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US 2020/0349880 A1Published application
Display array with distributed audio
AssigneeX Development LLC
InventorsPhilip Watson, Raj B. Apte
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Abstract
A wallpaper-like audio/visual system includes a display array of display pixels to emit an image, an array of speakers to emit audio, and driver circuitry coupled to the display array and the array of speakers to drive the display pixels and the speakers with the first and second signals, respectively, in response to receiving audio and visual input signals. The speakers are interspersed amongst the display pixels.
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A wallpaper-like audio/visual system, comprising:
- a flexible substrate;
- a display array disposed across the flexible substrate and including micro light emitting diodes (micro-LEDs) to emit an image;
- a plurality of speakers disposed across the flexible substrate to emit audio, the speakers interspersed amongst the micro-LEDs;
- one or more addressing layers disposed across the flexible substrate, the one or more addressing layers including a first group of flexible conductive paths coupled to the micro-LEDs to selectively drive the micro-LEDs with first signals to emit the image and a second group of flexible conductive paths coupled to the speakers to drive the speakers with second signals to emit the audio;
- driver circuitry carried on the flexible substrate and coupled to the first and second groups of flexible conductive paths to drive the micro-LEDs and the speakers with the first and second signals, respectively, in response to receiving audio and visual input signals;
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- a controller coupled with the driver circuitry, the controller including memory storing instructions, that when executed by the controller, cause the wallpaper-like audio/visual system to perform operations including:
- identifying an object in the image as a source of a semantic sound track in the audio;
- and
- routing the semantic sound track predominately or exclusively to a sub-group of the speakers physically positioned proximate to one or more of the micro-LEDs displaying the object in the image.
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A display system, comprising:
- a display array of display pixels to emit an image;
- an array of speakers to emit audio, the speakers interspersed amongst the display pixels;
- driver circuitry coupled to the display array and the array of speakers to drive the display pixels and the speakers with the first and second signals, respectively, in response to receiving audio and visual input signals;
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- a controller coupled to the driver circuitry, the controller including memory storing instructions, that when executed by the controller, cause the display system to perform operations including:
- identifying an object in the image as a source of a semantic sound track in the audio;
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- dynamically routing the semantic sound track predominately or exclusively to a sub-group of the speakers physically positioned proximate to one or more of the display pixels displaying the object in the image.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.