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Samsung patents wireless system for 7-channel home audio

Samsung describes a home audio setup that splits 7-channel sound into two separate wireless streams to send to different speakers. One main unit sends four channels to two speakers, while a second stream sends the remaining three channels to a third speaker.

Why it mattersThis approach allows for a complete surround sound system without running multiple cables, which is useful for people setting up home theaters.

In the filing’s own words

There is provided an audio system and a method for expanding 7-channel audio using wireless transmission. The method includes transmitting first audio data corresponding to a plurality of first channels, transmitting second audio data corresponding to a plurality of second channels, receiving and extracting, by a first reception circuit, third audio data corresponding to three channels among the plurality of first channels, receiving and extracting, by the second reception circuit, fourth audio data corresponding to one channel among the plurality of first channels, and receiving and extracting, by the third reception circuit, fifth audio data corresponding to three channels among the plurality of second channels.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. An audio system comprising: a main audio device comprising: a first transmission circuit configured to transmit a first wireless audio signal comprising first audio data corresponding to a plurality of first channels, and a second transmission circuit configured to transmit a second wireless audio signal comprising second audio data corresponding to a plurality of second channels different from the plurality of first channels; a first auxiliary audio device comprising a first reception circuit configured to: receive the first wireless audio signal from the first transmission circuit and extract third audio data corresponding to three channels among the plurality of first channels from the first wireless audio signal; a second auxiliary audio device comprising a second reception circuit configured to: receive the first wireless audio signal from the first transmission circuit and extract fourth audio data corresponding to one channel among the plurality of first channels, different from the three channels among the plurality of first channels, from the first wireless audio signal; and a third auxiliary audio device comprising a third reception circuit configured to: receive the second wireless audio signal from the second transmission circuit and extract fifth audio data corresponding to three channels among the plurality of second channels from the second wireless audio signal, wherein the plurality of first channels comprises four channels and the plurality of second channels comprises three channels, and wherein the first auxiliary audio device is configured to extract three channels from the four channels, the second auxiliary audio device is configured to extract one channel from the four channels, and the third auxiliary audio device is configured to extracts all three channels among the plurality of second channels.

Facts

Company
Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
Official title
Device and method for expanding 7-channel audio by using radio transmission
Patent number
US12756977B2
Application number
18733369
Filed
Jun 4, 2024
Granted
Oct 6, 2026
Inventors
2
Claims
18

Classified under

H04R 3/12 Electricity & electronicsH04R 5/04 Electricity & electronicsH04S 3/008 Electricity & electronicsH04R 2420/07 Electricity & electronicsH04S 2400/01 Electricity & electronics

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