Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Muting a sound source with an array of microphones
- Patent Title (中): 用麦克风阵列将声源静音
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Application No.: US14154975Application Date: 2014-01-14
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Publication No.: US09451360B2Publication Date: 2016-09-20
- Inventor: Feng Bao , Subrahmanyam Kunapuli , Fei Yang , Tor Sundsbarm
- Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Lempia Summerfield Katz LLC
- Main IPC: H04R3/00
- IPC: H04R3/00 ; H04M3/56 ; H04N7/15

Abstract:
A processing system can include tracking microphone array(s), audio-tracking circuitry configured to detect a location of audio sources from audio signals from the array(s), and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry can be configured to: identify a first microphone that has a strongest signal strength; estimate a location of an active speaker based on at least an output of the audio-tracking circuitry; determine whether a second microphone for the active speaker is affected by an acoustic obstacle based on the location of the active speaker and a location of the first microphone that has the strongest signal strength; estimate attenuation for microphones based on a comparison of actual signal strengths of the microphones with estimated signal strengths of the microphones that are estimated based on microphone signals of the second microphone for the active speaker; and modify the attenuation based on an estimated location of the acoustic obstacle.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150201278A1 MUTING A SOUND SOURCE WITH AN ARRAY OF MICROPHONES Public/Granted day:2015-07-16
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