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Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2018

Filed:

Feb. 02, 2018
Applicant:

Fortemedia, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Qing-Guang Liu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Xiaoyan Lu, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Weiping Zhang, Nanjing, CN;

Assignee:

FORTEMEDIA, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 29/00 (2006.01); G10L 25/51 (2013.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01); H04R 3/04 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); H04R 1/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 25/51 (2013.01); G06F 3/167 (2013.01); H04R 1/406 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01); H04R 3/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

A sound identification device is provided. The sound identification device includes a microphone array and a processing unit. The microphone array includes a plurality of microphones disposed within a microphone module mounted on a housing of the sound identification device. Each microphone receives an acoustic signal caused by a gesture performed on a surface of the microphone module and converts the received acoustic signal to a digital acoustic signal. The processing unit is configured to receive the digital acoustic signal from each microphone, and perform a sound identification process on the digital acoustic signal from each microphone to generate a sound identification result conveying information of the gesture. The processing unit controls at least one application program executed by the processing unit according to the sound identification result.


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