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Utility
Device grouping
16 May 23
An input at a physical interface of a first playback device is detected.
Mark Morganstern, Alec Ferguson
Filed: 19 Oct 20
Utility
Methods and Devices for Transferring Data Using Sound Signals
11 May 23
A method of transmitting data comprises modulating data symbols for transmission onto a sonic carrier signal and transmitting the modulated data using an electroacoustic transducer.
Eric Frank
Filed: 23 Nov 22
Utility
Cable Assemblies for Headphone Devices
11 May 23
Headphone playback devices can include a cable assembly including a plurality of conductors extending between a first earpiece and a second earpiece.
Ronald W. Roberts, JR., Mark Gerlovin, Mark Viscusi
Filed: 4 Jan 23
Utility
Content Rules Engines for Audio Playback Devices
11 May 23
Content rules engines for playback devices are disclosed herein.
Jeffrey Michael Torgerson, Sanford William Spivey, Ryan Taylor
Filed: 16 Nov 22
Utility
Conditional Content Enhancement
11 May 23
An example computer system identifies a capability of a playback device to reproduce audio content.
Romi Kadri
Filed: 2 Jan 23
Utility
Dynamic Computation of System Response Volume
11 May 23
Systems and methods disclosed herein include, determining that a requirement exists to output a system response.
Luis Vega-Zayas, Lucas Pylypczak, Rich Lean
Filed: 14 Nov 22
Utility
Devices, systems, and methods for distributed voice processing
9 May 23
Systems and methods for distributed voice processing are disclosed herein.
Connor Kristopher Smith, John Tolomei, Betty Lee
Filed: 14 Dec 20
Utility
Robust short-time fourier transform acoustic echo cancellation during audio playback
9 May 23
Example techniques involve noise-robust acoustic echo cancellation.
Daniele Giacobello
Filed: 24 May 21
Utility
Networked Microphone Device Control
4 May 23
Systems and methods disclosed herein include, while a microphone of a first networked microphone device is enabled, determining whether a first reference device is in a specific state, and in response to determining that the first reference device is in the specific state, disabling the microphone of the first networked microphone device.
Mieko Kusano, Dayn Wilberding, Jonathan Wenocur, Jonathan Lang
Filed: 1 Aug 22
Utility
Discovery and Media Control at a Point-of-Sale Display
4 May 23
Example techniques relate to discovery and media control at a point-of-sale display.
Jonathan Lang, Deborah DuBois
Filed: 24 Oct 22
Utility
Queue Identification
4 May 23
Example techniques relate to a playback device that facilitates queue identification.
Arthur L. Coburn, IV
Filed: 16 Jun 22
Utility
Group volume control
2 May 23
An example method involves providing an interface that simultaneously displays an indication of a respective volume corresponding to each of at least two zone players and displays a respective selectable icon corresponding to each of the at least two zone players.
Abhishek Kumar, Mike Lemmon, Stephanie Hughes
Filed: 23 Mar 20
Utility
Headphone interaction with media playback system
2 May 23
Example techniques may involve headphone interaction.
Eric Clayton, Charles Alessi
Filed: 26 Jul 21
Utility
Audio playback settings for voice interaction
2 May 23
Example techniques relate to voice interaction in an environment with a media playback system that is playing back audio content.
Klaus Hartung, Romi Kadri
Filed: 2 Mar 20
Utility
Guess Access to a Media Playback System
27 Apr 23
Example techniques may involve guest access to a media playback system.
Paul Bates, Lee Keyser-Allen, Jonathan P. Lang, Diane Roberts, Nicholas A.J. Millington
Filed: 10 Oct 22
Utility
Room Association Based on Name
27 Apr 23
Systems and methods for use in a media playback system comprising one or more playback devices are disclosed, where a playback device has a corresponding first set of device attributes used by a first controller application.
Dayn Wilberding, Chris Bierbower, Mish Fabok, JD Hooge, Tristan Wood, Chip Truex, Christopher Butts, Paul Bates
Filed: 20 Oct 22
Utility
Frequency Routing Based on Orientation
27 Apr 23
Systems, methods, and apparatus for frequency routing based on orientation are disclosed.
Christopher Kallai, Michael Darrell Andrew Ericson, Jonathan P. Lang, Craig Wisneski, Jonathon Reilly, Seamus Daly, Todd Mansfield
Filed: 7 Sep 22
Utility
Multi-channel Acoustic Echo Cancellation
27 Apr 23
A playback device is configured to: produce a first channel audio output of a first channel of audio content; produce a second channel audio output of a second channel of the audio content; receive captured audio content comprising (i) a first portion corresponding to the first channel audio output, (ii) a second portion corresponding to the second channel audio output, and (iii) a third portion corresponding to a voice command, wherein the captured audio content has a first signal-to-noise ratio; determine a set of signal components from at least one of the first channel or the second channel of the audio content; perform acoustic echo cancellation on a subset of signal components; determine an acoustic echo cancellation output; and apply the acoustic echo cancellation output to the captured audio content and thereby increase the first signal-to-noise ratio to a second signal-to-noise ratio that is greater than the first signal-to-noise ratio.
Saeed Bagheri Sereshki, Romi Kadri
Filed: 22 Dec 22
Utility
Adjusting a Playback Device
27 Apr 23
Certain embodiments provide methods and systems for managing a sound profile.
Christopher Kallai, Michael Darrell Andrew Ericson
Filed: 29 Aug 22
Utility
Cloud-based Video User Interfaces
27 Apr 23
Playback devices can support playing back audio content of audio-visual content received from a media service, while corresponding video content is synchronously played back on a video display device.
Jeffrey Michael Torgerson
Filed: 11 Mar 21