Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices inventions 12/07

20070297619 - Active noise reduction engine speed determining: An active noise reduction system using adaptive filters. A method of operation the active noise reduction system includes smoothing a stream of leakage factors. The frequency of a noise reduction signal may be related to the engine speed of an engine associated with the system within which the active noise... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070297618 - System and method for controlling headphones: A system for controlling an electronic device. The system includes an earpiece for distributing sound to a user. The earpiece has a sensor which is adapted to sense when the state of the earpiece changes from use to non-use and from non-use to use. The earpiece is adapted to be... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070297622 - Noise canceler and receiving apparatus using the same: A noise canceler comprising: a first low-pass filter that a demodulated signal is to be input to; an interpolation processing unit that the demodulated signal after passing through the first low-pass filter and a pulse noise detection signal indicating presence of a pulse noise, are to be input to, the... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070297616 - Device and method for generating an encoded stereo signal of an audio piece or audio datastream: A device for generating an encoded stereo signal from a multi-channel representation includes a multi-channel decoder generating three of more multi-channels from at least one basic channel and parametric information. The three or more multi-channels are subjected to headphone signal processing to generate an uncoded first stereo channel and an... Agent: Schoppe, Zimmerman , Stockeller & Zinkler

20070297617 - Neighbor friendly headset: featuring technology to reduce sound produced by people speaking in their phones: A method and apparatus is disclosed for reducing the annoying sound produced by people speaking into the phone while in public. The technology uses the headset microphone to sample the sound at the location of the headset and uses a loudspeaker on the headset to cancel the sound produced by... Agent: Thomas G. Cehelnik

20070297620 - Methods and systems for producing a zone of reduced background noise: A system for facilitating conversational communications in an environment with background noise, the system including a microphone for sensing the background noise, a signal processor configured to process the microphone output and produce an anti-noise electrical output, and a directional speaker array configured to receive the anti-noise electrical output and... Agent: Steven L. Nichols Rader, Fishman & Graver PLLC

20070297621 - Robot having a head with artificial ears: An artificial ear for a robot comprises an auricle-shaped structure, a microphone which in a concha region of the auricle-shaped structure, wherein the lower or rear edge of the auricle-shaped structure forms acoustic shield for shadowing noise from any noise source located below or behind the concha region.... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070297623 - Apparatus and method to provide advanced microphone bias: A circuit includes a differential amplifier having a first input for coupling to a first terminal of a microphone and a second input for coupling to a first terminal of a component having an impedance value that is substantially equal to an impedance value of the microphone, where a second... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070297624 - Digital audio encoding: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for digital audio encoding. A method of digital encoding includes receiving an audio source having multiple stems, and generating an enhanced audio wave file from the audio source. Generating can include routing each of the multiple stems to an individual channel in a... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070297625 - Wireless communications devices with three dimensional audio systems: Mobile terminals having three dimensional audio capabilities for making sound appear to originate from any location within a three dimensional space and to facilitate navigational movement among displayed information are provided. A mobile terminal includes a housing that encloses a processor and one or more speakers. A display is located... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070297626 - Sound reproduction method and apparatus for assessing real-world performance of hearing and hearing aids: A sound recording and reproduction system for testing hearing and hearing aids is disclosed. Recordings of sound are made in a real word acoustic environment, for example, which are stored as audio signals. In a testing environment, a plurality of loudspeakers is located about a listening position where a test... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070297627 - Device and method for controlling the step size of an adaptive filter: The determination of a suitable step size for controlling the adaptation of a filter of an acoustic feedback compensator especially for hearing aids is to be improved. A step size controller is therefore provided in which an input signal is analyzed in at least two frequency bands. In doing so,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070297628 - Connecting means for housings of hearing devices: The present invention provides a connecting means for hearing devices having a housing, said housing comprising at least two shells (1;2) to be connected to each other, said connecting means comprising a single-piece pin (6), extending straight along its longitudinal axis (L) and having retaining surfaces (9) arranged at the... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070297629 - Method and system for equal acoustics porting: A device (300) and method (600) for equal audio porting is provided. The device can include a first side with at least one first audio port (182) providing a data communication aspect, a second side with at least one second audio port (184) providing an audio communication aspect, and a... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070297630 - Sound receiver: Sound waves having a proper phase difference are received by microphones fixed in a mesh-formed casing, while other sound waves pass through the casing, and reach a front surface of a diffuse reflection member. The randomly uneven front surface of the diffuse reflection member diffusely reflects the sound waves, thereby... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070297631 - Comb sense microphone: There is provided a rigid hinged substrate, which forms a diaphragm for miniature microphones. A series of fingers disposed radially around the perimeter of the diaphragm interacts with mating fingers disposed adjacent the diaphragm with a small gap in between. The fingers are interdigitated. The movement of the diaphragm fingers... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20070297632 - Robot head with artificial ears: A supporting head is provided with binaural artificial ears. Each binaural artificial ear comprises an auricle-shaped structure and a microphone. In order to enhance auditory localization cues, at least an upper part of the head is provided with an acoustically dampening surface.... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070297633 - Headphone set: According to the invention a headphone set comprising a hoop band, to each of the two ends of which is fixed a respective acoustic transducer and which extends arcuately in a plane, with at least one joint for folding the ends of the hoop band inwardly in the plane and... Agent: Gerald H. Kiel, Esq. Reed Smith LLP

