Invention Application
- Patent Title: SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POSITIONING A USER OF A HANDS-FREE INTERCOMMUNICATION SYSTEM
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Application No.: US14522452Application Date: 2014-10-23
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Publication No.: US20160118036A1Publication Date: 2016-04-28
- 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
- Main IPC: G10K11/178
- IPC: G10K11/178 ; H04R27/00 ; G10L15/02 ; H04R1/32

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.
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