Sound enhancement for mobile phones and others products producing personalized audio for users
First Claim
1. A personal communication device comprising:
- a transmitter and a receiver which transmits and receives communication signals encoding audio signals;
an audio transducer which renders audio signals audible;
a microphone; and
control circuitry coupled to the transmitter, the receiver, the audio transducer and the microphone, including logic applying multiband compression to the audio signals, including generation of parameters for the multiband compression based on stored user data and based on environmental data determined while controlling the transducer to render the audio signals audible.
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Abstract
A mobile phone or other personal communication device includes resources applying measures of an individual'"'"'s hearing profile, personal choice profile, and induced hearing loss profile, separately or in combination, to build the basis of sound enhancement. A personal communication device thus comprises a transmitter/receiver coupled to a communication medium for transmitted receiving audio signals, control circuitry that controls transmission, reception and processing of call and audio signals, a speaker, and a microphone. The control circuitry includes logic applying one or more of a hearing profile of the user, a user preference related hearing, and environmental noise factors in processing the audio signals. The control circuitry may includes instruction memory and an instruction execution processor such as a digital signal processor.
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26 Claims
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1. A personal communication device comprising:
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a transmitter and a receiver which transmits and receives communication signals encoding audio signals; an audio transducer which renders audio signals audible; a microphone; and control circuitry coupled to the transmitter, the receiver, the audio transducer and the microphone, including logic applying multiband compression to the audio signals, including generation of parameters for the multiband compression based on stored user data and based on environmental data determined while controlling the transducer to render the audio signals audible. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A personal audio device comprising:
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a transmitter and a receiver which transmits and receives communication signals encoding audio signals; an audio transducer which renders audio signals audible; a microphone; and control circuitry, including memory, coupled to the transmitter, the receiver, the audio transducer and the microphone, including logic applying multiband compression to the audio signals, including generation of parameters for the multiband compression based on hearing parameters for a user stored in the memory and based on environmental data determined while controlling the transducer to render the audio signals audible, and including resources to load the hearing parameters into the memory by a wireless link from a remote source. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A personal audio device comprising:
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a transmitter and a receiver which transmits and receives communication signals encoding audio signals; an audio transducer which renders audio signals audible; a volume control input for the audio transducer; a microphone; and control circuitry, including memory, coupled to the transmitter, the receiver, the audio transducer and the microphone, including logic applying multiband compression to the audio signals, including generation of parameters for the multiband compression based on a setting of said volume control input. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26)
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