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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 1989
Filed:
Nov. 02, 1987
Donovan A Bruce, Glendale, AZ (US);
A G Communication Systems Corporation, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Abstract
A time shared multiport conference arrangement includes an additive PCM speaker circuit. The additive PCM speaker circuit eliminates the need for loudest speaker detection and the last speaker memory of conventional conferencing arrangements. The additive PCM speaker circuitry operates in an on-line, real time environment to allow rapid conversion and summing of speakers' PCM voice samples. Since the PCM voice samples are logarithmic in nature, they are not directly combinable. The additive PCM speaker circuitry provides for converting the logarithmic PCM signals to linear form. Next, the linear signals of up to three conferees are buffered. Then the speakers' linear form samples are added and each combination reconverted from linear to logarithmic form. The additive PCM speaker circuit simplifies the complex processing logic usually associated with loudest speaker detection systems and thereby improves the real time operation of the conferencing arrangement.
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