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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2019
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Nicholas A. Renda, San Francisco, CA (US);
David M. Rockford, Los Alamitos, CA (US);
Jonathan L. Berk, Mountain View, CA (US);
Chanjuan Feng, San Francisco, CA (US);
Daniel K. Boothe, San Francisco, CA (US);
Daniel D. Hershey, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
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.