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A sound control system and method applicable to an electronic device having a timing unit. A setting module is provided to set predetermined conditions and corresponding sound volume parameters. A time session control module retrieves the sound volume parameter corresponding to a present condition obtained by the timing unit. Then, a corresponding sound output signal to be outputted by a speaker unit connected to the sound control system is set via a sound effects module according to the sound volume parameter and a sound signal around the electronic device that is received and recognized by a sound recognition module. By such arrangement, the sound control system and method allow the electronic device to provide the user with optimal sound effects depending on the environment and the user's preferences.

A user friendly display structure (100) for an electronic device (102), such as a touch screen hand held communications device, is provided with piezoelectric elements (126) bonded or otherwise secured directly to the back of a display module (112) generates effective haptics and sound localized to the display area. Actuation of piezoelectric elements (126) in the display structure (100) generates bending motion of the entire display structure (100) which provides haptics feedback to fingers operating on the display structure (100) as well as generates sound by turning part or the entire display into a speaker.

A hearing aid and a method of enhancing sound. In one embodiment, the hearing aid includes: (1) a direction sensor configured to produce data for determining a direction in which attention of a user is directed, (2) microphones to provide output signals indicative of sound received at the user from a plurality of directions, (3) a speaker for converting an electrical signal into enhanced sound and (4) an acoustic processor configured to be coupled to the direction sensor, the microphones, and the speaker, the acoustic processor being configured to superpose the output signals based on the determined direction to yield an enhanced signal based on the received sound, the enhanced signal having a higher content of sound received from the direction than sound received at the user.

Embodiments of the present invention are capable of determining a face direction associated with a detected subject (or multiple detected subjects) of interest within a 3D space using face detection procedures, while simultaneously avoiding the pick up of other environmental sounds. In addition, if more than one face is detected, embodiments of the present invention can automatically detect an active speaker based on the recognition of facial movements consistent with the performance of providing audio (e.g., tracking mouth movements) by those subjects whose faces were detected. Once determinations are made regarding face direction of the detected subject, embodiments of the present invention may dynamically adjust the audio acquisition capabilities of the audio capture device (e.g., microphone devices) relative to the location of the detected subject using beamforming techniques for instance. As such, embodiments of the present invention can detect the direction of the “talking object” and guide the audio subsystem to filter out any sound not coming from that direction.

A mobile expansion unit for use with a notebook is disclosed to include a housing for supporting a notebook, fans mounted inside the housing for cooling the loaded notebook, and speakers mounted in the housing and spaced from the bottom surface of the loaded notebook at a distance that works to reinforce and prolong sound outputted from the loaded notebook through the speakers. Peripheral apparatus such as TV tuner card, card reader, USB hub, and etc. may be installed in the housing to expand the function of the notebook being used with the mobile expansion unit.

A device for electroacoustic sound generation in a motor vehicle with a sound pressure sensor, a signal processing unit, which is connected with the sound pressure sensor and receives and processes signals therefrom, and a loudspeaker unit with at least one loudspeaker connected with the signal processing unit. The sound pressure sensor is arranged in the area of the intake tract or exhaust gas tract of the motor vehicle. To ensure a sound generation that is as variable as possible and nevertheless authentic, a synthesizer that is connected with, or integrated in, the signal processing unit is used so that synthetic sound components can be added to the signals generated from the sound pressure sensor.

An intelligent door lock system includes components, a drive shaft of a lock device, a processor coupled to a wireless communication device, and an energy source coupled to a circuit. A device that converts energy into mechanical energy is coupled to the circuit and the drive shaft. The device that converts energy is coupled to the energy source to receive energy from the energy source. A ramp-up speed, a steady state speed and a ramp down speed are applied to the device that converts energy into mechanical energy. The ramp-up speed is applied when a first component initially engages with a second component. The steady state speed is applied following the initial engagement and is an operational speed that the device which converts energy uses during a standard operation mode. The ramp down speed is applied as the first and second components begin a state of non-engagement.

