Recording meeting audio via multiple individual smartphones
US10171908B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 20, 2016 |
| Grant date | Jan 1, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 26, 2036 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04R2499/11
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Recording audio information from a meeting includes determining which audio input audio device (smartphones) correspond to which meeting participant, measuring volume levels in response to each of the meeting participants speaking, identifying one of the participants is speaking based on stored voice profiles and/or relative volume levels at each of the smartphones, recording on a first channel audio input at a first smartphone corresponding to the speaker, identifying another one of the participants is speaking based on stored voice profiles and/or relative volume levels at each of the smartphones, recording on a second channel, separate from the first channel, audio input at a second smartphone corresponding to the other speaker, and merging the first and second channels to provide a storyboard that includes audio input from the channels and identification of speakers based on which specific ones of the channels contains the audio input.
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