Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices inventions 09/07

20070223708 - Generation of spatial downmixes from parametric representations of multi channel signals: A headphone down mix signal can be efficiently derived from a parametric down mix of a multi-channel signal, when modified HRTFs (head related transfer functions) are derived from HRTFs of a multi-channel signal using a level parameter having information on a level relation between two channels of the multi-channel signals... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070223709 - Method, medium, and system generating a stereo signal: Surround audio decoding for selectively generating an audio signal from a multi-channel signal. In the surround audio decoding, a down-mixed signal, e.g., as down-mixed by an encoding terminal, is selectively up-mixed to a stereo signal or a multi-channel signal, by generating spatial information for generating the stereo signal, using spatial... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070223715 - Quiet active fan for servers chassis: An Active Muffler in the form of a duct having two open ends for conveying air from a within a cabinet to outside the cabinet. A fan or blower is incorporated in the duct. An Automatic Noise Control (ANC) unit is associated with the duct, and at least one microphone... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP

20070223716 - Gain adjusting method and a gain adjusting device:

20070223720 - Headworn listening device and method: A headworn listening device includes a right ear assembly and a left ear assembly interconnected by a headband. The headworn listening device is preferably comfortable to wear and provides high-quality audio and flexible signal processing features without requiring customized fitting. The listening device includes a signal processor with programmable signal... Agent: Ip Legal Team, PLLC

20070223721 - Self-testing programmable listening system and method: A self-testing programmable listening system includes a programmable listening device and a programming module, which may be located within the listening device or in an external module configured to communicate with the listening device via a suitable wireless or wired communication link. When the listening device is in programming mode,... Agent: Ip Legal Team, PLLC

20070223724 - Speaker device, sound reproducing method, and speaker control device: A speaker device mixes an audible frequency band signal wave with a modulated wave obtained by modulating an ultrasonic frequency band carrier wave with an audible frequency band signal so as to generate a synthesis wave, and drives an ultrasonic transducer with the synthesis wave so as to reproduce a... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070223727 - Sound effect producing apparatus for vehicle: A processor determines an engagement state of a clutch based on a clutch signal, which is output from a clutch switch connected to a clutch pedal. In a declutching state, the processor lowers weighting gain characteristics that serve as acoustic correcting characteristics used in a sound pressure adjuster. Therefore, even... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070223728 - Vehicular active sound control system: An ASC generates a control signal based on an engine rotation frequency detected by an engine rotational speed detecting means, and a speaker outputs a sound effect depending on the control signal into a vehicle. The speaker is disposed in a substantially central area of a dashboard, in front of... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070223731 - Sound source separating device, method, and program: Conventional independent component analysis has had a problem that performance deteriorates when the number of sound sources exceeds the number of microphones. Conventional l1 norm minimization method assumes that noises other than sound sources do not exist, and is problematic in that performance deteriorates in environments in which noises other... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070223707 - Fm receiver and pilot detector thereof, and method for determining a type of a processed signal: An FM receiver and a pilot detector thereof, and a method for determining a type of a processed signal are provided. The FM receiver comprises a demodulator, a band pass filter (BPF), and a pilot detector. The demodulator generates a multiplexed (MPX) signal. The BPF filters the MPX signal to... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070223710 - Hearing aid to solve the 'cocktail party' problem: A real-time method of measuring the true directions of sounds in rooms, halls, etc in order that sound amplifying or recording equipment may distinguish between different sound sources, reproducing one or more and attenuating the others at the user's choice so as to reduce the unintelligibility which is often caused... Agent: Peter Laurie

20070223711 - System and method for visualizing sound source energy distribution: The present invention discloses a system for visualizing sound source energy distribution and a method thereof, wherein a propagation matrix and a window matrix are obtained firstly; next, an inverse operation of the propagation matrix is performed; next, a multiplication operation of the result of the inverse operation and the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070223712 - Composite damper for speaker: A composite damper for a speaker comprises an inner ring surface material, an outer ring surface material, and a plurality of ribs connected between the inner ring surface material and the outer ring surface material. The inner ring surface material and the outer ring surface material have a plurality of... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070223713 - Creating digital signal processing (dsp) filters to improve loudspeaker transient response: A method is provided for creating a series of digital signal processing (DSP) filters to improve the transient response of a loudspeaker, wherein the loudspeaker is formed of multiple components. The method includes generally six steps. The first step involves identifying a substantially linear, time-invariant, and spatially-consistent loudspeaker mechanism causing... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070223714 - Open-air noise cancellation system for large open area coverage applications: A variety of open-air noise cancellation systems are disclosed. The systems are configured to suit the needs of the particular application, for example, an open-air sound wall installation, an open-air enclosure for a quiet area, or a window/door treatment application. A particular system may a digital-based processing architecture having a... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070223718 - Headphone driver and methods for use therewith: A headphone driver includes a driver module for generating a plurality of headphone driver signals including a filtered stereo sum signal.... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070223719 - Headphone for playing audio files: This invention is to provide a headphone for playing audio files which including a headband worn at a user's head, at least one speaker base, which includes a speaker, movably installed or fixed to an end of the headband for fixing at a position of the user's ear, a control... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070223717 - Headset with ambient sound: A headset that includes an input that receives an audio signal from an electronic equipment, and at least one earpiece having an electro-acoustic speaker for converting electrical signals to audible sound. The headset further includes at least one microphone that receives ambient sound and converts the ambient sound to an... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070223723 - Combination low voltage speaker / light fixture: A combination low voltage light and sound producing fixture is disclosed for installation in a yard wall or ceiling or on a wall or ceiling. Outdoor lighting and sound is produced with low voltage lighting that is wired or solar powered for operation. The fixture may further include digital signal... Agent: Buhler Associates Buhler, Kirk A.

