Patent ID: 9070409
Filing Date: 2015-06-30
Classification: G10L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A system for visually representing an audio meeting session having a plurality of participants, comprising: a plurality of microphones, wherein each of said plurality of microphones are configured to generate audio signals from sound made by at least one session participant in its the vicinity of the respective microphone; and at least one computer system having a processor and non-volatile memory and communicatively connected to said plurality of microphones, wherein said computer system is configured to identify each connected microphone as a discrete source of audio signals from the at least one session participant in its vicinity, associate audio signals from each connected microphone with a distinct visual cue, trigger the respective visual cue of at least one of said microphones upon the receipt of an electrical transmission containing audio signals generated by the source microphone, thereby indicating the capture of sound from at least one session participant in the vicinity of the respective microphone, and generate a visual output useable by a graphical user interface, wherein said visual output is defined by a composite visual representation which includes a visual representation of at least one of said plurality microphones.