Abstract:
An eyeglass can have a digital audio file storage and playback device and earphones supported by the eyeglass frame so as to provide a personal and portable audio player integrated into eyeglasses.
Abstract:
Eyewear includes a lens supporting frame along with temple pieces extending therefrom with at least one of the temple pieces including an open sided chamber sized for receiving an audio unit having communication socket disposed at one end of the audio unit. The open side enables access to the controls disposed on one side of the audio unit. A cover is provided for moving the audio unit within the chamber in order to engage the socket with a plug and removably affixed the audio unit within the temple piece chamber.
Abstract:
There is provided a portable media player with a plurality of audio signal outputs, including: a storage device; and a controller for processing data in the storage device. Preferably, the data is processed and channeled by the controller into each of the plurality of the audio signal outputs. The data processed and channeled by the controller into each of the plurality of the audio signal outputs may be identical or different. Preferably, the storage device is either solid state memory or a hard disk drive. A wireless transceiver and antennae may also be included in the media player. A channel selector may be present in the media player.
Abstract:
A headphone device includes: an approximately U-shaped band portion, the band portion being configured such that one and the other ends thereof are held on temples near upper ends of the left and right pinnas of a wearer and an intermediate portion thereof is positioned at the occiput of the wearer; left and right side connecting members connected to the band portion; left and right side housings connected to the band portion via the connecting members in a manner hanging from the band portion; and left and right side headphone drivers disposed in the left and right side housings, respectively.
Abstract:
A small-sized audio signal reproducing apparatus for hearing reproduced audio signals with the aid of a headphone is disclosed. Digitized and compression encoded audio signals, stored in a semiconductor memory, are read out so as to undergo a decoding operation, which is an inverse operation to compression encoding, to reproduce the audio signals, and the reproduced signals are heard by the headphone. The apparatus may be significantly reduced in size and weight as compared to the apparatus in which a tape or a disk is used as the recording medium.
Abstract:
A wearable audio interface includes a support for positioning the plurality of speakers juxtaposed to and spaced from the ears of a wearer. The audio device can include wireless networking electronics so as to allow the device to interact with other wireless network devices.
Abstract:
A small-sized audio signal reproducing apparatus for hearing reproduced audio signals with the aid of a headphone is disclosed. Digitized and compression encoded audio signals, stored in a semiconductor memory, are read out so as to undergo a decoding operation, which is an inverse operation to compression encoding, to reproduce the audio signals, and the reproduced signals are heard by the headphone. The apparatus may be significantly reduced in size and weight as compared to the apparatus in which a tape or a disk is used as the recording medium.
Abstract:
In a playback apparatus formed by a playback apparatus main body and wireless headphone, music data is read out from a recording medium, is decoded by a decoder, and the decoded music data is transmitted from a digital wireless transmitter to the headphone in the form of digital data in the playback apparatus main body. In the wireless headphone, the music data transmitted from the playback apparatus main body is received by a digital wireless receiver, the received music data is temporarily saved in a buffer memory, the saved music data is read out from the buffer memory, the readout data is converted by a D/A converter from digital data into an analog signal, and the analog signal is converted into sound via loudspeakers.
Abstract:
A small-sized audio signal reproducing apparatus for hearing reproduced audio signals with the aid of a headphone is disclosed. Digitized and compression encoded audio signals, stored in a semiconductor memory, are read out so as to undergo a decoding operation, which is an inverse operation to compression encoding, to reproduce the audio signals, and the reproduced signals are heard by the headphone. The apparatus may be significantly reduced in size and weight as compared to the apparatus in which a tape or a disk is used as the recording medium.
Abstract:
A headphone containing right/left-channel acoustic units capable of converting an analog audio signal into acoustic sounds. An input jack to which is supplied a digital audio signal derived from a digital audio appliance is provided within the headphone. A D/A converter for D/A-converting the digital audio signal supplied to the input jack into an analog audio signal, and an amplifier for amplifying the analog audio signal derived from the D/A converter to supply the amplified analog audio signal to the right/left-channel acoustic units, are provided in this headphone.