US 10,143,921 B1Granted

Gaming peripheral with intelligent audio control

AssigneePerformance Designed Products LLC

InventorBrad Strahle

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Abstract

A gaming controller can include a housing; a plurality of input components; a processor; a wired or wireless interface communicatively couplable with a headset; a wired or wireless interface communicatively couplable with a gaming console, the gaming console communicatively couplable with an audiovisual system; an audio headset detection circuit that detects if a headset is coupled with the gaming controller; a transmitter that transmits an audio control signal causing the audio of the audiovisual system to be adjusted if the audio headset detection circuit detects (automatically or on command) that no audio headset is coupled with the gaming controller; and a transmitter that transmits an audio control signal causing the audio of the headset to be adjusted if the audio headset detection circuit detects (automatically or on command) that an audio headset is coupled with the gaming controller.

Claims14

Dependent claims

A gaming controller comprising:

a housing;
a plurality of input components;
a processor;
a first communications circuit communicatively coupleable with a gaming console, the gaming console communicatively coupleable with a television set;
a second communications circuit communicatively coupleable with a gaming headset;
a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising machine readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the gaming controller to:
determine if the gaming headset is communicatively coupled with the second communications circuit;
transmit, responsive to user actuation of input components corresponding to an audio control operation:
a signal to the headset causing the audio of sound emissions outputted by an audio output device of the headset to be adjusted in accordance with the audio control operation, if it is determined that the gaming headset is communicatively coupled with the second communications circuit;
and
a wireless signal to the gaming console causing the television set to adjust audio output by an audio output device of the television set in accordance with the audio control operation, if it is determined that the gaming headset is not communicatively coupled with the second communications circuit.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/613,042Filed 2 Jun 2017
Published: US 2018/0345141 A16 Dec 2018
Granted: 4 Dec 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

A63F 13/424
By mapping the input signals into game commands, e.g. mapping the displacement of a stylus on a touch screen to the steering angle of a virtual…:…
A63F 13/24
Input arrangements for video game devices: constructional details thereof, e.g. game controllers with detachable joystick handles
A63F 13/332
Using wide area network [WAN] connections: using wireless networks, e.g. cellular phone networks
A63F 13/98
Constructional details or arrangements of video game devices not provided for in groups A63F13/20 or A63F13/25, e.g. housing, wiring,…