Samsung patents earbuds that guess your activity using sound and motion
Samsung has filed a patent for earbuds that combine outside sound levels and user movement data to figure out what you are doing. The device matches these signals to a known scene, like a gym or a quiet office, to trigger specific services. This approach aims to make the earbuds more accurate by using two types of data instead of just one.
In the filing’s own words
The present disclosure relates to a method and device of providing a service, an electronic apparatus, a storage medium and a computer program product, including: collecting external audio data and user motion inertial data; acquiring an audio level corresponding to the external audio data and a motion level corresponding to the user motion inertial data; determining a target scene where the user is currently located based on the acquired audio level, the acquired motion level and a preset correspondence; acquiring an external environment feature value and/or a user behavior feature value in the target scene; and providing the user with a service associated with the external environment feature value and/or the user behavior feature value. In this way, users may be provided with services by comprehensively considering the external audio data and the user motion inertial data, the types of data on which the services are provided based are more abundant, and the data contents are more comprehensive. This may reduce the phenomenon of misjudgment to a greater extent, further ensure that the users are provided with services that can satisfy the actual needs of the users, and may improve service effect.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method of providing a service applied to earphones, comprising: collecting external audio data and user motion inertial data; determining an audio level corresponding to the external audio data, and determining a motion level corresponding to the user motion inertial data; determining a target scene in which a user is currently located based on the determined audio level, the determined motion level and a preset correspondence, wherein the preset correspondence is a correspondence between a preset audio level, a preset motion level and a preset scene; acquiring an external environment feature value and/or a user behavior feature value in the target scene; and providing the user with a service associated with the external environment feature value and/or the user behavior feature value.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- METHOD AND APPARATUS OF PROVIDING SERVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT
- Publication number
- US20260313282A1
- Application number
- 19186078
- Filed
- Apr 22, 2025
- Published
- Oct 8, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04R 1/1041 Electricity & electronicsG06F 3/0346 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in Wearables
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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