US 11,875,812 B2
Ear-worn electronic device incorporating annoyance model driven selective active noise control
Ritwik Giri, Eden Prairie, MN (US); Karim Helwani, Eden Prairie, MN (US); and Tao Zhang, Eden Prairie, MN (US)
Assigned to STARKEY LABORATORIES, INC., Eden Prairie, MN (US)
Filed by STARKEY LABORATORIES, INC., Eden Prairie, MN (US)
Filed on Jul. 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/869,248.
Application 17/869,248 is a continuation of application No. 17/125,566, filed on Dec. 17, 2020, granted, now 11,423,922.
Application 17/125,566 is a continuation of application No. 16/773,417, filed on Jan. 27, 2020, granted, now 10,872,616, issued on Dec. 22, 2020.
Application 16/773,417 is a continuation of application No. 16/173,767, filed on Oct. 29, 2018, granted, now 10,580,427, issued on Mar. 3, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/578,972, filed on Oct. 30, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0392473 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G10L 21/0216 (2013.01); G10L 17/02 (2013.01); H04R 25/00 (2006.01); G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); H04R 1/10 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01); H04R 5/04 (2006.01); H04R 5/033 (2006.01)
CPC G10L 21/0216 (2013.01) [G10L 17/02 (2013.01); G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); H04R 1/1083 (2013.01); H04R 3/002 (2013.01); H04R 5/04 (2013.01); H04R 25/505 (2013.01); G10L 2021/02087 (2013.01); G10L 2021/02163 (2013.01); H04R 5/033 (2013.01); H04R 2460/01 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ear-worn electronic device, comprising:
a housing configured to be supported by, at, in or on an ear of a wearer and to contain or support:
a microphone configured to monitor an acoustic environment of the wearer;
an acoustic transducer; and
an active noise control (ANC) system operatively coupled to a processor, the microphone, and the acoustic transducer, the ANC system configured to be driven by a psychoacoustic annoyance model and to selectively attenuate one or more of a plurality of annoying sounds pre-identified by the wearer, the ANC system further configured to selectively attenuate one or more of the plurality of annoying sounds by a degree of attenuation pre-identified by the wearer.