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US 6,788,337 B1Granted
Television voice control system capable of obtaining lively voice matching with a television scene
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorKoujyu Fujii
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Abstract
In a television voice control system which controls voices obtained through a plurality of microphones (14a to 14n) coincidentally with an image pick up by a television camera (11) to be displayed as a scene on a screen, the television voice control system has a calculating unit 12 and a microphone control unit 13 which adjust and control the voices obtained through a plurality of microphones (14a to 14n) by interlocking an image pick up condition of the television camera (11) so that the voices be adapted to the scene.
Claims7
A television voice control system comprising:
- a television camera for picking up an image positioned on a portion of an image pick up field, the camera comprising a detecting section and an output for outputting image information measured by said detecting section, said image information further comprising a camera identification code, and image pick up condition information, the image displayed as a scene on a screen;
- at least two microphones fixed at predetermined positions about the image pick up field for collecting voices, respectively;
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- interlocking control means which mixes and adjusts said voices collected through one or more of the said at least two microphones according to the image information so that said mixed and adjusted voices be adapted to said scene.
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