Digital wireless loudspeaker system
First Claim
1. A discrete speaker for use in a distributed digital wireless loudspeaker system having at least two discrete speakers and a single receiver for transmitting an RF signal including a transmission clock and at least two audio channels of transmission data, the speaker comprising:
- means for receiving the RF signal, means for generating a derived sample clock based upon the transmission clock, means for selecting one of the audio channels from the RF signal for broadcast, means for generating an output audio signal based upon the selected audio channel, and means for broadcasting sound based upon the selected audio channel.
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Abstract
A digital wireless loudspeaker system includes an audio transmission device for selecting and transmitting digital audio data, and wireless speakers for receiving the data and broadcasting sound. The audio transmission device selects digital audio data together with a sample clock from a stereo compact disk, or decoded DVD data. The sample clock clocks an element that generates frames of data and adds error protection. Status messages are included in the transmission frames to control speaker attributes such as speaker group, enabling or disabling a sub-woofer, and volume of the loudspeaker digitally. These transmission frames are clocked into an RF transmitter and transmitted to the speakers. The received bit stream and symbol clock are output from the RF receiver in each speaker and input to a framing and error protection decoder and a sample clock generator. The recovered audio sample data and sample clock are input to a digital to speaker input conversion and channel selector.
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48 Claims
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1. A discrete speaker for use in a distributed digital wireless loudspeaker system having at least two discrete speakers and a single receiver for transmitting an RF signal including a transmission clock and at least two audio channels of transmission data, the speaker comprising:
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means for receiving the RF signal, means for generating a derived sample clock based upon the transmission clock, means for selecting one of the audio channels from the RF signal for broadcast, means for generating an output audio signal based upon the selected audio channel, and means for broadcasting sound based upon the selected audio channel. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 48)
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14. A discrete speaker for use in a distributed digital wireless loudspeaker system having at least two discrete speakers and a single receiver for transmitting an RF signal including at least two audio channels of transmission data, the speaker comprising:
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means for receiving the RF signal including the at least two audio channels of transmission data, means for selecting one of the audio channels of transmission data, means for generating output audio data based upon the selected audio channel, and means for broadcasting sound based upon the selected audio channel. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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24. A discrete speaker for use in a distributed digital wireless loudspeaker system having at least two discrete speakers and a single receiver for transmitting an RF signal including at least two audio channels of transmission data and frame markers appearing at predetermined intervals in the RF signal, the speaker comprising:
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means for receiving the RF signal means for selecting one of the audio channels of the received RF signal, means for generating an output audio signal based upon the selected audio channel, means, responsive to the frame markers, for synchronizing the output audio signal with the output audio signal of each other speaker in the wireless loudspeaker system, and means for broadcasting sound based upon the synchronized output audio signal. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A discrete speaker for use in a distributed digital wireless loudspeaker system having at least two discrete speakers and a single receiver for transmitting an RF signal including at least two audio channels of transmission data and status data, the speaker comprising:
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means for receiving the RF signal means for selecting one of the audio channels of the received RF signal, means for generating an output audio signal based upon the selected channel and the status data, means for broadcasting sound based upon the output audio signal and the status data. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34)
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35. Cancelled
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38. A discrete speaker for use in a distributed digital wireless loudspeaker system having at least two discrete speakers and a single receiver for transmitting an RF signal including at least two multiplexed audio channels of transmission data, the speaker comprising:
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means for receiving the RF signal means for demultiplexing the received RF signal, means for selecting one of the audio channels from the demultiplexed signal, means for generating an output audio signal based upon the selected audio channel, and means for broadcasting sound based upon the output audio signal. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44)
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45. Cancelled
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47. Cancelled
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