Patent ID: 7953241

Claim:
A microphone assembly including a casing mounted in an electronic communication device, the microphone assembly comprising: one or more sound inlet ports, one or more microphones within the casing, one or more channels for allowing sound to pass through the one or more sound inlet ports to the one or more microphones, and one or more electrical controlling devices within the casing that can be operated by a user for selectively controlling the operation of the assembly, wherein the one or more sound inlet ports, the one or more microphones and the one or more electrical controlling devices are combined to form an integrated microphone assembly, and wherein the one or more electrical controlling devices form part of the one or more sound inlet ports and can be operated by the user without affecting a configuration of any of the one or more sound inlet ports, any of the one or more channels and any path the sound will follow from the one or more sound inlet ports to the one or more microphones.