Cable Set

Abstract

A cable set including at least one electrical audio conductor for transmitting an audio signal from a receiver unit to a head phone or ear phone, wherein the at least one electrical audio conductor includes a first end provided with a first plug and connectable with the head phone or ear phone and a second end that is arranged opposite to the first end, wherein at least one sensor configured to measure an orientation of the sensor is arranged at a distance of 40 cm at the most from the first end of the at least one electrical audio conductor and attached at the at least one electrical audio conductor. The invention also relates to a method for transmitting an audio signal from a monitoring unit to headphones or earphones arranged at a head of a bearer.

Claims

1. A cable set, comprising: at least one electrical audio conductor for transmitting an audio signal from a receiver unit to a head phone or an ear phone, wherein the at least one electrical audio conductor includes a first end that is provided with a first plug that is connectable with the head phone or ear the phone and a second end that is arranged opposite to the first end, wherein at least one sensor that is configured to measure an orientation of the at least one sensor that is attached at the at least one electrical audio conductor at a distance of 40 cm at the most from the first end of the at least one electrical audio conductor.

2. The cable set according to claim 1, wherein a distance between the at least one sensor and the first end of the at least one electrical audio conductor is 30 cm at the most.

3. The cable set according to claim 1, wherein the second end is connected with the receiver unit or a transmitter unit, or wherein the second end includes a second plug which is connectable with the receiver unit or the transmitter unit.

4. The cable set according to claim 3, wherein the first plug differs from the second plug.

5. The cable set according to claim 1, wherein the at least one sensor is connectable or connected through at least one electrical signal conductor with a transmitter unit or the receiver unit, and wherein at least one control signal is directly or indirectly transmittable to the transmitter unit through the at least one electrical signal conductor.

6. The cable set according to claim 5, wherein the at least one electrical signal conductor includes a second plug at an end that is oriented away from the head phone or the ear phone.

7. The cable set according to claim 5, wherein the transmitter unit and the receiver unit are connected with one another through a connecting conductor, and wherein the at least one control signal or the audio signal is transmittable through the connecting conductor.

8. The cable set according to claim 3, further comprising at least one second electrical audio conductor for transmitting an audio signal, wherein the second electrical audio conductor is provided at a first end with a third plug that is connectable with a second head phone or ear phone and connected at a second end with the second plug, or wherein the second electrical audio conductor is connectable or connected by a fourth plug with the receiver unit or the transmitter unit, or wherein the second electrical audio conductor is connected with the receiver unit or the transmitter unit or is connectable or connected with a fifth plug at the head phone or ear phone.

9. The cable set according to claim 8, wherein the at least one sensor is arranged at the first plug or at the third plug of the at least one electrical audio conductor.

10. The cable set according to claim 8, wherein the at least one electrical audio conductor or the at least one second electrical audio conductor or the at least one signal conductor are arranged in sections directly adjacent to each other or twisted together or enveloped by a common outer shell, wherein the at least one electrical audio conductor and the at least one signal conductor are divided at a branch off in two strands respectively in a direction towards a first head phone or ear phone and a second head phone or ear phone so that a distance between the first plug or the third plug and the branch off is respectively 40 cm at the most.

11. The cable set according to claim 10, wherein the at least one sensor or at least one additional sensor is arranged in the branch off.

12. The cable set according to claim 1, wherein the at least one sensor is a rate of turn sensor or a motion sensor or a magnetometer or an inertial sensor or a yaw sensor.

13. The cable set according to claim 11, wherein the at least one additional sensor is a rate of turn sensor or a motion sensor or a magnetometer or an inertial sensor or a yaw sensor or a temperature sensor or an air pressure sensor or a humidity sensor or a microphone.

14. The cable set according to claim 10, wherein the receiver unit or the transmitter unit is arranged at the branch off.

15. The cable set according to claim 1, wherein the receiver unit and a transmitter unit are arranged in a pocket transmitter.

16. A method for transmitting an audio signal from a monitoring unit to a head phone or an ear phone arranged at a head of a bearer, the method comprising the steps: transmitting the audio signal from the monitoring unit to a receiver unit arranged at a body of the bearer; conducting the audio signal from the receiver unit through a cable set that includes at least one electrical audio conductor that includes a first end that is provided with a first plug that is connectable with an ear phone or head phone wherein the cable set includes a second end that is arranged opposite to the first end and wherein the audio signal is conducted to the head phone or ear phone, wherein at least one sensor measures an orientation of the at least one sensor relative to ambient, wherein the at least one sensor is arranged at a distance of 40 cm at the most from the first end of the at least one electrical audio conductor and attached to the first end of the at least one electrical audio conductor, wherein the orientation of the at least one sensor is forwarded through a signal conductor to a transmitter unit arranged at the body of the bearer and subsequently transmitted to the monitoring unit, and wherein the monitoring unit puts out the audio signal as a function of the orientation of the at least one sensor.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0059] The invention described supra is subsequently described in more detail based on embodiments with reference to drawing figures, wherein:

