Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices inventions

20090262945 - Stereo encoding device, stereo decoding device, and stereo encoding method: There is disclosed a stereo encoding device capable of accurately encoding a stereo signal at a low bit rate and suppressing delay in audio communication. The device performs monaural encoding in its first layer (110). In a second layer (120), a filtering unit (103) generates an LPC (Linear Predictive Coding)... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090262947 - Apparatus and method for producing 3d audio in systems with closely spaced speakers: An audio processing circuit includes a crosstalk cancellation circuit that is advantageously simplified for use in audio devices that have closely-spaced speakers. In particular, crosstalk filtering as implemented in the circuit assumes that the external head-related contralateral filters are time-delayed and attenuated versions of the external, head-related ipsilateral filters. With... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090262946 - Augmented reality enhanced audio: A device and method for providing augmented reality enhanced audio. The device is portable and may include a location processing module capable of receiving location information and determining a location of the device in an environment, an orientation processing module capable of determining an orientation of the device at the... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20090262948 - Hearing aid and method for operating a hearing aid: The invention relates to a hearing aid comprising at least one signal processing device, at least one counter for detecting discreet events or operating processes, and at least one memory for storing the values or states of the counter, and the threshold values associated with each counter. The hearing aid... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090262949 - Multi-channel acoustic signal processing device: Provided is a multi-channel acoustic signal processing device by which loads of arithmetic operations are reduced. The multi-channel acoustic signal processing device (100) includes: a decorrelated signal generation unit (181), and a matrix operation unit (187) and a third arithmetic unit (186). The decorrelated signal generation unit (181) generates a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090262950 - Multi-channel acoustic echo cancellation system and method: Techniques for multi-channel acoustic echo cancellation include adaptive filtering. An adaptive filter can use a lattice predictor of order M coupled to an adaptive LMS/Newton filter of length N, wherein M<N. The lattice predictor can provide decorrelation of the input to the LMS/Newton filter and can provide faster convergence for... Agent: Dr. William T. Ralston

20090262951 - Active noise control apparatus: An active noise control apparatus that controls by a control sound a noise which is output from a noise source, includes: a control sound generating section which inputs a control signal, and produce the control sound; a residual noise detecting section which detects, as a residual noise signal, a noise... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090262952 - Earphone and headset: There is thus provided an earphone comprising a housing (20) for receiving an electroacoustic transducer, and an ear cushion unit (10) having an ear cushion material (11) and a first ring (1). The housing has a sealing ring (2) and a latching unit (21). The first ring (1) has a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090262953 - System including device for securing the states of electronic controls: A system comprises an audio processor adapted for communication with an audio source and a control cover. The audio processor may have a plurality of manual controls to adjust audio processing parameters based on selected states of the controls. The control cover may engage the audio processor to restrict movement... Agent: Robert P. Hart, Esq. Harman International Industries, Inc.

20090262954 - Audio signal adjusting method and device utilizing the same: An audio signal adjusting device is disclosed. The audio signal adjusting device for adjusting the amplitudes of digital audio signals received from a decoder that decodes the audio signals received from an antenna comprises a buffer, a signal abnormality detector and a fading processor. The buffer stores the digital audio... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090262955 - Electronic device and volume control method of electronic device: A problem of the invention is to provide an electronic device and a volume control method of the electronic device capable of automatically controlling the volume when TV broadcast viewing is started or when headphones are attached/removed. To view a broadcast received in a TV broadcast data reception section (100)... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090262956 - Microphones with equal sensitivity: A microphone and a method for producing a microphone with a sensitivity stipulated within narrow limits. The microphone each has a microphone capsule and an amplifier. A network of passive components, preferably resistors, is allocated to the amplifier. The sensitivity of the microphone is measured and the passive components are... Agent: The Eclipse Group LLP

