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| 20090116656 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACOUSTICS TESTING OF A PERSONAL MOBILE DEVICE - A portable handheld test fixture has an acoustic port, e.g. a speaker port, a microphone, and/or an earpiece/receiver port. Once the media device has been installed onto the test fixture, the port becomes acoustically coupled to a respective acoustic aperture of the media device that is associated with a speaker, a microphone, or an earpiece/receiver as the case may be. A sound test tool, e.g. a reference sound source and/or a sound pressure level, SPL, meter, has an input or output sound port that can be removably coupled to the acoustic port of the test fixture. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090245564 | MICROPHONE PACKAGING IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - In one aspect, a boot located inside a mobile device holds a microphone. The boot has a straight, front chamber section whose mouth is aligned (vertically and horizontally) with a microphone-associated, acoustic case opening in a sidewall of the outer housing of the device. In another aspect, the front chamber section is defined by a front sidewall on whose outer surface a circumferential rib is formed. This portion of the boot sidewall is disposed within a tube section (which may be formed in the sidewall of the device's outer case), to form an acoustic seal around the mouth of the boot. Other embodiments are also described. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090247244 | RECEIVER ACOUSTIC SYSTEM - A mobile communications device has an outer housing with a front wall in which an acoustic opening is formed. A tub is disposed inside the housing, wherein an acoustic opening is formed in a bottom of the tub and is positioned to be aligned with the acoustic opening in the outer housing. A receiver is disposed within the tub so that a sound port hole of the receiver faces an inside face of the tub and is aligned with the acoustic openings in the outer housing and in the tub. A plate piece is disposed between an inside face of the housing and the face of the receiver in which the sound port hole is formed. An acoustic opening is formed in the plate piece and positioned to be aligned with the sound port hole of the receiver and the acoustic openings in the outer housing and in the tub. Other embodiments are also described. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090252350 | FILTER ADAPTATION BASED ON VOLUME SETTING FOR CERTIFICATION ENHANCEMENT IN A HANDHELD WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - A handheld wireless communications device has an adjustable volume setting. The communications device also has a downlink audio processor containing a digital audio filter. Storage in the device contains a first set of filter coefficients that configure the filter to enable the device to pass a wireless communications device certification process while sacrificing sound quality, at a low volume setting. The storage also contains a second set of filter coefficients that configure the filter to enhance sound quality while sacrificing passing the wireless communications device certification process, at a high volume setting. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090253457 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR CERTIFICATION ENHANCEMENT IN A HANDHELD WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - A handheld wireless communications device has an adjustable volume setting. The communications device also has an uplink audio processor and a downlink audio processor. One (or both) of the audio processors contains a noise suppressor. The noise suppressor attenuates its output signal in accordance with a delay parameter. The delay parameter controls how much the onset of the attenuation is delayed. The delay parameter is automatically set to indicate a short delay when the communications device is at a high volume setting, and a long delay when the device is at a low volume setting. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090254339 | MULTI BAND AUDIO COMPRESSOR DYNAMIC LEVEL ADJUST IN A COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - An uplink or downlink audio processor contains a multi band compressor that receives an input, uplink or downlink, audio signal. The multi-band compressor has a band splitter that splits the input audio signal into a number of different band signals. Each band signal is input to a respective compressor block, which is independently programmable so that its audio frequency response (a) differs from a linear response in at least two non-overlapping windows of its input signal, and (b) differs from the frequency response of another one of the compressor blocks. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20100029302 | DEVICE-TO-DEVICE LOCATION AWARENESS - During an ongoing wireless telephone call communication session between a pair of mobile devices, a local device responds to its user's activation of a virtual or actual button or key, or its user's verbal command, by automatically sending an over the air message (e.g., a SMS or text message or other network communication message) to the remote device. The message requests location information of the remote device. Upon obtaining location information from the remote device, a location of the remote device is automatically displayed on the local device. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100029342 | OUTGOING TELEPHONE CALL INDICATION - A mobile phone has a mobile phone housing in which are integrated an actuator and a telephone module. The actuator can vibrate the housing to give a haptic or tactile alert to the user. The actuator is to vibrate in accordance with an input signal. The telephone module activates the input signal during the making of an outgoing call to a destination phone, so that the housing vibrates to alert the user while the destination phone is ringing. In another embodiment, the telephone module signals a display screen integrated in the housing, to show a graphic indicative of the outgoing call. In addition, the telephone module activates the input signal for the backlight of the display screen during the making of the outgoing call, so that the backlight flashes the display screen while the destination phone is ringing. