Earbuds and earphones for personal sound system
View Patent ↗A personal sound system includes a portable electronic device that provides an analog audio signal to an audio output; an earphone system, connected by wire to the audio output, the portable electronic device, the earphone system including at least one earphone speaker; at least one control associated with the earphone system, the at least one control wirelessly linked to the portable electronic device so that operation of the at least control adjusts the balance between two or more frequency components of the analog audio signal provided to the at least one earphone.
1. A personal sound system comprising:
a portable electronic device that provides an analog audio signal to an audio output;
an earphone system connected by wire to the audio output of the portable electronic device, the earphone system including at least one earphone speaker; and
at least one control associated with the earphone system, the at least one control wirelessly linked to the portable electronic device and including at least one depressible switch, wherein the at least one depressible switch is configured to trigger a transmission of instructions to the portable electronic device to modify the analog audio signal received from the portable electronic device by selecting a preset balance specific to a musical genre to be applied to frequency components of the analog audio signal and providing the modified analog audio signal to the earphone system.
2. The personal sound system according to claim 1 , wherein the portable electronic device includes a display displaying indicators of a frequency balance between the frequency components of the analog audio signal provided to the audio output.
3. The personal sound system according to claim 2 , wherein the display updates to reflect changes in the frequency balance between the frequency components of the analog audio signal provided to the audio output effected by the at least one control.
4. The personal sound system according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one control communicates wirelessly with the portable electronic device using a Bluetooth® protocol.
5. The personal sound system according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one control is configured to strengthen or weaken a band of high frequencies, and a control to strengthen or weaken a band of low frequencies.
6. The personal sound system according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one control is configured to select one of a plurality of bands of frequencies to adjust.
7. The personal sound system according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one control controls a program running on the portable electronic device.
8. A personal sound system comprising:
a control device arranged between and in communication with each of a portable electronic device and an earphone system, the portable electronic device configured to provide an audio signal;
the control device including at least one depressible switch configured to transmit instructions to the portable electronic device to modify the audio signal, the depressible switch including a center position and at least one up position and down position, wherein depressions of the switch at the center position is configured to toggle between a plurality of sound properties and wherein depressions of the switch at the up position and down position are configured to adjust a current sound property as selected at the center position.
9. The personal sound system according to claim 8 , wherein the control device is configured to select among a plurality of preset balances of two or more frequency components of the audio signal.
10. The personal sound system according to claim 9 , wherein the portable electronic device includes a display displaying indicators of a frequency balance between two or more frequency components of the audio signal.
11. The personal sound system according to claim 10 , wherein the display updates to reflect changes in the frequency balance between two or more frequency components of the audio signal provided to an audio output effected by the at least one control.
12. The personal sound system according to claim 8 , wherein the at least one control communicates wirelessly with the portable electronic device using a Bluetooth® protocol.
13. The personal sound system according to claim 8 , wherein the at least one control comprises a control for strengthening or weakening a band of high frequencies, and a control for strengthening or weakening a band of low frequencies.
14. The personal sound system according to claim 8 , wherein the at least one control comprises a control for selecting one of a plurality of bands of frequencies to adjust, and a control for strengthening or weakening the selected band of frequencies.
15. The personal sound system according to claim 8 , wherein the at least one control controls a program running on the portable electronic device.
16. The personal sound system according to claim 8 , wherein the sound properties included at least one of a treble, bass, and volume.
17. The personal sound system according to claim 8 , wherein the control device recognizes a default sound property.
18. The personal sound system according to claim 17 , wherein the up position and down position of the depressible switch are configured to control the default sound property in response to the control device not recognizing a depression at the center position for a predetermined amount of time.
19. The personal sounds system according to claim 17 , wherein the default sound property is audio signal volume.
20. The personal sound system according to claim 8 , wherein the sound property includes a preset mode, the control device configured to apply a preset balance specific to a musical genre as selected by depressions at least one of the up position and down position.