Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices – Acoustical noise or sound cancellation – Adjacent ear
Reexamination Certificate
2009-03-26
2011-10-25
Enad, Elvin G (Department: 2832)
Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices
Acoustical noise or sound cancellation
Adjacent ear
C381S071100, C381S072000, C381S074000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08045726
ABSTRACT:
A noise-cancelling headphone includes a cancel signal generator that receives ambient noise via an electro-acoustic transducer and generates and outputs a cancel signal eliminating the noise and a speaker unit that outputs an audio signal and a cancel signal, and connects the cancel signal generator to a first terminal of two input terminals of the speaker unit and connects a sound source of an audio signal to a second terminal thereof, whereby obtaining the noise-cancelling headphone with which one can enjoy music with high quality without the change in the sound quality and volume between when a noise-cancelling function is activated and when deactivated.
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Enad Elvin G
Horn Robert W
Kabushiki Kaisha Audio-Technica
Sughrue & Mion, PLLC
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