Retrofit digital network speaker system
AssigneeCrestron Electronics, Inc.
InventorsMark LaBosco, Alexander Marra
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Abstract
Described herein is a retrofit digital speaker system comprising two or more retrofitted speaker enclosures, each of the two or more retrofitted speaker enclosures (enclosures) comprising: at least one speaker; and an analog-and-digital interface adapted to receive digitally encoded audio signals, electrical power, and digital command signals, and wherein the digitally encoded audio signals, electrical power, and digital command signals are transmitted over existing two wire analog audio cables, and further wherein the two or more retrofitted speaker enclosures are wired in a daisy chain fashion, via the existing two wire analog audio cables.
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A retrofit digital network speaker commissioning system comprising:
- two or more speaker enclosures wired together in a serial manner by a single two wire analog audio cable, each of the two or more speaker enclosure including one or more speakers;
- and
- a commissioning computer, the commissioning computer including a commissioning software application (App), the App adapted to generate a plurality of commands adapted to
- generate a first test signal to a first speaker enclosure through a first data path between the commissioning computer and the first speaker enclosure,
- determine a first data path data throughput rate in the first path,
- generate a second test signal to a second speaker enclosure through a second data path between the commissioning computer and the second speaker enclosure, and
- determine a second data path throughput rate in the second path.
A method for commissioning a retrofit digital network speaker system, the method comprising:
- wiring two or more speaker enclosures together in a serial manner by a single two wire analog audio cable, each of the two or more speaker enclosure including one or more speakers, the first of the two or more speaker enclosures being wired to a commissioning computer that contains the App;
- generating, by the App, a first test signal to a first speaker enclosure through a first data path between the commissioning computer and the first speaker enclosure;
- determining, by the App, a first data path data throughput rate in the first path;
- generating, by the App, a second test signal to a second speaker enclosure through a second data path between the commissioning computer and the second speaker enclosure;
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- determining a second data path throughput rate in the second path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.