US 12,108,147 B2
Camera with microphone mute responsive to movement
Jace W. Files, Round Rock, TX (US); John Trevor Morrison, Round Rock, TX (US); and Andrew T. Sultenfuss, Leander, TX (US)
Assigned to Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Jan. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/577,979.
Application 17/577,979 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/550,748, filed on Dec. 14, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0188839 A1, Jun. 15, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 23/667 (2023.01); H04N 23/68 (2023.01); H04R 3/04 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 23/667 (2023.01) [H04N 23/6812 (2023.01); H04R 3/04 (2013.01); H04R 2430/01 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information handling system comprising:
a processor operable to execute instructions to process information;
a memory interfaced with the processor and operable to store the instructions and information;
a display interfaced with the processor and operable to present the information as visual images at a display panel, the display panel having a ferromagnetic material disposed at a rear side of the display panel;
a camera having a processing resource, a non-transitory memory, a camera module operable to capture visual images and a magnet disposed in a housing, the magnet attracted to the ferromagnetic material to hold the camera at the display panel with the camera module aligned to capture a field of view at a front position of the display;
a microphone disposed in the camera and operable to detect audio sounds;
a sensor operable to detect movement of the camera; and
instructions stored in the non-transitory memory that when executed on the processing resource mute the microphone when the sensor senses camera movement;
wherein the instructions mute the microphone and turn off the video stream by continuing to collect the microphone audio and the camera module video at the camera and by not communicating the microphone audio and camera module video stream to the information handling system during the sensed movement, the instructions monitoring the microphone audio to determine when movement is complete.