Abstract: Devices, methods, and computer program products are provided herein for hearing safety. An example hearing safety device configured to be worn by a user includes an earmuff body that defines an interior cavity configured to receive the user's ear therein when worn by the user and an exterior surface opposite the interior cavity. The hearing safety device includes an ear lid attached to a surface of the interior cavity. The ear lid projects into the interior cavity from the surface of the interior cavity and defines a sealing surface configured to substantially seal an ear canal of the user's ear when the hearing safety device is worn by the user. The hearing safety device also includes an adjustment mechanism operably attached to the ear lid and configured to move the ear lid relative the interior cavity of the earmuff body.

Abstract: A method and system is disclosed for a headset with force isolation, where the headset comprises a headband having two upper headband sections coupled by a center block and two ear cups, where each ear cup is coupled to one of the two upper headband sections. The two upper headband sections may include side support strips between which a movable strip may be placed, thereby increasing the rigidness of the headband when fully extended between the side support strips. The rigidness of the headband may decrease when the movable strips are retracted from between the side support strips and into the center block utilizing a slider knob. The side support strips may be plastic and the movable strip may be metal. The center block may be more rigid than the side support strips. The center block may be plastic. The headband may include headband endcaps at lower ends of the headband.

Abstract: An earpiece device includes a housing, a sound generator and a first blocker. The sound generator includes a first loudspeaker which includes a vibrating board. The vibrating board includes a first sound generating surface and a second sound generating surface. The first sound generating surface is disposed towards the exterior of the housing. The second sound generating surface is disposed opposite to the first sound generating surface. The first blocker includes a first portion, a second portion, a first side surface and a second side surface. The first side surface is disposed towards the first sound generating surface. The second side surface is disposed opposite to the first side surface. The first portion is disposed between the first side surface and the second side surface and is fixed to the cover plate. The second portion is disposed opposite to the first portion and is distant from the cover plate.

Abstract: Introduced here are approaches to authenticating the identity of speakers based on the “liveness” of the input. To prevent spoofing, an authentication platform may establish the likelihood that a voice sample represents a recording of word(s) uttered by a speaker whose identity is to be authenticated and then, based on the likelihood, determine whether to authenticate the speaker.

Abstract: The present technology is to improve usability. Provided is an attachment portion which includes a first pressing portion and a second pressing portion to be pressed against both surfaces of an auricle respectively and is attached to an ear in a state of sandwiching the auricle. A pair of the attachment portions is provided, and the pair of attachment portions can be engaged with each other. With this structure, the pair of attachment portions can be engaged with each other when not in use and the like, entanglement between cords or between the cords and the attachment portions can be prevented, and usability can be improved.

Abstract: A pulse oximeter sensor with earhook assembly for placement along the outside of a person's ear supported by the ear flap and ear lobe into which is placed a sensors for receiving and transmitting human body's analytics such as pulse or blood oxygen saturation.

Abstract: Auricular attachments should be comfortable for long term wear. An auricular interface based on a skirt attachment is disclosed. By separating the uplifting force of the skirt from a separate downward force a more comfortable wearing is achieved. The skirt can optionally be pleated. The objective is achieved by a skirt structure having an outer surface that contacts least a part of an inner part of an outer boundary of a concha of a pinna, without the skirt touching the floor of the concha.

Abstract: Provided is a portable telephone or an earphone or an electromagnetic-type vibration unit that comprises an electromagnetic-type vibrator including two mutually relatively moving portions supported via an elastic body, and that is configured to produce vibrations from at least one of the two portions for cartilage conduction. The elastic body provides a cartilage conduction portion to be contacted with the ear cartilage. The elastic body is disposed on or in the vicinity of an upper corner portion of a housing. One of the two portions is supported on a housing structure with the elastic body supported by the housing structure, and the other of the two portions is supported by the elastic body. Of the two portions, one with a greater weight is supported by the elastic body. Of the two portions, one or a portion connected thereto provides a cartilage conduction portion to be contacted with the ear cartilage, with the elastic body disposed between the two portions.

