TELECONFERENCING CONFIGURATION BASED ON PROXIMITY INFORMATION

摘要

Teleconferencing systems may adapt to changes associated with participating terminals by monitoring characteristics of the terminals and modifying audio streams in accordance with detected changes. A terminal moving from a ' location shared with one or more other participating terminals may be detected in a variety of ways, e.g. by evaluating the acoustic energies reported by two terminals to determine a similarity between the two. In response to the location change, a teleconference server may modify the audio stream transmitted to the terminal so that audio originating from the one or more other participating terminals is included in the stream. Additionally, audio streams transmitted to the one or more other terminals may also be modified to include audio signals originating from the moved terminal. Other changes to a terminal that may also affect audio processing include activating a muting function. Muting a terminal while the terminal is among a group of participating terminals may cause the audio signals from the other terminals