[0060] FIG. 1 illustrates a schematic representation of a cable set according to the invention in a first embodiment;

[0061] FIG. 2 illustrates a schematic representation of the cable set according to the invention in a second embodiment;

[0062] FIG. 3 illustrates a schematic representation of a bearer of the cable set according to the invention in a third embodiment;

[0063] FIG. 4 illustrates a schematic representation of a bearer of the cable set according to the invention in a fourth embodiment, and

[0064] FIG. 5 illustrates two carriers of a cable set according to FIG. 3.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0065] FIG. 1 illustrates a cable set 1 according to the invention with an audio conductor 2 and a signal conductor 3 which are jointly enveloped in sections by an outer shell 4. Furthermore the cable set 1 includes a sensor 5, a first plug 6 and a second plug 6, 7.

[0066] The first plug 6 is arranged at a first end 8 of the audio conductor 2. This plug 6 is connectable with a non-illustrated head phone or ear phone so that an audio signal is transmittable to a musician bearing the head phone or ear phone (=bearer). A second end 9 of the audio conductor 2 that is arranged opposite to the first end 8 includes the second plug 7.

[0067] The signal conductor 3 that extends parallel to the audio conductor 2 is connected at its first end 10 with a pre-processing unit 11 and the sensor 5, wherein the pre-processing unit 11 and the sensor 5 are arranged in the first plug 6. Consequently a distance between the sensor 5 and the first end 10 of the audio conductor is almost zero. An orientation of the sensor 5 that changes through the movement of the bearer in space is measured by the sensor 5 and converted into a control signal. The control signal is now forwarded by the signal conductor 3 in a direction towards a second end 12 of the signal conductor 3 which second end is arranged opposite to the first end 10, wherein the second end 12 of the signal conductor 3 as well as the second end 9 of the audio conductor 2 is connected with the second plug 7.

[0068] The second plug 7 can be connected in a disengageable manner with a transmitter or receiver unit which is not illustrated so that the control signal can be conducted by the transmitter unit to a central monitoring unit or an audio signal is received by the receiver unit and forwarded through the audio conductor 2 to the head phone or ear phone.

[0069] FIG. 2 schematically illustrates a second embodiment of a cable set 101 according to the invention, wherein the cable set 101 differs from the cable set 1 according to FIG. 1 in that the cable set 101 includes a transmitter unit 13 that is permanently connected with the cable set 101 instead of a second plug 7, wherein a data processing module 14 and a radio module 15 are arranged in the transmitter unit 13. Consequently the cable set 101 includes an audio conductor 102, a signal conductor 103, a first plug 106, a sensor 105 and the transmitter unit 13.

[0070] The control signal is transmitted by the sensor 105 and a pre-processing unit 111 to the transmitter unit 13. The transmitter unit 13 forwards the control signal by the radio module 15 to a central non-illustrated monitoring unit.

[0071] The transmitter unit 13 can be connected through a connecting conduit 16 with a non-illustrated receiver unit. The audio signal which is typically received by a receiver unit and subsequently directly forwarded to the head phone or ear phone has to be transmitted initially through the connection unit 16 which is advantageously also an audio conductor to the transmitter unit 13 and subsequently through the audio conductor and the first plug 106 to the head phone or ear phone.

[0072] FIG. 3 illustrates how a bearer 17 would bear another embodiment of a cable set 2 or 1 according to the invention. The cable set 201 is made from a first audio conductor 2 and a second audio conductor 18, a signal conductor 203, a sensor 205, a first plug 206, a third plug 19 and a transmitter unit 20 which corresponds to the transmitter unit 13 according to FIG. 2 and a receiver unit 21.

[0073] A first end 208 of the first audio conductor 202 is connected by the first plug 206 to a first ear phone 202 and a first end 203 of the second audio conductor 18 is connected through the third plug 19 with a second ear phone 24. In the first plug 206 there is furthermore the sensor 205 for measuring an orientation of the sensor 205. The sensor 205 is connected with the signal conductor 203, wherein the first audio conductor 202 and the signal conductor 203 are joined at their respective first ends 208, 210. At a first branch off 25 the first audio conductor 208 and the signal conductor 203 are joined with the second audio conductor 18 and twisted with each other. A section 26 along which the three conductors 18, 202, 203 are joined is approximately 1 m.

