The recently published US Patent and Trademark Office gives us clues about possible plans for the Cupertino firm, in the field of headphones. As the document shows, headphones are great may install a single control system, which contains subtle touches that work regardless of how the headphones are directed to the user's head, rather than the dedicated function butt ons.
Current headphones usually rely on the use of buttons to manage music playback, including song search, skip tracks, volume control, power and other factors. It is very possible that high quality headphones are available have sensitive touch controls on the sides.
Although the buttons can be replaced by a series of touch sensors, there is still the problem of making sure that the user uses headphones in the normal way, without compromising their mood.
A patent can bring a solution
To provide an answer to the above, the patent was published Tuesday by the US Patent and Trademark Office. UU., Determines the presence of the user's ear and the direction of headphones. In conjunction with the expected touch panels without headphones and internal control cycles, it also develops a number of sensors that are used to measure ears in different ways.
In one of these ways, the inside of the ear is covered by the proximity sensors and the proximity sensors, which meet the edges of the ear or very close to them. By detecting the formation of the ear, this can inform headphones of their cut-off in relation to the ear itself, and adjust their interpretation of gestures for the better.
In this way, the patent combines systems and methods to detect headphone circulation, and thus fine-tuning the user's input into headphones, to see movements such as groundbreaking, instructions given by the device.