In some embodiments, spatially realistic audio may be provided for a conference call. Voices from participants on the left side of a display, in a conference call, may be directed through audio on the left side of the display at the other conferencing system in the conference call (similarly for voices from the center and right side of the display). In some embodiments, two speakers may be used in the system to create synthesized stereo sound at a location specified by directional information received as side information along with the existing audio channel. The location may be determined by using beamforming with integrated microphones on a camera or speakerphone. In some embodiments, the audio signal and directional information may be sent in the form of a left audio channel and a right audio channel.

Video and audio conferencing system with spatial audio

A communication system (e.g., a speakerphone) includes an array of microphones, a speaker, memory and a processor. The processor may perform a virtual broadside scan on the microphone array and analyze the resulting amplitude envelope to identify acoustic source angles. Each of the source angles may be further investigated with a directed beam (e.g., a hybrid superdirective/delay-and-sum beam) to obtain a corresponding beam signal. Each source may be classified as either intelligence or noise based on an analysis of the corresponding beam signal. The processor may design a virtual beam pointed at an intelligence source and having nulls directed at one or more of the noise sources. Thus, the virtual beam may be highly sensitive to the intelligence source and insensitive to the noise sources.

Forming beams with nulls directed at noise sources

Disclosed is an image-processing method which involves extracting video depth information for indicating the depth of a three-dimensional video image from a video stream, and adjusting the depth value of a graphical image to be reproduced in synchronization with the three-dimensional video image using the video depth information.

Image-processing method and apparatus

A system may be configured to: receive remote audio signals and corresponding spatial indicators from remote systems; generate output signals for local speakers based on the remote audio signals and the corresponding spatial indicators; supply a microphone input signal to a first echo canceller in a series of echo cancellers, where each echo canceller of the series corresponds to a position in a set of positions along a one-dimensional locus connecting the speakers; map each of the remote audio signals to a corresponding one of the positions based on the corresponding spatial indicator; for each position of the set of positions, combine any of the remote audio signals that map to that position in order to form a corresponding input signal for the corresponding echo canceller; transmit a resultant signal including at least an output of a last echo canceller of the series to the remote systems.

Videoconferencing echo cancellers

In various embodiments, a speakerphone and/or remote control may be used to control a video conferencing system through a system codec. In some embodiments, video conferencing features may be provided through the speakerphone and/or remote control. For example, features to manage video calls, audio calls, and bridging multiple video and/or audio calls into a single conference may be accessed through a keypad on the speakerphone, a remote control, and/or through a video conference system. Options and indicators may be provided on a screen of the speakerphone and/or video conferencing system. In some embodiments, a video call may be dialed, redialed, muted, answered, added to an existing conference, and/or terminated using a speakerphone and/or remote control. In some embodiments, a call length timer may be implemented, the volume may be adjusted, or a camera may be adjusted through a speakerphone and/or remote control.

Speakerphone supporting video and audio features

The present invention relates to a data CODEC system for computer. The data CODEC system for computer comprises a system control software, a multichannel audio/speech and multimedia data signal processor, and a multichannel audio/speech and multimedia data input-output unit. The system control software communicates multichannel audio/speech and multimedia data with the multichannel audio/speech and multimedia data signal processor according to control of various application programs. The multichannel audio/speech and multimedia data signal processor processes multichannel audio/speech and multimedia data. The multichannel audio/speech and multimedia data input-output means inputs/outputs multichannel audio/speech and multimedia data from/to an external system.

Data CODEC system for computer

An apparatus and a method for reproducing a surround sound field for reproducing reflection provide presence and a space sense to a listener by reproducing the reflection by a panning scheme or reproducing corresponding reflection by using respective loudspeaker. The information for reproducing the reflection is inputted to an input unit(810). A signal processor(820) selects the loudspeaker for applying the panning mode based on the information for reproducing the reflection and produces a refection signal. A signal processing unit(830) localizes the produced reflection signal to a virtual sound image according to the panning mode. A reproducing unit(840) reproduces the localized reflection signal through the selected loudspeaker.

Apparatus and method for surround soundfield reproductioin for reproducing reflection

Interactive Broadcasting Contents Authoring System

Recently, FD (frame dropping)-CD (coefficient dropping) transcoding has been considered, mainly due to the low computational complexity and simple implementation. However, CD errors in the FD-CD transcoding scheme tend to be propagated and they have a significant effect on the qualities of decoded images. We derive the error characteristics incurred by CD operations and propose an effective estimation model that adaptively describes well the characteristics of propagation errors in the compressed domain. Furthermore, we apply the proposed model to distortion control achieving nearly constant distortion allocation among frames. Simulations show that the proposed model is quite accurate in estimating the overall distortions and is effectively applied to distortion control over a range of sequences with varying scene types.

A distortion control scheme for allocating constant distortion in FD-CD video transcoder

A WFS(Wave Field Synthesis) reproduction method and an apparatus thereof are provided to utilize sound image localization information of a sound source extracted from a 5.1 channel signal or a stereo as a WFS input data. A WFS(Wave Field Synthesis) reproduction apparatus comprises an audio format channel signal input part(101), a BSS(Blind Source Separation) processing part(102), a power panning operation part(103), and a WFS rendering part(104). An audio signal according to a channel is inputted to the audio format channel signal input part. The BSS processing part extracts an object audio signal by pairing two channel signals among the audio signals. The power panning operation part obtains sound image localization information with the extracted object audio signal. The WFS rendering part outputs a driving signal to a loudspeaker array.

Jin Woong Kim

Papers

Data CODEC system for computer

Apparatus and method for surround soundfield reproductioin for reproducing reflection

Interactive Broadcasting Contents Authoring System

A distortion control scheme for allocating constant distortion in FD-CD video transcoder

Method and apparatus of wfs reproduction to reconstruct the original sound scene in conventional audio formats