Telephonic communications – Substation or terminal circuitry – Sidetone control or hybrid circuit
Reexamination Certificate
2007-10-31
2011-11-01
Elahee, MD S (Department: 2614)
Telephonic communications
Substation or terminal circuitry
Sidetone control or hybrid circuit
C379S392010
Reexamination Certificate
active
08050398
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed herein are teleconferencing pods that include a microphone and a loudspeaker for open-air conversations, connectible to a separate telephonic device that generates an intermittent sidetone that is active at certain times not in the control or monitoring of the pod. In those pods is a sidetone suppressor that suppresses a distracting open-air echo produced from the intermittent sidetone and a compensator that detects sidetone transitions to avoid generating an echo signal in the pod and to avoid adapting suppression in the absence of an externally-generated sidetone. Sidetone suppression may be by several means, and may include variables controlled by adaption, including delay factors, scalers and coefficients. Detailed information on various example embodiments of the inventions are provided in the Detailed Description below, and the inventions are defined by the appended claims.
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Booth Matthew J.
Clearone Communications, Inc.
Elahee MD S
Matthew J. Booth & Associates PLLC
Teshale Akelaw
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