[0074] Subsequently the signal conductor 203 is run away from the first audio conductor 202 and the second audio conductor 18 and is permanently connected with the transmitter unit 20. The two audio conductors 18, 202 are permanently connected with the receiver unit 21.

[0075] FIG. 4 illustrates an additional bearer 117 of a cable set 301 according to the invention in another embodiment. The cable set 301 includes a first audio conductor 302, a second audio conductor 318 a first signal conductor 303 and a second signal conductor 27, a first plug 306, a second plug 307 a third plug 319, and a first sensor 305 and a second sensor 28.

[0076] A first end 308 of the first audio conductor 302 is connected with the first plug 306 and the first end 323 of the second audio conductor 318 is connected with the third plug 319 wherein the first plug 306 and the third plug 319 are respectively disengageably connected with the ear phones 322, 324.

[0077] In the first plug 306 there is the first sensor 305 configured as an inertial sensor for measuring the position of the head 29. The head 29 illustrated in FIG. 4 is arranged in a neutral position. The sensor 305 is connected with the signal conductor 303 which is joined with the first audio conductor 302 in a first portion 30. At a branch off 325 in which the second sensor 28 is arranged in the form of a motion sensor the first audio conductor 302, the second audio conductor 318, the signal conductor 303 and the second signal conductor 27 joined and are enveloped by a non-illustrated outer shell. The four conductors 302, 303, 27 and 318 lead into the second plug 307 which is disengageably connected with an external transmitter unit 320.

[0078] Through the signal conductors 27, 303 a respective control signal is forwarded by the transmitter unit 320 to a central monitoring unit.

[0079] In order for an audio signal to be conducted by a receiver unit 321 through the transmitter unit 320, the second plug 307, the first audio conductor 302, and/or the second audio conductor 308 and the first plug 306 and/or the third plug 319 the transmitter unit 320 and the receiver unit 321 are connected with each other by a connecting conductor 316 configured as an audio conductor.

[0080] In FIG. 5, two carriers 217, 317 of a cable set 201 according to FIG. 3 are illustrated. Through the transmitter unit 20 of the first conductor 217 signals regarding the orientation of the sensor 215 are forwarded to a first transmitter and receiver unit 31 of a monitoring unit 32. Analogously thereto the transmitter unit 20 of the second bearer 317 sends signals regarding the orientation of the sensor 205 of the second bearer 317 to a second transmitter and receiver unit 33 of the monitoring unit 32. Additional bearers of the cable set according to the invention respectively provided with separate transmitter and receiver units are not illustrated but within the scope and spirit of the invention.

[0081] The incoming signals with respect to the orientation of the sensor 205 are forwarded respectively by the two transmitter and receiver units 31 and 33 of the monitoring unit 32 to a respective processing unit 34 of the monitoring unit 32 and processed therein. The generated control signal is respectively transmitted to an audio unit 35 and an output of the audio signal from the audio unit 35 that is dependent from the orientation of the respective sensor 205 relative to its ambient is provided to the first transmitter and receiver unit 31 and the second transmitter and receiver unit 33 which respectively transmit the respective audio signal to the respective receiver units 21 arranged at the bearer 217, 317.

[0082] Thus, it is provided according to the invention that both bearer 217, 317 receive different audio signals since both sensors 205 typically are oriented differently relative to ambient and/or the local coordinates of both bearers typically deviate from each other and/or the bearers wish different mixes, thus differently mixed audio signals where for example individual instruments like drums, guitar, keyboard or others are omitted or reduced in signal strength.

REFERENCE NUMERALS AND DESIGNATIONS

[0083] 1, 101, 201, 301 cable set [0084] 2, 102, 202, 302 audio conductor [0085] 3, 103, 203, 303 signal conductor [0086] 4 outer shell [0087] 5, 105, 205, 305 sensor [0088] 6, 106, 206, 306 plug [0089] 7, 307 plug [0090] 8, 208, 308 end [0091] 9 end [0092] 10, 210 end [0093] 11, 111 pre-processing unit [0094] 12 end [0095] 13 transmitter unit [0096] 14 data processing module [0097] 15 radio module [0098] 16, 316 connecting conductor [0099] 17, 117, 217, 317 bearer [0100] 18, 318 audio conductor [0101] 19, 319 plug [0102] 20, 320 transmitter unit [0103] 21, 321 receiver unit [0104] 22, 322 ear phone [0105] 23, 323 end [0106] 24, 324 ear phone [0107] 25, 325 branch off [0108] 26 section [0109] 27 signal conductor [0110] 28 sensor [0111] 29 head [0112] 30 portion [0113] 31 transmitter and receiver unit [0114] 32 monitoring unit [0115] 33 transmitter and receiver unit [0116] 34 processing unit [0117] 35 audio unit