Incus Laboratories ANC Earphones

Incus Laboratories ANC 耳机

• 批准号: 720011
• 金额: $ 10.14万
• 依托单位: INCUS LABORATORIES LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: GRD Development of Prototype
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2011 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=720011
• 关键词: Incus; Laboratories; ANC; Earphones

We propose to revolutionise the way consumers interact with their mobile devices bydeveloping highly effective ambient noise-cancelling (ANC) earphones that could be massproducedin high volumes at very low cost, and consequently supplied “bundled” with mobilephones and music players.Environments for travellers are seldom quiet, with very high levels of ambient noise presenton subway trains etc. The cheap earphones “bundled” with most mobile devices do not workwell; they fit loosely, allowing ambient noise from the outside world to leak in to the ear, andalso allow audio from the earphones to leak outwards and disturb others. ANC earphonessolve these problems; music is readily audible, communications are intelligible. The user isnot required to increase the listening volume to an excessively high level in order to overcomebackground noise. This can cause noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL), an area of increasingconcern which has resulted in new 2011 European Union safety standards for mobile devices.The barrier to manufacturing low-cost ANC earphones is a time-consuming manualcalibrationstage. Incus has invented an “electro-acoustic module” technology that providesrapid electronic calibration, enabling low unit-cost high-volume manufacture. Several patentshave been filed.Two product families are planned: an “Aftermarket” ANC earphone, for use with any existingmobile device, and a “Bundled” product, supplied with a new mobile device and also poweredfrom it, thus being more compact, lightweight and battery-free. Incus earphones are “noncanal-blocking”, and hence comfortable and safe, because they do not interfere with the user’snormal spatial hearing.

我们建议通过开发高效的环境噪声消除（ANC）耳机来彻底改变消费者与他们的移动的设备的交互方式，这种耳机可以以非常低的成本大批量生产，从而与手机和音乐播放器“捆绑”供应。旅行者的环境很少是安静的，与非常高水平的环境噪音presenton地铁列车等廉价耳机“捆绑”与大多数移动的设备不工作良好;它们配合松散，允许外界的环境噪音泄漏到耳朵里，也允许耳机的音频向外泄漏并干扰他人。ANC耳机解决了这些问题;音乐很容易听到，通信是可理解的。用户不需要为了克服背景噪声而将收听音量增加到过高的水平。这可能导致噪声性听力损失（NIHL），这是一个日益受到关注的领域，导致2011年欧盟制定了新的移动的设备安全标准。制造低成本ANC耳机的障碍是耗时的手动校准阶段。Incus发明了一种“电声模块”技术，可提供快速电子校准，从而实现低单位成本的大批量生产。两个产品系列正在计划中：一个是“售后”ANC耳机，可与任何现有的移动终端一起使用;另一个是“捆绑”产品，与新的移动终端一起提供，并由其供电，因此更紧凑，更轻，更免电池。因库斯耳机是“非耳道阻塞”的，因此舒适和安全，因为它们不会干扰用户的正常空间听觉。