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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2008
Mickaël Lorgeoux, Rennes, FR;
Francois Thoumy, Vignoc, FR;
Mickaël Lorgeoux, Rennes, FR;
Francois Thoumy, Vignoc, FR;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method for assigning audio channels of audio data content to speakers, each of which is associated with a different one of N speaker nodes of a wireless network. The method is performed by a manager node of the wireless network. The method includes, for each of the N speaker nodes, obtaining a piece of orientation information for each of N−1 other speaker nodes different from the given speaker node, regarding an orientation of a reception antenna of the given speaker node when receiving data sent by each of the N−1 other speaker nodes through the wireless network. The method also includes assigning a different one of the audio channels to a different one of the speaker nodes, as a function of N−1 pieces of orientation information obtained for each of the N speaker nodes.