Granted patent
Systems and methods for delivery of personalized audio
- Number
- 9736615
- Published
- 2017-08-15
- Filed
- 2016-10-04
- Assignee
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Inventors
- Patel; Mehul
- CPC
- H04R3/12; H04S7/303; H04R5/02; H04R5/04; G10K11/175
- Verdict
- Medium Notable software
- Source
- Google Patents · FreePatentsOnline
The keeper's note
A media device that transmits audio calibration signals to multiple speakers to enable delivery of personalized directional audio.
Abstract
There is provided a media device for use in a system including a plurality of speakers. The media device includes a memory configured to store a software application, and a processor configured to execute the software application to transmit one or more audio calibration signals to the plurality of speakers for emission by the plurality ofspeakers, receive, from a user device, information relating to a detection of the one or more audio calibration signals by the user device, and analyze the information received from the user device to determine a position of the user device.
Background
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS(1) FIG. 1 illustrates an exemplary system for delivery of personalized audio, according to one implementation of the present disclosure;(2) FIG. 2 illustrates an exemplary environment utilizing the system of FIG. 1, according to one implementation of the present disclosure;(3) FIG. 3 illustrates another exemplary environment utilizing the system of FIG. 1, according to one implementation of the present disclosure; and(4) FIG. 4 illustrates an exemplary flowchart of a method for delivery of personalized audio, according to one implementation of the present disclosure.DETAILED DESCRIPTION(5) The following description contains specificinformation pertaining to implementations in the present disclosure. The drawings in the present application and their accompanying detailed description are directed to merely exemplary implementations. Unless noted otherwise, like or corresponding elements among the figures may be indicated by like or corresponding reference numerals. Moreover, the drawings and illustrations in the present application are generally not to scale, and are not intended to correspond to actual relative dimensions.(6) FIG. 1 shows exemplary system 100 for delivery of personalized audio, according to one implementation of the present disclosure. As shown, system 100 includes user device 105, audio contents 107, media device 110, and speakers 197a, 197b, . . . , 197n. Media device 110 includes processor 120 and memory 130. Processor 120