Headphone and interaction system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10277972-B2
Application number	US-201715693477-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 1, 2017
Priority date	Jul 20, 2016
Publication date	Apr 30, 2019
Grant date	Apr 30, 2019

Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a headphone and an interaction system. The headphone includes: a controller electrically connected to the Type-C interface, a biological features detection module connected to the controller, a microphone electrically connected to the controller, and a loudspeaker electrically connected to the controller. The biological features detection module is configured to detect biological features of a user wearing the headphone; and the controller is configured to control paring between the Type-C interface and a terminal and communication between the terminal and the biological features detection module, the microphone and the loudspeaker when the headphone is in a digital mode, to control detection of biological features and processing of audio data.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A headphone, comprising:
a Type-C interface;
a controller electrically connected to the Type-C interface;
a biological features detection module connected to the controller;
a microphone electrically connected to the controller; and
a loudspeaker electrically connected to the controller, wherein the loudspeaker is electrically connected to left and right sound channels;
wherein the biological features detection module is configured to detect biological features of a user wearing the headphone; the controller is configured to control, when the headphone is in a digital mode, paring between the Type-C interface and a terminal and communication among the terminal, the biological features detection module, the microphone and the loudspeaker, to control detection of biological features and processing of audio or video data;
the microphone is multiplexed to supply power to the biological features detection module, and to carry out uplink communication for uploading biological features data detected by the biological features detection module to the terminal; and the left and right sound channels are multiplexed to carry out downlink communication including sending control instructions from the terminal to the biological features detection module.

2. The headphone according to claim 1 , further comprising a codec module; wherein the codec module is configured to communicate with the controller via a first digital channel, and is configured to process audio and video analog signals and process audio and video digital signals; the controller is configured to communicate with the biological features detection module by the first digital channel, to control detection of biological features.

3. The headphone according to claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to communicate with the biological features detection module via a second digital channel to control detection of the biological features and processing of audio and video data; the headphone further comprises a codec module configured to communicate with the controller by the second digital channel and process audio and video analog signals and process audio and video digital signals.

4. The headphone according to claim 3 , wherein the Type-C interface comprises a first pin, wherein the first pin is electrically connected to the controller and is configured to supply power to the controller, the biological features detection module, the microphone and the loudspeaker.

5. The headphone according to claim 3 , wherein the Type-C interface comprises a second pin, wherein the second pin is electrically connected to the controller and is configured to carry out communication if paring is performed between the headphone and a terminal using the headphone.

6. The headphone according to claim 3 , wherein the Type-C interface comprises a third pin, wherein the third pin is electrically connected to the biological features detection module and is configured to supply power to the biological features detection module and the codec module.

7. The headphone according to claim 3 , wherein the Type-C interface comprises a plurality of fourth pins, wherein the fourth pins are electrically connected to the controller and is configured to carry out communication between the Type-C interface and the biological features detection module, the microphone and the loudspeaker.

8. The headphone according to claim 1 , further comprising a codec module; wherein the codec module is configured to communicate with the controller via a first digital channel, and is configured to process audio and video analog signals and process audio and video digital signals; and the controller is configured to communicate with the biological features detection module, via a second digital channel, to control detection of biological features and processing of audio and video data.

9. The headphone according to claim 1 , further comprising an analog channel; wherein the controller is electrically connected to the biological features detection module, the microphone and the loudspeaker via the analog channel, to control detection of biological features and processing of audio and video data.

10. The headphone according to claim 9 , further comprising a multiplexing switch configured to control the biological features detection module, the microphone and the loudspeaker to multiplex the same analog channel.

11. The headphone according to claim 10 , wherein a signal wire corresponding to the microphone is multiplexed to supply power to the biological features detection module, and carry out uplink communication of the biological features detection module; left and right sound channel wires corresponding to the loudspeaker are multiplexed to carry out downlink communication of the biological features detection module.

12. The headphone according to claim 9 , wherein the Type-C interface comprises a fourth pin and a fifth pin, wherein the fourth pin and the fifth pin are respectively pulled down to the ground via a first pull-down resistor and a second pull-down resistor, such that the headphone is in an analog mode.

13. The headphone according to claim 9 , wherein the Type-C interface comprises a plurality of sixth pins, wherein the sixth pins are connected to the analog channel via the controller and are configured to carry out communication between the Type-C interface and the biological features detection module, the microphone and the loudspeaker.

14. The headphone according to claim 1 , wherein the headphone further comprises an analog channel, wherein the controller is electrically connected to the biological features detection module, the microphone and the loudspeaker via the analog channel, to control detection of biological features and processing of audio and video data;
the headphone further comprises a codec module, wherein the codec module is configured to communicate with the controller via a first digital channel, and is configured to process audio and video analog signals and process audio and video digital signals; and the controller is configured to communicate with the biological features detection module by the first digital channel, to control detection of biological features; and
the headphone further comprises a switching module configured to switch to detect biological features and process audio and video data by the analog channel or the first digital channel.

15. The headphone according to claim 1 , wherein the headphone further comprises an analog channel, wherein the controller is electrically connected to the biological features detection module, the microphone and the loudspeaker via the analog channel, to control detection of biological features and processing of audio or video data; and the controller is configured to communicate with the biological features detection module via a second digital channel, to control detection of biological features and processing of audio or video data;
the headphone further comprises a codec module, wherein the codec module is configured to communicate with the controller by the second digital channel and is configured to process audio or video analog signals and process audio or video digital signals; and
the headphone further comprises a switching module, wherein the switching module is configured to switch to detect biological features and process audio or video data by the analog channel or the second digital channel.

16. The headphone according to claim 1 , wherein the headphone further comprises a codec module, wherein the codec module is configured to communicate with the controller via a first digital ch

Assignees

• Shenzhen Goodix Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Liu Chang
• Yang Wangwang
• Duan Hongliang
• Deng Gengchun
• Wang Haixiang

Classifications

• H04R1/1091 Primary

  Details not provided for in groups H04R1/1008 - H04R1/1083 · CPC title

• H04R2420/09

  Applications of special connectors, e.g. USB, XLR, in loudspeakers, microphones or headphones · CPC title

• H04R1/1041 Primary

  Mechanical or electronic switches, or control elements (switches in general H01H) · CPC title

• G10L19/00

  Speech or audio signals analysis-synthesis techniques for redundancy reduction, e.g. in vocoders; Coding or decoding of speech or audio signals, using source filter models or psychoacoustic analysis (in musical instruments G10H) · CPC title

• F21Y2115/10

  Light-emitting diodes [LED] · CPC title