20070297634 - Earphone system with usage detection: The invention relates to an earphone system with usage detection for controlling the routing of sound signals to an earphone or to a host device. The acoustic load on the earphone is detected and determines if the earphone is in a listening position at the ear of a user or... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070297635 - Speaker device: A speaker device includes a speaker unit and a speaker device bracket mounted thereon. The speaker device bracket has a condenser fixing part for fixing a network electronic part such as a condenser, and a connector terminal fixing part for fixing a speaker device connector terminal which is electrically connected... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070297636 - High performance microphone and manufacturing method thereof: A microphone (100) and method of manufacture thereof is disclosed. The microphone (100) includes a housing (108), a diaphragm assembly (120), a spacer (134), a backplate assembly (140), a body assembly (150), and a printed circuit board (164) disposed within the housing (100). The diaphragm assembly (120) and the backplate... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070297637 - Loudspeaker system, mobile terminal device, an electronic device: The speaker unit 100 has a frame including a first casing 11 and a second casing 14. A sound hole 12 is formed at the center of the upper face of the first casing 11, and a fixing portion 13 is formed on the inner face side. Between the fixing... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070297638 - Boundary layer regulator for extended range acoustical transducers: An improved method and device for controlling cone breakup (divisional modes) in extended range, cone diaphragm type electromechanical acoustical transducers for reproducing an acoustical signal from a corresponding electrical signal is provided. The transducer assembly includes a low mass cone shaped diaphragm, a voice coil former of 30 mm or... Agent: Ruth Eure

20070297639 - Multiple magnet loudspeaker: A multiple magnet dual-gap loudspeaker may generate increased magnetic flux to drive voice coils generating sound from the loudspeaker. The dual-gap dual-voice-coil loudspeaker allows enhanced loudspeaker performance. The dual-gap loudspeaker includes a frame supporting the loudspeaker, at least two voice coils resiliently mounted to the loudspeaker frame by a former,... Agent: Indianapolis Office 27879 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070297640 - Loudspeaker device: A loudspeaker device 1 includes an acoustic diaphragm 5 composed of a domed diaphragm 11, an edge-like diaphragm 13, and a junctional flat portion 12 which joins those domed and edge-like diaphragms, and a joined portion 23 where an end surface of a bobbin 4 of a voice coil or... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070291949 - Sound image control apparatus and sound image control method: A sound image control apparatus and sound image control method capable of increasing the accuracy, in particular, in the distance direction while keeping fixed intervals of transmission characteristic filters, without increasing the number of the transmission characteristic filters. Sound image control apparatus 100 is provided with distance gain control section... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070291952 - Audio connection testing system: A testing system tests an audio connection between an audio source and a loudspeaker. The system includes a loudspeaker that converts a reference signal into a sound. An adaptive filter processes the reference signal to minimize an error signal. A decision circuit analyzes the error signal and the received signal... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070291954 - Audio receiving system for a mp3 player, and method of forming same: An audio receiving system (100) for an MP3 player (108) including: (a) a stereo audio receiving mechanism (101) capable of receiving sounds and converting the sounds into stereo electrical audio signals; and (b) an audio interface (102) electrically coupled to the stereo audio receiving system and configured to be plugged... Agent: Walter P. Opaska Bryan Cave LLP

