Patent ID: 8401178

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a communications device housing having integrated therein: an uplink channel processor to provide an uplink voice signal for a call by enhancing a voice dominant input signal using an echo or noise dominant input signal; a downlink channel processor to receive a downlink voice signal for the call; a plurality of microphones; a switch to couple (a) a microphone signal, that is selectable from each of the plurality of microphones, into a voice dominant input of the uplink channel processor, and (b) a further microphone signal, selectable from each of the plurality of microphones, into a noise and/or echo dominant input of the uplink channel processor; and a selector to dynamically control the switch during the call to change the coupling of the microphone signals wherein the selector is to change coupling of the voice dominant input and the noise and/or echo dominant input, based on a current call handling mode of the apparatus, the current call handling mode being one of handset mode and speakerphone mode.