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Utility
Facilitating Calibration of an Audio Playback Device
5 May 22
Example techniques facilitate calibration of a playback device.
Timothy W. Sheen
Filed: 20 Aug 21
Utility
Application Programming Interface for Browsing Media Content
5 May 22
A control application of a media playback system controls playback of media content by a media playback system.
David Bernstein, Konstantin Vovk, Lee Fyock, Andrew Woodbury, Emilio Arce, Elliot Lawrence
Filed: 16 Aug 21
Utility
Calibration State Variable
5 May 22
Example techniques involve a calibration state variable.
Dayn Wilberding, Neil Griffiths
Filed: 12 Jul 21
Utility
Playback transfer in a media playback system
3 May 22
Example techniques relate to transferring playback between playback devices within a network media system.
Mark Triplett, Robert Reimann
Filed: 4 Nov 19
Utility
Synchronization of content between networked devices
3 May 22
A control device of media playback system receives a user command to initiate playback of video content and associated audio content and transmits a BLUETOOTH message based on the command to a video playback device.
Lee Keyser-Allen, Thomas Higdon, Luis Vega-Zayas, Ted Lin, Andrej Sarkic
Filed: 28 Dec 20
Utility
Networking In a Media Playback System
28 Apr 22
Examples described herein involve networking in a media playback system.
Hrishikesh Gossain, Lawrence Stefani, Benjamin Rappoport
Filed: 28 Oct 21
Utility
Audio Track Selection and Playback
28 Apr 22
An example system is configured to: (i) receive data indicating a command to play back, via a playback device of a media playback system, media content; (ii) based on the data indicating the command, detect a first playback condition comprising a first user identity; (iii) identify, from one or more user accounts associated with the playback device, a first user account corresponding to the first user identity; (iv) based at least on (1) the command and (2) one or more properties of the first user account, determine first media content for playback by the playback device; and (v) cause the playback device to play back the first media content.
Robert Reimann, David Taylor, Abhishek Kumar
Filed: 7 Jan 22
Utility
Techniques for Enabling Interoperability between Media Playback Systems
28 Apr 22
A device is configured to (i) receive media content from a media source, (ii) generate a first series of frames including first portions of the media content and first playback timing information, (iii) generate a second series of frames including second portions of the media content and second playback timing information, (iv) transmit the first series of frames to a first playback device in a synchrony group for playback of the first portions of the media content in accordance with the first playback timing information, and (v) transmit the second series of frames to a second playback device in the synchrony group for playback of the second portions of the media content in accordance with the second playback timing information such that the media content is played back in synchrony by the synchrony group.
Steven Beckhardt, Kyle Seaman
Filed: 22 Oct 21
Utility
Passive Speaker Authentication
28 Apr 22
Systems and methods for authenticating a passive speaker include (i) activating, by a playback device configured to drive the passive speaker, a passive speaker identification circuit of the passive speaker by providing an identification signal to an input terminal of the passive speaker, wherein the passive speaker is a particular type of passive speaker having particular acoustic characteristics; (ii) while the passive speaker identification circuit is active, measuring, by the playback device, an electrical current of the identification signal; (iii) determining, based on the measured electrical current of the identification signal, an impedance modulation of the passive speaker; (iv) determining, by the playback device, the particular type of the passive speaker based on the impedance modulation of the passive speaker; and (v) applying, by the playback device, a calibration to the playback device based on the determined particular type of the passive speaker.
Nick D'Amato, IV, Benjamin Rappoport, Dayn Wilberding, Timothy Sheen, Andrea Testa, Nash Reilly, Hilmar Lehnert
Filed: 28 Aug 19
Utility
Predefined multi-channel listening environment
26 Apr 22
An example method includes, based on an adjustment to a first displayed volume control, instructing the first playback device to adjust playback volume level; based on an adjustment to a second displayed volume control, instructing the second playback device to adjust playback volume level; after sending the commands, instructing the first and/or second playback device to process an audio stream into a first and/or second channel and to reproduce a respective one of the first and second channel, wherein the grouped first and second playback devices provide multi-channel sound; and based on an adjustment to a third displayed volume control, instructing the first and/or second playback device to adjust a group volume level for both the first and second playback devices.
Christoper Kallai, Michael Darrell Andrew Ericson, Robert A. Lambourne
Filed: 11 Mar 19
Utility
Devices, systems, and methods for distributed voice processing by transmitting sound data associated with a wake word to an appropriate device for identification
26 Apr 22
Systems and methods for distributed voice processing are disclosed herein.
Connor Kristopher Smith, John Tolomei, Betty Lee
Filed: 8 Feb 19
Utility
Playback device media item replacement
26 Apr 22
Embodiments are provided for replacing media items in a queue of a playback device.
Paul Andrew Bates, Steven Beckhardt, Jonathon Reilly
Filed: 17 Aug 20
Utility
Group coordinator selection
26 Apr 22
Embodiments described herein involve facilitating playback in a media playback system that includes a first media device and a second media device.
Hrishikesh Gossain, Jonathan Lang
Filed: 15 Jun 20
Utility
Zone scene activation
26 Apr 22
In general, techniques of controlling a plurality of multimedia players in groups are disclosed.
Robert A. Lambourne
Filed: 15 Apr 16
Utility
Evaluating Calibration of a Playback Device
21 Apr 22
An example method may include recording, via a microphone of a first playback device, audio played by a second playback device in accordance with a calibration setting.
Romi Kadri, Christopher Butts, Timothy Sheen, Simon Jarvis
Filed: 27 Aug 21
Utility
Multiple-Device Setup
21 Apr 22
An example implementation may involve a media playback system detecting two or more playback devices of a given type.
Sein Woo, Liesbeth van den Berg, Roy Pollock
Filed: 30 Jul 21
Utility
Systems and Methods for Voice-assisted Media Content Selection
21 Apr 22
Systems and methods for media playback via a media playback system include (i) capturing a voice input comprising a request for media content, (ii) receiving information derived at least from the request for media content, (iii) requesting and receiving information from at least one remote computing device associated with a first media content service and at least one remote computing device associated with a second media content service, wherein (a) the information identifies first media content available via the first media content service for playback and identifies second media content available via the second media content service for playback, and (b) the first and second media content are related to the requested media content, and (iv) after receiving at least one of the first information and the second information, (a) selecting the first media content instead of the second media content, and (b) playing back the first media content.
Sherwin Liu, Paul Bates
Filed: 4 Nov 21
Utility
Systems and Methods for Target Device Prediction
21 Apr 22
Systems and methods for training prediction models are illustrated.
Kurt Thomas Soto, Charles Conor Sleith
Filed: 5 Nov 21
Utility
Intent Inference In Audiovisual Communication Sessions
21 Apr 22
In one aspect, a user's intent can be inferred based on voice analysis during a communications session, and prompts can be presented, or other actions taken, at least partly in response to the inferred intent.
Paul Bates
Filed: 14 Oct 21
Utility
Dynamic Player Selection for Audio Signal Processing
21 Apr 22
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