Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optimizing the performance of an audio playback system with a linked audio/video feed
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Application No.: US15504314Application Date: 2014-08-18
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Publication No.: US10542365B2Publication Date: 2020-01-21
- Inventor: Afrooz Family , Martin E. Johnson , Baptiste P. Paquier
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: APPLE INC.
- Current Assignee: APPLE INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
- International Application: PCT/US2014/051553 WO 20140818
- International Announcement: WO2016/028263 WO 20160225
- Main IPC: H04R5/02
- IPC: H04R5/02 ; H04S7/00 ; G06T7/70

Abstract:
An audio system is provided that efficiently detects speaker arrays and configures the speaker arrays to output sound. In this system, a computing device may record the addresses and/or types of speaker arrays on a shared network while a camera captures video of a listening area, including the speaker arrays. The captured video may be analyzed to determine the location of the speaker arrays, one or more users, and/or the audio source in the listening area. While capturing the video, the speaker arrays may be driven to sequentially emit a series of test sounds into the listening area and a user may be prompted to select which speaker arrays in the captured video emitted each of the test sounds. Based on these inputs from the user, the computing device may determine an association between the speaker arrays on the shared network and the speaker arrays in the captured video.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170272886A1 OPTIMIZING THE PERFORMANCE OF AN AUDIO PLAYBACK SYSTEM WITH A LINKED AUDIO/VIDEO FEED Public/Granted day:2017-09-21
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