Locating individuals using microphone arrays and voice pattern matching
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsJAMES M MANN, HAROLD MERKEL, SILAS MORRIS
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Abstract
Examples disclosed herein provide the ability to identify the location of an individual within a room by using a combination of microphone arrays and voice pattern matching. In one example, a computing device may extract a voice detected by microphones of a microphone array located in a room, perform voice pattern matching to identify an individual associated with the extracted voice, and determine a location of the individual in the room based on an intensity of the voice detected individually by the microphones of the microphone array.
Claims15
A method comprising:
- extracting a voice detected by microphones of a microphone array located in a room;
- performing voice pattern matching to identify an individual associated with the extracted voice;
- determining a location of the individual in the room based on an intensity of the voice detected individually by the microphones of the microphone array;
- and
- adjusting settings of the microphones near the individual.
A system comprising:
- microphone arrays located in a room;
- and
- a computing device comprising:
- a receive engine to receive feeds of audio from microphones of the microphone arrays;
- an extract engine to extract a voice from the feeds;
- a perform engine to perform voice pattern matching for identifying an individual associated with the extracted voice;
- and
- a determine engine to determine a location of the individual in the room based on an intensity of the voice detected individually by the microphones of the microphone arrays.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising programming instructions which, when executed by a processor, to cause the processor to:
- extract a voice detected by microphones of a microphone array located in a room;
- perform voice pattern matching to identify an individual associated with the extracted voice;
- determine a location of the individual in the room based on an intensity of the voice detected individually by the microphones of the microphone array;
- detect movement of the individual within the room when the intensity of the voice detected individually by the microphones of the microphone array changes;
- and
- dynamically adjust settings of the microphones near the individual.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.