Patent ID: 11869534
Assignee: LOUROE ELECTRONICS
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 15:
16. A microphone-speaker device, comprising:
a speaker;
a microphone configured to capture sound and output an audio data signal;
a housing configured to contain the microphone and the speaker; and
an electronic circuit including audio electronics coupled to the speaker, an Ethernet interface configured to connect the electronic circuit for communication with a security system through an Ethernet connection, a power extractor for extracting power from the Ethernet connection for powering the electronic circuit and the microphone, and processing electronics configured to process the audio data signal from the microphone;
wherein the processing electronics is configured to:
monitor multiple different frequency ranges of the audio data signal for a signal characteristic crossing at least one threshold associated with one or more of the different frequency ranges; and to
divide the audio data signal into discrete segments and store at least one segment at a time in a buffer;
determine whether the audio data signal being stored in the buffer corresponds to a possible triggering event by employing an audio analytics program to analyze the segment of the audio data; and
determine whether the possible triggering event corresponds to an alert or an action to be taken, upon determining that the audio data signal being stored in the buffer does correspond to a possible triggering event.