Acoustic signatures in a playback system
AssigneeSonos, Inc.
InventorRobert Reimann
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Abstract
Embodiments described herein provide for acoustic signatures in a playback system. According to an embodiment, a playback device transmits an acoustic signature. According to another embodiment, the user interface on a controller is responsively modified based on an acoustic signature that was detected from a playback device. According to some embodiments, an acoustic signature can be transmitted simultaneously with audio by a playback device.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- a playback controller detecting a playback device based at least in part on an acoustic signature transmitted by the playback device, wherein the acoustic signature comprises identification information;
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- in response to detecting the acoustic signature transmitted by the playback device, the playback controller modifying a user interface on the playback controller.
A system, comprising:
- a playback device configured to generate a mixed audio signal by mixing an acoustic signature with playback audio and output the mixed audio signal via one or more speakers.
A tangible non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions executable by a computing device to cause the computing device to perform functions comprising:
- detecting, by the computing device, an acoustic signature transmitted by a playback device, wherein the acoustic signature comprises identification information;
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- in response to detecting the acoustic signature transmitted by the playback device, modifying, by the computing device, a user interface on the computing device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.