Patent attributes
The accuracy of ear authentication is ensured over a range from an audible range to a non-audible range. An earphone includes a sound emitting unit, a sound collecting unit, a housing containing the sound emitting unit and the sound collecting unit, a sound hole formed inside the housing, the sound hole being configured to propagate an emitted sound to a predetermined direction and propagate a sound coming from the predetermined direction to the sound collecting unit, and an ear pad covering at least a part of the sound hole, in which an ear-pad side end face is configured so as not to project beyond a sound-hole side end face at least in the predetermined direction, the ear-pad side end face being an end face of the ear pad, the sound-hole side end face being an end face of the sound hole in the predetermined direction.
