Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems and methods for positioning a user of a hands-free intercommunication
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Application No.: US14848177Application Date: 2015-09-08
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Publication No.: US10116804B2Publication Date: 2018-10-30
- Inventor: Jesse R. Cheatham, III , Roderick A. Hyde , Muriel Y. Ishikawa , Jordin T. Kare , Craig J. Mundie , Nathan P. Myhrvold , Robert C. Petroski , Eric D. Rudder , Desney S. Tan , Clarence T. Tegreene , Charles Whitmer , Andrew Wilson , Jeannette M. Wing , Lowell L. Wood, Jr. , Victoria Y. H. Wood
- Applicant: Elwha LLC
- Applicant Address: US WA Bellevue
- Assignee: Elwha LLC
- Current Assignee: Elwha LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Bellevue
- Main IPC: H04M1/00
- IPC: H04M1/00 ; H04M1/60 ; H04M9/00 ; H04M11/02 ; G10K11/178 ; H04R1/32 ; H04R27/00 ; G06F3/01 ; G06F3/16 ; H04L12/28 ; H04M3/20 ; H04M3/42 ; H04M3/436 ; H04M3/56 ; H04W4/04 ; H04S7/00

Abstract:
A hands-free intercom may include a user-tracking sensor, a directional microphone, a directional sound emitter, a display device, and/or a communication interface. The user-tracking sensor may determine a location of a user so the directional microphone can measure vocal emissions by the user and the directional sound emitter can deliver audio to the user. The hands-free intercom may provide privacy to the user. The hands-free intercom may prevent an eavesdropper from hearing the user's vocal emissions, for example, by canceling the vocal emissions at the eavesdropper's ear. The directional sound emitter may deliver out-of-phase sound to cancel the vocal emissions. The hands-free intercom may also, or instead, cancel ambient noise at the user's ear. The hands-free intercom may measure or predict a filtration of the sound to be canceled and compensate for the filtration when canceling the sound.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160241720A1 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POSITIONING A USER OF A HANDS-FREE INTERCOMMUNICATION SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2016-08-18
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