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US 2010/0246855 A1Published application
Dynamic audio parameter adjustment using touch sensing
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorShaohai Chen
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Abstract
An audio communications device has a handset in which a touch sensing ear piece region is coupled to an acoustic leakage analyzer. The acoustic leakage analyzer is to analyze signals from the touch sensing ear piece region and on that basis adjust an audio processing parameter. The latter configures an audio processor which generates an audio receiver input signal for the device. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
Claims18
A machine-implemented method for operating an audio communications device, comprising:
- during a call that is being performed using the audio communications device, automatically
- detecting an imprint of a user's ear against a region around a sound emitting surface of the device using a touch sensing surface, and
- adjusting an audio processing parameter of the device based on said detection to compensate for acoustic leakage between the user's ear and the region around the sound emitting surface.
An audio communications device, comprising:
- a handset having a touch sensing earpiece region;
- an audio processor to generate an audio receiver input signal;
- and
- an acoustic leakage analyzer coupled to the touch sensing earpiece region to analyze signals from the region and on that basis adjust an audio processing parameter of the audio processor.
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An article of manufacture comprising:
- a machine-readable medium having stored therein program code that configures an audio communications device, having a touch sensing earpiece region, to detect an ear imprint from the earpiece region and on that basis adjust an audio processing parameter of the device to compensate for acoustic leakage at the earpiece region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.