20090262957 - Method and an apparatus for processing an audio signal: Accordingly, one of a plurality of preset information is selected using a plurality of preset metadata without user's setting on each object, whereby a level of an output channel of an object can be adjusted with ease.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090262958 - Comb sense microphone: A miniature microphone, comprising a diaphragm, supported for displacement in response to acoustic waves, from which a plurality of projections extend; a plurality of projections extending from a surface; a body, supporting the surface to maintain the plurality of projections from the diaphragm and the plurality of projections from the... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20090262959 - Method for manufacturing a loudspeaker having a voice coil assembly: A method for manufacturing a loudspeaker having a voice coil assembly includes the steps of: producing a flat voice coil; placing the voice coil into an injecting mold of a vibrating slab; forming a locating section to secure the voice coil; and assembling a loudspeaker by coupling the vibrating slab... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090262960 - Speaker: A speaker is disclosed. A speaker includes a fixing part (500) fastened to a base frame; a motion part moved (400) with respect to the fixing part by an electromagnetic force; a vibration plate (200) that vibrates in communication with the motion part; and a guide member (800) provided between... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20090262961 - Vibrating system of panel form electrodynamic loudspeaker: The present invention discloses a vibrating system of flat-plate electrodynamic loudspeaker, which comprises a flat-plate vibrating plate and a voice coil mounted under the vibrating plate. The vibrating system is characterized in that the thickness of the vibrating plate within the voice coil is not more than ½ of that... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090262962 - Audio apparatus: An audio apparatus inputs audio signals oriented toward a plurality of positions to speakers which output sound toward the respective positions with narrow directivity, including a table storage section which stores a table for registering the plurality of positions and volume information showing set sound levels of sounds directed toward... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20090262963 - Audio reproduction apparatus: An audio reproduction apparatus for a vehicle wherein: a first speaker is installed on the right-hand side of a center position in front of a listener sitting on a right-side seat whereas a second speaker is installed on the left-hand side thereof; a third speaker is installed on the right-hand... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090262964 - Hearing aid, expansion unit and method for manufacturing a hearing aid: A hearing aid includes a device housing to be worn outside an ear of a user and which co-acts with an in-the-ear part provided with a sound-emitting opening and which is intended and adapted to be received at least substantially in the ear of the user. The in-the-ear part is... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090262965 - Method and hearing aid for changing the sequence of program positions: A method, hearing aid, and computer product for changing the sequence of program positions of hearing programs are provided. The program positions of the hearing programs have a predefinable sequence. Time periods, within which hearing programs are selected, are measured. A new sequence of the program positions is calculated taking... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090262966 - Component for a hearing aid and a method of making a component for a hearing aid: A hearing aid (8) comprises an inlet port (6), a sound tube (12) for conveying sound to the ear piece (13). The invention further provides a component for a hearing aid comprising a slab (26) having an exterior surface, which is super-hydrophobic. The component may be any one of a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090262967 - Wearable speaker vest/jacket: A vest for a hearing impaired wearer has panels for covering areas of the wearer, removable sleeves, a wristwatch on one sleeve and speakers mounted to the respective panels for receiving signals to generate vibrations, the mounting of the speakers being adapted for transmitting vibrations to the wearer's body.... Agent: Notaro & Michalos P.C.

20090262968 - Electrical connector and method for manufacturing the same and condenser microphone: There is provided an electrical connector especially suitable for a condenser microphone, which connector is, though being small in size, provided with an electromagnetic wave shielding unit that is capable of easily being installed in the connector and is equivalent to an EMI core. The electrical connector includes a cylindrical... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20090262969 - Hearing assistance apparatus: A hearing assistance device includes two transducers which react to a characteristic of an acoustic wave to capture data representative of the characteristic. The device is arranged so that each transducers is located adjacent a respective ear of a person wearing the device. A signal processor processes the data to... Agent: Bose Corporation C/o Donna Griffiths

