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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2015
Applicant:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
PANASONIC INTELELCTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Torrance, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/56 (2006.01); H04W 4/16 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/568 (2013.01); H04W 4/16 (2013.01); H04M 2207/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
A configuration method for a sound collection system for a meeting using a plurality of terminals, the system obtaining speech from the terminals. The method includes: receiving external sounds from the respective terminals as collected-sound data, the external sounds being collected by the respective terminals; and determining a meeting to which each of the terminals belongs, in accordance with a degree of similarity between the collected-sound data. At least one of the receiving the collected-sound data and the determining the meeting is performed by a processor.