Abstract: A ring-shaped cushion for a hearing protector or audio headset. The cushion has a circumferential contact pad for sealing on a wearer's head and an attachment for sealing with an earmuff. The cushion further has a sound insulation tube that inwardly defines an inner space. The sound insulation tube extends between the contact pad and the attachment. The cushion has a ventilation passage that extends entirely through the cushion between an inlet opening in the contact pad and an area outside of the inner space. The cushion may further include one or more physiological sensors to monitor the health of a wearer.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the present disclosure, an ear cup assembly for a hearing protector is provided. In accordance with an example, the ear cup assembly comprises an outer casing, a sealing ring detachably attached on the rim of the outer casing and suitable for sealingly abut against the head of a user around an ear of the user, and a user operable release mechanism for loosening the sealing ring from the outer casing, said release mechanism arranged within the outer casing.

Abstract: A communication device for hearing protection devices provides communication capabilities to users adorning hearing protection devices, which would ordinarily hinder or block communication. The communication device removably attaches to a cup of a hearing protection device and connects to the speakers thereof. One or more wireless transceivers provide wireless transmission of vocal communication and other sound between users of hearing protection devices enhanced with the communication device. Users remain protected by their hearing protection devices and while communicating freely in high decibel environments.

Abstract: A sound output device includes a speaker that outputs sound, a housing that includes a sound introduction hook, the sound introduction hook having an internal space that is formed as a sound introduction space for introducing sound output from the speaker, the speaker being arranged in the housing, and an ear pad portion that is provided to be continuous to the housing, the sound introduction hook including an opening through which sound is emitted toward an ear, the sound introduction hook being to be mounted on a root portion of an auricle from a helix side, the ear pad portion being to be mounted on the root portion of the auricle from an earlobe side.

Abstract: This disclosure presents a collapsible headphone comprising earpieces having inner sides facing the head of a user when the headphone is worn. The headphone further comprises a headband and joint structures connecting the earpieces to the headband. Each joint structure has a hinge joint and a pivot joint wherein the hinge joints connect the earpieces to the headband via the pivot joints. Each hinge joint comprises a hinge axis and each pivot joint comprises a pivot axis, the hinge axes being non-parallel to the pivot axes. The headphone is collapsible to a collapsed configuration where said inner sides are arranged essentially in parallel with the headband and facing each other.

Abstract: A speaker unit with dual diaphragms and dual coils includes a casing, first and second magnetic members, and first and second vibration systems. The casing has a chamber. The first and second magnetic members are disposed in the chamber. The first vibration system includes a first diaphragm fixed on the casing and located in the chamber, and a first coil fixed on the first diaphragm and located beside the first magnetic member. The first diaphragm has a ring shape. An orthogonal projection of the second magnetic member on an inner bottom surface of the casing is completely located in an orthogonal projection of a central opening of the first diaphragm on the inner bottom surface. The second vibration system includes a second diaphragm fixed on the casing and located in the chamber, and a second coil fixed on the second diaphragm and located beside the second magnetic element.

Abstract: An ear splint for an ear is provided having a central portion having an exterior surface defining a first topology that is configured to dwell within an anterior scaphoid section of an ear, and a wing portion extending from the central portion and integrally formed therewith and at least partially surrounding an outer periphery of the central portion. The wing portion includes an exterior surface defining a second topology and is configured to be positioned along a postauricular area of the ear. The first magnetic device is disposed in the central portion and the second magnetic device is disposed in the wing portion. The magnetic retention feature exert a magnetic attractive force between the central portion and the wing portion such that at least a portion of the exterior surface of the central portion and at least a portion of the exterior surface of the wing portion contact the ear.

Abstract: Provided is a loudspeaker device that includes a body and a lock lever. The body includes an actuator that operates in response to an input drive signal, and an attachment part attachable to an adapter mounted on a helmet and including an engagement part. The lock lever includes a locking part, the lock lever being rotatably supported by the body, and allow, when rotated, the locking part to be engaged with the engagement part. The loudspeaker device is designed to be attachable and detachable to and from the adapter. The body is designed to be locked on the adapter, as a result of engagement of the locking part with the engagement part. The loudspeaker device allows for easy mounting on the helmet, while being prevented in a mounted state from falling from the helmet.

