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Definitions

• the United States Media and Entertainment Industry represents a third of the global media and entertainment industry which delivers events, such as musical events, theatrical events, sporting events, and/or motion picture events, to spectators for their viewing pleasure.
• venues such as music venues and/or sporting venues to provide an example, deliver these events to the spectators using conventional audio-visual systems having various display screens surrounded by loudspeakers in plain sight of the spectators.
• venues often undergo various measures to cover these conventional loudspeakers from the field of view of the spectators.
• FIG. 1 illustrates a pictorial representation of an exemplary venue according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure
• FIG. 2 illustrates a pictorial representation of an exemplary integrated audio
• FIG. 3 A and FIG. 3B illustrate simplified diagrams of exemplary operations of the exemplary integrated audio-visual system according to exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure
• FIG. 4 illustrates a block diagram of an exemplary visual display that can be
• FIG. 5 illustrates an exemplary arrangement of visual display panels that that can be implemented within the exemplary integrated audio-visual system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure
• FIG. 6 illustrates an exemplary visual display panel that that can be implemented within the exemplary integrated audio-visual system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure.
• first and second features are formed in direct contact
• additional features may be formed between the first and second features, such that the first and second features may not be in direct contact
• present disclosure may repeat reference numerals and/or letters in the examples. This repetition does not in itself dictate a relationship between the embodiments and/or configurations discussed.
• An integrated audio-visual system for delivering an event to one or more spectators.
• the integrated audio-visual system includes one or more loudspeakers that are positioned behind one or more visual displays to be effectively behind the one or more visual displays to be shielded from the field of view of the one or more spectators.
• the one or more visual displays are specially designed and manufactured to allow sound associated with the event to propagate from the one or more loudspeakers with minimal acoustical distortion and/or minimum acoustical vibration while presenting a visual representation of the event to the one or more spectators.
• the one or more loudspeakers and the one or more visual displays are situated to be a predetermined displacement from each other to further minimize acoustical distortion.
• FIG. 1 illustrates a pictorial representation of an exemplary venue according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure.
• a venue 100 represents a location for hosting an event.
• the venue 100 can represent a music venue, for example, a music theater, a music club, and/or a concert hall, a sporting venue, for example, an arena, a convention center, and/or a stadium, and/or any other suitable venue that will be apparent to those skilled in the relevant (s) without departing the spirit and scope of the present disclosure.
• the event can represent a musical event, a theatrical event, a sporting event, a motion picture, and/or any other suitable event that will be apparent to those skilled in the relevant (s) without departing the spirit and scope of the present disclosure.
• one or more spectators 102 experience visual and/or auditory representations of the event delivered from an integrated audio-visual system 104 within the venue 100.
• the discussion of the integrated audio-visual system 104, as well as other integrated audio visual systems described herein, to follow describes these integrated audio-visual systems as delve ring sound and visual representations of an event, those skilled in the relevant art(s) will recognize that the sound and the visual representation delivered by these integrated audio-visual systems need not be related to the same event without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure.
• these integrated audio visual systems can deliver sound of a musical song that is unrelated to a visual representation of a motion picture.
• the integrated audio-visual system 104 delivers an audiovisual viewing experience of the event to the one or more spectators 102 through accurate and precise integration of its audiovisual components.
• the audiovisual components within the integrated audio-visual system 104 can include one or more loudspeakers for delivering sound representing an audio component of the event to the one or more spectators 102.
• the terms“loudspeaker” or“loudspeakers” refer to electrical, mechanical, and/or electro-mechanical devices which convert an electrical audio signal into a corresponding sound.
• Loudspeakers and/or loudspeakers can include one or more super tweeters, one or more tweeters, one or more mid-range speakers, one or more woofers, one or more subwoofers, one or more full-range speakers to provide some examples.
• the term“sound” refers to electrical waveforms in the general audible frequency whose frequency is in the band audible to the average human. Those skilled in the relevant art(s) will recognize the generally accepted standard range of audible frequencies for humans is between approximately 20 Hertz (Hz) and
• the audiovisual components within the integrated audio-visual system 104 can further include one or more visual displays, such as one or more light-emitting diode (LED) displays, one or more organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays, and/or one or more quantum dots (QDs) displays to provide some examples, for delivering a visual component of the event to the one or more spectators 102.
