Patents by Inventor Jason Harlow
Jason Harlow 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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Publication number: 20140241562Abstract: A headphone includes an acoustic transducer having a sound-radiating surface that moves along a first axis, a housing enclosing the acoustic transducer, a first acoustic chamber defined by a first side of the acoustic transducer and a first portion of the housing, the first acoustic chamber including a first reactive port in a serial configuration with an acoustic resistance to couple the first acoustic chamber with space outside the headphone, a second acoustic chamber defined by a second side of the acoustic transducer and a second portion of the housing, the second acoustic chamber separated from the first acoustic chamber by the acoustic transducer, and an opening coupling the second acoustic chamber to the wearer's ear canal along a second axis that is not parallel to the first axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: BOSE CORPORATIONInventors: Michael Monahan, Kevin P. Annunziato, Ian M. Collier, Jason Harlow, Roman Sapiejewski
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Patent number: 8798283Abstract: In an active noise reducing headphone, a signal processor applies filters and control gains of both the feed-forward and feedback active noise cancellation signal paths. The signal processor is configured to apply first feed-forward filters to the feed-forward signal path and apply first feedback filters to the feedback signal path during a first operating mode providing effective cancellation of ambient sound, and to apply second feed-forward filters to the feed-forward signal path during a second operating mode providing active hear-through of ambient sounds with ambient naturalness.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2012Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Daniel M. Gauger, Jr., Ricardo F. Carreras, Jason Harlow, Neil Adam Ranney, Martin David Ring, Roman Sapiejewski, Vishu Singh
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Patent number: 8755550Abstract: An earphone includes a first acoustic chamber having a reactive element and a resistive element in a parallel configuration, a second acoustic chamber separated from the first acoustic chamber by an acoustic transducer and including a unitary port to provide both pressure equalization of the second chamber and equalization of the earphone to a predetermined frequency response, and a housing to support the apparatus from the concha of a wearer's ear and to extend the second acoustic chamber into the ear canal of the wearer's ear.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2013Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Michael Monahan, Kevin P. Annunziato, Ian M. Collier, Jason Harlow, Roman Sapiejewski
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Publication number: 20140126734Abstract: In an active noise reducing headphone, a signal processor applies filters and control gains of both the feed-forward and feedback active noise cancellation signal paths. The signal processor is configured to apply first feed-forward filters to the feed-forward signal path and apply first feedback filters to the feedback signal path during a first operating mode providing effective cancellation of ambient sound, and to apply second feed-forward filters to the feed-forward signal path during a second operating mode providing active hear-through of ambient sounds with ambient naturalness.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: Bose CorporationInventors: Daniel M. Gauger, JR., Ricardo F. Carreras, Jason Harlow, Neil Adam Ranney, Martin David Ring, Roman Sapiejewski, Vishu Singh
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Patent number: 8682001Abstract: An active noise reduction earphone. The earphone includes structure for positioning and retaining the earphone in the ear of a user without a headband, active noise reduction circuitry including an acoustic driver with a nominal diameter greater than 10 mm oriented so that a line parallel to, or coincident with, an axis of the acoustic driver and that intersects a centerline of the nozzle intersects the centerline of the nozzle at angle ?>±30 degrees. A microphone is positioned adjacent an edge of the acoustic driver. The earphone is configured so that a portion of the acoustic driver is within the concha of a user and another portion of the acoustic driver is outside the concha of the user when the earphone is in position. An opening coupling the nozzle to the environment includes impedance providing structure in the opening.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2013Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Kevin P. Annunziato, Jason Harlow, Michael Monahan, Anand Parthasarathi, Ryan C. Silvestri, Eric M. Wallace
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Publication number: 20140079274Abstract: An earphone includes a first acoustic chamber having a reactive element and a resistive element in a parallel configuration, a second acoustic chamber separated from the first acoustic chamber by an acoustic transducer and including a unitary port to provide both pressure equalization of the second chamber and equalization of the earphone to a predetermined frequency response, and a housing to support the apparatus from the concha of a wearer's ear and to extend the second acoustic chamber into the ear canal of the wearer's ear.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: BOSE CORPORATIONInventors: Michael Monahan, Kevin P. Annunziato, Ian M. Collier, Jason Harlow, Roman Sapiejewski
