公开(公告)号：WO2020139485A1

公开(公告)日：2020-07-02

申请号：PCT/US2019/062399

申请日：2019-11-20

Applicant: X DEVELOPMENT LLC

Inventor： RUGOLO, Jason ,  NI, Bin ,  BEHROOZI, Cyrus

IPC: H04R5/033 ,  H04R1/10 ,  H04R1/02

Abstract: An in-ear device includes a housing shaped to hold the in-ear device in an ear of a user, and an audio package, disposed in the housing, to emit augmented sound. A first set of one or more microphones is positioned to receive external sound, and a controller is coupled to the audio package and the first set of one or more microphones. The controller includes a low-latency audio processing path, digital control parameters, and logic that when executed by the controller causes the in-ear device to perform operations. The operations may include receiving the external sound with the first set of one or more microphones to generate a low-latency sound signal; augmenting the low-latency sound signal by passing the low-latency sound signal through the low-latency audio processing path to produce an augmented sound signal; and outputting, with the audio package, the augmented sound based on the augmented sound signal.

公开(公告)号：WO2021015938A1

公开(公告)日：2021-01-28

申请号：PCT/US2020/040674

申请日：2020-07-02

Applicant: X DEVELOPMENT LLC

Inventor： SLANEY, Malcolm ,  GARCIA, Ricardo ,  WOODS, William ,  RUGOLO, Jason

IPC: H04R25/00 ,  A61F11/08

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：WO2020139494A1

公开(公告)日：2020-07-02

申请号：PCT/US2019/062690

申请日：2019-11-21

Applicant: X DEVELOPMENT LLC

Inventor： RUGOLO, Jason ,  NI, Bin ,  GEORGE, Daniel

IPC: A61B1/227 ,  A61B5/00 ,  G16H50/20 ,  G06N20/00

Abstract: A system to optically measure an ear includes a controller with logic that when executed by the controller causes the system to perform operations. Operations may include capturing the one or more images of the ear using the one or more image sensors, and generating image data from the one or more images. 3D keypoints of the ear are calculated from the image data, and a 3D model of the ear is generated using the 3D keypoints.

公开(公告)号：WO2020092088A1

公开(公告)日：2020-05-07

申请号：PCT/US2019/057644

申请日：2019-10-23

Applicant: X DEVELOPMENT LLC

Inventor： RUGOLO, Jason

IPC: H04R1/10 ,  H04R5/04 ,  H04R1/28

Abstract: An in-ear device includes a molding shaped to hold the in-ear device in an ear, and an audio package configured to emit sound. The audio package is structured to removably attach to the molding. An electronics package is structured to removably couple to the audio package and removably attach to the molding. The electronics package includes a controller to control the sound output from the audio package.