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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2014
Applicant:
Echostar Technologies L.l.c., Englewood, CO (US);
Inventors:
Shounak Mitra, Englewood, CO (US);
Fred Earl Starks, Centennial, CO (US);
Assignee:
EchoStar Technologies L.L.C., Englewood, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/00 (2006.01); H04S 7/00 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/30 (2013.01); H04N 7/183 (2013.01); H04R 3/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system includes a microphone array having a plurality of microphones. The system further includes a camera configured to capture stream video and a processing device configured to steer the microphone array based at least in part on the video acquired by the camera. A method includes receiving video captured by a camera, processing the video, and steering a microphone array using signal processing where the steering direction is defined by the processed video.