Programmable audio mixer
First Claim
1. Apparatus for generating mixed audio signals to be transmitted to a plurality of remote locations in a conference, wherein the remote locations include conference locations served by this apparatus and may include other apparatus for generating mixed audio signals to be transmitted to a plurality of remote locations, the apparatus comprising,means for storing information indicating whether individual ones of incoming transmission paths to this apparatus and outgoing transmission paths from this apparatus are being used in the conference,means for storing information indicating whether individual ones of the incoming transmission paths and the outgoing transmission paths are assigned to a conference location or to another apparatus for generating mixed audio signals, andmeans responsive to said information for generating an appropriate audio mix for each conference location served by this apparatus and a partial sum of audio information from all the conference locations served by this apparatus to be transmitted to said other apparatus in the conference.
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Abstract
Audio mixes for a plurality of conference locations are controllably obtained by using a matrix multiplication arrangement. The audio mixes for the individual conference locations are obtained by multiplying a dynamically determined gain matrix by an audio input matrix. Coefficient values in the gain matrix are dependent on whether incoming and outgoing transmission paths are assigned to a location and on whether an audio sample is being received or not.
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1. Apparatus for generating mixed audio signals to be transmitted to a plurality of remote locations in a conference, wherein the remote locations include conference locations served by this apparatus and may include other apparatus for generating mixed audio signals to be transmitted to a plurality of remote locations, the apparatus comprising,
means for storing information indicating whether individual ones of incoming transmission paths to this apparatus and outgoing transmission paths from this apparatus are being used in the conference, means for storing information indicating whether individual ones of the incoming transmission paths and the outgoing transmission paths are assigned to a conference location or to another apparatus for generating mixed audio signals, and means responsive to said information for generating an appropriate audio mix for each conference location served by this apparatus and a partial sum of audio information from all the conference locations served by this apparatus to be transmitted to said other apparatus in the conference.
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