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US 6,192,342 B1Granted
Automated camera aiming for identified talkers
AssigneeVTEL Corporation
InventorAdam Akst
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Abstract
A camera is targeted using voice recognition analysis. Audio information is received by a talker identification (TID) module from a microphone. The TID module automatically performs a voice recognition analysis on the audio information to uniquely identify which of a plurality of talkers is talking. The camera is automatically controlled to target a camera preset location corresponding to the talker identified to be talking.
Claims17
A method for targeting a camera, the method comprising:
- receiving audio information by a talker identification (TID) module from a microphone;
- automatically performing by the TID module a voice recognition analysis on the audio information to uniquely identify which of a plurality of talkers is talking by the voice pattern;
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- automatically controlling the camera to target a camera preset location corresponding to said talker identified to be talking.
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An apparatus for targeting a camera, the apparatus comprising:
- a camera targeting controller for automatically targeting a camera to one of a plurality of camera presets responsive to receiving audio information and identifying the audio information as corresponding to talker identification information which uniquely identifies a talker from a plurality of talkers by the voice pattern and which corresponds to the one of the camera presets.
A method for targeting a camera, the method comprising:
- saving talker/camera combination information for at least one of a plurality of talker/camera combinations, the talker/camera combination information including talker identification information for identifying a talker by voice and camera preset information corresponding to the location of said talker identified by the voice pattern;
- determining whether subsequent talker/camera combinations are to be saved;
- saving subsequent talker camera combinations if subsequent talker/camera combinations are to be saved;
- receiving first audio information;
- recognizing a first talker by determining whether the first audio information corresponds to first talker identification information of the saved talker identification information;
- determining first camera preset information corresponding to the first talker identification information;
- targeting a camera preset location indicated by the first camera preset information.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.