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Utility
Sound Bar to Provide Information Associated with a Media Item
11 Aug 22
Example techniques relate to a soundbar that provides information associated with a media item.
Ron Kuper
Filed: 25 Oct 21
Utility
Audio conflict resolution
9 Aug 22
An example playback device is a first playback device in a media system.
Dayn Wilberding
Filed: 4 Jan 21
Utility
Prioritizing media content requests
9 Aug 22
Example techniques relate to prioritizing media content requests.
Keith Corbin
Filed: 11 Jan 21
Utility
Controlling and Displaying Zones in a Multi-Zone System
4 Aug 22
A multimedia controller for controlling and displaying zones in a multi-zone system is provided.
Abhishek Kumar, Amber Brown
Filed: 11 Nov 21
Utility
Playback Session Transitions Across Different Platforms
4 Aug 22
As noted above, example techniques relate to playback transitions between platforms.
Dinesh Kannan
Filed: 11 Nov 21
Utility
Music Discovery Dial
4 Aug 22
Example techniques may involve tuning a music discovery dial.
Christopher Alexis Kotelly, Dayn Wilberding, Ron Kuper
Filed: 11 Nov 21
Utility
Synchronization via Out-of-Band Clock Timing Signaling
4 Aug 22
Disclosed embodiments include facilitating clock synchronization and/or synchronous playback among multiple playback devices in a group.
Aurelio Ramos
Filed: 26 Jan 22
Utility
Configuration of Playback Device Audio Settings
4 Aug 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
Automatically Allocating Audio Portions to Playback Devices
4 Aug 22
Techniques for allocating audio data between a first playback device and a second playback device are disclosed.
Jason Yore, Nikolai Kutateladze, Kate Wojogbe, Edwin Joseph Fitzpatrick, III, Allan Velzy
Filed: 5 Jun 20
Design
Media player device
2 Aug 22
Philippe Vossel, Edward Mitchell, Dana Krieger, Aki Laine
Filed: 15 Dec 20
Design
Display screen or portion thereof with icon
2 Aug 22
Paul Andrew Bates
Filed: 14 Feb 20
Utility
Fast-resume audio playback
2 Aug 22
A first zone player engages in synchronous playback of given audio content by obtaining the given audio content, generating and placing representative audio frames into a buffer, and transmitting the audio frames to a second zone player to play the given audio content in synchrony with the second zone player.
Luis Vega-Zayas, Ted Lin, Jim Dolan
Filed: 21 Jun 21
Utility
Multiple groupings in a playback system
2 Aug 22
The examples provided herein involve multiple groups in a playback system.
Lee Keyser-Allen, Jillian Garber, Arthur L. Coburn, IV
Filed: 12 Mar 19
Utility
Networked microphone device control
2 Aug 22
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: 8 Apr 19
Utility
Hybrid sniffing and rebroadcast for Bluetooth networks
2 Aug 22
Disclosed herein are playback devices, groups of playback devices, and methods of operating playback devices and groupings thereof configured for hybrid sniffing and rebroadcast for networks, including Bluetooth networks.
Nicholas D'Amato
Filed: 14 Jun 21
Utility
Systems and Methods of Distributing Audio to One or More Playback Devices
28 Jul 22
An example method includes receiving data indicating a configuration of one or more playback devices.
Ted Lin, Romi Kadri
Filed: 6 Dec 21
Utility
Media Content Based on Playback Zone Awareness
28 Jul 22
Systems and methods are provided for providing media content based on playback zone awareness.
Kristen Bender, Ron Kuper
Filed: 8 Nov 21
Utility
Media playback based on sensor data
28 Jul 22
Example techniques relate to playback based on acoustic signals in a system including a first network device and a second network device.
Jonathon Reilly, Niels Van Erven
Filed: 6 Dec 21
Utility
Systems and Methods for Power-efficient Keyword Detection
28 Jul 22
Systems and methods for audio processing include capturing sound data via at least one microphone of a network microphone device (NMD) and determining whether the captured sound includes voice activity.
Aaron Jones, Saeed Bagheri Sereshki, Daniele Giacobello
Filed: 25 Jan 21
Utility
Systems and Methods of Distributing and Playing Back Low-frequency Audio Content
28 Jul 22
Multichannel audio playback devices and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein.
Paul MacLean, Chris Davies, Roberto Maria Dizon
Filed: 27 Jan 22