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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2011
Applicants:
Hock M. NG, Westfield, NJ (US);
Edward L. Sutter, Jr., Fanwood, NJ (US);
Richard M. Abbot, Belle Mead, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Hock M. Ng, Westfield, NJ (US);
Edward L. Sutter, Jr., Fanwood, NJ (US);
Richard M. Abbot, Belle Mead, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/15 (2006.01); H04R 5/02 (2006.01); H04S 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An audio locating and tracking apparatus, a method of directing a camera to view an audio source, and a video conferencing terminal are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes: (1) an audio source identifier configured to locate an audio source based on multimodal sensor data from at least two different types of sensors and (2) an image selector configured to automatically direct a camera to view the audio source.