• LED light-emitting diode
• OLED organic light-emitting diode
• QDs quantum dots
• the one or more visual displays are specially designed and manufactured to allow sound associated with the event to propagate from the one or more loudspeakers to the one or more spectators 102 with minimal acoustical distortion and/or minimum acoustical vibration while presenting the visual representation of the event to the one or more spectators 102.
• the one or more visual displays are particularly designed and manufactured onto one or more substrates, such as printed circuit board substrates or semiconductor substrates to provide some examples, having openings to allow the sound associated with the event to propagate from the one or more loudspeakers effectively passing through the one or more visual displays onto the one or more spectators 102.
• the one or more loudspeakers and the one or more visual displays are situated within the integrated audio visual system 104 to be a predetermined displacement distance from each other. This predetermined displacement can allow for the formation of one or more wavefronts of the sound before the sound passes through the openings of the one or more visual displays to further minimize acoustical distortion.
• FIG. 2 illustrates a pictorial representation of an exemplary integrated audio
• an integrated audio-visual system 200 is specially designed and manufactured to allow sound representing an audio component of an event to propagate through one or more visual displays while these visual displays are delivering a visual representation of the event.
• the integrated audio-visual system 200 includes a visual display mechanical housing 202, a visual display 204, an loudspeaker mechanical housing 206, and one or more loudspeakers 208.
• the integrated audio-visual system 200 can represent an exemplary embodiment of the integrated audio-visual system 104 as described above in FIG. 1.
• the visual display mechanical housing 202 represents a mechanical housing for securing the visual display 204.
• the visual display mechanical housing 202 can be implemented using one or more metallic materials, such as iron, steel, copper, bronze, brass, aluminum, or magnesium to provide some examples, one or more non-metallic materials, such as wood, plastic, or glass, and/or any combination thereof.
• the visual display mechanical housing 202 represents a frame or a housing for mechanically securing the visual display 204 from substantial acoustical vibration that can occur as the sound passes through the visual display 204.
• the visual display 204 can include multiple visual display panels that functionally cooperate to deliver the visual representation of the event. In the exemplary embodiment illustrated in FIG.
• the visual display mechanical housing 202 can include one or more mechanical cross members 210 for securing the multiple visual display panels to the visual display mechanical housing 202.
• the one or more mechanical cross members 210 can be designed and manufactured to allow the sound associated with the event to propagate from the one or more loudspeakers 208 through the visual display mechanical housing 202 with minimal distortion and/or minimum acoustical vibration.
• the visual display 204 delivers a visual component of the event.
• the visual display 204 includes multiple visual display panels that functionally cooperate to deliver the visual representation of the event.
• these multiple visual display panels are mechanically attached to the visual display mechanical housing 202 using the one or more mechanical cross members 210.
• these multiple visual display panels can be arranged as a series of rows and a series of columns of visual display panels to form an array of visual display panels.
• rows of visual display panels can be mechanically attached to the mechanical cross members 210.
• the multiple visual display panels include visual emission elements 212, such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs), organic light-emitting diode (OLEDs), and/or quantum dots (QDs) to provide some examples, to deliver the visual representation of the event.
• the visual emission elements 212 can be arranged as a series of rows and a series of columns of visual emission elements to form an array of visual emission elements 212 to deliver the visual representation of the event as illustrated in FIG. 2.
• LEDs light-emitting diodes
• OLEDs organic light-emitting diode
• QDs quantum dots
• the visual emission elements 212 can be situated onto a substrate 214, such as a printed circuit board substrate or a semiconductor substrate to provide some examples.
• the visual emission elements 212 can be situated onto the substrate 214 using reflow soldering and/or wave soldering to provide some examples.
• the substrate 214 can include one or more openings 216 to allow the sound associated with the event to propagate through the visual display 204 with minimal distortion and/or vibration as to be described in further detail below.
• the one or more openings 216 represent geometric regions within the visual display 204 in which the substrate 214 has been removed. In the exemplary embodiment illustrated in FIG. 2, the one or more openings 216 can be characterized as being rectangular geometric shapes as illustrated in FIG.