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Patent number: 8611553Abstract: Apparatus and method of an ANR circuit detecting instances of instability in at least the provision of feedback-based ANR, monitoring audio that includes feedback anti-noise sounds for acoustic output by an acoustic driver for a sound having characteristics indicative of instability including at least a frequency within a range of frequencies and an amplitude reaching at least a predetermined minimum amplitude, and perhaps also a sinusoidal waveform.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2010Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Pericles Nicholas Bakalos, Jason Harlow
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Publication number: 20130315410Abstract: An active noise reduction earphone. The earphone includes structure for positioning and retaining the earphone in the ear of a user without a headband, active noise reduction circuitry including an acoustic driver with a nominal diameter greater than 10 mm oriented so that a line parallel to, or coincident with, an axis of the acoustic driver and that intersects a centerline of the nozzle intersects the centerline of the nozzle at angle ?>±30 degrees. A microphone is positioned adjacent an edge of the acoustic driver. The earphone is configured so that a portion of the acoustic driver is within the concha of a user and another portion of the acoustic driver is outside the concha of the user when the earphone is in position. An opening coupling the nozzle to the environment includes impedance providing structure in the opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2012Publication date: November 28, 2013Inventors: Kevin P. Annunziato, Jason Harlow, Michael Monahan, Anand Parthasarathi, Ryan C. Silvestri, Eric M. Wallace
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Publication number: 20130315411Abstract: An active noise reduction earphone. The earphone includes structure for positioning and retaining the earphone in the ear of a user without a headband, active noise reduction circuitry including an acoustic driver with a nominal diameter greater than 10 mm oriented so that a line parallel to, or coincident with, an axis of the acoustic driver and that intersects a centerline of the nozzle intersects the centerline of the nozzle at angle ?>±30 degrees. A microphone is positioned adjacent an edge of the acoustic driver. The earphone is configured so that a portion of the acoustic driver is within the concha of a user and another portion of the acoustic driver is outside the concha of the user when the earphone is in position. An opening coupling the nozzle to the environment includes impedance providing structure in the opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2012Publication date: November 28, 2013Inventors: Kevin P. Annunziato, Jason Harlow, Michael Monahan, Anand Parthasarathi, Ryan C. Silvestri, Eric M. Wallace
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Publication number: 20130315412Abstract: An active noise reduction earphone. The earphone includes structure for positioning and retaining the earphone in the ear of a user without a headband, active noise reduction circuitry including an acoustic driver with a nominal diameter greater than 10 mm oriented so that a line parallel to, or coincident with, an axis of the acoustic driver and that intersects a centerline of the nozzle intersects the centerline of the nozzle at angle ?>±30 degrees. A microphone is positioned adjacent an edge of the acoustic driver. The earphone is configured so that a portion of the acoustic driver is within the concha of a user and another portion of the acoustic driver is outside the concha of the user when the earphone is in position. An opening coupling the nozzle to the environment includes impedance providing structure in the opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2013Publication date: November 28, 2013Inventors: Kevin P. Annunziato, Jason Harlow, Michael Monahan, Anand Parthasarathi, Ryan C. Silvestri, Eric M. Wallace
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Patent number: 8594351Abstract: An earphone includes a first acoustic chamber having a reactive element and a resistive element in a parallel configuration, a second acoustic chamber separated from the first acoustic chamber by an acoustic transducer and including a unitary port to provide both pressure equalization of the second chamber and equalization of the earphone to a predetermined frequency response, and a housing to support the apparatus from the concha of a wearer's ear and to extend the second acoustic chamber into the ear canal of the wearer's ear.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2010Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Jason Harlow, Tetsuro Oishi, Kevin P. Annunziato, Ian M. Collier, Michael Monahan, Roman Sapiejewski
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Patent number: 8571228Abstract: An earpiece of an ANR device incorporates one or more of feedforward-based ANR; feedback-based ANR; passive noise reduction (PNR) of environmental noise sounds in the environment external to the casing of the earpiece in higher audible frequencies; a controlled leak acoustically coupling the front cavity to the environment external to the casing of the ANR device where the coupling may be through another cavity that is closable to the environment external to the casing with a leaky cover; a combination of an acoustically resistive port and a mass port coupling a rear cavity to the environment external to the casing where the coupling may be through another cavity that is closable to the environment external to the casing with a leaky cover; a feedforward microphone given acoustic access to the environment external to the casing through an aperture that is overlain with a leaky cover or that is enclosed within a cavity that is acoustically coupled to the environment external to the casing with a leak.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2010Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Roman Sapiejewski, Jason Harlow, Martin David Ring
