Patent ID: 9641947
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: H04R

Claim:
1. A method of distributing an audio signal corresponding to a verbal input between a presenter and an audience at a plurality of tables in a meeting facility, comprising: generating an audio signal corresponding to a verbal input by a microphone on one of a presenter device and an audience array, said audience array being one of a plurality of audience arrays on one of a plurality of tables in a meeting room, each of said presenter device and audience arrays having one or more microphones one or more speakers incorporated therein; processing the audio signal by a digital signal processor adapted to automatically adjust and compensate for one or more of the acoustics in a meeting room, the arrangement of audience arrays and speakers in a meeting room, audio signal volume levels and equalization, and the differences in characteristics of a verbal input; creating a psychoacoustic precedence effect with the digital signal processor by transmitting the generated audio signal to a speaker located remotely from the location of the presenter device or audience array containing the microphone where the audio signal corresponding to verbal input was generated.