US 12,762,933 B2Granted

Electronic system with alerts triggered by detected audio exposure from wearable audio output device(s)

AssigneeMotorola Mobility LLC

InventorsAmit Kumar Agrawal, Krishnan Raghavan

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Abstract

An electronic device, method and computer program product monitor accumulated usage of connected audio wearable devices and employ digital wellbeing policies responsive the accumulated usage. The electronic device includes an audio driver configured to communicatively couple and transmit audio output to at least one wearable audio output device. A controller of the electronic device is communicatively coupled to the audio driver. The controller monitors presentation of audio output via each of the at least one wearable audio output device. The controller compares a total time of audio exposure to a user via each of the at least one wearable audio output device presenting the audio output with a corresponding audio exposure threshold within an exposure period of time. The controller presents an alert via an output device in response to the total time of audio exposure exceeding the audio exposure threshold.

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Dependent claims

An electronic device comprising:

an audio driver configured to communicatively couple and transmit audio output to at least one wearable audio output device;
and
a controller communicatively coupled to the audio driver, and which:
monitors presentation of audio output via each of the at least one wearable audio output device to obtain a total time of exposure of a user to presentation of the audio output via each of the at least one wearable audio output device, wherein, in response to the at least one wearable audio output device comprising at least two wearable audio output devices, the controller:
maintains subtotal values for audio exposure duration for each of the at least two wearable audio output devices;
compares a respective audio exposure threshold to the subtotal values during an exposure period of time;
and
presents a notification via the output device to pause audio output in response to the total time of audio exposure from any one of the at least two wearable audio output devices exceeding the respective audio exposure threshold for a corresponding one of the at least two wearable audio output devices;
compares the total time of audio exposure to an audio exposure threshold;
and
presents an alert via an output device in response to the total time of audio exposure exceeding the audio exposure threshold.

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A method comprising:

communicatively coupling and transmitting an audio output from an electronic device to at least one wearable audio output device;
monitoring presentation of audio output via each of the at least one wearable audio output device to obtain a total time of exposure of a user to presentation of the audio output via each of the at least one wearable audio output device, wherein, in response to the at least one wearable audio output device comprising at least two wearable audio output devices, the method further comprises:
maintaining subtotal values for audio exposure duration for each of the at least two wearable audio output devices;
comparing a respective audio exposure threshold to the subtotal values during an exposure period of time;
and
presenting a notification via the output device to pause audio output in response to the total time of audio exposure from any one of the at least two wearable audio output devices exceeding the respective audio exposure threshold for a corresponding one of the at least two wearable audio output devices;
comparing the total time of audio exposure to an audio exposure threshold;
and
presenting an alert via an output device in response to the total time of audio exposure exceeding the audio exposure threshold.

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A computer program product comprising:

a non-transitory computer readable storage device;
and
program code stored on the computer readable storage device that when executed by a processor associated with an electronic device, the program code enables the electronic device to provide functionality of:
communicatively coupling and transmitting an audio output from the electronic device to at least one wearable audio output device, wherein in response to the at least one wearable audio output device comprising at least two wearable audio output devices, the electronic device provides the functionality of:
maintaining subtotal values for audio exposure duration for each of the at least two wearable audio output devices;
comparing a respective audio exposure threshold to the subtotal values during an exposure period of time;
and
presenting a notification via the output device to pause audio output in response to the total time of audio exposure from any one of the at least two wearable audio output devices exceeding the respective audio exposure threshold for a corresponding one of the at least two wearable audio output devices;
monitoring presentation of audio output via each of the at least one wearable audio output device to obtain a total time of exposure of a user to presentation of the audio output via each of the at least one wearable audio output device;
comparing the total time of audio exposure to an audio exposure threshold;
and
presenting an alert via an output device in response to the total time of audio exposure exceeding the audio exposure threshold.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.