Nicole Laure McWilliams

Title: Nicole Laure McWilliams: Inventor in Audio Playback Adaptation

Introduction

Nicole Laure McWilliams is an inventor associated with London, United Kingdom, and Google Inc. Her work includes an invention for adapting audio playback in real time. The available information identifies 1 patent associated with her.

Latest Patents

McWilliams’s patent, “Real-time adaptation of audio playback,” describes a method for adjusting streaming media playback to better suit its listening environment. The system analyzes audio characteristics in an initial portion of media, plays that portion, and captures the sound as it is heard in the environment. It compares the captured audio characteristics with the original characteristics, then uses the difference to calibrate a later portion when calibration is appropriate. The calibrated portion is subsequently played through the audio output component.

Career Highlights

The listed patent connects McWilliams’s inventive work with Google Inc. It focuses on responsive audio playback, using environmental sound capture and comparison to inform adjustments to streaming media.

Collaborations

Bich Ha Lo and Gustav David Gunnar Sennton are identified as McWilliams’s coworkers. The provided information does not specify their roles or the nature of their collaboration on the patent.

Conclusion

Nicole Laure McWilliams’s listed patent presents an approach to improving streaming audio playback by adapting later content based on how earlier audio sounds in its environment.