20070223722 - Digital power link audio distribution system and components thereof: An audio distribution system in one embodiment includes a master device, a powered speaker unit, and an expander device. The master device has an output port for receiving a cable carrying an electrical power signal along with a digital audio signal. The speaker unit includes a first port for receiving... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070223725 - Method and apparatus for wirelessly streaming multi-channel content: A method and apparatus are provided for wirelessly delivering multi-channel content (106) from an electronic device (201), such as a MP3 player or mobile telephone having multi-media capabilities, to a user. A system (200) includes the electronic device (201), a first wireless loudspeaker device (100) and a second wireless loudspeaker... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20070223726 - Universal cassette bridge: The invention described herein generally describes a mounting apparatus for portable electronic devices (hereinafter “PED”). More particularly, the present invention relates to a cassette adapter coupled to a mounting bracket and PED holder that allows the user to use and store their PED, particularly in a motor vehicle.... Agent: John Nielsen Randick O'dea & Tooliatos, LLP

20070223729 - Sound system: A long and narrow loudspeaker on an entire wall gives off a cylindrical wave, which covers the entire room. Extra loudspeakers fixed at an angle against the wall will be heard in another direction, producing angle stereo independent of where one is in the room. Electro-dynamic loudspeakers are made of... Agent: Fasth Law Offices (rolf Fasth)

20070223732 - Methods and apparatuses for adjusting a visual image based on an audio signal: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect a sound through a microphone device; determine a location of the sound through the microphone device; and automatically adjust a visual device based on the location of the sound wherein the visual device is configured to view an area corresponding with the... Agent: Richard Butler Valley Oak Law

20070223730 - Normalization and calibration of microphones in sound-intensity probes: A system for normalizing and calibrating the microphones of a sound-intensity probe or a composite of such probes, with respect to a stable comparison microphone with known acoustical characteristics. Normalizing and calibrating are performed using an apparatus 57 consisting of a tube with a loudspeaker inserted in one end and... Agent: Robert Hickling

20070223733 - Ambient noise sound level compensation: An ambient noise compensation system determines an ambient noise level of a listening area. The ambient noise level may be calculated from the differences between a desired audio signal in the listening area, a measured background noise level in the listening area, and measured acoustic characteristics of the listening area.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070223734 - Speaker: A speaker has an acoustic diaphragm, and an actuator that is driven based on a first acoustic signal. The actuator has a transmission portion that is directly or indirectly attached to the acoustic diaphragm and transmits a displacement output of the actuator to the acoustic diaphragm. The speaker also has... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070223735 - Electroacoustic transducer system and manufacturing method thereof: A transducer system may include multiple transducers. The transducers may be mounted together and may include either the same transducer type or different transducer types, depending on the desired applications. The transducers may be receivers which are aligned and joined. A coupling circuit may be provided and coupled to one... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070223736 - Adaptive speaker equalization: A device may include logic configured to detect information about a condition of a speaker in a communications device. The logic may process the information, load equalization logic based on the processed information, and may apply the equalization logic to an input signal of the speaker when the information indicates... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070223737 - Audio system with parental maximum volume control: The disclosed embodiments relate to an audio system (100) and an associate method. An exemplary embodiment of the system (100) comprises a user interface (104) that enables adjustment of a volume level of an audio signal being reproduced on at least a portion of the audio system to a desired... Agent: Panasonic Automotive System Company Of America

20070223738 - Volume-based adaptive biasing: An audio amplifier such as for driving headphones. The amplifier includes multiple amplifier devices coupled in parallel. Both a bias generator and a volume control are responsive to a user setting. Under low output signal conditions, one or more of the amplifier devices are disabled in response to the user... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070223739 - Speaker system for mobile device: A speaker system for a mobile device includes first and second audio processing units and first and second speakers for reproducing audio signals and outputting the reproduced audio signals. The speaker system also includes a controller configured for transferring the audio signal to the second speaker if a battery is... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070223740 - Audio spatial environment engine using a single fine structure: A system for compensating for signal fade in a frequency-modulated transmission system is provided, such as for use in terrestrial frequency modulated receivers. The system includes a time domain to frequency domain conversion stage receiving M channels of audio data and generating a plurality of sub-bands of audio spatial image... Agent: Mr. Christopher John Rourk Jackson Walker LLP

