Validation of audio calibration using multi-dimensional motion check

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9693165-B2
Application number	US-201514864506-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 24, 2015
Priority date	Sep 17, 2015
Publication date	Jun 27, 2017
Grant date	Jun 27, 2017

Abstract

Examples described herein involve validating motion of a microphone during calibration of a playback device. An example implementation involves receiving motion data indicating movement of a recording device while the recording device was recording a calibration sound emitted by one or more playback devices in a given environment during a calibration period. The example implementation also involves determining that sufficient vertical translation of the recording device occurred during the calibration period. The example implementation further involves determining that sufficient horizontal translation of the recording device occurred during the calibration period. The implementation involves sending, by the computing device to one or more playback devices, a message indicating that sufficient translation of the recording device occurred during the calibration period in vertical and horizontal directions.

First claim

We claim:

1. A tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored therein instructions executable by one or more processors to cause a control device to perform operations comprising:
receiving an indication that one or more playback devices are emitting a calibration sound in a given environment during a calibration period;
recording the emitted calibration sound and receiving motion data indicating movement of the control device during emission of the calibration sound;
identifying a first component of the motion data that indicates movement of the control device in a vertical direction and one or more second components of the motion data that indicates movement of the control device in respective radial directions from the one or more playback devices;
determining one or more horizontal motion parameters representing motion of the control device in a horizontal direction through the environment by cross-correlating the first component of the motion data indicating movement of the control device in a vertical direction with the one or more second components of the motion data indicating movement of the control device in respective radial directions from the one or more playback devices;
determining that sufficient horizontal translation of the control device occurred during the calibration period by determining that at least one of the horizontal motion parameters representing motion in the horizontal direction through the environment exceeds a correlation threshold; and
sending a message indicating that sufficient translation of the control device occurred during the calibration period.

2. The tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:
determining a vertical motion parameter representing a mean of the motion data in a vertical direction; and
determining that sufficient vertical translation of the control device occurred during the calibration period by determining that the vertical motion parameter exceeds a vertical-motion threshold.

3. The tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 2 , wherein sending the message indicating that sufficient translation of the control device occurred during the calibration period comprises sending a message indicating that sufficient horizontal translation and sufficient vertical translation of the control device occurred during the calibration period.

4. The tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 2 , wherein determining the vertical motion parameter representing the mean of the motion data in the vertical direction comprises:
as frames of motion data indicating movement of the control device during the calibration period are received, repeatedly updating the vertical motion parameter representing the mean of the motion data in the vertical direction based on the accrued motion data.

5. The tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein receiving motion data indicating movement of the control device during the calibration period comprises:
receiving sensor data indicating acceleration of the control device; and
receiving microphone data indicating respective radial distances from the one or more playback devices to the control device based on respective propagation delays between the one or more playback devices and a microphone coupled to the control device.

6. The tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise determining respective calibration profiles for at least one of the one or more playback devices based on the recorded calibration sound, and wherein sending the message indicating that sufficient translation of the control device occurred during the calibration period comprises sending a message instructing the at least one playback device to calibrate using the determined calibration profile.

7. The tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 6 , wherein determining respective calibration profiles for at least one of the one or more playback devices based on the recorded calibration sound comprises determining respective calibration profiles that offset acoustic characteristics of the given environment to calibrate the playback devices to a calibration equalization.

8. The tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise determining that speed of the control device during the calibration period did not exceed a speed threshold, and wherein sending the message indicating that sufficient translation of the control device occurred during the calibration period comprises sending a message indicating that the sufficient translation of the control device did not exceed the speed threshold.

9. The tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8 , wherein receiving motion data indicating movement of the control device during the calibration period comprises receiving sensor data including a first data stream indicating user acceleration relative to the control device and a second data stream indicating gravity acceleration relative to the control device, and wherein determining that speed of the control device during the calibration period did not exceed a speed threshold comprises:
determining a third data stream indicating user acceleration relative to gravity based on the first data stream indicating user acceleration relative to the control device and the second data stream indicating gravity acceleration relative to the control device;
determining a fourth data stream indicating speed of the control device during the calibration period by determining a magnitude of an integral of the third data stream indicating user acceleration relative to gravity; and
determining that the fourth data stream indicates that speed of the control device during the calibration period did not exceed the speed threshold.

10. A method comprising:
receiving, by a control device, an indication that one or more playback devices are emitting a calibration sound in a given environment during a calibration period;
recording, by the control device, the emitted calibration sound, and receiving, by the control device, motion data indicating movement of the control device during emission of the calibration sound;
identifying, by the control device, a first component of the motion data that indicates movement of the control device in a vertical direction and one or more second components of the motion data that indicates movement of the control device in respective radial directions from the one or more playback devices;
determining, by the control device, one or more horizontal motion parameters representing motion of the control device in a horizontal direction through the environment by cross-correlating the first component of the motion data indicating movement of the control device in a vertical direction with the one or more second components of the motion data indicating movement of the control device in respective radial directions from the one or more playback devices;
determining, by the control device, that sufficient horizontal translation of the control device occurred during the calibration period by determining that at least one of the horizontal motion parameters representing motion in the horizontal direction through the environment exceeds a correlation threshold; and
sending, by the control device to one or more playback devices, a message indicating that sufficient translation of the control device occurred during the calibration period.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising: determining that sufficient vertical translation of the control device occurred during the calibration

Assignees

• Sonos Inc

Inventors

• Downing Jonathan
• Sheen Timothy
• Valente Daniel

Classifications

• H03G5/16

  Automatic control · CPC title

• H04R29/007 Primary

  for public address systems (public address systems per se H04R27/00) · CPC title

• H04R2227/003

  Digital PA systems using, e.g. LAN or internet · CPC title

• H04R27/00

  Public address systems (circuits for preventing acoustic reaction H04R3/02; circuits for distributing signals to loudspeakers H04R3/12; {monitoring or testing arrangements for public address systems H04R29/007}; amplifiers H03F) · CPC title

• H04R2460/07

  Use of position data from wide-area or local-area positioning systems in hearing devices, e.g. program or information selection · CPC title