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US 10,382,866 B2Granted
Haptic feedback for head-wearable speaker mount such as headphones or earbuds to indicate ambient sound
AssigneeMotorola Mobility LLC
InventorJun-Ki Min
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Abstract
Haptic feedback is generated on a headphone to indicate contexts of ambient sound. In this way, noise-canceling headphones can alert the wearer to audible cues of potentially dangerous situations that otherwise would be suppressed by the noise cancelation feature of the headphones.
Claims4
An apparatus, comprising:
- at least one head-wearable mount,
- at least one speaker on the head-wearable mount;
- at least one microphone on the head-wearable mount;
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- at least first and second haptic generators on the head-wearable mount, wherein the apparatus is adapted to activate only the first haptic generator responsive to a first type of non-speech sound signal from the at least one microphone and to activate both the first and second haptic generators responsive to a second type of sound signal from the at least one microphone, wherein the first type of non-speech sound signal represents noise from a moving vehicle and the second type of non-speech sound signal represents Doppler-shifting noise.
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A method, comprising:
- providing at least one head-wearable mount, at least one speaker on the head-wearable mount, at least one microphone on the head-wearable mount, and at least first and second haptic generators on the head-wearable mount;
- activating only the first haptic generator responsive to a first type of non-speech sound signal from the at least one microphone;
- activating both the first and second haptic generators responsive to a second type of non-speech sound signal from the at least one microphone, wherein the first type of non-speech sound signal represents noise from a moving vehicle and the second type of non-speech sound signal represents Doppler-shifting noise.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.