Audiovisual presentation methods, systems and apparatus for improving and enhancing the listening experience of attendees of audiovisual presentations. An exemplary audiovisual presentation system includes an audio processing and distribution unit (APDU) configured to generate and broadcast a wireless audio service containing audio of an audiovisual presentation (e.g., soundtrack and dialogue audio of a movie, in the case of a movie presentation) throughout an audiovisual presentation room or space (e.g., a movie theater, in the case of a movie presentation). The wireless audio service is received by mobile receiving devices (MRDs) having or comprising headsets, headphones or earbuds, through which MRD users listen to the audio of the audiovisual presentation provided by the wireless audio service while viewing images of the audiovisual presentation.

A golf club head includes: a head body including a crown portion having a plurality of openings, a face portion, a toe portion, a heel portion and a sole portion; a crown part mounted to the head body so as to close the openings, and a support portion provided between the openings for supporting the crown part. The support portion is X-shaped, for example.

A method for adaptively adjusting a sound effect and equipment thereof are disclosed. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring an energy value of current environmental noise; receiving a first trigger instruction and adjusting a current output volume according to the energy value of the current environmental noise; when the energy value of the current environmental noise is larger thana first threshold, carrying out treble enhancement processing; when the energy value of the current environmental noise is less than a second threshold, carrying out bass enhancement processing. In the method, through collecting sound data, voice activity detection is performed to the sound data. When the first trigger instruction is received, the current output volume can be adjusted according to the current environmental noise energy value and a frequency response can be adjusted through the treble enhancement or the bass enhancement. The better sound effect can be obtained and is easy to realize.

An audio speaker having a speaker housing surrounding a back volume that is divided into a rear cavity behind a speaker driver and an adsorption cavity separated from the rear cavity by a permeable partition, is disclosed. More particularly, the adsorption cavity may be defined between the speaker housing and the permeable partition, and may be directly filled with adsorptive particles to adsorb gas during sound generation. The permeable partition may allow the gas to flow between the rear cavity and the adsorption cavity, and may retain the adsorptive particles within the adsorption cavity. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

A modular canal hearing aid assembly having a main module positioned in the ear canal and a disposable battery module laterally positioned in the ear canal. The main module incorporates the durable components of a hearing device including the receiver, microphone and electronics. The disposable battery module comprises consumable elements including battery and incoming sound port. The disposable battery module provides a unitary structure that is easier to handle, remove from the main module, and replace when any of the consumable elements is depleted or degraded. The canal hearing device assembly is generic in shape and provided with assorted seal tips for “instant fitting” without resorting to custom manufacturing.

A modular canal hearing aid assembly having a main module positioned in the ear canal and a disposable battery module laterally positioned in the ear canal. The main module incorporates the durable components of a hearing device including the receiver, microphone and electronics. The disposable battery module comprises consumable elements including battery and incoming sound port. The disposable battery module provides a unitary structure that is easier to handle, remove from the main module, and replace when any of the consumable elements is depleted or degraded. The canal hearing device assembly is generic in shape and provided with assorted seal tips for “instant fitting” without resorting to custom manufacturing.

The present invention is a system, method and apparatus for converting a slide show presentation for use within a non-presentation application such as a Web conferencing or virtual classroom application. In accordance with the present invention, a slide show presentation in its native format can be processed to extract slide title information for each slide in the slide show presentation. Additionally, important text within slide further can be extracted. Each slide in the slide-show can be converted to a raster image and disposed within markup. The markup can be annotated with the important text and both the markup and the slide title can be provided to the non-presentation application for use in concert with the non-presentation application. In this way, the context of each slide can be preserved for use within the non-presentation application as can an image of each slide itself.

