Audio stream arrangement
US9998605B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 27, 2012 |
| Grant date | Jun 12, 2018 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 30, 2033 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04M3/561
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Conference systems are often installed in plenary halls and comprise a plurality of microphones for participants of a discussion, whereby the speech signals of the participants are received by the microphones, amplified by the conference system and distributed to the other participants of the discussion. An audio stream arrangement (1) is proposed comprising: a plurality of audio devices (2), whereby each audio device (2) is adapted to provide an audio stream and whereby each audio device (2) comprises an audio device network interface (8) for transmitting its audio stream over a network (5), a control device (4), whereby the control device (4) is adapted to send a command over the network (5) to any of the audio devices (2) to set the audio device (2) in an active state, whereby the audio device (2) in the active state transmits its audio stream over the network (5), a processing device (3) for processing the audio streams from the active audio devices (2), whereby the processing device (3) comprises a processing device network interface (9) for receiving the audio streams from the network (5) and a mixing unit (11) with a plurality of input channels (12) and an output channel (13…
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