Patent ID: 7925307
Filing Date: 2011-04-12
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. An electronic device, comprising: an earpiece speaker; a user input device; a loudspeaker; and a processing circuit configured to receive an audio signal having a range of frequency components, to provide at least a higher frequency portion of the audio signal to the earpiece speaker at a first range of volumes suitable for earpiece use and to simultaneously provide a lower frequency portion of the audio signal having frequency components lower than the higher frequency portion to the loudspeaker, wherein the processing circuit is configured to switch from providing the audio signal to the earpiece speaker only to providing the higher frequency portion of the audio signal to the earpiece speaker and simultaneously providing the lower frequency portion of the audio signal to the loudspeaker based on a signal from the user input device indicative of a desire to increase a volume of the audio signal playing in the earpiece speaker above a maximum volume associated with the earpiece speaker.