A communication system and method usable to facilitate communication between a hearing user and an assisted user. In particular, the system employs a wireless portable tablet or other portable electronic computing device linked to a captioning enabled phone as a remote interface for that phone, thereby providing an assisted user with more options, more freedom, and improved usability of the system.

A wireless power system includes a wireless power transmitting device such as a wireless charging mat for charging devices such as a cellular telephone and an earbuds battery case. The earbuds battery case receives earbuds and charges the earbuds from a battery. The wireless charging mat supports bidirectional in-band communications between the cellular telephone and the earbuds battery case. The earbuds battery case provides the cellular telephone with information on the battery charge level associated with the battery in the earbuds battery case and a battery charge level associated with each earbud in the earbuds battery case. The cellular telephone receives battery charge level information through the wireless charging mat and displays corresponding indicators. The earbuds battery case has a visual output device such as a light-emitting diode that is illuminated to indicate that the earbuds battery case is being charged.

An audio output channel switching method is applied to an electronic device having a built-in earpiece and a first sensor. The first sensor is disposed at a first location in the electronic device. The electronic device having an external audio device connected thereto as an audio output channel detects a first operation. In response to the first operation, the electronic device determines a first distance between the electronic device and the external audio device. The electronic device determines a second distance between a covering object and a first location based on a detection signal of the first sensor. When the first distance is greater than a first distance threshold, and the second distance is less than a second distance threshold, the electronic device switches the audio output channel from the external audio device to a built-in earpiece of the electronic device.

An electronic device having a user interface for accessing phone features. The user interface accounts for whether the electronic device is connected to a companion cellular phone. The user interface accounts for a headset is available for use to carry on a call. The user interface permits transition between using one or more of cellular phone, headset, and/or the electronic device to be used for carrying on incoming or outgoing calls.

A microphone may comprise a microphone element for detecting sound, and a digital signal processor configured to process a first audio signal that is based on the sound in accordance with a selected one of a plurality of digital signal processing (DSP) modes. Each of the DSP modes may be for processing the first audio signal in a different way. For example, the DSP modes may account for distance of the person speaking (e.g., near versus far) and/or desired tone (e.g., darker, neutral, or bright tone). At least some of the modes may have, for example, an automatic level control setting to provide a more consistent volume as the user changes their distance from the microphone or changes their speaking level, and that may be associated with particular default (and/or adjustable) values of the parameters attack, hold, decay, maximum gain, and/or target gain, each depending upon which DSP is being applied.

A method for off-loading tasks between a set of wireless earpieces in an embodiment of the present invention may have one or more of the following steps: (a) monitoring battery levels of the set of wireless earpieces, (b) determining the first wireless earpiece battery level and the second wireless battery level, (c) communicating the battery levels of each wireless earpiece to the other wireless earpiece of the set of wireless earpieces, (d) assigning a first task involving one or more of the following: computing tasks, background tasks, audio processing tasks, and sensor data analysis tasks from one of the set of wireless earpieces to the other wireless earpiece if the battery level of the one of the set of wireless earpieces falls below a critical threshold, (e) communicating data for use in performing a second task to the other wireless earpiece if the second task is communicated to the first wireless earpiece.

An audio data transmission method and apparatus for a wireless earphone, and a storage medium and a terminal are provided. A play mode adopted by the wireless earphone includes a first play mode and a second play mode, and the method includes: determining whether the first play mode currently adopted by the wireless earphone satisfies a transmission bandwidth required by to-be-played audio data at least based on parameter information of the to-be-played audio data; and based on the first play mode not satisfying the transmission bandwidth required by the to-be-played audio data, transmitting the to-be-played audio data through a connection channel corresponding to the second play mode.

An electronic device may include: a communication circuit; and a processor operatively connected to the communication circuit. The processor may be configured to generate a communication link to a first electronic device for audio by using the communication circuit, and when identifying a first state in which the remaining battery capacity of the electronic device for audio is smaller than the remaining battery capacity of the first electronic device for audio, and a difference between the remaining battery capacity of the electronic device for audio and the remaining battery capacity of the first electronic device for audio is greater than or equal to a threshold value, change a master role from the electronic device for audio to the first electronic device for audio. Various other embodiments may be provided.

Aspects of the disclosure include a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing thereon sequences of computer-executable instructions for automatically identifying underutilized features of an electronic device, the sequences of computer-executable instructions including instructions that instruct at least one processor to determine whether at least one underutilized-feature trigger is satisfied, identify, based on determining that the at least one underutilized-feature trigger is satisfied, at least one underutilized feature of the electronic device, identify the at least one underutilized feature of the electronic device to a user of the electronic device, and store an indication of the identification of the at least one underutilized feature of the electronic device to the user.

A Bluetooth connection method and a related apparatus are disclosed, and relate to the field of short-range wireless communications technologies. A first electronic device establishes a BLE connection to a second electronic device, and exchanges data with the second electronic device based on a first connection interval. The first electronic device further establishes a BR/EDR connection to a third electronic device. When device class information of the second electronic device is the same as device class information prestored in a memory, the first electronic device exchanges data with the second electronic device based on a second connection interval. The second connection interval is greater than the first connection interval. In this way, a throughput speed of exchanging data by the third electronic device can be increased.