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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2019
Roku, Inc., Los Gatos, CA (US);
Gregory Mack Garner, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Patrick Alan Brouillette, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Roku, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for a mobile device based control device locator. An embodiment operates by receiving a request to locate a control device, transmitting acoustic token transmission information to the control device to activate an electroacoustic transducer on the control device, receiving an acoustic signal including an acoustic token signal from the control device via a plurality of acoustic sensors, and determining distance information of the control device based on the received acoustic token signal generated by the electroacoustic transducer of the control device.