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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2011
Applicants:
Britt C. Ashcraft, Tomball, TX (US);
Eric Chen, Houston, TX (US);
Sandie Ning Ning Cheng, Cypress, TX (US);
Inventors:
Britt C. Ashcraft, Tomball, TX (US);
Eric Chen, Houston, TX (US);
Sandie Ning Ning Cheng, Cypress, TX (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 29/00 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); H04N 21/475 (2011.01); H04N 21/485 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04R 1/32 (2006.01); H04R 3/12 (2006.01); H04S 7/00 (2006.01); H04R 27/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/00 (2013.01); G06F 3/167 (2013.01); H04N 21/475 (2013.01); H04N 21/4852 (2013.01); H04N 21/8106 (2013.01); H04R 1/323 (2013.01); H04R 3/12 (2013.01); H04R 27/00 (2013.01); H04R 2499/15 (2013.01); H04S 7/302 (2013.01); H04S 7/303 (2013.01);
Abstract
Implementations disclosed herein relate to transmitting audio in a target space relative to an electronic device () using a directional speaker () and non-directional speaker (). In one implementation, a directional speaker () or non-directional speaker () is selected to transmit audio based on a target space for the audio. The audio may then be transmitted from the selected speaker.