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Application US20200344541
Published 2020-10-29
Earphones With Activity Controlled Output
The present disclosure relates to an earphone apparatus and method. The earphone apparatus includes an earpiece, including a speaker, configured for arrangement relative to a user's ear for listening to audio from the speaker, a bio-sensor, a motion sensor, and a controller configured to determine an activity state of the user based on aggregated sensor data from the bio-sensor and the motion sensor over time, and to control audio output to the user based on the determined activity state.
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- 1. An earphone system, comprising:
an earpiece configured for arrangement proximate to a user's ear canal for listening to audio from a speaker, the earpiece including the speaker and an optical sensor; a motion sensor configured to detect motion of the user; and one or more processors configured to
determine an activity state of the user based on a combined consideration of obtained optical sensor data from the optical sensor and obtained motion data from the motion sensor, and
control a user sensory output to the user based on the determined activity state of the user.
- 32. An earphone method of a system having a motion sensor and an earpiece configured for arrangement proximate to a user's ear for listening to audio from a speaker, the earpiece including the speaker and an optical sensor, the method comprising:
controlling respective measuring of bio-signals and motion changes of a user by the earpieces; determining a learned activity state of the user based on a combined consideration of obtained bio-signal data from the bio-sensor and obtained motion data from the motion sensor; and controlling a provision of user sensory output to the user based on the determined activity state.
- 33. An earphone system, comprising:
an earpiece configured for arrangement proximate to a user's ear for listening to audio from a speaker, the earpiece including the speaker, an accelerometer, and an optical sensor; and one or more processors configured to
determine an activity state transition of the user based on a combined consideration of obtained optical sensor data from the optical sensor and obtained motion data from the accelerometer, and
control a provision of audio information from a media player to the earpiece, for the listening to the audio, based on the determined activity state transition of the user.
