Smart speaker power management
    62.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11910171B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-20

    申请号:US17111967

    申请日:2020-12-04

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: H04R3/00 H03F3/183 H03G3/30

    摘要: A smart speaker power controller may be configured to receive power conforming to one of a plurality of power modes from an input power source. The power controller may be further configured to communicate the power mode to at least one component of a processing system or at least one component of an audio system for operating the smart speaker according to the received power mode, including determining a current limit of a power converter; determining a shutdown voltage threshold and safely shutting down the smart speaker if the input voltage falls below the threshold, and/or modifying audio operation of the smart speaker in response to the power mode. The smart speaker can further include an audio power supply controller configured to monitor energy required to reproduce an audio signal and to servo a power supply voltage provided to an audio amplifier in response to this energy level.

    THERMAL CONTROL OF AUDIO PLAYBACK DEVICES
    66.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240031750A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-25

    申请号:US18479606

    申请日:2023-10-02

    申请人: Sonos, Inc.

    摘要: To avoid damage from overheating, playback device operation can be modulated based on input from temperature sensors. An example method includes obtaining, via one or more temperature sensors carried by the playback device, temperature data. Based on the temperature data, a first temperature parameter is detected. In response to detecting the first temperature parameter, a gain of audio playback is decreased by a first amount. After decreasing the gain of audio playback by the first amount, a second temperature parameter is detected. In response to detecting the second temperature parameter, the gain of audio playback is decreased by a second amount different than the first amount.

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DISTRIBUTING AUDIO TO ONE OR MORE PLAYBACK DEVICES

    公开(公告)号:US20240028293A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-25

    申请号:US18479498

    申请日:2023-10-02

    申请人: Sonos, Inc.

    发明人: Ted Lin Romi Kadri

    摘要: An example method includes receiving data indicating a configuration of one or more playback devices. The one or more playback devices may include one or more transducers. The method further includes, based on the received data, associating each of one or more audio streams respectively with at least one transducer of the one or more transducers. The method further includes generating the one or more audio streams and sending at least one of the generated one or more audio streams to each of the one or more playback devices. An example non-transitory computer readable medium and an example computing device related to the example method are also disclosed herein.

    Audio capture in presence of noise
    69.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11877127B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-16

    申请号:US17590054

    申请日:2022-02-01

    摘要: An apparatus comprising means for:



    capturing an audio scene using multiple microphones;
    determining that the captured audio scene has unacceptable detected noise;
    in dependence upon determining that the captured audio scene has unacceptable detected noise,
    searching both different sets of one or more microphones and different physical rotation angles of the microphones to find a combination of a first set of one or more microphones and a first physical rotation angle of the microphones that captures the audio scene with acceptable detected noise; and
    controlling the physical rotation angle of the microphones to be the first physical rotation angle of the microphones and capturing the audio scene using the combination of the first set of one or more microphones and the first physical rotation angle of the microphones.