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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2014
Acer Incorporated, New Taipei, TW;
Po-Jen Tu, New Taipei, TW;
Jia-Ren Chang, New Taipei, TW;
Ming-Chun Yu, New Taipei, TW;
Kuei-Ting Tai, New Taipei, TW;
Kai-Meng Tzeng, New Taipei, TW;
ACER INCORPORATED, New Taipei, TW;
Abstract
In a device including a headset jack having an external microphone contact, and an external microphone signal path connected to the external microphone contact, a method including detecting whether a headset plug is plugged into the headset jack and, if the headset plug is detected, selecting an audio signal received from the external microphone signal path, recording the selected audio signal, to produce a recorded audio signal, and determining if an external microphone is connected to the external microphone contact based on the recorded audio signal.