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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2019
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Jonathan R. Peterson, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Daniel D. Sunshine, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yohji Hamada, Wakayama, JP;
Daniel A. Podhajny, San Jose, CA (US);
Kathryn P. Crews, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jahan Minoo, San Jose, CA (US);
David M. Kindlon, Felton, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An electronic device such as a pair of headphones may be provided with left and right speakers for playing audio to a user. Control circuitry in the electronic device may play audio through the speakers in an unreversed configuration in which left channel audio is played through a first of the speakers that is adjacent to a left ear of the user and right channel audio is played through a second of the speakers that is adjacent to a right ear of the user or a reversed configuration in which these channel assignments are reversed. The headphones may have ear cups that house the speakers. Capacitive touch sensors, force sensors, and other sensors on the ear cups may measure ear shapes and finger grip positions on the ear cups to determine whether to operate in the unreversed or reversed configuration. Sensors may gather gestures and other user touch input.