Abstract: A protective headphone cover comprising a cover member configured to interface with an outer side of a headphone, and an elastic locking member attached to the cover member and defining an elastic opening operable to wrap around the headphone. The protective headphone cover can also comprise at least one inner panel pivotally attached to the cover member and interfaceable to an inner side of the headphone. The at least one inner panel can comprise an audio opening to facilitate passage of audio waves from the headphone to the user. The at least one inner panel can comprise a first inner panel and a second inner panel attached to each other about an intermediate joint attachment section. A method of making a protective headphone cover, and a method of protecting headphones, are provided.

Abstract: Headphones includes a pair of cups, each housing a speaker to be positioned over an ear of a user, a microphone, a processor, an actuator to move a member of at least one of the cups to uncover at least a portion of the ear of the user to expose the user to ambient sound, a user control to active a training mode of the headphones in which the processor operates the microphone to record relevant sounds occurring when the training mode is activated, the processor to subsequently analyze ambient sounds external to the headphones that are received by the microphone and compare those ambient sounds to the recorded relevant sounds and the processor to selectively activate the actuator to uncover at least a portion of the ear of the user to expose the user to ambient sound in response to determining that the ambient sounds match the relevant sounds.

Abstract: The present invention provides a sound transducer structure of electronic device relating to the technical field of acoustics. The sound transducer structure includes a housing having an accommodating cavity, a sound generator received in the accommodating cavity, and a sound outlet disposed in the housing. A sound guiding groove communicates between the sound generator and the sound outlet, so that a sound generated at the sound generator is conducted along the sound guiding groove and is transmitted out of the housing from the sound outlet. The sound outlet includes a first sound outlet for transmitting sound in a receiver mode and a second sound outlet for transmitting sound in a loudspeaker mode. The second sound outlet is covered with a sound pressure sensitive member.

Abstract: To provide an excellent sound output device which is worn on an ear of a user and used. The sound output device includes a sound generation part and a holding part that has an opening portion and holds the sound generation part in the vicinity of an entrance of an ear canal of a user. The holding part includes a ring body having the opening portion, and a housing of the sound generation part is integrated with a part of the ring body. The sound generation part includes a sound generation element having a dynamic type driver, and has a hollow exhaust part joining with a rear surface of the housing of the sound generation part. The exhaust part extends from a rear surface side of the housing across an intertragic notch and has an exhaust hole outside an auricle.

Abstract: A hearing aid (10) and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the hearing (10) includes a body (112) that at least partially conforms to the contours of the external ear and is sized to engage therewith. Various electronic components are contained within the body (112), including an electronic signal processor (130) that is programmed with a preferred hearing range, which may be an about 10 Hz frequency to an about 30 Hz frequency range of sound corresponding to highest hearing capacity of a patient. Sound received at the hearing aid (10) is converted to the preferred hearing range prior to output.

Abstract: This disclosure includes several different features suitable for use in circumaural and supra-aural headphones designs. Designs that reduce the size of headphones and allow for small form-factor storage configurations are discussed. User convenience features that include synchronizing earpiece stem positions and automatically detecting the orientation of the headphones on a user's head are also discussed. Various power-saving features, design features, sensor configurations and user comfort features are also discussed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a piece of ear jewelry having at least one ear part to be worn on each ear of a user, wherein each ear part has a jewelry body, to be worn in a predetermined wearing position on an outside of the ear, and a retaining device for retaining the jewelry body in the wearing position on the ear, wherein the auditory canal of the ear remains free. The piece of ear jewelry incorporates all of the following electrical components completely and so as to be invisible from the outside: a microphone device, a loudspeaker device and a communication unit for providing a bidirectional, wireless communication link to a portable terminal of the user, in order to use the communication link to transmit a microphone signal from the microphone device to the terminal and to receive a loudspeaker signal for the loudspeaker device from the terminal.