• the visual display 204 can include more or less visual emission elements 212 and/or the number of the one or more openings 216 than illustrated in FIG. 2 without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure.
• the loudspeaker mechanical housing 206 represents a mechanical housing for securing the one or more loudspeakers 208 to be effectively behind the visual display 204.
• the loudspeaker mechanical housing 206 can be implemented using one or more metallic materials, such as iron, steel, copper, bronze, brass, aluminum, or magnesium to provide some examples, one or more non-metallic materials, such as wood, plastic, or glass, and/or any combination thereof.
• the loudspeaker mechanical housing 206 represents a frame or a housing for mechanically securing the one or more loudspeakers 208.
• the loudspeaker mechanical housing 206 is designed and manufactured to mechanically dampen at least some of the acoustical vibration generated by the one or more loudspeakers 208 in providing the sound.
• the loudspeaker mechanical housing 206 mechanically positions the one or more loudspeakers 208 to be effectively behind the visual display 204 to be shielded from the field of view of the one or more spectators.
• the one or more loudspeakers 208 deliver the sound representing an audio
• the one or more loudspeakers 208 can include one or more super tweeters, one or more tweeters, one or more mid-range speakers, one or more woofers, one or more subwoofers, one or more full-range speakers, and/or any other suitable device that is capable of reproducing the audible frequency range, or a portion thereof, that will be apparent to those skilled in the relevant art(s) without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure. In some situations, the one or more
• loudspeakers 208 can include multiple loudspeakers mounted in a theoretical line to form one or more line arrays of loudspeakers which are fed in phase.
• loudspeakers within each line array of loudspeakers are of similar speaker type, for example, super tweeters, tweeters, mid-range speakers, woofers, subwoofers, or full- range speakers.
• multiple line arrays of loudspeakers can be stacked onto each other at slightly different vertical angles to cover a greater depth of field than a single line array of loudspeakers.
• the visual display 204 and the one or more loudspeakers 208 are situated to be a predetermined displacement from each other. This predetermined displacement allows for the formation of the sound by the one or more loudspeakers 208 before the sound passes through the openings of the visual display 204 to further minimize acoustical distortion.
• FIG. 3 A and FIG. 3B illustrate simplified diagrams of exemplary operations of the exemplary integrated audio-visual system according to exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure.
• the one or more auditory speakers 208 generate an auditory waveform representing an audio component of an event which propagates through the visual display 204 while the visual display 204 is delivering a visual representation of the event.
• the one or more loudspeakers 208 generate sound 302 representing the audio component of the event which propagates through the visual display 204.
• FIG. 3 A illustrates an exemplary side view of the visual display 204 and the one or more loudspeakers 208.
• the waveform 302 can differ from that depicted in FIG.
• the sound 302 represents a plane wave that can be characterized by planar wavefronts 304.1 through 304.k.
• the planar wavefronts 304.1 through 304.k, which represent surfaces of constant phase of the sound 302, are further illustrated in FIG. 3B as being parallel planes normal to a phase velocity vector 306.
• the visual display 204 can introduce acoustical distortion into the sound 302 as the sound 302 propagates through the openings of the visual display 204.
• the visual display 204 and the one or more loudspeakers 208 can be situated to be a predetermined displacement, denoted as displacement distance D in FIG. 3 A and FIG. 3B, from each other to minimize this acoustical distortion.
• the displacement distance D allows for one or more of the planar wavefronts 304.1 through 304 A to be formed before the sound 302 passes through the openings of the visual display 204 to minimize acoustical distortion of the sound 302 as the sound 302 propagates through the openings of the visual display 204.
• the displacement distance D is approximately 50 centimeters (cm).
• FIG. 4 illustrates a block diagram of an exemplary visual display that can be
• a visual display system 400 delivers a visual component of an event to one or more spectators as described above.
• the visual display system 400 includes a processor 402, routing fabric 404.1 through 404.5, and visual display panels 406.1.1 through 406. r.s.
• the visual display system 400 can represent an exemplary embodiment of the visual display 204 as described above in FIG. 2.
• the processor 402 controls overall configuration and/or operation of the visual display system 400.
• the processor 402 can be situated remote from the routing fabric 404.1 through 404.5 and the visual display panels 406.1.1 through 406. r.s.
