US 12,282,701 B2
Wearable electronic device and method for processing audio signal using the same
Kyumin Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Hyunil An, Suwon-si (KR); Hyunjin Um, Suwon-si (KR); Hyojin Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Yongjoo Cho, Suwon-si (KR); and Injune Choi, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Nov. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/986,446.
Application 17/986,446 is a continuation of application No. PCT/KR2022/017204, filed on Nov. 4, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0178932 (KR), filed on Dec. 14, 2021; and application No. 10-2022-0007114 (KR), filed on Jan. 18, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0185519 A1, Jun. 15, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/16 (2006.01); H04R 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/165 (2013.01) [H04R 3/12 (2013.01); H04R 2420/07 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wearable electronic device comprising:
a wireless communication circuit;
memory storing one or more computer programs;
a first audio mixer;
a second audio mixer;
a first audio output interface;
a second audio output interface;
a speaker; and
one or more processors operatively connected to the wireless communication circuit, the memory, the first audio mixer, the second audio mixer, the first audio output interface, the second audio output interface, and the speaker,
wherein the one or more computer programs include computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors individually or collectively, cause the wearable electronic device to:
detect, in a state of being connected to an external device through the wireless communication circuit, an output of a plurality of audio signals corresponding to a plurality of applications executed by the wearable electronic device,
identify that the plurality of audio signals includes a first audio signal having a first property and remaining audio signals having a second property,
transmit, to the first audio mixer, the first audio signal having the first property among the plurality of audio signals,
transmit, to the second audio mixer, the remaining audio signals among the plurality of audio signals having the second property,
transmit, to the first audio output interface, the first audio signal to output the first audio signal through the speaker,
synthesize the remaining audio signals into a second audio signal using the second audio mixer, and
transmit, to the second audio output interface, the second audio signal to output the second audio signal through the external device,
wherein the first property comprises information for supporting output of an audio signal through the speaker, and
wherein the second property comprises information for supporting output of an audio signal through the speaker and the external device.