20070291956 - Communication system, apparatus and method: A system and method for generating, transmitting and distributing audio signals. The system and method may include an array having a plurality of microphones and a plurality of speakers as well as a first processor disposed proximate the array. The system and method can also have a second processor disposed... Agent: Maier & Maier, PLLC

20070291957 - Sound system for motorcycles and similar vehicles: A novel sound system for use on a motorcycle or similar vehicle is disclosed as comprising a stereo housing, a power supply, a stereo source, mirror/speaker assemblies, a control that is remote from the stereo source, and a wiring harness for operational interconnection between the components. In use, the sound... Agent: Christopher D. Harrington

20070291950 - Acoustic image creation system and program therefor: With stereophonic sound images of multi-channel audio signals well maintained, 2-channel system audio signals are created. An acoustic image creation system includes: a left-rear localization processing means 2 for outputting a left-rear localization signal by summing together a left signal 101 and a left-rear signal 103, among audio input signals... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070291951 - Parametric joint-coding of audio sources: The following coding scenario is addressed: A number of audio source signals need to be transmitted or stored for the purpose of mixing wave field synthesis, multi-channel surround, or stereo signals after decoding the source signals. The proposed technique offers significant coding gain when jointly coding the source signals, compared... Agent: Schoppe, Zimmerman , Stockeller & Zinkler

20070291953 - Ear sensor assembly for speech processing: An ear sensor apparatus includes a microphone positionable with respect to an ear canal to detect sound signals from the ear canal and to generate a corresponding output signal. The apparatus may include a seal for substantially blocking ambient sound signals from reaching the microphone and an interface to convey... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070291955 - Sound reproducing apparatus and sound synchronizing method in sound reproducing system: According to one embodiment, to provide a sound reproducing apparatus comprising a storage unit which stores content information therein, a communication unit which transmits the content information stored in the storage unit to an external device through wireless communication, a reproducing unit which reproduces the content information according to a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070291958 - Creating music by listening: Automated creation of new music by listening is disclosed. A method to create new music may comprise listening to a plurality of music, learning from the plurality of music, and performing concatenative synthesis based on the listening and the learning to create the new music. The method may be performed... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070291959 - Calculating and adjusting the perceived loudness and/or the perceived spectral balance of an audio signal: The invention relates to the measurement and control of the perceived sound loudness and/or the perceived spectral balance of an audio signal. An audio signal is modified in response to calculations performed at least in part in the perceptual (psychoacoustic) loudness domain. The invention is useful, for example, in one... Agent: Gallagher & Lathrop, A Professional Corporation

20070291960 - Sound electronic circuit and method for adjusting sound level thereof: This invention is to provide people with the measures to sustain comfortable loudness level of any apparatus reproducing the sound no matter how big or small the source sound is. The measures include an extracting device to extract at least one element like frequency of the sound signal as alternating... Agent: Davis & Bujold, P.l.l.c.

20070291961 - Mobile terminal having speaker control and method of use: An apparatus and method for speaker control in a mobile terminal is provided. The mobile terminal includes a first body having first and second key input units, and a second body having a display unit and swingably connected in at least one of a clockwise and counterclockwise rotation, such that... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070291962 - Automotive balanced microphone system and method of forming same: An automotive balanced microphone system (300) includes a microphone (303) located in a vehicle mirror (301) connected in a balanced configuration for eliminating noise. A split resistor network (305) is used for supplying a supply voltage to the balanced microphone (303). The split resistor network (305) allows the microphone (303)... Agent: Price Heneveld Cooper Dewitt & Litton, LLP

