Samsung patents earbuds that automatically block outside noise
Samsung describes a wearable device, likely earbuds, that includes a physical mechanism to open or close the path for sound entering the microphone. The device uses sensors to detect sound information and a processor to control this opening or closing mechanism based on what it hears.
In the filing’s own words
A wearable electronic device is provided. The wearable electronic device includes a speaker, a microphone spaced apart from the speaker, a housing accommodating the speaker and the microphone, and including an output passage configured to transfer a sound output from the speaker and a sound passage configured to transfer a sound received by the microphone, an opening device configured to close or open at least a portion of the sound passage, a detecting device configured to sense information related to the sound received by the microphone, at least one processor, and memory for storing instructions configured to, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the wearable electronic device to control the opening device based on the information sensed by the detecting device.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A wearable electronic device comprising: a speaker; a microphone spaced apart from the speaker; a housing accommodating the speaker and the microphone, and including an output passage configured to transfer a sound output from the speaker and a sound passage configured to transfer a sound received by the microphone; an opening device configured to close or open at least a portion of the sound passage; a detecting device configured to sense information related to the sound received by the microphone; at least one processor; and memory storing instructions configured to, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the wearable electronic device to: control the opening device based on the information sensed by the detecting device.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- WEARABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING OPENING/CLOSING DEVICE
- Publication number
- US20260323199A1
- Application number
- 19699662
- Filed
- Jun 5, 2026
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 15
Classified under
H04R 1/1041 Electricity & electronicsH04R 1/086 Electricity & electronicsH04R 1/1091 Electricity & electronicsH04R 1/1016 Electricity & electronicsMore from Samsung in Audio & voice
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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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