Proximity-based audio conferencing
AssigneeKoninklijke KPN N.V.
InventorHans Maarten Stokking
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Abstract
A method of facilitating audio conferencing comprises predicting or determining whether a first user (76) of a first user device (71) is able to hear a second user (77) of a second user device (72) directly and enabling the first user device to reproduce audio captured by the second user device while the first user device reproduces audio captured by a third user device (73) if the first user is predicted or determined not to be able to hear the second user directly or preventing that the first user device reproduces audio captured by the second user device while the first user device reproduces audio captured by the third user device if the first user is predicted or determined to be able to hear the second user directly.
Claims16
An audio conferencing facilitating device, wherein
- the audio conferencing facilitating device comprises at least one processor configured to:
- predict or determine whether a first user of a first user device is able to hear a second user of a second user device directly,
- enable the first user device to reproduce audio captured by the second user device while the first user device reproduces audio captured by a third user device if the first user is predicted or determined not to be able to hear the second user directly or prevent that the first user device reproduces audio captured by the second user device while the first user device reproduces audio captured by the third user device if the first user is predicted or determined to be able to hear the second user directly.
A method of facilitating audio conferencing, the method comprising:
- predicting or determining whether a first user of a first user device is able to hear a second user of a second user device directly;
- and
- enabling the first user device to reproduce audio captured by the second user device while the first user device reproduces audio captured by a third user device if the first user is predicted or determined not to be able to hear the second user directly or preventing that the first user device reproduces audio captured by the second user device while the first user device reproduces audio captured by the third user device if the first user is predicted or determined to be able to hear the second user directly.
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