Appeal No. 2000-0546
Application 08/509,228
lines 13-26, page 9, lines 13-28 and associated figures 1-2. The
automatic camera controller (16) includes a camera controller
(36) and an interface (38). See Appellants’ specification on
page 8, lines 15-16 and 30-36 and associated figure 2.
The independent claims 1, 12, and 20 present in the
application are reproduced as follows:
1. An automatic voice tracking camera system, comprising:
a first camera operable to receive control signals for
controlling a view of the first camera;
a microphone array comprising a plurality of microphones,
the microphone array operable to receive a voice of a speaker and
to provide an audio signal representing the voice;
a beamformer coupled to the microphone array, the beamformer
operable to receive the audio signal, to generate from the audio
signal speaker position data representing a position of the
speaker as coordinates for a point in space, and to provide the
speaker position data; and
a camera controller coupled to the beamformer and to the
first camera, the camera controller operable:
to receive the speaker position data,
to determine an appropriate responsive camera movement based
upon the coordinates for the point in space,
to generate camera control signals based upon the
appropriate responsive camera movement, and
to provide the camera control signals to the first camera
such that the view of the first camera automatically tracks the
position of the speaker.
12. An automatic camera controller for automatically
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