20090262970 - Headset having ferrite beads for improving antenna performance: A headset having ferrite beads for improving performance of an antenna provided within a cable is provided. The headset includes an ear jack, an ear jack Printed Circuit Board (PCB) connected to the ear jack, a speaker, and a cable having an antenna in which one end of the antenna... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090262971 - Speaker: An uncured fluid adhesive is charged into a groove surrounding the outer circumference of a voice coil so that the inner circumferential edge of a diaphragm is immersed in the adhesive. The cured adhesive securely bonds the diaphragm to the voice coil, and thus the diaphragm can be driven at... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090262972 - Speaker and device using this speaker: A speaker of the present invention includes a frame at which a magnetic circuit is mounted, a voice coil, an arched diaphragm, and an edge made of material different from that of the diaphragm. A part of the voice coil is disposed at a magnetic gap formed by the magnetic... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090257598 - Audio processing system of projector: An audio processing system of projector including a microphone input, an audio input, an audio adjusting unit, and a mixer is provided. The microphone input is utilized for accessing a first audio signal. The audio input is utilized for accessing at least a second audio signal from an outside audio... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090257599 - Thermal protection of electro dynamic transducers used in loudspeaker systems: Electro dynamic transducers can fail due to either excessive voice coil excursion, causing mechanical clipping, or by overheating of the voice coil causing degradation of the materials. The disclosed invention relates to protection against excess voice coil temperature in such transducers. The current through the transducer voice coil and the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090257600 - System and method of audio testing of acoustic devices: A system and method of testing the audio performance of an acoustic device is provided. To test a device microphone, an audio signal is generated, provided to an external speaker, outputted to the device microphone, and routed to an auxiliary input/output device where it is outputted and analyzed. To test... Agent: Ridout & Maybee LLP

20090257601 - Acoustic speaker system with strong bass capability: Sound reproduction systems are described that have superior response to pure bass frequency signals from musical instruments such as electric bass guitar and string bass. A first amplifier drives a low frequency woofer and a second amplifier drives a full range speaker system. The bass component of the audio signal... Agent: Marvin Motsenbocker

20090257602 - Transmission device: A device for transmitting a sound signal received from a source to an in-vehicle audio system includes sound input circuitry operable to receive a sound signal, control circuitry operable to convert the sound signal to a signal for transmission, and two transmitters both operable to transmit the signal for transmission... Agent: Macmillan Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20090257603 - Clip-on recording device: A clip-on electronic recording device with an automatic activation mechanism is disclosed. When a coupling member coupled to the recording device is clipped onto a clothing accessory of a user, the coupling member activates the recording device automatically. In one embodiment, the recording device has a magnet switch that is... Agent: EagleIPLimited

20090257604 - Deformable controller for electronic device: A deformable controller for an electronic device, such as a portable electronic device, is disclosed. A user can interact with the controller to cause it to “deform” and thereby provide user input to control the electronic device. The controller can be malleable and symmetrical, and user interaction with the controller... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20090257605 - Master volume controlling device: A master volume can be added to a circuit included in a vacuum tube amplifier apparatus, such as a guitar amplifier apparatus etc., without troublesome modification, such as soldering to the original circuit included in the amplifier apparatus, boring a chassis in the amplifier apparatus, or the like. Concretely, a... Agent: The Law Office Of Michael E. Kondoudis

20090257606 - Ultrasonic speaker and projector: An ultrasonic speaker including: a vibration film having a conductive layer; a pair of fixed electrodes provided oppositely to respective surfaces of the vibration film; and an ultrasonic transducer that causes the vibration film to generate sound waves by applying a DC bias voltage to the conductive layer of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090257607 - Implementation of diversity antennas in small portable media devices and cell phones: A mobile telecommunications apparatus includes a portable media device adapted to receive electronic data through a network, the portable media device comprising a first antenna adapted to receive electromagnetic signals of a particular frequency, the frequency is at least one of a radio frequency and a television (TV) frequency, and... Agent: Rahman LLC

20090257608 - Hearing aid with a drop safeguard: A hearing aid with a drop safeguard has an accelerometer, an electrical circuit, and a memory. The accelerometer generates an electrical signal in dependence on an acceleration of the hearing aid. The signal is transmitted to the electrical circuit which uses this to determine a jerky acceleration of the hearing... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090257609 - Method for noise reduction and associated hearing device: The invention specifies a method for noise reduction of an input signal of a hearing device. The cepstrum coefficients of the input signal, of the changed input signal and/or of at least one parameter obtained from the input signal are modified. The modified cepstral coefficients are used for formation of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090257610 - Quasi-permanent battery for hearing aids: A hearing aid includes a secondary battery and means for identifying the kind of battery for charging. After the battery is identified, an appropriate algorithm for charging the battery is selected and used for charging the battery. Primary batteries are not charged. The hearing aid also includes a voltage reduction... Agent: Paul F. Wille

