EARPHONES WITH BIOMETRIC SENSORS
First Claim
1. An activity monitoring device, comprising:
- a battery;
a circuit board electrically coupled to the battery;
a first processor electrically coupled to the circuit board;
a pair of earphones comprising speakers, at least one of the earphones comprising;
an optical heartrate sensor electrically coupled to the first processor, and protruding from a side of the earphone proximal to an interior side of a user'"'"'s ear when the earphone is worn; and
a motion sensor electrically coupled to the first processor, wherein the first processor is configured to process electronic input signals from the motion sensor and the optical heartrate sensor;
a controller; and
a cable electrically coupling the left and rights earphones to the controller.
2 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
Earphones with biometric sensors are disclosed. In addition to wirelessly receiving audio data for playback, the disclosed earphones collect the user'"'"'s biometric data such as heartrate data and movement data, and wirelessly transmit the biometric data to a computing device for processing and user-interaction using an activity tracking application. The biometric earphones may include a battery; a circuit board electrically coupled to the battery; a processor electrically coupled to the circuit board; a pair of earphones; a controller; and a cable electrically coupling the earphones to the controller. One of the earphones includes an optical heartrate sensor electrically coupled to the processor, and protruding from a side of the earphone proximal to an interior side of a user'"'"'s ear when the earphone is worn; and a motion sensor electrically coupled to the processor. The processor processes electronic input signals from the motion sensor and the optical heartrate sensor.
50 Citations
20 Claims
-
1. An activity monitoring device, comprising:
-
a battery; a circuit board electrically coupled to the battery; a first processor electrically coupled to the circuit board; a pair of earphones comprising speakers, at least one of the earphones comprising; an optical heartrate sensor electrically coupled to the first processor, and protruding from a side of the earphone proximal to an interior side of a user'"'"'s ear when the earphone is worn; and a motion sensor electrically coupled to the first processor, wherein the first processor is configured to process electronic input signals from the motion sensor and the optical heartrate sensor; a controller; and a cable electrically coupling the left and rights earphones to the controller. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
-
-
9. An activity monitoring device, comprising:
-
a controller, comprising; a first processor; a battery; and a circuit board electrically coupled to the battery; and a pair of earphones comprising speakers, at least one of the earphones comprising; an optical heartrate sensor electrically coupled to the first processor, and protruding from a side of the earphone proximal to an interior side of a user'"'"'s ear when the earphone is worn; and a motion sensor electrically coupled to the first processor, wherein the first processor is configured to process electronic input signals from the motion sensor and the optical heartrate sensor; and a cable electrically coupling the left and rights earphones to the controller - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
-
-
17. A system, comprising:
-
a battery; a circuit board electrically coupled to the battery; a first processor electrically coupled to the circuit board; a first memory electrically coupled to the circuit board; a pair of earphones comprising speakers, at least one of the earphones comprising; an optical heartrate sensor electrically coupled to the first processor, and protruding from a side of the earphone proximal to an interior side of a user'"'"'s ear when the earphone is worn; and a motion sensor electrically coupled to the first processor, wherein the first processor is configured to process electronic input signals from the motion sensor and the optical heartrate sensor and store the processed signals as biometric data in the first memory; a controller; and a cable electrically coupling the left and rights earphones to the controller; and a transmitter electrically coupled to the circuit board and configured to transmit the stored biometric data to a computing device communicatively coupled to the activity monitoring device. - View Dependent Claims (20)
-
- 18. The system of claim 18, wherein the wireless transmitter is a BLUETOOTH transmitter, a Wi-Fi transmitter, or a ZIGBEE transmitter, and wherein the computing device is coupled to the activity monitoring device via a BLUETOOTH connection, a ZIGBEE connection, or a Wi-Fi connection.
Specification