Ear-mountable listening device having a microphone array disposed around a circuit board
US11636842B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 29, 2021 |
| Grant date | Apr 25, 2023 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 11, 2041 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04S2420/01
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
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.
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