Method of controlling a wireless audio signal

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9294206-B2
Application number	US-201313955821-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 31, 2013
Priority date	Nov 19, 2012
Publication date	Mar 22, 2016
Grant date	Mar 22, 2016

Abstract

A method of controlling a wireless audio signal in order to avoid frequency interference between a display apparatus with a multi-view function and glasses with a function of receiving a wireless audio signal is provided.
The method of controlling a wireless audio signal in a wireless audio signal transmitting device includes: pairing with a wireless audio signal receiving device using a first frequency band; detecting frequency interference by an external device other than the paired wireless audio signal receiving device; scanning a frequency when frequency interference is detected; determining whether a frequency change is needed using information related to the scanned frequency; and changing an audio signal transmitting frequency when frequency change is needed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of controlling a display apparatus having a multi-view function, the method comprising:
pairing with glasses which receive an audio signal from the display apparatus and reproduce the audio signal using a first frequency band;
transmitting the audio signal to the glasses using an audio signal transmitting frequency;
detecting frequency interference from external devices other than the paired glasses;
scanning a frequency when the frequency interference is detected;
determining whether a frequency change is needed using the scanned frequency; and
changing the audio signal transmitting frequency when the frequency change is needed.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein scanning the frequency scans a channel satisfying a frequency change condition by detecting a received signal strength indication (RSSI) by three channels in the first frequency band.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein determining whether the frequency change is needed comprises determining a difference between a maximum RSSI and a minimum RSSI of each channel, and determining that the frequency change is needed in response to the determined difference between the maximum RSSI and the minimum RSSI of each channel being greater than 30 dBm.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein determining whether the frequency change is needed comprises determining a wireless intensity of each channel and a wireless signal intensity of the external devices, and determining that the frequency change is needed in response to the wireless intensity of each channel being lower than the wireless signal intensity of the external devices.

5. The method of claim 2 , wherein scanning the frequency scans a wireless intensity of each of all bands when there is no channel in the first frequency band which satisfies the frequency change condition in the first frequency band.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein scanning the frequency comprises first round scanning in which three channels of the first frequency band and two channels of a second frequency band are scanned; second round scanning in which the three channels of the first frequency band, one channel of the second frequency band, and one channel of a third frequency band are scanned; and third round scanning in which the three channels of the first frequency band and two channels of the third frequency band are scanned.

7. The method of claim 1 , the method further comprises that detecting whether an audio data drop occurs due to a wireless intensity of three channels in one band being higher than a predetermined level;
masking the band in response to the detection of the audio data drop so that a frequency in the band is not scanned until a predetermined condition for unmasking is satisfied.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the predetermined condition for unmasking comprises an average wireless intensity of three channels in the masked band being lower than a specified value A and a minimum RSSI in the band of −65 dBm or lower.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein the predetermined condition for unmasking comprises a wireless intensity of at least one channel in the masked band which is less than a specified value B and a minimum RSSI of −50 dBm or lower.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining whether a frequency change is needed uses information related to the scanned frequency.

11. A method of controlling a wireless audio signal transmitting device, the method comprising:
pairing with a wireless audio signal receiving device using a first frequency band;
detecting frequency interference from external devices;
scanning a frequency satisfying a frequency change condition by detecting a received signal strength indication (RSSI) by three channels in the first frequency band; and
changing an audio signal transmitting frequency when frequency change is needed in response to the detection of the frequency interferences and detected RSSI.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein scanning a frequency scans a wireless intensity of each of all bands when there is no channel which satisfies the frequency change condition in the first frequency band.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein scanning a frequency comprises first round scanning in which three channels of the first frequency band and two channels of a second frequency band are scanned.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein scanning a frequency further comprises;
second round scanning in which the three channels of the first frequency band, one channel of the second frequency band, and one channel of a third frequency band are scanned.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein scanning a frequency further comprises third round scanning in which the three channels of the first frequency band and two channels of the third frequency band are scanned.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Seung-Bok
• Seo Je-Hwan
• Yang Geun-Sam
• Ha Tae-Hyeun

Classifications

• H04N2013/0463

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04H20/61 Primary

  for local area broadcast, e.g. instore broadcast · CPC title

• H04N13/0497

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N13/0438

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N2013/403

  the images being monoscopic · CPC title