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Design
Media player
8 Jun 21
Roland Bird, Roger Swales, Niels van Hoof, Lukasz Natkaniec, Mieko Kusano, Stefan Reichert, Dana Krieger, Tadeo T. Toulis, Mike Chamness, Hilmar Lehnert, Wilfred Wei, Wei Hean Liew
Filed: 19 Mar 18
Utility
Voice detection optimization based on selected voice assistant service
8 Jun 21
Systems and methods for optimizing voice detection via a network microphone device (NMD) based on a selected voice-assistant service (VAS) are disclosed herein.
Connor Kristopher Smith, Kurt Thomas Soto, Charles Conor Sleith
Filed: 24 Feb 20
Utility
Multiple household management
8 Jun 21
Embodiments described herein include systems and methods for providing a management interface for controlling multiple households.
Ron Kuper, Arthur L. Coburn, IV, John Meyer, Mike Delaney
Filed: 9 Mar 20
Utility
Audio processing algorithms
8 Jun 21
An example implementation involves a computing device transmitting, via a local area network, a command that instructs a playback device to play a particular audio signal.
Timothy W. Sheen
Filed: 23 Mar 20
Utility
Facilitating the Resolution of Address Conflicts in a Networked Media Playback System
3 Jun 21
Examples are disclosed and described to facilitate resolution of Internet Protocol address conflicts.
Hrishikesh Gossain, Jose Graziani, Jeffrey M. Peters, Michael Agerbak
Filed: 4 Sep 20
Utility
Conditional Content Enhancement
3 Jun 21
An example computer system identifies a capability of a playback device to reproduce audio content.
Romi Kadri
Filed: 21 Dec 20
Utility
Playback zone representations
1 Jun 21
Method and systems are provided for displaying a control representation playback zone representation provided on a playback zones view interface.
Mike Lemmon, Stephanie Hughes
Filed: 16 Apr 19
Utility
Voice detection optimization using sound metadata
1 Jun 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: 21 Sep 18
Utility
Playback device connection
1 Jun 21
An example playback device includes programming to perform functions including detecting a triggering event that causes the playback device to transmit a first message indicating the playback device is available for setup and establishing an initial communication path with a computing device.
Nicholas A. J. Millington, Paul V. Hainsworth
Filed: 11 Sep 20
Utility
Systems and Methods of Spatial Audio Playback with Enhanced Immersiveness
27 May 21
A method of playing back audio content with improved immersiveness can include receiving, at a playback device, audio input including vertical content having a high-frequency portion and a low-frequency portion.
Paul MacLean
Filed: 24 Nov 20
Design
Media playback device with lights
25 May 21
Dayn Wilberding, Nikolai Kutateladze
Filed: 13 Mar 17
Utility
Audio track selection and playback
25 May 21
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: 23 Dec 20
Utility
Robust Short-Time Fourier Transform acoustic echo cancellation during audio playback
25 May 21
Example techniques involve noise-robust acoustic echo cancellation.
Daniele Giacobello
Filed: 14 Oct 19
Design
Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
18 May 21
Liesbeth van den Berg, Abhishek Kumar, Eduardo Apodaca, Amber Braden, Mark Trammell, Robert A. Lambourne, Yasser Rashid
Filed: 28 Dec 18
Utility
Playback Queues for Shared Experiences
13 May 21
A first playback device, while operating in a first media playback system, receives from a computing device over a WAN an indication that a second playback device operating in a second media playback system has initiated sharing of a playback session.
Ryan Taylor, Jeffrey Michael Torgerson
Filed: 11 Nov 19
Utility
Media Content Based on Operational Data
13 May 21
An example computing system that maintains a playlist of media items for playback by one or more playback devices receives, from a first playback device, a request to play back the playlist and first operational data and also receives, from a second playback device, a request to play back the playlist and second operational data.
Ryan Taylor, Dmitri Siegel, Helen McDermott
Filed: 11 Nov 19
Utility
Media Playback System with Concurrent Voice Assistance
13 May 21
Example techniques involve invoking voice assistance for a media playback system.
Dayn Wilberding, John Tolomei
Filed: 25 Jan 21
Utility
Calibration of a Playback Device Based on an Estimated Frequency Response
13 May 21
An example playback device is configured to receive a first stream of audio comprising source audio content to be played back by the playback device and record, via one or more microphones of the playback device, an audio signal output by the playback device based on the playback device playing the source audio content.
Shao-Fu Shih, Patrick McPherson
Filed: 30 Nov 20
Utility
Application Programming Interface for Browsing Media Content
13 May 21
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: 10 Nov 20
Utility
Calibration based on audio content
11 May 21
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: 21 Dec 20