Patents by Inventor Eric Etheridge

Eric Etheridge 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).

  • Patent number: 11006201
    Abstract: Disclosed is a signal processor for headphone off-ear detection. The signal processor includes an audio output to transmit an audio signal toward a headphone speaker in a headphone cup. The signal processor also includes a feedback (FB) microphone input to receive a FB signal from a FB microphone in the headphone cup. The signal processor also includes an off-ear detection (OED) signal processor to determine an audio frequency response of the FB signal over an OED frame as a received frequency response. The OED processor also determines an audio frequency response of the audio signal times an off-ear transfer function between the headphone speaker and the FB microphone as an ideal off-ear response. A difference metric si generated comparing the received frequency response to the ideal off-ear frequency response. The difference metric is employed to detect when the headphone cup is disengaged from an ear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: AVNERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Amit Kumar, Shankar Rathoud, Michael Jon Wurtz, Eric Etheridge, Eric Sorensen
  • Publication number: 20200137478
    Abstract: Disclosed is a signal processor for headphone off-ear detection. The signal processor includes an audio output to transmit an audio signal toward a headphone speaker in a headphone cup. The signal processor also includes a feedback (FB) microphone input to receive a FB signal from a FB microphone in the headphone cup. The signal processor also includes an off-ear detection (OED) signal processor to determine an audio frequency response of the FB signal over an OED frame as a received frequency response. The OED processor also determines an audio frequency response of the audio signal times an off-ear transfer function between the headphone speaker and the FB microphone as an ideal off-ear response. A difference metric si generated comparing the received frequency response to the ideal off-ear frequency response. The difference metric is employed to detect when the headphone cup is disengaged from an ear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Amit Kumar, Shankar Rathoud, Michael Jon Wurtz, Eric Etheridge, Eric Sorensen
  • Patent number: 10448140
    Abstract: Disclosed is a signal processor for headphone off-ear detection. The signal processor includes an audio output to transmit an audio signal toward a headphone speaker in a headphone cup. The signal processor also includes a feedback (FB) microphone input to receive a FB signal from a FB microphone in the headphone cup. The signal processor also includes an off-ear detection (OED) signal processor to determine an audio frequency response of the FB signal over an OED frame as a received frequency response. The OED processor also determines an audio frequency response of the audio signal times an off-ear transfer function between the headphone speaker and the FB microphone as an ideal off-ear response. A difference metric si generated comparing the received frequency response to the ideal off-ear frequency response. The difference metric is employed to detect when the headphone cup is disengaged from an ear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Avnera Corporation
    Inventors: Amit Kumar, Shankar Rathoud, Mike Wurtz, Eric Etheridge, Eric Sorensen
  • Publication number: 20190174218
    Abstract: Disclosed is a signal processor for headphone off-ear detection. The signal processor includes an audio output to transmit an audio signal toward a headphone speaker in a headphone cup. The signal processor also includes a feedback (FB) microphone input to receive a FB signal from a FB microphone in the headphone cup. The signal processor also includes an off-ear detection (OED) signal processor to determine an audio frequency response of the FB signal over an OED frame as a received frequency response. The OED processor also determines an audio frequency response of the audio signal times an off-ear transfer function between the headphone speaker and the FB microphone as an ideal off-ear response. A difference metric si generated comparing the received frequency response to the ideal off-ear frequency response. The difference metric is employed to detect when the headphone cup is disengaged from an ear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Amit Kumar, Shankar Rathoud, Mike Wurtz, Eric Etheridge, Eric Sorensen
  • Patent number: 10200776
    Abstract: Disclosed is a signal processor for headphone off-ear detection. The signal processor includes an audio output to transmit an audio signal toward a headphone speaker in a headphone cup. The signal processor also includes a feedback (FB) microphone input to receive a FB signal from a FB microphone in the headphone cup. The signal processor also includes an off-ear detection (OED) signal processor to determine an audio frequency response of the FB signal over an OED frame as a received frequency response. The OED processor also determines an audio frequency response of the audio signal times an off-ear transfer function between the headphone speaker and the FB microphone as an ideal off-ear response. A difference metric si generated comparing the received frequency response to the ideal off-ear frequency response. The difference metric is employed to detect when the headphone cup is disengaged from an ear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: AVNERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Amit Kumar, Shankar Rathoud, Mike Wurtz, Eric Etheridge, Eric Sorensen
  • Publication number: 20180270564
    Abstract: Disclosed is a signal processor for headphone off-ear detection. The signal processor includes an audio output to transmit an audio signal toward a headphone speaker in a headphone cup. The signal processor also includes a feedback (FB) microphone input to receive a FB signal from a FB microphone in the headphone cup. The signal processor also includes an off-ear detection (OED) signal processor to determine an audio frequency response of the FB signal over an OED frame as a received frequency response. The OED processor also determines an audio frequency response of the audio signal times an off-ear transfer function between the headphone speaker and the FB microphone as an ideal off-ear response. A difference metric si generated comparing the received frequency response to the ideal off-ear frequency response. The difference metric is employed to detect when the headphone cup is disengaged from an ear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Amit Kumar, Shankar Rathoud, Mike Wurtz, Eric Etheridge, Eric Sorensen
  • Patent number: 9980034
    Abstract: Disclosed is a signal processor for headphone off-ear detection. The signal processor includes an audio output to transmit an audio signal toward a headphone speaker in a headphone cup. The signal processor also includes a feedback (FB) microphone input to receive a FB signal from a FB microphone in the headphone cup. The signal processor also includes an off-ear detection (OED) signal processor to determine an audio frequency response of the FB signal over an OED frame as a received frequency response. The OED processor also determines an audio frequency response of the audio signal times an off-ear transfer function between the headphone speaker and the FB microphone as an ideal off-ear response. A difference metric si generated comparing the received frequency response to the ideal off-ear frequency response. The difference metric is employed to detect when the headphone cup is disengaged from an ear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: AVNERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Amit Kumar, Shankar Rathoud, Mike Wurtz, Eric Etheridge, Eric Sorensen
  • Publication number: 20180115815
    Abstract: Disclosed is a signal processor for headphone off-ear detection. The signal processor includes an audio output to transmit an audio signal toward a headphone speaker in a headphone cup. The signal processor also includes a feedback (FB) microphone input to receive a FB signal from a FB microphone in the headphone cup. The signal processor also includes an off-ear detection (OED) signal processor to determine an audio frequency response of the FB signal over an OED frame as a received frequency response. The OED processor also determines an audio frequency response of the audio signal times an off-ear transfer function between the headphone speaker and the FB microphone as an ideal off-ear response. A difference metric si generated comparing the received frequency response to the ideal off-ear frequency response. The difference metric is employed to detect when the headphone cup is disengaged from an ear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Amit Kumar, Shankar Rathoud, Mike Wurtz, Eric Etheridge, Eric Sorensen
  • Patent number: 4809208
    Abstract: A multistage digital filter for producing an output data sequence in response to elements of an input data sequence includes a multiplier for multiplying elements of the input data sequence by selected coefficients to produce product terms. An accumulator sums product terms to produce elements of a first filter stage output sequence and elements of the first filter stage output sequence are sequentially fed back to the multiplier. The multiplier and accumulator produce accumulated sums in response to the first stage output sequence to provide a second filter stage output sequence. In a similar fashion, each filter stage output sequence is fed back to the multiplier as the input sequence to the next filter stage until the output sequence of the last filter stage is produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1989
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor L. Hansen, Eric Etheridge