Patents by Inventor Xin Qi

Xin Qi 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).

  • Publication number: 20240388852
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a bone conduction speaker and its compound vibration device. The compound vibration device comprises a vibration conductive plate and a vibration board, the vibration conductive plate is set to be the first torus, where at least two first rods inside it converge to its center; the vibration board is set as the second torus, where at least two second rods inside it converge to its center. The vibration conductive plate is fixed with the vibration board; the first torus is fixed on a magnetic system, and the second torus comprises a fixed voice coil, which is driven by the magnetic system. The bone conduction speaker in the present invention and its compound vibration device adopt the fixed vibration conductive plate and vibration board, making the technique simpler with a lower cost; because the two adjustable parts in the compound vibration device can adjust both low frequency and high frequency area, the frequency response obtained is flatter and the sound is broader.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xin QI, Fengyun LIAO, Jinbo ZHENG, Qian CHEN, Hao CHEN
  • Publication number: 20240388843
    Abstract: The present application discloses a sound-output device, a vibration speaker configured to generate a bone-conducted sound wave; and an air-conducted speaker configured to generate an air-conducted sound wave. The vibration speaker is coupled to the air-conducted speaker through a mechanical structure; and the bone-conducted sound wave is input to the air-conducted speaker at least in part as an input signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: Shenzhen Shokz Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei ZHANG, Junjiang FU, Fengyun LIAO, Xin QI
  • Publication number: 20240388831
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pair of glasses. The pair of glasses may include a frame, one or more lenses, and one or more temples. The pair of glasses may further include at least one low-frequency acoustic driver, at least one high-frequency acoustic driver, and a controller. The at least one low-frequency acoustic driver may be configured to output sounds from at least two first guiding holes. The at least one high-frequency acoustic driver may be configured to output sounds from at least two second guiding holes. The controller may be configured to direct the low-frequency acoustic driver to output the sounds in a first frequency range and direct the high-frequency acoustic driver to output the sounds in a second frequency range. The second frequency range may include one or more frequencies higher than one or more frequencies in the first frequency range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei ZHANG, Junjiang FU, Bingyan YAN, Fengyun LIAO, Xin QI
  • Publication number: 20240386900
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for processing a signal. The system for processing a signal may include at least one microphone and at least one vibration sensor. The at least one microphone may be configured to collect a sound signal, and the sound signal may include at least one of user voice and environmental noise. The at least one vibration sensor may be configured to collect a vibration signal, and the vibration signal may include at least one of the user voice and the environmental noise. The system for processing a signal may also comprise a processor. The processor may be configured to determine a relationship between a noise component in the sound signal and a noise component in the vibration signal, and obtain a target vibration signal by performing, based at least on the relationship, noise reduction processing on the vibration signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinbo ZHENG, Fengyun LIAO, Xin QI
  • Publication number: 20240382099
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a signal acquisition device including a wearable object provided with a sensor, a sub-base, and a mother base fixed on the wearable object. The wearable object is configured to be worn on a user and acquire a physiological signal of the user via the sensor. The sub-base is configured to accommodate a circuit structure. The circuit structure includes a power supply circuit and a signal transmitter, the power supply circuit is configured to supply power to the sensor, and the signal transmitter is configured to send the physiological signal to an external device. The sub-base is detachably connected with the mother base. The mother base includes a transmission interface. When the mother base is connected with the sub-base, the circuit structure is electrically connected with the sensor via the transmission interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xin ZHOU, Yifeng GAN, Yuxiang ZHANG, Fengyun LIAO, Xin QI
  • Publication number: 20240385712
    Abstract: A touch sensing device may include an air pressure sensor having a hole portion, an interior of the air pressure sensor being in flow communication with an exterior of the air pressure sensor through the hole portion; and a sealing structure being in flow communication with the air pressure sensor. The sealing structure and the air pressure sensor may form a cavity, the cavity being in flow communication with the interior of the air pressure sensor through the hole portion. A part of the cavity enclosed by the sealing structure may deform under user contact, and the deformation may cause a change of an air pressure change at the cavity. The air pressure sensor may receive the change of the air pressure at the cavity through the hole portion and convert the change of the air pressure into an electrical signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongshuai YUAN, Fengyun LIAO, Xin QI
  • Publication number: 20240388841
