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US 10,540,085 B2Granted
Microphone control via contact patch
AssigneeLenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
InventorsScott Wentao Li, Timothy Winthrop Kingsbury, Robert James Kapinos, Russell Speight VanBlon
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Abstract
One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, using a touch surface, facial contact of a user with an electronic device; determining, based on the facial contact of the user, a position of the electronic device relative to user's face; and toggling, based on the identified position, a characteristic of the electronic device. Other aspects are described and claimed.
Claims19
A method, comprising:
- detecting, using a touch surface of an electronic device, facial contact of a user with the touch surface;
- identifying, using a processor, a percentage of the touch surface associated with the facial contact;
- determining, using a processor, that a position of the electronic device making facial contact does not exceed a predetermined threshold of contact with the touch surface, wherein the predetermined threshold of contact is dynamically adjusted based on the percentage of the user's face in contact with the electronic device and historical user facial contact with the electronic device;
- toggling at least one characteristic of the electronic device, wherein the at least one characteristic is associated with a microphone of the electronic device;
- and
- executing an action, based on the toggling of the characteristic, to notify the user of the toggling.
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An information handling device, comprising:
- a touch surface;
- a processor;
- a memory device that stores instructions executable by the processor to:
- detect, using the touch surface of an electronic device, facial contact of a user with the touch surface;
- identify, using a processor, a percentage of the touch surface associated with the facial contact;
- determine that a position of the electronic device making the facial contact does not exceed a predetermined threshold of contact with the touch surface, wherein the predetermined threshold of contact is dynamically adjusted based on the percentage of the user's face in contact with the electronic device and historical user facial contact with the electronic device;
- toggle at least one characteristic of the electronic device, wherein the at least one characteristic is associated with a microphone of the electronic device;
- and
- execute an action, based on the toggling of the characteristic, to notify the user of the toggling.
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A product, comprising:
- a storage device having code stored therewith, the code being executable by a processor and comprising:
- code that detects, using a touch surface of an electronic device, facial contact of a user with the touch surface;
- code that identifies, using a processor, a percentage of the touch surface associated with the facial contact;
- code that determines that the facial contact does not exceed a predetermined threshold of contact with the touch surface, wherein the predetermined threshold of contact is dynamically adjusted based on the percentage of the user's face in contact with the electronic device and historical user facial contact with the electronic device;
- code that toggles at least one characteristic of the electronic device wherein, the at least one characteristic is associated with a microphone of the electronic device;
- and
- code that executes an action, based on the toggling of the characteristic, to notify the user of the toggling.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.