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Abstract

One or both of a camera and a lighting fixture are auto-focused on one of a plurality of microphones in a venue. A plurality of persons in the venue are wearing, or carrying, or holding, or speaking into a respective microphone at the venue. Only one microphone of the plurality of microphones is active at a time. The venue includes a real-time location system (RTLS) having a plurality of RTLS tags and a RTLS receiver for locating a position of each of the RTLS tags in three-dimensional space. Each of the RTLS tags is fixed to a respective microphone and transmits a signal that is received by the RTLS receiver. One of the plurality of microphones is detected as being active. The position of the RTLS tag fixed to the active microphone is identified in three-dimensional space in the venue by using the signal transmitted from the RTLS tag fixed to the active microphone and received by the RTLS receiver to calculate the position of the RTLS tag fixed to the active microphone in three-dimensional space. The position of the RTLS tag fixed to the active microphone in three-dimensional space in the venue is presumed to be the same position as the active microphone that the RTLS tag is fixed to. One or both of the camera and the lighting fixture are auto-focused on the identified position of the RTLS tag fixed to the active microphone in three-dimensional space in the venue. When a different one of the microphones is detected as becoming active, the auto-focusing of one or both of the camera and the lighting fixture is switched to the identified position of the RTLS tag fixed to the newly detected active microphone in three-dimensional space in the venue.

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