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an earphone including: a sound generation component, including a transducer and a housing accommodating the transducer, the housing being provided with a sound outlet hole and a pressure relief hole, the sound outlet hole being provided on an inner side of the housing facing an auricle, and the pressure relief hole being provided on an other side of the housing; an ear hook configured to place the sound generation component near an ear canal without blocking the ear canal in a wearing state; and a microphone assembly at least including a first microphone and a second microphone provided in the sound generation component or the ear hook, the sound generation component or the ear hook being provided with a first sound receiving hole and a second sound receiving hole corresponding to the first microphone and the second microphone, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei ZHANG, Peigeng TONG, Guolin XIE, Yongjian LI, Jiang XU, Tao ZHAO, Duoduo WU, Ao JI, Xin QI
  • Publication number: 20240382138
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for monitoring user's running and a signal collection device. The method may include: obtaining an electromyographic (EMG) signal of a leg muscle of a user when the user is running; identifying a plurality of feature values of the EMG signal in a plurality of target time intervals; and in response to that the plurality of feature values satisfy a preset condition, generating running feedback information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xin ZHOU, Lei SU, Meiqi LI, Yuxiang ZHANG, Jia LIU, Yixuan NING, Fengyun LIAO, Xin QI
  • Patent number: 12146281
    Abstract: A throwing toughness buffer mesh unit for a rockfall protection and a design method of a critical throwing angle thereof are provided. The throwing toughness buffer mesh unit includes a cable column, wherein the cable column is provided with a sliding device on a top end and connected to a foundation structure via a hinged support at a bottom; a support rope, wherein the support rope is connected to the sliding device on the cable column in a sliding way and provided with a spring buffer on an end, wherein the spring buffer is obliquely anchored to a rock mass base near a protection structure; a protection net, which is obliquely hung on the support rope via a connector. A pavement inclination angle of the protection net is adjusted to a critical throwing angle by adjusting a height difference between cable columns to control a throwing track of falling rocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Southwest Jiaotong University
    Inventors: Zhixiang Yu, Lijun Zhang, Liru Luo, Yuntao Jin, Lei Zhao, Xin Qi, Shichun Zhao
  • Publication number: 20240377243
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure may disclose a vibration sensor, including: an acoustic transducer and a vibration assembly connected with the acoustic transducer. The vibration assembly may be configured to transmit an external vibration signal to the acoustic transducer to generate an electric signal, the vibration assembly includes one or more groups of vibration diaphragms and mass blocks, and the mass blocks may be physically connected with the vibration diaphragms. The vibration assembly may be configured to make a sensitivity degree of the vibration sensor greater than a sensitivity degree of the acoustic transducer in one or more target frequency bands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongshuai YUAN, Wenjun DENG, Wenbing ZHOU, Yujia HUANG, Fengyun LIAO, Xin QI
  • Publication number: 20240381037
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present disclosure relates to a method and system for evaluating a hearing threshold of a user after using a bone-conduction hearing aid. The method includes obtaining a bone-conduction hearing threshold of the user; obtaining a bone-conduction component input-output curve of the bone-conduction hearing aid; and determining the hearing threshold of the user after using the bone-conduction hearing aid based on the bone-conduction hearing threshold of the user and the bone-conduction component input-output curve of the bone-conduction hearing aid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bingyan YAN, Fengyun LIAO, Xin QI
  • Publication number: 20240378727
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for image processing. For instance, a process can include obtaining an image; extracting a first set of features at a first scale resolution; extracting a second set of features at a second scale resolution (lower than the first scale resolution); performing a self-attention transform to generate similarity scores for the second set of features; adding the similarity scores to the second set of features to generate a first feature extractor output; up-sampling the first feature extractor output to generate a second feature extractor output; adding the second feature extractor output to the first set of features to generate a third feature extractor output; receiving an instance query; performing a cross-attention transform on the instance query and the first feature extractor output to generate a set of weights; and matrix multiplying the set of weights and the third feature extractor output to generate instance masks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Xin LI, Jiancheng LYU, Yingyong QI
  • Patent number: 12142290
    Abstract: An audio generation method and system provided in this disclosure can dynamically select a frequency splicing point of an audio signal based on voice quality of a first audio signal and a second audio signal corresponding to each frequency in a frequency domain, divide the frequency domain into a first frequency interval and a second frequency interval, select audio signals of higher voice quality that correspond to each frequency interval for splicing, and obtain a target audio signal after fusion of the first audio signal and the second audio signal, so that voice quality of the target audio signal in each frequency interval in the frequency domain is the best, thereby improving voice quality of the target audio signal after fusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen Shokz Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinbo Zheng, Meilin Zhou, Fengyun Liao, Xin Qi
  • Patent number: 12143763
