Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices inventions 10/08

20080260165 - Digital modulator and digital modulating method: A digital modulator performs BPSK on differential data, filters it, and outputs the resultant data. A determining unit determines a combination of continuous two values of differential data. In a waveform generator, waveform generation rules are set for each of the combinations. On the basis of the waveform generation rule... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080260166 - System for objective quantification of listener envelopment of a loudspeakers-room environment: A system quantifies listener envelopment in a loudspeakers-room environment. The system includes a binaural detector that receives frequency modulated audible noise signals from multiple loudspeakers. The binaural detector generates detected signals that are analyzed to determine an objective listener envelopment. The envelopment is based on binaural activity of one or... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080260167 - Sound quality display apparatus, sound quality display method, computer readable medium on which sound quality display program is recorded and sound camera: Disclosed are a sound quality display apparatus, a sound quality display method, a computer readable medium on which a sound quality display program is recorded, and a sound camera. The apparatus includes a sound detector detecting sound generated from a sound source, a background photographing unit photographing background where the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080260168 - Method and apparatus for providing privacy for telephone conversations: A method and apparatus for providing privacy for telephone conversations over communication networks is disclosed. For example, a telephony endpoint device comprises a microphone for receiving an audio signal and a gain boost circuit, coupled to the microphone, for applying a gain boost to the audio signal. The telephony endpoint... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080260169 - Headset derived real time presence and communication systems and methods: A method for real time digital instant messaging includes monitoring a condition of a wireless headset, estimating a potential for the user to receive and immediately respond to a real time digital message, such as an instant communications or a VoIP message, and then selectively directing a real time digital... Agent: Plantronics, Inc.IPDepartment/legal

20080260170 - Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, and recording medium having program recorded thereon: A signal processing apparatus includes a plurality of equalizers configured to input an audio signal of a corresponding channel among audio signals of a plurality of channels and configured to perform at least gain adjustment on the basis of a set parameter, each of the equalizers being provided in such... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080260171 - Method and system for fitting a hearing aid: In a method and system for fitting the gain of a hearing aid (300) for a hearing impaired person, a loop gain of the hearing aid in the ear canal (350) of the hearing impaired person is measured for at least one frequency band. An effective vent parameter such as... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080260172 - Echo canceller and speech processing apparatus: An echo canceller used for hands-free communication systems in which hands-free communication is performed by using a speaker and a microphone is disclosed. The echo canceller includes a step size control unit calculating a step size value in an adaptive filter and an adaptive filter unit estimating an echo component... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080260173 - Method, device and system for cardio-acoustic signal analysis: A method for cardio-acoustic signal analysis includes receiving a signal representative of heart sounds and displaying the signal in a time-perceptual frequency-perceptual loudness domain representation. The received signal is transformed to represent a time-perceptual frequency-amplitude domain. The method further includes applying a human auditory modeling algorithm to the time-perceptual frequency-amplitude... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080260174 - Noise reduction apparatus and audio reproduction apparatus: A noise reduction apparatus includes: a speaker with a speaker unit held by holding means to make it possible to mix sounds emitted from front and rear of a vibration plate of the speaker; a microphone provided in an area where the sounds emitted from the front and rear of... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080260175 - Dual-microphone spatial noise suppression: Spatial noise suppression for audio signals involves generating a ratio of powers of difference and sum signals of audio signals from two microphones and then performing noise suppression processing, e.g., on the sum signal where the suppression is limited based on the power ratio. In certain embodiments, at least one... Agent: Mendelsohn And Associates, P.C.

20080260176 - System and method for controlling a device using position and touch: Disclosed is a system for controlling a device comprising at least one earpiece for selecting/rendering media content, wherein a first earpiece includes a first input controller for receiving input to control the selecting/rendering, a first position controller for detecting whether the first earpiece is in/on the ear and receiving input... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080260177 - Digital medium device, program, and digital medium providing method: Even when digital media of the respective devices are not media of common codec, the digital media can be reproduced in other device. A digital medium is provided to a providing destination device which reproduces the digital medium upon receiving it. Before providing the digital medium, a codec which can... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080260178 - Audio signal transmission/reception device and microphone apparatus thereof: An audio signal transmission/reception device includes a speaker array having a plurality of linearly arranged speaker units and a microphone apparatus having a microphone array having a plurality of linearly arranged microphone units. Some of the microphone units are aligned with equal spacing corresponding to a prescribed distance therebetween in... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080260179 - Active loudspeaker: In an active loudspeaker, a bridge rectifier generates an unregulated DC voltage from the AC mains power supply voltage. A self-oscillating pulse modulator generates a pulse-modulated switch signal that is controlling a power switch stage which is switching the unregulated DC voltage. The power-switched signal is low-pass filtered and driving... Agent: William Koerner

20080260180 - Method and device for voice operated control: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a method and/or a device for voice operated control. The method can include method measuring an ambient sound received from at least one Ambient Sound Microphone, measuring an internal sound received from at least one Ear Canal Microphone, detecting a spoken voice... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080260181 - Reducing acoustic coupling to microphone on printed circuit board: A mobile computing device comprises a printed circuit board, a processing circuit, a surface mount microphone, and a vibration attenuation portion. The processing circuit is disposed on a first portion of the printed circuit board. The surface mount microphone is disposed on a second portion of the printed circuit board.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080260183 - Communication method for vacuum tube replacement devices: Methods are provided for solid-state implementation of a vacuum tube replacement device (VTRD) that includes a communication interface. The communication interface enables the VTRD to command or retrieve information regarding VTRD performance, function, and status. A VTRD may communicate with other VTRDs in a target amplifier retrofitted with compatible VTRDs... Agent: Brett A. Hertzberg

20080260182 - Sound recording console: The invention relates to a console 1 for use in electronic control operations such as sound recording and/or other effects or applications, comprising a plurality of channels and a transparent touch-sensitive channel selector means 2 operative to select a desired channel of the console, the means 2 being an elongate... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Tayloy & Zafman LLP

20080260184 - Virtual recording studio: A virtual recording studio is formed based on information from a number of different locations. One instrument may be located locally, and other instruments may be located remotely, for example accessible over the Internet. The remote instruments may be combined with outputs from other instruments, to create a virtual recording... Agent: Law Office Of Scott C Harris Inc

