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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2021
Plantronics, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Peter L. Chu, Lexington, MA (US);
Stephen C. Botzko, Reading, MA (US);
Plantronics, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Abstract
Determining the angle of sound relative to the centerline of a microphone array. The angle of the centerline of a camera field-of-view (FoV) and the angle of the camera FoV is determined. Knowing the angle from the centerline of the microphone array of the particular sound and then the angle of the centerline of the camera FoV and angles of the camera FoV allows a determination if the sound is inside the FoV of the camera. If so, the microphones are unmuted. If not, the microphones are muted. As the camera zooms or pans, the changes in camera FoV and centerline angle are computed and used with the sound angle, so that the muting and unmuting occurs automatically as the camera zoom and pan angle change.