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Teleconferencing system

  • US 6,804,340 B2
  • Filed: 05/03/2001
  • Issued: 10/12/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A teleconferencing system having an available bandwidth, such system comprising:

  • a dominant speaker detector, for determining which of a plurality of participants is at least one dominant speaker;

    a bandwidth allocator, having a wide bandwidth codec and a narrow bandwidth codec, for allocating a first portion of the available bandwidth to the determined dominant speaker and allocating a second portion of the available bandwidth to a non-dominant speaker participant; and

    wherein the wide bandwidth codec encodes signals from the dominant speaker to first portion of the bandwidth and the narrow bandwidth codec encodes signals from the non-dominant speaker to the second portion of the bandwidth.

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