20080260185 - Method and apparatus for automatically detecting audio signal and sending control signal: An apparatus and method for automatically detecting an audio signal and sending a control signal are provided. The present invention is for automatically detecting an audio signal from a conventional IC, and controlling the power amplifier of the driving speaker or the switch of other external circuit. The apparatus at... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080260186 - Speaker: A speaker included in a speaker unit has a conical diaphragm. An end of a substantially circular cylindrical wall member is secured to the large-diameter end of the diaphragm. The inner surface of the wall member is arranged substantially parallel to a direction in which the diaphragm vibrates. Audio signals... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080260188 - Acoustic diaphragm and speaker having the same: Disclosed herein is an acoustic diaphragm for converting electrical signals into mechanical signals to produce sounds. The acoustic diaphragm comprises carbon nanotubes or graphite nanofibers as major materials. Preferably, the carbon nanotubes or graphite nanofibers are included or dispersed in the acoustic diaphragm. Since the acoustic diaphragm has excellent physical... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080260187 - Devices and systems including transducers: A device includes a substrate and a transducer attached to the substrate, wherein the substrate includes a surface to which the transducer is attached and at least one edge member extending along at least a portion of the outside edge of the surface. The surface can be a generally planar... Agent: James G. Uber, Esq. Mine Safety Appliances Company

20080260189 - Hearing aid comprising sound tracking means: Sound reproduction system, for example a hearing aid system, comprising:—a direction dependent sound detection system (1), comprising a number of sound detectors (2);—at least one sound generator (10) to reproduce sound, or part thereof, detected by the sound detection system (1); and—a sensitivity direction modifier (20), configured to modify a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080260190 - Hearing aid and method of operating a hearing aid: A hearing aid is provided which has at least one input transducer for providing an input signal, at least one signal processing channel receiving at least a portion of said input signal, a hearing aid processor for processing said portion of said input signal to produce at least one output... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080260191 - External ear canal voice detection: Ear-level full duplex audio communication systems each include one or two ear attachment devices, such as in-the-ear (ITE) or behind-the-ear (BTE) devices, that wirelessly communicates to a remote device such as a computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a cellular phone, a walkie talkie, or a language translator. When used... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080260193 - interchangeable acoustic system for a hearing aid, and a hearing aid: An acoustic system (3) for a hearing aid is adapted for conducting sound from an output transducer in the hearing aid housing to an ear of a user. The acoustic system (3) comprises an encoding (8, 9) indicating acoustical properties of the acoustic system (3). Hereby the electronics of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080260192 - Real ear measurement system using thin tube: An embodiment of a hearing assistance apparatus for performing a Real Ear Measurement (REM), comprises a hearing assistance device housing, a microphone within the housing, an earhook connected to the housing, and a flexible tube. The house has a first opening for guiding sound into the housing to the microphone.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080260194 - Microphone sleeve: A microphone sleeve for a handheld microphone can be used to alter the overall appearance of a microphone and/or to make a microphone easier to hold, handle, and/or grip. A sleeve encloses at least a portion of a microphone's body, without interfering with the microphone's audio receiving end, controls, wires,... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080260195 - Flexible transmit voice tube: A hollow gooseneck or other flexible transmit voice tube for a headset for use in telecommunications, telephony, and/or multimedia applications is disclosed. The voice tube may generally include a kink-resistant flexible tubular, e.g., gooseneck, member having an open end and an opposing end for coupling to a microphone, the flexible... Agent: Plantronics, Inc.IPDepartment/legal

20080260196 - Earphone receiving structure: An earphone receiving structure includes a housing and an earphone. The housing has an opening slot. The opening slot is formed by an indent formed inwards from one end of the housing. There is a pair of pivoting holes in the opening slot, and a plurality of concave portions on... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080260197 - Adjustable earhook: An earhook adapted to fit on a user ear. In an embodiment of the invention, the earhook includes a first portion having a fixed first curvature and a second portion having an adjustable second curvature for grasping a user ear. The second portion may be adjustably coupled together with the... Agent: Plantronics, Inc.IPDepartment/legal

20080260198 - Headset: Communication unit comprising a housing (1) in which at least one transducer is placed, and on which a micro-phone arm (2) is suspended. The housing also has an ear hook (6) for fastening the communication unit to the head of a user. The microphone arm (2) is pivotally connected to... Agent: Michael B. Lasky Altera Law Group

20080260165 - Digital modulator and digital modulating method: A digital modulator performs BPSK on differential data, filters it, and outputs the resultant data. A determining unit determines a combination of continuous two values of differential data. In a waveform generator, waveform generation rules are set for each of the combinations. On the basis of the waveform generation rule... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080260166 - System for objective quantification of listener envelopment of a loudspeakers-room environment: A system quantifies listener envelopment in a loudspeakers-room environment. The system includes a binaural detector that receives frequency modulated audible noise signals from multiple loudspeakers. The binaural detector generates detected signals that are analyzed to determine an objective listener envelopment. The envelopment is based on binaural activity of one or... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080260167 - Sound quality display apparatus, sound quality display method, computer readable medium on which sound quality display program is recorded and sound camera: Disclosed are a sound quality display apparatus, a sound quality display method, a computer readable medium on which a sound quality display program is recorded, and a sound camera. The apparatus includes a sound detector detecting sound generated from a sound source, a background photographing unit photographing background where the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080260168 - Method and apparatus for providing privacy for telephone conversations: A method and apparatus for providing privacy for telephone conversations over communication networks is disclosed. For example, a telephony endpoint device comprises a microphone for receiving an audio signal and a gain boost circuit, coupled to the microphone, for applying a gain boost to the audio signal. The telephony endpoint... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080260169 - Headset derived real time presence and communication systems and methods: A method for real time digital instant messaging includes monitoring a condition of a wireless headset, estimating a potential for the user to receive and immediately respond to a real time digital message, such as an instant communications or a VoIP message, and then selectively directing a real time digital... Agent: Plantronics, Inc.IPDepartment/legal

20080260170 - Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, and recording medium having program recorded thereon: A signal processing apparatus includes a plurality of equalizers configured to input an audio signal of a corresponding channel among audio signals of a plurality of channels and configured to perform at least gain adjustment on the basis of a set parameter, each of the equalizers being provided in such... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080260171 - Method and system for fitting a hearing aid: In a method and system for fitting the gain of a hearing aid (300) for a hearing impaired person, a loop gain of the hearing aid in the ear canal (350) of the hearing impaired person is measured for at least one frequency band. An effective vent parameter such as... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080260172 - Echo canceller and speech processing apparatus: An echo canceller used for hands-free communication systems in which hands-free communication is performed by using a speaker and a microphone is disclosed. The echo canceller includes a step size control unit calculating a step size value in an adaptive filter and an adaptive filter unit estimating an echo component... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080260173 - Method, device and system for cardio-acoustic signal analysis: A method for cardio-acoustic signal analysis includes receiving a signal representative of heart sounds and displaying the signal in a time-perceptual frequency-perceptual loudness domain representation. The received signal is transformed to represent a time-perceptual frequency-amplitude domain. The method further includes applying a human auditory modeling algorithm to the time-perceptual frequency-amplitude... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080260174 - Noise reduction apparatus and audio reproduction apparatus: A noise reduction apparatus includes: a speaker with a speaker unit held by holding means to make it possible to mix sounds emitted from front and rear of a vibration plate of the speaker; a microphone provided in an area where the sounds emitted from the front and rear of... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080260175 - Dual-microphone spatial noise suppression: Spatial noise suppression for audio signals involves generating a ratio of powers of difference and sum signals of audio signals from two microphones and then performing noise suppression processing, e.g., on the sum signal where the suppression is limited based on the power ratio. In certain embodiments, at least one... Agent: Mendelsohn And Associates, P.C.