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to acoustic technology, in particular to an earphone including a sound generation portion. The sound generation portion includes a transducer and a housing for accommodating the transducer. The earphone further includes an earhook. The earhook includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion may be hung between an auricle and the head of a user, and the second portion may be connected to the first portion, extends toward an anterolateral side of the auricle, and may be connected to the sound generation portion. The sound generation portion may be fixed near an ear canal without blocking an opening of the ear canal. In at least one frequency range, when an input current of the transducer does not exceed 35.3 mA, a maximum sound pressure that the sound generation portion is able to provide to the ear canal may not be smaller than 75 dB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Peigeng Tong, Guolin Xie, Yongjian Li, Jiang Xu, Tao Zhao, Duoduo Wu, Ao Ji, Xin Qi
  • Publication number: 20240370087
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a wearable device including a wearable body and at least one inductive sensor. The at least one inductive sensor includes an inductive structure wound by a conductive wire. The at least one inductive sensor may be attached to the wearable body at a position corresponding to the joint position of the user, and the inductive structure may generate a varying inductance in response to a deformation at the joint position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenjun DENG, Yujia HUANG, Yongshuai YUAN, Wenbing ZHOU, Fengyun LIAO, Xin QI
  • Publication number: 20240366113
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a wearable apparatus, comprising: a wearable body. A plurality of inductive sensors may be distributed on the wearable body. The plurality of inductive sensors include a plurality of inductive sensors crossing a joint contour. Each of the plurality of inductive sensors includes an inductive structure that is enclosed by a conductive wire. Each of the plurality of inductive sensors is attached to a position of the wearable body corresponding to a joint position and generates variable inductances with deformations of the joint position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenjun DENG, Fengyun LIAO, Xin QI
  • Publication number: 20240365054
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an earphone. The earphone includes a loudspeaker component and at least one blocking member, the at least one blocking member including a first blocking member, the first blocking member being provided on one side of the loudspeaker component, wherein, in a wearing state, at least a portion of the first blocking member extends in an extension direction from the loudspeaker component to an ear canal of a user. In the above manner, the earphone provided in the present disclosure can increase a volume heard by the user's ear, so that the user can hear the content with a smaller volume and also the sound leakage can be reduced, thereby improving the user's listening effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhen WANG, Juan WANG, Lei ZHANG, Xin QI
  • Publication number: 20240365069
    Abstract: The present disclosure application relates to a transducer, a loudspeaker, and an acoustic output device. The transducer comprises: a magnetic circuit system including a magnet, a magnetic conductive plate and a magnetic conductive cover, the magnet and the magnetic conductive plate being arranged along a vibration direction of the transducer; and a vibration plate including a first vibration plate and a second vibration plate, the first vibration plate and the second vibration plate being fixed on both sides of the magnet along a vibration direction of a magnet assembly and used to elastically support the magnet respectively; wherein the magnet is provided with a first hole, and the magnetic conductive plate is provided with a second hole, the second hole being arranged correspondingly to the first hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guangyuan ZHU, Lei ZHANG, Junjiang FU, Xin QI
  • Publication number: 20240365049
    Abstract: The present disclosure application relates to a transducer, a loudspeaker, and an acoustic output device. The transducer comprises: a magnetic circuit system including a magnet assembly and a magnetic conductive cover, the magnetic conductive cover being arranged at least partially around the magnet assembly; and a vibration plate, including a first vibration plate and a second vibration plate, the first vibration plate and the second vibration plate being respectively distributed on both sides of the magnet assembly along a vibration direction of the magnet assembly, and being configured to elastically support the magnet assembly, wherein an equivalent stiffness of the first vibration plate or the second vibration plate in any direction perpendicular to the vibration direction of the magnet assembly is greater than 4.7×104 N/m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei ZHANG, Guangyuan ZHU, Junjiang FU, Xin QI
  • Publication number: 20240365058
    Abstract: A bone conduction microphone is provided. The bone conduction microphone may include a laminated structure formed by a vibration unit and an acoustic transducer unit. The bone conduction microphone may include a base structure configured to carry the laminated structure. At least one side of the laminated structure may be physically connected to the base structure. The base structure may vibrate based on an external vibration signal. The vibration unit may be deformed in response to the vibration of the base structure. The acoustic transducer unit may generate an electrical signal based on the deformation of the vibration unit. The bone conduction microphone may include at least one damping structural layer. The at least one damping structural layer may be arranged on an upper surface, a lower surface, and/or an interior of the laminated structure, and the at least one damping layer may be connected to the base structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenbing ZHOU, Yongshuai YUAN, Wenjun DENG, Xin QI, Fengyun LIAO