An intelligent door lock system includes components, a drive shaft of a lock device, a processor coupled to a wireless communication device, and an energy source coupled to a circuit. A device that converts energy into mechanical energy is coupled to the circuit and the drive shaft. The device that converts energy is coupled to the energy source to receive energy from the energy source. A ramp-up speed, a steady state speed and a ramp down speed are applied to the device that converts energy into mechanical energy. The ramp-up speed is applied when a first component initially engages with a second component. The steady state speed is applied following the initial engagement and is an operational speed that the device which converts energy uses during a standard operation mode. The ramp down speed is applied as the first and second components begin a state of non-engagement.

An arrangement, for reproducing audio data of an acoustic scene, adapted for generating audio signals for at least a first and a second headphone channel of a headphone assembly, the audio signals corresponding to at least one audio object and / or sound source in the acoustic scene comprising at least one given close range and at least one given distant range arranged around a listener, the arrangement comprising a first headphone channel; a second headphone channel; a basic channel provider comprising at least a basic system adapted for reproducing audio signals corresponding to at least one audio object and / or sound source arranged in at least one distant range; a proximity channel provider comprising at least a proximity system adapted for reproducing audio signals corresponding to at least one audio object and / or sound source arranged in at least one close range.

A negative pressure earphone includes a main body, a cover portion, a silica gel earplug, a filtering net and a moving coil sound unit. The silica gel earplug is fitted to the protruding end of the main body. The filtering net is provided on the opening of the protruding end and the moving coil sound unit is disposed inside the main body. The cover portion is fitted to the other end of the main body. A sealing framework portion is disposed inside the main body and the moving coil sound unit is fitted to the sealing framework portion. A negative pressure portion is disposed on the sealing framework portion. The negative pressure earphone of the present invention is structurally simple and water resistant and does not have to have an opening in its cover portion.

The invention provides an earphone and an audio play device which is used for identifying the earphone type and adjusting a playing sound effect mode. The earphone includes a ID pin and a ID pin grounding resistance RID.Furthermore, the invention provides an audio play device which is used for identifying the earphone type and adjusting the playing sound effect mode. The audio play device includes an audio jack, an audio play unit, a micro processor, a memory, an analog-to-digital converter and a detecting unit. The audio play device identifies the earphone type by detecting a resistance value of the ID pin grounding resistance RID, and adjusts the playing sound effect mode according to the earphone type to obtain a suitable sound effect.

The invention discloses mobile communication equipment and a volume control method thereof. The mobile communication equipment comprises a volume setting module, a volume control module and an earphone management module, wherein the volume setting module is connected with the volume control module and is used for setting the volume of different audio types in an earphone mode to be a first group of volume, and setting the volume of different audio types in a non-earphone mode to be a second group of volume; the earphone management module is connected with the volume control module and is used for detecting the earphone mode or the non-earphone mode; the volume control module is used for setting the volume of an application program to be the first group of volume in the earphone mode when the earphone mode is detected, and setting the volume of the application program to be the second group of volume in the non-earphone mode when the non-earphone mode is detected. By adopting the method, an optimum sound effect can be realized under different situations when an earphone is used or a loudspeaker is used, and hearing can be protected.

A combination light and sound producing fixture is disclosed for installation in a wall or ceiling or on a wall or ceiling. The sound producing elements is an arrangement of speakers having a low frequency transducer and one or more high frequency transducers oriented directed to emit sound in a particular direction. The fixture may further include digital signal processing to modify the sound to account for obstructions in near or around the fixture. The fixture may include a feedback system that allow the fixture to self modify its frequency response. The signal to the fixture is provided by wired or wireless interface. The surface of the sound transducer can be reflective in nature to provide focusing or diffusion of the light from the lighting elements. The lighting elements are incandescent, fluorescent or low voltage LED type that may include adjustment for lighting intensity or color.

An apparatus and method for eliminating cross-talk being heard at a listener device in a mobile communication system. The apparatus eliminates cross-talk occurring in a signal output through at least two speakers in a mobile system, and includes a decoder for decoding an input signal, a controller for providing information about a delay time difference between direct sound and cross-talk sound of the input signal and gain variation information, a cross-talk cancellation unit for receiving the delay time difference information and the gain variation information and eliminating cross-talk from the decoded signal received from the decoder, and an output unit for converting a stereo signal, from which the cross-talk has been eliminated, into an analog signal and outputting the analog signal through the at least two speakers.

