Speaker tracking on a single core in a packet based...

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2006-12-05

2006-12-05

To, Doris H. (Department: 2616)

Multiplex communications

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Conferencing

C379S202010

Reexamination Certificate

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07145884

ABSTRACT:
A distributed conferencing system having a plurality of conferencing nodes to connect groups of participants to a conference. Each of the conferencing nodes provides for the connection of one or more participants to the conference. Each node includes a DSP for distributed signal processing. The node DSP includes: A signal measuring device for measuring features of the signals from each of the participants, such as power, zero crossing rate and short term energy and voice activity determination and feature extraction from the signals of the participants connected to each node. Each node has a single core speaker tracking algorithm for determining the relative features of each of the number of participant input signals. The speaker tracking compares the characteristics of the speakers of the core and determines which speakers are to be included and which speakers are to be excluded from presentation to the other nodes in the conference. The core also has a communication device for communicating the measured signal characteristics for the included participant input signals to all other conferencing nodes and for receiving the signal characteristics from selected participants of the other nodes.

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