The disclosure herein provides a mobile system including a mobile base station and a wireless earbud. The base station comprising a connection hole, a user input button, at least one processor, at least one memory, and circuitry. The wireless earbud is configured for plugging into the connection hole of the base station to form an integrated body with the base station. The system establishes a wireless Bluetooth pairing between a smartphone and the wireless earbud using two-way wireless communication to produce Bluetooth communication between the smartphone and the wireless earbud.

An audio apparatus and method employ a first renderer circuit, wherein the first renderer circuit is arranged to render audio elements by generating a first set of audio signals for a set of loudspeakers; and a second renderer circuit, wherein the second renderer circuit is arranged to render audio elements by generating a second set of audio signals for headphones, and select between the first renderer circuit and the second renderer circuit such that the rendering of at least a first part of a first audio element is in response to a first audio rendering property indicator which is received in an audio signal. The first audio rendering property indicator is indicative of whether the first part of the first audio element should be rendered via the loudspeakers, or rendered via the headphones.

Systems and methods for improving audio playback at a playback device are described herein. In some embodiments, a system transitions between causing playback of a radio broadcast stream to causing playback of device music, such as in response to determining that a quality of the radio broadcast stream is below a threshold value. In some embodiments, a system selects songs to play based on device preferences of a plurality of different media devices. In some embodiments, a system selects a device from which to retrieve songs for playback based on one or more rules.

The present application discloses playback devices and networks, software for operating playback devices and playback device networks, and methods of operating playback devices and networks, where an individual network device is configured to switch between operating various operating modes comprising a non-paired mode and a paired mode, where the playback device is configured to output various channels of audio content within various audio frequency ranges while operating in the various operating modes.

A mobile device and a method for operating the same are provided. The mobile device includes a sound detection unit, a signal processing unit, a sound mixing unit and a speaker. The sound detection unit detects an environment sound around the mobile device and converts the environment sound to an external sound signal. The signal processing unit analyzes the external sound signal and determines whether to enable a sound mixed mode according to an analyzed result. In the sound mixed mode, the sound mixing unit mixes a music signal with the external sound signal to generate a sound mixed signal, and the mobile device plays the sound mixed signal through the speaker.

Provided is an audio device, including: an audio signal communication unit comprising a reception unit configured to receive an audio signal via wireless communication and a transmission unit configured to transmit an audio signal via wireless communication; a plurality of signal input units including the reception unit; an input selection unit configured to select one signal input unit from among the plurality of signal input units; a control unit configured to control switching of the input selection unit; and a signal processing unit, in which the control unit is configured to: switch, when the input selection unit has selected a signal input unit other than the reception unit, the input selection unit to the selected signal input unit and input an audio signal, which is input from the selected signal input unit, into the signal processing unit; and switch, when the reception unit has received an audio signal via wireless communication, the input selection unit from the selected signal input unit to the reception unit and input the received audio signal into the signal processing unit.

In one example, a headset comprises a microphone; an earpiece that is configured to output audio based on one or more of the following: a first audio signal from a connected host device and associated with an application type and a second audio signal from the microphone, when present; a noise reduction module that is configured to reduce ambient noise; a speech detection module that is configured to detect whether a headset user is talking; a voice pass-through module that is configured to pass external voices captured with the microphone as the second audio signal to the earpiece, when activated; and a controller that is configured to activate the voice pass-through module in response to the speech detection module detecting the headset user talking, when uplink audio is off.

A method for processing music audio data, including providing input audio data representing a first piece of music comprising a mixture of musical timbres. The method also includes decomposing the input audio data to generate at least first-timbre decomposed data representing a first timbre selected from the musical timbres of the first piece of music, and second-timbre decomposed data representing a second timbre selected from the musical timbres of the first piece of music. The method also includes applying a transport control to obtain transport controlled first-timbre decomposed data. The method also includes recombining audio data obtained from the transport controlled first-timbre decomposed data with audio data obtained from the second-timbre decomposed data to obtain recombined audio data.

A mobile device case is disclosed. The mobile device case includes a housing comprising a cavity configured to partially enclose a mobile device, a first and second foldable panel having first and second speakers pivotally connected to the housing, wherein the first and second foldable panels rotate from a folded position where the first and second foldable panels are configured to be folded on a back surface of the bottom surface of the cavity to an unfolded position where the first and second foldable panels extend laterally in a parallel way relative to the bottom surface of the cavity.

The present invention includes a system for alerting a headphone user that another individual is attempting to gain the user's attention. The system includes an alert receiver designed to easily mate with the headphones and an audio source. The alert receiver wirelessly communicates with an alert transmitter that can be manually operated by the individual. This system enables an individual to easily alert the headphone user without requiring either party have or use a telephone.