Method for improving electrical endurance of batteries of wireless headphones and the wireless headphones
View Patent ↗Wireless headphones with battery life effectively extended includes first and second headphones. The first and second headphones each with respective low battery levels remaining or very different battery levels remaining receive audio signals from an electronic device and output the sound of the audio signal after adjustments are applied to volume level and to sound quality on one side or on both sides, to reduce the consumption of battery level. Each of the first and second headphones carries a processor for intercommunication in addition to communication with the electronic device performing playback.
1. A set of wireless headphones, comprising:
a first headphone, having a first battery level, adapted for receiving a first audio signal from an electronic device, and outputting the first audio signal; and
a second headphone, having a second battery level, adapted for receiving a second audio signal from the electronic device, and outputting the second audio signal,
wherein the first headphone further comprising:
a first processor configured for:
obtaining a first absolute value of the first audio signal and a second absolute value of the second audio signal, and
adjusting a volume of a part of the first audio signal and sound quality of the other part of the first audio signal according to the first absolute value and the second absolute value before outputting the first audio signal when determining the first battery level is less than the second battery level and the first battery level is less than a first level threshold.
2. The set of wireless headphones of claim 1 , wherein the first processor is further configured for calculating a first difference between the first absolute value and the second absolute value.
3. The set of wireless headphones of claim 2 , wherein the first processor selects segments in which the first difference is greater than a preset threshold value over a predetermined time and lowers the volume of the first audio signal corresponding to the segments by a first predetermined percentage to generate the adjusted first audio signal.
4. The set of wireless headphones of claim 3 , wherein the first processor further adjusts the first predetermined percentage according to a second difference between the second battery level and the first battery level.
5. The set of wireless headphones of claim 3 , wherein the first processor further selects the remaining segments in which the first difference is less than the preset threshold value or the first difference value is greater than the preset threshold value but does not continue over the predetermined time, and uses a low-pass filter to remove a second predetermined percentage of high-frequency energy of the first audio signal corresponding to the remaining segments to generate the adjusted first audio signal.
6. The set of wireless headphones of claim 5 , wherein the first processor further adjusts the second predetermined percentage according to a second difference between the second battery level and the first battery level.
7. The set of wireless headphones of claim 5 , wherein when the first battery level is less than a second battery level threshold, the first processor further applies the low-pass filter to remove a third predetermined percentage of the high-frequency energy of the first audio signal corresponding to the remaining segments to generate the adjusted first audio signal, wherein the third predetermined percentage is greater than the second predetermined percentage.
8. A method to improve endurance of a set of wireless headphones, wherein the wireless headphones comprises a first headphone having a first battery level and a second headphone having a second battery level, the method comprises the steps of:
obtaining, by a processing unit of an electronic device, a first absolute value of a first audio signal and a second absolute value of a second audio signal;
adjusting, by the processor unit, a volume of a part of the first audio signal and sound quality of the other part of the first audio signal according to the first absolute value and the second absolute value when determining the first battery level is less than the second battery and the first battery level is less than a first level threshold
outputting, by the electronic device, the adjusted first audio signal to the first headphone;
outputting, by the electronic device, the second audio signal to the second headphone.
9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
calculating, by the processor unit, a first difference between the first absolute value and the second absolute value.
10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
selecting, by the processor unit, segments in which the first difference is greater than a preset threshold value over a predetermined time; and
decreasing, by the processor unit, the volume of the first audio signal-corresponding to the segments by a first predetermined percentage to generate the adjusted first audio signal.
11. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
adjusting, by the processor unit, the first predetermined percentage according to a second difference between the second battery level and the first battery level.
12. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
selecting, by the processor unit, remaining segments in which the first difference is less than the preset threshold value or the first difference value is greater than the preset threshold value but does not continue over the predetermined time; and
applying a low-pass filter, by the processor unit, to remove a second predetermined percentage of high-frequency energy of the first audio signal corresponding to the remaining segments to generate the adjusted first audio signal.