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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2016
Clearone, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Ashutosh Pandey, Murray, UT (US);
Darrin T. Thurston, Liberty, UT (US);
David K. Lambert, South Jordan, UT (US);
Tracy A. Bathurst, South Jordan, UT (US);
ClearOne, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
This disclosure describes an apparatus and method of an embodiment of an invention that is a conferencing apparatus. This embodiment of the apparatus/system includes a microphone array that further comprises a plurality of microphones where each microphone is configured to sense acoustic waves and the plurality of microphones are oriented to develop a corresponding plurality of microphone signals; a processor, memory, and storage operably coupled to the microphone array, the processor configured to: perform a beamforming operation; perform an acoustic echo cancellation operation; perform a direction of arrival determination; and select one or more of the combined echo cancelled signals.