20070291963 - Input device: A thin input device with a flat input side surface is provided in which a flexible circuit board is disposed inside a chassis so as to extend to the outside or inside of the chassis while preventing the flexible circuit board from bending akwardly. An opening for exposing a portion... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070291964 - Miniature acoustic transducer: A technique using a new diaphragm structure and support design is provided herein for microphones or structure designs for pressure sensing. The structure includes a set of capacitive structures. The capacitive structure has a combination of a diaphragm structure, a back plate structure and a surrounding micro-structure for fixing the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070291965 - Loudspeaker system and loudspeaker enclosure: A loudspeaker system includes a loudspeaker enclosure having an inside space, a loudspeaker provided on the loudspeaker enclosure, a first diaphragm which has one of ends fixed to a surface of the loudspeaker enclosure and the other end, a second diaphragm which has one of ends fixed to the surface... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070291966 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus, which is mounted on a head or face of a wearer attachably and detachably and allows the wearer to view an image and hear sound, includes a long formed temple supported by a temporal region of head or an ear when the wearer is wearing the... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070291968 - Method for estimating the position of a sound source for online calibration of auditory cue to location transformations: A method for estimating the location of a sound source. First, a first microphone and a second microphone are moved relative to the sound source. Then the Intra-aural Time Difference (ITD) between the two microphones is measured. The moving and the measuring are repeated until the Intra-aural Time Difference (ITD)... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070291967 - Spartial audio processing method, a program product, an electronic device and a system: A first audio signal (S1) is received, where a digital representation (S1″) of the first audio signal (S1) is generated by applying a head-related transfer function (HRTF) in a first sound reproduction position (r1). The first sound reproduction position (r1) is changed to a second sound reproduction position (r3) in... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070291969 - Hearing aid device: A hearing aid device is provided in which wireless data transmission and reception are established between a first hearing aid and a second hearing aid, worn one on each ear, wherein in a case where wireless transmission and reception are not possible, the first hearing aid and the second hearing... Agent: Lee Fredric Sharra

20070291970 - Hearing system with wideband pulse transmitter: Wireless communication is to be enabled between hearing units of small construction, especially between hearing aids with an increased data rate. To this end it is provided in accordance with the invention that the hearing unit is fitted with a transceiver which has an inductive receiving device and a digital... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070291971 - Hearing aid having two receivers each amplifying a different frequency range: A hearing aid having two physically separate receivers, one for outputting low frequency (LF) acoustic sounds and another for outputting high frequency (HF) acoustic sounds. The LF receiver's output port is connected to a tube in which the HF receiver is inserted. The LF acoustic sounds either flow around the... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070291972 - Bone conduction hearing aid devices and methods: Methods and apparatus for transmitting vibrations via an electronic and/or transducer assembly through a tooth or teeth are disclosed herein. The assembly may include a bracket which is adhered or affixed onto the tooth or teeth and an electronics and/or transducer assembly which may be removably coupled to the bracket.... Agent: Levine Bagade Han LLP

20070291973 - Electronic accessory for an mp3 player, and method of providing the same: An electronic accessory (715) for an MP3 player comprising: (a) a body (705) having a neck (707) extending from the body, the neck having a cross-sectional dimension that is substantially less than a corresponding cross-sectional dimension of the body; (b) an electrical connector (763) located at least partially within the... Agent: Walter P. Opaska Bryan Cave LLP

20070291974 - Earpiece for an electronic audio player, with decorative accessory: An earpiece incorporating a small speaker for use with an electronic device that generates audio signals, such as a cell phone, digital recording player, tape player or the like, which is adapted to be inserted in or held over a wearer's ear by a head strap, includes a jewelry-like decorative... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20070291975 - Speaker assembly: A speaker assembly includes a rigid, structurally stable and self supporting housing within which at least a first driver is mounted and enclosed. The housing including a first aperture formed in a first wall of the housing. The first driver includes a cone coupled to a driver magnet for generating... Agent: Welsh & Flaxman LLC

