Daniel A Farrell

US Patent:

8358787, Jan 22, 2013

Filed:

Dec 20, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/961640

Inventors:

Michael M. Lee - San Jose CA, US
Chad G. Seguin - Morgan Hill CA, US
Bob Burrough - Anderson CA, US
Richard Hung Minh Dinh - San Jose CA, US
Cyril Labidi - San Francisco CA, US
Daniel Farrell - Concord CA, US
Justin Gregg - San Franciso CA, US
Tony Aghazarian - Saratoga CA, US
Tang Yew Tan - San Francisco CA, US
Christian Paez - San Jose CA, US

Assignee:

Apple Inc. - Cupertino CA

International Classification:

H04R 29/00

US Classification:

381 58, 381 59, 73584

Abstract:

A portable handheld test fixture has an acoustic port, e. g. a speaker port, a microphone, and/or an earpiece/receiver port. Once the media device has been installed onto the test fixture, the port becomes acoustically coupled to a respective acoustic aperture of the media device that is associated with a speaker, a microphone, or an earpiece/receiver as the case may be. A sound test tool, e. g. a reference sound source and/or a sound pressure level, SPL, meter, has an input or output sound port that can be removably coupled to the acoustic port of the test fixture. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.