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Sound conditioning

  • US 10,283,114 B2
  • Filed: 09/30/2014
  • Issued: 05/07/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A communication device comprising:

  • a microphone array to detect sounds and to generate sound signals corresponding to the sounds, wherein the sounds comprise utterances of a user and other sounds;

    an audio processor coupled to the microphone array to perform sound conditioning on the sound signals to separate the utterances of the user from the other sounds to generate conditioned sound signals; and

    a display device coupled to the audio processor,wherein the audio processor;

    monitors a quality of the conditioned sound signals,detects that the quality of the conditioned sound signals has fallen below a threshold, andgenerates, in response to detecting that the quality of the conditioned sound signals has fallen below the threshold, user feedback signals that instruct the user how to move relative to the microphone array to position the user in a location within a region of optimal sensitivity of the microphone array for detecting the sounds,wherein the quality of the sound conditioning by the audio processor is optimized when the user is speaking the utterances while positioned within the region of optimal sensitivity of the microphone array, andwherein the display device generates visual indicators corresponding to the user feedback signals that instruct the user how to move relative to the microphone array.

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