Tap to Broadcast Speaker Pairing
AssigneeZAGG Intellectual Property Holding Co., Inc.
InventorChristian Bao
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Abstract
A wireless speaker system for broadcast pairing multiple wireless speakers together. The wireless speakers are equipped with magnets and magnet sensors so that taping the speakers together, at a location with the magnets and sensors meet, causes a wireless speaker to enter into a broadcast pairing mode. The magnet and sensor in each wireless speaker can be a combined magnet and sensor, or magnet-sensor combo. The magnet and the sensor can be carried by a common carrier or mount. The combined magnet and sensor can comprise a central magnet surrounded by an annular array of magnet sensors.
Claims20
A wireless speaker system comprising:
- a pair of wireless speakers configured to be wirelessly coupled to an audio source and wirelessly receive an audio signal therefrom, each of the pair of wireless speakers comprising:
- a housing comprising a housing wall;
- a speaker carried by the housing and configured to produce audio;
- a power source carried by the housing and coupled to the speaker;
- control electronics carried by the housing and comprising a receiver configured to receive the audio signal;
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- a combined magnet and sensor carried by the housing and positioned adjacent the housing wall and oriented to face outwardly, the combined magnet and sensor comprising a magnet with a magnetic field configured to extend beyond the housing wall, and a magnetic sensor positioned adjacent the magnet and configured to sense another magnetic field from outside the housing wall;
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- the pair of wireless speakers being positionable adjacent to one another with the combined magnet and sensor of each of the pair of wireless speakers being positionable adjacent to and opposing one another through the housing walls to initiate broadcast pairing between the pair of wireless speakers.
A wireless speaker comprising:
- a housing comprising a housing wall;
- a speaker carried by the housing and configured to produce audio;
- a power source carried by the housing and coupled to the speaker;
- control electronics carried by the housing and coupled to the speaker, and comprising a receiver configured to receive an audio signal;
- a combined magnet and sensor carried by the housing and positioned adjacent the housing wall, the combined magnet and sensor comprising a magnet with a magnetic field configured to extend beyond the housing wall, and a magnetic sensor positioned adjacent the magnet and configured to sense another magnetic field from outside the housing wall;
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- a common carrier carried by the housing and fixed with respect to the housing wall, the common carrier having both the magnet and the magnetic sensor coupled thereto, and defining the combined magnet and sensor
A wireless speaker comprising:
- a housing comprising a housing wall;
- a speaker carried by the housing and configured to produce audio;
- a power source carried by the housing and coupled to the speaker;
- control electronics carried by the housing and coupled to the speaker, and comprising a receiver configured to receive an audio signal;
- a magnet carried by the housing and positioned adjacent the housing wall, the magnet having a magnetic field configured to extend beyond the housing wall;
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- an annular array of magnetic sensors carried by the housing and circumscribing the magnet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.