Communication Hub and Communication System
AssigneePlantronics, Inc.
InventorArun Rajasekaran
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Abstract
A communication hub for a communication system and a communication system are provided. The communication hub comprises at least an audio I/O interface for connection with one or more audio sources to at least receive an input audio signal, a user device interface for connection with at least one user audio device, a processor to provide a user input audio signal to the user device interface from the input audio signal, and a reporting module, configured to generate metadata of at least the input audio signal and to provide the metadata to a monitoring device of the communication system.
Claims20
A communication hub for a communication system, with at least
- an audio I/O interface for connection with one or more audio sources to at least receive an input audio signal;
- a user device interface for connection with at least one user audio device;
- a processor to provide a user input audio signal to the user device interface from the input audio signal;
- a reporting module, configured to generate metadata of at least the input audio signal and to provide the metadata to a monitoring device of the communication system;
- and
- a mode-switchable acoustic safety module with at least an enabled state and a disabled state, which mode-switchable acoustic safety module in the enabled state being configured to process the input audio signal to reduce acoustic shocks.
A communication system, with at least
- one or more communication hubs;
- and
- a monitoring device, connected with the one or more communication hubs;
- wherein each communication hub comprises
- an audio I/O interface for connection with one or more audio sources to at least receive an input audio signal;
- a user device interface for connection with at least one user audio device;
- a processor to provide a user input audio signal to the user device interface from the input audio signal;
- a reporting module, configured to generate metadata of at least the input audio signal and to provide the metadata to the monitoring device;
- and
- a mode-switchable acoustic safety module with at least an enabled state and a disabled state, which mode-switchable acoustic safety module in the enabled state being configured to process the input audio signal to reduce acoustic shocks.
A method of processing audio with a communication hub of a communication system, wherein
- at least one input audio signal is received;
- the input audio signal is processed to provide a user input audio signal to a user device from the input audio signal;
- metadata of the at least one input audio signal is generated;
- the metadata is transmitted to a monitoring device of the communication system;
- and
- based on the metadata, a mode-switchable acoustic safety module is set to an enabled state or a disabled state, wherein the mode-switchable acoustic safety module in the enabled state being configured to process the input audio signal to reduce acoustic shocks.
A monitoring device for use in a communication system with one or more of a communication hub and a headset;
- wherein the monitoring device is configured to receive metadata from at least one of the communication hub and the headset and to enable a mode-switchable acoustic safety module of at least one of the communication hub and the headset in case an acoustic safety incident is determined.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.