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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2018

Filed:

Jul. 10, 2017
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Lae-Hoon Kim, San Diego, CA (US);

Jongwon Shin, Gwangju, KR;

Erik Visser, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/01 (2006.01); H04N 7/15 (2006.01); G04G 21/00 (2010.01); G10L 25/48 (2013.01); H04M 3/56 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01); H04R 1/40 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); H04S 7/00 (2006.01); G10L 21/0216 (2013.01); G10L 17/00 (2013.01); G01S 3/808 (2006.01); H04R 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G04G 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 3/011 (2013.01); G10L 25/48 (2013.01); H04M 3/568 (2013.01); H04N 7/15 (2013.01); G01S 3/8083 (2013.01); G06F 1/1613 (2013.01); G10L 17/00 (2013.01); G10L 2021/02166 (2013.01); H04R 1/406 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01); H04R 29/005 (2013.01); H04S 7/304 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed is an application interface that takes into account the user's gaze direction relative to who is speaking in an interactive multi-participant environment where audio-based contextual information and/or visual-based semantic information is being presented. Among these various implementations, two different types of microphone array devices (MADs) may be used. The first type of MAD is a steerable microphone array (a.k.a. a steerable array) which is worn by a user in a known orientation with regard to the user's eyes, and wherein multiple users may each wear a steerable array. The second type of MAD is a fixed-location microphone array (a.k.a. a fixed array) which is placed in the same acoustic space as the users (one or more of which are using steerable arrays).


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