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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2014
Applicant:
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Mouna Elkhatib, San Diego, CA (US);
Louis Dominic Oliveira, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 29/00 (2006.01); H04R 1/08 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01); G10L 25/51 (2013.01); G10L 15/08 (2006.01); G10L 25/78 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 29/004 (2013.01); G06F 1/3215 (2013.01); G06F 3/167 (2013.01); G10L 25/51 (2013.01); H04R 1/08 (2013.01); G10L 25/78 (2013.01); G10L 2015/088 (2013.01);
Abstract
A microphone circuit includes a microphone configured to generate a microphone signal. The microphone circuit also includes a processor configured to perform sound detection based on the microphone signal and to determine whether to enable a component based on the sound detection. For example, the processor may be a digital signal processor (DSP) of the microphone circuit and the component may be external to the microphone circuit, such as a coder/decoder (CODEC), another DSP, and/or an application processor.