Abstract:
A handsfree communication system includes microphones, a beamformer, and filters. The microphones are spaced apart and are capable of receiving acoustic signals. The beamformer compensates for propagation delays between the direct and reflected acoustic signals. The filters are configured to a predetermined susceptibility level. The filter process the output of the beamformer to enhance the quality of the received signals.
Abstract:
A class of planar arrays having broad frequency range applications for source location, source imaging or target illumination with projected beams is described in this disclosure. The non-redundant arrays are circularly symmetric and made up of a plurality of sensing and/or transmitting elements arranged so as to substantially eliminate grating lobes for a broad range of frequencies. Signals received from or transmitted to the elements are appropriately phased to control the beam of the array.
Abstract:
A loudspeaker system has a number of loudspeaker driver assemblies operative over a number of octaves in the audio frequency range. Support structure supports the loudspeaker driver assemblies in fixed substantially contiguous relationship substantially along an arcuate surface with each of the driver assemblies oriented in a prescribed direction and coacting to illuminate with sound a predetermined solid angle centered at the loudspeaker system substantially uniformly over said number of octaves.
Abstract:
A flat-panel display device described herein includes a display screen; a display backplate; a chassis slidably arranged on the display backplate; a fixing support, a motion module arranged on the chassis, wherein the motion module includes a first telescopic assembly and a second telescopic assembly arranged on the fixing support; a first speaker arranged on the chassis; and a second speaker connected to the second telescopic assembly. The first telescopic assembly is matched with the display backplate and configured to drive the chassis, the first speaker, the second speaker and the second telescopic assembly to move back and forth in a first direction relative to the display backplate. The second telescopic assembly is configured to drive the second speaker to move back and forth in a second direction relative to the display backplate and the first speaker.
Abstract:
Wind noise reduction in microphone signals. A first microphone signal is obtained from a first omnidirectional microphone and, contemporaneously, a second microphone signal is obtained from a second omnidirectional microphone. The first and second microphone signals are mixed to produce an output signal. Mixing involves weighting the first and second microphone signals by respective first and second signal weights to produce respective first and second weighted microphone signals, and summing the first and second weighted microphone signals together to produce the output signal. The first and second signal weights are calculated to minimize the power of the output signal.
Abstract:
In certain embodiments, an article of manufacture, such as a cell phone, has a device body with a non-spheroidal shape, such as a parallelepiped, and microphones configured at different locations on the device body. A signal processing system processes the microphone signals to generate a plurality of different output beampatterns in at least two non-parallel directions, wherein, in generating at least one of the output beampatterns, the signal processing system takes into account effects of the device body on the incoming acoustic signal. Four or more microphones can be used to generate B format output beampatterns, such as three dipole beampatterns and an omnidirectional beampattern.
Abstract:
A coprime microphone array (CMA) system, comprising: a CMA arrangement that includes a pair of uniform linear microphone subarrays that are coincident and have a coprime number of microphones; a computing system that processing signals from each microphone in the CMA arrangement and generates sound localization information.
Abstract:
There is provided a signal processing apparatus that obtains a speech signal with sufficiently reduced wind noise. The signal processing apparatus includes a main microphone that is provided so as to be readily influenced by movement of air outside the signal processing apparatus, a sub microphone that is provided so as to be hardly influenced by movement of air outside the signal processing apparatus, a determiner that determines, based on a strength of a main speech signal output from the main microphone, whether the main speech signal includes a predetermined amount of wind noise, and a selector that receives the main speech signal and a sub speech signal output from the sub microphone, executes, if it is determined that the main speech signal includes the predetermined amount of wind noise, selection processing for outputting the sub speech signal, and executes, if it is determined that the main speech signal includes no predetermined amount of wind noise, selection processing for outputting the main speech signal.
Abstract:
An audio or video conferencing system having an array comprised of two or more microphones and having one or more loudspeakers positioned proximate to the microphones. The conferencing system also has acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) functionality that removes direct and reverberant acoustic echo from microphone signals in two separate acoustic echo cancellation operations. The first AEC operation removes direct acoustic echo prior to a beamforming operation, and the second AEC operation removes reverberant acoustic echo from a microphone signal subsequent to the beamforming operation.
Abstract:
Described in detail herein are methods and systems for identifying actions based on detected sounds in a facility. An array of microphones can be disposed in a facility. The microphones can detect various sounds and encode the sounds in an electrical signal and transmit the sounds to a computing system. The computing system can determine the sound signature of each sound and based on the sound signature the chronological order of the sounds and the time interval in between the sounds the computing system can determine the action being performed causing the sounds.