Patent ID: 11916682
Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 4:
5. An audio apparatus operation method for an audio apparatus including a first device and a second device each of which receives audio data transmitted from a source device, the method comprising:
causing a device having a worse reception environment of the audio data out of the first device and the second device to operate as a primary device that performs a retransmission request for the audio data to the source device;
causing a device having a better reception environment of the audio data out of the first device and the second device to operate as a secondary device that performs the retransmission request for the audio data to the primary device;
causing the device operating as the secondary device to notify the device operating as the primary device of a reception environment of the audio data at the secondary device;
causing the device operating as the primary device to notify the source device of the reception environment of the audio data at the secondary device and a reception environment of the audio data at the primary device; and
causing the device operating as the primary device to switch to operating as the secondary device and causing the device operating as the secondary device to switch to operating as the primary device in response to a switching request from the source device in a case where the source device determines that the reception environment of the audio data at the secondary device is lower than the reception environment of the audio data at the primary device.