Bose Corporation

Marco Maurizio Panzanella

Darryl John Bryans

Benjamin C Lippitt

Soichiro Hayashi

Akira Mochimaru

Marc Brandon Happes

Daniel T Lynch

Tuan Uong

Various implementations include devices and approaches for managing multimedia communications. In one aspect, a computer-implemented method of controlling a device connection includes: receiving audio data and video data from an input device connected with a peripheral bus input port; converting the audio data for transmission over an audio over internet protocol (IP) connection or a balun connection and converting the video data for transmission over a video over internet protocol (IP) connection or the balun connection; and transmitting the converted audio data and the converted video data for decoding and output to at least one output device via a multimedia audiovisual interface output port, where the peripheral bus input port is configured to support bidirectional audio and bidirectional video exchange with the input device and bidirectional exchange of IP-based control signals or balun-based control signals with the input device.

Multimedia communication encoding system

An acoustic array system includes a sound field controller and an acoustic transducer array. The sound field controller provides first and second processed signals. The first processed signal is associated with a first acoustic radiation pattern and the second processed signal is associated with a second acoustic radiation pattern. The transducer array receives the first and second processed signals from the sound field controller and produces first and second driver signals for each of the transducers. The first driver signals are based upon the first processed signal and the second driver signals are based upon the second processed signal. The transducer array combines the first and second driver signals for each of the transducers to produce a plurality of combined driver signals, one for each of the transducers, and provides the combined driver signals to the transducers.

Acoustic array systems

Audio network interface devices that are configured to be used with different types of microphones, and analog or digital audio devices. There is a housing that carries at least one set of electrical connectors adapted to be electrically connected to a microphone or audio device. The microphone connector including at least one general purpose input, at least two general purpose outputs and DC power. There is a first network connector that is adapted to provide connection to a data network, and a second network connector that is adapted to provide connection to a different electronic device. A microphone phantom power source is configured to provide phantom power to a microphone that is connected to a set of electrical connectors. A processing system is configured to cause the conversion of input and output signals from/to a microphone or other audio device that is connected to a set of electrical connectors, to/from digital output signals that are provided to the first network connector. An internal power supply is configured to derive power from the data network connected via the first network connector, and provide derived power to the microphone phantom power source, DC power to a microphone connector, and the processing system.

Audio network interfacing

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