公开(公告)号：US11510013B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-22

申请号：US17203589

申请日：2021-03-16

Applicant: Iyo Inc.

Inventor： Malcolm Slaney ,  Ricardo Garcia ,  William Woods ,  Jason Rugolo

IPC: H04R25/00 ,  H04R25/02 ,  H04R1/10

Abstract: In some embodiments, an ear-mounted sound reproduction system is provided. The system includes an ear-mountable housing that sits within the pinna of the ear and occludes the ear canal. In some embodiments, the ear-mountable housing includes a plurality of external-facing microphones. Because the external-facing microphones may be situated within the pinna of the ear but outside of the ear canal, the microphones will experience some, but not all, of the three-dimensional acoustic effects of the pinna. In some embodiments, sound is reproduced by an internal-facing driver element of the housing using a plurality of filters applied to the signals received by the plurality of external-facing microphones to preserve three-dimensional localization cues that would be present at the eardrum in the absence of the housing, such that the housing is essentially transparent to the user. In some embodiments, techniques are provided for deriving the plurality of filters.

公开(公告)号：US20220365799A1

公开(公告)日：2022-11-17

申请号：US17322747

申请日：2021-05-17

Applicant: Iyo Inc.

Inventor： Jason Rugolo ,  Simon Carlile

IPC: G06F9/455 ,  G06N3/08 ,  G06N3/04

Abstract: In some embodiments, a hardware simulation computing system is provided. The hardware simulation computing system is configured to provide audio signals from a low-performance audio device as input to a machine learning model capable of exhibiting temporal dynamic behavior; to update the machine learning model based on a comparison of outputs of the machine learning model to ground truth audio signals from a high-performance audio device; and to repeat the providing and updating actions until a completion threshold is reached to create a trained machine learning model.

公开(公告)号：US20220303657A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-22

申请号：US17206557

申请日：2021-03-19

Applicant: Iyo Inc.

Inventor： Andrew Unruh ,  Simon Carlile ,  Jason Rugolo

IPC: H04R1/10

Abstract: An ear-mountable listening device includes a plurality of electroacoustic transducers, a manifold, and an output port. The plurality of electroacoustic transducers emit audio in response to an audio signal. The plurality of electroacoustic transducers includes a first transducer and a second transducer. The manifold is coupled to the plurality of electroacoustic transducers. The manifold is shaped to position the first transducer and the second transducer to face one another and form a front cavity disposed between the first transducer and the second transducer. The output port is coupled to the manifold to direct the audio from the front cavity into an ear when the plurality of electroacoustic transducers emits the audio.

公开(公告)号：US11425515B1

公开(公告)日：2022-08-23

申请号：US17203307

申请日：2021-03-16

Applicant: Iyo Inc.

Inventor： Simon Carlile ,  Neil Treat ,  Jason Rugolo

IPC: H04R1/10 ,  H04R25/00

Abstract: An ear-mountable listening device includes a soft ear interface, an acoustic package, and electronics. The soft ear interface is shaped to house one or more components of the ear-mountable listening device. The soft ear interface has an outer surface that contacts a canal of an ear when the ear-mountable listening device is worn by the ear. The outer surface of the soft ear interface includes a plurality of baffles to form one or more channels for air or moisture to propagate through. The one or more channels extend from between a distal end and a proximal end of the soft ear interface. The proximal end of the soft ear interface extends to at least a first bend of the canal and the distal end of the soft ear interface contacts a concha of the ear when the ear-mountable listening device is worn.

公开(公告)号：US20220246128A1

公开(公告)日：2022-08-04

申请号：US17162674

申请日：2021-01-29

Applicant: Iyo Inc.

Inventor： Simon Carlile ,  Jason Rugolo

IPC: G10K11/178 ,  H04R1/10

Abstract: An ear-mountable listening device includes an array of microphones physically arranged into a ring pattern to capture sounds from an environment and output first audio signals that are representative of the sounds captured by the microphones. A speaker is arranged to emit audio into an ear in response to a second audio signal. Electronics are coupled to the array of microphones and the speaker and configured to capture the sounds with the array of microphones to generate the first audio signals and generate the second audio signal that drives the speaker based upon one or more of the first audio signals.

公开(公告)号：US11388513B1

公开(公告)日：2022-07-12

申请号：US17211142

申请日：2021-03-24

Applicant: Iyo Inc.

