GAMING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC NOISE SUPPRESSION

摘要

A gaming system includes a central server linked to user stations defining gaming zones each defined as comprising one or more of said user stations. The server analyzes ambient conditions and generates baseline audio files for the user stations. The stations each include a gaming terminal, and sound receiving and emitting devices. The user stations sample ambient sounds and generate a representative audio file for analysis by the central server. The stations further enable users to select external sounds for local sound suppression, and can direct the sound emitting devices to emit sound waves for locally suppressing the selected external sounds. The stations extract user station-specific sound signatures from a combination of the local audio file and the baseline audio file, and direct the sound emitting devices to locally amplify sounds associated with the extracted user station-specific sound signatures.

主权项

1. A gaming system comprising:
a user station further comprising a first computing device operatively coupled to a gaming terminal, a sound receiving device, and one or more sound emitting devices; the computing device further comprising a processor and a computer-readable medium having program instructions residing thereon, the program instructions executable by the processor to direct the performance of:
sampling ambient sounds with respect to the user station via the sound receiving device,generating a local audio file representative of the ambient sounds and transmitting the audio file to one or more computing devices coupled to the first computing device via an external communications network,receiving a baseline audio file representative of ambient sounds external to the user station via the communications network,enabling a user of the user station to select via the gaming terminal one or more external sounds for local sound suppression,directing one or more of the sound emitting devices to emit sound waves effective to locally suppress the selected external sounds,extracting one or more user station-specific sound signatures from a combination of the local audio file and the baseline audio file, anddirecting one or more of the sound emitting devices to emit sound waves effective to locally amplify sounds associated with the extracted user station-specific sound signatures.