Dual facing speaker and touch input
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsJace W. Files, Brandon J. Brocklesby, John T. Morrison
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Abstract
An information handling system may include a keyboard assembly and a display assembly rotatably coupled to the keyboard assembly and comprising a display, a cover mechanically coupled to the display, and a piezoelectric transducer interfaced between the display and the cover and configured to generate sound from the display in response to the display assembly being in a closed position relative to the keyboard assembly and generate sound from the cover in response to the display assembly being in an open position relative to the keyboard assembly.
Claims15
An information handling system comprising:
- a keyboard assembly;
- and
- a display assembly rotatably coupled to the keyboard assembly and comprising:
- a display;
- a cover mechanically coupled to the display;
- and
- a piezoelectric transducer interfaced between the display and the cover and configured to generate sound from the display in response to the display assembly being in a closed position relative to the keyboard assembly and generate sound from the cover in response to the display assembly being in an open position relative to the keyboard assembly;
- a processor communicatively coupled to the piezoelectric transducer and configured to:
- in response to the display assembly being in the open position relative to the keyboard assembly, control the piezoelectric transducer to optimize sound performance of the piezoelectric transducer in the open position;
- and
- in response to the display assembly being in the closed position relative to the keyboard assembly, control the piezoelectric transducer to optimize sound performance of the piezoelectric transducer in the closed position.
A method comprising, in an information handling system having a keyboard assembly and a display assembly rotatably coupled to the keyboard assembly and comprising, wherein the display assembly includes a display and a cover mechanically coupled to the display:
- generating sound from the display by a piezoelectric transducer interfaced between the display and the cover in response to the display assembly being in a closed position relative to the keyboard assembly;
- generating sound from the cover by the piezoelectric transducer in response to the display assembly being in an open position relative to the keyboard assembly;
- in response to the display assembly being in the open position relative to the keyboard assembly, controlling the piezoelectric transducer to optimize sound performance of the piezoelectric transducer in the open position;
- and
- in response to the display assembly being in the closed position relative to the keyboard assembly, controlling the piezoelectric transducer to optimize sound performance of the piezoelectric transducer in the closed position.
An article of manufacture comprising:
- a non-transitory computer-readable medium;
- and
- computer-executable instructions carried on the computer-readable medium, the instructions readable by a processor, the instructions, when read and executed, for causing the processor to, in an information handling system having a keyboard assembly and a display assembly rotatably coupled to the keyboard assembly and comprising, wherein the display assembly includes a display and a cover mechanically coupled to the display:
- cause generation of sound from the display by a piezoelectric transducer interfaced between the display and the cover in response to the display assembly being in a closed position relative to the keyboard assembly;
- cause generation of sound from the cover by the piezoelectric transducer in response to the display assembly being in an open position relative to the keyboard assembly;
- in response to the display assembly being in the open position relative to the keyboard assembly, control the piezoelectric transducer to optimize sound performance of the piezoelectric transducer in the open position;
- and
- in response to the display assembly being in the closed position relative to the keyboard assembly, control the piezoelectric transducer to optimize sound performance of the piezoelectric transducer in the closed position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.