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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2022
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ragnvald Balch Barth, Oslo, NO;
Sindre Groestad, Oslo, NO;
Assignee:
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 5/00 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 5/00 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01); H04R 2430/20 (2013.01);
Abstract
Presented herein are techniques to enhance the audio portion of a video conference. In one embodiment, a method includes determining, using a multi-microphone array, a direction of arrival of sound signals from a user, detecting, using an image from a camera, a face of the user, determining a position of the face of the user with respect to a position of the camera, and forming a spatial beam for the multi-microphone array based on the direction of arrival of sound signals from the user and the position of the face of the user.