20070291976 - Electrodynamic exciter: An electrodynamic exciter has a tubular frame, a magnetic circuit assembly, a voice coil, and first and second suspensions axially vibratably supporting the magnetic circuit assembly and the voice coil, respectively, in the frame. One end of the frame is secured to a diaphragm to form an air chamber between... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070286427 - Front surround system and method of reproducing sound using psychoacoustic models: A front surround reproduction system improving the stereo effect of mid and low frequency signals by using a psychoacoustic model, and a method thereof. An audio reproducing system to reproduce multi-channel audio signals by using a plurality of speakers includes a split unit to copy the input multi-channel signals and... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070286426 - Mixing techniques for mixing audio: This disclosure describes audio mixing techniques that intelligently combine two or more audio signals into an output signal. The techniques allow audio to be combined, yet create perceptual differentiation between the different audio signals. The result is that a user is able to hear both audio signals in a combined... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070286428 - Method and system for acoustic shock detection and application of said method in hearing devices: The present invention provides a method for detecting acoustic shock in an audio input signal (s(t)), comprising the steps of monitoring the input signal (s(t)) in the time-domain. Thereby detecting the signal floor (Sn), detecting the peak level of the input signal (L), detecting the attack time of the input... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070286429 - Compact test apparatus for hearing device: e

20070286431 - Headset: A headset includes a pair of earpieces containing wide range speakers capable of outputting wide range sound, a printed circuit board and a connecting device connecting to the earpieces. The printed circuit board includes a receiver for receiving audio signal and transmitting the audio signal to a mixed circuit and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070286432 - Speaker system for portable electrical equipment: A speaker system for a portable electrical equipment includes: a wireless receiving pack receiving an audio signal from the portable electrical equipment; and a speaker unit receiving the audio signal from the wireless receiving pack and outputting the audio signal as a sound, the speaker unit connected to the wireless... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20070286435 - In-vehicle noise/vibration sound control system: An in-vehicle noise/vibration sound control system has an active noise control circuit for generating a noise control signal based on noise in a passenger compartment of a vehicle, together with an audio circuit for outputting an audio signal. Based on a battery voltage supplied from the vehicle battery, a first... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20070286430 - Method and device for comparing signals to control transducers and transducer control system: A method of comparison between pieces of information characterizing reference values and pieces of information characterizing current values of sound-reproducing systems of a system of (n) microphones mi and (p) speakers hpj for the control of said sound-reproducing systems characterized in that: A: for each speaker hpj, at least one... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070286433 - Method for controlling output from ultrasonic speaker and ultrasonic speaker system: The invention enables to constantly obtain the optimum sound quality even when a listener changes his/her angle formed between a sound wave emitting axis of an ultrasonic transducer and a front direction axis of the listener with respect to the sound wave emitting axis. In an ultrasonic speaker system which... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070286434 - In-vehicle apparatus: Disclosed herein is an in-vehicle apparatus having an apparatus body, a loading slot formed on the front surface of the apparatus body, a front panel arranged in front of the apparatus body, and a drive mechanism for operatively connecting the front panel to the apparatus body so as to move... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070286436 - Sound output control device: To make it possible to mute voice signals properly according to a headphone or antenna connected. A device for receiving radio signals and outputting voice signals from a first speaker. The device comprises a connection unit having the terminal of an antenna and/or a second speaker connected therewith, a reception... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070286437 - Surface mountable transducer system: The present invention relates to a surface mountable acoustic transducer system, comprising one or more transducers, a processing circuit electrically connected to the one or more transducers, and contact points arranged on an exterior surface part of the transducer system. The contact points are adapted to establish electrical connections between... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070286438 - Condenser microphone: The present invention provides a condenser microphone, in which, with a simple manufacturing process, vibration characteristics of a diaphragm are improved, and a parasitic capacitance occurring between the diaphragm and a back plate is reduced, thus improving sensitivity. Specifically, the diaphragm having a gear-like shape including a center portion and... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070286439 - Loudspeaker driver: A loudspeaker driver that includes a suspended diaphragm and a plurality of voice coils each suspended in a magnetic field and coupled to the diaphragm.... Agent: Kourosh Salehi

