发明名称 USE OF AN EARPIECE ACOUSTIC OPENING AS A MICROPHONE PORT FOR BEAMFORMING APPLICATIONS
摘要 A mobile multi-function device that includes a speaker, two or more microphones, and a beamformer processor is described. The beamformer processor uses the microphones to perform beamforming operations. One of the microphones shares a receiver acoustic opening with the speaker while the other microphone uses a separate acoustic opening. The receiver acoustic opening may be an earpiece opening that is held to the ear of a user while conducting a phone call with the device and provides acoustic input and output paths for the microphone and the speaker, respectively.
申请公布号 US2015163578(A1) 申请公布日期 2015.06.11
申请号 US201514625503 申请日期 2015.02.18
申请人 Apple Inc. 发明人 Dave Ruchir M.;Lee Jae H.;Nicholson Guy C.
分类号 H04R1/08;H04R1/02 主分类号 H04R1/08
代理机构 代理人
主权项 1. A mobile device, comprising: a mobile multi-function handset device housing that contains: a speaker to produce sound for an audio application that is to execute in the mobile device; first, second, and third microphones for capturing audio proximate to the mobile multi-function handset device housing; a programmed processor configured to execute a plurality of applications, including (1) a telephony application, (2) a multimedia/video call application, (3) a voice dictation/activation application, or (4) a video recording application; and a beamformer processor for performing directional signal reception of audio using the first and second microphones during performance of at least one of the plurality of applications, where the housing has a first acoustic opening located on a front face and at a top end of the housing, and designed to be held to the ear of a user when the device is being used like a telephone handset during a phone call, the first acoustic opening to provide shared acoustic input and output paths for the first microphone and the speaker, wherein the housing further includes a second acoustic opening located on a rear face of the housing that is used by the second microphone as an input acoustic port, wherein the housing further includes a third acoustic opening located on a bottom side of the housing that is near the mouth of the user when the device is being used like a telephone handset during the phone call, wherein the third acoustic opening is used by the third microphone as an input acoustic port.
地址 Cupertino CA US