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Utility
Systems and Methods for Device Localization
24 Feb 22
Systems and methods for localizing portable devices are illustrated.
Kurt Thomas Soto, Charles Conor Sleith
Filed: 5 Nov 21
Utility
Zone Group Control
24 Feb 22
Example techniques relate to a loss of control of a playback queue.
Arthur L. Coburn, IV, Sherwin Liu
Filed: 5 Apr 21
Utility
Providing Aggregate Playback Information
24 Feb 22
System, method, and apparatus including receiving an identification of content played by a playback system and an identification of location of the playback system.
Mark Triplett, Jonathan P. Lang, Jonathon Reilly, David Taylor
Filed: 30 Aug 21
Utility
Playback Queue with Software Components
24 Feb 22
Example techniques described herein relate to a software application that is configured to operate as an add-on software component to audio-playback software on a playback device of a media playback system.
Mark Triplett
Filed: 1 Jul 21
Utility
Dynamic Computation of System Response Volume
24 Feb 22
Systems and methods disclosed herein include, determining that a requirement exists to output a system response.
Luis Vega-Zayas, Lucas Pylypczak, Rich Lean
Filed: 2 Aug 21
Utility
Multichannel Playback Devices and Associated Systems and Methods
24 Feb 22
Multichannel audio playback devices and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein.
Richard Jackson, Hilmar Lehnert, Chris Davies, Paul MacLean, Roberto Maria Dizon
Filed: 17 Aug 21
Utility
Stereo Playback Configuration and Control
17 Feb 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.
Christopher Kallai, Michael Darrell Andrew Ericson, Robert A. Lambourne
Filed: 27 Oct 21
Utility
Grouped Zones in a System with Multiple Media Playback Protocols
17 Feb 22
A first networked device may perform operations including receiving, from a media source device, a media stream.
Arthur L. Coburn, IV
Filed: 26 Jul 21
Utility
Robust Short-Time Fourier Transform Acoustic Echo Cancellation During Audio Playback
10 Feb 22
Example techniques involve noise-robust acoustic echo cancellation.
Daniele Giacobello
Filed: 24 May 21
Utility
Calibration Based on Audio Content
10 Feb 22
An example playback device is configured to (i) receive, via a network interface, data representing a command to play back audio content, where the audio content is a first type of audio content, (ii) during playback of the first type of audio content via an audio amplifier configured to drive a speaker, apply a first calibration and a second calibration to playback by the playback device, where the first calibration at least partially offsets one or more acoustic characteristics of an environment surrounding the playback device when applied to playback by the playback device, and where the second calibration corresponds to the first type of audio content, and (iii) during playback of a second type of audio content via the audio amplifier configured to drive the speaker, apply a third calibration to playback by the playback device, where the third calibration corresponds to the second type of audio content.
Klaus Hartung, Dayn Wilberding
Filed: 10 May 21
Utility
Power Control Based on Packet Type
3 Feb 22
Techniques for controlling one or more audio amplifiers in or associated with a device coupled on a local area network are disclosed.
Steve F. Holmgren, John L. MacFarlane
Filed: 14 Oct 21
Utility
Queue Versioning
3 Feb 22
Embodiments described herein may involve queue versioning.
Arthur L. Coburn, IV
Filed: 14 Jun 21
Utility
Calibration assistance
1 Feb 22
Example techniques relate to calibration interfaces that facilitate calibration of a playback device.
Dayn Wilberding, Sein Woo
Filed: 24 Nov 20
Utility
Content Rules Engines for Audio Playback Devices
27 Jan 22
Content rules engines for playback devices are disclosed herein.
Jeffrey Michael Torgerson, Sanford William Spivey, Ryan Taylor
Filed: 11 Oct 21
Utility
Distributed Provisioning of Properties of Operational Settings of a Media Playback System
27 Jan 22
Devices, system, and methods are disclosed for provisioning devices over a cloud network in accordance with modifications to operational settings of a media playback system.
Keith Thoresz, Daniel Casimiro, Sachin Lad, Steven Beckhardt
Filed: 1 Jul 21
Utility
Portable Playback Device Power Management
20 Jan 22
Example techniques related to portable playback device power management.
Joshua Nicholas, Brenda Stefani, Liang Chai, Xiang Wang, Allan Velzy, Edwin Joseph Fitzpatrick, III, Hrishikesh Gossain
Filed: 28 Jul 21
Utility
Portable Playback Device Power Management
20 Jan 22
Example techniques related to portable playback device power management.
Liang Chai, Xiang Wang, Brenda Stefani, Lyford Beverage, JR., Allan Velzy, Edwin Joseph Fitzpatrick, III
Filed: 28 Jul 21
Utility
Playback Zone Representations
20 Jan 22
Method and systems are provided for displaying a control representation in a playback zone representation provided on a playback zones view interface.
Mike Lemmon, Stephanie Hughes
Filed: 1 Jun 21
Utility
Networked Microphone Devices, Systems, & Methods of Localized Arbitration
13 Jan 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
Social media connection recommendations based on playback information
11 Jan 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: 31 Jul 17