Acoustic monitoring using a sound masking emitter as a sensor
AssigneeBiamp Systems, LLC
InventorsChristopher Calisi, Faruk Bursal, Robert Fleming
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Abstract
Example embodiments may include one or more of receiving sound emissions signals from channels via sound emitters, controlling the sound emission signals, via relay circuits, and one of the relay circuits is configured to interrupt one of the sound emission signals associated with one of the sound emitters while the other sound emissions signals pass to the other corresponding sound emitters, and receiving, via a sound detection circuit, an electrical ambient sound signal based on ambient sound sensed by the one of the sound emitters responsive to the interrupted one of the sound emission signals.
Claims17
A system comprising:
- a plurality of sound emitters configured to receive a plurality of sound emissions signals from a plurality of channels;
- a plurality of relay circuits configured to control the plurality of sound emission signals, wherein one of the plurality of relay circuits is configured to interrupt one of the plurality of sound emission signals associated with one of the plurality of sound emitters while the other sound emissions signals pass to the other corresponding plurality of sound emitters;
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- a sound detection circuit configured to receive an electrical ambient sound signal based on ambient sound sensed by the one of the plurality of sound emitters responsive to the interrupted one of the plurality of sound emission signals.
A method comprising:
- receiving a plurality of sound emissions signals from a plurality of channels via a plurality of sound emitters;
- controlling the plurality of sound emission signals, via a plurality of relay circuits, wherein one of the plurality of relay circuits is configured to interrupt one of the plurality of sound emission signals associated with one of the plurality of sound emitters while the other sound emissions signals pass to the other corresponding plurality of sound emitters;
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- receiving, via a sound detection circuit, an electrical ambient sound signal based on ambient sound sensed by the one of the plurality of sound emitters responsive to the interrupted one of the plurality of sound emission signals.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium configured to store instructions that when executed cause a processor to perform:
- receiving a plurality of sound emissions signals from a plurality of channels via a plurality of sound emitters;
- controlling the plurality of sound emission signals, via a plurality of relay circuits, wherein one of the plurality of relay circuits is configured to interrupt one of the plurality of sound emission signals associated with one of the plurality of sound emitters while the other sound emissions signals pass to the other corresponding plurality of sound emitters;
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- receiving, via a sound detection circuit, an electrical ambient sound signal based on ambient sound sensed by the one of the plurality of sound emitters responsive to the interrupted one of the plurality of sound emission signals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.