20080260176 - System and method for controlling a device using position and touch: Disclosed is a system for controlling a device comprising at least one earpiece for selecting/rendering media content, wherein a first earpiece includes a first input controller for receiving input to control the selecting/rendering, a first position controller for detecting whether the first earpiece is in/on the ear and receiving input... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080260177 - Digital medium device, program, and digital medium providing method: Even when digital media of the respective devices are not media of common codec, the digital media can be reproduced in other device. A digital medium is provided to a providing destination device which reproduces the digital medium upon receiving it. Before providing the digital medium, a codec which can... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080260178 - Audio signal transmission/reception device and microphone apparatus thereof: An audio signal transmission/reception device includes a speaker array having a plurality of linearly arranged speaker units and a microphone apparatus having a microphone array having a plurality of linearly arranged microphone units. Some of the microphone units are aligned with equal spacing corresponding to a prescribed distance therebetween in... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080260179 - Active loudspeaker: In an active loudspeaker, a bridge rectifier generates an unregulated DC voltage from the AC mains power supply voltage. A self-oscillating pulse modulator generates a pulse-modulated switch signal that is controlling a power switch stage which is switching the unregulated DC voltage. The power-switched signal is low-pass filtered and driving... Agent: William Koerner

20080260180 - Method and device for voice operated control: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a method and/or a device for voice operated control. The method can include method measuring an ambient sound received from at least one Ambient Sound Microphone, measuring an internal sound received from at least one Ear Canal Microphone, detecting a spoken voice... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080260181 - Reducing acoustic coupling to microphone on printed circuit board: A mobile computing device comprises a printed circuit board, a processing circuit, a surface mount microphone, and a vibration attenuation portion. The processing circuit is disposed on a first portion of the printed circuit board. The surface mount microphone is disposed on a second portion of the printed circuit board.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080260183 - Communication method for vacuum tube replacement devices: Methods are provided for solid-state implementation of a vacuum tube replacement device (VTRD) that includes a communication interface. The communication interface enables the VTRD to command or retrieve information regarding VTRD performance, function, and status. A VTRD may communicate with other VTRDs in a target amplifier retrofitted with compatible VTRDs... Agent: Brett A. Hertzberg

20080260182 - Sound recording console: The invention relates to a console 1 for use in electronic control operations such as sound recording and/or other effects or applications, comprising a plurality of channels and a transparent touch-sensitive channel selector means 2 operative to select a desired channel of the console, the means 2 being an elongate... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Tayloy & Zafman LLP

20080260184 - Virtual recording studio: A virtual recording studio is formed based on information from a number of different locations. One instrument may be located locally, and other instruments may be located remotely, for example accessible over the Internet. The remote instruments may be combined with outputs from other instruments, to create a virtual recording... Agent: Law Office Of Scott C Harris Inc

20080260185 - Method and apparatus for automatically detecting audio signal and sending control signal: An apparatus and method for automatically detecting an audio signal and sending a control signal are provided. The present invention is for automatically detecting an audio signal from a conventional IC, and controlling the power amplifier of the driving speaker or the switch of other external circuit. The apparatus at... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080260186 - Speaker: A speaker included in a speaker unit has a conical diaphragm. An end of a substantially circular cylindrical wall member is secured to the large-diameter end of the diaphragm. The inner surface of the wall member is arranged substantially parallel to a direction in which the diaphragm vibrates. Audio signals... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080260188 - Acoustic diaphragm and speaker having the same: Disclosed herein is an acoustic diaphragm for converting electrical signals into mechanical signals to produce sounds. The acoustic diaphragm comprises carbon nanotubes or graphite nanofibers as major materials. Preferably, the carbon nanotubes or graphite nanofibers are included or dispersed in the acoustic diaphragm. Since the acoustic diaphragm has excellent physical... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080260187 - Devices and systems including transducers: A device includes a substrate and a transducer attached to the substrate, wherein the substrate includes a surface to which the transducer is attached and at least one edge member extending along at least a portion of the outside edge of the surface. The surface can be a generally planar... Agent: James G. Uber, Esq. Mine Safety Appliances Company

20080260189 - Hearing aid comprising sound tracking means: Sound reproduction system, for example a hearing aid system, comprising:—a direction dependent sound detection system (1), comprising a number of sound detectors (2);—at least one sound generator (10) to reproduce sound, or part thereof, detected by the sound detection system (1); and—a sensitivity direction modifier (20), configured to modify a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080260190 - Hearing aid and method of operating a hearing aid: A hearing aid is provided which has at least one input transducer for providing an input signal, at least one signal processing channel receiving at least a portion of said input signal, a hearing aid processor for processing said portion of said input signal to produce at least one output... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080260191 - External ear canal voice detection: Ear-level full duplex audio communication systems each include one or two ear attachment devices, such as in-the-ear (ITE) or behind-the-ear (BTE) devices, that wirelessly communicates to a remote device such as a computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a cellular phone, a walkie talkie, or a language translator. When used... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080260193 - interchangeable acoustic system for a hearing aid, and a hearing aid: An acoustic system (3) for a hearing aid is adapted for conducting sound from an output transducer in the hearing aid housing to an ear of a user. The acoustic system (3) comprises an encoding (8, 9) indicating acoustical properties of the acoustic system (3). Hereby the electronics of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080260192 - Real ear measurement system using thin tube: An embodiment of a hearing assistance apparatus for performing a Real Ear Measurement (REM), comprises a hearing assistance device housing, a microphone within the housing, an earhook connected to the housing, and a flexible tube. The house has a first opening for guiding sound into the housing to the microphone.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080260194 - Microphone sleeve: A microphone sleeve for a handheld microphone can be used to alter the overall appearance of a microphone and/or to make a microphone easier to hold, handle, and/or grip. A sleeve encloses at least a portion of a microphone's body, without interfering with the microphone's audio receiving end, controls, wires,... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080260195 - Flexible transmit voice tube: A hollow gooseneck or other flexible transmit voice tube for a headset for use in telecommunications, telephony, and/or multimedia applications is disclosed. The voice tube may generally include a kink-resistant flexible tubular, e.g., gooseneck, member having an open end and an opposing end for coupling to a microphone, the flexible... Agent: Plantronics, Inc.IPDepartment/legal

20080260196 - Earphone receiving structure: An earphone receiving structure includes a housing and an earphone. The housing has an opening slot. The opening slot is formed by an indent formed inwards from one end of the housing. There is a pair of pivoting holes in the opening slot, and a plurality of concave portions on... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080260197 - Adjustable earhook: An earhook adapted to fit on a user ear. In an embodiment of the invention, the earhook includes a first portion having a fixed first curvature and a second portion having an adjustable second curvature for grasping a user ear. The second portion may be adjustably coupled together with the... Agent: Plantronics, Inc.IPDepartment/legal

