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

Claim 19:
20. A method, comprising:
receiving audio signals from a plurality of microphones at a corresponding one of a plurality of microphone instances, wherein each of the microphones is configured to receive sound from a corresponding one of a plurality of acoustic zones, wherein a number of the acoustic zones is at least three;
generating signals, by a plurality of loudspeaker instances, for corresponding ones of loudspeakers, each of which is configured to transmit sound into a corresponding one of the plurality of acoustic zones;
routing of signal paths from at least one of the microphone instances to at least two of the loudspeaker instances by determining an active one of the microphone instances corresponding to an acoustic zone of an active speaker; and
determining an equalizer setting from each path from each active one of the microphones to each active one of the loudspeakers such that a number of equalizer settings is one less than a number of loudspeakers.