Granted Patent B2

US 8,582,782 · App. 13/556,509 · Granted Nov 12, 2013

Abstract

Claims (14)

1. A method for audio recording comprising the steps of: measuring ambient sound;

measuring internal sound in an ear canal;

continually recording a history of the ambient sound and the internal sound, including recording a time stamp and a location with the history, the continually recording of the history including temporarily saving the history to a circular data buffer based on a first-in first-out (FIFO);

recording an audio content delivered to the ear canal with the history in a compressed data format; and

saving a portion of at least one of the ambient sound and the internal sound in response to an event,

wherein the event is a touching of a headset, a recognizing of a voice command, a starting or ending of a phone call, an abrupt movement of the headset, or a scheduled time.

2. A method for audio recording, the method comprising:

measuring ambient sound;

measuring internal sound in an ear canal;

measuring audio content delivered to the ear canal; and

saving a recent portion of a history responsive to detecting an event that is at least one of a touching of a headset, a recognizing of a voice command, a starting or ending of a phone call, and an abrupt movement of the headset;

compressing the recent portion of the history in a memory; and

issuing a warning message to inform a user when a remaining memory receiving the recent portion of the history is below a predetermined value.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising audibly presenting the recent portion of the history responsive to a user request.

Assignments (19)