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3 Innovative Product Feature
3.5.2 Meeting Secretary
Scenarios
To integrate and enhance the feature of built-in CMOS sensor and Array Microphone, a smart
service of on-line meeting has been designed for personal and conference audio/video
recording.
To enable for users to use the utilities of the video tracing of CMOS sensor and the voice beam
forming tracing of Array Microphone to create a virtual personal media office.
Meeting Secretary has two modes, Video Mode and Audio Mode, and each of them has unique
features. This section will briefly describe the behaviors of these features.
Single Mode
In this scenario, the webcam detects only one person in font of the PC. Meeting secretary will
adjust webcam and enable the beam forming function to capture video and audio. The
illustrations that describe the webcam and microphone behaviors are as below.
1. Webcam Behavior
In this scenario, the detected object will be zoomed and located in the center of the display
window. The webcam will automatically trace the object as it moves.
Fig
ure 28: Webcam Behavior in Single Mode
(Object
zoomed to the center).
2. Microphone Behavior
In this scenario, Meeting secretary will enable microphone array functions including the
Beam Forming and Noise Suppression. These functions can filter static noise and room
reverberation.
The microphone array can always retrieve the front voice and filter out voices from other
directions.
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