Speaker discovery and assignment
US10158946B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 4, 2015 |
| Grant date | Dec 18, 2018 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 4, 2035 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04W12/65
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Described herein are systems, devices, and methods for discovering and assigning wireless speakers to one or more devices capable of providing audio content. In some embodiments, the speakers may receive one or more channels of multi-channel audio content. In some embodiments, one or more wireless speakers are discovered, a prompt identifying at least one speaker location is provided at an output device, a list of wireless speakers is provided to the output device, wherein the list of wireless speakers corresponds to the discovered one or more wireless speakers, a selection of a wireless speaker from the list of wireless speakers is received; and the selected wireless speaker is associated to the at least one speaker location.
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