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Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021

Filed:

Feb. 04, 2019
Applicant:

Harman International Industries, Incorporated, Stamford, CT (US);

Inventor:

Todd S. Welti, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/00 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01); H04R 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/303 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01); H04R 5/02 (2013.01); H04S 7/301 (2013.01);
Abstract

A smart speaker device for acoustical listening area mapping and frequency correction includes a non-transitory storage configured to maintain a listening area response map indicating filter settings corresponding to each of a plurality of locations within a listening area, a microphone array, a loudspeaker; and a controller. The controller is programmed to execute a frequency correcting application to identify a current location of a mobile device in the listening area based on ultrasonic audio received to the microphone array from the mobile device, access the listening area response map to retrieve filter settings corresponding to the current location, and apply the filter settings to an audio stream to be output to the loudspeaker to correct for frequency response of the loudspeaker at the current location of the mobile device.


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