Microphone Array Input Detection via Acoustic Pattern Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
The integration of multiple microphones in electronic devices for voice recognition and user input detection complicates the device structure, increases manufacturing costs, and limits design options due to the need for separate physical input means.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device equipped with a plurality of microphones and a processor that detects user inputs, generates pattern data based on these inputs, and executes corresponding functions, eliminating the need for separate physical input means by utilizing the microphones for both input detection and function execution.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If multiple microphones are added to detect user inputs and improve voice recognition, then user input detection capability is improved, but device structure becomes complicated and manufacturing cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies multi-functionality by enabling microphones to serve dual purposes: traditional voice recognition and physical input detection. By analyzing sound wave patterns from microphone signals, the system can detect tapping, knocking, or other physical gestures without requiring separate physical input buttons, thus resolving the contradiction between improved detection capability and device structure complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces mechanical physical input buttons with an acoustic field-based detection system using microphones and sound wave analysis. This substitution eliminates the need for separate mechanical input components while maintaining or enhancing user input detection capability, thereby reducing device structural complexity and manufacturing costs
2Measurement precision
If multiple microphones are added to detect user inputs and improve voice recognition, then user input detection capability is improved, but manufacturing cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes microphones perform multiple functions (voice recognition and physical input detection), which justifies their inclusion without requiring additional separate components. This multi-functionality approach reduces overall manufacturing cost by eliminating the need for separate physical input buttons while maintaining enhanced user input detection capability
Solution Approach 2:
By replacing mechanical physical input buttons with microphone-based acoustic detection, the patent reduces the bill of materials and assembly complexity. The same microphone hardware serves dual purposes, reducing manufacturing costs while improving or maintaining user input detection capability
3Measurement precision
If multiple microphones are added to detect user inputs, then user input detection capability is improved, but design flexibility is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces fixed mechanical physical input buttons with flexible microphone-based acoustic detection. This substitution provides greater design flexibility as microphones can be positioned more freely in the device structure without requiring dedicated button spaces, allowing for more varied form factors and device layouts while maintaining enhanced user input detection capability
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AI summary
Certain embodiments of the present disclosure are related to an apparatus and a method for executing a function corresponding to pattern data generated using a plurality of microphones. An electronic device may include a plurality of microphones and a processor. The processor may be configured to detect a user input at the plurality of the microphones, to generate pattern data based on the user input, and to execute a function corresponding to the pattern data.