Abstract: A headphone in which the air pressure in a front cavity can be released to an external space, and whose characteristics in a low frequency range can be simply and finely adjusted is provided. The headphone includes: a driver unit; a baffle member holding the driver unit; the passage forming member attached to the baffle member and forming a vent passage with the baffle member; an ear pad defining a first space; and a cover member defining a second space. The baffle member includes: a first surface facing the first space; a second surface facing the second space; and a first through hole communicating with an internal space of the vent passage. The passage forming member includes a second through hole communicating with the internal space of the vent passage. The second space communicates with an external space of the cover member. The first space communicates with the second space through the first through hole, the vent passage, and the second through hole.

Abstract: A stable wearing state on an ear is secured. A speaker that outputs sound; a speaker arrangement portion in which the speaker is arranged therein; and a sound guiding pipe in which one end portion is continuous with the speaker arrangement portion and an internal space is formed as a sound guiding space that leads the sound outputted from the speaker are provided, in which an opening that emits the sound toward an ear is formed at the other end of the sound guiding pipe. The sound output apparatus is worn on the ear by sandwiching the outer peripheral portion of the auricle between the sound guiding pipe and the speaker arrangement portion or by the sound guiding pipe so that a stable wearing state on the ear can be secured.

Abstract: An audio headset may include at least one headset earpiece including a speaker. The audio headset may include a removable ear cushion removably attached to the at least one headset ear piece. The audio headset may be configured to recognize a type of the removable ear cushion.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present applications sets forth a wearable device that includes an interface layer configured to extend into an ear canal and a first audio emitter configuration coupled to the interface layer. The first audio emitter configuration is configured to produce a first plurality of soundwaves that are each directed towards a first point proximate to the first audio emitter configuration. The first plurality of soundwaves generates a first target soundwave that radiates in a first direction.

Abstract: A guard configured to form an air flow channel with a space access device and to clear debris therefrom includes a surface configured to interface with an opposing surface of the space access device to form the air flow channel. A connector is configured to attach the guard to the space access device so that the surface and the opposing surface are oriented in predetermined positions to establish the air flow channel. A wiper extends from at least a portion of the surface, the wiper being configured such that upon rotation of the guard relative to the space access device, the wiper contacts and moves the debris.

Abstract: Intra-concha earphones are disclosed. In an embodiment, an intra-concha earphone includes a housing having a rear space divided into a back volume, a bass duct, and a vent chamber between a driver and a rear wall. The vent chamber may be acoustically coupled with the back volume through both an acoustic port and the bass duct. Furthermore, the vent chamber may be acoustically coupled with a surrounding environment through a vent port, which may be a sole acoustic opening in the rear wall. Thus, sound emitted by the driver may propagate through the acoustic port and the bass duct to meet in the vent chamber before being discharged through the vent port to the surrounding environment. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Abstract: A device, including a behind-the-ear (BTE) device ear interface fixture, the fixture including a loop portion configured to enable a pinna of a recipient to be inserted there through and an attachment portion configured to removably attach the fixture to a BTE electronics module and/or a BTE battery, wherein the inner perimeter of the loop portion is non-circular when the loop portion is in a relaxed state.

Abstract: In order to control the output in a low-pitched sound domain zone or a specific frequency domain zone of an earphone, provided is an earphone comprising: a driver unit; a housing forming an electric component part so as to load the driver unit; a groove formed along a first path on the inner surface of the housing; a pipeline damper covering the inner surface of the housing so as to form a pipeline along the groove; a first external base hole formed in the housing at a first point of the pipeline; and an internal base hole formed in the pipeline damper at a second point of the pipeline.

Abstract: A sound bar is provided which includes a generally elongate rectangular structure, with one angled output face having a plurality of speakers disposed therein, to thereby provide enhanced audio output. The sound bar is beneficially provided with a single mounting surface configured and arranged such that the sound bar can be mounted on both a table/shelf (horizontal orientation) and a wall (vertical orientation) via the single mounting surface by rotating the sound bar 180°, wherein the audio output in both mounting orientations is a multi-directional 3D audio output that travels to and bounces off both the walls and the ceiling of a room in which the sound bar is located.

