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AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.
InventorsJ. William Mauchly, Subrahmanyam V. Kunapuli, Fei Yang
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In one embodiment, a method includes receiving audio at a plurality of microphones, identifying a sound source to be muted, processing the audio to remove sound received from the sound source at each of the microphones, and transmitting the processed audio. An apparatus is also disclosed.
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Arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities: audio processing specific to telephonic…
Systems for two-way working: conference systems
User guidance or feature selection: whereby the feature is a sub-conference
Related to audio conference: multiple active speakers
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The present disclosure relates generally to processing audio in a communication system.
Teleconferencing has become increasingly popular as a means to reduce travel expense and enhance collaboration between people from distributed geographic locations. In a large teleconference room there may be any number of microphones.
In conventional systems, when one microphone is muted, all of the microphones are muted and no audio is emitted. Rather than muting all audio, a user may want to mute just their microphone, so that they can have a side conversation, for example. However, the sound of the user's voice may leak into other microphones in the room. This may result in people thinking that they cannot be heard, when in fact, other microphones pick up their voice and transmit it over the teleconference.
FIG. 1 illustrates an example of a network in which embodiments described herein may be implemented.
FIG. 2 illustrates a top view of an example of a conference room containing a teleconference system operating as an endpoint in the network of FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the system used in the conference room shown in FIG. 2, in accordance with one embodiment.
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Overview
In one embodiment, a method generally comprises receiving audio at a plurality of microphones, identifying a sound source to be muted, processing the audio to remove sound received from the sound source at each of the microphones, and transmitting the processed audio.