Patent ID: 9424859
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: G10H,G10L,H04R

Claim Text:
1. A vocal effect processing system comprising: a processor; an input signal processing module executable by the processor to receive an audio signal from a vocal microphone, the audio signal representative of a vocal signal detected by the vocal microphone; and an effect modification module executable by the processor to estimate a proximate location of a source of the vocal signal with respect to the vocal microphone, the effect modification module further configured to apply an effect to the audio signal in accordance with the estimated proximate location of the source of the vocal signal, wherein the audio signal is a plurality of audio signals received from a plurality of microphones, wherein a first audio signal of the plurality of audio signals is indicative of a first vocal signal that is received from a first microphone of the plurality of microphones and a second audio signal of the plurality of audio signals is indicative of a second vocal signal that is received from a second microphone of the plurality of microphones, and wherein the effect modification module is executable by the processor to employ predictive analysis to avoid cross fading between the first vocal signal and the second vocal signal when at least an estimated activation target is determined as being positioned at a location that is equal between the first microphone and the second microphone.