US 12,382,211 B2
Method for making a customized earpiece
Charles Richard Hoke, Simpsonville, SC (US)
Filed by Wavs Custom, Inc., Greenville, SC (US)
Filed on Apr. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/230,170.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/009,526, filed on Apr. 14, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0321189 A1, Oct. 14, 2021
Int. Cl. H04R 1/10 (2006.01); G06V 40/16 (2022.01)
CPC H04R 1/1058 (2013.01) [G06V 40/166 (2022.01); G06V 40/172 (2022.01); H04R 1/1016 (2013.01); H04R 2201/105 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for making a customized earpiece, consisting of:
an portable electronic device adapted for scanning an ear of the user wherein the portable electronic device includes at least one camera system that is configured to record a scan consisting of a three-dimensional point map created at the portable electronic device and to determine the dimensions of the ear at the portable electronic device;
receiving, at the portable electronic device, the one or more scans;
receiving, at the portable electronic device, one or more earpiece parameters;
transmitting, via the portable electronic device, to a three-dimensional printer, the three-dimensional point map and the one or more earpiece parameters;
wherein the three-dimensional printer is configured to create a mold having an internal configuration corresponding to the three-dimensional point map and the one or more earpiece parameters wherein the mold size varies for different sizes of ears;
wherein the one or more parameters includes a selection of an earpiece material, one or more speaker driver types;
wherein the infrared camera is configured to record an image to generate a three- dimensional point map of an object within a recorded area;
wherein the electronic device reads a resulting pattern from an infrared picture of the user's ear and generates the three-dimensional point map;
wherein the three-dimensional point map determines the size and appearance of an earpiece mold created by the three-dimensional printer; and,
wherein the one or more parameters includes a selection of one or more speaker driver types or a selection of an earpiece material.