Throwable microphone with virtual assistant interface
AssigneePeeQ Technologies, LLC
InventorShane Cox
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Abstract
A smart microphone system is disclosed that includes a control microphone subsystem and a smart microphone receiver subsystem. The control microphone subsystem may include a microphone; a wireless transmitter that receives audio signals from the microphone and is configured to wirelessly communicate the audio signals; and a button that switches between a virtual assistant state and audio output state. The smart microphone receiver subsystem may include a wireless receiver that receives audio signals from the wireless transmitter; an audio output that outputs the audio signals from the wireless receiver when the button is in the audio output state; and a virtual assistant that receives the audio signals from the wireless receiver when the button is in the virtual assistant enable state.
Claims20
A smart microphone system comprising:
- a control microphone subsystem comprising:
- a microphone;
- a wireless transmitter that receives audio signals from the microphone and is configured to wirelessly communicate the audio signals;
- and
- a button that switches between a virtual assistant state and audio output state;
- and
- a smart microphone receiver subsystem comprising:
- a wireless receiver that receives audio signals from the wireless transmitter;
- an audio output that outputs the audio signals from the wireless receiver when the control microphone is in the audio output state;
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- a virtual assistant that receives the audio signals from the wireless receiver when the control microphone is in the virtual assistant enable state.
A smart microphone system comprising:
- a control microphone subsystem comprising:
- a control microphone;
- a control wireless transmitter that receives control audio signals from the control microphone and configured to wirelessly communicates the control audio signals;
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- one or more buttons that switches between an audio output state and virtual assistant enable state;
- a throwable microphone subsystem comprising:
- a throwable microphone body;
- a throwable microphone disposed within the throwable microphone body;
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- a throwable wireless transmitter that receives throwable audio signals from the throwable microphone and is configured to wirelessly communicates the throwable audio signals;
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- a smart microphone receiver comprising:
- a wireless receiver that receives the control audio signals from the control wireless transmitter and the throwable audio signals from the throwable transmitter;
- an output that outputs either or both the throwable audio signals or the control microphone signal when the one or more buttons is in the audio output state;
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- a virtual assistant that receives the audio signals from the wireless receiver when the one or more buttons is in the virtual assistant enable state.
A method comprising:
- receiving wireless audio signals from either or both a control microphone or a throwable microphone;
- receiving a control signal from the control microphone;
- in the event the control signal indicates that the control microphone is in the virtual assistant enable state, communicating the audio signal to a virtual assistant;
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- in the event the control signal indicates that the control microphone is in the audio output state, outputting the audio signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.