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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2018.22.4.624

Wide Coverage Microphone System for Lecture Using Ceiling-Mounted Array Structure  

Oh, Woojin (School of Electronics, Kumoh National Institute of Technology)
Abstract
While the multimedia lecture system has been getting smart using immerging technology, the microphone still relies on the classical approach such as holding in hand or attaching on the body. In this paper, we propose a ceiling mounted array microphone system that allows a wide reception coverage and instructors to move freely without attaching microphone. The proposed system adopts cell and handover of mobile communication instead of a complicated beamforming method and implements a wide range microphone over several cells with low cost. Since the characteristics of unvoiced speech is similar to Pseudo Noise it is shown that soft handover are possible with 3 microphones connected to delay-sum multipath receiver. The proposed system is tested in $6.3{\times}1.5m$ area. For real-time processing the correlation range can be reduced by 82% or more, and the output latency delay can be improved by using the delay adaptive filter.
Keywords
Wide Coverage Microphone; Array Microphone; Hands Free; Smart Lecture System;
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