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US 2022/0038836 A1Published application
Using entertainment system remote commander for audio system calibration
AssigneeSony 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.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor programmed with instructions to:
- retrieve from at least one remote commander (RC) an associated identification (ID), the RC comprising at least one microphone and at least one transmitter to send commands to a TV or audio system;
- use the ID to retrieve at least one characteristic of the microphone;
- and
- use the at least one characteristic to calibrate an audio system.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving from a remote commander 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 characteristic to calibrate an audio system.
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An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor configured with instructions to:
- identify, using an identification of a remote commander (RC) of an entertainment device, at least one characteristic of a microphone on the RC;
- calibrate an audio system using the microphone at least in part by compensating for the at least one characteristic in calibration signals generated by an audio system and represented in output of the microphone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.