Abstract: An apparatus for charging a portable wireless listening device including a housing having a socket to receive the portable wireless listening device; a battery; wireless circuitry that enables the apparatus to communicate wirelessly with a host device; power transmitting circuitry configured to provide power to the portable wireless listening device when the device is received in the socket to charge a battery within the portable wireless listening device; and a processor configured to configured to establish a wireless communication protocol between the portable wireless listening device and the host device.

Abstract: A method and system is disclosed for a headset with force isolation, where the headset comprises a headband having two upper headband sections coupled by a center block and two ear cups, where each ear cup is coupled to one of the two upper headband sections. The two upper headband sections may include side support strips between which a movable strip may be placed, thereby increasing the rigidness of the headband when fully extended between the side support strips. The rigidness of the headband may decrease when the movable strips are retracted from between the side support strips and into the center block utilizing a slider knob. The side support strips may be plastic and the movable strip may be metal. The center block may be more rigid than the side support strips. The center block may be plastic. The headband may include headband endcaps at lower ends of the headband.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide devices, methods, and systems that support electrical connection, signal delivery, and/or communication between internal and external portions of a Faraday cage. In some embodiments, devices and methods are provided for transmitting electrical signals through a waveguide port of a Faraday cage. In some embodiments, aspects of the present disclosure are employed to adapt a magnetic resonance imaging system for communications between a scanner room and a control room.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a generally circular, oval or rectangular sealing ring for an acoustic device, the sealing ring being configured for being in contact with the skin of a user during use. The method includes: forming, in an injection molding step, a covering being generally U-shaped in cross-section; and attaching the end sections of the covering to a support element. The invention also relates to a sealing ring of the above-mentioned type.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for audio amplification devices are provided herein. In certain configurations, an audio amplification device includes a device body, at least one speaker, an electrical system housed in the device body, and one or more light elements integrated into the device body. The electrical system is configured to control an output of sound to the at least one speaker. Additionally, the electrical system controls the one or more light elements, such as by controlling light intensity, flashing rate, and/or color, to thereby enhance safety to the user.

Abstract: The present invention provides for an apparatus, system, and method for generating a head related audio transfer function in real time. Specifically, the present invention utilizes unique structural components including a tragus structure and an antihelix structure in connection with a microphone in order to communicate the location of a sound in three dimensional space to a user. The invention also utilizes an audio processor to digitally process the head related audio transfer function.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method for enhancing noise reduction amount of a feedback active noise reduction headphone and active noise reduction headphones. The method includes: arranging a noise reduction microphone of the feedback active noise reduction headphone at a position away from directly in front of a loudspeaker; and adjusting a relative position between the noise reduction microphone and an ear canal opening of a wearer, and enabling an open-loop transfer function at the ear canal opening L2(s0) and an open-loop transfer function at the noise reduction microphone L1(s0) to satisfy a relation of |L2(s0)|>|L1(s0)|, to enhance an actual noise reduction amount at the ear canal opening.

Abstract: An ear hook apparatus, including an ear hook tip, an ear hook chassis, and a male connector, wherein the ear hook apparatus is configured such that the male connector attaches to one or more components of a BTE device at and/or below a base of a BTE electronics module of the BTE device.

Abstract: An audio device with a body configured to be worn on or abutting an outer ear of a user, wherein the body is configured to contact at least one of the outer ear and the portion of the head that abuts the outer ear, at two separate spaced contact locations, and wherein the body is compliant at a body portion that defines one of the contact locations. The device also has an acoustic module carried by the body and configured to locate a sound-emitting opening anteriorly of and proximate the user's ear canal opening when the body is worn on or abutting the ear of the user.