20070286440 - Methods and apparatus for transmitting vibrations: Methods and apparatus for transmitting vibrations via an electronic and/or transducer assembly through a tooth or teeth are disclosed herein. The assembly may be attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a removable oral appliance to form a hearing aid assembly. Such an oral appliance may be a custom-made... Agent: Levine Bagade Han LLP

20070286441 - Method for monitoring a hearing device and hearing device with self-monitoring function: There is provided a method for monitoring a hearing device comprising an electroacoustic output transducer worn at a user's ear or in a user's ear canal, the method comprising: measuring the electrical impedance of the output transducer; analyzing the measured electrical impedance of the output transducer in order to evaluate... Agent: Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes

20070286442 - Method of manufacturing a custom shaped hearing instrument: The present invention provides a method of manufacturing custom shaped hearing instruments by arranging virtually all components of said hearing instrument within the shape of the shell to define the final locations of said components. Subsequently, support elements as support structure within the shell according the final locations of the... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070286443 - Cover for hearing device housing arrangement: The invention relates to a hearing device housing arrangement with the features of a hearing device housing and a cover which covers an area of the hearing device housing. The area is visible during normal wearing of the hearing device. The cover is able to be fastened to the surface... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070286444 - Hearing apparatus having a rocker-like actuator for switching on/off: The size of hearing apparatuses and in particular of hearing devices is to be reduced. To this end, provision is made to combine a rocker-like actuator of the hearing apparatus for manually adjusting a parameter of a signal processing unit for pressing from a neutral position in a first adjusting... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070286445 - Microphone assembly with preamplifier and manufacturing method thereof: A microphone assembly include a microphone housing unit having a cover and a base. The microphone assembly further includes a preamplifier circuit assembly attached to the base and protected by the cover. The protected preamplifier circuit assembly has at least one terminal unprotected by the cover. A radio frequency interference... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070286446 - Earphone with a sound guiding tube: An earphone with a sound guiding tube is provided. The sound guiding tube has an external chamber beside the ear. Compared with a conventional earphone which transmits sound directly into the ear, the earphone of the present invention has a external chamber which forms sound field outside the ear and... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070286447 - Speaker device: A ribbon-shaped speaker device includes a magnetic circuit which has two magnetic gaps; two diaphragms which have conductive properties and which are arranged substantially in parallel with and opposite to each other in each of the magnetic gaps; and a driving part which supplies a driving current to each of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070286448 - Electroacoustic transducer diaphragm: An electroacoustic transducer diaphragm is a multi-layered one which includes an intermediate diaphragm layer formed between a first surface layer and a second surface layer. The first and second surface layers are formed of a woven fabric and are formed in one piece with the fiber axial orientations of the... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20070286449 - Loudspeaker system: A loudspeaker system comprises a cabinet (11), a speaker unit (12), a package body (13), a filler gas (15), and an absorbent (14). The speaker unit (12) is mounted in the cabinet (11). At least one package body (13) is disposed in a vacant space (Ra) inside of the cabinet... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070280485 - Binaural multi-channel decoder in the context of non-energy conserving upmix rules: A multi-channel decoder for generating a binaural signal from a downmix signal using upmix rule information on an energy-error introducing upmix rule for calculating a gain factor based on the upmix rule information and characteristics of head related transfer function based filters corresponding to upmix channels. The one or more... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070280488 - Electronic apparatus with earphones also capable of serving as speakers: The invention provides an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes a casing, an electronic unit, a cable-winding device, a first speaker, and a second speaker. The first speaker is electrically coupled to the electronic unit by a first cable. The second speaker is electrically coupled to the electronic unit by... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20070280484 - Vsr surround sound tube headphone: The VSR Surround Tube Headphone “The Crown” creates authentic surround sound without use of echo, reverb or other artificially induced “digital magic” effects. It allows the surround sound to come from all directions through 5-6-7 speakers with different levels and sound frequencies circulating within the diameter of the tube and... Agent: Yul Lavauno Anderson

