Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wireless conference call telephone
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Application No.: US13184429Application Date: 2011-07-15
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Publication No.: US10218853B2Publication Date: 2019-02-26
- Inventor: Gregory C. Burnett , Michael Goertz , Nicolas Jean Petit , Zhinian Jing , Steven Foster Forestieri , Thomas Alan Donaldson
- Applicant: Gregory C. Burnett , Michael Goertz , Nicolas Jean Petit , Zhinian Jing , Steven Foster Forestieri , Thomas Alan Donaldson
- Main IPC: H04M3/42
- IPC: H04M3/42 ; H04M3/56 ; G10L21/0208 ; H04R1/40 ; H04R3/00 ; H04R3/04 ; G10L21/0216 ; H04R1/10

Abstract:
A wireless conference call telephone system uses body-worn wired or wireless audio endpoints comprising microphones and, optionally, speakers. These audio-endpoints, which include headsets, pendants, and clip-on microphones to name a few, are used to capture the user's voice and the resulting data may be used to remove echo and environmental acoustic noise. Each audio-endpoint transmits its audio to the telephony gateway, where noise and echo suppression can take place if not already performed on the audio-endpoint, and where each audio-endpoint's output can be labeled, integrated with the output of other audio-endpoints, and transmitted over one or more telephony channels of a telephone network. The noise and echo suppression can also be done on the audio-endpoint. The labeling of each user's output can be used by the outside caller's phone to spatially locate each user in space, increasing intelligibility.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120184337A1 WIRELESS CONFERENCE CALL TELEPHONE Public/Granted day:2012-07-19
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