20080260198 - Headset: Communication unit comprising a housing (1) in which at least one transducer is placed, and on which a micro-phone arm (2) is suspended. The housing also has an ear hook (6) for fastening the communication unit to the head of a user. The microphone arm (2) is pivotally connected to... Agent: Michael B. Lasky Altera Law Group

20080253575 - Method for assigning a plurality of audio channels to a plurality of speakers, corresponding computer program product, storage means and manager node: P

20080253576 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding stereo signal and multi-channel signal: Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding a stereo signal or a multi-channel signal. According to the method and apparatus, a stereo signal or a multi-channel signal can be encoded and/or decoded by generating parameters based on a mono signal.... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080253578 - Method of and device for generating and processing parameters representing hrtfs: A method of generating parameters representing Head-Related Transfer Functions, the method comprising the steps of a) sampling with a sample length (n) a first time-domain HRTF impulse response signal using a sampling rate (fs) yielding a first time-discrete signal, b) transforming the first time-discrete signal to the frequency domain yielding... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080253577 - Multi-channel sound panner: A method and apparatus for multi-channel panning is provided. The panner can support an arbitrary number of input channels and changes to configurations to the output sound space. For example, the panner seamlessly handles changes in the number of input channels. Also, the panner supports changes to the number and... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/apple Inc.

20080253579 - At-home hearing aid testing and clearing system: The present invention is an apparatus for and method of remotely, automatically, and routinely conducting diagnostic testing on a programmable hearing aid to ensure that it is functioning as intended when optimized for an individual's needs and preferences. Because hearing aids deteriorate with time and buildup of earwax, individuals can... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP

20080253580 - Equipment for programming a hearing aid and ahearing aid: A programming equipment (1) for programming (fitting) of a programmable hearing aid (2) comprises means for receiving information on the state of operation of signal processing systems included in the hearing aid. This information is utilized to present a graphical representation of the state of operation of these systems to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080253581 - System and method for streaming data between a portable server computing device and a client computing device: A system and a method for streaming data between a portable server computing device and a client computing device are provided. The method include transmitting an RF signal having streaming data from a first audio file from the portable server computing device to a client computing device. The method further... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080253582 - Vehicle for recording and reproducing digital data: An apparatus includes a vehicle and a media player/recorder physically connected with the vehicle. The media player/recorder includes a wireless receiver to receive a signal representing media data, a storage device to store the media data, a storage controller to retrieve the media data from the storage device, and an... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20080253583 - Always on headwear recording system: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an earpiece that records audio and stores the recording for a period of time.... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080253584 - Audio playing systems: An audio playing system is provided comprising a first processing module, a second processing module, a control module, an output module, and a displaying module. The first and second processing modules amplify an audio signal and respectively generates a first first processed signal, a first second processed signal, a second... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080253585 - Apparatus and method for controlling volume: A zero-crossing detector detects a zero-crossing point by monitoring an amplitude of an audio signal, and generates a zero-crossing detection signal that becomes a predetermined level for every detected zero-crossing point. A timer circuit counts a clock signal, and generates a timing signal that becomes a predetermined level every time... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080253587 - Method for automatically adjusting audio volume and audio player: A method is for automatically adjusting audio volume in a decoder that decodes digital audio data for each frame in which gain information that describes the audio volume of the frame is included. The method includes: storing a first gain information that is included in a preceding frame and used... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080253586 - Systems and methods for controlling audio loudness: Embodiments of a system and method of controlling the loudness of an audio signal are disclosed. The method includes determining a long term loudness level for the audio signal over a first sliding time period, determining a short term loudness level for the audio signal over a second sliding time... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080253588 - Digital volume controller and control method thereof: A digital volume controller and a control method thereof are provided. The digital volume controller includes an adjuster, a D flip-flop and a processor. The adjuster outputs a first signal and a second signal according to a rolling direction of the adjuster. There is a phase difference between the first... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080253589 - Ultrasound imaging system with voice activated controls using remotely positioned microphone: An ultrasound imaging system includes a direction-tracking microphone that is able to determine the direction of a voice command and to cause the microphone to selectively receive acoustic inputs from the determined direction. A voice recognition then interprets the voice command and controls the operation of the ultrasound imaging system... Agent: Philips Medical Systems Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080253590 - Superior slim type of speaker slim high-powered amplifier: A superior slim type of speaker comprises: a baffle, a hole being disposed at a center of the baffle, an vibrating system being disposed at an inner edge of the hole; a voice coil, a periphery of a bottom surface of the vibrating system being connected to a top edge... Agent: Charles G. Mersereau Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20080253591 - Device having a point and a spatial sound generating-means for providing stereo sound sensation over a large area: A device is described, having a first (2) and a second (4) sound-generating means and an input for a stereo signal (S) comprising left (L) and right (R) sound signals. The device has an interconnected first (1) and second (3) part comprising a first (2) and a second (4) sound-generating... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080253592 - User interface for multi-channel sound panner: A method and apparatus for multi-channel panning is provided. Multi-channel panning allows the operator to view how a manipulated source signal will be heard by a listener at a reference point in a sound space. The panner user interface (UI) displays a separate visual element for each channel of source... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/apple Inc.

20080253593 - Hearing aid: m

20080253594 - Hearing instrument with linearized output stage: This invention relates to a hearing instrument (100), which comprises a first microphone (102) converting ambient sound to an ambient sound signal, a signal processor (104) generating a processed sound signal based on the ambient sound signal, a controllable output stage (106) generating a driving signal based on the processed... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080253595 - Method for adjusting a binaural hearing device system: A binaural hearing device system is to be adjusted individually better. A method is provided for adjusting a hearing device system having a first hearing device for supplying a first ear and a second hearing device for supplying the second ear of a hearing device wearer by configuring the first... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080253596 - Hearing aid and a method of processing input signals in a hearing aid: A hearing aid comprises two microphones, directional processing means for combining the respective audio signals to form a spatial signal, a beamformer for controlling the directional processing means to provide adaptation of the spatial signal, and means for boosting low frequencies of the spatial signal. A feedback estimator generates a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080253597 - Computerized automated wax design and modeling for hearing instruments: A method and appertaining system provide for automatically adding a wax guard to a hearing aid shell impression. The location of a canal, tip of the canal, and central line of the impression are automatically identified in a digital 3D representation of a hearing aid shell impression. A first wax... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080253598 - Bte hearing aid adaptor: The present invention relates to an adaptor for a BTE hearing aid with a housing to be worn behind the ear, an earpiece for insertion in the earcanal, and a signal transmission member for transmission of a signal from the housing at a first end of the member to the... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080253599 - Microphone mounting system for acoustic stringed instruments: A microphone mounting system for an acoustic, stringed instrument that provides means for microphone placement in sufficient proximity to the instrument sound hole to capture the warmth and tone of the instrument while assisting in feedback control, and without altering or damaging the finish or structure of the instrument. The... Agent: Erickson & Kleypas, L.L.C.

