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Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 12, 2015
Applicant:

Invensense, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventor:

Omid Oliaei, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

INVENSENSE, INC., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 47/16 (2006.01); H04R 19/00 (2006.01); H04R 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 19/005 (2013.01); H04R 3/06 (2013.01); H04R 2201/003 (2013.01); H04R 2430/03 (2013.01);
Abstract

Detection of audible and ultrasonic signals is provided by a microelectromechanical microphone. The detection range of ultrasonic signals can be configurable. In certain embodiments, the microelectromechanical microphone can include a band-pass sigma-delta modulator that can generate a digital signal representative of an ultrasonic signal. In addition or in other embodiments, the microelectromechanical microphone can include an event detector device that can determine that an ultrasonic event has occurred and, in response, can send a control signal to an external device. Detection of ultrasonic signals can be utilized in vehicular applications and/or gesture recognition.


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