US 12,149,879 B2
Wireless sound device and method for controlling the same
Joonwon Byun, Seoul (KR); Sangkuk Jeon, Seoul (KR); Mansoo Sin, Seoul (KR); Hoyoun Lee, Seoul (KR); Hyojin Kim, Seoul (KR); and Yehan Ahn, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul (KR)
Filed by LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul (KR)
Filed on Jun. 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/836,528.
Claims priority of application No. PCT/KR2021/017134 (WO), filed on Nov. 22, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0164474 A1, May 25, 2023
Int. Cl. H04R 1/10 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01)
CPC H04R 1/1041 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0418 (2013.01); H04R 1/1016 (2013.01); H04R 1/1075 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04105 (2013.01); H04R 2420/07 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wireless sound device comprising:
a wireless communication unit including a transceiver for wireless communication with an external device;
a touch sensor for sensing a touch input of a user when the wireless sound device is in a touch standby mode;
a force sensor for sensing a force corresponding to the touch input;
a sound output unit including a speaker for outputting an audio signal received from the external device; and
a controller configured to control a touch mode of the wireless sound device to be set in response to the touch input,
wherein, when a touch validity of the touch input is positive, the controller is configured to control the touch mode to be set to a touch accepting mode or a touch ignoring mode based on a force validity of the touch input,
wherein the controller is configured to determine whether to recognize the force as a force with respect to the force sensor based on whether the wireless sound device is in the touch accepting mode when the force validity of the touch input is positive.