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Utility
Dynamic earbud profile
21 Nov 23
Embodiments disclosed herein include a headphone device which operates in various modes applying different gesture profiles based on various operational, playback, or environmental conditions.
Hilmar Lehnert
Filed: 6 Jun 22
Utility
Media playback based on sensor data
21 Nov 23
Example techniques relate to playback based on acoustic signals in a system including a first network device and a second network device.
Jonathon Reilly, Niels Van Erven
Filed: 6 Dec 21
Utility
Media playback based on sensor data
21 Nov 23
Example techniques relate to playback based on acoustic signals in a system including a first network device and a second network device.
Jonathon Reilly, Niels Van Erven
Filed: 27 Apr 23
Utility
Communication based on operation mode
14 Nov 23
Embodiments are provided for utilizing communication routes based operation mode.
Hrishikesh Gossain
Filed: 23 Nov 20
Utility
Playback device using standby in a media playback system
14 Nov 23
Example embodiments involve a standby mode of a playback device.
Hrishikesh Gossain, Benjamin Ari Tober
Filed: 21 Dec 20
Utility
Dynamic computation of system response volume
14 Nov 23
Systems and methods disclosed herein include, determining that a requirement exists to output a system response.
Luis Vega-Zayas, Lucas Pylypczak, Rich Lean
Filed: 14 Nov 22
Utility
Multi-channel acoustic echo cancellation
14 Nov 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
Networked microphone devices, systems, and methods of localized arbitration
14 Nov 23
A first playback device is configured to perform functions comprising: detecting sound, identifying a wake word based on the sound as detected by the first device, receiving an indication that a second playback device has also detected the sound and identified the wake word based on the sound as detected by the second device, after receiving the indication, evaluating which of the first and second devices is to extract sound data representing the sound and thereby determining that the extraction of the sound data is to be performed by the second device over the first device, in response to the determining, foregoing extraction of the sound data, receiving VAS response data that is indicative of a given VAS response corresponding to a given voice input identified in the sound data extracted by the second device, and based on the VAS response data, output the given VAS response.
John Tolomei, Klaus Hartung
Filed: 22 Dec 22
Utility
Mixed-mode synchronous playback
14 Nov 23
Disclosed herein are playback devices, groups of playback devices, and methods of operating playback devices and groupings thereof to cause the playback devices in a mixed-mode configuration to play audio content in synchrony with each other.
Hrishikesh Gossain, Cheng Lu, Zhaoyun Huang, Jeffrey Peters
Filed: 31 Aug 19
Utility
Automatic discovery and control of a remotely controllable system
14 Nov 23
Example techniques relate to discovery and control of a remote controllable system.
Jonathan Lang, Deborah DuBois
Filed: 9 Feb 23
Utility
Adaptive media playback experiences for commercial environments
14 Nov 23
An example computing system may be configured to receive an indication that a user device has been detected in a commercial environment and to determine a first set of musical preferences associated with the commercial environment.
Ryan Taylor, Andrew Kwatinetz, Benjamin Rappoport, Russell Dougherty, Dayn Wilberding, Nicholas D'Amato
Filed: 24 Mar 22
Utility
Group coordinator selection
14 Nov 23
A first playback is configured to (i) determine that it is connected to a local data network using a first networking protocol, (ii) receive a command to join a second playback device in a group of playback devices that are configured for synchronous playback of audio content from an audio source, (iii) determine that the second playback device is connected to the local data network using a second networking protocol different from the first networking protocol, (iv) based on determining that the second playback device is connected to the local data network using a second networking protocol different from the first networking protocol, configure the first playback device as a group coordinator of the group of playback devices, and (v) while rendering the audio content, (a) receive the audio content from the audio source and (b) forward at least a portion of the received audio content to the second playback device.
Hrishikesh Gossain, Jonathan Lang
Filed: 25 Apr 22
Utility
Calibration based on audio content
14 Nov 23
Example techniques may involve multiple calibrations for a playback device.
Klaus Hartung, Dayn Wilberding
Filed: 23 Nov 22
Utility
Audio generation in a media playback system
14 Nov 23
Example techniques relate to audio generation in a media playback system.
Mike Chamness, Aurelio Rafael Ramos, Timothy Sheen, Hilmar Lehnert
Filed: 7 Oct 22
Utility
Systems and methods of spatial audio playback with enhanced immersiveness
14 Nov 23
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: 27 Feb 23
Utility
Playback device with multi-band antenna
7 Nov 23
Aspects of the disclosure relate to a playback device for media playback that incorporates a multi-band antenna.
Gregorio Téllez
Filed: 29 Apr 22
Utility
Access control techniques for media playback systems
7 Nov 23
Example access control techniques described herein are intended to enable guest access for a media playback system while maintaining security of the media playback system.
Keith Thoresz, Nathan Fish
Filed: 20 Jan 23
Utility
Cable retraction mechanism for headphone devices
7 Nov 23
A headphone device includes (i) a first earpiece including an antenna at least partially disposed within the first earpiece, (ii) a second earpiece, (iii) a headbow adjustably connecting the first earpiece and the second earpiece, where one or both of the first and second earpieces are extendable from the headbow, the headbow including an inner cavity, and (iv) a cable assembly including a cable that is formed into a sinusoidal pattern having a series of peaks and valleys when the cable assembly is in a resting position, the cable at least partially formed from an elastomeric material, the cable assembly extending between the first and second earpieces within the inner cavity of the headbow in the resting position such that the cable assembly is extendable within the inner cavity of the headbow from the resting position when one or both of the first and second earpieces are extended from the headbow.
Dieter Rapitsch, Patrice Billaudet
Filed: 5 Dec 22
Utility
Wireless radio switching
7 Nov 23
Examples are provided for establishing a bonded zone comprising a first playback device comprising a respective first wireless radio and a second playback device comprising a second respective wireless radio.
Jeffrey M. Peters, Gary Fox
Filed: 1 Jul 21
Utility
Playback of generative media content
7 Nov 23
Generative media content (e.g., generative audio) can be played back across multiple playback devices concurrently.
Dayn Wilberding, Gregory McAllister, Daniel Jones
Filed: 10 May 21