Automatic audio capture device selection
AssigneeZoom Communications, Inc.
InventorChi-chian Yu
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Abstract
A microphone of a primary client device is used to capture audio for a conference participant. During the conference, audio is sampled from the microphone of the primary client device and from microphones of one or more secondary client devices at the same location as the primary client device. Based on a score calculated for the audio sampled from the secondary client device being higher than a score calculated for audio sampled from the primary client device, the microphone of the secondary client device is selected for audio capture for the remote conference participant. The audio is output through conferencing software to which the primary client device is connected via a user interface tile for the conference.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- capturing first audio using a microphone of a first client device connected to a conference using a conference participant account;
- sampling second audio using a microphone of a second client device that shares the conference participant account with the first client device and is connected to the conference via a client application logged into the conference participant account;
- and
- configuring the microphone of the second client device to capture the second audio for output to the conference when a quality score of the second audio is higher than a quality score of the first audio.
A system, comprising:
- a memory;
- and
- a processor configured to execute instructions stored in the memory to:
- capture first audio using a microphone of a first client device connected to a conference using a conference participant account;
- sample second audio using a microphone of a second client device that shares the conference participant account with the first client device and is connected to the conference via a client application logged into the conference participant account;
- and
- configure the microphone of the second client device to capture the second audio for output to the conference when a quality score of the second audio is higher than a quality score of the first audio.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions operable to cause one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- capturing first audio using a microphone of a first client device connected to a conference using a conference participant account;
- sampling second audio using a microphone of a second client device that shares the conference participant account with the first client device and is connected to the conference via a client application logged into the conference participant account;
- and
- configuring the microphone of the second client device to capture the second audio for output to the conference when a quality score of the second audio is higher than a quality score of the first audio.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.