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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:
Jul. 23, 2024

Filed:

Jan. 10, 2022
Applicant:

Aver Information Inc., New Taipei, TW;

Inventors:

Fu-En Tsai, New Taipei, TW;

Feng Wen Hung, New Taipei, TW;

Chao-I Li, New Taipei, TW;

Assignee:

AVER INFORMATION INC., New Taipei, TW;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 25/93 (2013.01); G10L 25/78 (2013.01); H04N 7/15 (2006.01); H04N 23/695 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 25/93 (2013.01); G10L 25/78 (2013.01); H04N 7/15 (2013.01); H04N 23/695 (2023.01); G10L 2025/783 (2013.01);
Abstract

A sound source tracking method adapted to an ongoing video conference comprising: obtaining a streaming signal of the video conference from an internet; performing a video conference procedure to obtain an audio signal from the streaming signal and send the audio signal to a speaker; performing an audio tracking procedure to obtain the audio signal outputted from the video conference procedure to the communication device and send the audio signal to a sound source tracking camera; playing the audio signal to generate a far-end sound; recording a field sound comprising at least one of the far-end sound and a local-end sound; and performing a comparing procedure to determine a shooting direction of the sound source tracking camera, wherein the shooting direction is adjusted so as not to shoot the speaker when a similarity of the far-end sound and the audio signal is greater than a threshold.


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