公开(公告)号：US09401996B2

公开(公告)日：2016-07-26

申请号：US14571528

申请日：2014-12-16

申请人： Timothy D Root

发明人： Timothy D Root

IPC分类号： H04M3/42 ,  H04M3/56 ,  H04M3/00 ,  H04M9/08 ,  G10L21/0208

CPC分类号： H04M3/568 ,  G10L2021/02082 ,  H04M3/002 ,  H04M3/567 ,  H04M9/082 ,  H04M2203/509 ,  H04M2250/62

摘要： A digital audio conferencing system has a fixed base station that is in communication with a far end (R.E.) system over a communication network. The base station is associated with a wireless loudspeaker and one or more wireless microphones. The base station operates to receive F.E. audio signals to be played by the wireless loudspeaker, and it operates to remove acoustic echo picked up by the wireless microphones. A first clock controlling F.E. audio signal sampling at the base station, and a second clock controlling audio signal sampling and at a wireless microphone are synchronized to one master, reference clock that controls the operation of the base station. Acoustic echo included in an audio signal picked up by a wireless microphone is removed by AEC functionality running in the base station.

公开(公告)号：US09344049B2

公开(公告)日：2016-05-17

申请号：US14223126

申请日：2014-03-24

申请人： Mark Desmarais ,  Timothy D Root

发明人： Mark Desmarais ,  Timothy D Root

IPC分类号： H03G3/00 ,  H03G1/02

CPC分类号： H03G1/02

摘要： An audio system is configured to support a number of wireless microphones, and each of the wireless microphones has one or more touch sensitive mute switches and a touch sensitive mute guard band switch. The mute guard band switch is connect to an electrically conductive surface that is proximate to a microphone peripheral surface that a user is likely to touch when they move the microphone. Logical instructions running in conjunction with a DSP associated with the microphone cause the audio system to override any mute commands it receives from any of the mute switches during the time that the guard band switch is activated.

摘要翻译： 音频系统被配置为支持多个无线麦克风，并且每个无线麦克风具有一个或多个触敏静音开关和触敏静音保护带开关。 静音保护带开关连接到接近麦克风外围表面的导电表面，用户在移动麦克风时可能会触摸。 与与麦克风相关联的DSP结合运行的逻辑指令会导致音频系统在保护频段开关激活期间，从任何静音开关接收任何静音命令。

公开(公告)号：US20150245155A1

公开(公告)日：2015-08-27

申请号：US14282240

申请日：2014-05-20

申请人： TIMOTHY D. ROOT ,  MARK DESMARAIS

发明人： TIMOTHY D. ROOT ,  MARK DESMARAIS

IPC分类号： H04R29/00 ,  H04R3/00

CPC分类号： H04R29/004 ,  H04R1/1083 ,  H04R3/002 ,  H04R3/02 ,  H04R2410/03

摘要： An audio system has a base station, a speaker and one or more wireless microphones. The audio system operates to receive audio information from both a far-end audio source and a near-end audio source and to process the audio information for transmission to a far-end audio system. The wireless microphones have an electrically conductive element connected to a touch sensitive switch, and the electrically conductive element is proximate to an outer perimeter surface of the microphones. When the outer perimeter surface of the microphone is touched, the switch is activated which sends a microphone handling signal to the base station. The base station uses the microphone handling signal to control an operational characteristic of an audio signal processing function running on the base station.

