INTELLIGIBILITY BOOST
First Claim
1. An apparatus comprising:
- a communications device housing having integrated thereinan acoustic transducer interface circuit,a downlink voice signal processor having an input to be coupled to a communications network and an output coupled to the acoustic transducer interface circuit,the interface circuit to have a plurality of volume settings at which a speaker is to be operated during a call through the network, including a lowest volume setting and a highest volume setting,a decoder to sense actuation of a mechanical to electrical transducer, during the call, in one direction as signaling a lower volume setting and in an opposite direction as signaling a higher volume setting,wherein once the highest volume setting has been signaled in response to actuation of the transducer in said opposite direction, and the decoder senses next actuation of the transducer during the call is also in said opposite direction, the decoder is to signal the downlink processor to respond to said next actuation by changing its frequency response.
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Abstract
A user of a communications device is given the ability to conveniently control the quality of the sound he is hearing during a call. An acoustic transducer interface circuit of the device has volume settings that are set by the user actuating a volume adjustment button or switch. In addition, the device has one or more intelligibility boost settings that are also selected by actuating the volume adjust button. Once the device has been signaled into the highest volume setting in response to actuation of the button in a given direction, and the next actuation of the button is also in the given direction, a downlink voice signal processor of the device responds to the next actuation by changing its audio frequency response to boost intelligibility of the far end user'"'"'s speech being heard by the near end user. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
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26 Claims
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1. An apparatus comprising:
a communications device housing having integrated therein an acoustic transducer interface circuit, a downlink voice signal processor having an input to be coupled to a communications network and an output coupled to the acoustic transducer interface circuit, the interface circuit to have a plurality of volume settings at which a speaker is to be operated during a call through the network, including a lowest volume setting and a highest volume setting, a decoder to sense actuation of a mechanical to electrical transducer, during the call, in one direction as signaling a lower volume setting and in an opposite direction as signaling a higher volume setting, wherein once the highest volume setting has been signaled in response to actuation of the transducer in said opposite direction, and the decoder senses next actuation of the transducer during the call is also in said opposite direction, the decoder is to signal the downlink processor to respond to said next actuation by changing its frequency response. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. An apparatus comprising:
a mobile telephony device housing having integrated therein a touch sensitive screen, RF communications circuitry coupled to an antenna, a downlink voice signal processor having an input to be coupled to a wireless communications network through the RF communications circuitry and the antenna, and an output to be coupled to a speaker that is to be operated at a plurality of volume settings during a wireless call through the network, a virtual button that is to be displayed on the touch sensitive screen and that is to be actuated in one direction during the call to signal a lower volume setting and in an opposite direction to signal a higher volume setting, wherein once signaled into the highest volume setting in response to actuation of the button in said opposite direction, and next actuation of the button during the call is also in said opposite direction, the downlink processor is to respond to said next actuation by changing its frequency response. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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