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Utility
Share restriction for curated playlists
13 Apr 20
Example techniques facilitate for applying a share restriction to a curated playlist within a shared playback queue.
Steven Beckhardt
Filed: 29 Oct 18
Utility
Tone interference cancellation
13 Apr 20
Example techniques involve systems with multiple acoustic echo cancellers.
Saeed Bagheri Sereshki
Filed: 27 Sep 17
Utility
Accessing last-browsed information in a media playback system
13 Apr 20
Embodiments are discussed for providing an indication of information previously accessed, or “browsed,” by a user on a control device of a media playback system, irrespective of a prior graphical display on the control device.
Abhishek Kumar
Filed: 15 Jul 18
Utility
Headphone interaction with media playback system
13 Apr 20
Example techniques may involve headphone interaction.
Eric Clayton, Charles Alessi
Filed: 28 Mar 18
Utility
Systems and Methods for Media Content Selection
8 Apr 20
Systems and methods for media playback via a media playback system include requesting and receiving information from at least one remote computing device associated with a first media content service and at least one remote computing device associated with a second media content service, and evaluating the relevancy of the information received from each of the media content services as the information is received to determine a relevancy indicator for the information.
Sherwin Liu, Paul Bates
Filed: 4 Oct 18
Utility
Synchronized Audio Mixing
8 Apr 20
A first example playback device includes one or more processors and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the first playback device to perform functions.
Ted M. Lin, Luis Vega
Filed: 19 Aug 19
Utility
Dynamic Computation of System Response Volume
8 Apr 20
Systems and methods disclosed herein include, determining that a requirement exists to output a system response.
Luis Vega-Zayas, Lucas Pylypczak, Rich Lean
Filed: 13 Oct 19
Utility
Remote Command Learning
8 Apr 20
Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to learn and share remote commands are disclosed.
Neil Griffiths, Simon Jarvis, Hilmar Lehnert, Aurelio Ramos
Filed: 19 Aug 19
Utility
Arbitration-based voice recognition
6 Apr 20
A system comprises a first network microphone device (NMD) communicatively coupled to a second NMD via a network interface of the first NMD, wherein the first NMD is configured to: receive, from the second NMD via the network interface of the first NMD, an arbitration message comprising (i) a first measure of confidence associated with a voice input detected by the second NMD and (ii) an identifier associated with at least a portion of the voice input detected by the second NMD, determine that the first measure of confidence is greater than a second measure of confidence, wherein the second measure of confidence is associated with a voice input detected by the first NMD via at least one microphone of the second NMD, and based on the determination, perform voice recognition based on the voice input detected by the second NMD, wherein the voice input detected by the second NMD comprises a command to control the playback of the audio content by at least one of the first or the second NMDs.
Steven Beckhardt, Ted Lin
Filed: 31 Oct 18
Utility
Method and apparatus for displaying a list of tracks scheduled for playback by a synchrony group
6 Apr 20
Nicholas A. J. Millington
Filed: 18 Feb 14
Utility
Playback device
6 Apr 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: 30 Jun 19
Utility
Playback device
6 Apr 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 19
Utility
Network Identification of Portable Electronic Devices While Changing Power States
1 Apr 20
Systems and methods for maintaining knowledge of a network address (e.g., a MAC address) for a playback device while changing power states are disclosed.
Hrishikesh Gossain
Filed: 27 Sep 18
Utility
Methods and Devices for Transferring Data Using Sound Signals
1 Apr 20
A method of transmitting data comprises modulating data symbols for transmission onto a sonic carrier signal and transmitting the modulated data using an electroacoustic transducer.
Eric Frank
Filed: 1 Oct 18
Utility
Systems and Methods for Selective Wake Word Detection Using Neural Network Models
1 Apr 20
Systems and methods for media playback via a media playback system include capturing sound data via a network microphone device and identifying a candidate wake word in the sound data.
Joachim Fainberg, Daniele Giacobello, Klaus Hartung
Filed: 27 Sep 18
Utility
Linear Filtering for Noise-Suppressed Speech Detection Via Multiple Network Microphone Devices
1 Apr 20
Systems and methods for suppressing noise and detecting voice input in a multi-channel audio signal captured by two or more network microphone devices include receiving an instruction to process one or more audio signals captured by a first network microphone device and after receiving the instruction (i) disabling at least a first microphone of a plurality of microphones of a second network microphone device, (ii) capturing a first audio signal via a second microphone of the plurality of microphones, (iii) receiving over a network interface of the second network microphone device a second audio signal captured via at least a third microphone of the first network microphone device, (iv) using estimated noise content to suppress 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: 28 Sep 18
Utility
Managing Application Access of a Media Playback System
1 Apr 20
Examples described herein may include a playback device receiving, from a control device, a validation-key that includes an application identifier corresponding to a controller application.
Andrew Schulert
Filed: 1 Dec 19
Utility
Systems and Methods of User Localization
1 Apr 20
Systems and methods are disclosed in which a playback device transmits a first sound signal including a predetermined waveform.
Eric Frank
Filed: 13 Mar 19
Design
Display screen or portion thereof with icon
30 Mar 20
Paul Andrew Bates
Filed: 17 Jul 17
Design
Display device with animated graphical user interface element
30 Mar 20
Dayn Wilberding
Filed: 8 Oct 17