US Patent Issued to Shure Acquisition Holdings on Feb. 24 for "Conferencing systems and methods for talker tracking and camera positioning" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,158, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Shure Acquisition Holdings Inc. (Niles, Ill.).

"Conferencing systems and methods for talker tracking and camera positioning" was invented by Dusan Veselinovic (Chicago) and Bijal Joshi (Elk Grove Village, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Conferencing systems and methods configured to generate talker coordinates for directing a camera towards talker locations in an environment are disclosed, as well as talker tracking using multiple microphones and multiple cameras. One method includes determining, using a first microphone array and based on audio associated with a talker, a first talker loca...