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Utility
Playback Device
4 Dec 19
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
Playback Device
4 Dec 19
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
Playback Devices and Bonded Zones
4 Dec 19
Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to facilitate configuration and naming of a multimedia playback device on a local playback network are disclosed.
Neil Griffiths, Mark Triplett
Filed: 7 Apr 19
Utility
Playback Device Setup
4 Dec 19
Embodiments disclosed herein address technical challenges arising when configuring a playback device and a display device to interoperate with each other in an entertainment system.
Richard Jackson, Andrew Lindley
Filed: 4 Jun 18
Utility
Low-Latency Audio Networking
4 Dec 19
Low-latency audio networking is disclosed.
Hrishikesh Gossain, Jeffrey M. Peters, Nicholas A.J. Millington, Steven Beckhardt
Filed: 13 Aug 19
Utility
Concurrent Multi-Driver Calibration
4 Dec 19
Examples involve calibration of a playback device including multiple audio transducers.
Timothy Sheen, Aurelio Ramos
Filed: 15 Aug 19
Utility
Calibration Based on Grouping
4 Dec 19
Example techniques may involve multiple calibrations for a playback device.
Klaus Hartung, Dayn Wilberding
Filed: 15 Aug 19
Utility
Frequency Routing Based on Orientation
4 Dec 19
Systems, methods, and apparatus for frequency routing based on orientation are disclosed.
Christopher Kallai, Michael Darrell Andrew Ericson, Jonathan P. Lang, Craig Wisneski, Jonathon Reilly, Seamus Daly, Todd Mansfield
Filed: 7 Apr 19
Design
Retail display fixture
2 Dec 19
Fernando Music, Johnny Dwyer
Filed: 24 Jun 19
Utility
Managing application access of a media playback system
2 Dec 19
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: 13 Jul 14
Utility
Playback devices having waveguides with drainage features
2 Dec 19
A playback device comprises an acoustic waveguide having a bounding surface, the bounding surface delimiting an opening.
Camille Zaba, Michael Chamness, Greg Flanagan, Garrett Gardner, Brandon Holley
Filed: 19 Apr 18
Utility
Voice control of a media playback system
2 Dec 19
Multiple aspects of systems and methods for voice control and related features and functionality for various embodiments of media playback devices, networked microphone devices, microphone-equipped media playback devices, and speaker-equipped networked microphone devices are disclosed and described herein, including but not limited to designating and managing default networked devices, audio response playback, room-corrected voice detection, content mixing, music service selection, metadata exchange between networked playback systems and networked microphone systems, handling loss of pairing between networked devices, actions based on user identification, and other voice control of networked devices.
Jonathan P. Lang, Mark Plagge, Simon Jarvis, Romi Kadri, Yean-Nian Willy Chen, Paul Andrew Bates, Luis Vega-Zayas, Christopher Butts, Nicholas A. J. Millington, Keith Corbin
Filed: 20 Feb 17
Utility
Media System Controller Interface
27 Nov 19
Techniques described herein relate to media playback controller interfaces, interface layouts, and interactions for facilitating navigation and control.
Jaime Munoz, Jonathan D. Garn, Michael Lemmon
Filed: 11 Aug 19
Utility
Audio Response Playback
27 Nov 19
A computing device is configured to perform functions comprising: receiving via a network microphone device of a media playback system, a voice command detected by at least one microphone of the network microphone device, wherein the media playback system comprises a plurality of zones, and the network microphone device may be a member of a default playback zone.
Jonathan P. Lang, Mark Plagge
Filed: 12 Aug 19
Utility
Networked Microphone Device Control
27 Nov 19
Systems and methods disclosed herein include, while a microphone of a first networked microphone device is enabled, determining whether a first reference device is in a specific state, and in response to determining that the first reference device is in the specific state, disabling the microphone of the first networked microphone device.
Mieko Kusano, Dayn Wilberding, Jonathan Wenocur, Jonathan Lang
Filed: 7 Apr 19
Utility
Determining and Adapting to Changes in Microphone Performance of Playback Devices
27 Nov 19
Systems and methods for determining and adapting to changes in microphone performance of playback devices are disclosed herein.
Kurt Thomas Soto, Connor Kristopher Smith, Roberto Maria Dizon, Patrick Kevin McPherson, Charles Conor Sleith
Filed: 24 May 18
Utility
Playback system join with base
25 Nov 19
An example implementation may involve a playback device detecting placement of the playback device onto a device base of a particular media playback system.
Jonathan P. Lang, Christopher D. Butts
Filed: 17 Jun 18
Utility
Power Control Based on Packet Type
20 Nov 19
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: 4 Aug 19
Utility
Calibration Interface
20 Nov 19
Example techniques relate to calibration interfaces that facilitate calibration of a playback device.
Dayn Wilberding, Sein Woo
Filed: 1 Aug 19
Utility
Media Playback System with Virtual Line-In Groups
20 Nov 19
Example systems and techniques disclosed herein facilitate interoperability between different media playback systems referred to herein as a virtual line-in (VLI) media playback system and a native playback system.
Arthur L. Coburn, IV, Chris Kotowski, Arvin Faruque
Filed: 30 Aug 18