US 2019/0053764 A1 · HEADSETS WITH ANGLED SENSOR MODULES

Abstract

A headset includes a housing defining an audio cavity, a speaker located within the audio cavity, and first and second sensor modules within the housing in spaced-apart, angled relationship to each other. The housing includes an aperture through which sound from the speaker can pass, and the first and second sensor modules are on opposing sides of a direction from the speaker to the aperture. The first sensor module is configured to direct electromagnetic radiation at a first target region of an ear of a person wearing the headset and to detect a first energy response signal therefrom that is associated with one or more physiological metrics of the subject, and the second sensor module is configured to direct electromagnetic radiation at a second target region of the ear and to detect a second energy response signal therefrom that is associated with the one or more physiological metrics.

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Dependent claims

A headset, comprising:

a housing defining an audio cavity;
a speaker located within the audio cavity, wherein the housing comprises at least one aperture through which sound from the speaker can pass;
and
first and second sensor modules within the housing in spaced-apart, angled relationship to each other, wherein the first sensor module is configured to direct electromagnetic radiation at a first target region of an ear of a person wearing the headset and to detect a first energy response signal therefrom that is associated with one or more physiological metrics of the subject, and wherein the second sensor module is configured to direct electromagnetic radiation at a second target region of the ear and to detect a second energy response signal therefrom that is associated with the one or more physiological metrics.

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A headset, comprising:

a housing defining an audio cavity;
a speaker located within the audio cavity, wherein the housing comprises at least one aperture through which sound from the speaker can pass, and wherein the housing comprises first and second openings on opposite sides of the at least one aperture, wherein a direction normal to the first opening is angled relative to a direction normal to the second opening;
and
first and second optical sensor modules within the housing in spaced-apart relationship to each other, wherein the first optical sensor module is configured to direct modulated light at a first target region of an ear of a person wearing the headset via the first opening and to detect an energy response signal therefrom that is associated with one or more physiological metrics of the subject via the first opening, and wherein the second optical sensor module is configured to direct modulated light at a second target region of the ear and to detect an energy response signal therefrom that is associated with the one or more physiological metrics.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/169,375Filed 24 Oct 2018

Priority

27 Jan 2011

Published

21 Feb 2019

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification26 codes

A61B 5/6803
Sensor mounted on worn items: head-worn items, e.g. helmets, masks, headphones or goggles
A61B 5/0059
Measuring for diagnostic purposes ; Identification of persons: using light, e.g. diagnosis by transillumination, diascopy, fluorescence
A61B 5/026
Detecting, measuring or recording for evaluating the cardiovascular system, e.g. pulse, heart rate, blood pressure or blood flow: measuring blood flow
A61B 5/14551
Using optical sensors, e.g. spectral photometrical oximeters: for measuring blood gases

Family

Application61/436,664Us provisional application · filed 27 Jan 2011

Application13/358,102Continuation · filed 25 Jan 2012

Application14/511,692Continuation · filed 10 Oct 2014

Application16/169,375Continuation

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Headsets with angled sensor modules

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Headsets with angled sensor modules

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Abstract

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