20090257611 - System and method for reduced baffle vibration: A system and method for reducing baffle vibration includes balancing an inertial force generated by two or more moving diaphragms and balancing an acoustic pressure acting on a housing supporting the two or more moving diaphragms such that a net force acting on the baffle is substantially zero. The acoustic... Agent: Bose Corporation C/o Donna Griffiths

20090257612 - Speaker assembly: A speaker assembly includes a speaker body and a resonating box. The speaker body formed by a main portion and a sound-emitting portion. The resonating box is provided within the speaker body. Both ends of the resonating box are connected to the main portion and the sound-emitting portion respectively. The... Agent: Kile Goekjian Reed & Mcmanus PLLC

20090257613 - Microphone screen with common mode interference reduction: A microphone assembly includes a microphone composed of a case having an open end and a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board is disposed in the open case end. The microphone assembly further includes a metal screen coupled to the case over the printed circuit board for shielding the... Agent: Plantronics, Inc.IPDepartment/legal

20090257614 - Package for micro-electro-mechanical acoustic transducer with improved double side mountable electrodes: A surface mountable package includes a base and a cover with a cavity defined thereby, and an acoustic transducer unit received in the cavity. The cover includes a first metal ring to enclose the acoustic transducer unit. The base includes a second metal ring to press against the first metal... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20090257615 - Headwear: A combination headwear having ear-covering sections and a headphone assembly having a speaker for each ear attached to a curved band that conforms to the top portion of a human head, and an integrated antenna module configured to receive satellite digital audio radio signals. The headwear includes openings sized for... Agent: William J. Mason Maccord Mason PLLC

20090257616 - Speaker system: Disclosed herein is a speaker system including: a laterally extending body portion for supporting the back of the head of a user; and a pair of right and left side portions respectively connected to the right and left ends of the body portion.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090257617 - Speaker, voice coil unit, and method of manufacturing the voice coil unit: A speaker includes a magnetic circuit forming a slit-like magnetic gap, a frame that houses and holds the magnetic circuit, a diaphragm attached to the frame so as to be capable of vibrating, a voice coil unit that is placed so as to pass through substantially the center of the... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090252337 - Multi-channel decoding systems capable of reducing noise and methods thereof: A multi-channel decoding method includes: receiving an input signal to generate a first channel output signal and a second channel output signal, wherein the input signal is mixed with a specific clock signal; and gradually changing an amplitude of the specific clock signal from a first value to a second... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090252338 - Sweet spot manipulation for a multi-channel signal: An apparatus, such as a decoder is arranged to modify the sweet-spot of a spatial M-channel audio signal by modifying spatial parameters. Specifically, a receiver (201) receives an N-channel audio signal where N<M. The M-channel signal may specifically be an MPEG Surround sound signal and the N-channel signal may be... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090252339 - Signal processing device, signal processing method, signal processing program, and computer readable recording medium: In this signal processing apparatus, a first-audio-parameter calculating unit calculates a first audio parameter based on two audio signals. A second-audio-parameter calculating unit calculates a second audio parameter based on the two audio signals. A surround-signal generating unit generates surround components to be respectively allocated to surround signals.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090252340 - System, apparatus, and method of speaker: A system, and an apparatus of speaker, and a method for forming a virtual audio is provided. An audio source is processed by a second audio source processing program according to parameters which are entered by the user, and filtered to be a high frequency audio signal. The audio source... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20090252341 - Adaptive primary-ambient decomposition of audio signals: A stereo audio signal is processed to determine primary and ambient components by transforming the signal into vectors corresponding to subband signals, and decomposing the left and right channel vectors into ambient and primary components by matrix and vector operations. Principal component analysis is used to determine a primary component... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20090252342 - Method and apparatus to measure differential phase and frequency modulation distortions for audio equipment: A testing method or apparatus utilizes multiple frequencies applied to a device under test for measuring newly discovered frequency modulation effects. An embodiment may include a lower frequency signal with a smaller amplitude higher frequency signal to test a dynamic change in frequency response, gain, and or phase. This dynamic... Agent: Ronald Quan

