Patent ID: 9602909
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: H04R

Claim:
1. An apparatus, comprising: an earbud that is rotatably coupled to and projects from a low front end of an earpiece via a rotatable coupling between the earbud and the low front end of the earpiece, the earbud having manually selectable rotational positions, the manually selectable rotational positions being a right ear position and a left ear position; a signal cable; a rotational position sensing mechanism located at the rotatable coupling between the earbud and the low front end of the earpiece and configured for, upon manual selection of one of the two manually selectable rotational positions, sending information through the signal cable and to an electronics module, the information indicating when the earbud is in one of the two manually selectable rotational positions; a housing; a right antenna element disposed proximate a right outer side of the housing; a left antenna element disposed proximate a left outer side of the housing; and the electronics module comprising one or more processing devices, a transceiver, and an electronic switch, the electronics module separate from the rotational position sensing mechanism and configured to receive, from the rotational position sensing mechanism and through the signal cable, the information indicating when the earbud is in one of the two manually selectable rotational positions, and to selectively couple the transceiver, based on the information, to the right antenna element or the left antenna element through the electronic switch.