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Utility
Sharing Access to a Media Service
21 Apr 22
Examples provided herein are directed to a computing device and media playback system sharing access to a media service corresponding to a media application installed on the computing device.
Ron Kuper, Sherwin Liu, Emilio Arce, Arthur L. Coburn, IV
Filed: 27 Sep 21
Utility
Social Media Queue
21 Apr 22
Examples provided herein are directed to social-media playback queues.
Keith Corbin, Paul Kafadar, Abhishek Kumar, Ron Kuper, Gregory Paul Ramsperger, Andrej Sarkic
Filed: 27 Sep 21
Utility
Array Augmentation for Audio Playback Devices
21 Apr 22
Systems and methods for providing augmented arrays for audio playback are disclosed.
Hilmar Lehnert, Chris Davies, Paul MacLean
Filed: 15 Oct 21
Utility
Audio content playback management
19 Apr 22
An example implementation involves a playback device receiving a request to add continuous automated streaming audio content to a playback queue, the request indicating a playback start time, and the playback queue indicating a plurality of audio content.
Paul Andrew Bates, Abhishek Kumar
Filed: 9 Sep 19
Utility
Speaker grill with graduated hole sizing over a transition area for a media device
19 Apr 22
A grill cover that fits over or is positioned over high frequency acoustical regions and low frequency acoustical regions of a playback device.
Youjin Nam, Nicholas Long, Tetsuro Oishi
Filed: 6 Sep 19
Utility
Localized wakeword verification
19 Apr 22
In one aspect, a networked microphone device is configured to (i) receive sound data, (ii) determine, via the wake-word engine, that a first portion of the sound data is representative of a wake word, (iii) determine that a second networked microphone device was added to a media playback system, (iv) transmit the first portion of the sound data to a second networked microphone device, (v) begin determining a command to be performed by the first networked microphone device, (vi) receive an indication of whether the first portion of the sound data is representative of the wake word, and (vii) output a response indicative of whether the first portion of the sound data is representative of the wake word.
Connor Kristopher Smith
Filed: 7 Feb 20
Utility
Arbitration-based voice recognition
19 Apr 22
A first network microphone device (NMD) is configured to receive, from a second NMD, a first arbitration message including (i) a first measure of confidence associated with a voice input as detected by the second NMD and (ii) the voice input as detected by the second NMD, and receive, from a third NMD, a second arbitration message including (i) a second measure of confidence associated with the voice input as detected by the third NMD and (ii) the voice input as detected by the third NMD.
Steven Beckhardt, Ted Lin
Filed: 6 Apr 20
Utility
Input detection windowing
19 Apr 22
A device, such as Network Microphone Device or a playback device, detecting an event associated with the device or a system comprising the device.
Connor Kristopher Smith, Matthew David Anderson
Filed: 20 May 20
Utility
Media Playback System with Virtual Line-In
14 Apr 22
Example systems and techniques disclosed herein facilitate interoperability between different media playback systems referred to herein as a virtual line-in (VLI) media playback system and a native playback system.
Arthur L. Coburn, IV, Chris Kotowski
Filed: 18 Jul 21
Utility
Headphone Ear Cushion Attachment Mechanism and Methods for Using
14 Apr 22
Systems and methods for securing a headphone ear cushion to a headphone earcup on a headphone are described.
Ronald W. Roberts, JR., Patrice Billaudet, Dieter Rapitsch
Filed: 8 Oct 21
Utility
Media Playback System with Maximum Volume Setting
14 Apr 22
In one example, a zone player may include a network interface, at least one processor, a non-transitory computer-readable medium, and program instructions stored on the non-transitory computer-readable medium that may be executable by the at least one processor such that the zone player is configured to receive an instruction to change a volume setting of the zone player to a requested volume level; in response to receiving the instruction to change the volume setting of the zone player to the requested volume level, adjust the volume setting of the zone player to an adapted volume level that is lower than the requested volume level; and after adjusting the volume setting of the zone player to the adapted volume level, send an indication that the volume setting of the zone player has been adjusted to the requested volume level rather than the adapted volume level.
Frank Charlton, Jodi Vautrin, Robert Lambourne, Nathan Fish, Daniel Casimiro, Won So
Filed: 20 Dec 21
Utility
Contextual indexing of media items
5 Apr 22
Example techniques related to a sub-index of a media index.
Amber Brown, Diane Roberts
Filed: 19 Oct 20
Utility
Media player system
5 Apr 22
Example systems, apparatus, and methods receive audio information including a plurality of frames from a source device, wherein each frame of the plurality of frames includes one or more audio samples and a time stamp indicating when to play the one or more audio samples of the respective frame.
Nicholas A. J. Millington, Michael Darrell Andrew Ericson
Filed: 15 Apr 19
Utility
Limiter for bass enhancement
5 Apr 22
A dry audio signal may be received.
Aurelio Ramos, Paul MacLean
Filed: 5 Oct 20
Utility
CorrectedZone Volume Control
31 Mar 22
Example techniques involve controlling playback volumes.
Eduardo Ahumada Apodaca
Filed: 14 Dec 20
Utility
Audio Playback Management of Multiple Concurrent Connections
31 Mar 22
Examples described herein relate to management of concurrent audio streams from different sources.
Matt Pandina, Matt Moore, Ted Lin, Chris Babroski, Robert Bermani
Filed: 27 Sep 21
Utility
Audio Playback Management of Multiple Concurrent Connections
31 Mar 22
Examples described herein relate to management of concurrent audio streams from different sources.
Jodi Vautrin, Matt Pandina, Elizabeth Dolman, Ken Hu, Jason Yore, Matt Moore, Ted Lin, Richard Bannon, Chris Babroski, Rob Bermani
Filed: 27 Sep 21
Utility
Playback Device Pairing
31 Mar 22
The present application discloses playback devices and networks, software for operating playback devices and playback device networks, and methods of operating playback devices and networks, where an individual network device is configured to switch between operating various operating modes comprising a non-paired mode and a paired mode, where the playback device is configured to output various channels of audio content within various audio frequency ranges while operating in the various operating modes.
Christopher Kallai, Michael Darrell Andrew Ericson, Robert A. Lambourne, Robert Reimann, Mark Triplett
Filed: 10 Dec 21
Utility
Intelligent Setup for Playback Devices
31 Mar 22
A playback device is configured to (i) transmit, via at least one wireless network interface and indication that the playback device is available for setup, (ii) establish a direct communication path with a computing device configured to operate on a secure wireless network, (iii) provide, outside the direct communication path, authentication information to the computing device, (iv) verify, via the direct communication path, the authentication information with the computing device, (v) after verifying the authentication information via the direct communication path, receive, from the computing device over the direct communication path, network configuration parameters for connecting to the secure wireless network, (vi) use the network configuration parameters to connect to the secure wireless network, and (vii) transition from communicating with the computing device over the direct communication path to communicating with the computing device over the secure wireless network.
Jennifer McDevitt, James Babu, Patrick Celentano, Kyle Hutchings, Pratik Bhangale, Michael Agerbak, Daniel Valente, William Shoesmith, Derek W. Erdmann, Conor Walsh, Nikolai Kutateli, Carl Fristrom, Youngjoo Park
Filed: 24 Sep 21
Utility
Locally Distributed Keyword Detection
31 Mar 22
In one aspect, a playback device includes at least one microphone configured to detect a voice input and generate sound input data.
Nick D'Amato, Connor Kristopher Smith
Filed: 4 Oct 21