IP Library › Granted Patent US 10,225,819
Granted Patent B2
US 10,225,819 · App. 15/317,608 · Granted Mar 5, 2019

Wireless receiver and control method thereof

Inventors: Yujune Jang (Seoul, KR); Jeongyoon Rhee (Seoul, KR); Taeseong Kim (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
H04W68/08H04B1/06H04B1/385H04M1/05H04M1/6033H04M1/6066H04M1/7253H04R1/1041H04W4/80H04M1/72558H04M2250/02H04R1/1016H04R1/1033H04R5/033H04R5/0335H04R2420/07
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Patent No.
US 10,225,819
App. No.
15/317,608
Granted
Mar 5, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention provides a wireless receiver and control method thereof capable of outputting a notification of an event that has occurred in a mobile terminal. To this end, a wireless receiver may comprise: an earphone; a sensing unit for detecting whether a user is wearing a wireless receiver; a short-range communication unit for communicating with a mobile terminal; and a control unit for, when an event has occurred in the mobile terminal and event occurrence notification information is received from the mobile terminal, controlling to output a feedback in response to the reception of the event occurrence notification information.

Claims (27)

1. A wireless receiver, comprising:

an earphone;

an at least two nodes of a SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) sensor for sensing whether a user wears the wireless receiver;

a short-range communication unit for communicating with a mobile terminal; and

a controller configured to:

determine a distance of a skin of a human body based on sensitivity with a dielectric sensed by the SAR sensor,

output feedback in response to reception of event occurrence notification information as the event occurrence notification information is received from the mobile terminal corresponding to an event occurring in the mobile terminal,

adjust an output intensity of the feedback depending on the distance of the skin of the human body, wherein the feedback includes vibration, and output the intensity of the vibration depending on whether the wireless receiver is directly worn on a skin of the user, and

swell the earphone to prevent the earphone from coming off from ears of the user in sensing movement of the user who wears the wireless receiver.

2. The wireless receiver according to claim 1 , wherein the intensity of the vibration is greater when the user does not wear the wireless receiver than when the user wears the wireless receiver.

3. The wireless receiver according to claim 1 , wherein the intensity of the vibration is greater when the wireless receiver is worn on a cloth of the user than when the wireless receiver is directly worn on the skin of the user.

4. The wireless receiver according to claim 1 , wherein the feedback includes an audio output, of which the intensity is greater when the user does not wear the wireless receiver than when the user wears the wireless receiver.

5. The wireless receiver according to claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to control an intensity of the audio output depending on whether the user wears the earphone even though the user wears the wireless receiver.

6. The wireless receiver according to claim 5 , wherein the intensity of the audio output is greater when the user does not wear the earphone than when the user wears the earphone.

7. The wireless receiver according to claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to: control audio data of a multimedia file played by the mobile terminal to be output through the earphone, and control whether to play the multimedia file depending on whether the user wears the earphone.

8. The wireless receiver according to claim 7 , wherein the multimedia file is played if the user wears the earphone, and play of the multimedia file is stopped if the user does not wear the earphone.

9. The wireless receiver according to claim 1 , further comprising a microphone, wherein the controller is further configured to shrink the earphone if external noise of a predetermined intensity or more is input through the microphone.

10. The wireless receiver according to claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to control the wireless receiver to tighten on the user if movement of the user who wears the wireless receiver is sensed.

11. The wireless receiver according to claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to control the wireless receiver to tighten on a neck of the user if the wireless receiver is inclined to any one side on the neck of the user.

12. The wireless receiver according to claim 1 , wherein the event includes at least one of i) reception of an incoming call signal, ii) reception of a message, iii) complement of configuration of the wireless communication, and iv) fulfillment of an alarm output condition.

13. A control method of a wireless receiver having an earphone, the control method comprising:

sensing whether a user wears the wireless receiver via at least two nodes of a SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) sensor;

receiving, via a controller of the wireless receiver, event occurrence notification information from a mobile terminal as an event occurs in the mobile terminal;

determining a distance of a skin of a human body based on sensitivity with the dielectric sensed by the SAR sensor;

outputting, via the controller, a feedback in response to reception of the event occurrence notification information;

adjusting, via the controller, an output intensity of the feedback depending on the distance of the skin of the human body, wherein the feedback includes vibration, and outputting the intensity of the vibration depending on whether the wireless receiver is directly worn on a skin of the user; and

swelling, via the controller, the earphone to prevent the earphone from coming off from ears of the user in sensing movement of the user who wears the wireless receiver is sensed.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 1, 2017
From: JANG, YUJUNE; RHEE, JEONGYOON; KIM, TAESEONG
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Reel/Frame 042196/0228 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2014-0070298 · Jun 10, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20170118740A1 · Apr 27, 2017
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