Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices – Electro-acoustic audio transducer – Body contact wave transfer
Reexamination Certificate
2007-09-11
2007-09-11
Kuntz, Curtis (Department: 2614)
Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices
Electro-acoustic audio transducer
Body contact wave transfer
C381S326000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10745226
ABSTRACT:
A tooth microphone apparatus worn in a human mouth that includes a sound transducer element in contact with at least one tooth in mouth, the transducer producing an electrical signal in response to speech and a means for transmitting said electrical signal from the sound transducer to an external apparatus. The sound transducer can be a MEMS accelerometer, and the MEMS accelerometer can be coupled to a signal conditioning circuit for signal conditioning. The signal conditioning circuit can be further coupled to a transmitter. The transmitter can be an RF transmitter of any type, an optical transmitter, or any other type of transmitter. In particular, it can be a bluetooth device or a device that transmits into a Wi-Fi network or any other means of communication. The transmitter is optional.
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Anjanappa Muniswamappa
Babik Abdo J.
Bogacki Russell E.
Chen Xia
Kraft Clifford
Kuntz Curtis
Mayur Technologies
Nguyen Tuan D.
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