Patent ID: 9700279
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: A61B

Claim:
1. A system comprising: a speaker; a microphone configured to detect one or more auditory sounds that are external to the system; a stethoscope diaphragm configured to detect sound waves emitted within or as experienced in a subject's body and transfer a representation of those sound waves to at least one of a processor or to the speaker for playback; the processor configured to receive and record the representation of sound waves from the stethoscope diaphragm and receive the one or more detected external auditory sounds to determine what effect the detected external auditory sounds are having on the subject or on a second subject, wherein upon determining that a specified external auditory sound has had a specified effect, replaying through the speaker a recording of the specified external auditory sound as detected in the subject's body by the stethoscope diaphragm; and a communications module configured to communicate results of the determination with one or more other electronic devices.