20090252343 - Integrated latency detection and echo cancellation: In an audio system having a microphone, a speaker coupled to a source of audio output, and an echo canceller coupled to the speaker and microphone, latency between the source of audio output and the speaker may be compensated in echo cancellation performed by the echo canceller. The echo canceller... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20090252344 - Gaming headset and charging method: An audio headset may comprise a case, near field microphone and far field microphone. A speaker, processor, memory, battery, charging interface and cradle detection circuit may be mounted to the case. Processor-executable instructions embodied in the memory, may be configured to implement a battery charging method. The headset may be... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20090252345 - Wearable computer system and modes of operating the system: A wearable computer system has a user interface with at least an audio-only mode of operating, and that is natural in appearance and facilitates natural interactions with the system and the user's surroundings. The wearable computer system may retrieve information from the user's voice or surroundings using a passive user... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090252346 - Method of processing audio files: A method of processing audio files includes the steps of providing an audio frequency adjusting section, via which one or more first audio files may be changed in the frequency property thereof to create one or more second audio files without the need of opening the first audio files. In... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20090252348 - Antenna implementations in interconnecting cables: Antenna system having as one element a conductors in an interconnecting cable, wherein that conductor is isolated at RF from the device at the opposite cable end, while also being tightly coupled to that device at audio frequencies and/or DC. Such an antenna is suited for use in wireless transmitters... Agent: Stainbrook & Stainbrook, LLP

20090252347 - Method and apparatus for automatic gain control: A method and apparatus for Automatic Gain Control (AGC) that provides an output signal having a smooth gain variation for any input signal. The various embodiments assure that the output signal will reach a required output level in a specified attack or decay period. A curvilinear reference gain characteristic is... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price P.C.

20090252349 - Method of limiting the maximum permitted sound volume in an earphone, and an earphone for carrying out the method: A method of limiting the maximum permitted sound volume in an earphone, a headset or the like, includes the step that the size of the driving signal for driving the earphone is sensed. The driving signal has a voltage that is less than approx. 0.7 V. If the driving signal... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20090252350 - Filter adaptation based on volume setting for certification enhancement in a handheld wireless communications device: A handheld wireless communications device has an adjustable volume setting. The communications device also has a downlink audio processor containing a digital audio filter. Storage in the device contains a first set of filter coefficients that configure the filter to enable the device to pass a wireless communications device certification... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090252353 - Bone conduction devices generating tangentially-directed mechanical force using a linearly moving mass: A bone conduction device, comprising: a sound input element configured to receive an acoustic sound signal; an electronics module configured generate an electrical signal representing said acoustic sound signal; and a transducer, comprising a mass configured to move in a rotational direction, configured to generate a vibrational force in a... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090252352 - Ear cup: An ear cup with a bone conduction function comprising a cup (1), a sealing ring (3) and a microphone capsule (5). The cup (1) has an edge (2) on which the sealing ring (3) is disposed. The microphone capsule (5) is disposed in a retainer body (4). The retainer body... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20090252351 - Voice activity detection with capacitive touch sense: A voice activity detection apparatus having a capacitive sensor and a voice activity detector sensor. The voice activity detector sensor detects vibration of human tissue associated with user speech. Utilization of the voice activity detector sensor output is tied to the output of the capacitive sensor, where the capacitive sensor... Agent: Plantronics, Inc.IPDepartment/legal

20090252354 - Speaker configuration: A system and method for speaker configuration in an audio and video housing, wherein the audio and video housing may be supported by stands located on top of a gas pump. The audio and video housing may have an audio and video source, at least one video display, and circuitry... Agent: Standley Law Group LLP

