Videoconferencing audio distribution
First Claim
1. A system, comprising:
- a distribution logic to receive from two or more remote videoconferencing sources a video data and an audio data;
one or more video display devices to display the video data, the video display devices being separately controllable, being able to accept separate video inputs, and being able to present separate video outputs; and
two or more audio output devices to output the audio data, the audio output devices being separately controllable, being able to accept separate audio inputs, and being able to produce separate audio outputs,the distribution logic to selectively route a portion of the audio data to an audio output device and to selectively route a portion of the video data to a video display device, the routing being based, at least in part, on a relationship between an audio source and a video source, the routing to cause a first audio output to be acoustically associated with a first video output and a second audio output to be acoustically associated with a second video output,the first audio output and the second audio output being spatially distinguishable.
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Abstract
Systems, methodologies, and media associated with videoconferencing are described. One example system includes video display devices and audio output devices to output video and related audio received from a remote videoconferencing location(s). The example system includes a distribution logic to selectively route audio data to an audio output device(s) and to selectively route video data to a video display device(s). The routing may be based, at least in part, on a relationship between an audio source and a video source. The result of the routing is to cause audio outputs to be acoustically associated with related video outputs so that different audio and video outputs will be spatially distinguishable and so that audio is attributable to related video.
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20 Claims
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1. A system, comprising:
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a distribution logic to receive from two or more remote videoconferencing sources a video data and an audio data; one or more video display devices to display the video data, the video display devices being separately controllable, being able to accept separate video inputs, and being able to present separate video outputs; and two or more audio output devices to output the audio data, the audio output devices being separately controllable, being able to accept separate audio inputs, and being able to produce separate audio outputs, the distribution logic to selectively route a portion of the audio data to an audio output device and to selectively route a portion of the video data to a video display device, the routing being based, at least in part, on a relationship between an audio source and a video source, the routing to cause a first audio output to be acoustically associated with a first video output and a second audio output to be acoustically associated with a second video output, the first audio output and the second audio output being spatially distinguishable. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A system, comprising:
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a distribution logic to receive from two or more remote videoconferencing sources a video data and an audio data, the distribution logic being one of, a circuit, a dynamically configurable circuit, a computer configurable circuit, and a computing component, the audio data including spatial information to identify an audio source location and to identify a video source location related to the audio source location, the spatial information including one or more of, an identifier of a remote videoconferencing location, an identifier of a position within a remote videoconferencing location, and an identifier of a microphone at a remote videoconferencing location with which a portion of the audio data is associated; the audio data to be received over M connections, M being an integer less than or equal to the number of audio sources, the audio data comprising two or more audio signals multiplexed together, the M connections including one or more of, a circuit-switched connection, and a packet-switched connection; one or more video display devices to display the video data, the video display devices being separately controllable, being able to accept separate video inputs, and being able to present separate video outputs; and two or more audio output devices to output the audio data, the audio output devices being separately controllable, being able to accept separate audio inputs, and being able to produce separate audio outputs, the audio data to be received from a remote system comprising; one or more sets of microphones to receive audio signals from audio sources at remote videoconferencing locations; and a spatial information logic to process the audio signals to determine spatial information associated with the audio signals and to provide the spatial information with the audio data provided to the distribution logic, the spatial information logic to establish a one to one relationship between an audio source and a video source, the spatial information comprising one or more of, Cartesian coordinates, polar coordinates, and microphone identifiers, the distribution logic to selectively route a portion of the audio data to an audio output device and to selectively route a portion of the video data to a video display device, the routing being based, at least in part, on a relationship between an audio source and a video source and on the spatial information, the routing to cause a first audio output to be acoustically associated with a first video output and a second audio output to be acoustically associated with a second video output, the video display devices and the audio output devices being arranged in a videoconferencing studio, the first audio output and the second audio output being spatially distinguishable.
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14. A computer-readable medium storing processor executable instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to perform a method, the method comprising:
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receiving an audio signal from a set of remote videoconferencing audio sources; receiving a video signal from a set of remote videoconferencing video sources related to the set of remote videoconferencing audio sources; determining how to distribute the audio signal to a set of audio speakers; determining how to distribute the video signal to a set of video displays; distributing a first portion of the video signal to a first subset of the set of video displays; distributing a first portion of the audio signal related to the first portion of the video signal to a first subset of the set of audio speakers to create a first audio-visual presentation where the first portion of the video signal is spatially correlated to the first portion of the audio signal; distributing a second portion of the video signal to a second subset of the set of video displays; and distributing a second portion of the audio signal related to the second portion of the video signal to a second subset of the set of audio speakers to create a second audio-visual presentation where the second portion of the video signal is spatially correlated to the second portion of the audio signal and where the first audio-visual presentation is identifiably separate from the second audio-visual presentation, where being identifiably separate includes being spatially distinguishable and acoustically distinguishable. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A system, comprising:
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means for receiving videoconferencing data from multiple sources, the videoconferencing data including both audio data and video data; means for determining how to present a local presentation of a videoconference involving multiple sources so that the multiple sources appear visually and acoustically distinct in the local presentation; and means for presenting the local presentation of the videoconference involving multiple sources so that the multiple sources appear visually and acoustically distinct. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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