US 12,561,109 B2Granted

Networked playback device

AssigneeSonos, Inc.

InventorsNicholas A.J. Millington, Tom Cullen, Robert Reimann, Brent Lehman

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Abstract

An example playback device includes a first interface for receiving a first audio signal from a first audio source; a second interface for receiving a second audio signal from a second audio source; and a processor configured to: cause the playback device to playback the second audio signal; determine that the first audio signal is present at the first interface; in response to determining that the first audio signal is present at the first interface, (i) cease playback of the second audio signal being played by the playback device and (ii) cause the playback device to playback the first audio signal; receive an instruction to stop the playback device from playing the first audio signal while the first audio signal is still present at the first interface; and arm the playback device such that a subsequent presence of the first audio signal at the first interface causes the playback device to play the first audio signal.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A first playback device comprising:

one or more processors;
and
tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media comprising program instructions that are executable by the one or more processors such that the first playback device is configured to:
determine that the first playback device is receiving first audio content from a first source, wherein the first audio content has corresponding video content;
after determining that the first playback device is receiving the first audio content from the first source, play the first audio content received from the first source (i) in accordance with a first synchronization scheme based at least in part on the corresponding video content, and (ii) at a first volume level that accommodates a dynamic range of volume control of the first source;
while playing the first audio content received from the first source, determine that the first playback device is receiving second audio content from a second source, wherein the second audio content does not have corresponding video content;
and
after determining that the first playback device is receiving the second audio content from the second source, (i) cease playback of the first audio content received from the first source, and (ii) play the second audio content received from the second source in accordance with a second synchronization scheme based at least in part on a transport delay time between the first playback device and a second playback device, wherein the first synchronization scheme is different than the second synchronization scheme.

5 more elements

Tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media comprising program instructions that are executable by one or more processors such that a first playback device is configured to perform functions comprising:

determining that the first playback device is receiving first audio content from a first source, wherein the first audio content has corresponding video content;
after determining that the first playback device is receiving the first audio content from the first source, playing the first audio content received from the first source (i) in accordance with a first synchronization scheme based at least in part on the corresponding video content, and (ii) at a first volume level that accommodates a dynamic range of volume control of the first source;
while playing the first audio content received from the first source, determining that the first playback device is receiving second audio content from a second source, wherein the second audio content does not have corresponding video content;
and
after determining that the first playback device is receiving the second audio content from the second source, (i) ceasing playback of the first audio content received from the first source, and (ii) playing the second audio content received from the second source in accordance with a second synchronization scheme based at least in part on a transport delay time between the first playback device and a second playback device, wherein the first synchronization scheme is different than the second synchronization scheme.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/067,879Filed 19 Dec 2022 · continuation
Priority: 18 Apr 2011
Published: US 2023/0297325 A121 Sep 2023
Granted: 24 Feb 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

G06F 3/165
Sound input; Sound output: management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
G06F 3/162
Sound input; Sound output: interface to dedicated audio devices, e.g. audio drivers, interface to CODECs
G11B 27/10
Editing; Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Monitoring; Measuring tape travel: indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising;…
H02B 1/00
Frameworks, boards, panels, desks, casings

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