Inventor： Simon Carlile ,  Jason Rugolo ,  Devansh Gupta

IPC: H04R27/04 ,  H04R3/00 ,  G10L25/51 ,  H04R1/40 ,  H04R1/10

Abstract: A technique for rotational correction of a microphone array includes generating first audio signals representative of sounds emanating from an environment and captured with an array of microphones of an ear-mountable listening device; identifying a characteristic human behavior having at least one of a typical head orientation or a typical head motion associated with the characteristic human behavior by monitoring sensors mounted in fixed relation to the array of microphones; determining a rotational position of the array of microphones relative to the ear based at least in part upon identifying the characteristic human behavior; applying a rotational correction to the first audio signals to generate a second audio signal, wherein the rotational correction is based at least in part upon the rotational position; and driving a speaker of the ear-mountable listening device with the second audio signal to output audio into an ear.

公开(公告)号：US11729542B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-15

申请号：US17345594

申请日：2021-06-11

Applicant: Iyo Inc.

Inventor： Simon Carlile ,  Jason Rugolo

IPC: H04R1/10

CPC classification number: H04R1/1058 ,  H04R1/1016

Abstract: An ear-mountable listening device includes an acoustic package and an electronics package. The acoustic package is configured to emit audio in response to an audio signal. The acoustic package includes a first set of magnets arranged annularly about a central axis of the ear-mountable listening device. The electronics package is electrically coupled to the acoustic package when the ear-mountable listening device is worn to provide the audio signal to the acoustic package. The electronics package includes a second set of magnets arranged annularly about the central axis proximate to a proximal end of the electronics package to removably affix the electronics package to the acoustic package via magnetic forces between the first set of magnets and the second set of magnets.

公开(公告)号：US11617044B2

公开(公告)日：2023-03-28

申请号：US17192652

申请日：2021-03-04

Applicant: Iyo Inc.

Inventor： Simon Carlile ,  Devansh Gupta ,  Jason Rugolo

IPC: H04R25/00 ,  H04S7/00

Abstract: Techniques described herein include generating first audio signals representative of sounds emanating from an environment and captured with an array of microphones disposed within an ear-mountable listing device. A rotational position of the array of microphones is determined. A rotational correction is applied to the first audio signals to generate a second audio signal. The rotational correction is based at least in part upon the determined rotational position. A speaker of the ear-mountable listening device is driven with the second audio signal to output audio into an ear.

公开(公告)号：US20220240046A1

公开(公告)日：2022-07-28

申请号：US17669244

申请日：2022-02-10

Applicant: Iyo Inc.

Inventor： Simon Carlile ,  Jason Rugolo ,  William Woods ,  Takahiro Unno

IPC: H04S7/00 ,  H04R1/40 ,  H04R1/10

Abstract: An ear-mountable listening device includes an adaptive phased array of microphones, a speaker, and electronics. The microphones are physically arranged into a ring pattern to capture sounds emanating from an environment. Each of the microphones is configured to output one of a plurality of first audio signals that is representative of the sounds captured by a respective one of the microphones. The speaker is arranged to emit audio into an ear. The electronics are coupled to the adaptive phased array and the speaker and include logic that when executed causes the ear-mountable listening device receive a user input identifying a first sound for cancelling or amplifying, steer a null or a lobe of the adaptive phased array based upon the user input, and generate a second audio signal that drives the speaker based upon a combination of one or more of the first audio signals.

公开(公告)号：US11270681B1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-08

申请号：US16917203

申请日：2020-06-30

Applicant: Iyo Inc.

Inventor： Jason Rugolo ,  Cyrus Behroozi ,  Benoit Schillings

IPC: G10K11/178 ,  A61B1/227 ,  A61B5/05 ,  A61B5/12 ,  A61B5/00 ,  A61F11/08 ,  A61F11/14 ,  H04R1/10

Abstract: An in-ear device includes a tympanic membrane measurement unit (TMMU) and an audio package configured to emit sound. The device is configured to measure a movement of a tympanic membrane in an ear using the TMMU caused by external sound received by the tympanic membrane, analyze at least the movement of the tympanic membrane measured by the TMMU using a predictive model trained by a machine learning technique to generate a waveform of cancellation sound that will destructively interfere with the external sound when received by the tympanic membrane, and output the cancellation sound from the audio package to destructively interfere with external sound received by the tympanic membrane.