Patent ID: 11950067
Assignee: CERENCE OPERATING COMPANY
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus comprising
microphone instances to receive audio signals from corresponding microphones,
loudspeaker instances to generate signals for corresponding loudspeakers, and
a routing matrix to provide signal paths from at least one of the microphone instances to at least two of the loudspeaker instances,
wherein each of said microphones is configured to receive sound from a corresponding acoustic zone from a plurality of acoustic zones,
wherein each of said loudspeakers is configured to transmit sound into a corresponding one of said acoustic zones; and
wherein said routing matrix is configured to inactivate a loudspeaker instance for an acoustic zone that corresponds to an active microphone instance and, for each path from an active microphone to an active loudspeaker, to determine an equalizer setting for said path,
wherein the number of equalizer settings is one less than the number of loudspeakers.