Active noise cancellation in a medical environment

Abstract

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for actively cancelling noise within a medical environment comprising human speech and other sounds. The human speech may be a verbal command from a user, verbal information for telestration or teleconferencing purposes, etc. The medical environment may comprise one or more speakers, a microphone system, and other components of an audio system. The speakers may play a sound corresponding to a speaker audio signal, generated from a source audio signal from a sound source. The microphone system captures an audio signal comprising the sound played by the speaker(s), the human speech, and/or noise from equipment in the medical environment. The microphone system and/or a computing device then modifies the captured audio signal for active noise cancellation. The disclosed systems and methods may be able to accurately decipher the human speech and cause one or more corresponding actions to be performed.

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