Method and system for sound monitoring over a network
AssigneePersonics Holdings Inc.
InventorsSteven Wayne Goldstein, Marc Boillot, Jason McIntosh, John P. Keady
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Abstract
A mobile communication environment (100) can include a mobile device (160) to measure and send sound pressure level data. The mobile device (160) can initiate the collection of audio information responsive to detecting a trigger event. Mobile device (160) can measure or calculate the sound pressure level from the audio information. Metadata including time information and geographic location information can be captured with the collected audio information. Mobile device (160) can send the sound pressure level data and metadata through a wired or wireless communication path to a database (614).
Claims23
A method of using a mobile device comprising the steps of:
- capturing acoustic information from a microphone of the mobile device;
- configuring audio processing of the captured acoustic information according to a predetermined criteria;
- detecting a trigger event from the captured acoustic information, the trigger event including a predetermined sound signature;
- and
- when the trigger event is detected:
- measuring a sound pressure level from the captured acoustic information, and
- providing metadata corresponding to the measured sound pressure level including time information and geographic information.
A mobile device comprising:
- a microphone configured to capture acoustic information;
- an audio processing circuitry coupled to the microphone and configured to perform audio processing of the captured acoustic information;
- and
- a processor operably coupled to the audio processing circuitry and the microphone, the processor configured to measure a sound pressure level via the microphone, where the audio processing circuitry is bypassed when the sound pressure level is measured,
- where the processor is configured to detect a trigger event from the captured acoustic information, the sound pressure level being measured responsive to the detected trigger event, the trigger event including a predetermined sound signature.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.