Patent ID: 11950069
Assignee: HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  A  G | IPC G  H

Claim 13:
14. A system, comprising:
a headphone assembly including a headband coupled to a pair of headphones at opposite extreme ends, wherein each of the pair of headphones includes one or more transducers, and one or more sensors coupled to each of the pair of headphones for sensing active headphone engagement with respect to a user; and
a controller comprising computer-readable instructions stored on non-transitory memory thereof that when executed enable the controller to:
determine current engagement via identification of a position of each of the pair of headphones relative to a left ear and a right ear of the user;
monitor a duration of headphone engagement with the left ear, the right ear, or both ears in response to the position of each of the pair of headphones;
output the current engagement and the duration;
determine via machine learning a short-term risk probability and a long-term risk probability of degradation to the left ear and the right ear based on one or more of the current engagement and the duration; and
adjust an audio signal based on one or more of the short-term risk probability and the long-term risk probability.