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US 11,962,985 B2Granted
Interrupt based pairing for wireless audio devices
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsVictoria Pires, Hua Zhao, Yu Zhang
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Abstract
A method for interrupt based pairing for wireless audio devices includes determining a colocation of a wireless audio device with a subsequent wireless audio device with one or more sensors. An interrupt is generated in response to determining the colocation. A pairing mode of the wireless audio device is enabled in response to the interrupt. The wireless audio device is paired with the subsequent wireless audio device.
Claims20
A wireless earbud headphone comprising:
- a housing shaped to fit to an ear of a user;
- a Hall sensor;
- a processor;
- and
- a memory, wherein the memory comprises instructions that execute on the processor and are configured for:
- measuring a magnetic field generated from a subsequent wireless earbud headphone with the Hall sensor of the wireless earbud headphone;
- comparing the magnetic field to a magnetic field threshold, wherein the magnetic field threshold corresponds to a colocation of the wireless earbud headphone to the subsequent wireless earbud headphone within a threshold distance;
- generating an interrupt in response to the magnetic field meeting the magnetic field threshold to determine the colocation of the wireless earbud headphone with the subsequent wireless earbud headphone;
- and
- pairing the wireless earbud headphone with the subsequent wireless earbud headphone in response to the interrupt.
7 more elements
A system comprising:
- a wireless earbud headphone that is shaped to fit to an ear of a user and includes a Hall sensor;
- a subsequent wireless earbud headphone that is shaped to fit to another ear of the user;
- the wireless earbud headphone including a processor and memory, wherein the memory comprises instructions that execute on the processor and are configured for:
- measuring a magnetic field generated from the subsequent wireless earbud headphone with the Hall sensor of the wireless earbud headphone;
- comparing the magnetic field to a magnetic field threshold, wherein the magnetic field threshold corresponds to a colocation of the wireless earbud headphone to the subsequent wireless earbud headphone within a threshold distance;
- generating an interrupt in response to the magnetic field meeting the magnetic field threshold to determine the colocation of the wireless earbud headphone with the subsequent wireless earbud headphone;
- and
- pairing the wireless earbud headphone with the subsequent wireless earbud headphone in response to the interrupt.
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A wireless earbud headphone comprising:
- a housing shaped to fit to an ear of a user;
- an acceleration sensor;
- a processor;
- and
- a memory, wherein the memory comprises instructions that execute on the processor and are configured for:
- measuring an acceleration of the wireless earbud headphone with the acceleration sensor;
- comparing the acceleration to an acceleration threshold;
- and
- generating an interrupt in response to the acceleration meeting the acceleration threshold to determine a colocation of the wireless earbud headphone with a subsequent wireless earbud headphone;
- and
- pairing the wireless earbud headphone with the subsequent wireless earbud headphone in response to the interrupt.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.