An apparatus is disclosed for managing the joint contribution of noise exposure of the ear of a user of the apparatus from a loudspeaker of the apparatus as well as from ambient noise so that the risk of risk of noise induced hearing losses is reduced. By assessing the joint actual sound energy delivered to the ear and feeding said assessment to a model describing the accumulated risk of hearing loss due to said sound energy accumulated over a time period, an estimate of the current risk of hearing loss is obtained. When said risk estimate passes a predetermined threshold, one or more protective measures are taken.

A sound control system includes a plurality of electronic devices connected to a communication network, each of the electronic devices being capable of independently producing sound from connected speakers, and a sound control device transmitting control signals for controlling the electronic devices and audio signals to the electronic devices via the communication network. Each electronic device includes receiving means for receiving the control signals and the audio signals via the communication network, and selecting means for switching from other external signals to the audio signals in response to the control signals in order to drive the speakers by only the audio signals output to the speakers.

A mobile phone or other personal communication device includes resources applying measures of an individual's hearing profile, personal choice profile, and induced hearing loss profile, separately or in combination, to build the basis of sound enhancement. A personal communication device thus comprises a transmitter / receiver coupled to a communication medium for transmitted receiving audio signals, control circuitry that controls transmission, reception and processing of call and audio signals, a speaker, and a microphone. The control circuitry includes logic applying one or more of a hearing profile of the user, a user preference related hearing, and environmental noise factors in processing the audio signals. The control circuitry may includes instruction memory and an instruction execution processor such as a digital signal processor.

A headset device comprising first and second headphones interconnected through a headband, wherein each of the first and second headphones comprises an earcup defining a unitary acoustic resonance chamber, a foraminous driver mount positioned offset from both a lateral axis and a longitudinal axis defined by the earcup, and a diaphragm retention ring extending from a surface of the foraminous driver mount. Each of the headphones further comprises a driver mounted within the driver mount and including a diaphragm, a foraminous unitary diaphragm support for maintaining the driver within the driver mount, an earcup cover attached to the earcup, and an earpad attached to the earcup.

A head acoustic device and a sound channel reproducing method discloses a multichannel acoustic device, especially a headset-multichannel acoustic device applying bone conduction speaker and a sound channel reproducing method. The headset-multichannel acoustic device of this invention includes a supporting frame and a vibration device on the frame, in which, the vibration device is a bone conduction speaker. The advantage of the present invention is that the sense of personally on the scene can be got by using the multichannel surround acoustic technology or by using the bone conduction speakers on different positions of bone and multichannel acoustic technology. On the other hand, it enables people with hearing handicap recover the ability of hearing music.

The invention relates to a sound box control technology, in particular to a method for correcting a stage and video professional sound system. According to the method, the multilayer adjustable problem of system layers is solved by adopting active speakers (in particular to two-or-more-way sound boxes) with array layer DSP (Digital Signal Processor) parameters and introducing sound box models to virtualize a plurality of layers of DSP parameters; and an array group model is also introduced to implement the synchronization adjustment on each sound box model of an array group. All in all, according to the technology, not only can the difficulty in debugging and correcting the sound system be simplified and the workload is reduced, but also the system debugging can be ensured to obtain a better sound effect.

A sound reproduction method and apparatus utilizes both distributed mode and pistonic loudspeakers which are simultaneously driven over frequency ranges which at least partially overlap, for enhancing the spaciousness of the sound produced. The disclosure includes monophonic, stereophonic and multi-channel sound reproduction systems and electronic musical instruments such as digital pianos.

A golf club head with multi-component construction. The golf club head includes a hollow body that is created from components constructed of different materials so that the weight distribution may be optimized.