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RF antenna proximity sensing in a playback device
14 Sep 21
An example embodiment includes a playback device comprising a wireless communications interface including a radio frequency (RF) antenna, a capacitive proximity sensor comprising a grounding plane that is coupled to the RF antenna, one or more processors, and a data storage having stored therein instructions executable by the one or more processors to cause the playback device to perform operations.
Thomas Calatayud, Jonathon Reilly
Filed: 10 Jul 17
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Low-latency audio networking
14 Sep 21
Low-latency audio networking is disclosed.
Hrishikesh Gossain, Jeffrey M. Peters, Nicholas A. J. Millington, Steven Beckhardt
Filed: 14 Aug 19
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Playback based on acoustic signals
14 Sep 21
Example techniques relate to playback based on acoustic signals in a system including a first playback device and a second playback device.
Jonathon Reilly, Niels Van Erven
Filed: 25 Nov 20
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Dynamic Earbud Profile
9 Sep 21
Embodiments disclosed herein include a headphone device which operates in various modes applying different gesture profiles based on various operational, playback, or environmental conditions.
Hilmar Lehnert
Filed: 1 Mar 21
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Portable Playback Devices with Network Operation Modes
9 Sep 21
Examples described herein relate to portable playback devices, such as smart headphones and earbuds, and ultra-portable devices having built-in voice assistants.
Sam Park, IV, Ryan Myers, John Tolomei
Filed: 12 Feb 21
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Re-Establishing Player Connectivity
9 Sep 21
Example techniques relate to re-establishing connectivity of playback devices.
Jeffrey Peters, Hrishikesh Gossain
Filed: 11 Mar 21
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Calibration Assistance
9 Sep 21
Example techniques relate to calibration interfaces that facilitate calibration of a playback device.
Dayn Wilberding, Sein Woo
Filed: 24 Nov 20
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Techniques for Reducing Latency in a Wireless Home Theater Environment
9 Sep 21
A first playback device can include a wireless network interface, an audio input interface, one or more processors, and data storage.
Niels van Erven, Yong Ma
Filed: 26 Feb 21
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Remote Creation of a Playback Queue for an Event
9 Sep 21
Example embodiments involve remote creation of a playback queue for an event.
Jaime Munoz, Jonathan D. Garn, Michael Lemmon, Dave Taylor
Filed: 21 Dec 20
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Systems and Methods of Audio Decoder Determination and Selection
9 Sep 21
Playback devices can support audio encoded using various encoding schemes.
Nicholas Maniskas, Cameron Korb, Govind Jevaram
Filed: 8 Mar 21
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Transferring playback from a mobile device to a playback device
7 Sep 21
A network device is configured to (i) play back a media item indicated by a remote playback queue provided by a cloud-based computing system, (ii) receive an indication that a playback device is available for playback, (iii) display a now playing screen including (a) information identifying the media item, and (b) an icon that indicates that the network device is not in a connected state with any other network device, (iv) receive a first input selecting the icon, (v) in response to the first input, display a list of one or more available network devices including the playback device, (vi) receive a second input selecting the playback device from the list (vii) after receiving the second input, update the list to indicate that the playback device is selected for playback of the remote playback queue, and (viii) transfer playback of the remote playback queue from the network device to the playback device.
Abhishek Kumar, Andrew Schulert, Robert Andrew Lambourne, Arthur L. Coburn, IV
Filed: 18 Dec 20
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Sharing access to a media service
7 Sep 21
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: 11 Jan 21
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Voice Detection Optimization Using Sound Metadata
2 Sep 21
Systems and methods for optimizing voice detection via a network microphone device are disclosed herein.
Connor Kristopher Smith, Kurt Thomas Soto, Charles Conor Sleith
Filed: 18 May 21
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Zone Volume Control
2 Sep 21
Example techniques involve controlling playback volumes.
Eduardo Ahumada Apodaca
Filed: 14 Dec 20
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Playback Queue Control
2 Sep 21
Example techniques involve control of a media playback system involving multiple zones.
Robert Reimann, Abhishek Kumar, Paul Bates
Filed: 12 Oct 20
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Contextual Indexing of Media Items
2 Sep 21
Example techniques related to a sub-index of a media index.
Amber Brown, Diane Roberts
Filed: 19 Oct 20
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Extending Playback With Corresponding Media
2 Sep 21
Embodiments described herein provide for extending media playback.
Robert Reimann
Filed: 14 Dec 20
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Evaluating calibration of a playback device
31 Aug 21
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: 25 Jan 16
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Synchronizing operations among a plurality of independently clocked digital data processing devices
31 Aug 21
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: 1 Jul 19
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Synchronizing operations among a plurality of independently clocked digital data processing devices
31 Aug 21
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: 2 Jul 19