# US 12,183,341 B2 · Personalized sound management and method > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,183,341 B2 - Document ID: US12183341B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 18/106,606 - Filed: 2023-02-07 - Published: 2023-06-22 - Granted: 2024-12-31 - Earliest claimed: 2008-09-22 - Assignees: ST CasesTech, LLC - Applicants: ST CasesTech, LLC - Inventors: Steven Goldstein; John P. Keady - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12183341B2 ## CPC - G10L 15/22: Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue - B25F 5/00: Details or components of portable power-driven tools not particularly related to the operations performed and not otherwise provided for - G06F 21/10: Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material (protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16) {; Digital rights management [DRM]} - G06Q 30/012: Providing warranty services - G06Q 30/018: Certifying business or products - G06Q 30/02: Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising - G06Q 30/0281: {Customer communication at a business location, e.g. providing product or service information, consulting} - G06Q 30/0601: Electronic shopping [e-shopping] - G06Q 30/0621: {by configuring or customising goods or services} - G06Q 40/08: Insurance - G10L 13/00: Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems - G10L 25/84: for discriminating voice from noise - H03G 3/32: the control being dependent upon ambient noise level or sound level - H04R 1/1041: {Mechanical or electronic switches, or control elements (switches in general H01H)} - H04R 1/1083: {Reduction of ambient noise (active noise reduction per se G10K11/175; protective devices for the ear, e.g. providing acoustic protection A61F11/06)} - H04R 5/04: Circuit arrangements, {e.g. for selective connection of amplifier inputs/outputs to loudspeakers, for loudspeaker detection, or for adaptation of settings to personal preferences or hearing impairments (combinations of amplifiers H03F3/68; stereophonic systems H04S)} - H04R 25/453: {electronically} - H04R 25/505: {using digital signal processing} - G05B 19/042: using digital processors (G05B19/05 takes precedence) - G06F 3/16: Sound input; Sound output (speech processing G10L) - G06F 2221/2137: Time limited access, e.g. to a computer or data - H04R 2201/103: Combination of monophonic or stereophonic headphones with audio players, e.g. integrated in the headphone - H04R 2201/107: Monophonic and stereophonic headphones with microphone for two-way hands free communication - H04R 2460/07: Use of position data from wide-area or local-area positioning systems in hearing devices, e.g. program or information selection - H04R 2460/15: Determination of the acoustic seal of ear moulds or ear tips of hearing devices - H04R 2460/17: Hearing device specific tools used for storing or handling hearing devices or parts thereof, e.g. placement in the ear, replacement of cerumen barriers, repair, cleaning hearing devices - G10L: SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING - B25F: COMBINATION OR MULTI-PURPOSE TOOLS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; DETAILS OR COMPONENTS OF PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS NOT PARTICULARLY RELATED TO THE OPERATIONS PERFORMED AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR {(machines or arrangements of machines for performing specified combinations of different metal-working operations not covered by a single other subclass B23P23/00 and subgroups)} - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - H03G: CONTROL OF AMPLIFICATION - H04R: LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; ELECTRIC HEARING AIDS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS (producing sounds with frequency not determined by supply frequency G10K) - G05B: CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS (systems for controlling or regulating non-electric variables G05D; systems for regulating electric or magnetic variables G05F; control devices or systems insofar as characterised by mechanical features only G05G) ## Abstract A personalized sound management system for an acoustic space includes at least one transducer, a data communication system, one or more processors operatively coupled to the data communication system and the at least one transducer, and a medium coupled to the one or more processors. The processors access a database of sonic signatures and display a plurality of personalized sound management applications that perform at least one or more tasks among identifying a sonic signature, calculating a sound pressure level, storing metadata related to a sonic signature, monitoring sound pressure level dosage levels, switching to an ear canal microphone in a noisy environment, recording a user's voice, storing the user's voice in a memory of an earpiece device, or storing the user's voice in a memory of a server system, or converting received text received in texts or emails to voice using text to speech conversion. Other embodiments are disclosed. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A device comprising: a microphone configured to measure sound and generate a microphone signal; a user interface; a memory configured to store instructions; a data buffer configured to store at least a portion of the microphone signal; a second memory configured to store data; a processor operatively coupled to the memory, the processor operatively coupled to the audio buffer, the processor operatively coupled to the data buffer, wherein the processor is configured to execute the instructions to perform operations comprising: receiving the microphone signal; sending a portion of the microphone signal to the data buffer; analyzing the data buffer for detecting a sonic signature; retrieving sound data from the microphone if the sonic signature is detected; sending a portion of the sound data to a remote server; determining a user request in the portion of the sound data, wherein the determination is accomplished by the remote server or a second server; retrieving a first data in response to the user request, wherein the remote server or the second server or a third server retrieves the first data; sending the first data to the device and storing the first data in the second memory; retrieving the first data from the second memory; and sending the first data to the user interface. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The device according to claim 1, wherein the user interface is a speaker. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The device according to claim 2, wherein the operations further comprise: converting the first data into a first acoustic signal if the first data is not already in the form of an acoustic signal. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The device according to claim 3, wherein the operations further comprise: sending the first acoustic signal to the speaker. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The device according to claim 1, wherein the user interface is a display. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The device according to claim 5, wherein the operations further comprise: converting the first data into first visual data if the first data is not already in the form of visual data. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The device according to claim 6, wherein the operations further comprise: sending the first visual data to the display. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The device according to claim 1, wherein the sonic signature is at least one word. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The device according to claim 8, wherein the user request is a verbal request from the user to retrieve at least one of a song, weather predictions, news, a video, or a combination thereof. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The device according to claim 1, wherein the user interface is an earphone. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The device according to claim 1, wherein the portion of the audio data includes meta data. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The device according to claim 1, wherein the first data includes meta data. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The device according to claim 1, wherein the user request is determined by the remote server by detecting additional sonic signatures in the portion of the sound data. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The device of claim 1, wherein the user request is determined by use of a gaussian mixture model or learned model. ### Claim 15 A method comprising: receiving a microphone signal; sending a portion of the microphone signal to an data buffer; analyzing the data buffer for detecting a sonic signature wherein the sonic signature is at least one word; recording sound data if the sonic signature is detected; adding meta data to a portion of the sound data to generate a mixed data signal; sending the mixed data signal to a remote server; determining a user request from the mixed data signal, wherein the determination is accomplished by the remote server; retrieving a first data in response to the user request, wherein the remote server retrieves the first data; sending the first data from the remote server to the device and storing the first data in a memory; retrieving the first data from the memory; and sending the first data to the user interface. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The method according to claim 15, wherein the user interface is a speaker. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The method according to claim 16, further comprising: converting the first data into a first acoustic signal if the first data is not already in the form of an acoustic signal; and sending the first acoustic signal to the speaker. ### Claim 18 (depends on 15) The method according to claim 15, wherein the user interface is a display. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) The method according to claim 18, further comprising: converting the first data into first visual data if the first data is not already in the form of visual data; and sending the first visual data to the display. ### Claim 20 (depends on 15) The method according to claim 15, wherein the user request is determined by the remote server by detecting additional sonic signatures in the portion of the sound data.