Patent Document ID: 20160142820
Application ID: 15008704
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A learning personal audio system, comprising: a housing configured to interface with a user's ear; an input subsystem disposed within the housing and comprising a microphone, a preamplifier, and an analog to digital converter coupled to one another, the input subsystem configured to convert ambient sound into digitized ambient sound; a network interface for receiving one or more sound profiles each with a respective sets of processing parameters from a remote server; a memory for storing one or more of the sound profiles received using the network interface; and a processor in communication with the input subsystem, the network interface, and the memory, the processor configured to characterize the digitized ambient sound so as to generate feature data for the digitized ambient sound, instruct the network interface to transmit the feature data to the remote server, request one or more appropriate sound profiles from the remote server based upon the feature data, receive one or more selected sound profiles, selected by the remote server based upon the feature data, and initiate processing of the digitized ambient sound based upon the one or more selected sound profiles received from the remote server to generate digitized processed sound; and an output subsystem disposed within the housing and in communication with the processor, the output subsystem comprising a digital to analog converter, an amplifier and a speaker coupled to one another, the output subsystem configured to convert the digitized processed sound into processed output sound for the user's ear; wherein the one or more selected sound profiles are based upon processing parameters which are manually selected by a plurality of other users of personal audio systems similar to the learning personal audio system.