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Utility
Playback device group volume control
3 Jan 23
Embodiments are provided for satellite volume control.
Bob Dizon, Neil Griffiths, Luis R. Vega Zayas
Filed: 16 Nov 20
Utility
Conditional content enhancement
3 Jan 23
An example computer system identifies a capability of a playback device to reproduce audio content.
Romi Kadri
Filed: 16 May 22
Utility
Synchronous playback with battery-powered playback device
3 Jan 23
Example techniques related to battery-powered playback devices.
Hrishikesh Gossain
Filed: 21 Dec 20
Utility
Dynamic player selection for audio signal processing
3 Jan 23
In one aspect, a first playback device is configured to (i) receive a set of voice signals, (ii) process the set of voice signals using a first set of audio processing algorithms, (iii) identify, from the set of voice signals, at least two voice signals that are to be further processed, (iv) determine that the first playback device does not have a threshold amount of computational power available, (v) receive an indication of an available amount of computational power of a second playback device, (vi) send the at least two voice signals to the second playback device, (vii) cause the second playback device to process the at least two voice signals using a second set of audio processing algorithms, (viii) receive, from the second playback device, the processed at least two voice signals, and (ix) combine the processed at least two voice signals into a combined voice signal.
Shao-Fu Shih
Filed: 27 Sep 21
Utility
Systems and Methods for Coordinated Playback of Analog and Digital Media Content
29 Dec 22
Turntable control systems are disclosed.
Dayn Wilberding, Dana Krieger, Daniel Jones, Gregory McAllister
Filed: 22 Jun 22
Utility
Playback Devices Having Enhanced Spider Coupling Portions
29 Dec 22
An audio transducer includes a frame, a magnet coupled to the frame, and a voice coil axially aligned with the magnet.
Paul MacLean, Anthony Ferraro
Filed: 22 Jun 22
Utility
Multi-channel acoustic echo cancellation
27 Dec 22
A playback device is configured to receive, via a network interface, a source stream of audio including first and second channel streams of audio, and to produce, via respective first and second speaker drivers, a first channel audio output and a second channel audio output.
Saeed Bagheri Sereshki, Romi Kadri
Filed: 11 Jan 21
Utility
Networked microphone devices, systems, and methods of localized arbitration
27 Dec 22
A first playback device is configured to perform functions comprising: detecting sound, identifying a wake word based on the sound as detected by the first device, receiving an indication that a second playback device has also detected the sound and identified the wake word based on the sound as detected by the second device, after receiving the indication, evaluating which of the first and second devices is to extract sound data representing the sound and thereby determining that the extraction of the sound data is to be performed by the second device over the first device, in response to the determining, foregoing extraction of the sound data, receiving VAS response data that is indicative of a given VAS response corresponding to a given voice input identified in the sound data extracted by the second device, and based on the VAS response data, output the given VAS response.
John Tolomei, Klaus Hartung
Filed: 27 Sep 21
Utility
Management of media content playback
27 Dec 22
Example techniques may involve managing playback of media content by a playback device.
Yean-Nian W. Chen
Filed: 5 Apr 21
Utility
Multi-network playback devices
27 Dec 22
A playback device includes programming for connecting to a first wireless local area network (WLAN) and storing a first set of network configuration parameters including an identifier of the first WLAN and a first security parameter for the first WLAN.
William Shoesmith, Jason Yore, Jeffrey M. Peters
Filed: 19 Aug 19
Utility
Accessing a cloud-based service
27 Dec 22
An example system is configured to (i) generate an authorization code that has an expiration time, (ii) transmit at least one first message including the authorization code over a WAN, (iii) receive at least one second message including the authorization code from a playback device over the WAN, (iv) determine that the received authorization code is valid based at least on the expiration time, (v) after determining that the authorization code is valid, generate a first authorization token, (vi) transmit at least one third message including the first authorization token to the playback device over the WAN, (vii) receive at least one fourth message including a second authorization token and a request from the playback device over the WAN, (viii) determine that the second authorization token is valid, and (ix) after determining that the second authorization token is valid, provide the playback device with audio content based on the request.
Ron Kuper, Sherwin Liu, Emilio Arce, Arthur L. Coburn, IV
Filed: 21 Jan 22
Utility
Social media connection recommendations based on playback information
27 Dec 22
Embodiments are described herein that involve a computing device initiating playback of a particular media item on a media playback system that is registered to a particular account of a social media service.
Keith Corbin, Abhishek Kumar, Ron Kuper, Gregory Paul Ramsperger, Andrej Sarkic
Filed: 5 Jan 22
Utility
Grouping in a system with multiple media playback protocols
27 Dec 22
While a first playback device is a member of a synchronous media playback group with a second playback device using a first media playback protocol, and after a particular playback setting is enabled using the first media playback protocol, the first playback device receives, from a media source device, a first media stream using a second media playback protocol.
Arthur L. Coburn, IV, Jeffrey Torgerson, Robert A. Lambourne
Filed: 28 Jun 21
Utility
Configuration of playback device audio settings
27 Dec 22
Example techniques describe may facilitate a playback device applying a determined audio setting.
Steven Beckhardt, Andrew Schulert, Ron Kuper, Jonathan Lang
Filed: 12 Nov 21
Utility
Optimization of network microphone devices using noise classification
27 Dec 22
Systems and methods for optimizing network microphone devices using noise classification are disclosed herein.
Kurt Thomas Soto
Filed: 17 Sep 21
Utility
Playback device pairing
27 Dec 22
Technology for grouping, consolidating, and pairing individual playback devices with network capability (players) to stimulate a multi-channel listening environment is disclosed.
Christopher Kallai, Michael Darrell Andrew Ericson, Robert A. Lambourne, Robert Reimann, Mark Triplett
Filed: 29 Mar 21
Utility
Playback device self-calibration
27 Dec 22
Examples described herein involve configuring a playback device based on distortion, such as that caused by a barrier.
Tetsuro Oishi, William H Bush
Filed: 27 Sep 20
Utility
Calibration assistance
20 Dec 22
Example techniques relate to calibration interfaces that facilitate calibration of a playback device.
Dayn Wilberding, Sein Woo
Filed: 24 Jan 22
Utility
Synchronized audio mixing
20 Dec 22
A first example playback device includes one or more processors and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the first playback device to perform functions.
Ted M. Lin, Luis Vega
Filed: 20 Aug 19
Utility
Networked playback device
20 Dec 22
An example playback device includes a first interface for receiving a first audio signal from a first audio source; a second interface for receiving a second audio signal from a second audio source; and a processor configured to: cause the playback device to playback the second audio signal; determine that the first audio signal is present at the first interface; in response to determining that the first audio signal is present at the first interface, (i) cease playback of the second audio signal being played by the playback device and (ii) cause the playback device to playback the first audio signal; receive an instruction to stop the playback device from playing the first audio signal while the first audio signal is still present at the first interface; and arm the playback device such that a subsequent presence of the first audio signal at the first interface causes the playback device to play the first audio signal.
Nicholas A. J. Millington, Tom Cullen, Robert Reimann, Brent Lehman
Filed: 23 Oct 20