Multi-mode,wearable, wireless microphone
AssigneeKoss Corporation
InventorsMichael J. Koss, Nick S. Blair, Michael J. Pelland
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Abstract
A microphone assembly that captures audio/voice recordings and wirelessly transmits them to different desired network destinations based on an operating mode specified by the user. The microphone assembly may comprise a non-graphical-display user interface tap detection circuit, through which a user of the microphone assembly controls operation of the microphone assembly. For example, the user may tap the user interface tap detection circuit, and different tap sequences may correspond to different operating modes for the microphone assembly. The microphone assembly may also comprise a clip for clipping the microphone assembly to a garment of the user.
Claims18
A microphone assembly comprising:
- a processor;
- a microphone in communication with the processor;
- a wireless communication circuit in communication with the processor for transmitting wirelessly from the microphone assembly a voice recording captured by the microphone;
- a non-graphical-display user interface tap detection circuit in communication with the processor, whereby the user controls operation of microphone assembly through one or more taps of the user interface tap detection circuit, wherein different tap sequences correspond to different operating modes for the microphone assembly;
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- a memory unit in communication with the processor, wherein the memory unit stores instructions that programs the processor to determine a network destination to which to wirelessly transmit, via the wireless communication circuit, the voice recording captured by the microphone based on the operating mode for the microphone assembly that is determined based on the tap sequence detected through the user interface tap detection circuit, such that:
- the captured voice recording is wirelessly transmitted, via the wireless communication circuit, to a first network destination when a first tap sequence, corresponding to a first operating mode, is detected through the user interface tap detection circuit;
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- the captured voice recording is wirelessly transmitted, via the wireless communication circuit, to a second network destination, different from the first network destination, when a second tap sequence, corresponding to a second operating mode, is detected through the user interface tap detection circuit.
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A method of wirelessly transmitting a voice recording, the method comprising:
- detecting, by a non-graphical-display user interface tap detection circuit of a microphone assembly, a first commence-recording tap sequence by a user of the microphone assembly, wherein the first commence-recording tap sequence corresponds to one of a plurality of operating modes of the microphone assembly;
- after detecting the first commence-recording tap sequence, capturing, by a microphone of the microphone assembly, a first voice recording until an end-recording tap sequence corresponding to a command to end the recording is detected;
- after detecting the end-recording tap sequence corresponding to the command to end the recording, wirelessly transmitting, by a wireless communication circuit of the microphone assembly, the first captured voice recording to a first network destination that is determined based on the detected first commence-recording tap sequence;
- detecting, by the non-graphical-display user interface tap detection circuit of the microphone assembly, a second commence-recording tap sequence by the user of the microphone assembly, wherein:
- the second commence-recording tap sequence is different from the first commence-recording tap sequence;
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- the second commence-recording tap sequence corresponds to a second one of a plurality of operating modes of the microphone assembly;
- after detecting the second commence-recording tap sequence, capturing, by the microphone of the microphone assembly, a second voice recording until the end-recording tap sequence corresponding to the command to end the recording is detected;
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- after detecting the end-recording tap sequence corresponding to the command to end the recording, wirelessly transmitting, by the wireless communication circuit of the microphone assembly, the second captured voice recording to a second network destination that is determined based on the detected second commence-recording tap sequence.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.