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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:
Aug. 11, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 30, 2019
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Takuya Yoshioka, Bellevue, WA (US);

Andreas Stolcke, Berkeley, CA (US);

Zhuo Chen, Woodinville, WA (US);

Dimitrios Basile Dimitriadis, Bellevue, WA (US);

Nanshan Zeng, Bellevue, WA (US);

Lijuan Qin, Redmond, WA (US);

William Isaac Hinthorn, Seattle, WA (US);

Xuedong Huang, Bellevue, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 5/04 (2006.01); G10L 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04R 3/04 (2006.01); H04R 3/12 (2006.01); G10L 15/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 5/04 (2013.01); G10L 15/16 (2013.01); H04L 65/60 (2013.01); H04R 3/04 (2013.01); H04R 3/12 (2013.01); G10L 2015/088 (2013.01); H04R 2420/07 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computer implemented method includes receiving audio signals representative of speech via multiple audio channels transmitted from corresponding multiple distributed devices, designating one of the audio channels as a reference channel, and for each of the remaining audio channels, determine a difference in time from the reference channel, and correcting each remaining audio channel by compensating for the corresponding difference in time from the reference channel.


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