Determination of seal quality
AssigneeOmnibuds Ltd
InventorsAlessandro Montanari, Hoang Truong
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Abstract
An apparatus, method and computer program is described for: receiving, over a period of time, a signal indicative of a pressure measured by a pressure sensor of an earpiece, the earpiece comprising an ear tip configured for insertion into an ear canal of a user, wherein the pressure sensor is arranged to measure a pressure within the ear canal whilst the ear tip is inserted into the ear canal; determining one or more characteristics of the signal; and determining a measure of a quality of a seal between the earpiece and the ear canal based on the one or more characteristics.
Claims16
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the apparatus to:
- receive, over a period of time, a signal indicative of a pressure measured by a pressure sensor of an earpiece, the earpiece comprising an ear tip configured for insertion into an ear canal of a user, wherein the pressure sensor is arranged to measure a pressure within the ear canal whilst the ear tip is inserted into the ear canal, and wherein the signal is indicative of a pressure increase within the ear canal resulting from the ear tip being inserted into the ear canal;
- determine one or more characteristics of the signal;
- and
- determine a measure of a quality of a seal between the earpiece and the ear canal based on the one or more characteristics,
- wherein the signal is indicative of at least one of (i) a pressure in the ear canal measured during insertion of the ear tip into the ear canal or (ii) a pressure in the ear canal measured without relying on an active excitation signal.
A method comprising:
- receiving, over a period of time, a signal indicative of a pressure measured by a pressure sensor of an earpiece, the earpiece comprising an ear tip configured for insertion into an ear canal of a user, wherein the pressure sensor is arranged to measure a pressure within the ear canal whilst the ear tip is inserted into the ear canal, and wherein the signal is indicative of a pressure increase within the ear canal resulting from the ear tip being inserted into the ear canal;
- determining one or more characteristics of the signal over the period of time;
- and
- determining a measure of a quality of a seal between the earpiece and the ear canal based on the one or more characteristics,
- wherein the signal is indicative of at least one of (i) a pressure in the ear canal measured during insertion of the ear tip into the ear canal or (ii) a pressure in the ear canal measured without relying on an active excitation signal.
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions for causing an apparatus to perform at least:
- receiving, over a period of time, a signal indicative of a pressure measured by a pressure sensor of an earpiece, the earpiece comprising an ear tip configured for insertion into an ear canal of a user, wherein the pressure sensor is arranged to measure a pressure within the ear canal whilst the ear tip is inserted into the ear canal, and wherein the signal is indicative of a pressure increase within the ear canal resulting from the ear tip being inserted into the ear canal;
- determining one or more characteristics of the signal over the period of time;
- and
- determining a measure of a quality of a seal between the earpiece and the ear canal based on the one or more characteristics,
- wherein the signal is indicative of at least one of (i) a pressure in the ear canal measured during insertion of the ear tip into the ear canal or (ii) a pressure in the ear canal measured without relying on an active excitation signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.