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Patent number: 8532310Abstract: Apparatus and method of controlling provision of ANR, possibly of a personal ANR device, in which amplitudes of a piece of audio employed in the provision of ANR are monitored, and the compression of one or both of feedback and feedforward ANR reference sounds is made dependent on frequency such that a first sound of one frequency need only reach a lower amplitude to trigger compression, while a second sound of another frequency must reach a higher amplitude to trigger compression.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2010Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Daniel M. Gauger, Jr., Ricardo F. Carreras, Jason Harlow
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Patent number: 8374373Abstract: A headset including an earcup having a front opening adapted to be adjacent to the ear of the user, a baffle disposed within the earcup to define front and rear cavities, a cushion extending around the periphery of the front opening of the earcup and constructed and arranged to accommodate the ear of the user, the cushion having a first density, an inner radial portion, and an outer radial portion opposite the inner radial portion, a cushion cover substantially surrounding the cushion to form a headphone cushion assembly, and a high impedance component having a second density and located near the outer radial portion to increase the transmission loss of the cushion along a radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2008Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Roman Sapiejewski, Kevin P. Annunziato, Ian M. Collier, Jason Harlow
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Publication number: 20110243344Abstract: Apparatus and method of an ANR circuit detecting instances of instability in at least the provision of feedback-based ANR, monitoring audio that includes feedback anti-noise sounds for acoustic output by an acoustic driver for a sound having characteristics indicative of instability including at least a frequency within a range of frequencies and an amplitude reaching at least a predetermined minimum amplitude, and perhaps also a sinusoidal waveform.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2010Publication date: October 6, 2011Inventors: Pericles Nicholas Bakalos, Jason Harlow
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Publication number: 20110243343Abstract: Apparatus and method of controlling provision of ANR, possibly of a personal ANR device, in which amplitudes of a piece of audio employed in the provision of ANR are monitored, and the compression of one or both of feedback and feedforward ANR reference sounds is made dependent on frequency such that a first sound of one frequency need only reach a lower amplitude to trigger compression, while a second sound of another frequency must reach a higher amplitude to trigger compression.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2010Publication date: October 6, 2011Inventors: Daniel M. Gauger, JR., Ricardo F. Carreras, Jason Harlow
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Publication number: 20110058704Abstract: An earphone includes a first acoustic chamber having a reactive element and a resistive element in a parallel configuration, a second acoustic chamber separated from the first acoustic chamber by an acoustic transducer and including a unitary port to provide both pressure equalization of the second chamber and equalization of the earphone to a predetermined frequency response, and a housing to support the apparatus from the concha of a wearer's ear and to extend the second acoustic chamber into the ear canal of the wearer's ear.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2010Publication date: March 10, 2011Inventors: Jason Harlow, Tetsuro Oishi
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Publication number: 20110044464Abstract: An earpiece of an ANR device incorporates one or more of feedforward-based ANR; feedback-based ANR; passive noise reduction (PNR) of environmental noise sounds in the environment external to the casing of the earpiece in higher audible frequencies; a controlled leak acoustically coupling the front cavity to the environment external to the casing of the ANR device where the coupling may be through another cavity that is closable to the environment external to the casing with a leaky cover; a combination of an acoustically resistive port and a mass port coupling a rear cavity to the environment external to the casing where the coupling may be through another cavity that is closable to the environment external to the casing with a leaky cover; a feedforward microphone given acoustic access to the environment external to the casing through an aperture that is overlain with a leaky cover or that is enclosed within a cavity that is acoustically coupled to the environment external to the casing with a leak.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2010Publication date: February 24, 2011Inventors: Roman Sapiejewski, Jason Harlow, Martin David Ring
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Publication number: 20100128884Abstract: A headset including an earcup having a front opening adapted to be adjacent to the ear of the user, a baffle disposed within the earcup to define front and rear cavities, a cushion extending around the periphery of the front opening of the earcup and constructed and arranged to accommodate the ear of the user, the cushion having a first density, an inner radial portion, and an outer radial portion opposite the inner radial portion, a cushion cover substantially surrounding the cushion to form a headphone cushion assembly, and a high impedance component having a second density and located near the outer radial portion to increase the transmission loss of the cushion along a radial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2008Publication date: May 27, 2010Inventors: Roman Sapiejewski, Kevin P. Annunziato, Ian M. Collier, Jason Harlow