An electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include: a housing including a portion configured to be attached to/detached from a part of the user's ear; at least one microphone included in the housing and configured to receive a sound from the outside and to detect a direction in which the sound is received; at least one speaker included in the housing; at least one communication circuit included in the housing; a processor included in the housing and electrically connected to the at least one microphone, the at least one speaker, and the at least one communication circuit; and at least one memory included in the housing and electrically connected to the processor. The memory may store instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to store data regarding a sound, which has been received through the microphone, in the memory at least temporarily, to output a sound, which corresponds to a sound received from a first direction among the data, through the speaker, and to output a sound, which corresponds to a sound received from a second direction among the data, through the speaker based at least in part on information regarding the state of the electronic device or information acquired from the outside of the electronic device. Besides, various embodiments are possible.

A digital signal processing method for ambient sound acoustic dosimetry. Strength of a microphone signal generated by a watch worn by a user is determined and converted into a sound sample having units for sound noise exposure. This is repeated multiple times to produce a time sequence of sound samples that is written to a secure database access to which is authorized by the user. Other aspects are also described and claimed.

According to some embodiments, there is provided a method for personalized hearing aid adjustment, the method including receiving a user-initiated input regarding a perceived deficiency in the user's hearing experience, providing to the user, using a detection algorithm, a suggestion regarding an issue potentially related to the perceived deficiency in the user's hearing experience, receiving from the user a second user input regarding the relevancy of the suggested issue; wherein when the second user input is indicative of the suggested issue being relevant to the perceived deficiency in the user's hearing experience, providing a suggested solution to the perceived deficiency utilizing a solution algorithm, wherein the suggested solution comprises adjusting one or more parameters of the hearing aid.

A bone conduction device is configured to classify received sound signals (sounds) into one or more sound categories/classes (i.e., determine the input signal type). The bone conduction device is configured to dynamically set a maximum force output (MFO) of the bone conduction device at least based on the sound class of the sound signals.

In a method of fitting of a hearing device having an input transducer and an output transducer, the method includes executing a fitting application on a graphical user interface of an external device in communication with the hearing device, detecting by measuring reactions of the user to picked-up sound, performing acoustic feedback measurements as a background process without a user's involvement, assessing the probability of a correct physical fit based on the position of the inserted hearing device, assessing feedback risk based on the correct physical fit assessment and the acoustic feedback measurements, and fine tuning fitting parameter of the hearing device based on the result of at least one of the detected reactions of the user, acoustic feedback measurements and saved, within the fitting application, personal information of the user.

In some embodiments, a system comprises a host computing device and an audio device including at least one speaker and a plurality of microphones, the audio device being wirelessly and communicatively coupled to the host computing device. The host computing device can include one or more processors and one or more machine-readable, non-transitory storage mediums that include instructions configured to cause the one or more processors of the host computing device to perform operations including: receiving user environment data by one or more sensors of the host computing device; determining a characterization profile of a surrounding environment of the user based on the user environment data; and sending the characterization profile to the audio device, the characterization profile configured to cause the audio device to adapt an audio cardioid pattern of the plurality of microphones on the audio device based on the characterization profile.

An electronic device receives audio from an audio source and outputs the audio via speakers of the device. While outputting the audio via the speakers, the device senses its surrounding environment, and adjusts its operation, based on the sensed environment, to alert a listener wearing the device. The adjustment may comprise generation of one or more audio, visual, and/or vibration notifications to the listener using the device. A volume of the audio output via the speakers may be adjusted based on the sensed surrounding environment. The device may detect whether a first condition is present in the surrounding environment, decrease the volume when the first condition is detected in the surrounding environment, and increase the volume when the first condition is not detected in the surrounding environment.

The present disclosure is generally directed to an approach for spatializing audio from a received radio transmission to allow a radio operator to audibly perceive audio from the received radio transmission as if originating from a direction that corresponds to a physical location of the transmitting radio. On the receiving side, also referred to herein as a receive (RX) pipeline, a radio device configured consistent with the present disclosure includes utilizing an orientation tracker, and head related transform functions to generate a binaural representation of an incoming transmission such that audio associated with the same gets spatialized to sound as if coming from a direction corresponding to the transmitting radio. On the transmit side, also referred to herein as the transmit (TX) pipeline, includes utilizing a location sensor (e.g., a time of flight and/or GPS sensor) and encoding scheme such that radio transmissions include associated geographical location data.

Systems and processes for user identification using headphones associated with a first device are provided. For example, first movement information corresponding to movement of a second electronic device is detected. Second movement information corresponding to movement of a third electronic device is detected. A similarity score is determined based on the first movement information and the second movement information. In accordance with a determination that the similarity score is above a threshold similarity score, a user is identified as an authorized user of the first electronic device and the second electronic device. Based on the identification, an output is provided to the second electronic device.

An apparatus includes an eye cover adapted to be removably mounted on a head-worn computer with a see-through computer display and a flexible audio headset mounted to the eye cover. The flexible audio headset is mounted to the eye cover with a magnetic connection.