Patent ID: 11935538
Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A headset assembly, comprising:
a headset housing;
at least one processor;
a microphone boom coupled to the headset housing, the microphone boom comprising an infrared (IR) sensor on a distal end segment, the IR sensor accessible to the at least one processor, the microphone boom further comprising at least one microphone accessible to the at least one processor; and
storage accessible to the at least one processor and comprising instructions executable by the at least one processor to:
turn on the IR sensor responsive to voice input detected via the at least one microphone receive input from the IR sensor;
based on the input from the IR sensor, perform mouth feature extraction; and
based on the mouth feature extraction, execute at least one function.