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Utility
Discovery and Media Control at a Point-of-Sale Display
4 May 23
Example techniques relate to discovery and media control at a point-of-sale display.
Jonathan Lang, Deborah DuBois
Filed: 24 Oct 22
Utility
Queue Identification
4 May 23
Example techniques relate to a playback device that facilitates queue identification.
Arthur L. Coburn, IV
Filed: 16 Jun 22
Utility
Guess Access to a Media Playback System
27 Apr 23
Example techniques may involve guest access to a media playback system.
Paul Bates, Lee Keyser-Allen, Jonathan P. Lang, Diane Roberts, Nicholas A.J. Millington
Filed: 10 Oct 22
Utility
Room Association Based on Name
27 Apr 23
Systems and methods for use in a media playback system comprising one or more playback devices are disclosed, where a playback device has a corresponding first set of device attributes used by a first controller application.
Dayn Wilberding, Chris Bierbower, Mish Fabok, JD Hooge, Tristan Wood, Chip Truex, Christopher Butts, Paul Bates
Filed: 20 Oct 22
Utility
Frequency Routing Based on Orientation
27 Apr 23
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 Sep 22
Utility
Multi-channel Acoustic Echo Cancellation
27 Apr 23
A playback device is configured to: produce a first channel audio output of a first channel of audio content; produce a second channel audio output of a second channel of the audio content; receive captured audio content comprising (i) a first portion corresponding to the first channel audio output, (ii) a second portion corresponding to the second channel audio output, and (iii) a third portion corresponding to a voice command, wherein the captured audio content has a first signal-to-noise ratio; determine a set of signal components from at least one of the first channel or the second channel of the audio content; perform acoustic echo cancellation on a subset of signal components; determine an acoustic echo cancellation output; and apply the acoustic echo cancellation output to the captured audio content and thereby increase the first signal-to-noise ratio to a second signal-to-noise ratio that is greater than the first signal-to-noise ratio.
Saeed Bagheri Sereshki, Romi Kadri
Filed: 22 Dec 22
Utility
Adjusting a Playback Device
27 Apr 23
Certain embodiments provide methods and systems for managing a sound profile.
Christopher Kallai, Michael Darrell Andrew Ericson
Filed: 29 Aug 22
Utility
Cloud-based Video User Interfaces
27 Apr 23
Playback devices can support playing back audio content of audio-visual content received from a media service, while corresponding video content is synchronously played back on a video display device.
Jeffrey Michael Torgerson
Filed: 11 Mar 21
Utility
Network Microphone Devices with Automatic Do Not Disturb Actuation Capabilities
20 Apr 23
Embodiments disclosed herein include networked microphone devices (NMD) determining whether a Do Not Disturb (DND) feature should be activated, in response to determining that the DND feature should be activated, activating the DND feature.
Sein Woo, Ryan Myers, Charles Freedman
Filed: 16 Sep 22
Utility
Audio Device Transducer Array and Associated Systems and Methods
20 Apr 23
Audio device transducer arrays and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein.
Michael Chamness, Mincang Liu
Filed: 10 Mar 20
Utility
Mirrored Queues
20 Apr 23
Embodiments disclosed herein involve a first playback device, associated with a first household, where the first playback device is configured to mirror a playback queue that is associated with a second playback device, where the second playback device is associated with a second household.
Steven Beckhardt
Filed: 26 Aug 22
Utility
Systems and Methods for State Detection via Wireless Radios
13 Apr 23
Systems and methods for localizing individuals in a region using wireless signals in accordance with embodiments are illustrated.
Niels van Erven, Connor Riley Northend
Filed: 13 Dec 22
Utility
Techniques for Improving the Power Efficiency of a Playback Device
13 Apr 23
A playback device including a processor that executes program instructions such that the playback device is configured to receive first audio data representing audio content, generate and output second audio data based on the first audio data, and at least in part while generating and outputting the second audio data, generate and output a control signal associated with the second audio data to vary a supply voltage for an audio amplifier.
Chadwick James Souza, Aurelio Rafael Ramos
Filed: 19 Mar 21
Utility
Limited-Access Media
13 Apr 23
An example method involves receiving, by a playback device in a media playback system, limited-access media, where the limited-access media corresponds to a limited-access playback device characteristic.
Brad Wolf, Ben Smith
Filed: 10 Oct 22
Utility
Broadcast Audio for Synchronized Playback by Wearables
13 Apr 23
Disclosed embodiments include a playback device configured to: (i) obtain audio from an audio source via a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN); (ii) generate broadcast times for individual portions of the audio content; and (iii) broadcast portions of the audio content to a Personal Area Network (PAN).
Edwin Joseph Fitzpatrick, III, Walter John Rivera
Filed: 28 Sep 22
Utility
Device Group Identification
13 Apr 23
Example techniques involve identification of device groups.
Arthur L. Coburn, IV
Filed: 12 Sep 22
Utility
Control Based On Proximity
13 Apr 23
Embodiments described herein provide for detecting presence of an object in proximity to a playback device and responsively performing one or more operations.
Jonathon Reilly, Neil Griffiths
Filed: 13 Oct 22
Utility
Media Content Search In Connection With Multiple Media Content Services
6 Apr 23
An example computing system receives a media content search query from a controller configured to control media playback by one or more playback devices in a media playback system associated with a plurality of media content services.
King Shy Goh, Lesley Slade, Matt Towers, Hilario Coimbra, Brandon Wright, Sherwin Liu
Filed: 30 Sep 22
Utility
Playback Transitions
6 Apr 23
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, Jonathan Cole Harris, Patrick Devine, Nicholas A.J. Millington, Jason Yore, Maria-Jose Ramos, Richard Bannon, Michael Sheldon, Ted Lin, Ron Kuper, Kirsten Lewis, Jake Harwood, Jonathan Herbst, Henry Sia
Filed: 29 Nov 22
Utility
Systems and Methods for Networked Music Playback
6 Apr 23
A control device is configured to (i) display transport controls to control playback by the control device, (ii) after connecting to a LAN, determine that one or more playback devices are connected to the LAN, (iii) detect input(s) to transfer playback to a particular playback device connected to the LAN, (iv) cause playback to be transferred to the particular playback device, including: (a) causing first cloud server(s) to transmit, to the particular playback device, resource locator(s) maintained in a shared playback queue, the resource locator(s) corresponding to respective locations of media content at second cloud server(s) of a streaming content service, (b) causing playback at the control device to be stopped, and (c) modifying the transport controls to control playback by the particular playback device, and (v) cause the particular playback device to retrieve the media content from second cloud server(s) of a streaming content service and play back the retrieved media content.
Arthur Coburn, IV, Joni Rafalski Hoadley
Filed: 12 Dec 22