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Systems and methods for positioning a user of a hands-free intercommunication

  • US 10,116,804 B2
  • Filed: 09/08/2015
  • Issued: 10/30/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A hands-free intercommunication system for automatically connecting a user to an entity of interest, the system comprising:

  • a user-tracking sensor that determines a location of the user;

    a directional microphone that measures vocal emissions by the user, wherein the measured vocal emissions include identifying the entity of interest with which the user would like to communicate;

    a communication interface that communicatively couples the directional microphone and a directional sound emitter to a communication device of the entity of interest, wherein the communication interface determines whether to couple the communication device of the entity of interest to the user based on the location of the user; and

    a directional sound emitter that delivers audio received at the communication device of the entity of interest to the user, wherein the directional sound emitter emits audio received the entity of interest using a plurality of inaudible ultrasonic sound waves that frequency convert to produce audible audio corresponding to the received audio the entity of interest for the user at the location of the user.

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