Apple’s true wi-fi earphones, dubbed as AirPods, stays one of many best-selling merchandise from the corporate. The corporate improved the providing with the launch of AirPods Professional by introducing an energetic noise cancellation function.

Now, a brand new patent granted to Apple (by way of AppleInsider) means that the corporate might be engaged on a brand new model of AirPods with bone conduction audio. The US-based tech large has proposed a system that mixes bone conduction with regular air-based sound transmission.

For many who are unaware, bone conduction contains transmitting sound to the internal ear by the bone of the cranium. This permits customers to listen to audio content material with out blocking the ear canal or utilizing earpieces.

Nonetheless, there are some drawbacks to this expertise, primarily the shortage of its potential to work at excessive frequency. Human listening to ranges from 20Hz to 20,000Hz however bone conduction is barely efficient at sub-4,000Hz ranges after which the audio high quality begins deteriorating. Additionally, for the expertise to work, it required contact with the pinnacle however causes a tactile tickling sensation, which might be annoying for some customers.

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Apple patent has a workaround for the high-frequency audio. It can ship mid- and low-frequency indicators utilizing a compressor by bone conduction whereas the high-frequency indicators will likely be transmitted by air, enabling one of the best of each worlds.

The patent from Apple titled “Multipath audio stimulation utilizing audio compressors” was initially filed in Might 2018. Do observe that Apple information the variety of patents yearly and never all of them materialize into business merchandise.

Ming-Chi Kuo, a well known Apple analyst, claims that the next-generation AirPods, prone to be named AirPods three with bone conduction expertise, may have the identical design because the AirPods Professional and will get launched forward of subsequent yr’s WWDC.

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