Loading patent…
AssigneeDolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
InventorsSunil Bharitkar, Brett G. Crockett, Louis D. Fielder, Michael Rockwell
Estimating the term…
In some embodiments, a method for monitoring speakers within an audio playback system (e.g., movie theater) environment. In typical embodiments, the monitoring method assumes that initial characteristics of the speakers (e.g., a room response for each of the speakers) have been determined at an initial time, and relies on one or more microphones positioned in the environment to perform a status check on each of the speakers to identify whether a change to at least one characteristic of any of the speakers has occurred since the initial time. In other embodiments, the method processes data indicative of output of a microphone to monitor audience reaction to an audiovisual program. Other aspects include a system configured (e.g., programmed) to perform any embodiment of the inventive method, and a computer readable medium (e.g., a disc) which stores code for implementing any embodiment of the inventive method.
A method for monitoring status of N speakers in a playback environment, where N is a positive integer, said method including steps of:
A system for monitoring status of N speakers in a playback environment, where N is a positive integer, said system including:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.