US 11,991,315 B2
Audio conferencing using a distributed array of smartphones
Khoa-Van Nguyen, Begles (FR); Stephane Giraudie, Sausalito, CA (US); and Benoit Senard, Le Bouscat (FR)
Filed by DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION, San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/087,317.
Application 18/087,317 is a continuation of application No. 16/574,792, filed on Sep. 18, 2019, granted, now 11,539,844.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/734,856, filed on Sep. 21, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0216965 A1, Jul. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. H04M 3/56 (2006.01); H04M 1/60 (2006.01); H04W 4/08 (2009.01); H04W 4/16 (2009.01)
CPC H04M 3/568 (2013.01) [H04M 1/6058 (2013.01); H04W 4/08 (2013.01); H04W 4/16 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
20. A computing device, comprising:
at least one processor; and
memory storing instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:
at a first location:
capturing, by two or more audio capture devices, first audio streams;
transmitting the first audio streams to a second location; at the second location:
determining a relative spatial arrangement of two or more audio playback devices at the second location, each of the two or more audio playback devices including rendering capability;
assigning each audio stream in the first set of audio streams to at least one of the two or more audio playback devices at the second location, where the assigning is based at least in part on the relative spatial arrangements of the two or more audio playback devices at the second location;
generating second audio streams from the first audio streams in accordance with the assigning; and
sending the second audio streams to the two or more audio playback devices for playback through one or more loudspeakers of the two or more audio playback devices.