Intelligent switching between air conduction speakers and tissue conduction speakers

• Main Authors: Anderson, Glen J, Jackson, Brad, Vembar, Deepak S, Lake, Daniel S, Brotman, Ryan S, Raffa, Giuseppe, Weast, John C, Durham, Lenitra M
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 09.10.2018
• Subjects: BOARDS, SUBSTATIONS, OR SWITCHING ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE SUPPLYOR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER; DEAF-AID SETS; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; GENERATION; LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKEACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS

Systems and methods may provide for determining a usage configuration of a wearable device and setting an activation state of an air conduction speaker of the wearable device based at least in part on the usage configuration. Additionally, an activation state of a tissue conduction speaker of the wearable device may be set based at least in part on the usage configuration. In one example, the usage configuration is determined based on a set of status signals that indicate one or more of a physical position, a physical activity, a current activation state, an interpersonal proximity state or a manual user request associated with one or more of the air conduction speaker or the tissue conduction speaker.