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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2018
Applicants:
Holger Stoltze, Billerica, MA (US);
Ryo Tanaka, Concord, MA (US);
Pascal Cleve, Sudbury, MA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/00 (2006.01); H04R 1/40 (2006.01); G10L 21/0232 (2013.01); G10L 25/78 (2013.01); H04R 3/04 (2006.01); H04N 7/15 (2006.01); G10L 21/0208 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/005 (2013.01); G10L 21/0232 (2013.01); G10L 25/78 (2013.01); H04R 1/406 (2013.01); H04R 3/04 (2013.01); G10L 2021/02082 (2013.01); H04N 7/15 (2013.01);
Abstract
A video conferencing system has a microphone array that operates to receive acoustic signals corresponding to voice activity and to determine that the signals are either from within a sound field of interest and from outside the sound field of interest, and if the signals are from outside the sound field of interest the system attenuates these signals by not steering a microphone array beam towards these signals.