Wireless Audio Signal Rerouting for Interruption Handling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing wireless communication systems fail to maintain audio integrity when wireless communication is interrupted between devices, leading to incomplete audio information and difficulty in understanding the audio content.
Innovation Solution
A transmission apparatus that reroutes the audio signal from an unconnected receiver to a connected receiver, ensuring continuous audio output by generating a monaural or low-bit-rate signal when wireless communication is interrupted, and using external and mutual communication sections to transmit the signal between receivers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If wireless communication is used between transmission apparatus and receivers, then ease of operation and device portability are improved, but communication interruption occurs leading to loss of information
Solution Approach 1:
The connected receiver acts as an intermediary device. When wireless communication with one receiver is interrupted, the transmission apparatus reroutes audio signals through the connected receiver, which then transmits the audio to the unconnected receiver via its own wireless communication module. This mediator approach maintains audio continuity despite individual communication interruptions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system proactively monitors communication status between the transmission apparatus and each receiver. When interruption is detected, the system automatically switches to the backup transmission path through the connected receiver before the audio stream is completely lost, ensuring continuous audio delivery without gaps.
2Device complexity
If audio signal is transmitted only to connected receiver when wireless communication is interrupted, then device complexity is reduced, but audio integrity and information completeness deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an additional transmission dimension by utilizing the connected receiver's wireless communication capability as a secondary path. Instead of simply outputting audio from the connected receiver, the system routes audio signals through this alternative dimension to reach the unconnected receiver, maintaining audio completeness without significantly increasing system complexity.
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AI summary
The present technology relates to a transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus, and a communication system that can reduce omission of information caused by interruption of wireless communication. The communication system of the present technology includes a transmission apparatus and a reception apparatus. The transmission apparatus includes a communication section that transmits, in a case where wireless communication with one of multiple receivers that perform wireless communication with each other is interrupted, a transmission signal including the substance of a signal that has been transmitted directly to an unconnected receiver, to a connected receiver. The reception apparatus includes the multiple receivers. The connected receiver includes an external communication section that receives the transmission signal transmitted from the transmission apparatus, and a mutual communication section that transmits a signal that is included in the transmission signal and that has been transmitted from the transmission apparatus to the unconnected receiver to the unconnected receiver. The unconnected receiver includes a mutual communication section that receives the signal transmitted from the connected receiver. The present technology can be applied to a communication system including, for example, a smartphone and fully independent type earphones.