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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2009
Applicant:
Eric Yam, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventor:
Eric Yam, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Minato-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/14 (2006.01); H04M 9/08 (2006.01); H04B 3/23 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally include a method and apparatus for minimizing acoustic echo in video conference. In one embodiment, a computer implemented method for minimizing acoustic echo in video conferencing comprises determining position information wherein the position information is derivable from a video stream and processing the position information using a computer to identify at least one direction wherein the one direction minimizes acoustic echo.