20070223741 - Audio amplifier and methods for use therewith: An audio amplifier includes an output stage for generating an output stage voltage in response to an input signal and an output stage quiescent current. A controlled current source controls the output stage quiescent current in response to a quiescent current signal during a start-up cycle.... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070223742 - Audio control system with hot plug-and-play mechanism and method thereof: An audio control system with a hot plug-and-play mechanism and a method thereof, which can effectively solve the defects that devices of a conventional high definition audio specification must be fixed on a mother board and cannot be hot plugged and played so that the convenience and the time efficiency... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070223744 - Electro-optic device and electronic apparatus: An electro-optic device includes a display unit having a display area and a plurality of sound generating members, the plurality of sound generating members each include a speaker which is arranged so as to overlap the display area in plan view, and a sound releasing hole that outputs sounds generated... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070223743 - Electro-acoustic converter and electronic device using the same: Electro-acoustic converter (35) such as a speaker includes frame (26) attached to magnetic circuit member (24), diaphragm (27) attached to frame (26), voice coil (28) attached to this diaphragm (27) and having a part of which disposed in magnetic gap (25) in magnetic circuit member (24), terminal (30) made by... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070223745 - Sound enhancing stands for portable audio devices: Stands for a portable audio device include a housing and a mounting member. The mounting member is configured to couple the audio device to the housing at a location selected to reflect sounds generated by a speaker of the audio device away from the housing. Stands may include a resonator... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070223746 - Mobile terminal: A mobile terminal includes a first body, a second body slidably mounted at the first body, and a fragrance emanating unit mounted at one of the first and second bodies and disposed at a portion close to a user's nose when the user performs call communication. A user can smell... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070223747 - Narrow speaker unit and image display apparatus having the narrow speaker: A narrow speaker unit includes a diaphragm including first and second cone-type vibrating sections, a first drive section driving the first vibrating section, the first drive section attached to the first vibrating section with a drive center of the first vibrating section displaced in the longitudinal direction from the center... Agent: Nath & Associates, PLLC

20070223748 - Glasses with a music sounding device: A pair of glasses with a music sounding device includes a pair of glasses and a music sounding device installed in a chamber of two temples of the glasses and a pair of earphones connected with the music sounding device composed of an electric circuit board and a power circuit... Agent: Ching-hsiang Wang

20070223750 - Crosstalk cancellation system with sound quality preservation and parameter determining method thereof: A crosstalk cancellation system for preserving quality of sound and the parameter determining method thereof. The system can cancel a two-channel audio signal without compensating a frequency response of an ipsilateral HRTF. The method includes providing an audio signal input device for inputting the two-channel audio signal, modeling a relation... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070223749 - Method, medium, and system synthesizing a stereo signal: A method, medium, and system generating a 3-dimensional (3D) stereo signal in a decoder by using a surround data stream. According to such a method, medium, and system, a head related transfer function (HRTF) is applied in a quadrature mirror filter (QMF) domain, thereby generating a 3D stereo signal by... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070223751 - Utilization of filtering effects in stereo headphone devices to enhance spatialization of source around a listener: An apparatus for creating, utilizing a pair of oppositely opposed headphone speakers, the sensation of a sound source being spatially distant from the area between the pair of headphones, the apparatus comprising: (a) a series of audio inputs representing audio signals being projected from an idealised sound source located at... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20070223753 - Hearing device system with binaural data logging and corresponding method: The data of a hearing device system with two hearing devices are to be available in a more comfortable manner. To this end, provision is made for each of the two hearing devices to be equipped with a data acquisition facility, in order to acquire internal signal processing data and/or... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070223752 - Method for individually fitting a hearing instrument: A method for individually fitting a hearing instrument to a user, comprising at least one microphone for generating an input audio signal from ambient sound, an audio signal processing unit for processing the input audio signal into a processed output audio signal, and a transducer for stimulation of the human... Agent: Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes

