Ear pressure sensors integrated with speakers for smart sound level exposure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9503829-B2
Application number	US-201414318563-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 27, 2014
Priority date	Jun 27, 2014
Publication date	Nov 22, 2016
Grant date	Nov 22, 2016

Abstract

Systems and methods may provide for a headset including a housing and a speaker positioned within the housing and directed toward a region external to the housing such as, for example, an ear canal when the headset is being worn. The headset may also include an ear pressure sensor positioned within the housing and directed toward the same region external to the housing. In one example, a measurement signal is received from the pressure sensor, one or more characteristics of an audio signal are automatically adjusted based on the measurement signal, and the audio signal is transmitted to the speaker.

First claim

We claim:

1. A computing system comprising:
a sensor link controller to receive a measurement signal from a sound pressure sensor positioned within a headset;
an ear damage controller coupled to the sensor link controller, the ear damage controller to automatically adjust one or more characteristics of an audio signal based on the measurement signal to prevent hearing damage to a wearer of the headset; and
a speaker link controller coupled to the ear damage controller, the spe…

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Baskaran Rajashree
• Cancel Olmo Ramon C

Classifications

• H04R1/10

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04R2460/01

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04R29/001 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04R2430/01

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04R1/1041 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic