Method and system for acoustic communication of data

A non-transitory computer readable medium configured for storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed on one or more processors, cause one or more processors to:

• monitor an acoustic environment via a microphone while a loudspeaker is concurrently outputting an audio signal;
• detect, via the microphone, an acoustic signal comprising data encoded as a sequence of tones;
• determine at least one acoustic characteristic of the acoustic environment, wherein the at least one acoustic characteristic includes at least a measurement of interference generated by the audio signal in the acoustic environment;
• dynamically adjust a number of active voters in a decoding engine based on the determined at least one acoustic characteristic, wherein adjusting the number of voters comprises increasing the number of active voters from a first quantity to a second quantity when the interference exceeds a threshold, wherein the second quantity is greater than the first quantity;
• decode the acoustically transmitted data signal using the second quantity of active voters, wherein each voter of the second quantity is configured with a different value for a first acoustic characteristic of the at least one acoustic characteristic to address the interference;
• and
• extract the data by selecting a result from the voter that identifies the fewest errors in the sequence of tones.

A method, comprising:

• monitoring an acoustic environment via a microphone of a device while a loudspeaker of the device is concurrently outputting an audio signal;
• detecting, via the microphone, an acoustic signal comprising data encoded as a sequence of tones;
• determining at least one acoustic characteristic of the acoustic environment, wherein the at least one acoustic characteristic includes at least a measurement of interference generated by an audio signal in the acoustic environment;
• dynamically adjusting a number of active voters in a decoding engine based on the determined at least one acoustic characteristic, wherein adjusting the number of voters comprises increasing the number of active voters from a first quantity to a second quantity when the interference exceeds a threshold, wherein the second quantity is greater than the first quantity;
• decoding the acoustically transmitted data signal using the second quantity of active voters, wherein each voter of the second quantity is configured with a different value for a first acoustic characteristic of the at least one acoustic characteristic to address the interference;
• and
• extracting the data by selecting a result from the voter that identifies the fewest errors in the sequence of tones.