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US 2014/0233771 A1Published application
Apparatus for front and rear speaker audio control in a device
Assigneebarnesandnoble.com llc
InventorsGiancarlo Anthony Giustina, William Alan Saperstein
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Abstract
Techniques for audio control for an electronic device are discussed. The audio control for front and rear speaker channel configuration facilitates supporting proper audio stereo sound based at least in part on an orientation of the electronic device.
Claims10
An electronic device comprising:
- a speaker control module to detect an orientation of the electronic device and a number of front facing speakers of the electronic device;
- a first and a second front facing speaker, coupled to the speaker control module, to be assigned a speaker channel based on the detected orientation of the electronic device;
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- the speaker control module to control a volume and a frequency response of a rear speaker based on the orientation of the electronic device.
1 more element
A audio control circuit comprising:
- an input to the audio control circuit from a sensor to determine a nearly vertical or horizontal orientation of an electronic device;
- the audio control circuit to output a volume and a frequency response to a rear facing speaker based at least in part on the vertical or horizontal orientation of the electronic device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.