摘要翻译： 音频系统具有基站，扬声器和一个或多个无线麦克风。 音频系统操作以从远端音频源和近端音频源接收音频信息，并处理音频信息以传输到远端音频系统。 无线麦克风具有连接到触敏开关的导电元件，并且导电元件靠近麦克风的外周表面。 当麦克风的外周表面被触摸时，开关被激活，其向基站发送麦克风处理信号。 基站使用麦克风处理信号来控制在基站上运行的音频信号处理功能的操作特性。

公开(公告)号：US08103382B2

公开(公告)日：2012-01-24

申请号：US12150060

申请日：2008-04-24

申请人： Timothy D. Root ,  Grinnell More

发明人： Timothy D. Root ,  Grinnell More

IPC分类号： G06F15/16

CPC分类号： H04L67/025 ,  G06F17/30035 ,  H04L67/12 ,  H04L67/38

摘要： In a wide area communications network such as the Internet, a public server and an associated database store and make available to a private server personal information relating to an individuals emotional or some other mental or physical state. The private server includes functionality to interpret the personal information it receives or gathers from the public server in order to identify at least one reaction instruction which can be used by a multimedia communications device to convey to a user the state of an individual by generating a human perceivable reaction which can be playing multimedia content in combination with movement if the multimedia communications device is a robot.

摘要翻译： 在诸如因特网的广域通信网络，公共服务器和相关联的数据库存储器中，并且可以向个人服务器提供与个人情绪或某种其他心理或身体状态相关的个人信息。 私人服务器包括解释其从公共服务器接收或收集的个人信息的功能，以便识别可由多媒体通信设备使用的至少一个反应指令，以通过生成人来向用户传达个人的状态 可感知的反应，如果多媒体通信设备是机器人，其可以与移动相结合播放多媒体内容。

公开(公告)号：USD803174S1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-21

申请号：US29585775

申请日：2016-11-29

申请人： John Coffey ,  Jean Pierre Carney ,  Timothy D Root ,  Barret Wolber ,  John W Wolber ,  Jonathan Schau ,  Mathieu Zastawny ,  Lance Hazelton ,  John Moldauer

设计人： John Coffey ,  Jean Pierre Carney ,  Timothy D Root ,  Barret Wolber ,  John W Wolber ,  Jonathan Schau ,  Mathieu Zastawny ,  Lance Hazelton ,  John Moldauer

公开(公告)号：US09294858B2

公开(公告)日：2016-03-22

申请号：US14282240

申请日：2014-05-20

申请人： Timothy D Root ,  Mark Desmarais

发明人： Timothy D Root ,  Mark Desmarais

IPC分类号： H04B3/20 ,  H04R3/02 ,  H04R29/00 ,  H04R3/00

CPC分类号： H04R29/004 ,  H04R1/1083 ,  H04R3/002 ,  H04R3/02 ,  H04R2410/03

摘要： An audio system has a base station, a speaker and one or more wireless microphones. The audio system operates to receive audio information from both a far-end audio source and a near-end audio source and to process the audio information for transmission to a far-end audio system. The wireless microphones have an electrically conductive element connected to a touch sensitive switch, and the electrically conductive element is proximate to an outer perimeter surface of the microphones. When the outer perimeter surface of the microphone is touched, the switch is activated which sends a microphone handling signal to the base station. The base station uses the microphone handling signal to control an operational characteristic of an audio signal processing function running on the base station.

摘要翻译： 音频系统具有基站，扬声器和一个或多个无线麦克风。 音频系统操作以从远端音频源和近端音频源接收音频信息，并处理音频信息以传输到远端音频系统。 无线麦克风具有连接到触敏开关的导电元件，并且导电元件靠近麦克风的外周表面。 当麦克风的外周表面被触摸时，开关被激活，其向基站发送麦克风处理信号。 基站使用麦克风处理信号来控制在基站上运行的音频信号处理功能的操作特性。

公开(公告)号：US20150244336A1

公开(公告)日：2015-08-27

申请号：US14223126

申请日：2014-03-24

申请人： MARK DESMARAIS ,  TIMOTHY D. ROOT

发明人： MARK DESMARAIS ,  TIMOTHY D. ROOT

IPC分类号： H03G1/02

CPC分类号： H03G1/02

摘要： An audio system is configured to support a number of wireless microphones, and each of the wireless microphones has one or more touch sensitive mute switches and a touch sensitive mute guard band switch. The mute guard band switch is connect to an electrically conductive surface that is proximate to a microphone peripheral surface that a user is likely to touch when they move the microphone. Logical instructions running in conjunction with a DSP associated with the microphone cause the audio system to override any mute commands it receives from any of the mute switches during the time that the guard band switch is activated.

