Hearing protection and communication apparatus using vibration sensors
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsWillem M. Beltman, Hector A. Cordourier Maruri, Paulo Lopez Meyer, Jonathan Huang
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Abstract
Hearing protection and communication apparatus using vibration sensors are disclosed. An example wearable electronic device includes means for transducing vibrations associated with speech into a first signal; means for transducing sound associated with ambient noise into a second signal; and means for processing to cause a speaker to output a signal to reduce the ambient noise; detect an identifier in the speech; and cause audio data representative of the speech to be transmitted to a second device associated with the identifier.
Claims20
A wearable electronic device comprising:
- means for transducing vibrations associated with speech into a first signal;
- means for transducing sound associated with ambient noise into a second signal;
- and
- means for processing to:
- cause a speaker to output a third signal to reduce the ambient noise;
- detect an identifier in the speech;
- identify one of a second device or a third device as associated with the identifier;
- and
- cause a fourth signal representative of the speech to be transmitted to the identified one of the second device or the third device associated with the identifier, the second device different than the wearable electronic device, the third device different than the second device and different than the wearable electronic device.
A first device comprising:
- memory;
- machine-readable instructions;
- and
- processor circuitry to execute the machine-readable instructions to:
- identify a first keyword in speech associated with signals output by a vibration sensor;
- cause first signals corresponding to the speech to be transmitted to one of a second device or a third device based on the first keyword, the second device different than the first device, the third device different than the first device and different than the second device;
- and
- cause a speaker to output sound corresponding to second signals, the second signals different than the first signals, the second signals corresponding to one or more of (a) speech received from the second device or (b) speech received from the third device, the speech received from the one or more of the second device or the third device including a second keyword, the second keyword associated with the first device.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that cause processor circuitry of a first device to at least:
- identify a sound event in ambient noise, the ambient noise represented by signals output by a microphone;
- cause a speaker to output an alert in response to the identification of the sound event;
- identify a keyword in speech, the speech represented by signals output by a vibration sensor, the speech different than the sound event;
- select one of a second device or a third device to receive the speech based on the keyword;
- and
- cause first audio data corresponding to the speech to be transmitted to the selected one of the second device or the third device, the second device different than the first device, the third device different than the first device and different than the second device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.