Conference system with a microphone array system and a method of speech acquisition in a conference system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9894434
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14959387

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A conference system including a microphone array unit having a plurality of microphone capsules arranged in or on a board mountable on or in a ceiling of a conference room. The microphone array unit has a steerable beam and a maximum detection angle range. The conference system further includes a processing unit which is configured to receive the output signals of the microphone capsules and to steer the beam based on the received output signal of the microphone array unit. The processing unit is configured to control the microphone array to limit the detection angle range to exclude at least one predetermined exclusion sector in which a noise source is located.

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SENNHEISER ELECTRONIC GMBH & CO KGAM LABOR 1 WEDEMARK 30900

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Reichert, Lance San Francisco, US 7 147
Rollow,, IV J Douglas San Francisco, US 9 151
Voss, Daniel Hannover, DE 26 603

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