Patent Document ID: 9799330
Application ID: 14838133

Base Claim:
1. A method for multi-sourced noise suppression, the method comprising: assigning weights to audio streams, the audio streams being provided substantially synchronously by a plurality of audio devices, the weights depending on quality of the audio streams, wherein the assigning weights includes generating an acoustic activity map by locating, identifying and mapping target sounds and noise sources in at least one of a single room and multi-room environment, so as to create a multidimensional acoustic view of the environment; based on the weights, performing noise suppression processing on the audio streams to generate a cleaned voice signal; providing the cleaned voice signal from the noise suppression processing to at least one remote device for further processing; and based on the acoustic activity map, selecting an optimal one of the plurality of audio devices to communicate with the user.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the audio streams include time stamps, the method further comprising, based on the time stamps, synchronizing the audio devices to a common time source.