Method and device for audio recording

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10856092-B2
Application number	US-202016781286-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 4, 2020
Priority date	Feb 1, 2007
Publication date	Dec 1, 2020
Grant date	Dec 1, 2020

Abstract

An acquisition system includes a processor, one or more sensors operatively coupled to the processor where the one or more sensors acquire at the ear, on the ear or within an ear canal, one or more of acceleration, blood oxygen saturation, blood pressure or heart-rate, and the one or more sensors configured to monitor a biological state or a physical motion or both for an event. The event can be a detection of a discrepancy when compared with a set of reference data by the one or more sensors or the biological state or the event can be one of a detection of an abrupt movement of a headset operatively coupled to the processor, a change in location of an earpiece operatively coupled the processor, a touching of the headset, a recognizing of a voice command, a starting or ending of a phone call, or a scheduled time.

First claim

We claim:

1. An earpiece, comprising:
a processor;
at least one ambient microphone measuring ambient sound;
an ear canal microphone, where the processor is operatively connected to the at least one ambient microphone, where the processor is operatively connected to the ear canal microphone; and a motion detection sensor within the earpiece communicatively linked to the processor where the sensor is at least one of an accelerometer or GPS, wherein the processor performs operations comprising:
monitoring the orientation or location of the earphone or user based on an analysis of a motion detection sensor data of the earpiece;
monitoring a location of a vocalization based on analyzing an output signal of the at least one ambient microphone:
detecting, based on the comparing, an event, wherein the event is detected based on a discrepancy resulting between acceleration data from the motion detection sensor and a set of reference data;
wherein the event comprises at least one of a movement of a headset coupled to the processor, a touching of the headset, a tapping of the headset, a pressing of a button, a change in location of the earpiece, a recognizing vocalization of the user, a starting or ending of a call, or a combination thereof; and
initiating a response in response to the detecting of the event.

2. The system of claim 1 , further comprising saving a temporal portion of ambient sound, audio content, or a combination thereof in a buffer.

3. The system of claim 2 , further comprising applying a compression technique to data in the buffer to reduce a dimensionality of the data.

4. The system of claim 3 , further comprising streaming the compressed data from an audio interface.

5. The system of claim 4 , further comprising recording the location of the earpiece at a time of the event.

6. The system of claim 5 , further comprising tagging data held in a memory of the earpiece with a filename or header that reflects a condition associated with the event.

Assignees

• Staton Techiya Llc

Inventors

• Goldstein Steven W

Classifications

• A61B5/021

  Measuring pressure in heart or blood vessels · CPC title

• H04R2499/11

  Transducers incorporated or for use in hand-held devices, e.g. mobile phones, PDA's, camera's · CPC title

• G16H50/20

  for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems · CPC title

• G16H40/60 Primary

  for the operation of medical equipment or devices · CPC title

• H04R29/004 Primary

  for microphones (H04R29/007 takes precedence) · CPC title