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US 8,477,955 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for controlling a headphone
AssigneeThomson Licensing
InventorsJoseph Craig Engle, Gregg Michael Morgan, Francis Arthur Davenport
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Abstract
A method for controlling a headphone having a microphone for receiving noise and user signals, the received noise being used to reduce noise at an output of the headphone, includes detecting a signal by the microphone; if the signal has a predefined characteristic, the signal is mapped to a control command; and the headphone is operated according to the command.
Claims19
A method for controlling a headphone, comprising the steps of:
- receiving a noise signal via a microphone;
- detecting the noise signal;
- determining a characteristic of the detected signal;
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- controlling operation of the headphone in accordance with the characteristic of the detected noise signal it the characteristic indicates that the detected noise signal includes a user generated signal exhibiting said characteristic, wherein the controlling step further comprises selecting a particular noise cancellation function in response to the characteristic of the user generated signal, wherein the particular noise cancellation function is directed to cancellation of a signal other than the user generated signal.
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A headphone, comprising:
- a microphone for receiving noise;
- a detector for determining a presence of a characteristic in the noise indicative of a user generated noise signal;
- a controller, responsive to detection of said characteristic, for controlling operation of the headphone in response to the user generated signal, and said controller also for selecting a particular noise cancellation function according to the user generated signal, wherein the particular noise cancellation function is directed to cancellation of a signal other than the user generated signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.