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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2013
Applicant:
Sennheiser Electronic Gmbh & Co. KG, Wedemark, DE;
Inventors:
Andrew Greenwood, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sebastian Chafe, San Francisco, CA (US);
Stefan Thien, Surwold, DE;
Assignee:
Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG, Wedemark, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/08 (2006.01); H04R 1/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/08 (2013.01); H04R 1/46 (2013.01);
Abstract
A microphone unit is provided which includes a microphone for picking up sound of a unit which sound is to be picked up, a clamping unit having a first end configured to clamp to the unit and a second end for holding the microphone, a contactless vibration sensor configured to detect vibrations of the unit, and an audio gate unit coupled to the output of the microphone and to the output of the contactless vibration sensor as a trigger signal to allow the output of the microphone to be forwarded to an output terminal.