摘要翻译： 音频系统被配置为支持多个无线麦克风，并且每个无线麦克风具有一个或多个触敏静音开关和触敏静音保护带开关。 静音保护带开关连接到接近麦克风外围表面的导电表面，用户在移动麦克风时可能会触摸。 与与麦克风相关联的DSP结合运行的逻辑指令会导致音频系统在保护频段开关激活期间，从任何静音开关接收任何静音命令。

公开(公告)号：USD725624S1

公开(公告)日：2015-03-31

申请号：US29480527

申请日：2014-01-27

申请人： Jean-Pierre Carney ,  Holger Stoltze ,  Stephen Lyman ,  Timothy D Root ,  Steven M Dibdin ,  Bill Fiebel ,  Mathieu Zastawny

设计人： Jean-Pierre Carney ,  Holger Stoltze ,  Stephen Lyman ,  Timothy D Root ,  Steven M Dibdin ,  Bill Fiebel ,  Mathieu Zastawny

公开(公告)号：US20140154968A1

公开(公告)日：2014-06-05

申请号：US13693210

申请日：2012-12-04

申请人： Timothy D. Root ,  Mark Desmarais ,  Holger Stoltze

发明人： Timothy D. Root ,  Mark Desmarais ,  Holger Stoltze

IPC分类号： H04W4/06

CPC分类号： H04W4/06 ,  H04H20/61 ,  H04M3/568

摘要： One or more audio conferencing systems are connected to a local network, and each conferencing system is comprised of a plurality of wireless microphones in communication with a plurality of antennas deployed in an array configuration. Each of the antennas comprising one of the audio conferencing systems is in direct communication with a base station and in indirect communication with a server which runs a centralized digital signal processing functionality. The digital signal processing functionality operates on audio information received from one or more far-end audio sources and from each of the one or more audio conferencing system.

摘要翻译： 一个或多个音频会议系统连接到本地网络，并且每个会议系统由与阵列配置中部署的多个天线通信的多个无线麦克风组成。 包括音频会议系统之一的每个天线与基站直接通信，并与运行集中式数字信号处理功能的服务器间接通信。 数字信号处理功能对从一个或多个远端音频源和一个或多个音频会议系统中的每一个接收的音频信息进行操作。

公开(公告)号：US20130218346A1

公开(公告)日：2013-08-22

申请号：US13590451

申请日：2012-08-21

申请人： TIMOTHY D. ROOT

发明人： TIMOTHY D. ROOT

IPC分类号： B25J9/16

CPC分类号： B25J9/1602 ,  B25J9/1689 ,  G05B2219/39433 ,  Y10S901/01

摘要： A remote control device able to connect to a communications network generates robot control messages are used for the remote control of a robot also able to be connected to the communications network. The remote control device creates a robot control file and an indirect reference to the robot control file which a user can select for inclusion in a robot control message. Once selected, the indirect reference to a robot control file causes the indirectly referenced robot control file to be included in a message generated by the remote control device. The remote control device establishes a communications link with the communications network, and sends the message, with the robot control file, to the robot also connected to the communications network. The robot receives the robot control message and performs at least one action according to the instruction included in the robot control message.

摘要翻译： 能够连接到通信网络的远程控制设备生成机器人控制消息用于远程控制也能够连接到通信网络的机器人。 远程控制装置创建机器人控制文件和对机器人控制文件的间接引用，用户可以选择该机器人控制文件以包括在机器人控制消息中。 一旦被选择，对机器人控制文件的间接引用导致间接引用的机器人控制文件被包括在由遥控装置产生的消息中。 遥控装置与通信网络建立通信链路，并将消息与机器人控制文件发送到也连接到通信网络的机器人。 机器人接收机器人控制消息，并根据机器人控制消息中包含的指令执行至少一个动作。