# US 2018/0025615 A1 · Sound Detection And Alert System For A Workspace

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- Number: US 2018/0025615 A1
- Document ID: US20180025615A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 15/720,461
- Filed: 2017-09-29
- Published: 2018-01-25
- Earliest claimed: 2013-06-06
- Assignees: Steelcase Inc.
- Applicants: Steelcase Inc
- Inventors: Robert Scheper; Matthew Warner; Karl J. Mead; Brett Kincaid; Kurt Heidmann
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20180025615A1

## CPC

- G08B 23/00: Alarms responsive to unspecified undesired or abnormal conditions
- G01H 3/10: Amplitude; Power
- G08B 21/182: {Level alarms, e.g. alarms responsive to variables exceeding a threshold}
- H04R 29/00: Monitoring arrangements; Testing arrangements {(for hearing aids H04R25/30; detection of loudspeaker connection H04R5/04; sound-field adaptation dependent on speaker detection H04S7/308)}
- H04R 29/008: {Visual indication of individual signal levels (visual indication of stereophonic sound image H04S7/40)}
- H04S 7/40: {Visual indication of stereophonic sound image}
- G08B: SIGNALLING SYSTEMS, e.g. PERSONAL CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
- G01H: MEASUREMENT OF MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS OR ULTRASONIC, SONIC OR INFRASONIC WAVES
- H04R: LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; ELECTRIC HEARING AIDS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS (producing sounds with frequency not determined by supply frequency G10K)
- H04S: STEREOPHONIC SYSTEMS

## Abstract

An alert system for generating a signal indicating at least one aspect of sound within a workspace environment, the system comprising at least a first sensor positioned one of within and proximate a workspace, the at least a first sensor sensing at least one aspect of sound generated within the workspace and generating a signal indicating the at least one aspect, a communication device located within the workspace, the communication device configured to generate a signal perceivable within the workspace and a processor receiving signals from the at least a first sensor and linked to the communication device, the processor programmed to perform the steps of identifying when the at least one aspect exceeds a threshold value and driving the communication device to indicate that the at least one aspect exceeds the threshold value.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A personal space for telepresence activities using a portable device comprising:
at least one wall structure supporting a worksurface;
an interior sound sensor and a communication device coupled to an interior of the at least one wall structure;
an exterior sound sensor coupled to an exterior of the at least one wall structure; and
a processor in communication with the interior sound sensor, the exterior sound sensor, and the communication device, the processor adapted to corn pare the sound level inside the wall structure to a threshold level, and to provide a signal at the communication device when a sound level inside the personal space exceeds the threshold, and to adjust the threshold when a sound level exterior to the wall structure exceeds a second threshold value.