US 12,468,351 B2
Electronic device adjusting sound signal and method for controlling the electronic device
Hyein Park, Suwon-si (KR); Deokhyeong Yoo, Suwon-si (KR); Sangheon Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Mira Seo, Suwon-si (KR); Jungyeol An, Suwon-si (KR); Seungyoon Heo, Suwon-si (KR); and Yeunwook Lim, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Aug. 10, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/885,395.
Application 17/885,395 is a continuation of application No. PCT/KR2022/011845, filed on Aug. 9, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0105667 (KR), filed on Aug. 10, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0049857 A1, Feb. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 1/16 (2006.01); H04R 3/04 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 1/1677 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1618 (2013.01); G06F 1/1652 (2013.01); H04R 3/04 (2013.01); H04R 2430/01 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising,
memory storing instructions:
a flexible display;
at least two microphones;
a sensor;
a communication module comprising communication circuitry; and
at least one processor operatively connected with the memory, the flexible display, the at least two microphones, the sensor, and the communication module,
wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, individually and/or collectively, cause the electronic device to:
based on receiving a call signal from an external electronic device through the communication module, identify whether the call signal is a video call signal;
based on the call signal being the video call signal, identify a folding state of the electronic device, and adjust a sound signal received through the at least two microphones based on the folding state;
based on the call signal not being the video call signal, adjust the sound signal received through the at least two microphones by reducing sound signals other than a sound signal with a largest magnitude among sound signals received through the at least two microphones;
control the communication module to transmit the adjusted sound signal to the external electronic device; and
determine a direction of the sound signal based on a reception time of the sound signal received through each of the at least two microphones.