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VIDEO CONFERENCE SYSTEM USING VOICE-SWITCHED CAMERAS

  • US 3,601,530 A
  • Filed: 04/29/1969
  • Issued: 08/24/1971
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/29/1969
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a video system for conference connecting a plurality of groups of remotely located conferees, a plurality of video cameras disposed at a group location so that the field of view of each camera is respectively restricted to a small number of persons in the group, a plurality of microphones positioned before said group with the microphones being equal in number to said plurality of video cameras, the microphone positions with respect to said group corresponding to the fields of view of the cameras, means for transmitting video signals from said group location to one or more remote group locations, and voice voting and switching means coupled to said microphones for determining the location of the person in the group who is talking and in response thereto preempting connecting the camera covering the talker to the video-transmitting means.

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