Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Stereo and filter control for multi-speaker device
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Application No.: US15256384Application Date: 2016-09-02
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Publication No.: US09949057B2Publication Date: 2018-04-17
- Inventor: Ryan J. Mihelich , Tomlinson Holman , Alexander P. Niemeyer , Timothy E. Sandrik
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: APPLE INC.
- Current Assignee: APPLE INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
- Main IPC: H04R5/02
- IPC: H04R5/02 ; H04S7/00 ; H04R3/12

Abstract:
A portable electronic device includes at least four speakers spaced apart from one another. An audio processor attenuates a high frequency portion of a left audio signal and a right audio signal to provide a processed left audio signal and a processed right audio signal. An audio router directs the left audio signal to only a first speaker, the right audio signal to only a second speaker, the processed left audio signal to a third speaker, and the processed right audio signal to a fourth speaker. The audio signals may be directed according to the orientation of the device. The cutoff frequency for attenuating the high frequency portion of the audio signals may be responsive to the orientation of the device. In other embodiments, the high frequency portion of the audio signals may be decorrelated to produce signals with high frequency portions for all speakers.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170070839A1 Stereo and Filter Control for Multi-Speaker Device Public/Granted day:2017-03-09
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