Two-way wireless headphones
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorsMilos Jorgovanovic, Hans Edward Birch-Jensen
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Abstract
A method including establishing, at a first wireless audio device, a first communication channel with a second wireless audio device, receiving, at the first wireless audio device, audio data corresponding to a user utterance, determining that the audio data includes a wake word, transmitting at least a portion of the audio data from the first wireless audio device to a mobile device via a second communication channel, receiving an indication to establish a third communication channel with a second wireless audio device, and establishing the third communication channel with the second wireless audio device.
Claims20
An audio system comprising:
- a first wireless headphone;
- and
- a second wireless headphone;
- wherein the first wireless headphone comprises:
- one or more first processors;
- and
- one or more first non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more first processors, cause the one or more first processors to perform acts comprising:
- establishing a first communication channel with a mobile device, the first communication channel comprising Bluetooth;
- establishing a second communication channel with the second wireless headphone, the second communication channel comprising Bluetooth low energy (BLE);
- receiving, at the first wireless headphone, first audio data corresponding to a voice command;
- detecting, at the first wireless headphone, a wake word within the first audio data;
- transmitting at least a portion of the first audio data to the mobile device via the first communication channel;
- receiving, at the first wireless headphone and from the mobile device via the first communication channel, an indication to establish a third communication channel with the second wireless headphone;
- establishing the third communication channel with the second wireless headphone, the third communication channel comprising Bluetooth hands-free profile (HFP) protocol;
- receiving, at the first wireless headphone, second audio data corresponding to speech input from a first user;
- and
- transmitting, to the second wireless headphone via the third communication channel, the second audio data for output to a second user.
A first wireless audio device comprising:
- at least one processor;
- a first loudspeaker;
- a microphone;
- and
- one or more non-transitory computer-readable media store computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform acts comprising:
- establishing a first communication channel with a second wireless audio device, wherein the second wireless audio device includes a second loudspeaker;
- receiving first audio data representing a first user utterance captured by the microphone;
- transmitting at least a portion of the first audio data to a mobile device via a second communication channel;
- receiving, from the mobile device, an instruction to establish a third communication channel with the second wireless audio device;
- establishing, by the first wireless audio device, the third communication channel with the second wireless audio device;
- receiving second audio data representing a second user utterance captured by the microphone;
- and
- transmitting the second audio data to the second wireless audio device via the third communication channel.
A method, comprising:
- establishing, at a first wireless audio device, a first communication channel with a second wireless audio device;
- receiving, at the first wireless audio device, audio data corresponding to a user utterance;
- determining that the audio data includes a wake word;
- transmitting at least a portion of the audio data from the first wireless audio device to a mobile device via a second communication channel;
- receiving, at the first wireless audio device from the mobile device, an indication to establish a third communication channel with the second wireless audio device;
- and
- establishing the third communication channel with the second wireless audio device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.