• the visual display system 400 can be located within a venue, such as the venue 100 as described above.
• the processor 402 can be implemented using a series of one or more processors that can be mounted in one or more equipment racks in a different location, for example, a different room, within the venue than the visual display panels 406.1.1 through 406. r.s.
• the processor 402 receives digital video data 450 representing the visual component of the event to deliver to the one or more spectators.
• the event can be pre-recorded onto stored on a machine-readable medium, which can be read and executed by one or more processors.
• a machine-readable medium can include any mechanism for storing or transmitting information in a form readable by a machine (e.g., a computing circuitry).
• a machine-readable medium can include non-transitory machine-readable mediums such as read only memory (ROM); random access memory (RAM); magnetic disk storage media; optical storage media; flash memory devices; and others.
• the machine-readable medium can include transitory machine-readable medium such as electrical, optical, acoustical, or other forms of propagated signals (e.g., carrier waves, infrared signals, digital signals, etc.).
• a media distribution system can provide the event is stored on the machine-readable medium to the processor as the digital video data 450.
• This media distribution system can be within a venue, such as the venue 100, or outside of the venue with capabilities to service multiple venues.
• the digital video data 450 representing the event can be streamed to the processor 402 in real-time, or near real-time, as the event is occurring.
• the processor 402 can supplement the digital video data 450 with supplemental digital data, such as virtual advertising and graphic effects, prior to delivering the digital video data 450 to the visual display panels 406.1.1 through 406.r.s.
• the processor 402 processes the digital video data 450 to provide the control signals 452.1 through 452.5.
• each control signal from among the control signals 452.1 through 452.5 configures a corresponding group of visual display panels from among the visual display panels 406.1.1 through 406./ ⁇ .v, for example, a corresponding column of visual display panels, to deliver their corresponding portion of the visual component of the event to one or more spectators.
• the processor 402 can map, referred to as pixel map, the digital video data 450 from an image space into a display space for display onto the visual display panels 406.1.1 through 406 / ⁇ .s
• the pixels of the digital video data 450 can be assigned to various coordinates in the image space and the visual display panels 406.1.1 through 406.r.5 can be assigned to various coordinates in the display space.
• the processor 402 translates or maps the pixels of the digital video data 450 from the image space to the display space. Thereafter, the processor 402 provides the control signals 452.1 through 452.5 to cause the display panels 406.1.1 through 406. r.s to display the digital video data 450 in the display space.
• control signals 452.1 through 452.5 can represent serial control signals with these serial control signals corresponding to groups of visual display panels from among the visual display panels 406.1.1 through 406./ ⁇ .v, for example, corresponding columns of visual display panels.
• control signals 452.1 through 452.5 can represent parallel control signals with these parallel control signals corresponding to individual visual display panels from among the visual display panels 406.1.1 through 406.r.5.
• the digital video data 450 can be encoded in accordance with a video coding format, such as a version of a Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) video coding format or a version of an AOMedia Video 1 (AVI) video coding format to provide some examples.
• MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group
• AVI AOMedia Video 1
• the processor 402 decodes the digital video data 450 in accordance with the format before processing the digital video data 450, as to be described in further detail below, for delivery to the visual display panels 406.1.1 through 406.r.s.
• the processor 402 can perform motion compensation, inverse discrete cosine transforms (iDCTs), inverse modified discrete cosine transforms (iMDCTs), in-loop deblocking filters, intra-frame predictions, inverse quantizations (IQs), variable-length decoding (VLD), spatial-temporal deinterlacing, automatic interlace/progressive source detection, and/or bitstream processing and perfect pixel positioning to manipulate the images, or the series or images, of the event within the digital video data 450.
• iDCTs inverse discrete cosine transforms
• iMDCTs inverse modified discrete cosine transforms
• IQs inverse quantizations
• VLD variable-length decoding
• VLD variable-length deinterlacing
• automatic interlace/progressive source detection
• the routing fabric 404.1 through 404.5 selectively routes the control signals 452.1 through 452.5 for delivery to the visual display panels 406.1.1 through 406. r.s as control signals 454.1.1 through 454. r.s.
