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Utility
Media playback system with concurrent voice assistance
29 Mar 22
Example techniques involve invoking voice assistance for a media playback system.
Dayn Wilberding, John Tolomei
Filed: 30 Mar 20
Utility
Playback based on user presence detection
29 Mar 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: 11 Aug 21
Utility
Earphone Positioning and Retention
24 Mar 22
Earphone positioning and retention mechanisms are disclosed.
Brandon Holley, Wei-Hean Liew, Jerad Lewis, David Amaranto, Alexia Delhoume, Casper Asmussen, Victor Johansson
Filed: 20 Sep 21
Utility
Command Dial in a Media Playback System
24 Mar 22
Embodiments are described herein that provide a dedicated command device that is bonded to a zone player or zone to perform adjustments to the zone player or zone.
Stefan Reichert, David John McCaffree Amaranto
Filed: 31 Jul 21
Utility
Systems and Methods for Authenticating and Calibrating Passive Speakers with a Graphical User Interface
24 Mar 22
Systems and methods for detecting and configuring passive speakers within a playback system using a graphical user interface are disclosed.
Jodi Vautrin, Jennifer McDevitt, Daniel Valente
Filed: 3 Dec 21
Utility
Playback Devie
24 Mar 22
A system is described for maintaining synchrony of operations among a plurality of devices that have independent clocking arrangements.
Nicholas A.J. Millington
Filed: 2 Dec 21
Utility
Headphone Interaction with Media Playback System
24 Mar 22
Example techniques may involve headphone interaction.
Eric Clayton, Charles Alessi
Filed: 26 Jul 21
Utility
Failure recovery of wearable playback device
22 Mar 22
An example implementation may involve a group of wearable playback devices including a first wearable playback device and a second wearable playback device.
Steven Beckhardt, Jonathan Paul Lang, Jonathon Reilly
Filed: 10 Feb 20
Utility
Power Management Techniques for Waking-Up Processors in Media Playback Systems
17 Mar 22
According to at least one aspect, power management techniques are disclosed that may reduce the power consumption of devices, such as those devices in media playback systems, without introducing a noticeable lag between a user issuing a command and the device processing the command.
Cheng Lu
Filed: 17 Jan 20
Utility
Techniques for Extending the Lifespan of Playback Devices
17 Mar 22
A computing system is configured to: after receipt of a request to initiate synchronous playback of media content on a plurality of playback devices via a communication interface, obtain the media content from a media source; generate playback timing information; transmit the media content and the playback timing information to the plurality of playback devices for playback in synchrony; while the plurality of playback devices play back the media content in synchrony and after receipt of respective playback rate information from at least one of the plurality of playback devices indicative of a rate of playback of the at least one playback device, (i) determine a modified sample rate of the media content for the at least one playback device based on the respective playback rate information; and (ii) cause the at least one playback device to play back the media content at the modified sample rate to maintain synchrony.
John Lynch
Filed: 10 Sep 21
Utility
Playback Queue Collaboration and Notification
17 Mar 22
Embodiments are provided for updating a playlist that has been added to a playback queue in response to changes to the playback queue.
Arthur L. Coburn, IV, Abhishek Kumar, Andrew J. Schulert
Filed: 29 Nov 21
Utility
Systems and Methods of Operating Media Playback Systems Having Multiple Voice Assistant Services
10 Mar 22
Systems and methods for managing multiple voice assistants are disclosed.
Ryan Richard Myers, Luis R. Vega Zayas, Sangah Park
Filed: 12 Nov 21
Utility
Hybrid Sniffing and Rebroadcast for Bluetooth Networks
10 Mar 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
Access Control Techniques for Media Playback Systems
10 Mar 22
Example access control techniques described herein are intended to enable guest access for a media playback system while maintaining security of the media playback system.
Keith Thoresz, Nathan Fish
Filed: 16 Nov 21
Utility
Wearable Audio Device Within a Distributed Audio Playback System
10 Mar 22
A media system comprises one or more non-wearable playback devices, a gateway device, and a wearable playback device.
Alexia Delhoume, Brian Roberts, Elizabeth Dolman
Filed: 9 Sep 21
Utility
Techniques to Reduce Time to Music for a Playback Device
3 Mar 22
An example playback device is configured to detect an input indicating a command to power up the playback device and, based on the input, begin initialization of a wireless network interface.
Cheng Lu, Stuart Eichert
Filed: 30 Aug 21
Utility
Ultrasonic Transmission for Presence Detection
3 Mar 22
An example involves detecting, during a time period by a receiving device, an audio signal comprising a superposition of a plurality of audio signals transmitted by a plurality of respective playback devices.
Daniel Jones, Richard Bannon, Jake Harwood, Jonathan Herbst, Henry Sia
Filed: 30 Aug 21
Utility
Vocal Guidance Engines for Playback Devices
3 Mar 22
Systems and methods for vocal guidance for playback devices are disclosed.
Won So
Filed: 17 Aug 21
Utility
Playback device pairing
1 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: 27 Jan 20
Utility
Group Coordinator Selection
24 Feb 22
Examples described herein involve selecting a group coordinator device for a zone group.
Hrishikesh Gossain
Filed: 1 Jul 21