20070223754 - Hearing aid with acoustical signal direction of arrival control: Acoustical signals from the acoustical surrounding (U) which impinge upon a reception unit 30 are evaluated and direction of arrival (DOA) of such signals is determined. From signals indicative of such direction of arrival (DOA) a histogram is formed in unit 32. The behavior of such histogram is classified under... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070223755 - Output phase modulation entrainment containment for digital filters: Method and apparatus for entrainment containment in digital filters using output phase modulation. Phase change is gradually introduced into the acoustic feedback canceller loop to avoid entrainment of the feedback canceller filter. Various embodiments employing different output phase modulation approaches are set forth and time and frequency domain examples are... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070223756 - Interchangeable attachment means for attaching a conductor to a hearing aid: Attachment means for attaching a conductor to a hearing aid having a hearing aid housing. The attachment means is adapted to be located partially in said hearing aid housing wall, so as to have a first part located in said hearing aid housing wall and a second part protruding through... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070223757 - Tapered vent for a hearing instrument: A vent having a reduced cross-section or taper permits the fabrication of very small hearing instruments while providing the necessary openings for the receiver tube and the vent in the tip of the instrument. The reduced cross-section provides sufficient clearance for the full cross-section of the receiver tube, without sacrificing... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070223759 - Hearing apparatus with an open-porous cerumen protection facility: The sound outlet opening of a hearing device or another hearing apparatus is to be effectively protected against cerumen. To this end, provision is made for a cerumen protection facility to be arranged at the sound outlet opening, said cerumen protection facility consisting at least partially of an open-porous material,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070223758 - Chambers for a hearing instrument shell: A portion of a hearing instrument housing or shell comprises one or more chambers having planar, conical, or convex walls. During assembly, this shape helps guide the receiver tube towards tip of the shell and the receiver tube hole. Additionally, it will reinforce the walls of the shell, decreasing the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070223760 - Personal speaker assembly mounted on user's neck: A personal speaker assembly includes a wire connected between a plug and at least one speaker wherein the plug is connected with a music player. The wire is in a loop form so as to be mounted on the user's neck and the at least one speaker is arranged to... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20070223762 - External sound outputting device: An external sound outputting device is provided. The external sound outputting device includes a connection connector and a speaker unit. The connection connector is inserted into a connection terminal of a portable terminal. The speaker unit outputs an electric signal delivered through the connection connector as an audio signal. The... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070223761 - Personal portable speaker assembly: A personal speaker assembly is provided, including a wire connected between a plug and at least one speaker wherein the plug is connected with a music player. The wire is in a loop form so as to be mounted on the user's neck and the at least one speaker is... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20070223763 - Digital loudspeaker: A loudspeaker comprises a region devoid of electroacoustic transducers and at least two groups of electroacoustic transducers at the periphery of the region. Each of the groups is configured to produce a different sound field representative of an audio signal and each of the groups comprise a different set of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070223764 - Wireless microphone: A wireless microphone includes a perforated front cover mounted on a front open end of a tubular housing, and a control module mounted fixedly on a rear open end of the housing and having an outer surrounding surface provided with a power switch and electrode plates. A rear cover is... Agent: Quine Intellectual Property Law Group, P.C.

20070223765 - Wireless headset adjustable for either ear: A single-ear wireless headset is provided herein, which mainly contains a body member, an arm member, a hook member, and a joint member having a twisting element. On the two sides of the body member, two radially opposing connecting holes are provided for the connection to the joint member and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070223766 - Headset terminal with rear stability strap: A headset adapted to be positioned on a head includes a headband assembly for spanning across the head of a user. An earcup assembly is coupled proximate one end of the headband assembly. A power source assembly is coupled proximate the other end of the headband assembly. A flexible stabilizing... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070223767 - In the ear audio device and method for fastening an electronic module in a cavity in a custom made shell part for an in the ear audio device: According to the invention an in the ear audio device is provided which comprises a custom made shell part which fits into the ear canal of a user and a pre-fabricated module part whereby the custom made part has a cavity with an opening for receiving the module wherein two... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20070223768 - Spring tension mounting mechanism for speakers and electronic modules: A pair of portable speaker enclosures; or, an enclosure connecting together two opposing sides by interlocking slider structures. A spring-loaded tension mechanism permits the sliding of said connector slider structures with respect to one another, for the extension thereof and the shortening thereof. The tension mechanism exerts a friction between... Agent: Carla N. Johnson

20070223770 - Speaker: A speaker includes a vibration board and at least one illuminant. The vibration board is made of translucent resin, and provided with light diffusing patterns on at least one side thereof. The illuminant is disposed behind the vibration board in a circular manner.... Agent: Mesmer & Deleault, PLLC

20070223771 - Simulated wave massage: Method, procedure, and device for applying tactile sensation and vibration to the human body. In this invention one (or more vibrating) elements emit sine waves between 20 and 800 Hz. These waves are varied in frequency, amplitude and rhythm to create in the subject the sensation of massage moving through... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070223769 - Speaker and method making the same: A speaker includes a yoke, a diaphragm, an electrode plate, a magnet and a lower plate. The yoke includes a base, a wall and a terminal plate connected integrally to each other. The wall has a chamber and is mounted on the base. The rest components are mounted in the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070223772 - Speaker: The present invention is to provide a speaker to prevent deterioration of sound characteristics and to be easily inspected with eyes about a cause to deteriorate the sound characteristics. The speaker includes a magnetic circuit and a vibration portion. The magnetic circuit forms a magnetic gap and the vibration portion... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070223773 - Methods for forming and using thin film ribbon microphone elements and the like: A geometrically shaped acoustic polymer ribbon with shape memory, high conductivity, high toughness. A method of manufacturing the ribbon comprises: forming a sized, elongated, coated or coatable polymeric substrate film between a pair of opposed, geometrically shaped dies, pinching the dies about the polymeric substrate film to form an assembly,... Agent: Donald N. Halgren