20080253600 - Dual locking boom pole: A telescoping boom pole for an electrical conductor is disclosed. The boom pole includes at least a top cylindrical conduit slidably assembled within a second cylindrical conduit. A top clamping means is included for selectively clamping the top conduit to the second conduit. The top clamping means includes an annular... Agent: Marcia A. Devon Devon & Associates

20080253601 - Microphone stand: The present invention relates to a microphone stand comprising an upper assembly (4) and a support portion (2), said upper assembly (4) comprising at least one loudspeaker (5) and at least one microphone boom (6), said at least one loudspeaker (5) and said at least one microphone boom (6) being... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080253602 - Wireless receiving apparatus and electronic appliance: Disclosed is a wireless receiving apparatus. The wireless receiving apparatus includes a connector including a plurality of terminals a predetermined terminal of which is assigned as an identification terminal for identifying an electronic appliance connected to the connector, and a circuit for generating an identification signal of a level corresponding... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080253603 - Hanging type wireless earphone for carrying digital music player: A hanging type wireless earphone for carrying a digital music player includes a pair of speaker bases and a hanging frame. The two speaker bases are respectively mounted on two ends of the hanging frame. When the hanging frame is worn on a user's head, the two speaker bases are... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080253604 - Ear speaker device: An ear speaker device includes an electroacoustic transducer including a housing mounted at a predetermined position of listener's head, a speaker unit mounted on one surface in the housing, and positioned away from an entrance of the listener's external acoustic meatus for a predetermined distance when the housing is mounted... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. C/o Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080253605 - Multiple input acoustic coupler: A method and system for enhancing communications, such as those involving a two-way radio, are disclosed. More particularly, an acoustic coupler can comprise an output port configured to attach to an earpiece and a plurality of input ports in acoustic communication with the output port. Each of the input ports... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080247552 - Method and device for actively correcting the acoustic properties of an acoustic space listening zone: The invention concerns a method and device for actively correcting acoustic properties of a listening zone (27) of an acoustic space (1), comprising means for converting a signal to be reproduced (2, 4) in an acoustic space (1), means for attenuating resonance including at least means for measuring the perturbed... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080247553 - Stereophonic sound reproduction device: A stereophonic sound reproduction device has a sound amplifying device that amplifies multi channel surround sound signals for respective channels and outputs the multi channel surround sound signals to a plurality of speakers that are located surrounding a listening position and a rear reverberation creation device, in the rear reverberation... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080247554 - Wireless digital transmission of low frequency effects and surround channels for surround sound system: A subwoofer (72) is equipped with a wireless receiver (80) to receive signals containing information for a Low Frequency Effects (LFE) channel and information for both surround channels. In one form, the LFE is added to one or both surround channels to provide a stereo surround signal (containing both surround... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080247555 - Stream segregation for stereo signals: Separating a source in a stereo signal having a left channel and a right channel includes transforming the signal into a short-time transform domain; classifying portions of the signals having similar panning coefficients; segregating a selected one of the classified portions of the signals corresponding to the source; and reconstructing... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080247556 - Objective quantification of auditory source width of a loudspeakers-room system: A source width estimation system may estimate an auditory source width of a sound. The system detects a first frequency modulated noise signal and a second frequency modulated noise signal. The detected noise signals may be processed to obtain an average value of a lateral width of a binaural activity... Agent: Harman - Brinks Hofer Chicago Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080247559 - Electricity echo cancellation device and method: An electricity echo cancellation device applied at a terminal includes: an input buffer memory module, a network echo delay computation module and an adaptive filtering module. The adaptive filtering module includes an adaptive filter, a subtracter and a dual-ended voice detection module. An electricity echo cancellation method includes: calculating a... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080247557 - Information processing apparatus and program: According to one embodiment, a signal processing apparatus includes a speaker configured to output the received input signal on which a delay detection signal which has a frequency component of an inaudible frequency on a received input signal is superposed to an acoustic space, an extracting section configured to extract... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080247558 - Robust and efficient frequency-domain decorrelation method: An audio signal is processed by transforming the signal into a frequency domain representation having a plurality of frequency subbands. A decorrelated signal is derived from the frequency domain representation using a phase rotation.... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20080247560 - Audio output device: An audio collector collects an ambient sound near a sound-catching ear and converts the collected ambient sound into a collected-sound electrical signal. A noise canceller generates an offset sound for acoustically canceling the ambient sound based on a phase-inverted collected-sound electrical signal obtained when a phase of the collected-sound electrical... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080247561 - Variable fit ear insert: An ear insert for protecting the ear from loud noise can have a stem that is configured to be inserted into an ear canal. One or more attachments can be configured to attach to the stem in a manner that at least partially defines a fit of the ear insert... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080247562 - Communication system using short range radio communication headset: In a short range radio communication headset, signals transmitted by the short range radio communications are received while direct sounds propagated from an external are detected. Then, a digital signal adaptation processing using either received signals or the direct sounds as reference signals are applied, and a ratio between the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080247563 - Audio device integration system: An audio device integration system is provided. One or more after-market audio devices, such as a CD player, CD changer, MP3 player, satellite receiver, DAB receiver, or the like, is integrated for use with an existing OEM or after-market car stereo system, wherein control commands can be issued at the... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP

20080247564 - Loudspeaker system for motor vehicles utilizing cavities formed by supporting structures: In order to produce a powerful bass, bass boxes require a relatively large installation volume, for which insufficient space is frequently available in the interior of a motor vehicle, in particular in a passenger motor vehicle. When drivers and front-seat passengers require the sound installation to have a powerful bass,... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080247567 - Directional audio capturing: Method and system for digitally directive focusing and steering of sampled sound within a target area for producing a selective audio output accompanying video. In a preferred embodiment, the method and system is characterized by receiving position and focus data from one or more cameras shooting an event, and use... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080247565 - Position-independent microphone system: An audio system generates position-independent auditory scenes using harmonic expansions based on the audio signals generated by a microphone array. In one embodiment, a plurality of audio sensors are mounted on the surface of a sphere. The number and location of the audio sensors on the sphere are designed to... Agent: Mendelsohn And Associates, P.C.