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100030549 | MOBILE DEVICE HAVING HUMAN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION CAPABILITY WITH POSITIONAL FEEDBACK - A mobile electronic device has a touch sensitive screen and an accelerometer. A translator is to translate a word or phrase that is in a first human language and that is entered via a first virtual keyboard displayed on the touch sensitive screen, into a second human language. A translator is to cause the touch sensitive screen to display the translated word or phrase and a second virtual keyboard having characters in the second human language, in response to the accelerometer detecting a change in the physical orientation of the device or movement of the device. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100048241 | CAMERA AS INPUT INTERFACE - A portable handheld electronic device contains a camera lens and accelerometer to allow a user to control voicemail and call features by swiping his finger across the camera lens and/or tapping the device. Therefore, the user can comfortably input commands into the device with a single hand and without needing to move the phone away from his ear to apply these inputs. In another embodiment, the camera lens can also be used to control navigation of the display screen or a displayed document of the device. For example, if a user wishes to shift a scrollbar for a page displayed on the screen downwards to view the bottom of the page, the user should move his finger over the camera lens in an analogous downward direction. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100069114 | SIDETONE SELECTION FOR HEADSETS OR EARPHONES - A portable telephony device has a mobile phone housing. Integrated in the housing are memory to store a telephony module, an earphone type detect module, a headphone port, and a processor. The headphone port may be a wired headset jack to receive a mating wired headset plug, or it may be a communications subsystem that makes a wireless connection with a wireless headset. The earphone type detect module, when executed by the processor, is to determine what type of earphone or headset is connected to the headphone port. The telephony module when executed by the processor is to adjust a sidetone function of the device as a function of the determined type of earphone, and apply sidetone in accordance with said adjusted sidetone function. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100080084 | MICROPHONE PROXIMITY DETECTION - A mobile communications device contains at least two microphones. One microphone is located away from the handset receiver and serves to pick up voice of a near end user of the device for transmission to the other party during a call. Another microphone is located near the handset receiver and serves to pick up acoustic output of the handset receiver (a far end signal). A signal processor measures the frequency response of the receiver. The signal processor performs spectral analysis of the receiver frequency response to determine whether or not the device is being held at the ear of the user. On that basis, the device automatically changes its operating mode, e.g., turns on or off a touch sensitive display screen during the call. Other embodiments are also described. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100080379 | INTELLIGIBILITY BOOST - A user of a communications device is given the ability to conveniently control the quality of the sound he is hearing during a call. An acoustic transducer interface circuit of the device has volume settings that are set by the user actuating a volume adjustment button or switch. In addition, the device has one or more intelligibility boost settings that are also selected by actuating the volume adjust button. Once the device has been signaled into the highest volume setting in response to actuation of the button in a given direction, and the next actuation of the button is also in the given direction, a downlink voice signal processor of the device responds to the next actuation by changing its audio frequency response to boost intelligibility of the far end user's speech being heard by the near end user. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100120453 | Contact Information Updating Via SMS - A source mobile telephone detects that a telephone number of the telephone has changed to a new number, and in response, sends a text or short message service (SMS) notice message to contacts identified in the mobile telephone to indicate that the source mobile telephone has a new telephone number. In response to receiving the text or SMS notice message, a contact telephony device may update its contact list to reflect the new number. Other embodiments are also described. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100123785 | Graphic Control for Directional Audio Input - A device to provide an audio output includes a microphone array, a signal processor, and a graphic user interface (GUI). The signal processor is coupled to the microphone array to perform audio beamforming with input from the microphone array. The GUI is coupled to the signal processor to display a plurality of audio sources, to receive a selection of at least one of the plurality of audio sources from a user, and to provide the selection to the signal processor for aiming the audio beamforming toward the selected audio source. The selection may be made by touching the display. The device may further include a camera and the GUI may display an image received from the camera as the plurality of audio sources. The camera may provide a moving video image and the signal processor may provide a synchronized audio signal aimed at the selected audio source. | 05-20-2010 |