20070223774 - Coupled body of speaker apparatus: A coupled body of a speaker apparatus having a frame and a vibration unit, the coupled body including a disk which is connected in its inner periphery on a side of the vibration unit and connected in its outer periphery on a side of the frame, the disk having a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070223775 - Voice coil bobbin and speaker system: A voice coil bobbin, which transmits a motive force from the voice coil wound around the bobbin to a diaphragm, includes a main part, a reinforcement part formed on the surface side of the main part, and a middle part formed between the main part and the reinforcement part and... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070223776 - Sound sponge for loudspeakers: The specification and drawings present a new method and apparatus for reducing loudspeaker size by partitioning the back cavity of the loudspeaker using a sound sponge block. The sound sponge block is an array of narrow ducts (e.g., parallel ducts, or parallel round cylinders of a small diameter) made of... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070223777 - Loudspeaker having an interlocking magnet structure: A magnet structure for use with a loudspeaker may have an interlocking mechanism. The magnet structure may include a magnet, a shell pot and a core cap. The shell pot may contain the magnet in its hollow interior. The magnet may be a single magnet or double magnets. The core... Agent: Indianapolis Office 27879 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070217616 - Guiding device and method of controlling the same: A guiding device controls the directivity of a sound that is reproduced from a speaker in accordance with an attribute of contents.... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070217615 - Method and system for estimating a channel frequency response of a training symbol in a block transmission system: A method and system for estimating channel frequency response at an ‘i’th pilot sub-carrier of a training symbol in a block transmission system is provided. The method comprises generating a matrix of pilot codes such that the number of rows of the matrix is equal to a block size (L+1),... Agent: Beceem Communications Inc, 1st Floor

20070217618 - Transport device and acoustic inspection apparatus having same: An acoustic inspection apparatus and its transport device are disclosed. The acoustic inspection apparatus includes an anechoic chamber and a transport device. The anechoic chamber defines an entrance. The transport device includes a support frame, guiding rails, sliding blocks, a motor, and a multiple holder. The guiding rails are mounted... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070217623 - Apparatus and method for real-time processing: There is provided a real-time processing apparatus capable of controlling power consumption without performing complex arithmetic processing and requiring a special memory resource. The real-time processing apparatus includes a first audio encoder 104 that performs a signal processing in real time on an audio signal, a second audio encoder 111... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070217617 - Audio decoding techniques for mid-side stereo: This disclosure describes decoding techniques for audio information encoded according to mid-side (MS) stereo encoding. The techniques involve a number of audio decoding tasks that are performed in a non-conventional order. By rearranging the order of the decoding tasks, various efficiencies can be achieved. In one embodiment, a method of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070217619 - Adjustable speaker systems and methods: Systems and methods for optimizing speaker performance. The system includes a self-contained speaker unit that includes a speaker, an amplifier coupled to the speaker, and a processor coupled to the amplifier. The processor receives a first sound signal from a receiver and a second sound signal from a microphone, processes... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20070217620 - System for evaluating hearing assistance device settings using detected sound environment: The present subject matter provides method and apparatus for hearing assistance devices, and more particularly to a system for evaluating hearing assistance device settings using detected sound environment. Various examples of a hearing assistance device and method using actual use and hypothetical use logs are provided. Such logs provide a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070217621 - Audio reproduction apparatus: In a system capable of outputting an audio signal as beams from an array speaker and performing multi-channel reproduction, a plurality of beam setting patterns (reproduction modes) are stored in the memory of a controller. The beam setting patterns include a single basic pattern and a plurality of deformed patterns... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070217622 - Wireless client device: Because wired connections make changing the seating configuration difficult, a wireless client device enables stable wireless transmission. The wireless client device wirelessly transmits to and receives data signals from an access point inside an aircraft. The wireless client device has a seat unit with a seat portion on which aircraft... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070217624 - Audio system: The invention relates to an audio system and a method for the stereo enhancement of decoded stereo signals. When decoded stereo signals are stereo enhanced, artefacts can be unmasked and can thus become audible. The invention tries to achieve that a stereo enhancement for decoded stereo signals which is possible... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070217625 - Loudspeaker system having sensorless bass compensation: The present invention compensates bass frequency for a loudspeaker without using any sensor. The strength and stability of the loudspeaker are enhanced and the working frequency is lowered too. Adaptive loudnesses for various spaces are set. And the parameter drift owing to long-term operation is restrained as well.... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070217626 - Watermark synchronization system and method for embedding in features tolerant to errors in feature estimates at receiver: The present invention is directed to a system that includes a signal feature estimator module configured to derive a plurality of signal feature estimate values from a received signal. An inner symbol alignment decoder is coupled to the signal feature estimator module. The inner symbol alignment decoder is configured to... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20070217627 - Method and system for automatic gain control of a speech signal: A method and system for automatic gain control of a speech signal in a communication system are disclosed. The gain of the speech signal can be controlled, based on a calculated gain value. This gain value is calculated on the basis of energy calculation and speech activity identification in the... Agent: William L. Botjer