• the processor 402 can be
• Ethernet networking cables such as one or more category 5 (Cat 5) or category 6 (Cat 6) Ethernet networking cables to provide some examples, one or more optical fiber cables, and/or one or more copper core
• the routing fabric 404.1 through 404.5 can convert the control signals 452.1 through 452.5 from serial control signals to provide the as control signals 454.1.1 through 454 / 5 as parallel control signals for delivery to the visual display panels 406.1.1 through 406./ ⁇ .v.
• the visual display panels 406.1.1 through 406. r.s can be arranged as a series of r rows and a series of 5 columns of visual display panels to form an array of visual display panels.
• the visual display panels 406.1.1 through 406. r.s utilize the control signals
• the visual display panels 406.1.1 through 406. r.s can be arranged as a series of r rows and a series of 5 columns of visual display panels to form an array of visual display panels.
• the visual display panels 406.1.1 through 406. r.s utilize the control signals
• the various visual emission elements can include light-emitting diodes (LEDs), organic light- emitting diode (OLEDs), quantum dots (QDs), and/or any combination thereof to deliver the visual representation of the event.
• the control signals 454.1.1 through 454. r.s can be utilized to activate, or turn-on, these various visual emission elements to emit light with the color and/or intensity of the light being dependent upon chemical properties of the various visual emission elements.
• control signals 454.1.1 through 454./ ⁇ .v can be utilized to deactivate, or turn-off, these various visual emission elements to not emit light.
• control signals 454.1.1 through 454. r.s can be configured to forward bias the various visual emission elements to activate these visual emission elements or to reverse bias the various visual emission elements to deactivate these visual emission elements.
• FIG. 5 illustrates an exemplary arrangement of visual display panels that that can be implemented within the exemplary integrated audio-visual system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure.
• the visual display panels 406.1.1 through 406.r.s can be arranged as the series of r rows and the series of 5 columns of visual display panels to form the array of visual display panels.
• FIG 5 illustrates such an arrangement of the visual display panels 406.1.1 through 406. r.s in the series of r rows and the series of 5 columns.
• FIG. 6 illustrates an exemplary visual display panel that that can be implemented within the exemplary integrated audio-visual system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure.
• a visual display panel 600 can be specially designed and manufactured to allow sound, such as the sound 302 as described above in FIG. 3, of an event to propagate from one or more loudspeakers to one or more spectators of the event with minimal acoustical distortion and/or minimum acoustical vibration while presenting a visual representation of the event to the one or more spectators.
• the visual display panel 600 is particularly designed and manufactured onto a printed circuit board substrate having openings to allow the sound associated with the event to propagate from the one or more loudspeakers effectively passing through the visual display panel 600 onto the one or more spectators.
• the visual display panel 600 includes visual emission elements 602.1.1 through 602 m.n that are situated onto a printed circuit board substrate 604.
• the 602.1.1 through 602 m.n can be arranged in a series of m rows and a series of n columns onto the printed circuit board substrate 604 to form a rectangular array of visual emission elements.
• the visual emission elements 602.1.1 through 602.m.n can be any suitable regular geometric shape, such as a rectangular geometric shape as illustrated in FIG.
• the visual emission elements 602.1.1 through 602 m.n and the printed circuit board substrate 604 have similar geometric arrangement in FIG. 6, those skilled in the relevant art(s) will recognize the geometric arrangements of the visual emission elements 602.1.1 through 602 m.n and the printed circuit board substrate 604 can differ without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure.
• the visual emission elements 602.1.1 through 602 m.n and the printed circuit board substrate 604 can differ without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure.
• the visual emission elements 602.1.1 through 602 m.n and the printed circuit board substrate 604 can differ without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure.
• the visual emission elements 602.1.1 through 602 m.n can be situated onto the printed circuit board substrate 604 using reflow soldering and/or wave soldering to provide some examples.
• the visual emission elements 602.1.1 through 602 m.n can be implemented using light-emitting diodes (LEDs), organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), and/or one or more quantum dots (QDs) to provide some examples.
• LEDs light-emitting diodes
• OLEDs organic light-emitting diodes
• QDs quantum dots
• visual emission elements 602.1.1 through 602. m.n from each row from among the series of m rows are spaced apart from each other by an approximate row distance dR and visual emission elements 602.1.1 through 602. m.n from each column from among the series of n columns are spaced apart from each other by an approximate column distance dc as illustrated in an exploded view 606 of the visual display panel 600 in FIG. 6.
