Sonos, Inc. (20250103276). BROADCAST TECHNIQUES FOR MULTI-CHANNEL HOME THEATER
BROADCAST TECHNIQUES FOR MULTI-CHANNEL HOME THEATER
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Inventor(s)
Timothy Andrew Reilly of Louisville KY US
Benjamin Andon Herr of Harrodsburg KY US
BROADCAST TECHNIQUES FOR MULTI-CHANNEL HOME THEATER
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250103276 titled 'BROADCAST TECHNIQUES FOR MULTI-CHANNEL HOME THEATER
Original Abstract Submitted
in an example, a playback device includes a wireless communication interface, a processor, and a tangible non-transitory computer readable medium storing program instructions that are executable by the processor to cause the playback device to operate in a bonded group. operating the playback device may include receiving a first audio stream including multi-channel audio content digitally encoded in a plurality of packets, each packet including a first number of symbols of each of a plurality of audio channels of the multi-channel audio content, for each packet, producing a set of interleaved packets of the multi-channel audio content, each interleaved packet of the set including a proper subset of the first number of symbols, producing a second audio stream including a plurality of the sets of interleaved packets, and broadcasting the second audio stream to a plurality of satellite playback devices in the bonded group via the wireless communication interface.