Combining installed audio-visual sensors with ad-hoc mobile audio-visual sensors for smart meeting rooms

An audio-visual acquisition system, comprising:

• an antenna device configured to send a request to each of one or more personal mobile devices for the personal mobile device to identify itself, and receive an identifier from at least one of the one or more personal mobile devices;
• an information processing system configured to determine the signal-to-noise ratio of an audio data stream received from the at least one of the one or more personal mobile devices, wherein the audio data stream having a signal-to-noise ratio above a threshold quality is retained;
• and
• an information aggregation system configured to combine the retained audio data stream with one or more audio data streams from fixed audio sensors to form a final object/recording.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising a computer readable program for combining data streams from a fixed audio sensor and fixed video sensor with audio-visual data streams from a personal mobile device, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to perform the steps of:

• sending a request to each of one or more personal mobile devices for the personal mobile device to identify itself;
• confirming that an identifier received from at least one personal mobile device is intended to be linked to an audio-visual acquisition system based on the received identifier;
• and
• issue an invitation to the intended personal mobile device to form a communication link.