US 12,407,970 B2
Wireless headphone and method for controlling wireless headphone
Takeshi Takahashi, Fukuoka (JP)
Assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed by PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Oct. 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/970,106.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-002420 (JP), filed on Jan. 11, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0224624 A1, Jul. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. H04R 1/10 (2006.01)
CPC H04R 1/1041 (2013.01) [H04R 1/1025 (2013.01); H04R 2420/07 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wireless headphone comprising:
a wireless communication unit configured to perform wireless communication with an external terminal;
a detection unit configured to detect that the wireless headphone is worn on an external ear or auricle of a user;
an input detection unit configured to detect an input operation of the user;
a control unit configured to transition, based on detection of a specific input operation from the user by the input detection unit in a state that the detection unit does not detect that the wireless headphone is worn on the external ear or auricle, an operation mode to a pairing mode in which pairing related to the wireless communication with the external terminal is performed; and
a speaker,
wherein the control unit causes the speaker to output a predetermined sound for notifying that the operation mode is transitioned to the pairing mode, and
wherein the control unit causes the speaker to output the predetermined sound at a volume higher when the wireless headphone is not worn on the external ear or auricle than when the wireless headphone is worn on the external ear or auricle.