HEADPHONE PROVIDING TONE ADJUSTING FUNCTION

• US 20080181434A1
• Filed: 01/23/2008
• Published: 07/31/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hsin-Yuan Kuo
• Original Assignee: Hsin-Yuan Kuo
• Inventors: Kuo, Hsin-Yuan
• Application Number:
  US12/018,561
• Publication Number:
  US 20080181434A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 381/98
• CPC Class Codes: H03G 5/025 Equalizers; Volume or gain control in limited frequency bands
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1008 Earpieces of the supra-aural or circum-aural type
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1041 Mechanical or electronic switches, or control elements switches in general H01H
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2420/07 Applications of wireless loudspeakers or wireless microphones
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 5/033 Headphones for stereophonic communication details thereof, e.g. relating to batteries, cables or control elements H04R1/10

Abstract

In a headphone providing tone adjusting function, a tone processing unit is utilized to process and modify the tone of a sound signal frequency characteristic, and the sound with processed tone is played via at least one play unit. The headphone further includes a tone adjustment and control unit, with which a user may adjust and control the tone processing unit to achieve the purpose of improving the tone of a received sound directly at the headphone.

Claims

1. A headphone providing tone adjusting function, comprising:

at least one play unit for attaching to a user'"'"'s ear and playing a sound;

a tone processing unit for processing and modifying a tone of a signal frequency characteristic of the sound, and the sound with processed tone being played via the at least one play unit; and

a tone adjustment and control unit for adjusting and controlling the tone processing unit.

2. The headphone providing tone adjusting function as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a fixing section for fixing the headphone to the user'"'"'s ears.

3. The headphone providing tone adjusting function as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a receiving unit for receiving a sound signal from a player unit.

4. The headphone providing tone adjusting function as claimed in claim 3, wherein the receiving unit is selected from the group consisting of a wired receiving unit and a wireless receiving unit.

5. The headphone providing tone adjusting function as claimed in claim 1, wherein the tone processing unit is an equalizer.

6. The headphone providing tone adjusting function as claimed in claim 1, wherein the tone processing unit is a firmware stored on a read-only memory (ROM).

7. The headphone providing tone adjusting function as claimed in claim 1, wherein the tone adjustment and control unit includes at least one push key.

8. The headphone providing tone adjusting function as claimed in claim 1, wherein the tone adjustment and control unit is a knob.

9. The headphone providing tone adjusting function as claimed in claim 1, wherein the tone adjustment and control unit is a slidable adjusting key.

10. The headphone providing tone adjusting function as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a power supply unit being connected to and supplying power to the at least one play unit and the tone processing unit.

11. The headphone providing tone adjusting function as claimed in claim 10, wherein the power supplying unit is a battery.

12. The headphone providing tone adjusting function as claimed in claim 10, wherein the power supplying unit is a power plug.

13. The headphone providing tone adjusting function as claimed in claim 4, wherein the wireless receiving unit is an antenna.