Wireless microphone mute control override

摘要

An audio system is configured to support a number of wireless microphones, and each of the wireless microphones has one or more touch sensitive mute switches and a touch sensitive mute guard band switch. The mute guard band switch is connect to an electrically conductive surface that is proximate to a microphone peripheral surface that a user is likely to touch when they move the microphone. Logical instructions running in conjunction with a DSP associated with the microphone cause the audio system to override any mute commands it receives from any of the mute switches during the time that the guard band switch is activated.

主权项

1. A wireless microphone associated with an audio system, comprising:
an acoustic energy transducer, a touch sensor control device and a transceiver enclosed by a microphone housing, the microphone housing having a top surface and a top surface edge extending around its entire outer perimeter from which subtends a microphone perimeter surface, the entire microphone perimeter surface is in proximity to an electrically conductive element comprising a touch sensitive guard band switch that when active is an indication that an individual is touching the wireless microphone; the top surface of the microphone housing having at least one touch sensitive mute switch that when active causes an audio system in communication with the wireless microphone to mute an audio signal sent to it by the wireless microphone, both the touch sensitive guard band switch and the touch sensitive mute switch are connected to the touch sensor control device; and while the wireless microphone is active, the touch sensor control device operating to detect that both the touch sensitive guard band switch and the at least one touch sensitive mute switch are active at the same time and causing the audio system to prevent a wireless microphone audio signal it receives from being muted.