The present disclosure relates to an earphone apparatus and method. The earphone apparatus includes an earpiece, including a speaker, configured for arrangement relative to a user's ear for listening to audio from the speaker, a bio-sensor, a motion sensor, and a controller configured to determine an activity state of the user based on aggregated sensor data from the bio-sensor and the motion sensor over time, and to control audio output to the user based on the determined activity state.
Claim CLM-00001. 1. An earphone system, comprising:
one or more processors configured to
determine an activity state of a user based on a combined consideration of respective sensor data of at least two different types of sensors, andcontrol a user sensory output to the user based on the determined activity state of the user;
an earpiece configured for arrangement proximate to a user's ear canal for listening to audio from a speaker, the earpiece including the speaker and a first sensor of a first sensor type of the at least two different types of sensors; and a second sensor of a second sensor type of the at least two different types of sensors, wherein the first sensor is an optical sensor and the first sensor type, of the at least two different types of sensors, is an optical sensor type.
Claim CLM-00036. 36. An earphone method of a system having at least two different types of sensors and an earpiece configured for arrangement proximate to a user's ear for listening to audio from a speaker, the earpiece including the speaker and an optical sensor of a first sensor type of the at least two different types of sensors, the method comprising:
controlling measuring of bio-signals and changes of a user respectively using the two different types of sensors; determining a learned activity state of the user based at least on a combined consideration of the measured bio-signals and the measured changes of the user; and controlling a provision of user sensory output to the user based on the determined activity state.
