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 an electrical sound emission signal from a sound controller, interrupting reception of the electrical sound emission signal, by a sound emission interruption circuit connected to a sound emitter, and receiving an electrical ambient sound signal via a sound detection circuit, based on ambient sound sensed by the sound emitter when the reception of the electrical sound emission signal is interrupted by the sound emission interruption circuit.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a plurality of sound emitters configured to receive a plurality of sound emissions signals from a plurality of channels, wherein one of the plurality of sound emission signals associated with one of the plurality of sound emitters is interrupted while other sound emissions signals pass to other corresponding ones of the plurality of sound emitters;
- and
- wherein the plurality of sound emitters are configured to play a different channel of the plurality of channels from contiguous neighboring ones of the plurality of sound emitters.
A method comprising:
- receiving, via a plurality of sound emitters, a plurality of sound emissions signals from a plurality of channels, wherein one of the plurality of sound emission signals associated with one of the plurality of sound emitters is interrupted while other sound emissions signals pass to other corresponding ones of the plurality of sound emitters;
- and
- playing, via the plurality of sound emitters, a different channel of the plurality of channels from contiguous neighboring ones of the plurality of sound emitters.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium configured to store instructions that when executed cause a processor to perform:
- receiving, via a plurality of sound emitters, a plurality of sound emissions signals from a plurality of channels, wherein one of the plurality of sound emission signals associated with one of the plurality of sound emitters is interrupted while other sound emissions signals pass to other corresponding ones of the plurality of sound emitters;
- and
- playing, via the plurality of sound emitters, a different channel of the plurality of channels from contiguous neighboring ones of the plurality of sound emitters.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.