US 11,877,058 B1
Computer program product and automated method for auto-focusing a camera on a person in a venue who is wearing, or carrying, or holding, or speaking into a microphone at the venue
Benjamin Slotznick, Mt. Gretna, PA (US)
Filed by Benjamin Slotznick, Mt. Gretna, PA (US)
Filed on Jul. 28, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/227,740.
Application 18/227,740 is a continuation in part of application No. 18/117,199, filed on Mar. 3, 2023, granted, now 11,750,925.
Application 18/117,199 is a continuation of application No. 17/952,802, filed on Sep. 26, 2022, granted, now 11,601,731, issued on Mar. 7, 2023.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/400,790, filed on Aug. 25, 2022.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 23/611 (2023.01); H04N 23/67 (2023.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); H04R 1/08 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 23/675 (2023.01) [G10L 15/22 (2013.01); H04N 23/611 (2023.01); H04R 1/08 (2013.01); H04R 2420/07 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer program product for auto-focusing a camera on a person in a venue who is wearing, or carrying, or holding, or speaking into a microphone at the venue, the venue including a real-time location system (RTLS) having a RTLS tag and a RTLS receiver for locating a position of the RTLS tag in three-dimensional space, wherein the RTLS tag is fixed to the microphone and transmits a signal that is received by the RTLS receiver, the computer program product comprising a computer readable medium tangibly embodying non-transitory computer-executable program instructions thereon that, when executed, cause one or more computing devices to:
(a) detect when the microphone is active;
(b) identify, using the RTLS, the position of the RTLS tag in three-dimensional space in the venue by using the signal transmitted from the RTLS tag and received by the RTLS receiver to calculate the position of the RTLS tag in three-dimensional space,
wherein the position of the RTLS tag in three-dimensional space in the venue is presumed to be the same position as the microphone that the RTLS tag is fixed to; and
(c) auto-focus the camera on the identified position of the RTLS tag in the three-dimensional space in the venue when the microphone is active, the camera thereby outputting a video signal of an area that is in proximity of the RTLS tag which is presumed to include an image of the person in the venue who is wearing, or carrying, or holding, or speaking into the microphone having the RTLS tag fixed thereto.