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Earpiece with added ambient environment

  • US 10,045,112 B2
  • Filed: 11/06/2017
  • Issued: 08/07/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A set of wireless earpieces having a left earpiece and a right earpiece, each earpiece comprising:

  • an earpiece housing configured to substantially encompass an opening of an ear canal to physically block ambient sound from entering the ear canal;

    a processor disposed within the earpiece housing;

    a near field magnetic induction transceiver operatively connected to the processor;

    a memory operatively connected to the processor, wherein an additional ambient sound is stored on the memory;

    a plurality of microphones operatively connected to the processor and configured to sense the ambient sound; and

    a speaker operatively connected to the processor;

    wherein the near field magnetic induction transceiver of the left earpiece is configured to communicate with the near field magnetic induction transceiver of the right earpiece; and

    wherein the processor of the left earpiece is configured to process the ambient sound from the plurality of microphones of the left earpiece and add the additional ambient sound stored in the memory of the left earpiece to produce a first modified ambient sound at the speaker of the left earpiece and the processor of the right earpiece is configured to process the ambient sound from the plurality of microphones of the right earpiece and add the additional ambient sound stored in the memory of the right earpiece to produce a second modified ambient sound at the speaker of the right earpiece.

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