Earpiece charging case detection
    1.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11791643B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-17

    申请号:US17844545

    申请日:2022-06-20

    申请人: Bose Corporation

    IPC分类号: H02J7/00 H04R25/00 H04R1/10

    摘要: A system with an earpiece that comprises a rechargeable earpiece power source and a case that is configured to interface with the earpiece in an earpiece power source charging configuration and comprises a case power source that is configured to recharge the earpiece power source. A detection circuit, located in part in the earpiece and in part in the case, includes at least one earpiece electrical contact that is configured to electrically couple to at least one case electrical contact when the earpiece is interfaced with the case in the earpiece power source charging configuration. The detection circuit is configured to detect, using the earpiece and case electrical contacts, whether the earpiece is interfaced with the case in the earpiece power source charging configuration, even if one of the earpiece power source and the case power source does not have power.

    Narrowband cancellation
    2.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11721313B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-08

    申请号:US17185435

    申请日:2021-02-25

    申请人: Bose Corporation

    IPC分类号: G10K11/178

    摘要: Noise cancellation systems and methods are provided that generate an anti-noise signal configured to destructively interfere with noise in a cancellation zone. The systems and methods receive a signal representative of the noise in the cancellation zone. The signal is analyzed to identify a frequency to be reduced in the cancellation zone, and the signal is down converted to place the identified frequency at baseband. A baseband anti-noise signal is generated based upon the down converted signal. The baseband anti-noise signal is up converted to the identified frequency to produce an anti-noise signal having components at the identified frequency, and the anti-noise signal is provided to be transduced into an acoustic signal.

    Open-ear headphone
    3.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11659313B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-23

    申请号:US17474987

    申请日:2021-09-14

    申请人: Bose Corporation

    IPC分类号: H04R1/10 H04R5/027 H04R1/08

    摘要: An open-ear headphone with an acoustic module that is configured to be located at least in part in a concha of an outer ear of a user. The acoustic module includes an acoustic transducer, and a sound-emitting opening that is configured to emit sound produced by the acoustic transducer. A body is coupled to the acoustic module and includes a first portion that is configured to pass over an outer side of at least one of an anti-helix and a helix and a lobule of the outer ear, and a second portion that is configured to be located behind the outer ear.

    Surround sound location virtualization

    公开(公告)号:US11582572B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-14

    申请号:US16777404

    申请日:2020-01-30

    申请人: Bose Corporation

    摘要: A computer program product having a non-transitory computer-readable medium including computer program logic encoded thereon that, when performed on a surround sound audio system that is configured to render left front, right front, and center front audio signals, and also render left and right near-field binaurally-encoded audio signals, causes the surround sound audio system to develop the left and right near-field binaurally-encoded audio signals, and provide the left near-field binaurally-encoded audio signal to a left non-occluding near-field driver and provide the right near-field binaurally-encoded audio signal to a right non-occluding near-field driver.

    Backrest speakers with acoustic channels

    公开(公告)号:US11299080B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-12

    申请号:US16907439

    申请日:2020-06-22

    申请人: Bose Corporation

    摘要: The technology described in this document can be embodied in a vehicle seat that includes a seat headrest portion for supporting the head of an occupant, and a seat backrest portion for supporting the back of the occupant in a seated position. The backrest portion includes an enclosure for receiving at least a portion of an acoustic transducer. The vehicle seat also includes an acoustic channel having a first end that is configured to be fitted around a driver of the acoustic transducer in an acoustically sealed configuration, and a second end. The second end is opposite the first end and disposed at a location closer to the seat headrest portion than the seat backrest portion. The acoustic channel is configured to radiate acoustic energy from the acoustic transducer through the second end.

    Measuring respiration with an in-ear accelerometer

    公开(公告)号:US11013416B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-25

    申请号:US15881034

    申请日:2018-01-26

    申请人: Bose Corporation

    摘要: An earphone includes a loudspeaker, a microphone, a housing supporting the loudspeaker and microphone, and an ear tip surrounding the housing and configured to acoustically couple both the loudspeaker and the microphone to an ear canal of a user, and to acoustically close the entrance to the user's ear canal. A processor receives input audio signals from the microphone, detects peaks having a frequency of around 1 Hz in the input audio signals, based on the detected peaks, computes an instantaneous heart rate, measures a frequency of an oscillation within the instantaneous heart rate, and based on the frequency of the oscillation, computes a rate of respiration.