Patent ID: 11910168
Assignee: SAGEMCOM BROADBAND SAS
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium including instructions that cause the processor component of the piece of equipment according to claim 15 to execute the steps of the operational stage of the grouping method comprising the steps of:
emitting a test sound signal in succession by a speaker of each piece of equipment;
receiving the test sound signal by a microphone of each piece of equipment that is capable of receiving sound signals;
evaluating, by a decoder connected to the pieces of equipment via a network, a recognition level for said received test sound signal by each of the pieces of equipment that is capable of receiving sound signals;
for each pair of pieces of equipment Ei and Ej, evaluating, by the decoder, a mutual recognition level representative both of a recognition level N(i, j) for the piece of equipment Ei receiving a test sound signal emitted by the piece of equipment Ej, and also of a recognition level N(j, i) for the piece of equipment Ej receiving a test sound signal emitted by the piece of equipment Ei; and
on the basis of the mutual recognition level, determining, by the decoder, whether or not the pieces of equipment Ei and Ej belong to a common sound space, without information related to positions of the pieces of equipment Ei and Ej; and
grouping, by the decoder the pieces of equipment Ei and Ej if it is determined that the pieces of equipment Ei and Ej belong to the common sound space.