MILLIMETER WAVE SENSOR USED TO OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE OF A BEAMFORMING MICROPHONE ARRAY

    公开(公告)号:US20240098440A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-21

    申请号:US17948379

    申请日:2022-09-20

    Inventor: Mark LaBosco

    CPC classification number: H04S7/301 H04S2400/15

    Abstract: A method for operating a beamforming microphone array for use in a predetermined area is provided herein, the method comprising: receiving acoustic audio signals at each of a plurality of microphones, converting the same to an electrical mic audio signal, and outputting each of the plurality of electrical mic audio signals; generating a user location data signal by a wave sensor system, and outputting the user location data signal, wherein the user location data signal includes location information of one or more people within the predetermined area; receiving both the user location data signal and plurality of echo-corrected mic audio signals at an adaptive beamforming device; and adapting one or more beams by the adaptive beamforming device based on the user location data signal and plurality of mic audio signals wherein each of the one or more beams acquires sound from one or more specific locations in the predetermined area.

    SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING OPERATIONAL STATUS OF POWER-OVER-ETHERNET POWERED LOUDSPEAKERS IN AN AUDIO DISTRIBUTION SYTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20230209289A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-29

    申请号:US17991019

    申请日:2022-11-21

    CPC classification number: H04R29/001 H04L12/10

    Abstract: A system and method are described herein, for determining operational status of one or more power-over-Ethernet powered loudspeakers, the system and method comprising: receiving audio data at an audio receiver; transmitting the received audio data from the audio receiver to one or more audio data interface devices using an audio-over-Internet Protocol (AoIP) encoding scheme using an Ethernet cable; receiving the transmitted AoIP encoded audio data at audio data interface device, converting the encoded audio data to an analog audio data signal, transmitting the analog audio data signal to at least one loudspeaker, and broadcasting the same as an acoustic audio signal; substantially continuously receiving and storing status information by a status monitor located in the audio data interface device; and transmitting the received and stored status information to the audio receiver.

    Millimeter wave sensor used to optimize performance of a beamforming microphone array

    公开(公告)号:US11172291B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-09

    申请号:US16802111

    申请日:2020-02-26

    Inventor: Mark LaBosco

    Abstract: A method for operating a beamforming microphone array for use in a predetermined area comprising: receiving acoustic audio signals at each of a plurality of microphones, converting the same to an electrical mic audio signal, and outputting each of the plurality of electrical mic audio signals; generating a user location data signal by a wave sensor system, and outputting the user location data signal, wherein the user location data signal includes location information of one or more people within the predetermined area; receiving both the user location data signal and plurality of mic audio signals at an adaptive beamforming device; adapting one or more beams by the adaptive beamforming device based on the user location data signal and plurality of output electrical mic audio signals wherein each of the one or more beams acquires sound from one or more specific locations in the predetermined area; and performing acoustic echo cancellation on each of the one or more beams output from the adaptive beamforming device.

    System for audio distribution including network microphones for voice applications

    公开(公告)号:US11158313B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-26

    申请号:US16207847

    申请日:2018-12-03

    Inventor: Mark LaBosco

    Abstract: Disclosed is a microphone system, comprising: one or more microphones each of which is adapted to receive acoustic audio signals and convert the same from acoustical energy signals into electrical audio signals and output the same as microphone output audio signals; and an acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) device adapted to receive the microphone output audio signals, and wherein the AEC device also receives as a second input a reference audio signal from a network, and wherein the AEC device is further adapted to cancel substantially all of the reference audio signal from the microphone output audio signals and output the same as a corrected audio signal, and wherein the reference audio signal comprises an audio signal generated by an external audio system.

    MILLIMETER WAVE SENSOR USED TO OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE OF A BEAMFORMING MICROPHONE ARRAY

    公开(公告)号:US20200275204A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-27

    申请号:US16802111

    申请日:2020-02-26

    Inventor: Mark LaBosco

    Abstract: A method for operating a beamforming microphone array for use in a predetermined area comprising: receiving acoustic audio signals at each of a plurality of microphones, converting the same to an electrical mic audio signal, and outputting each of the plurality of electrical mic audio signals; generating a user location data signal by a wave sensor system, and outputting the user location data signal, wherein the user location data signal includes location information of one or more people within the predetermined area; receiving both the user location data signal and plurality of mic audio signals at an adaptive beamforming device; adapting one or more beams by the adaptive beamforming device based on the user location data signal and plurality of output electrical mic audio signals wherein each of the one or more beams acquires sound from one or more specific locations in the predetermined area; and performing acoustic echo cancellation on each of the one or more beams output from the adaptive beamforming device.

    MILLIMETER WAVE SENSOR USED TO OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE OF A BEAMFORMING MICROPHONE ARRAY

    公开(公告)号:US20200275201A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-27

    申请号:US16801964

    申请日:2020-02-26

    Inventor: Mark LaBosco

    Abstract: A beamforming microphone array is described herein, comprising: a plurality of microphones each of which is adapted to receive an acoustic audio signal and convert the same to a microphone (mic) audio signal; a wave sensor system adapted to determine locations of one or more people within a predetermined area about the beamforming microphone array and output the same as user location data signal; and an adaptive beamforming circuit adapted to receive the user location data signal and plurality of mic audio signals and perform adaptive beamforming on the plurality of mic audio signals that takes into account the received user location data signal to adapt one or more beams to acquire sound from one or more specific locations in the predetermined area.

    Dual Sourcing Power Over Ethernet On A Single Data Path

    公开(公告)号:US20200067720A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-27

    申请号:US16671421

    申请日:2019-11-01

    Abstract: Described herein is a data communication system using power over Ethernet (PoE) for power distribution, comprising a first and second powered device (PD), each of which is adapted to communicate with each other through an Ethernet data path (EDP) and is further adapted to receive direct current (DC) power using a PoE protocol, and a mid-span power injection device (MSPID) adapted to provide a communications interface such that data communications passes through the MSPID to and from each of the PDs, and wherein the MSPID is further adapted to provide a first DC power to only the first PD using the EDP, and to provide a second DC power to only the second PD using the EDP.

    System and method for determining recipient of spoken command in a control system

    公开(公告)号:US10121473B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-06

    申请号:US15376846

    申请日:2016-12-13

    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for determining which controllable device an audible command is directed towards, the method comprising: receiving at each of two or more controlling devices the audible command signal, the audible command being directed to control at least one of two or more controllable devices controlled by a respective one of the two or more controlling devices; digitizing each of the received audible command signals; attaching a unique identifier to each digitized audible command so as to uniquely correlate it to a respective controlling device; determining a magnitude of each of the digitized audible command; determining a digitized audible command with the greatest magnitude, and further determining to which controlling device the audible command is directed to on the basis of the unique identifier associated with the digitized audible command with the greatest magnitude; performing speech recognition on the digitized audible command with the greatest magnitude; and forwarding a command to the controlling device corresponding to the digitized audible command with the greatest magnitude, the command corresponding to the audible command that can be implemented on the controllable device controlled by the controlling device.

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