• the row distance dR and the column distance dc are equidistant, for example, approximately six (6) millimeters (mm) or approximately nine (9) mm.
• the row distance dR and the column distance dc are selectively chosen to provide a relatively smooth viewing experience of the visual representation of the event to the one or more spectators while taking into consideration the acoustical distortion of the sound associated with the event as it propagates through the visual display panel 600 to the one or more spectators.
• the visual display panel 600 includes openings 608 to allow the sound associated with the event to propagate from the one or more loudspeakers effectively passing through the visual display panel 600 onto the one or more spectators. And as illustrated in FIG.
• sizes and/or shapes of the openings 608 are bound by the row distance dR and the column distance dc with greater row distances dR and/or greater column distances dc allowing for larger openings 608.
• the visual representation of the event can appear pixelated to the one or more spectators.
• the visual display panel 600 can cause significant acoustical distortion of the sound associated with the event as the sound propagates through the visual display panel 600.
• the visual display panel 600 includes the openings 608 to allow the sound associated with the event to propagate from the one or more loudspeakers to the one or more spectators.
• the openings 608 represent geometric regions within the visual display panel 600 in which the printed circuit board substrate 604 has been removed.
• the openings 608 can be characterized as being rectangular geometric shapes as illustrated in FIG. 6, circular geometric shapes, or polygonal geometric shapes to provide some examples, and/or any suitable irregular geometric shapes, such as an irregular polygonal geometric shapes to provide an example are possible without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure.
• the openings 608 can be radially shaped in accordance with a radius R as illustrated in FIG. 6. This optional radial shaping effectively shapes transitions between edges of the openings 608 to further minimize distortion of the sound as the sound propagates through the visual display panel 600.
• the openings 608 traverse between columns from among the series of n columns of visual emission elements
• the openings 608 traverse from a first set 610 of visual emission elements from among the visual emission elements 602.1.1 through 602.m.n along a first column from among the n columns through a second set 612 of visual emission elements from among the visual emission elements 602.1.1 through 602.m.n to a third set 614 of visual emission elements from among the visual emission elements 602.1.1 through 602.m.n along a second column from among the n columns.
• This illustrated arrangement of the openings 608 in the exploded view 606 allows control signals, such as the control signals 454.1.1 through 454. r.s to provide an example, to be routed through the series of m rows and the series of n columns to control the operation of the visual emission elements 602.1.1 through
• the visual display panel 600 includes transmission lines
• the transmission lines 616.1 through 616. m and transmission lines 618.1 through 618. n can be implemented using planar waveguides, such as stripline or microstrip to provide some examples. In the exemplary embodiment illustrated in FIG.
• the transmission lines 616.1 through 616.m are situated along rows from among the series of m rows to route these control signals to visual emission elements 602.1.1 through 602 m.n along these rows and the transmission lines 618.1 through 618.n are situated along rows from columns the series of n columns to route these control signals to rows along these columns.
• the transmission lines 618.1 through 618.n route these control signals to visual emission elements 602.1.1 through 602.m.n along these columns and the transmission lines 616.1 through 616.m route these control signals to columns along these rows.
• Embodiments of the disclosure can be implemented in hardware, firmware,
• Embodiments of the disclosure can also be implemented as instructions stored on a machine-readable medium, which can be read and executed by one or more processors.
• a machine-readable medium can include any mechanism for storing or transmitting information in a form readable by a machine (e.g., a computing circuitry).
• a machine-readable medium can include non- transitory machine-readable mediums such as read only memory (ROM); random access memory (RAM); magnetic disk storage media; optical storage media; flash memory devices; and others.
• the machine-readable medium can include transitory machine-readable medium such as electrical, optical, acoustical, or other forms of propagated signals (e.g., carrier waves, infrared signals, digital signals, etc.).
• firmware, software application, routines, instructions can be described herein as performing certain actions. However, it should be appreciated that such descriptions are merely for convenience and that such actions in fact result from computing devices, processors, controllers, or other devices executing the firmware, software application, routines, instructions, etc.

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