Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for porting microphone through keyboard
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Application No.: US16275755Application Date: 2019-02-14
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Publication No.: US10942548B2Publication Date: 2021-03-09
- Inventor: Nicholas A. Renda , David M. Rockford , Jonathan L. Berk , Chanjuan Feng , Daniel K. Boothe , Daniel D. Hershey
- Applicant: APPLE INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: APPLE INC.
- Current Assignee: APPLE INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Kilpatrick, Townsend and Stockton LLP
- Main IPC: G06F1/16
- IPC: G06F1/16 ; H04R1/04 ; H04R1/40 ; H04R3/00 ; H04R1/02

Abstract:
A computing device includes one or more microphones that function seamlessly with other components within the computing device. In one embodiment, a microphone opening is disposed underneath a keyboard with a channel from the microphone to an opening between the keyboard webbing and a keycap of the keyboard. In another embodiment, two microphones can be spaced apart from a keyboard region of the device and a third microphone can be disposed underneath the keyboard region with an channel from the microphone to an opening between the keyboard webbing and a keycap of the keyboard.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200097053A1 METHOD FOR PORTING MICROPHONE THROUGH KEYBOARD Public/Granted day:2020-03-26
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