20090252355 - Targeted sound detection and generation for audio headset: In an audio headset having one or more far-field microphones mounted to the headset; and one or more speakers mounted to the headset environmental sound may be recorded using the one or more far-field microphones and mixed with source media sound to produce a mixed sound. The mixed sound may... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20090252356 - Spatial audio analysis and synthesis for binaural reproduction and format conversion: A frequency-domain method for format conversion or reproduction of 2-channel or multi-channel audio signals such as recordings is described. The reproduction is based on spatial analysis of directional cues in the input audio signal and conversion of these cues into audio output signal cues for two or more channels in... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20090252357 - Method for switching a hearing device between two operating states and hearing device: Switching a hearing device from a first operating state into a second operating state is to be configured in an acoustically-friendly fashion. A first output signal power of a first audio data stream is determined for the first operating state and a second output signal power of a second audio... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090252358 - Multi-stage estimation method for noise reduction and hearing apparatus: The noise reduction for signals which can contain speech at least part of the time is to be improved. To this end a hearing apparatus and especially a hearing device with a first estimation device for estimating a first value of an input signal with a first estimation algorithm and... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090252359 - Battery compartment door: A battery compartment door for an electronic device, said door being operable between open and closed conditions of use with respect to the device, including a cradle shaped to at least partially receive a terminal of a battery, wherein the cradle is adapted to electrically couple the terminal to an... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090252360 - Hearing aid glasses using one omni microphone per temple: Hearing glasses with a left temple and a right temple connected to a front portion supporting a pair of lenses, at least one temple with one single microphone and a processor connected to the single microphone. The single microphone is an omnidirectional microphone and located in the temple such that,... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090252361 - Assembly comprising a sound emitter and two sound detectors: The invention relates to an assembly comprising a sound emitter and at least two sound detectors fixed to each other, wherein each detector has a sound receiving opening. The sound receiving openings of at least two of the detectors point in opposite directions.... Agent: Daniel J. Burnham, Esq. Nixon Peabody, LLP.

20090252362 - Hearing device to be carried in the auricle with an individual mold: The wearing comfort of a hearing device designed as a mass-produced product, in particular a hearing aid, is improved. The hearing device is provided to be carried in an auricle. It comprises a housing which houses a sound signal processing device. A conductor conducts an acoustic or electric signal from... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090252363 - Loudspeaker assembly: A loudspeaker assembly comprises a base supporting at least one electro-acoustic transducer and at least one waveguide segment detachably supported by the base.... Agent: Bose Corporation C/o Donna Griffiths

20090252364 - Voice signal transmitting/receiving apparatus: A voice signal transmitting/receiving apparatus includes: a device body; a speaker array arranged in the device body and including a plurality of arrayed speaker units; and a microphone array arranged in the device body and including a plurality of arrayed microphones. By thus integrating the speaker array and the microphone... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090252365 - Method and apparatus for microphones sharing a common acoustic volume: The present subject matter provides method and apparatus for improved microphones sharing an acoustic volume. Some embodiments are useful for hearing assistance devices. Examples of an improved microphone module offering omnidirectional and directional microphone capsules are provided. Different mounting and interconnection embodiments are provided. Different electrical connector embodiments are discussed.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090252366 - Decorative and removable earbud cover: A decorative and removable earbud cover is disclosed that can attach to earbuds, earpieces, headphones, or the like. The earbud cover includes two major components: an attachment portion and a decorative portion. The attachment portion snaps over a cylindrical earbud portion of a user's earbud such that the attachment portion... Agent: Eric Hanscom

20090252367 - Ear phone/bud lanyard: An earphone system includes an audio device that is connected via an audio chord with at least one ear-bud Also, the system includes a lanyard that is attached to the chord at a distance “L” from the ear-bud In particular, the lanyard is hung on the ear of a user... Agent: Nydegger & Associates

20090252368 - Ribbon transducer with improved dispersion, excursion and distortion characteristics:

20090252369 - Loudspeaker driver: A loudspeaker driver that includes a suspended diaphragm and at least one voice coil disposed lateral to the suspended diaphragm, suspended in a magnetic field and coupled to the diaphragm.... Agent: Kourosh Salehi #2a