Abstract: Provided is a sound output device worn on an ear of a listener and used, and having listening characteristics of an ambient sound in a wearing state. A sound output device 100 includes a sound generating portion 110 that generates a sound, a sound guiding portion 120 that takes in the sound generated in the sound generating portion 110 from one end 121, and a holding portion 130 that holds the sound guiding portion 120 in the vicinity of the other end 122. The holding portion 130 is engaged with an intertragic notch, and supports the sound guiding portion 120 such that a sound output hole of the other end 122 of the sound guiding portion 120 to face a depth side of an ear canal. Even in a state where the listener wears the sound output device 100, the sound output device 100 does not block an ear cavity of the listener, and the listener can listen to the ambient sound.

Abstract: The invention provides a speaker module and a sound-adsorbing material, comprising: a housing and a speaker unit accommodated in the housing, wherein the speaker unit separates a cavity formed by the housing into a front sound cavity and a rear sound cavity; the rear sound cavity is filled with a sound-adsorbing material; and heteroatoms are doped in a crystal structure of the sound-adsorbing material. The application of the above invention can reduce the adsorption of alien molecules by the sound-adsorbing material inside the speaker module, and even reject the alien molecules, thereby ensuring the long-term effectiveness of the sound-adsorbing material and improving the stability of the acoustic performance of the speaker module.

Abstract: A speech intelligibility system. Embodiments comprise a talker unit, a listener unit and an earpiece. The talker unit includes a microphone to receive audible speech content and to produce electrical signals representative of the speech content, and a transmitter coupled to the microphone to produce wireless transmissions containing the speech content. The listener unit includes a receiver to receive the wireless transmissions and to produce electrical signals representative of the speech content. At least one of the talker unit and the listener unit includes an amplifier to amplify spectral components of the speech content within a frequency range having a lower end between about 800 Hz and 1,700 Hz and an upper end between about 7,000 Hz and 11,000 Hz. The earpiece is coupled to the listener unit and includes a speaker to produce audible speech content having the amplified spectral components and a tube to direct the audible speech content from the speaker toward a user's ear canal.

Abstract: A simple hearing enhancement device that takes the normally adequately loud sound levels and optimizes selective frequency gain of the patient's ear passage to improve speech comprehension.

Abstract: A sound-absorbing device of the type adapted to cover the ears of a user and comprising a sound-absorbing material, wherein the sound-absorbing material comprises of a thixotropic material.

Abstract: A hearing enhancement device using wave amplification in the outer ear cavities of a user and transducer placement to provide frequency based enhancement of speech and music sounds without blocking the user's auditory canal.

Abstract: A dynamic receiver for an earphone is provided. The dynamic receiver has a Helmholtz resonance space provided on a protector. The dynamic receiver includes: a frame; a magnetic circuit disposed in the frame; a vibration system disposed in the frame and configured to generate sound by a mutual electromagnetic force with the magnetic circuit; and a protector coupled to the frame and configured to protect components disposed in the frame. The protector includes a sound emitting hole passing through the protector and emitting sound generated in the frame to the outside, and a resonance space defined on a top surface of the protector.

Abstract: Systems, and methods for use thereof, are provided for eyewear accommodating headset with audio compensation. An example system may include a headset, which includes an ear cup shaper, and circuitry for controlling at least some functions associated with the headset. The ear cup shaper may be configurable into at least two configurations. The circuitry may determine a configuration that the ear cup shaper is configured into, and may control based on the determined configuration, one or more audio functions that affect audio output via the headset. The ear cup shaper may include a strap and/or a plunger. The circuitry may control and/or adjust one or both of a gain applied to the audio output via the headset, and a bass boost setting applied to the audio output via the headset.

Abstract: A protective headphone cover can comprise a cover member configured to interface with an outer side of a headphone, and an elastic locking member attached to the cover member and defining an elastic opening operable to wrap around the headphone. The protective headphone cover can also comprise at least one inner panel pivotally attached to the cover member and interfaceable to an inner side of the headphone. The at least one inner panel can comprise an audio opening to facilitate passage of audio waves from the headphone to the user. The at least one inner panel can comprise a first inner panel and a second inner panel attached to each other about an intermediate joint attachment section. A method of making a protective headphone cover, and a method of protecting headphones, are provided.