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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2016
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Chan-ho Park, Seongnam-si, KR;
Kyeong-chae Lim, Suwon-si, KR;
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 29/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); H04R 5/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 29/001 (2013.01); G06F 3/165 (2013.01); H04R 5/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
An audio device and a position recognition method of the audio device are disclosed. According to an example embodiment, an audio device includes at least one infrared (IR) transceiver and a controller configured to recognize whether the audio device is positioned to a left or right of another audio device in response to a signal received by the at least one IR transceiver.