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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2017
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Timothy Theodore List, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A voice controlled assistant has a housing to hold one or more microphones, one or more speakers, and various computing components. The housing has an elongated cylindrical body extending along a center axis between a base end and a top end. The microphone(s) are mounted in the top end and the speaker(s) are mounted proximal to the base end. The microphone(s) and speaker(s) are coaxially aligned along the center axis. The speaker(s) are oriented to output sound directionally toward the base end and opposite to the microphone(s) in the top end. The sound may then be redirected in a radial outward direction from the center axis at the base end so that the sound is output symmetric to, and equidistance from, the microphone(s).