Virtual Button Using a Sound Signal
AssigneeSagemcom Broadband SAS
InventorsRadu NEDELCU, Jérôme BERGER
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Abstract
Electrical equipment includes a housing having a hole formed therein; a microphone positioned inside the housing and in the proximity of the hole; a loudspeaker; emitter means arranged to emit an emitted detection sound signal via the loudspeaker; and processor means arranged to acquire a received detection sound signal via the microphone, to detect in real time from the received detection sound signal whether a user's finger is or is not positioned on or in the immediate proximity of the hole, and if a finger is positioned on or in the immediate proximity of the hole to cause a predetermined action to be performed.
Claims20
Electrical equipment comprising:
- a housing having a hole formed therein;
- a microphone positioned inside the housing and in the proximity of the hole;
- a loudspeaker;
- emitter means arranged to emit an emitted detection sound signal via the loudspeaker;
- processor means arranged to acquire a received detection sound signal via the microphone, to detect in real time from the received detection sound signal whether a user's finger is or is not positioned on or in the immediate proximity of the hole, and if a finger is positioned on or in the immediate proximity of the hole to cause a predetermined action to be performed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.