20080247566 - Sound source localization system and sound source localization method: A sound source localization system and a sound source localization method. The sound source localization system includes sound capturing devices and an arithmetic unit. The sound capturing devices sense a sound source to output time domain signals. The arithmetic unit transforms the time domain signals into frequency domain signals, performs... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080247568 - Uplink noise cancellation: A system comprising audio logic adapted to convert captured sound into an audio signal. The system also comprises transmission logic which causes noise to be added to the audio signal. The system further comprises processing logic adapted to at least partially remove the noise from the audio signal by subtracting... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080247569 - Noise suppressing apparatus and program: A noise suppressing apparatus suppresses a noise component of a sound signal which contains the noise component and a signal component. In the apparatus, a frequency analyzing section divides the sound signal into a plurality of frames such that adjacent frames overlap with each other along a time axis, and... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080247570 - Sound output device with earphone mode and speaker mode: A sound output device with an earphone mode and a speaker mode is provided. The sound output device changes a circuit resistance value of loudspeaker modules by adjusting a connecting state of the loudspeaker modules in the sound output device. Thus the sound output device is set to an output... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080247571 - Wireless audio transfer system, wireless microphone, audio transmitting apparatus, audio receiving apparatus, image pickup apparatus, recording apparatus, and audio mixer: Disclosed is a wireless audio transfer system. The wireless audio transfer system includes an audio transmitting apparatus including a microphone and a modulating/transmitting unit for transmitting radio waves modulated using an audio signal from the microphone, an audio receiving apparatus including a receiving/demodulating unit for receiving the radio waves transmitted... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080247572 - Micro-electro-mechanical system (mems) capacitor microphone and method of manufacturing thereof: The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a MEMS capacitor microphone and further to such MEMS capacitor microphone. With the method a MEMS capacitor microphone can be manufactured by stacking pre-processed foils (10) having a conductive layer (11a,11b) on at least one side. After stacking, the foils (10) are... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080247573 - Miniature capacitive acoustic sensor with stress-relieved actively clamped diaphragm: An acoustic sensor is disclosed which can be fabricated on a single chip with an electronic detection circuit by modular integration of the fabrication processes. An advantage of the disclosed acoustic sensor with on-chip signal detection circuit is smaller overall device size and lower sensitivity to electromagnetic interference and vibration.... Agent: Novusonic Corporation

20080247574 - Piezoelectric buzzer driving circuit: A piezoelectric buzzer driving circuit (200) for driving a piezoelectric buzzer (211) with two terminals includes a reverser (216). The reverser includes an output terminal and an input terminal (24) configured for receiving a controlling signal to control an output of the reverser. The two terminals of the piezoelectric buzzer... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080247575 - Directional loudspeaker to reduce direct sound: A directional loudspeaker provides an enhanced listening environment by producing an indirect sound field of greater amplitude than that of the direct sound field. The directional loudspeaker includes loudspeaker elements positioned to provide a listener located below the loudspeaker elements with an impression of sound spaciousness in a vehicle environment.... Agent: Harman - Brinks Hofer Indy Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080247576 - Multimedia device integration system: An multimedia device integration system is provided. One or more after-market audio or video devices, such as a CD player, CD changer, digital media device (e.g., MP3 player, MP4 player, WMV player, Apple iPod, portable music center, or other device) satellite receiver (e.g., XM or Sirius receiver), DAB receiver, video... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP

20080247577 - Method for reducing noise using trainable models: The object is to improve the effect of a noise reduction algorithm for hearing apparatuses and in particular hearing aids. This is achieved by a method wherein the input signal is modeled by a wanted signal model and a noise signal model. In addition, a signal statistic of the input... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080247578 - Hearing aid receiver with vibration compensation: In order to reduce feedback in a hearing aid, a hearing aid receiver is provided that comprises a housing having an inside surface and an outside surface, a motor, an active armature that is attached to the motor and attached to the inside surface of the housing, the active armature... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080247579 - System and method for designing hearing aid components with a flexible cover: A method and appertaining system for implementing the method is provided for designing hearing aids having flexible parts. Three-dimensional data is provided that is related to both a soft part and a hard part of a hearing aid component into a computer-based system. Additionally, information is entered related to material... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080247580 - Hearing aid using printed circuit board: A hearing aid using a printed circuit board (PCB) is provided which minimizes internal wires since components of the hearing aid are disposed on the PCB. Since individual soldering of amplifier terminals and components of the hearing aid in an existing hearing aid faceplate manufacturing process which consumes the longest... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080247581 - Construction of a completely-in-canal hearing instrument with receiver compartment: A construction of a CIC instrument is provided, along with a corresponding method of manufacturing such a CIC instrument, that prevents floating components from contacting with an insulated receiver and, therefore, assures feedback-free operation. This is achieved through the presence of a compartment for the receiver in which the receiver... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080247582 - Loudspeaker and systems: The invention provides, in one aspect, a loudspeaker that has electrodynamically-driven piston mounted in one external wall and that has movable panels in one or more other external walls. Those panels are air-coupled to the piston, e.g., via air within the enclosure, such that vibrational motion of the piston causes... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20080247583 - Speaker, method of manufacture therefore, and speaker attenuation system, method and apparatus: A speaker attenuation system includes an attenuating member comprised primarily of open cell foam or other suitable material and having a size and a shape operable to attenuate a speaker when positioned in a central beam region of the speaker. A positioning mechanism positions the attenuating member predominantly in the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080247584 - Electronic device with internal microphone array not parallel to side edges thereof: An electronic device includes a case and a microphone array. The case includes a front surface, a rear surface, and side edges connecting the front surface and the rear surface. The microphone array includes a first microphone module and a second microphone module disposed in the case and arranged in... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080247585 - Electrical module comprising a mems microphone: An electrical module includes a base plate having an acoustic channel that opens into a first cavity at a first end and that is closed off by a microphone chip at a second end. The microphone chip borders a second cavity that opens to an exterior of the electrical module.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080247586 - Microphone unit, close-talking voice input device, information processing system, and method of manufacturing microphone unit: A microphone unit includes: a housing which has an inner space; a partition member which is provided in the housing and divides the inner space into a first space and a second space, the partition member being at least partially formed of a diaphragm; and an electrical signal output circuit... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080247587 - Condenser microphone, s/n ratio improvement therefor, and electronic device therefor: A condenser microphone includes a microphone chip and an LSI chip, which are stored in a microphone package having a sound hole. External sound enters the sound hole so as to propagate through the internal space of the microphone package, so that it is received by the microphone chip. The... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080247588 - Multiple channel earphone and structure thereof: A multiple channel earphone is provided, which includes a chamber main body and a main chamber support located in the chamber main body. A front field mixing chamber, a main chamber, and a back chamber are formed in the chamber main body. The main speaker is located on the main... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080247589 - Earplug earphone: An earplug earphone with a special engagement is provided. The earplug earphone includes a body and an earplug. The body has a protruding connecting portion, wherein the protruding connecting portion has a first engaging element on the inner side thereof. The earplug includes a protruding portion having a second engaging... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP 2099 Gateway Place

20080247590 - Structure of over-the-ear hook: An over-the-ear hook is a one-piece tube that can hold an earphone for conducting sounds to the wearer's ear canal. The tube can be adjustable to the wearer's ear shape so as to allow the over-the-ear hook to rest securely behind any wearer's ear. To form an integral unit comprising... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080247591 - Earphone jack: An earphone jack comprises a housing, at least one first contact member and one second contact member. A contact piece formed on the first contact member is elastically supported on a supporting portion of the second contact member and located a distance above the contact piece of the second contact... Agent: Dr. Banger Shia

