DETAILED ACTION
Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Allowable Subject Matter
Claim(s) 2-7; 9-14; 16-20 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 102 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 1,8, 15 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102 a (2) as being unpatentable over He et al. (US 11,842,717 B2).
Claim 1, He et al. disclose of a method for detecting a state of an earphone based on multiple sensors, wherein the earphone comprises a loudspeaker located in an auditory canal, a first voice pickup sensor located in the auditory canal and disposed near the loudspeaker, and a second voice pickup sensor located outside the auditory canal (fig.5/8 (FBM, FFM, SP); fig.2 (202/204/230); col.4 line 40-52); and the method comprises: acquiring first earphone state information according to a source audio signal input to the loudspeaker and a first audio signal picked up by the first voice pickup sensor (fig.5/8 (FBM); col.7 line 45-50); acquiring second earphone state information according to a second audio signal picked up by the second voice pickup sensor and the first audio signal picked up by the first voice pickup sensor ((fig.5/8 (FBM, FFM, SP); fig.2 (202/204/230); col.7 line 45-52; col.8 line 33-67/the sealing or leakage according to canal and device may be determine) and outputting a final detection result of the state of the earphone based on the first earphone state information and the second earphone state information (col.9 line 10-25/the various earphone states may be combined to improve accuracy).
Claim 8, He et al. disclose of a device for detecting a state of an earphone based on multiple sensors, wherein the earphone comprises a loudspeaker located in an auditory canal, a first voice pickup sensor located in the auditory canal and disposed near the loudspeaker, and a second voice pickup sensor located outside the auditory canal (fig.5/8 (FBM, FFM, SP); fig. 2(202/204/230); col.4 line 40-52); and the device comprises: a processor; and a memory for storing computer instructions executable by the processor, wherein the processor is configured to: acquire first earphone state information according to a source audio signal input to the loudspeaker and a first audio signal picked up by the first voice pickup sensor (fig.5/8 (FBM); fig.2 (210); col.7 line 45-50); acquire second earphone state information according to a second audio signal picked up by the second voice pickup sensor and the first audio signal picked up by the first voice pickup sensor ((fig.5/8 (FBM, FFM, SP); fig. (202/204/230); col.7 line 45-52; col.8 line 33-67/the sealing or leakage according to canal and device may be determine); and output a final detection result of the state of the earphone based on the first earphone state information and the second earphone state information (col.9 line 10-25/the various earphone states may be combined to improve accuracy).
15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon one or more computer programs which, when being executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method for detecting a state of an earphone based on multiple sensors, wherein the earphone comprises a loudspeaker located in an auditory canal, a first voice pickup sensor located in the auditory canal and disposed near the loudspeaker, and a second voice pickup sensor located outside the auditory canal (fig.5/8 (FBM, FFM, SP); fig. 2(202/204/230); col.4 line 40-52); the method comprising: acquiring first earphone state information according to a source audio signal input to the loudspeaker and a first audio signal picked up by the first voice pickup sensor (fig.5/8 (FBM); fig.2 (210); col.7 line 45-50); acquiring second earphone state information according to a second audio signal picked up by the second voice pickup sensor and the first audio signal picked up by the first voice pickup sensor ((fig.5/8 (FBM, FFM, SP); fig. (202/204/230); col.7 line 45-52; col.8 line 33-67/the sealing or leakage according to canal and device may be determine); and outputting a final detection result of the state of the earphone based on the first earphone state information and the second earphone state information (col.9 line 10-25/the various earphone states may be combined to improve accuracy).
Conclusion
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/DISLER PAUL/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2695