojan Rip, Benjamin D. Burge
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Publication number: 20160337747Abstract: An acoustic device that has a neck loop that is constructed and arranged to be worn around the neck. The neck loop includes a housing with a first acoustic waveguide having a first sound outlet opening, and a second acoustic waveguide having a second sound outlet opening. There is a first open-backed acoustic driver acoustically coupled to the first waveguide and a second open-backed acoustic driver acoustically coupled to the second waveguide.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2016Publication date: November 17, 2016Applicant: Bose CorporationInventors: Roman N. Litovsky, Bojan Rip, Joseph M. Geiger, Chester Smith Williams, Pelham Norville, Brandon Westley
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Publication number: 20160021449Abstract: An acoustic device that has a neck loop that is constructed and arranged to be worn around the neck. The neck loop includes a housing with a first acoustic waveguide having a first sound outlet opening, and a second acoustic waveguide having a second sound outlet opening. There is a first open-backed acoustic driver acoustically coupled to the first waveguide and a second open-backed acoustic driver acoustically coupled to the second waveguide.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2015Publication date: January 21, 2016Inventors: Roman N. Litovsky, Bojan Rip, Joseph M. Geiger, Chester S. Williams, Pelham Norville
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Publication number: 20160021446Abstract: An acoustic device having a neck loop that is constructed and arranged to be worn around the neck. The neck loop includes housing that defines an acoustic volume, a first acoustic driver located at a first distal end of the housing and acoustically coupled to the housing, and a second acoustic driver located at a second distal end of the housing, opposite the first distal end and acoustically coupled to the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2015Publication date: January 21, 2016Applicant: Bose CorporationInventors: Roman N. Litovsky, Bojan Rip, Joseph M. Geiger, Chester Smith Williams, Pelham Norville
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Publication number: 20150281815Abstract: An accessory shelf for a portable wireless audio system is provided. The accessory shelf may serve as a charging cradle for the portable wireless audio system when in use, and may fold parallel to the wall when not in use. The accessory shelf interacts with the portable wireless audio system to enable audio equalization parameters of the portable wireless audio system to be adjusted automatically upon connection with the accessory shelf to account for the proximity between the portable wireless audio system and a wall adjacent the accessory shelf. One or more wireless communication functions may be incorporated in the accessory shelf to enhance the capabilities of the portable wireless audio system while engaged with the accessory shelf.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2014Publication date: October 1, 2015Inventors: Bojan Rip, DonPaul Nogueira
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Publication number: 20150281866Abstract: An audio device includes a housing having first and second support surfaces for supporting the device at different orientations relative to the surface on which the device is placed, a driver to output sound in a radiating pattern associated with a first axis of the driver, and an orientation sensor to detect a direction of a force of gravity. A control circuit coupled to the driver and the orientation sensor determines the direction of the force of gravity relative to the first axis and whether the first axis is oriented to one of a first angle of elevation associated with physically supporting the device by the first surface and a second angle of elevation associated with physically supporting the device by the second surface. The circuit can alters the output by the driver based on the first axis being oriented to the first or second angles of elevation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2015Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: BOSE CORPORATIONInventors: Chester Smith Williams, Roman N. Litovsky, Bojan Rip, Benjamin D. Burge
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Patent number: 8686957Abstract: An apparatus in which an outer conductive ring surrounds the periphery of a touch-sensitive surface of a touch sensor serving as a manually-operable control, wherein a portion of the outer conductive ring is also between the touch-sensitive surface and another manually-operable control that lacks the ability to sense the mere touch of a tip of a digit of a user. A processing device causes the level of capacitance of the outer conductive ring to be measured on a recurring basis for instances of an amount of additional capacitance above a minimum capacitance threshold, and employs such amounts of additional capacitance in a comparison to distinguish between the user interacting with a control surface defined on the touch-sensitive surface of the touch sensor or the other manually-operable control.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2010Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Bojan Rip, Andrew Ferencz, Santiago Carvajal, John Michael Sakalowsky
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Patent number: 8669949Abstract: An apparatus having a touch sensor able to detect the touch of a tip of a digit of a user, having a conductive ring able to detect the approach of the tip towards the touch sensor, having a motion sensor to sense movement of a casing the apparatus, and having components of a controller to place the apparatus in one of a lower power mode after a predetermined period of inactivity has elapsed, a partial power mode in response to an indication of the approach of a tip of a digit, and a higher power state to detect touching of the touch sensor by a tip of a digit. Other forms of proximity detectors may be employed in place of the conductive ring, or the conductive ring may be replaced by one or more elongate conductors positioned about one or more sides of the periphery of a touch-sensitive surface of the touch sensor.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2010Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Barry V. Cipriano, Christopher D. Vincent, Bojan Rip, Santiago Carvajal, John Michael Sakalowsky