Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Digital microphone assembly with improved frequency response and noise characteristics
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Application No.: US16375193Application Date: 2019-04-04
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Publication No.: US10904672B2Publication Date: 2021-01-26
- Inventor: Mohammad Shajaan , Claus Erdmann Fürst , Per Flemming Høvesten , Kim Spetzler Berthelsen , Henrik Thomsen
- Applicant: Knowles Electronics, LLC
- Applicant Address: US IL Itasca
- Assignee: Knowles Electronics, LLC
- Current Assignee: Knowles Electronics, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Itasca
- Agency: Foley & Lardner LLP
- Main IPC: H04R3/00
- IPC: H04R3/00 ; H04R19/04 ; H04R19/00 ; G06F3/16 ; H04R3/02 ; H04R3/06

Abstract:
A microphone assembly includes an acoustic filter with a first highpass cut-off frequency. The microphone assembly additionally includes a forward signal path and a feedback signal path. The forward signal path is configured to amplify or buffer an electrical signal generated by a transducer in response to sound and to convert the electrical signal to a digital signal. The feedback signal path is configured to generate a digital control signal based on the digital signal and to generate and output a sequence of variable current pulses based on the digital control signal. The variable current pulses suppress frequencies of the electrical signal below a second highpass cut-off frequency, higher than the first highpass cut-off frequency.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190239001A1 DIGITAL MICROPHONE ASSEMBLY WITH IMPROVED FREQUENCY RESPONSE AND NOISE CHARACTERISTICS Public/Granted day:2019-08-01
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