Sound cancellation device for a computer based calling device
OwnerBenjamin J Kwitek, Scott C Harrisinventors
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Abstract
An undesired sound reduction system which reduces sounds received into a microphone during the call. Undesired sounds are identified, and samples of the undesired sounds are created. The undesired sounds can be identified by using known sounds of public places, by manufacturers, or by a user indicating that the sound is undesirable at one time to use that indication at some later time. When the undesired sounds are identified during the call, a part of the undesired sound is reduced in volume or prominence more than other parts of the call, to thus reduce the undesired sound.
Claims18
A communicator system with a sound reduction system, comprising:
- a communicator system, that controls carrying out calls with a remote party, the communicator system including a speaker that plays incoming sounds received from the remote party and a microphone that receives outgoing sounds to be sent to the remote party;
- a processor, the controls the communicator system;
- a memory, that stores information, including the memory storing at least one file of electronic stored information indicative of undesired sounds, where the undesired sounds are sounds that are undesirable to receive through the communicator microphone and to pass to the remote party;
- the processor operating to compare incoming sounds from the microphone with the at least one file representing the undesired sounds,
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- the processor operating to reduce the volume of the undesired sounds in the incoming sounds before the incoming sounds are sent to the remote party, and the processor not reducing other parts of the incoming sounds as much as reducing the volume of the undesired sounds.
A method of muting undesired calls sounds during a call, comprising:
- carrying out a call with a remote party, using a microphone on a communicator to receive sound that is sent to the remote party;
- storing, in a memory, a plurality of undesired sounds;
- responsive to detecting that a sound from the microphone matches to a an undesired sound stored in the memory, reducing a part of the sound coming from the microphone that includes the undesired sound, and not reducing another part of the sound from the microphone that does not includes the undesired sound as much as the sound from from the microphone that includes the undesired sound;
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- sending the sound from the microphone to the remote party with the part of the sound that includes the undesired sound being reduced in volume.
A method of operating a communicator system with a sound reduction system, comprising:
- Controlling carrying out calls with a remote party, using communicator system including a speaker that plays incoming sounds received from the remote party and a microphone that receives outgoing sounds to be sent to the remote party;
- storing at least one file of electronic stored information indicative of undesired sounds, where the undesired sounds are sounds that are undesirable to receive through the communicator microphone and to pass to the remote party;
- comparing incoming sounds from the microphone with the at least one file representing the undesired sounds,
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- reducing a volume of the undesired sounds in the incoming sounds before the incoming sounds are sent to the remote party, and the processor not reducing other parts of the incoming sounds as much as reducing the volume of the undesired sounds.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.