WO2006076217A3 - Method and apparatus of overlapping and summing speech for an output that disrupts speech - Google Patents
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- H04K3/80—Jamming or countermeasure characterized by its function
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- H04K3/00—Jamming of communication; Counter-measures
- H04K3/40—Jamming having variable characteristics
- H04K3/43—Jamming having variable characteristics characterized by the control of the jamming power, signal-to-noise ratio or geographic coverage area
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- H04K—SECRET COMMUNICATION; JAMMING OF COMMUNICATION
- H04K3/00—Jamming of communication; Counter-measures
- H04K3/40—Jamming having variable characteristics
- H04K3/45—Jamming having variable characteristics characterized by including monitoring of the target or target signal, e.g. in reactive jammers or follower jammers for example by means of an alternation of jamming phases and monitoring phases, called "look-through mode"
Abstract
A privacy apparatus adds a privacy sound based on a speaker's own voice into the environment, thereby confusing listeners as to whic of the sounds is the real source. This permits disruption of the ability to understand the source speech of the user by eliminating segregation cues that the auditory system uses to interpret speech. The privacy apparatus minimizes segregation cues. The privacy apparatus is relatively quiet and thus easily acceptable in a typical open floor design office space. The privacy apparatus (10, 502) contains an A/D converter (208, 504) that converts the speech into a digital signal, a DSP (202, 502) that converts the digital signal in a privacy signal with pre-recorded speech fragments of the person speaking being overlapped and summed, a D/A converter (210, 506 that converts the privacy signal into an output signal and one or more loudspeakers (216) from which the output signal is emitted.
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