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Utility
Playback Device Media Item Replacement
2 Dec 20
Embodiments are provided for replacing media items in a queue of a playback device.
Paul Andrew Bates, Steven Beckhardt, Jonathon Reilly
Filed: 16 Aug 20
Utility
Group Coordinator Selection
2 Dec 20
Embodiments described herein involve facilitating playback in a media playback system that includes a first media device and a second media device.
Hrishikesh Gossain, Jonathan Lang
Filed: 14 Jun 20
Utility
Calibration of Audio Playback Devices
2 Dec 20
An audio playback device comprises a microphone, a speaker, and a processor.
Patrick McPherson, Shao-Fu Shih, Klaus Hartung
Filed: 16 Aug 20
Utility
Distributed Provisioning of Properties of Operational Settings of a Media Playback System
2 Dec 20
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: 16 Aug 20
Utility
Media Playback Device and System
2 Dec 20
A system is described for maintaining synchrony of operations among a plurality of devices that have independent clocking arrangements.
Nicholas A.J. Millington
Filed: 19 Aug 20
Utility
Calibration interface
30 Nov 20
Example techniques relate to calibration interfaces that facilitate calibration of a playback device.
Dayn Wilberding, Sein Woo
Filed: 1 Aug 19
Utility
Networked playback device
30 Nov 20
An example playback device includes a first interface for receiving a first audio signal from a first audio source; a second interface for receiving a second audio signal from a second audio source; and a processor configured to: cause the playback device to playback the second audio signal; determine that the first audio signal is present at the first interface; in response to determining that the first audio signal is present at the first interface, (i) cease playback of the second audio signal being played by the playback device and (ii) cause the playback device to playback the first audio signal; receive an instruction to stop the playback device from playing the first audio signal while the first audio signal is still present at the first interface; and arm the playback device such that a subsequent presence of the first audio signal at the first interface causes the playback device to play the first audio signal.
Nicholas A. J. Millington, Tom Cullen, Robert Reimann, Brent Lehman
Filed: 21 Oct 18
Utility
Calibration of a playback device based on an estimated frequency response
30 Nov 20
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: 27 Oct 19
Design
Display stand
30 Nov 20
Maximillian Burton, Quinn Huffstetler, Hoang Nguyen, Anthony Sperduti
Filed: 27 Oct 19
Utility
Content Mixing
25 Nov 20
In one aspect, a first playback device is configured to: (i) play back first audio content in synchrony with a second playback device, (ii) receive, via a network interface, a message indicating second audio content to be output by the first playback device, and (iii) in response to receiving the message indicating the second audio content: (a) cease playing back the first audio content in synchrony with the second playback device; (b) play back the second audio content while the second playback device plays back the first audio content; and (c) after playing back the second audio content, resume playing back the first audio content in synchrony with the second playback device.
Simon Jarvis, Romi Kadri, Paul Andrew Bates, Luis Vega-Zayas
Filed: 9 Aug 20
Utility
Control Signal Repeater System
25 Nov 20
An example playback device includes a housing having a front side, a back side, a first end, and a second end.
Alex DiDonato
Filed: 23 May 19
Utility
Playback Transitions
25 Nov 20
Examples described herein relate to transitioning a playback session between portable playback devices such as “smart” headphones, earbuds, and handheld speakers with playback devices of a zone-based media playback system.
Dayn Wilberding, Youjin Nam, Tadeo T. Toulis, Cole Harris, Patrick Devine, Ncholas A.J. Millington, Jodi Vautrin, Maria-Jose Ramos, Richard Bannon, Michael Sheldon, Ted Lin, Ron Kuper, Kirsten Lewis, Jake Harwood, Jonathan Herbst
Filed: 27 Feb 20
Utility
Communication based on operation mode
23 Nov 20
Embodiments are provided for utilizing communication routes based operation mode.
Hrishikesh Gossain
Filed: 13 Jun 19
Utility
Voice control of a media playback system
23 Nov 20
A voice input comprising a command word, one or more media variable instances, and one or more zone variable instances is received.
Nicholas A. J. Millington, Keith Corbin, Mark Plagge
Filed: 8 Apr 18
Utility
Playback device supporting concurrent voice assistants
23 Nov 20
Disclosed herein are example techniques to support multiple voice assistant services.
Dayn Wilberding
Filed: 12 Feb 20
Utility
Linear filtering for noise-suppressed speech detection
23 Nov 20
Systems and methods for suppressing noise and detecting voice input in a multi-channel audio signal captured by a plurality of microphones include (i) capturing a first audio signal via a first microphone and a second audio signal via a second microphone, wherein the first and second audio signals respectively comprises first and second noise content from a noise source; (ii) identifying the first noise content in the first audio signal; (iii) using the identified first noise content to determine an estimated noise content captured by the plurality of microphones; (iv) using the estimated noise content to suppress the first and second noise content in the first and second audio signals; (v) combining the suppressed first and second audio signals into a third audio signal; and (vi) determining that the third audio signal includes a voice input comprising a wake word.
Saeed Bagheri Sereshki, Daniele Giacobello
Filed: 17 May 18
Utility
Audio playback network joining
23 Nov 20
An example playback device includes programming for executing functions including, while connected to both (i) a local area network and (ii) an audio playback network configured separately from the local area network and arranged for playback of media content via at least the playback device, receiving from a network device via the local area network, a request for the network device to connect to the audio playback network.
Nicholas A.J. Millington, Jeffrey Peters, Michael Agerbak, Steven R. Beckhardt
Filed: 2 May 19
Utility
Zone scene management
23 Nov 20
An example playback device in a first zone of a media playback system receives a first indication that the first zone has been added to a first zone scene including a first preconfigured grouping of zones including the first zone and a second zone.
Robert A. Lambourne
Filed: 11 Apr 19
Utility
Playback device calibration
23 Nov 20
Systems and methods for calibrating a playback device include (i) outputting first audio content; (ii) capturing audio data representing reflections of the first audio content within a room in which the playback device is located; (iii) based on the captured audio data, determining an acoustic response of the room; (iv) connecting to a database comprising a plurality of sets of stored audio calibration settings, each set associated with a respective stored acoustic room response of a plurality of stored acoustic room responses; (v) querying the database for a stored acoustic room response that corresponds to the determined acoustic response of the room in which the playback device is located; and (vi) applying to the playback device a particular set of stored audio calibration settings associated with the stored acoustic room response that corresponds to the determined acoustic response of the room in which the playback device is located.
Timothy Sheen
Filed: 19 Feb 20
Utility
Media item context in social media posts
23 Nov 20
Example implementations may involve generating and displaying media items contexts related to media playback systems in social media posts.
Keith Corbin, Abhishek Kumar, Ron Kuper, Gregory Paul Ramsperger, Andrej Sarkic
Filed: 29 Apr 18