Multi-listener headphone system with luminescent light emissions dependent upon selected channels
US9143595B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 29, 2011 |
| Grant date | Sep 22, 2015 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 29, 2031 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04R2420/07
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An overall wireless broadcast system utilizing headphones that react in terms of light colors and light impulses when attuned to specific broadcast channels is provided. Such a system provides a unique performance capability in relation to the whims and selections of headphone wearers and listeners at an event with multiple attendees, ostensibly creating a spontaneous, continually changing visual result for spectators and participants alike. The headphones utilized for such a purpose are particularly adapted to allow for channel selections based upon different broadcast music possibilities (such as from a DJ or music device located in sufficiently close proximity for a headphone wearer to receive the broadcast signal to the degree that the broadcast music can be properly heard within the headphones themselves) such that the headphones themselves become modified in their own presentation based upon such a channel selection. The headphone modifications at a minimum require outward displays of luminescent color of at least the ear pieces (and may include the headband portion as well) thereof, as well as impulses of such color attenuated to reflect the rhythm of the selected broadcast …
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