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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2007
Jano Banks, Cupertino, CA (US);
David Buuck, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jeff Boone, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jon Norenberg, Modesto, CA (US);
Brad Bozarth, Mountain View, CA (US);
Eric Wiles, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David Northway, San Carlos, CA (US);
Jano Banks, Cupertino, CA (US);
David Buuck, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jeff Boone, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jon Norenberg, Modesto, CA (US);
Brad Bozarth, Mountain View, CA (US);
Eric Wiles, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David Northway, San Carlos, CA (US);
AliphCom, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus is described that includes an AV receiver with a wireless audio module (WAM) host. The apparatus further includes a plurality of wireless speakers each having a WAM device to enable bi-directional communications with the WAM host. The apparatus further includes a wireless input/output device or a plurality of wireless input/output devices embedded in speakers to enable bidirectional communications with the WAM host in order to automatically configure the plurality of wireless speakers to optimize audio parameters of the wireless speakers. The automatic configuration includes determining a location for each speaker in order to identify each speaker. The automatic configuration further includes setting time delay parameters for each speaker. The automatic configuration further includes setting volume parameters for each speaker.