20070217628 - Two-wire microphone circuit: A first circuit stage comprises at least one NMOS transistor and is coupled to a microphone transducer. A coupling circuit is coupled to the first circuit stage. A second circuit stage is adapted to receive signals from the first circuit stage via the coupling circuit and buffer the signals. The... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070217629 - System for automatic reception enhancement of hearing assistance devices: Method and apparatus for automatic reception enhancement of hearing assistance devices. The present subject matter relates to methods and apparatus for automatic reception enhancement in hearing assistance devices. It provides a power estimation scheme that is reliable against both steady and transient input. It provides a TSM estimation scheme that... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070217630 - Electrified stringed instrument with on-board dj fader: An electrified, stringed instrument with an on-board DJ fader which allows you to achieve a “DJ scratch effect”, by using the fader to physically modulate the sound. This modulation is precisely defined by using a curve controlled potentiometer set to the “sharp position”. This DJ fader also has a reverse... Agent: Jamie Shea Keogh

20070217631 - Microphone connector module: A microphone connector module includes a microphone with a receiving face and a contacting face, a body defining a cavity to receive the microphone, a pair of terminals fixed in the body and connecting with the microphone and an external printed circuit board and a casing including a basic portion... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20070217632 - Sound-source signal processing module: A sound-source signal processing module is provided, wherein a first or a second sound-source signal connection is provided by a receiving port, and the first sound-source signal in a predetermined state is processed by an audio processing module, and the second sound-source signal is enabled to be output from a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070217633 - Audio system for portable device: An audio system includes an enclosure having a transducer. The transducer creates a vibration in the enclosure in response to being driven by an audio signal having a frequency range. A cradle assembly mechanically couples a portable device to the enclosure through an isolator. A portion of the vibration is... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070217634 - Electronic device with earpiece: An electronic device with earpiece. The electronic device with earpiece includes a main body, an earpiece body and a hook. The earpiece body is detachably inserted in the main body. The hook includes a segment. The hook is movably disposed on the earpiece body between a first position and a... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070217635 - Electret condenser: An electret condenser 2 includes a fixed electrode 6, a vibrating electrode 5, an electretized silicon oxide film 7 formed between the electrodes, and silicon nitride films 8 and 9 formed so as to cover the silicon oxide film 7. The silicon oxide film 7 covered with the silicon nitride... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070217636 - Method and device for adapting hearing aids: A method for adapting hearing aids to the individual requirements of a hard-of-hearing patient in situations which are close to reality, wherein an example of a sound and a scene corresponding to said example of a sound are optically indicated to a patient such that the visual impression thereof is... Agent: Scott E. Hanf Hammer & Hanf

20070217637 - Method for making a wireless communication link, antenna arrangement and hearing device: So as to adapt an antenna arrangement (13) for RF-signal transmission in a hearing device (5) to different needs of different types of signal-transmission, the bandwidth BW of the antenna arrangement (13) is manually (M) and/or automatically (A) adjusted.... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070217638 - Method and apparatus for measurement of gain margin of a hearing assistance device: Method and apparatus for determination of gain margin of a hearing assistance device under test. In varying examples, the impulse response for multiple levels can be taken and used to arrive at a gain margin. The method and apparatus, in various examples, process critical portions of the resulting data for... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070217639 - Method of obtaining settings of a hearing instrument, and a hearing instrument: According to the invention, a real ear acoustic coupling quantity representative of the acoustic coupling of a hearing instrument to the user's ear or an anatomical transfer quantity—for example the Real-Ear-to-Coupler-Difference (RECD), the Microphone Location Effect (MLE), the Coupler Response for Flat Insertion Gain (CORFIG), and/or the Real Ear Open... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070217640 - Hearing aid design: A hearing aid module is shaped for insertion into a tunnel made through the soft tissue that connects the retro-auricular space with the ear canal. The hearing aid module contains a speaker or auditory transducer, a battery or other power source powering the module, signal processing circuitry, a microphone, and... Agent: Advanced Bionics Corporation

20070217641 - Ear gear: Ear Gear is a Hearing Aid security protection device that protects Hearing Aids from loss, moisture wind and dirt while making them more comfortable to wear. Made from spandex or other materials, Ear Gear comes in a variety of colors. The Ear Gear sleeve and cord come in a variety... Agent: Mark Bryan Rosal

