Plantronics, Inc.

Gary Brown

Peter L Chu

Yibo Liu

Steven L Potts

John Dietz

Richard Kos

PTP timestamps are obtained and correlated to internal audio time and timestamps. This allows Ethernet/IP audio devices to be closely aligned with local digital audio devices to allow improved AEC operations. By performing repetitive PTP timestamps based on local audio time, drift between PTP time and local audio time is determined and corrected. By performing the PTP to local audio time operations on each independent Ethernet network, the Ethernet/IP audio devices can be split between independent LANs. If some local digital audio inputs formed from analog inputs are not aligned with other local digital audio inputs, signals can be provided in analog format and audio samples of the signals can be correlated to local audio time. With correlations performed as necessary based on the various audio inputs in use, high quality AEC operations are performed.

PTP-based audio clock synchronization and alignment for acoustic echo cancellation in a conferencing system with IP-connected cameras, microphones and speakers

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Gary Brown