US 12,003,913 B2
Ear-worn electronic device incorporating gesture control system using frequency-hopping spread spectrum transmission
Dong Xue, Bloomington, MN (US); Zhenchao Yang, Eden Prairie, MN (US); Gregory J. Haubrich, Champlin, MN (US); and Stephen Paul Flood, Eden Prairie, MN (US)
Assigned to Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US)
Appl. No. 17/603,806
Filed by Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US)
PCT Filed Oct. 27, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/057519
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 14, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/101674, PCT Pub. Date May 27, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/939,031, filed on Nov. 22, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0217464 A1, Jul. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. H04R 1/10 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); H04B 17/327 (2015.01)
CPC H04R 1/1041 (2013.01) [G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/162 (2013.01); G06F 3/165 (2013.01); H04B 17/327 (2015.01); H04R 2420/07 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
a first ear-worn electronic device configured to be worn by a wearer;
a second electronic device comprising a second ear-worn electronic device or other electronic device;
a wireless transceiver operably coupled to an antenna disposed in each of the electronic devices, wherein one or both of the first ear-worn electronic device and the second electronic device are configured to:
transmit signals at a plurality of different frequencies in accordance with a frequency hopping sequence;
collect two-dimensional (2-D) RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indication) data comprising an RSSI value as a function of frequency and of time in response to transmission of the signals;
detect a particular input gesture of a plurality of input gestures of the wearer using the 2-D RSSI data; and
implement a predetermined function of at least one of the first ear-worn electronic device and the second electronic device in response to detecting the particular input gesture.