20070217642 - Isolating deep canal fitting earphone: An insert earphone comprises a housing and at least one transducer that is located in the housing. The transducer is adapted to receive electrical energy and to responsively convert the electrical energy into acoustic energy for presentation to an eardrum of a user. The transducer is positioned within the housing... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070217643 - Hanging type earphone: A hanging type earphone includes an earphone body and an ear hook. The earphone body has a speaking portion and a first connecting portion thereon. A pair of polygonal prisms is disposed at opposite ends of the first connecting portion. The ear hook is shaped to fit a shape of... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070217645 - Speaker: A speaker is provided and includes a diaphragm which is composed of a primary planar disc and a secondary planar disc which has a smaller diameter than the primary planar disc. The primary and secondary planar discs are concentrically put together by means of adhesive, which makes the outer rim... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070217644 - Contact speaker: A tactile sound speaker transmits sound-generated vibrations to a user through a touchpad to provide a tactile sound experience. The tactile sound speaker can include a speaker driver, a speaker cone, and a touchpad. The touchpad can be coupled to the speaker cone by transmission shafts that transmit vibrations generated... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070217646 - Apparatus for acoustic loading of a diaphragm: An apparatus acoustic loading of a diaphragm is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a rear face having a shape corresponding to a shape of a compression side of the diaphragm, a front face opposite to the rear face along an axis of symmetry, and a plurality of voids formed between the... Agent: Stephen Frederick Schell Cogent True-to-life Loudspeakers, Incorporated

20070217647 - Electro-acoustic converter, module using same, electronic device, and apparatus: Disclosed is a speaker comprising a frame connected with a magnetic circuit having a magnetic gap, a voice coil disposed adjacent to but not in contact with an upper side of the magnetic circuit, and a diaphragm bonded to a circumferential edge of the frame, wherein the frame and the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070211903 - Decimator and decimating method for multi-channel audio: A decimator is used to process a multi-channel audio signal, and includes a memory, a controller and a processing unit. The processing unit is used to decimate each input audio component of a multi-channel audio signal to generate corresponding multi-channel operational data. The controller is used to control read and... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20070211907 - Method and apparatus for reproducing multi-channel sound using cable/wireless device: A multi-channel music reproducing apparatus and method using a wired and/or wireless communication system are provided. The method includes confirming neighboring devices capable of wired and/or wireless communication; allocating audio channel information to confirmed neighboring devices; encoding the channel information and reproduction synchronization information as index information; transmitting the index... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070211904 - Stereophonic sound reproducing system and stereophonic sound reproducing apparatus: A surround system 100 is constructed by: a sound source output device 110 for outputting bit stream data of a predetermined format; a signal processor 120 for performing a signal process on every audio signal of each channel; and a speaker system 130 made of various speakers corresponding to various... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20070211905 - Multichannel spectral mapping audio apparatus and method: A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo signal on compact discs, FM radio, or other... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070211906 - Detection of inconsistencies between a reference and a multi format soundtrack: Automatic detection of errors among different formatted sound tracks of the same language on a motion picture film stock can be achieved by first acquiring successive audio segments from each of the sound tracks. During a time window of prescribed duration, the audio of each different formatted track undergoes analysis... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070211908 - Multi-channel audio control: A multi-channel audio device (1) comprises an amplification unit (2) for amplifying respective audio signals of the channels and a control unit (3) for controlling properties of the audio signal so as to produce a multi-channel listening area (10) or “sweet spot”. The control unit (3) is arranged for continually... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070211909 - Echo cancellation method in wireless headset communication system: An echo cancellation method in a wireless headset communication system includes the steps: (1) providing at least one delayer and at least one amplifier for respectively performing a specific phase modulation and a specific amplitude adjustment on at least one branch signal of a receiving signal received from a far-end... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070211910 - Sound volume control circuit, semiconductor integrated circuit and sound source device: In a sound volume control circuit (100) shown in FIG. 2, an attenuation coefficient setting register (28) holds an attenuation coefficient “b”. When a stop instruction STOP becomes active, an output signal “a” from a first multiplexer (14), i.e., a processing object signal “in” is multiplied by the attenuation coefficient... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070211911 - Microphone with inlet structure: A microphone inlet structure has a sound duct between an opening in a first face of a microphone casing and a gasket area, whereby the gasket area is shaped to extend around the opening in the microphone casing and to follow the outline of the first face at least in... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20070206817 - Audio processor: An audio processor of a loud speech communication system including a speaker and a microphone is provided. The audio processor includes: an adaptive filter wherein an amount of update in a learning event is set to an arbitrary value, and a filter coefficient is serially determined corresponding to the set... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070206818 - Method and apparatus for wireless transmission of audio signals of computer: An RF transmitting apparatus is used for converting audio signals output from a sound card of a computer to RF signals and transmitting the RF signals. The RF transmitting apparatus comprises an interface, a modulating module, an amplifying module, a transmitting module, and an antenna. The interface is coupled to... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070206800 - Multichannel spectral mapping audio apparatus and method: A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo signal on compact discs, FM radio, or other... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070206801 - Multichannel spectral mapping audio apparatus and method: A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo signal on compact discs, FM radio, or other... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070206802 - Multichannel spectral mapping audio apparatus and method: A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo signal on compact discs, FM radio, or other... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070206803 - Multichannel spectral mapping audio apparatus and method: A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo signal on compact discs, FM radio, or other... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070206804 - Multichannel spectral mapping audio apparatus and method: A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo signal on compact discs, FM radio, or other... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070206805 - Multichannel spectral mapping audio apparatus and method: A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo signal on compact discs, FM radio, or other... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070206806 - Multichannel spectral mapping audio apparatus and method: A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo signal on compact discs, FM radio, or other... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070206807 - Multichannel spectral mapping audio apparatus and method: A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo signal on compact discs, FM radio, or other... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070206808 - Multichannel spectral mapping audio apparatus and method: A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo signal on compact discs, FM radio, or other... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070206809 - Multichannel spectral mapping audio apparatus and method: A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo signal on compact discs, FM radio, or other... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070206810 - Multichannel spectral mapping audio apparatus and method: A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo signal on compact discs, FM radio, or other... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070206811 - Multichannel spectral mapping audio apparatus and method: A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo signal on compact discs, FM radio, or other... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070206812 - Multichannel spectral mapping audio apparatus and method: A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo signal on compact discs, FM radio, or other... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070206813 - Multichannel spectral mapping audio apparatus and method: A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo signal on compact discs, FM radio, or other... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070206814 - Multichannel spectral mapping audio apparatus and method: A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo signal on compact discs, FM radio, or other... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070206815 - Multichannel spectral mapping audio apparatus and method: A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo signal on compact discs, FM radio, or other... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070206816 - Multichannel spectral mapping audio apparatus and method: A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo signal on compact discs, FM radio, or other... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070206819 - Device for actuating a membrane and a vehicle comprising a device for actuating a membrane: The invention refers to a device (3) for actuating a membrane arranged in an opening to a space, and a vehicle having such a device. The membrane (1) has a first surface (1′) and a second opposite surface (1″), and is limited by an edge area. The device includes a... Agent: Clark Hill, P.C.

