According to foreign media reports, Amazon acquired a new patent on July 19: eliminate noise headphones, when the headset "heard" specific sound patterns, audio and even some keywords (such as a person's name) is automatically These sounds are "turned off."
This "partial silencing" feature allows the wearer's ear to still receive the surrounding sound information, only to make the ear relatively quiet. In contrast, conventional sound-absorbing headphones do not hear any sound and wearers are likely to ignore potential dangers on busy roads.
Finally there is a headset that can make people "safe" to be a quiet beauty man or beauty.
The patent document filed on July 25th, 2014 shows a row of miniature microphones built into the ear pads. It is estimated that these are used to receive the sound of the surrounding environment. Similar to Amazon's Echo Alexa can always sense and receive surrounding sound prompts. . The patent even talked about having these microphones trained to hear voice commands like “Hello, Justin!â€.
This is understandable because the inventor of this patent was two Amazon software engineers, one of whom was named Benjamin Scott, and according to his introduction by LinkedIn, he has been working in Alexa's information team for 3 years.
This patent is only used to protect related technologies. It does not mean Amazon is working to produce related products. However, it is comforting to have a potential headset that considers their safety as the fully silenced headset wearer travels across the street.
Via CNET