Patent ID: 9609433
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: H04R,H04S

Claim:
1. A portable computer device comprising: a microphone for receiving and transducing sound waves, acoustic measuring circuitry coupled to microphone for measuring acoustic responses of the sound waves received and transduced by the microphone; a processor coupled to acoustic measuring circuitry; a memory coupled to the processor; and a software program stored on the memory, which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to: cause instructions to be communicated to a user, the instructions directing the user to move the microphone to different locations in a listening space; cause the microphone to receive sound waves radiated by a loudspeaker as the microphone is moved to different locations in the listening space; cause the acoustic measuring circuitry to measure a plurality of acoustic responses as the microphone is moved to different locations in the listening space; perform a closeness test to determine if the acoustic responses were measured at locations that are too close together; and in the event that the closeness test determines that the acoustic responses were measured at locations that are too close together, generate a message.