This invention provides an earphone with a low light transmittance and a non-porous sensor cover. Covering the sensing cover on the proximity sensing device can reduce the interference of most of the ambient light and improve measurement accuracy.

The disclosure relates to a hearing system including a first hearing device configured to be worn at a first ear of a user and a second hearing device configured to be worn at a second ear of the user. The first hearing device includes a first physiological sensor configured to provide sensor data indicative of a physiological property of the user and the second hearing device includes a second physiological sensor configured to provide sensor data indicative of the same physiological property as the sensor data provided by the first physiological sensor. A processing unit may be configured to control the first and second physiological sensor to alternatingly provide the sensor data in subsequent time intervals.

A binaural hearing system for assisting a hearing of a user includes two hearing instruments each to be worn in or on an ear of the user. An audio signal is modified in each of the two hearing instruments by way of a programmable signal processor of the respective hearing instrument by executing a plurality of software modules of firmware of the hearing system and is output by an output transducer of the respective hearing instrument. The executed software modules of the firmware are distributed asymmetrically on the two hearing instruments, so that at least one of the software modules of the firmware is selectively executed in one of the two hearing instruments.

A wearable device, comprising: one or more processors configured to: detect a wear status of the wearable device; and in response to the wear status, allocate resources of the wearable device to one or more functions of the wearable device.

In some embodiments, a low voltage system can include a capacitor between an output node of an amplifier and ground, with the output node connectable to a load, and the amplifier configured to operate with a series of pulses. The low voltage system can further include a monitoring circuit configured to monitor a voltage at the capacitor against a desired low voltage value, and a control system configured to generate the series of pulses for the amplifier, and to control charging and discharging of the capacitor based on an output of the monitoring circuit to regulate the voltage at the output node at approximately the desired low voltage value.

Electronic devices such as compact portable media players are provided. A housing for an electronic device may be relatively compact. The housing may include a door assembly with an attached spring-loaded clip. The electronic device may include a hold switch. Depending on the state of the hold switch, the electronic device may be in an off mode, a continuous playback mode, or a shuffle playback mode. The electronic device may not have integrated media playback controls such as play, pause, rewind, fast forward, etc. As one example, the electronic device may connect to an accessory that has media playback controls. Buttons and other user interfaces may be included in the accessory and user input information may be conveyed between the accessory and the electronic device using a wired path including audio connectors. The electronic device may include a printed circuit board assembly that is nested together with a battery assembly.

Disclosed is a wireless earphone linking method that includes the following: detecting a motion state of a wireless earphone; when the wireless earphone is moved, determining whether a working mode of the wireless earphone is a wearing mode; if so, determining whether the wireless earphone and a terminal are in a linked state; and if the wireless earphone and the terminal are not in a linked state, controlling the wireless earphone to send a linking request to the terminal.

A hearing aid device is disclosed. The hearing aid device comprises means to improve, augment and/or protect the hearing capability of a user by receiving acoustic signals from the surroundings of the user, generating corresponding audio signals, possibly modifying the audio signals and providing the possibly modified audio signals as audible signals to at least one of the user's ears. The hearing aid device comprises a sensor member for detecting the movement and/or acceleration and/or orientation (or spatial position) of the hearing aid device. The hearing aid device comprises at least two hearing aid microphones and a control unit for determining the position or a deviation from an intended position of the hearing aid device or hearing aid microphones. The hearing aid device is configured to compensate for a possible dislocation of the hearing aid microphones.

Disclosed is an electronic device including: at least one sensor including a proximity sensor, a touch sensor, and a processor operatively connected with the at least one sensor and the touch sensor. The processor is configured to: detect a distance between an external object and the electronic device using the proximity sensor, disable the touch sensor or ignore a signal from the touch sensor based on the distance between the external object and the electronic device being less than a certain distance, determine whether the electronic device meets a specified condition based on a sensing value obtained from the at least one sensor, and enable the touch sensor or recognize the signal from the touch sensor based on the electronic device meeting the specified condition.

A method and device for determining a wearing state of an earphone, and a corresponding earphone, are provided. The method includes determining that the earphone has experienced a first event on the basis of first acceleration data from the earphone. In response to the first event, determining whether the earphone has experienced a second event on the basis of first angular velocity data from the earphone, The method further includes determining the wearing state of the earphone on the basis of a determination result for the two events. In this way, it is possible to accurately determine the wearing state of the earphone while reducing power consumption.