Shared speakerphone system for multiple devices in a conference room
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsPeter L. Chu, Yibo Liu, Kwan Kin Truong, Hua Chen, Xiangdong Wang
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Abstract
A speakerphone system is shared with multiple participant devices of participants in a physical meeting that are using a web conferencing service. An active speaker is identified from the participants. The participant device of the active speaker is switched, such that the speakerphone system receives and renders audio of the active speaker. Video of the participant device of the active speaker is enabled, such that the web conferencing service displays the video to the participant devices.
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A computer-implementable method for sharing a speakerphone system with multiple participant devices comprising:
- identifying an active speaker of a group of participants in a physical meeting setting using a web conferencing service;
- choosing a participant device of the identified active speaker;
- sending audio of the identified active speaker to the web conferencing service, wherein the web conferencing service provides audio to the speakerphone system;
- and
- enabling video captured by the participant device to be shown by the web conferencing service on all participant devices of the group of participants,
- wherein the identifying comprises enrolling voice signatures each associated with a participant's voice of the group of participants and identifying the active speaker using an enrolled voice signature, wherein the enrolled voice signatures are stored in a common dictionary configured to be accessed by each participant device.
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- a data bus coupled to the processor;
- and
- a non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium embodying computer program code, the non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium being coupled to the data bus, the computer program code interacting with a plurality of computer operations for sharing a speakerphone system with multiple participant devices and comprising instructions executable by the processor to:
- identify an active speaker of a group of participants in a physical meeting setting using a web conferencing service;
- choose a participant device of the identified active speaker;
- send audio of the identified active speaker to the web conferencing service, wherein the web conferencing service provides audio to the speakerphone system;
- and
- enable video captured by the participant device to be shown by the web conferencing service on all participant devices of the group of participants,
- wherein the identifying comprises enrolling voice signatures each associated with a participant's voice of the group of participants and identifying the active speaker through an enrolled voice signature, wherein the enrolled voice signatures are stored in common dictionary configured to be accessed by each participant device.
A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium embodying computer program code for sharing a speakerphone system with multiple participant devices, the computer program code comprising computer executable instructions to:
- identify an active speaker of a group of participants in a physical meeting setting using a web conferencing service;
- choose a participant device of the identified active speaker;
- send audio of the identified active speaker to the web conferencing service, wherein the web conferencing service provides audio to the speakerphone system;
- and
- enable video captured by the participant device to be shown by the web conferencing service on all participant devices of the group of participants,
- wherein the identifying comprises enrolling voice signatures each associated with a participant's voice of the group of participants and identifying the active speaker through an enrolled voice signature, wherein the enrolled voice signatures are stored in common dictionary configured to be accessed by each participant device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.