METHOD OF AUDITORY DISPLAY OF SENSOR DATA

• US 20110115626A1
• Filed: 01/24/2011
• Published: 05/19/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ST Biotech, LLC
• Original Assignee: John Patrick Keady, John Usher, Steven W. Goldstein
• Inventors: Goldstein, Steven W., Keady, John Patrick, Usher, John
• Granted Patent: US 8,326,628 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/540
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 21/0264 characterised by the type of parameter measurement, e.g. correlation techniques, zero crossing techniques or predictive techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2420/07 Applications of wireless loudspeakers or wireless microphones
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2499/11 Transducers incorporated or for use in hand-held devices, e.g. mobile phones, PDA's, camera's
• CPC Class Codes: H04S 1/005 For headphones
• CPC Class Codes: H04S 2420/01 Enhancing the perception of the sound image or of the spatial distribution using head related transfer functions [HRTF's] or equivalents thereof, e.g. interaural time difference [ITD] or interaural level difference [ILD]

Abstract

At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a method of auditory communication comprising: measuring a data set; identifying the type of data set; obtaining the auditory cue associated with the type of data set; and generating an auditory notification; and emitting the auditory notification.

Claims

1. A method of auditory communication comprising:

measuring a data set;

identifying the type of data set;

obtaining the auditory cue associated with the type of data set;

generating an auditory notification; and

emitting the auditory notification.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

generating an auditory equivalent of the data set, where the auditory notification is a combination of the auditory cue and the auditory equivalent.

3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

associating the data set with a data set priority level.

4. The method according to claim 3, where the auditory notification is emitted if the data set priority level is above a threshold value.

5. The method according to claim 4, where a plurality of data sets are measured, where each data set has an associated priority level, further comprising:

organizing a plurality of the priority levels in order of highest priority level to lowest priority level;

organizing the auditory notifications associated with each priority level in the same order as the priority levels have been ordered into an auditory notification list; and

emitting a sub-set of auditory notifications, where the sub-set is chosen according to a parameter.

6. The method according to claim 5, where the parameter is a second threshold value, and the subset is chosen to correspond to the those auditory notifications associated with priority levels above the parameter.

7. The method according to claim 5, where the parameter is the number of auditory notifications allowed to be emitted, where the sub-set of auditory notifications are the top number equal to the parameter value of the ordered auditory notification list.

8. The method according to claim 1, where the data set includes physiological data.

9. The method according to claim 1, where the data set is an operational data set.

10. The method according to claim 1, where the data set is a diagnostic data set.