20070280486 - Vehicle communication system: The present invention relates to a vehicle communication system comprising a plurality of microphones adapted to detect speech signals of different vehicle passengers, a mixer combining the audio signal components of the different microphones to a resulting speech output signal, a weighting unit determining the weighting of the audio signal... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20070280487 - Howling detection method, device, and acoustic device using the same: A howling detector is provided which can discriminate between howling and a signal having a strong narrow-band component, thereby detecting howling with higher accuracy. The howling analyzer includes a frequency analyzing section for analyzing a frequency of a time signal, a level calculating section for calculating a level of a... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070280490 - Digital signal switching apparatus and method of switching digital signals: A digital signal switching apparatus is provided. The digital signal switching apparatus inputs and outputs digital signals to which status information formed of a block including a plurality of frames is added. The digital signal switching apparatus includes: a retrieving unit configured to retrieve the status information from the digital... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070280489 - Docking system and mixer for portable media devices with graphical interface: A media player for a disc jockey is disclosed. The media player includes a housing with a top surface with a surface defining a seat configured to received a portable media device with a library of media tracks stored thereon. The seat includes an input port for connecting to the... Agent: Barlow, Josephs & Holmes, Ltd.

20070280491 - Methods and apparatus for processing audio signals: Various methods and apparatus for processing audio signals are disclosed herein. The assembly may be attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a removable oral appliance to form a hearing aid assembly. Such an oral appliance may be a custom-made device which can enhance and/or optimize received audio signals... Agent: Levine Bagade Han LLP

20070280492 - Methods and apparatus for processing audio signals: Various methods and apparatus for processing audio signals are disclosed herein. The assembly may be attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a removable oral appliance to form a hearing aid assembly. Such an oral appliance may be a custom-made device which can enhance and/or optimize received audio signals... Agent: Levine Bagade Han LLP

20070280494 - Method for adjusting a hearing aid with high-frequency amplification: It should be possible to quickly and effectively adjust a hearing aid even in the high-frequency range above 8 kHz. For this purpose it is provided that an open-loop gain measurement is carried out in the upper frequency range and a maximum amplification or a frequency-dependent maximum amplification curve is... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070280493 - Methods and apparatus for processing audio signals: Various methods and apparatus for processing audio signals are disclosed herein. The assembly may be attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a removable oral appliance to form a hearing aid assembly. Such an oral appliance may be a custom-made device which can enhance and/or optimize received audio signals... Agent: Levine Bagade Han LLP

20070280495 - Methods and apparatus for processing audio signals: Various methods and apparatus for processing audio signals are disclosed herein. The assembly may be attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a removable oral appliance to form a hearing aid assembly. Such an oral appliance may be a custom-made device which can enhance and/or optimize received audio signals... Agent: Levine Bagade Han LLP

20070280496 - Universal-fit hearing device: An in-the-ear hearing instrument comprises a deformable holding element (3) outside the ear canal and a sealing element (7) comprising venting elements. The sealing element is an exchangeable resilient eartip, which by means of venting elements, such as holes, channels, openings, etc. defines the amount of acoustic leakage.... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070280498 - Speaker and speaker enclosure: Systems, methods, and devices for providing high quality speaker performance in a small-scale design are disclosed. In accordance with various embodiments of the present invention, a small-scale speaker assembly is provided which is capable of delivering high-fidelity wideband audio. The speaker assembly includes a speaker driver and a number of... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070280497 - Communications unit with arrangement for loud reproduction of sound: A clamshell phone with two movable housing parts and can assume a closed position, in which the sound openings are covered, and an open position, in which the sound openings are exposed. According to the invention the two housing parts, when in the closed position, define, together with the speaker... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070280499 - Speaker with acoustic damped port: Systems, methods, and devices for improving speaker performance with an acoustic damped port are disclosed. In accordance with various embodiments of the present invention, a damping material is placed around a vented frame of a speaker driver, and substantially covers or fills the vents of the frame. In some embodiments,... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070280500 - Loudspeaker: A loudspeaker of improved construction includes a frame and a toroidal magnet that is affixed to the rear of the frame. The toroidal magnet has a central passageway that opens into the frame. A cap is affixed to the rear of the magnet and closes the central passageway. A guide... Agent: Stephen R. Greiner, Esquire Greiner Law Offices, P.C.