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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2018

Filed:

Dec. 06, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Stanley Chen, New York, NY (US);

Kenneth W. Church, Croton-on-Hudson, NY (US);

Vaibhava Goel, Chappaqua, NY (US);

Lidia L. Mangu, New York, NY (US);

Etienne Marcheret, White Plains, NY (US);

Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Mount Kisco, NY (US);

Laurence P. Sansone, Beacon, NY (US);

Abhinav Sethy, Chappaqua, NY (US);

Samuel Thomas, Elmsford, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/14 (2006.01); H04N 7/15 (2006.01); G10L 25/60 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/15 (2013.01); G10L 25/60 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of combining data streams from fixed audio-visual sensors with data streams from personal mobile devices including, forming a communication link with at least one of one or more personal mobile devices; receiving at least one of an audio data stream and/or a video data stream from the at least one of the one or more personal mobile devices; determining the quality of the at least one of the audio data stream and/or the video data stream, wherein the audio data stream and/or the video data stream having a quality above a threshold quality is retained; and combining the retained audio data stream and/or the video data stream with the data streams from the fixed audio-visual sensors.


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