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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2013
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Arvindh Krishnaswamy, San Jose, CA (US);
David T. Yeh, San Jose, CA (US);
Juha O. Merimaa, Redwood City, CA (US);
Sean A. Ramprashad, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 29/005 (2013.01); H04R 29/004 (2013.01); H04R 2499/11 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods for determining the operating condition of multiple microphones of an electronic device are disclosed. A system can include a plurality of microphones operative to receive signals, a microphone condition detector, and a plurality of microphone condition determination sources. The microphone condition detector can determine a condition for each of the plurality of microphones by using the received signals and accessing at least one microphone condition determination source.