Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Piezoelectric contact microphone with mechanical interface
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Application No.: US15589203Application Date: 2017-05-08
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Publication No.: US10462578B2Publication Date: 2019-10-29
- Inventor: Kevin R. Hoskins , Arun P. Jose , David Harkness , Georgios C. Dogiamis , Rajashree Raji Baskaran
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
- Main IPC: H04R25/00
- IPC: H04R25/00 ; H04R17/02 ; H04R1/46 ; H04R1/26

Abstract:
A piezoelectric contact microphone with a mechanical vibration conduction interface provides an improved mobile electronic device microphone. In an embodiment, the mechanical vibration conduction interface is placed on a bone structure and conducts vibration from the bone structure to the piezoelectric contact microphone. Because of the direct contact, this use of piezoelectric contact microphone reduces or eliminates interferences effects due to wind and other airflow over the microphone. The mechanical vibration conduction interface materials and structure are selected to provide effective transmission of vibration from the bone structure to the piezoelectric element within the piezoelectric contact microphone. This piezoelectric contact microphone enables mobile electronic devices to provide improved voice communication, voice transcription, and voice command recognition in the presence of wind noise and other noise.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180324530A1 PIEZOELECTRIC CONTACT MICROPHONE WITH MECHANICAL INTERFACE Public/Granted day:2018-11-08
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