20080247592 - Socket assembly: The invention relates to a consumer electronics device for enabling a presentation of media content. The device comprises a housing, a control means (130) for controlling the device, and a socket (110) coupled to the housing for connecting to an output means (200) for outputting the media content, wherein the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080247593 - Loudspeaker mounting assembly: A loudspeaker mounting assembly includes a frame, a sleeve, and a tilt-angle adjustment mechanism. The frame may include an outer frame, an inner frame rotatable about a frame axis relative to the outer frame, and a frame wall extending away from a rear side. The sleeve is coupled to the... Agent: The Eclipse Group LLP

20080247594 - Audio network as part of adapter or appliance: An audio network as part of adapter or appliance for an appliance performing a useful cycle of operation on an object unrelated to the delivery of sound media. The audio network comprises an appliance accepting a plurality of consumer electronic devices and sending acoustical signals from at least one of... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20080247595 - Electromagnetic lever diaphragm audio transducer: An electromagnetic transducer including a frame, a diaphragm disposed within the frame and coupled to the frame such that the diaphragm may rotate relative to the frame, a panel-shaped former connected to the diaphragm, a conductive coil connected to the former, and a magnetic assembly including a gap in which... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080240448 - Simulation of acoustic obstruction and occlusion: Realistic simulation of acoustic obstruction/occlusion effects in virtual-reality software applications is achieved by specifying whether a type of filter function is low-pass or high-pass and a cut-off frequency and stop-band attenuation of the filter function. The stop-band attenuation can be specified merely qualitatively, for example as “weak”, “nominal”, or “strong”.... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20080240449 - Method and facility for reproducing synthetically generated signals by means of a binaural hearing system: Synthetically generated signals are reproduced via a binaural hearing system, which includes two hearing devices. After reproducing a first signal via the first hearing device a reproduction of a second signal via the second hearing device is also carried out delayed by a defined time interval. The additional time delay... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080240450 - Systems and methods for logging acoustic incidents: Systems and methods for logging acoustic incidents. An exemplary system includes a transducer configured to receive an electrical signal from an electrical signal source and produce a corresponding acoustic signal, a recording system operable to record the electrical signal from the electrical signal source, and an incident estimation and control... Agent: Plantronics, Inc.IPDepartment/legal

20080240451 - Sound output device: A sound output device of the present invention for outputting sound according to audio data fed thereto includes: a volume adjuster that is operated by a user in a predetermined manner, and that determines a ratio of volume of the sound to predetermined reference volume according to how it is... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080240453 - Method and system for surveillance of a wireless connection in a hearing aid fitting system: A method is presented of evaluating a wireless connection while fitting a hearing aid. The method comprises the steps of sending a signal via the wireless connection from a computer system (103) to a portable device (102), receiving the signal in the computer system via the wireless connection from the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080240454 - Audio signal processing system for live music performance: A method for generating and/or performing music in real time includes receiving one or more audio signals, receiving one or more virtual instrument trigger signals, and selecting one or more plug-ins and/or one or more virtual instruments. A processing scheme is selected from a set of operations. The received audio... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20080240455 - Active noise control apparatus: A subtractor subtracts an echo canceling signal (Ĉ·y1(n−1)) from a canceling error signal (e(n)) to estimate the resonant noise (d(n)) to be silenced at a position of a microphone, and outputs a first basic signal (x1(n)) representing the estimated resonant noise d(n) as an input signal supplied to a controller.... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080240456 - Active noise control apparatus: A control characteristics changing unit reads, from an EEPROM, various control parameters in an ANC electronic controller, which correspond to specification information acquired from ECUs. The control characteristics changing unit then outputs control parameters, depending on changed specification information among the read control parameters, as change signals Sm1 through Sm6... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080240457 - Active noise control apparatus: A subtractor subtracts an echo canceling signal Ĉ·yl(n−1) from a canceling error signal e(n) to estimate a residual noise to be silenced at the position of a microphone, and outputs a first basic signal x1(n) representing the residual noise. A first control circuit section generates a first control signal y1(n)... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080240458 - Method and device configured for sound signature detection: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a method for personalized listening which can be used with an earpiece is provided that can include capturing ambient sound from an Ambient Sound Microphone (ASM) of an earpiece partially or fully occluded in an ear canal, monitoring the ambient sound for... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080240459 - Network system and audio signal processor: An audio network system that performs transport of audio signals among nodes by cascading a plurality of nodes each including two sets of transmission I/Fs and reception I/Fs, and circulating among the nodes in each fixed period an audio transport frame generated by a master node, the audio transport frame... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080240460 - Audio signal delivery management system, audio signal acquiring and transmitting apparatus, audio signal identifying and outputting apparatus, and audio signal delivering apparatus: An audio signal delivery management system includes a management apparatus and an delivering apparatus which delivers an audio signal to a plurality of speaker devices to which respective addresses are assigned. The delivering apparatus include an address storing portion which stores the addresses of the speaker devices, an audio signal... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080240461 - Portable electronic apparatus and sound output-controlling program: Information on a use situation of a portable electronic apparatus possessed by a user is acquired from an illuminance sensor, a contact sensor, and a GPS portion as use situation-acquiring portions, and a volume of a sound outputted either to a speaker provided as an internal sound-outputting unit in the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080240462 - Pattern detection circuitry: A pattern detection circuit detects a pattern in a received bit stream, for example a repetitive 8-bit silence pattern in a stream of digital audio data. Summing circuitry forms during first alternate time periods a sum of a first sequence comprising a predetermined number of alternate bits in the bit... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080240463 - Enhanced beamforming for arrays of directional microphones: A novel enhanced beamforming technique that improves beamforming operations by incorporating a model for the directional gains of the sensors, such as microphones, and provides means of estimating these gains. The technique forms estimates of the relative magnitude responses of the sensors (e.g., microphones) based on the data received at... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080240464 - Method for outputting audio signals and audio decoder: Method for outputting an audio signal to an audio output, comprising outputting a first audio signal to said audio output; providing a second audio signal; determining a point in time, wherein at said point in time said first audio signal or a derivative of said first audio signal or a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080240465 - Sound reproducing device and sound reproduction method: A sound reproducing device is provided including a communication unit that transmits/receives signals; at least one sound output unit that outputs sound based upon a signal having been received, a sound pickup unit that picks up sound and generates audio data, an echo canceller unit that stores any echo signal... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080240466 - Signal reproduction circuitry: A sound reproduction device includes a filter, which detects a repeated bit sequence of a predetermined length in an input bit stream. When any repeated bit sequence having the predetermined length is detected, the input bit stream is applied to a filter for attenuating signals at the frequency corresponding to... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080240452 - At-home hearing aid tester and method of operating same: The present invention is an apparatus for and method of remotely, automatically, and routinely conducting diagnostic testing on a programmable hearing aid to ensure that it is functioning as intended when optimized for an individual's needs and preferences. Because hearing aids deteriorate with time and buildup of earwax, individuals can... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP

20080240467 - Frequency-warped audio equalizer: In certain embodiments, an improved audio equalization filter can be generated by frequency warping one or more digital filters having a plurality of frequency bands. Frequency warping can include, for example, transforming at least some of the frequency bands of the one or more digital filters into lower frequency bands.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080240469 - Flat-panel television and audio equipment: Disclosed is an audio equipment, comprising: an audio output amplifier and a speaker, with a sound output from the speaker based on an audio signal that is input in the audio output amplifier, and with a high signal output as an error signal to protect the audio output amplifier when... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20080240468 - Landscape speaker connector and sound system: This application relates to an outdoor music and sound system. More particularly, this system incorporates unique weatherproof wing nut cable connectors used in connecting a plurality of weatherproof speakers on a single electrical line to a remote sound system that may be employed in a variety of landscape areas. By... Agent: Richard D. Clarke Law Office Of Richard D. Clarke

20080240470 - Microphone: A microphone includes a casing having an open side and a lid mounted to and covering the open side of the casing. A circuit board and a mounting plate are mounted in the casing. An audio conversion unit and a switch are mounted on the circuit board and electrically connected... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20080240471 - Electronic device including internal microphone array: An electronic device includes a housing, a circuit board, and a microphone array. A plurality of acoustic openings is defined in the housing. The circuit board is placed in the housing. The microphone array is placed on the circuit board for receiving external sound via the acoustic openings in the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080240472 - Bending vibration type sound transmitter: A bending vibration type sound transmitter includes a plurality of vibrating bodies that perform resonant vibration and two lids. The plurality of vibrating bodies is fastened between the two lids.... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080240473 - Speaker cone assembly for preventing the intrusion of moisture and method of forming same: A speaker cone assembly (200) used in an electronic device includes a speaker basket frame (201) and a cone (203) for covering a top surface of the speaker basket (201). The cone (203) includes a downward facing lip (216) for radially sealing the perimeter edge (207) of the cone (203)... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080240474 - Audio output apparatus, audio signal output adjusting method, audio signal output adjusting process program, and the like: audio signal output adjusting means, on the basis of the changed install position of the first speaker and the install positions of the plurality of second speakers, that adjusts output of the audio signal from at least one of the first speaker whose install position has been changed and the... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20080240475 - Hearing assistive apparatus having sound replay capability: Hearing assistive apparatus can be implemented to include sound replay capability, the hearing assistive apparatus enabling operation in a replay mode (in which the hearing assistive apparatus replays sound that occurred prior to the current time), as well as in a current sound mode (in which the hearing assistive apparatus... Agent: David R. Graham

20080240476 - In situ measurement: In-situ measurement comprises two consecutive measurements (open ear gain and in-situ gain), from which a result is formed by forming a difference. For the two measurements, it is important that the in-situ tube is positioned in the same place in the auditory canal. Otherwise there are different level and phase... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080240477 - Wireless multiple input hearing assist device: A wireless hearing assist device including a microphone unit and a receiver unit. The microphone unit includes a microphone that receives audio signals, a frequency profile adjustment control circuit that adjusts frequency profile of the received audio signals based on input by a user, and a transmitter that wirelessly transmits... Agent: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

20080240478 - Method for adjusting a hearing device with a standardization of processing values: A hearing device wearer is to have improved possibilities of being able to perform a fine adjustment of his/her hearing device according to a basic setting. To this end, each processing value of a multi-channel processing system is standardized, in particular a filter bank, to a respectively associated basic setting... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080240479 - Hydrophobic and oleophobic coating and method for preparing the same: A hydrophobic and oleophobic coating, comprising an adhesion promoting layer formed from an adhesion promoting composition and a hydrophobic layer formed from a hydrophobic layer forming composition, is disclosed. The adhesion promoting composition may comprise an adhesion promoting compound having a functional linking group and at least one of a... Agent: Holland & Hart LLP

20080240480 - Secondary batteries for hearing aids: Secondary batteries are provided which can be charged without removal from a device. In some implementations, the battery cathode includes LiFePO4 as an active material. In some implementations, the batteries include carbon anodes. Hearing aids containing such batteries, and chargers for recharging the battery within the hearing aid are also... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080240481 - Hearing device with embedded channel: A hearing device having at least one of an acoustical/electrical converter and an electrical/acoustical converter respectively with an acoustical input or output. The input or output, as the case may be, is linked to a coupling opening at the outer surface of the device via a channel. At least a... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080240482 - Arrangement for optimizing the frequency response of an electro-acoustic transducer: An arrangement for optimizing the frequency response of an electro-acoustic transducer (10), comprising the electro-acoustic transducer (10) and a damping element (12) arranged behind the sound emanating or receiving side of a membrane (14) of the electro-acoustic transducer (10), wherein an air gap (16) is provided between the damping element... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080240483 - Child soothing device with a low frequency sound chamber: A child soothing device includes a frame comprising a structural support, a housing coupled to the structural support and comprising a cover with an opening, and a speaker including a speaker driver and a speaker chamber. The speaker driver has a diaphragm disposed relative to the opening in the cover... Agent: Lempia Braidwood LLC

20080240484 - Device for and method of generating a virbration source-driving-signal: A device (100) for generating a vibration source driving signal (DS) is described, which device (100) comprises an input (101) for receiving an input signal (IS) and an output (102) for providing said driving signal (DS), generating means (103; 803) for generating a control signal (CS) which is representative of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080240485 - Earphone integrated eartip: An integrated eartip (501) that utilizes a one-piece, rather than a multi-piece, design is provided. The one-piece design is comprised of a first portion that includes at least one, or at least two, sound delivery tubes (513/515) and a second portion that is comprised of a compressible region. The integrated... Agent: Patent Law Office Of David G. Beck

20080240486 - System and method for an earphone device: A system and method provide an earphone device which provides a full dynamic range of sound, including bass, to a user. The earphone device includes a transducer coupled to a nozzle, and ear fittings. The earphone device further includes an audio aperture. The aperture in the audio aperture or diaphragm... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080240487 - Media playback apparatus having user-selectable shapes: A media playback media playback apparatus having user-selectable shapes is disclosed. In accordance with the media playback apparatus having user-selectable shapes in accordance with the present invention, speakers are attached to a media playback unit via rotatable connecting means such that a user may select a shape of the media... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080240488 - Speaker: There is disclosed a small-size speaker in which distortion is not easily caused when a diaphragm vertically movers for sound reproduction. The speaker includes: a bottom-equipped cylindrical frame having an opening at the top; a magnetic circuit arranged on the inner bottom of the frame; a voice coil whose coil... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.