ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PREVENTING LEAKAGE OF RECEIVED SOUND

• US 20140315605A1
• Filed: 04/22/2014
• Published: 10/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: CHO, Joon-Rae, Lee, Byoung-Hee, Kim, Jong-Seok, Kang, Jang-Hoon
• Granted Patent: US 9,232,035 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/575.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/035 Improving the acoustic characteristics by means of constructional features of the housing, e.g. ribs, walls, resonating chambers or cavities

Abstract

An electronic device for preventing leakage of a received sound is provided. The electronic device includes a receiver which outputs the received sound; a receiving portion which receives the receiver; and a hole which communicates with the receiving portion.

Claims

1. An electronic device for preventing leakage of a received sound, the electronic device comprising:

a receiver configured to output the received sound;

a receiving portion configured to receive the receiver; and

a hole which communicates with the receiving portion.

2. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a guide which guides the received sound to the hole.

3. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the hole communicates with the receiving portion through an earphone connection jack, an antenna insertion portion, a pen insertion portion, a camera receiving portion, and an exposed hole of a case.

4. The electronic device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the guide includes at least one rib formed on a case of the electronic device to close at least one side surface of the receiver.

5. The electronic device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the guide defines a pathway extending from the receiver to the hole.

6. The electronic device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the guide includes at least one rib or structure formed on a case of the electronic device to close at least one side surface of the receiver.

7. An electronic device for preventing leakage of a received sound, the electronic device comprising:

a receiver configured to output a first received sound;

a speaker configured to output a phase-inverted received sound having an inverse phase with respect to a phase of the first received sound or a second received sound; and

a controller configured to control the speaker to output the phase-inverted received sound in a mode of preventing leakage of the received sound, and to output the second received sound in a mode of outputting the received sound.

8. The electronic device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the controller is configured to adjust at least one of an amount, a frequency characteristic and a noise characteristic of the received sound of the receiver.

9. The electronic device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the controller is configured to synchronize the first received sound output through the receiver with the phase-inverted sound output through the speaker so that the first received sound of the receiver and the phase-inverted received sound are simultaneously output.

10. The electronic device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the controller comprises:

a first received sound quality optimizing module configured to adjust at least one of an amount, a frequency characteristic, and a noise characteristic of the phase-inverted received sound; and

a second received sound quality optimizing module configured to adjust at least one of an amount, a frequency characteristic, and a noise characteristic of the second received sound.

11. The electronic device as claimed in claim 10, further comprising a switch connected to one of the first and second received sound quality optimizing modules.

12. The electronic device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the controller comprises a codec which decodes the phase-inverted received sound or the second received sound.

13. The electronic device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the controller further comprises a third received sound quality optimizing module configured to adjust at least one of an amount, a frequency characteristic, and a noise characteristic of an MP3 signal or a bell signal.

14. The electronic device as claimed in claim 7, wherein a signal input of a positive terminal and a negative terminal of the receiver and a signal input of a positive terminal and a negative terminal of the speaker are mutually inverted so that the outputs of the receiver and the speaker have mutually inverted phases.