Patent ID: 11950050
Assignee: CLEARONE, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 22:
23. A method of using a ceiling tile microphone, comprising:
producing audio signals to be used to form a directional pickup pattern with a plurality of microphones coupled together as a microphone array used for beamforming, the plurality of microphones are positioned at predetermined locations;
a single ceiling tile with an outer surface on the front side of the ceiling tile where the outer surface is acoustically transparent, the microphone array couples to the back side of the single ceiling tile, the microphone array combines with the ceiling tile as a single unit, the single unit is mountable in a drop ceiling in place of a single ceiling tile included in the drop ceiling, all or part of the single unit is in the drop space of the drop ceiling when the single unit is used in a drop ceiling mounting configuration;
where the ceiling tile microphone further includes beamforming, acoustic echo cancellation, and auto mixing.