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Phone stand using a plurality of directional speakers

  • US 10,535,360 B1
  • Filed: 05/25/2017
  • Issued: 01/14/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2017
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A phone stand, comprising:

  • a phone holder for coupling to a phone, the phone for conducting an audio session, the audio session comprising at least one voice session established with a remote device and at least one other audio session of an application executing on the phone;

    a plurality of directional speakers positioned to project sound to a focused audio area corresponding to a location where a user is expected to be positioned;

    one or more other speakers; and

    a system controller configured to;

    receive audio signals of the audio session from the phone, the audio signals of the audio session comprising first audio signals received from the remote device over the at least one voice session and second audio signals received from the application executing on the phone;

    separate the first and second audio signals of the audio session into speech signals and non-speech signals;

    obtain one or more output mixing attributes for the speech signals and the non-speech signals;

    modify the speech signals and the non-speech signals based on the one or more output mixing attributes;

    generate mixed signals by combining the modified speech signals and the modified non-speech signals; and

    send the mixed signals to the plurality of directional speakers.

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