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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2022
D&m Holdings, Inc., Kanagawa, JP;
Yukihiro Yoshida, Fukushima, JP;
D&M HOLDINGS INC., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
[Problem] To enable a sound bar and a wireless speaker to be grouped and ungrouped through a simple operation. [Solution] When a user moves a controllercloser to a sound bar, the sound barreads tag information from an RFID tagof the controllerby using an RFID tag reader, detects that the user has performed an operation to move the controllercloser to the sound bar, and checks a host group state. When group formation is in progress, an ungroup notification is transmitted to a wireless speaker, which is a participating member of the group, to ungroup the group, and information relating to a slave of the ungrouped group is stored as immediately preceding slave information. However, when ungrouping is in progress, a group formation notification is transmitted to the wireless speakeridentified by the immediately preceding slave information to form a group with the wireless speaker
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