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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2014
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/00 (2006.01); H04R 1/40 (2006.01); H04N 7/15 (2006.01); G10L 19/008 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/406 (2013.01); G10L 19/008 (2013.01); H04N 7/15 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01); H04R 2201/405 (2013.01); H04R 2420/01 (2013.01); H04R 2430/21 (2013.01); H04R 2499/15 (2013.01);
Abstract
A telepresence video conference endpoint device includes spaced-apart microphone arrays each configured to transduce sound into corresponding sound signals. A processor receives the sound signals from the arrays and determines a direction-of-arrival (DOA) of sound at each array based on the set of sound signals from that array, determines if each array is blocked or unblocked based on the DOA determined for that array, selects an array among the arrays based on whether each array is determined to be blocked or unblocked, and perform subsequent sound processing based on one or more of the sound signals from the selected array.