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Utility
Wireless antenna sensing in a playback device
5 Sep 23
An example embodiment includes a playback device comprising a wireless communications interface including a wireless (e.g., a radio frequency (RF) antenna), a capacitive sensor comprising an electrode that is coupled to the RF antenna, one or more processors, and a data storage having stored therein instructions executable by the one or more processors to cause the playback device to perform operations.
Thomas Calatayud, Jonathon Reilly
Filed: 13 Sep 21
Utility
Default playback device designation
5 Sep 23
Systems and methods discussed herein involve designating a default playback device in a local playback network.
Jonathan P. Lang
Filed: 10 May 21
Utility
Simulation of device removal
22 Aug 23
In one aspect, a computing device is configured to, while operating as a control device of a networked media playback system that includes a first set of network devices and a second set of network devices, (i) transmit a first message to each network device in the first set of network devices, wherein the first message comprises a command to, at a first time, temporarily disconnect from the computing device via a particular communication protocol, (ii) transmit a second message to each network device in the second set of network devices, wherein the second message comprises a command for the network device in the second set of network devices to, at a second time, test connectivity with the computing device; and (iii) after the second time, determine whether each network device in the second set of network devices was connected to the computing device.
Lee Keyser-Allen, Arthur L. Coburn, IV, Hrishikesh Gossain
Filed: 8 Jun 21
Utility
Voice control of a media playback system
22 Aug 23
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: 27 Dec 21
Utility
Updating playback device configuration information based on calibration data
22 Aug 23
An example computing device is configured to perform functions including receiving calibration data corresponding respectively to a plurality of playback devices, where each playback device in the plurality of playback devices is located in a respective playback environment other than a first playback environment.
Simon Jarvis, Klaus Hartung, Chris Davies, Tim Sheen
Filed: 27 Dec 21
Utility
Spatial audio correction
22 Aug 23
Example techniques may involve performing aspects of a spatial calibration.
Timothy Sheen
Filed: 6 May 22
Utility
Power control based on packet type
22 Aug 23
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: 14 Oct 21
Utility
Playback zone management
22 Aug 23
Some embodiments of the disclosed systems and methods include displaying a graphical user interface comprising a first section and a second section, wherein the first section includes a first media icon corresponding to a first media item, and wherein the second section includes a first zone icon corresponding to a first zone comprising a first set of one or more playback devices; and in response to detecting a drag of the first media icon to the first zone icon, instructing at least one playback device in the first set of one or more playback devices to play the first media item corresponding to the first media icon.
Robert Reimann, Joni Hoadley
Filed: 5 Dec 22
Utility
Remote creation of a playback queue for an event
22 Aug 23
Example embodiments involve remote creation of a playback queue for an event.
Jaime Munoz, Jonathan D. Garn, Michael Lemmon, Dave Taylor
Filed: 17 Nov 21
Utility
Audio calibration of a portable playback device
15 Aug 23
Disclosed herein are example techniques to facilitate calibrating a portable playback device.
Patrick McPherson, Aurelio Rafael Ramos
Filed: 17 Jun 22
Utility
Playback device media item replacement
15 Aug 23
Embodiments are provided for replacing media items in a queue of a playback device.
Paul Andrew Bates, Steven Beckhardt, Jonathon Reilly
Filed: 19 Apr 22
Utility
Location-based playlist generation
15 Aug 23
Example techniques disclosed herein relate to location-based playlists.
Mark Trammell
Filed: 27 Dec 21
Utility
Context-based user music menu systems and methods
15 Aug 23
Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to provide content to a playback network are disclosed.
Robert Reimann, Abhishek Kumar, Paul Bates
Filed: 10 Oct 19
Utility
Low-latency audio networking
15 Aug 23
Low-latency audio networking is disclosed.
Hrishikesh Gossain, Jeffrey M. Peters, Nicholas A. J. Millington, Steven Beckhardt
Filed: 13 Sep 21
Utility
Acoustic signatures in a playback system
15 Aug 23
A first computing device is configured to establish a communication path with a second computing device and receive, from the second computing device over the communication path, an indication to begin transmitting an audio tone comprising identifying information for the first computing device, where the audio tone, when detected by the second computing device, causes the second computing device to update a user interface of the second computing device.
Robert Reimann
Filed: 16 Sep 20
Utility
Playback device queue access levels
15 Aug 23
Based on a credential, an access level of a playback queue for a first control interface and a first subset and second subset of media items in the playback queue may be determined.
Arthur L. Coburn, IV, Andrew J. Schulert
Filed: 29 Nov 21
Utility
Memory allocation for keyword spotting engines
15 Aug 23
Network microphone devices configured to detect keywords can include microphones for capturing sound samples.
Hubert de Taffanel de La Jonquière
Filed: 19 May 21
Utility
Arbitration-based voice recognition
15 Aug 23
A first network microphone device (NMD) is configured to receive, from a second NMD, a first arbitration message including (i) a first measure of confidence associated with a voice input as detected by the second NMD and (ii) the voice input as detected by the second NMD, and receive, from a third NMD, a second arbitration message including (i) a second measure of confidence associated with the voice input as detected by the third NMD and (ii) the voice input as detected by the third NMD.
Steven Beckhardt, Ted Lin
Filed: 18 Apr 22
Utility
Voice detection optimization based on selected voice assistant service
15 Aug 23
Systems and methods for optimizing voice detection via a network microphone device (NMD) based on a selected voice-assistant service (VAS) are disclosed herein.
Connor Kristopher Smith, Kurt Thomas Soto, Charles Conor Sleith
Filed: 7 Jun 21
Utility
Distributed provisioning of properties of operational settings of a media playback system
15 Aug 23
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: 1 Jul 21