WLAN player and WLAN system for synchronizing playing speed and method thereof

• US 9,952,828 B2
• Filed: 10/12/2016
• Issued: 04/24/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ali SPA (Bessemer Group Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Ali SPA (Bessemer Group Incorporated)
• Inventors: Chen, Yue-Yong
• Primary Examiner(s): Gauthier, Gerald
• Application Number:
  US15/291,954
• Publication Number:
  US 20170286054A1
• Time in Patent Office: 559 Days
• Field of Search: 348 1408, 348515, 348738, 370205, 370338, 370432, 370505, 375134, 375219, 381 79, 381109, 700 94, 386207, 386239, 386338, 4551271, 709231, 709248
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/165 Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/10 Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

A WLAN player for synchronizing playing speed includes a speed adjusting module, which is adapted to adjust a speed that the WLAN player plays a medium according to a first playing-progress value and a first clock value of another WLAN player, so as to synchronously play the medium together with said another WLAN player. The WLAN player has a second playing-progress value and a second clock value. The speed adjusting module is configured to calculate a progress difference between the second playing-progress value and the first playing-progress value; calculate a time difference between the second clock value and the first clock value; calculate a specific progress difference according to the progress difference and the time difference; and adjust the speed that the WLAN player plays the medium according to the specific progress difference. In this way, a synchronization error between the WLAN players is effectively decreased.

Claims

1. A wireless local area network (WLAN) player for synchronizing playing speed, comprising:

a speed adjusting module, adapted to adjust a speed that the wireless local area network player plays a medium according to a first playing-progress value and a first clock value of another WLAN player, so as to synchronously play the medium together with said another WLAN player,

wherein the first playing-progress value is a progress that said another WLAN player plays the medium, and the first clock value is a self-WLAN-clock value of said another WLAN player,

wherein the WLAN player has a second playing-progress value and a second clock value, the second playing-progress value is a progress that the WLAN player plays the medium, and the second clock value is a self-WLAN-clock value of the WLAN player,

wherein the speed adjusting module is configured to;

calculate a progress difference between the second playing-progress value and the first playing-progress value;

calculate a time difference between the second clock value and the first clock value;

calculate a specific progress difference according to the progress difference and the time difference; and

adjust the speed that the WLAN player plays the medium according to the specific progress difference.

2. The WLAN player for synchronizing playing speed as claimed in claim 1, wherein the time difference is a value obtained by subtracting the first clock value by the second clock value, and the speed adjusting module is further configured to:

determine whether the time difference is between 0 and a predetermined value;

if yes, calculate the specific progress difference according to the progress difference and the time difference;

if no, set the progress difference as the specific progress difference; and

adjust the speed that the WLAN player plays the medium according to the specific progress difference.

3. The WLAN player for synchronizing playing speed as claimed in claim 1, wherein the speed adjusting module is configured to:

update a filter register value according to the specific progress value and a first filter coefficient;

multiply the specific progress value by a second filter coefficient for adding to the updated filter register value to obtain a speed adjusting value;

update an interpolation phase according to the speed adjusting value and a sampling period of the medium; and

interpolate the medium according to the interpolation phase to adjust the speed that the WLAN player plays the medium.

4. A WLAN playing system for synchronizing playing speed, comprising:

a first WLAN player; and

a second WLAN player, synchronously playing a same medium together with the first WLAN player,

wherein the second WLAN player adjusts a speed that the second WLAN player plays the medium according to a first playing-progress value and a first clock value of the first WLAN player, so as to synchronously play the medium together with the first WLAN player,

wherein the first playing-progress value is a progress that the first WLAN player plays the medium, and the first clock value is a self-WLAN-clock value of the first WLAN player,

wherein the second WLAN player has a second playing-progress value and a second clock value, the second playing-progress value is a progress that the second WLAN player plays the medium, and the second clock value is a self-WLAN-clock value of the second WLAN player,

wherein the second WLAN player is configured to;

calculate a progress difference between the second playing-progress value and the first playing-progress value;

calculate a time difference between the second clock value and the first clock value;

calculate a specific progress difference according to the progress difference and the time difference; and

adjust the speed that the second WLAN player plays the medium according to the specific progress difference.

5. The WLAN playing system for synchronizing playing speed as claimed in claim 4, wherein the time difference is a value obtained by subtracting the first clock value by the second clock value, and the second WLAN player is further configured to:

determine whether the time difference is between 0 and a predetermined value;

if yes, calculate the specific progress difference according to the progress difference and the time difference;

if no, set the progress difference as the specific progress difference; and

adjust the speed that the second WLAN player plays the medium according to the specific progress difference.

6. The WLAN playing system for synchronizing playing speed as claimed in claim 4, wherein the second WLAN player is configured to:

update a filter register value according to the specific progress value and a first filter coefficient;

multiply the specific progress value by a second filter coefficient for adding to the updated filter register value to obtain a speed adjusting value;

update an interpolation phase according to the speed adjusting value and a sampling period of the medium; and

interpolate the medium according to the interpolation phase to adjust the speed that the second WLAN player plays the medium.

7. A method for synchronizing playing speed, adapted to a WLAN playing system comprising a plurality of WLAN players, comprising:

sending a first playing-progress value and a first clock value of a first WLAN player by the first WLAN player in the plurality of WLAN players, wherein the other WLAN players synchronously play a same medium together with the first WLAN player; and

adjusting a speed that the other WLAN players play the medium by the other WLAN players according to the first playing-progress value and the first clock value of the first WLAN player, so as to synchronously play the medium together with the first WLAN player,

wherein the first playing-progress value is a progress that the first WLAN player plays the medium, and the first clock value is a self-WLAN-clock value of the first WLAN player,

wherein the other WLAN players respectively have a second playing-progress value and a second clock value, the second playing-progress value is a progress that the other WLAN players respectively play the medium, and the second clock value is an individual WLAN clock value of the other WLAN players,

wherein the step of adjusting the speed that the other WLAN players play the medium by the other WLAN players according to the first playing-progress value and the first clock value of the first WLAN player comprises;

respectively calculating a progress difference between the second playing-progress value and the first playing-progress value by the other WLAN players;

respectively calculating a time difference between the second clock value and the first clock value by the other WLAN players;

respectively calculating a specific progress difference by the other WLAN players according to the progress difference and the time difference; and

respectively adjusting the speed that the other WLAN players respectively play the medium by the other WLAN players according to the specific progress difference.

8. The method for synchronizing playing speed as claimed in claim 7, wherein the time difference is a value obtained by subtracting the first clock value by the second clock value, and before the step of respectively calculating the specific progress difference by the other WLAN players according to the progress difference and the time difference, the method further comprises:

respectively determining whether the time difference is between 0 and a predetermined value by the other WLAN players;

if yes, respectively calculating the specific progress difference by the other WLAN players according to the progress difference and the time difference, and adjusting the speed that the other WLAN players respectively play the medium according to the specific progress difference;

if no, respectively setting the progress difference as the specific progress difference by the other WLAN players, and adjusting the speed that the other WLAN players respectively play the medium according to the specific progress difference.

9. The method for synchronizing playing speed as claimed in claim 7, wherein the WLAN players are respectively configured to:

updating a filter register value according to the specific progress value and a first filter coefficient;

multiplying the specific progress value by a second filter coefficient for adding to the updated filter register value to obtain a speed adjusting value;

updating an interpolation phase according to the speed adjusting value and a sampling period of the medium; and

interpolating the medium according to the interpolation phase to adjust the speed that the other WLAN players respectively play the medium.