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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2020
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Robert D. Silfvast, Belmont, CA (US);
Tushar Gupta, San Mateo, CA (US);
Jahan C. Minoo, San Jose, CA (US);
Nicholas C. Soldner, Mountain View, CA (US);
Daniel Javaheri-Zadeh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A system that includes an audio source device configured to obtain audio data of at least one audio channel of a piece of program content. The audio source device has an optical transmitter for transmitting the audio data as an optical signal and a radio frequency (RF) transceiver. The system also includes a wireless earphone that has an optical receiver for receiving the audio data as the optical signal, a RF transceiver for transmitting feedback data indicating a reception quality of the received optical signal at the wireless earphone as a wireless RF signal, and a speaker for outputting the audio data contained within the optical signal and/or the data packets as sound.