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US 11,889,288 B2Granted
Using entertainment system remote commander for audio system calibration
AssigneeSony Group Corporation
InventorsGregory Carlsson, James R. Milne, Marvin DeMerchant
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Abstract
A remote commander (RC) for a TV or other entertainment system component has a microphone. A device can query the RC for its serial number, access the Internet with the serial number to look up characteristics of the microphone, and then knowing the characteristics, use the RC microphone to detect sound such as speaker test chirps to calibrate an audio system in a convenient and user-friendly manner while achieving the accuracy of calibration that can only be obtained by using a calibrated microphone system.
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An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor programmed with instructions to:
- retrieve, for at least one remote commander (RC) comprising at least one microphone and at least one transmitter to send commands to a TV or audio system at least one characteristic of the microphone;
- and
- use the at least one characteristic to calibrate an audio system, wherein the at least one characteristic is an average characteristic derived from characteristics of plural microphones of respective RCs with at least one outlier characteristic not being used.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving from a remote commander (RC) configured to wirelessly control an entertainment device an identification (ID);
- using the ID, identifying at least one characteristic of at least one microphone of the RC;
- and
- using the at least one characteristic to calibrate an audio system at least in part by flattening a response curve of the microphone of the RC, wherein the at least one characteristic comprises an average characteristic derived from characteristics of plural microphones in respective RCs with outlier characteristics not being used in the average characteristic.
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An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor configured with instructions to:
- identify at least one characteristic of a microphone on a remote commander (RC);
- and
- calibrate an audio system using the microphone at least in part by compensating for the at least one characteristic, wherein the at least one characteristic comprises an average characteristic derived from characteristics of plural microphones in respective RCs with outlier characteristics not being used in the average characteristic.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.