Friday, May 24, 2013

New patent describes' rotating speakers in iPad - One More Thing

iPad or iPhone to use. in different positions Vertically, horizontally or upside down. How do you ensure that the left always left and right always stays right with stereo sound? Apple has found the answer, the speakers have, as it were rotating with how the iDevice held.

a new patent discovered by Patently Apple, describes the company from Cupertino how this is possible. A sensor measures the position the appliance and adjusts the operation of the speakers accordingly. The patent describes a portable device where three instead of two speaker are processed.

A description of the patent.

A description of the patent.

A special chip in the patent application “Audio Routing processor” called, measured using the built-in gyroscope the position of the iPad. Then the sound of the left and right channels intelligently distributes the speakers present. In this way, the chip ensures that the sound is in the left channel of the audio recording is also heard on the left. Regardless of the position of the device.

iPad mini was the first device with stereo speakers, currently have the ‘normal’ iPads still a mono speaker. However, this patent indicates that we can expect in future iPads.

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