Crowd sourced audio data for venue equalization
AssigneeHarman International Industries, Incorporated
InventorsSonith Chandran, Sohan Madhav Bangaru
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
Mobile devices may capture audio signals indicative of test audio received by an audio capture device of the mobile device; and send the captured audio and the zone designation to a sound processor to determine equalization settings for speakers of the zone of the venue. An audio filtering device may receive the captured audio signals from the mobile devices; compare each of the captured audio signals with the test signal to determine an associated reliability of each of the captured audio signals; combine the captured audio signals into zone audio data; and transmit the zone audio data and associated reliability to a sound processor configured to determine equalization settings for the zone based on the captured audio signals and the test signal.
Claims24
An apparatus comprising:
- an audio filtering device configured to
- receive captured audio signals from a plurality of mobile devices located within a zone of a venue, the captured audio signals determined by audio capture devices of the respective mobile devices in response to receipt of test audio generated by speakers of the venue reproducing a test signal, wherein each of the captured audio signals includes a respective zone designation indicative of the zone of the venue within which the respective captured audio signal was captured;
- combine the captured audio signals into zone audio data;
- determine a usability score indicative of a number of captured audio signals combined into the zone audio data;
- associate the zone audio data with the usability score;
- and
- send the zone audio data to a sound processor configured to determine equalization settings for the zone based on the captured audio signals and the test signal.
An apparatus comprising:
- a mobile device configured to
- identify a zone designation indicative of a zone of a venue in which the mobile device is located;
- capture audio signals indicative of test audio received by an audio capture device of the mobile device;
- and
- transmit the captured audio and the zone designation to a sound processor to determine equalization settings for speakers of the zone of the venue,
- wherein the audio capture device is included in a module device plugged into a port of the mobile device.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with computer executable instructions, the computer executable instructions executable by a processor, the computer-readable medium comprising instructions configured to:
- receive captured audio signals from a plurality of mobile devices located within a zone of a venue, the captured audio signals determined by audio capture devices of the respective mobile devices in response to receipt of test audio generated by speakers of the venue reproducing a test signal;
- compare each of the captured audio signals with the test signal to determine an associated match indication of each of the captured audio signals;
- combine the captured audio signals into zone audio data in accordance with the associated match indications;
- determine a usability score indicative of a number of captured audio signals combined into the zone audio data;
- and
- associate the zone audio data with the usability score;
- and
- transmit the zone audio data to a sound processor configured to determine equalization settings for the zone based on the captured audio signals and the test signal.
An apparatus comprising:
- an audio filtering device configured to
- receive captured audio signals from a plurality of mobile devices located within a zone of a venue, the captured audio signals determined by audio capture devices of the respective mobile devices in response to receipt of test audio generated by speakers of the venue reproducing a test signal;
- combine the captured audio signals into zone audio data;
- determine a usability score indicative of a number of captured audio signals combined into the zone audio data;
- associate the zone audio data with the usability score;
- and
- send the zone audio data to a sound processor configured to determine equalization settings for the zone based on the captured audio signals and the test signal,
- wherein the mobile devices are assigned to the zones according to one or more of:
- triangulation or manual user input to the respective mobile devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.