Patent attributes
A loudspeaker is driven with a loudspeaker signal to generate sound, and sound is converted to one or more microphone signals with one or more microphones. The microphone signals are concurrently transformed into far-field beam signals and near-field beam signals. The far-field beam signals and the near-field beam signals are concurrently processed to produce one or more far-field output signals and one or more near-field output signals, respectively. Echo is detected and canceled in the far-field beam signals and in the near-field beam signals. When the echo is not detected above a threshold, the one or more far-field output signals are outputted. When the echo is detected above the threshold, the one or more near-field output signals are outputted. A signal based on the one or more output signals is transmitted.
