Granted Patent B1

US 12,295,900 · App. 18/069,841 · Granted May 13, 2025

Inventor: Jaime Sanchez Solana (Los Angeles, CA)

Assignee: Therabody, Inc.

A61H23/006G06F40/279G10L15/18G10L15/22H04R1/028H04R1/04H04R3/00A61H2201/0153A61H2201/1207A61H2201/5007A61H2201/5043A61H2201/5048A61H2201/5097G10L2015/223H04R2499/11

Abstract

Claims (26)

1. A percussive massage device comprising: a housing; a motor positioned in the housing;

a switch configured to operate the motor;

a microphone; a speaker; and

a controller comprising at least one processor and a memory, wherein the controller is coupled to the switch, the microphone, and the speaker, and wherein the controller is configured to:

receive, from the microphone, a voice input of a user of the percussive massage device;

perform, by the at least one processor, speech recognition of the voice input, utilizing an active massage setting of the percussive massage device when the voice input was received as context information to improve accuracy of the speech recognition;

use the active massage setting of the percussive massage device to denoise the voice input to improve the accuracy of the speech recognition;

determine, by the at least one processor, an audio output based on the speech recognition of the voice input; and

transmit an audio signal to the speaker to transmit the audio output to the user of the percussive massage device.

2. The percussive massage device of claim 1 , further comprising: one or more control units, wherein the controller is further configured to:

determine an action of the percussive massage device based on the speech recognition; and

transmit a control signal to at least one of the switch or one of the one or more control units to operate the percussive massage device according to the determined action.

3. The percussive massage device of claim 2 , wherein the determined action comprises at least one of powering on or powering off the percussive massage device, changing or setting a speed of the motor, and setting a predetermined period of time for operating the motor.

4. The percussive massage device of claim 2 , wherein the one or more control units comprise at least one of an OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diodes) screen control unit, a wireless control unit, a motor drive unit, a pulse-width modulation (PWM) speed setup unit, a wireless control unit, a battery pack control unit, and a power or voltage control unit.

5. The percussive massage device of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to:

determine a treatment protocol of the percussive massage device based on the speech recognition of the voice input.

6. The percussive massage device of claim 5 , wherein the controller is further configured to:

initiate at least one step of the protocol in which the percussive massage device is configured to perform an action in response to the voice input, wherein the action comprises at least one of powering on or powering off the percussive massage device, changing or setting a speed of the motor, and setting a predetermined period of time for operating the motor.

7. The percussive massage device of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to store, in the memory, at least one or more speech recognition models, one or more machine learning models, and code.

8. The percussive massage device of claim 7 , wherein the controller is further configured to perform the speech recognition of the voice input by:

converting, by the at least one processor, audio from the voice input to computer-readable text using the one or more speech recognition models.

9. The percussive massage device of claim 7 , wherein the controller is further configured to determine the audio output based on the speech recognition of the voice input by:

processing, by the at least one processor, the computer-readable text to identify one or more words using the one or more natural language processing models; and

generating, by the at least one processor, the audio output in response to the voice input using the one or more natural language processing models.

10. The percussive massage device of claim 1 , wherein the housing includes first, second, and third handle portions arranged to define a handle opening, and wherein the microphone is housed in at least one of the first, second, and third handle portions.

11. The percussive massage device of claim 1 , wherein the housing includes first, second, and third handle portions arranged to define a handle opening, and wherein the speaker is housed in at least one of the first, second, and third handle portions.

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