Samsung patents phone design that routes sound around camera lens
Samsung has been granted a patent for an electronic device that integrates a speaker with a camera module. The design uses a tube-like structure surrounding the camera lens barrel to guide sound from a speaker to an opening in the device's housing.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, a housing including an opening for sound output, a camera module including an image sensor, at least one lens, and a barrel for fixing the at least one lens, a sound conduit element surrounding at least a portion of the barrel and including a sound inlet and a sound outlet, a sound element outputting sound through the sound conduit element and the opening, and a bracket on which the camera module and the sound element are mounted, wherein the bracket may include a first conduit that spatially connects a sound output surface of the sound element and the sound inlet, wherein the sound conduit element may include a second conduit that spatially connects the sound inlet and the sound outlet, and wherein the bracket may include a third conduit that spatially connects the sound outlet and the opening of the housing.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic device comprising: a display; a housing including an opening for sound output; a camera module including an image sensor, at least one lens, and a barrel for fixing the at least one lens; a sound conduit element surrounding at least a portion of the barrel and including a sound inlet and a sound outlet; a sound element outputting sound through the sound conduit element and the opening; and a bracket on which the camera module and the sound element are mounted, wherein the bracket includes a first conduit that spatially connects a sound output surface of the sound element and the sound inlet, wherein the sound conduit element includes a second conduit that spatially connects the sound inlet and the sound outlet, and wherein the bracket includes a third conduit that spatially connects the sound outlet and the opening of the housing.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- Electronic device including sound device
- Patent number
- US12756973B2
- Application number
- 18813467
- Filed
- Aug 23, 2024
- Granted
- Oct 6, 2026
- Inventors
- 6
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04R 1/345 Electricity & electronicsH04R 1/025 Electricity & electronicsH04R 1/028 Electricity & electronicsH04R 2400/11 Electricity & electronicsH04R 2499/11 Electricity & electronicsH04R 2499/15 Electricity & electronicsMore from Samsung in Phones & computers
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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