Audio electronic device and an operating method thereof

• US 10,506,319 B2
• Filed: 06/21/2017
• Issued: 12/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Inventec Appliances Corporation (Inventec Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Inventec Appliances Corporation (Inventec Corporation)
• Inventors: Chang, Wen-Ching, Shen, Tung-Yueh
• Primary Examiner(s): Kaufman, Joshua
• Application Number:
  US15/628,845
• Publication Number:
  US 20180295440A1
• Time in Patent Office: 902 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/023 Screens for loudspeakers
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1016 Earpieces of the intra-aural type
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1066 Constructional aspects of the interconnection between earpiece and earpiece support earpiece support for monophonic headphones H04R1/105; earpiece support for stereophonic headphones H04R5/0335
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1075 Mountings of transducers in earphones or headphones
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1083 Reduction of ambient noise active noise reduction per se G10K11/175; protective devices for the ear, e.g. providing acoustic protection A61F11/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2201/029 Manufacturing aspects of enclosures transducers
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2420/07 Applications of wireless loudspeakers or wireless microphones
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2460/07 Use of position data from wide-area or local-area positioning systems in hearing devices, e.g. program or information selection

Abstract

An audio electronic device including a front structure and a rear structure is provided. The front structure includes an embedded body and a speaker, wherein the speaker is connected to the embedded body, and the embedded body is inserted in an ear. The rear structure is connected to the front structure and includes a processor, a receiver, and a power supply, wherein the processor is electrically connected to the speaker and processes an audio signal according to the judgment signal, and the receiver is used for receiving a judgment signal.

Claims

1. An audio electronic device, comprising:

a front structure, comprising an embedded body and a speaker, wherein the speaker is connected to the embedded body, and the embedded body is inserted in an ear;

a rear structure connected to the front structure, wherein the rear structure comprises;

a processor electrically connected to the speaker;

a receiver used for receiving a judgment signal, wherein the processor processes an audio signal according to the judgment signal; and

a power supply;

wherein the receiver is electrically coupled to a pressure sensor, and the judgment signal comprises an environmental signal, the environmental signal represents a pressure, and if the pressure is greater than 1 atm, then the speaker is switched to a mute mode, if the pressure is not greater than 1 atm, then the speaker is switched to a loudspeaker mode, and in the mute mode, the processor switches off the audio signal from being transmitted to the speaker;

wherein a time duration for which the receiver detects the pressure is a first default time, if the pressure is equivalent to or less than 1 atm, then a time duration for which the receiver detects the pressure is a second default time, and the first default time is smaller than the second default time.

2. The audio electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the processor comprises a conversion circuit for switching a mode of the speaker according to the judgment signal.

3. The audio electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the rear structure further comprises a microphone used for receiving the audio signal.

4. The audio electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the processor comprises:

a wireless charging circuit;

a control logic circuit; and

an integrated circuit board.

5. The audio electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the front structure and the rear structure are wrapped by a waterproof material, and the waterproof material further comprises a microporous structure.

6. An operating method of an audio electronic device, comprising:

receiving a judgment signal by a receiver;

receiving an audio signal by a microphone; and

processing the audio signal by a processor according to the judgment signal to determine a mode under which the audio signal is transmitted to a speaker;

wherein the judgment signal comprises an environmental signal, the environmental signal represents a pressure, and if the pressure is greater than 1 atm, then the speaker is switched to a mute mode, if the pressure is not greater than 1 atm, then the speaker is switched to a loudspeaker mode, and in the mute mode, the processor switches off the audio signal from being transmitted to the speaker;

wherein a time duration for which the receiver detects the pressure is a first default time, if the pressure is equivalent to or less than 1 atm, then a time duration for which the receiver detects the pressure is a second default time, and the first default time is smaller than the second default time.

7. An operating method of an audio electronic device, comprising:

receiving a judgment signal by a receiver; and

determining a mode under which an audio signal is transmitted to a speaker by a processor according to the judgment signal;

wherein the judgment signal comprises an environmental signal, the environmental signal represents a pressure, and if the pressure is greater than 1 atm, then the speaker is switched to a mute mode, if the pressure is not greater than 1 atm, then the speaker is switched to a loudspeaker mode, and in the mute mode, the processor switches off the audio signal from being transmitted to the speaker;

wherein a time duration for which the receiver detects the pressure is a first default time, if the pressure is equivalent to or less than 1 atm, then a time duration for which the receiver detects the pressure is a second default time, and the first default time is smaller than the second default time.

8. The operating method of an audio electronic device according to claim 7, further comprises:

receiving the judgment signal from an intelligent terminal or a cloud by the receiver.