Patent ID: 9244925
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: G06F,H04S

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a processor circuit; and an audio alignment module operative on the processor circuit to: determine spatial indicia for a visual portion or element of multimedia content for presentation on a digital display, the multimedia content comprising visual content and audio content; determine location information associated with a plurality of audio output devices; identify an audio signal corresponding to the visual portion or element; identify a first one, a second one, and a third one of the plurality of audio output devices based on a spatial correlation between the one or more audio output devices and the determined spatial indicia of the visual portion or element; balance the audio signal between the first and the second one of the audio output devices; determine whether the third one of the audio output devices faces a different direction than the first or the second audio output devices; send the audio signal to the first and the second one of the audio output devices, wherein the audio signal has a higher intensity at the first one of the audio output devices relative to the second one of the audio output devices; and not send the audio output signal to the third one of the audio output devices based on the determination that the third one of the audio output devices faces a different direction than the first or the second audio output devices.