20070206820 - Volume control method, volume controller, volume control program, electronic apparatus: A sound-volume controller that controls sound volume per step, includes a zone specifying unit that specifies a step zone in which a volume change amount per step is to be changed, a changing unit that changes a first volume change amount per step in specified step zone to obtain a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070206821 - Multichannel spectral mapping audio apparatus and method: A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo signal on compact discs, FM radio, or other... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070206822 - Loudspeakers: A loudspeaker comprising a bending wave panel-form acoustic radiator having a first portion and at least one further portion a transducer for exciting bending waves in the radiator, the transducer being coupled to the further portion of the radiator to cause the radiator to radiate an acoustic output, and means... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070206823 - Audio reproducing system: High and low frequency components Cn1, Cn2 are generated by causing a center channel audio signal Cn to pass through a high-pass filter HPF and a low-pass filter LPF, and the high frequency component Cn1 is supplied to the center channel loudspeaker SPC. Also, two low frequency components Cn2L, Cn2R,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070206824 - Hearing aid with anti feedback system: The invention concerns a hearing aid with anti feed back system. The hearing aid according to the invention comprises: a signal path from at least one input transducer to an output transducer, a signal processing unit, acoustic environment detection means, means for generating input to the setting of signal processing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070206825 - Noise reduction circuit for hearing aid: Noise reduction circuitry in a hearing aid includes a programmable filter coupled to a microphone coupled to the ear canal. The filter is programmed in a feedback loop in which the coefficients of the filter are set in accordance with a signal from the microphone. The filter is programmed for... Agent: Paul F. Wille

20070206826 - In-the ear hearing aid device with a vent: With a hearing aid device barometric pressure equalization is intended to be achieved in a simple and economical manner in a sound canal between an earpiece and a cerumen protection system with a gas-tight membrane. To this end a pressure equalization canal is proposed, which opens into the sound canal.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070206827 - Remote controller and fm reception arrangement: A modular communication system that includes a battery operated portable multimedia player is used to remotely control a accessory unit arranged to provide an output audio stream to an audio output device such as a headphone, earphone, etc. At a user's discretion, the multimedia player can also be used to... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070206828 - Distributed acoustic cabinet: An enclosure (1) for an acoustic transducer (2) comprises a first chamber (11) for accommodating the acoustic transducer (2) and a spaced apart second chamber (12), which first and second chambers are acoustically coupled by a coupling section (15). The coupling section may have a smaller diameter than the first... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070206829 - Audio headset: An audio headset usable for conducting a voice call through a phone, and for playing audio, such as music, from a streaming audio device, by means of a speaker. The headset comprises a signal transceiver, wirelessly connectable to a plurality of devices, including a voice call device and an audio... Agent: Albihns Stockholm Ab

20070206830 - Electroacoustic transducer and electronic apparatus: In an electroacoustic transducer of the present invention, a casing supports a diaphragm, a drive coil is provided on the diaphragm, a first magnetic structure has a first space in a center thereof provided within the casing such that a center axis penetrates the first space, and a second magnetic... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.